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James Charles Wauhope                     1884-1960
James Charles, Commander, R. N. was born in India in 1884, and educated at Charterhouse and in H.M.S. Britannia. He became a Midshipman in 190l, and was employed for several years before the war in submarines. During the war of 1914-1918 he was for some time in the North Sea engaged in antisubmarine work, but was also at the Dardanelles and took part in the first landing. He retired with the rank of Commander in 1922. In 1911 he married Kathleen Gilmour. Annie Kathleen Gilmour                     1880-1945
Annie was born about 1880, the daughter of David Gilmour and Margaret Jane Muirhead, in Shanghai, China.
There were no children of this marriage.

Birth of Parents
James Charles Wauhope b: 15 Jul 1884  c: 21 Aug 1884       Mhow, Bengal, India
son of George Duncan Wahab (1840-1899) and Cora Boothby, Major 2 Lancaster Fusiliers

Annie Kathleen Gilmour b: abt 1880               Shanghai, China
daughter of David Gilmour and Margaret Jane Muirhead

1891 Census Vol-685/5 6 April 1891 Edinburgh, St Cuthberts, Midlothian, Scotland
6 Merchiston Pl
George Duncan Wahab
Cora (Wife)
George B.
James C.
Plus 2 Servants		 Age 51
Age 31
Age 8
Age 6 		Retired Colonel India
India
Egypt
India 		abt 1840
abt 1859
abt 1882
abt 1884

1911 Census RG14-5551 3 April 1911 Kingston and East Southsea, Hampshire
Castlemede, Florence Road, Southsea
Louis Dartnell
Margaret (Wife)
Kathleen Annie Gilmour (SisLaw)
Margaret Elizabeth
Plus 3 Servants 		Age 38
Age 32
Age 31
Age 1 		Staff Surgeon R.N. Callao
Shanghai
Shanghai
Dover 		Peru
China
China
Kent 		abt 1873
abt 1878
abt 1880
abt 1910

Marriage
24 Jul 1911
James Charles Wauhope
Annie Kathleen Gilmour

The Times, Friday, Jul 28, 1911                         Death
WAUHOPE : GILMOUR -On the 24th July, at St Simon's Southsea, by the Rev. A.W. Moore, James Charles Wauhope (Wahab), Lieut. Royal Navy, second son of the late Col. G. D. Wahab, 2nd Lancs. Fus., and Mrs. Wahab. to Kathleen, daughter of the late David Gilmour, of Shanghai, China, and of the late Mrs. Gilmour, of Preston Cross, Bookham. (China papers, please copy.)

the Western Australian 31 Aug 1937 Page 14
Narkunda's passengers
Captain J.C. Wauhope, who is travelling from New Guinea to Great Britain, where he will now live. He joined the Royal Navy in 1899 and had his first command, the submarine A5, in 1908. For a year and a half during the Great War he was in command of a Q ship, the Q4. He was lent to the Royal Australian Navy in 1923, and was commander of the cruiser Adelaide. He retired in 1924 and went to live in New Guinea, where for the past seven years he has been successfully working a claim on the Wewak goldfield.

Death
James Charles Wauchope Died 3 Dec 1960, Age 76,       1960 4Q Paddington 5d 241a

LONDON   15 May 1961                         Probate
WAUCHOPE, James Charles - of 40 Inverness Terrace, London W.2 died 3 December 1960 at The General Hospital, Paddington, London, Administration London 15 May, to George Duncan Wauchope, insurance broker.   Effects £589 13s. 3d.

Death
Annie Kathleen (Gilmour) Wauchope Died 19 Oct 1945, Age 65,         1945 4Q Kensington 1a 93

The Times, Tuesday, Oct 23, 1945                         Death
  WAUCHOPE - On Oct. 19, 1945, suddenly, at a London Hotel, Annie Kathleen (Kit), beloved wife of Capt. J. C. Wauchope, R.N. (retired), and daughter of the late David and Mrs. Gilmore, late of Shanghai, and Mickleham Downs, Leatherhead. Cremation at Golders Green, to-morrow, (Wednesday), at 12 o'clock. Bunches of flowers only, please.

SPECIAL THANKS  to Simon Potter, of London, a relative of this family, for many of the details provided above.