Colin James O'Toole

Generation: 1

Colin James O'Toole was born on 11 Nov 1906 in Hughesoffka, Russia (son of Joseph James O'Toole and Isabella Helen Lax); died on 18 May 1960 in Trinidad, West Indies.

Colin married Joan Rose on 7 Aug 1937 in Brentford, Middlesex. Joan was born on 16 Nov 1914; died in 2005 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Generation: 2

Joseph James O'Toole was born on 3 Feb 1866 in Dvinsk, Russia; died on 16 Nov 1943 in Hounslow, England.

Joseph married Isabella Helen Lax on 1 May 1901 in Taganrog, Russia. Isabella (daughter of Elrington Reed Lax and Annie Innes Cameron) was born on 30 Apr 1877 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 28 Mar 1935 in Hounslow, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella Helen Lax was born on 30 Apr 1877 in Hughesoffka, Russia (daughter of Elrington Reed Lax and Annie Innes Cameron); died on 28 Mar 1935 in Hounslow, England.

Children:

Mary O'Toole was born in in Russia.
Monica Mary O'Toole was born on 30 Jun 1904 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 25 Nov 1961 in Acton, London.
Laurence Patrick O'Toole was born on 30 Jun 1904 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 21 Dec 1986 in Hertfordshire.
1. Colin James O'Toole was born on 11 Nov 1906 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 18 May 1960 in Trinidad, West Indies.
Elrington Robert Lennard O'Toole was born on 2 Feb 1914 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 25 Oct 1986 in Timaru, NZ.

Generation: 3

Elrington Reed Lax was born in 1840 in Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; was christened on 2 Feb 1840 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; died on 24 Aug 1903 in Yalta, Crimea.

Notes:

Son of William Lax, Farmer, and Ann Wallace.

Gazetted Lieut 8th Northumberland Rifles 1865

Elrington married Annie Innes Cameron on 11 Jul 1876 in Brentford, Middlesex. Annie (daughter of Alexander Cameron and Helen Innes) was born on 6 Nov 1850 in Poplar, Middlesex; died on 2 Apr 1927 in Dulwich, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annie Innes Cameron was born on 6 Nov 1850 in Poplar, Middlesex (daughter of Alexander Cameron and Helen Innes); died on 2 Apr 1927 in Dulwich, England.

Children:

3. Isabella Helen Lax was born on 30 Apr 1877 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 28 Mar 1935 in Hounslow, England.
Elrington Reed Lax was born on 10 Dec 1879 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 7 Mar 1938 in Hounslow, England.
William Lax was born in 1887 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 14 Jan 1936 in Bexley Heath, London.
Florence Vera Lax was born on 24 Aug 1889 in Hughesoffka, Russia; died on 19 Dec 1951 in London.

Generation: 4

14.

Alexander Cameron was born on 2 Oct 1825 in Aberdeen, Scotland (son of Alexander Cameron and Jean Christie); died on 6 Feb 1897 in Russia.

Notes:

Recorded with this family in 1841 as engineer apprentice, aged 15.

Engineer and Iron founder, he went to work in Russia at Hughesovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine). He first lived some years in Kharkov.

He was noted to be at Hughesovka in 1879, when he held 10 shares in the (English) New Russia Company founded by John Hughes, a Welsh engineer who was given a concession by Czar Alexander II in 1869 to develop coal mining and iron production.

Alexander married Helen Innes on 13 Feb 1847 in Aberdeen. Helen was born on 4 June 1823 in Aberdeen, Scotland; died on 2 Sept 1871 in Kharkov, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

15.

Helen Innes was born on 4 June 1823 in Aberdeen, Scotland; died on 2 Sept 1871 in Kharkov, Russia.

Notes:

She died of cholera. Her mother, husband and four children were present (Ref. Thirty five years in Russia, by George Hume - note the year given there is 1874)

Children:

Alexander Cameron was born on 23 Apr 1849 in Aberdeen.
7. Annie Innes Cameron was born on 6 Nov 1850 in Poplar, Middlesex; died on 2 Apr 1927 in Dulwich, England.
Thomas Barnard Cameron was born on 14 Sept 1854 in Whitechapel, London.
Ellen Innes Cameron was born on 13 Jan 1856 in Whitechapel, London.
William Cameron was born on 4 Nov 1862 in Kharkov, Russia.