Julia Sophia Grossmann

23/02/1858 —
A brief biography

Ancestors


Thomas Ada ±1710 —
Thomas Ada ±1734 —
William Ada 1767 — 1837
William Ada 1807 — 1883
Sophia Fletcher Ada 1833 —
Alexander James Grossmann 1834 —
Julia Sophia Grossmann 1858 —
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Thomas Percy Bingham ±1856 —   Claud Dewhurst Bingham 1884 —   Josephine Elizabeth Julia Bingham 1886 — 1891   Melita Hannah Bingham 1886 — 1976   Thomas Percy Bingham 1890 — 1966   Beatrice Mary Bingham ±1892 — 1981   Lorna Aline Bingham 1893 — 1985   Julia Sophia Bingham 1900 — 1972  

Julia Sophia Grossmann


Daughter of Alexander James Grossmann and Sophia Fletcher Ada. .

Born in 1858, the twenty-first year of the reign of Queen Victoria.  She has 14 direct descendants in the family.

Governess


Governess of the Turnbull family in Ewell Vicarage 1881

AUSTRALIA

Soon after the birth of the first son the family moved to Melbourne in Australia where Julia's aunts had moved to decades before.

There they had five more children while Thomas travelled the world as a Purser on the P&O Line.


Melbourne, 1890

NICARAGUA


Greytown - the Canal

In 1898 with six of their children the family moved to Greytown in Nicaragua, as the canal was being build to join the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

As there were no adequate schools in Greytown, Julia taught the children herself

In the end the rival Panama Canal got built instead, and the family moved to Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.

Augusto Sandino's mother

While in Managua, Julia befriended Margarita Calderón, an indigenous servant with the Sandino family and mother of Augusto Calderón Sandino. Both families' children were friends, which is why Augusto was happy to pose for photographs with Julia's daughter Mary - including this iconic photographed mentioned in one of the blogs - when on his way to exile in Mexico.


Sandino in El Salvador

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Augusto Sandino's mother
While in Managua, Julia befriended Margarita Calderón, an indigenous servant with the Sandino family and mother of Augusto Calderón Sandino. Both families' children were friends, which is why Augusto...

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