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Francis was born in Wynberg, Cape, during the Crimean War.
His father had been without a ship from early 1853, and
only resumed duty on the 5th March 1854 in H.M.S. Sybille.
Whether Francis was born prior to this we do not know.
Either way, we may presume the family moved to England
around this time. When the 1861 census was taken in England,
the family was living in Weymouth, including Francis aged 7.
We strongly suspect his second name to be Edward, after his
uncle in Australia. Edward's daughter, Heloise, was born in
the same year, and probably named after Francis' mother.
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