Stephen: First child. Born July 28th, 1864, at Albert Villa, George Street, Summertown, Oxford. Educated at Trinity College School, Stratford-on-Avon, King’s School, Peterborough, and Oundle School. Married May Lidyard on March 28th, 1892, at the Register Office, Staines, Middlesex. One daughter, May Persephone. (Born: February 15th, 1897. Died: August 21st, 1897). One son, Stephen. (Born: October 24th, 1899). Died, aged 51, at Goodwin Cottage, Griffin Street, Deal, Kent, of cirrhosis of the liver, on December 9th, 1915. Buried in Hastings Borough Cemetery.
Robert Francis: Second son. Born c. December, 1865. Presumably at Albert Villa, Summertown, Oxford. Educated at Oundle School. Became an artist. Emigrated to America in 1893. Married Dora Auspitz on September 14th, 1896, at the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption, New York. Died, aged 37, in The Methodist-Episcopal Hospital, New York, of scarlet fever, on June 6th, 1902. Buried at Greenwood. He had been nine years resident in New York, where his last address was a flat at 443 First Street. His sister, Edith, used to call Robert her “good brother”.
Harold Dockray. Third son. Born April 13th, 1867, at Summertown, Oxford - presumably
at Albert Villa. Educated at Oundle School. Became a professional musician.
His early musical training was with Dr. Keeton, at Peterborough Cathedral. At
age fifteen won harmony prize at Trinity College. Studied with Sir Frederick
Bridge at Westminster, where he passed his F.R.C.O. examination. First appointment
as organist and choirmaster at St. Andrew’s, West Kensington. Musical
scholar and organist at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees
of B.Mus. and M.A. In 1903 went to Toronto, where he was organist at St. Paul’s.
1906, moved to Baltimore. Appointed to the Peabody Institute Faculty there in
September. Head of Organ Department 1906-1920, also lecturer in music theory,
and music critic for the News. 1914, organist at First Church of Christ Scientist,
Philadelphia. Left Baltimore in 1920, and moved to New York, in order, it was
said, to pursue an independent career as a composer and performer, but it was
rumoured in the family that he had left Baltimore “under a cloud”.
He married a young woman named Kathleen, some 28 years his junior, and it has
been suggested that she was perhaps a student of his. There was a daughter,
whom he named Yeldes, after a palace in the Far East which he had not even seen.
The family would all pull Harold’s leg. It is said that he was inclined
to drink - but not too immoderately - and later in life became a diabetic. He
was found dead on July 7th, 1944, sitting in a chair at his home - 1311 13th
Street, Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida - where he had lived for eight years.
Endocarditis was stated to have been the probable cause of death. He was cremated
at St. Petersburg, Florida,