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07 Aug 1866 Marriage of Donat Edmond McMahon to Isabella McLean
26 Feb 1869 Birth of Patrick Joseph McLean McMahon at Currough Camp
21 Mar 1871 Birth of Robert Edmond Donat McLean MacMahon at Epsom
15 Jan 1875 Birth of Daisy Isabella McLean McMahon at Waterford
26 Sep 1876 Birth of Mary (May) Hester McLean MacMahon at Blixton
08 Sep 1878 Birth of Ada Kate McLean McMahon at Brentwood
18 Mar 1880 Birth of Donat John Bruce McMahon at Brentwood
08 Sep 1882 Birth of Margaret (Pearl) Ellen Edith McLean McMahon at Croydon
20 Jul 1890 Death of Isabella's mother at Bedford
12 Feb 1894 Death of Isabella's father at Bedford
1900 Isabella sails to India. Engagement to Frank
Sep 1901 Frank and Isabella arrive in Calcutta
02 Jan 1902 Marriage of Frank and Isabella at Rajkot
17 Oct 1903 Marriage of Ada to Arthur A. Slatter in Bloemfontein, Johannesburg.
Nov 1903 Isabella returns to UK
1904 Birth of Ada and Arthur’s daughter Kathleen in Barberton, Transvaal
14 Apr 1905 Birth of Doris Lucy Frances Couchman at Simla
06 Jun 1907 Acceptance by Sir Herbert White (Lieutenant Governor of Burma) of an invitation to dinner from Isabella, suggesting they had recently arrived.
20 Jun 1909 Marriage of Pearl to Capt Bernard Henry Howard at Leamington
08 Nov 1909 Pearl is with husband Bernard Howard, stationed on the North West Frontier. Daisy about to embark from England to Burma.
13 May 1910 Birth of Pearl's daughter Marjorie Isabella Howard
08 Dec 1910 Birth of Verity Edith Isabella Couchman at Maymyo, Burma
15 Dec 1910 Birth of Ada's son Billy Slatter
24 May 1912 Birth of Pearl's son Henry Bernhard Patrick Howard
1914 Birth of Pearl's 2nd daughter Rosalind (Rossie) Alathea Howard
20 Mar 1915 Opening of Southern Shan States Railway - Rangoon-Kalaw
22 May 1915 Death of Pearl's son Henry Bernard Patrick Howard
23 Aug 1915 Ada Left in the lurch by death of husband Arthur Slatter Kathleen is sent into the care of Isabella. She attended Gardenhurst School, near Burnham on Sea in Somerset, and then the Simpson School of Painting in St Ives, becoming a painter of still-life subjects and a craftworker. In St Ives, she met the artist George Bradshaw.
08 Mar 1916 Pearl's husband Bernard was killed in action in Basra, Iraq
Dec 1918 Frank appointed Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nov 1919 Verity's accident in Simla
12 Nov 1919 Frank sailed to Montreal
Apr 1922 Frank returned to UK
16 Sep 1922 Marriage of Frank & Isabella's niece Kathleen Marion Slatter and Lt Commander George Fagan Bradshaw DSO (afterwards at The Cottage). George is 17 years older than Kathleen. Two children, Robert and Anne, were born of the marriage, Robert in St Ives and Anne in Sunderland during WWII.
Jan 1923 Frank sailed for Bombay
16 Dec 1927 Frank on P&O SS Rawalpindi Marseilles to Bombay
10 Dec 1928 Marriage of Doris to Lieutenant George Maitland Edye
May 1930 Francis attended the International Railway Congress Assembly in Madrid
27 Feb 1934 Death of Patrick in Bedford
13 Mar 1934 Last letter in archive from Patrick
?? Birth of Doris's daughter Penelope
?? Birth of Doris's son David
?? Divorce of Doris and G.M. Eyde
06 Jun 1941 Marriage of Doris to Lt Coll Rowland (Rowly) Graham Hill
14 Dec 1941 Death of Ada's son Billy Slatter. A lone Japanese reconnaissance bomber bombed and strafed HMS Lipis and HMS Shinai, off the coast of Borneo, while they were evacuating a military detachment back to Kuching from Miri. Major Bill Slatter was killed on the Lipis.
1948 George Maitland Edye elected for Nyanza in Kenyan general election
26 Nov 1948 Death of Frank at Grahamstown
27 Apr 1954 Arrival of Isabella & Verity in London, sailing from New York
16 Apr 1956 Arrival of Isabella & Verity in London, sailing from Durban
1960 Death of Kathleen’s husband George Fagan Bradshaw
03/09/61 Death of Isabella in Guernsey
1970 Death of Pearl's daughter Rosalind
O2 Oct 1978 Death of Lt Col Rowland (Rowly) Graham Hill, O.B.E.in Bath
18 May 1983 Death of Doris at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
1984 Death of Pearl
1997 Death of Kathleen
04 Feb 1997 Death of Verity in Guernsey