Where are the Limbricks from?

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Working my way through my local churchyard (St Mewan), I've got distracted by a former Rector - ARTHUR DANIEL LIMBRICK.
Not my favourite person - it's his fault that the Parish Burial Records are in a mess 1928-1932, and he refused to conduct the burial service of suicide victim Reg Rowe in 1928.
BUT... maybe he had a breakdown. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

This is his grave:
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He was educated at St Augustine's College, Canterbury.
He & wife HANNAH EMILY MARGARET worked as missionaries in India (for the SPG - Society for the Propagation of the Gospel - that sounds like fun :eek:) and in 1917 he was giving talks in Dublin. Appointed to St Mewan March/April 1922.
His son ARTHUR WILLIAM WENTWORTH was educated at the King's Cathedral School, Worcester and was killed in 1917, age 19.

Now with names like that, you'd think he'd be easy to trace ...
I cannot find ANY of the 3 births (c1868, c1871, c1898), nor can I find a marriage.

Any suggestions?

Jane

Edited to place clearer photo
 
In 1871 Arthur and his mother Eliza (mmn Biddle)are in Earls Road, South Stoneham, Hampshire.
She, as relationship to head (Charles Bush) is SIL, and claims married
RG10/1197/133/34
In 1881 Arthur is at a school in Ledbury Gloucester run by the Rev. Frederick Eichmann
RG11/2581/64/11
 
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There are a lot of references to the Rev. Limbrick's time in India in a book called "The Steep Ascent" by one Arthur Heber
Code: 
https://archive.org/details/steepascentmemor00thom/page/n5/mode/2up
including quite a few letters from him - I haven't read much of it, so have no idea if it includes any personal stuff :)
 
LIMBRICK Arthur William
Rank : Second Lieutenant Arthur William Wentworth Limbrick
Regiment : 3rd Battalion attached 2nd Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Service number : A0
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : 14th March 1917 aged 19
Buried : Queens Cemetery, Bucquoy, France, Grave II. A. 23.
Relatives : Son of the Reverend A. D. and M. Limbrick, of St. Mewan Rectory, St. Austell, Cornwall Sergeant O.T.C. King's School, Worcester
Memorial : Worcester Kings School WW1 Memorial
Also appears on : Worcester Cathedral Cloister Windows Kings School.
Details:
2nd Lieut., Queen’s (West Surrey’s) Regt.
Born, November 23, 1897. Fell in France, March 14, 1917.
Arthur Limbrick was the only child of the Reverend H. D. and Mrs. Limbrick, S.P.G. Missionaries, of Ramnad, S. India. He came to England and entered the School House in September, 1908, as the smallest boy in the School in the First Form, and left in July last from the Sixth after being Head of his House, Captain of Football, Captain of Fives, School Monitor, and Sergeant in the O.T.C. He also represented the School for two years in cricket. He had the gift of command in a marked degree and used his powers with good effect in the School to the O.C.B. at Gales, where his character matured remarkably. He obtained his commission in the Queen’s West Surrey Regiment in February last, and was almost immediately selected for the front. He fell leading his platoon into action on March 14th close to the enemy’s trench. His Colonel writes that he was a most promising young officer, most reliable and brave, and a tremendous loss to the Regiment. His early loss is deeply regretted by many friends: he was devoted to his School, regarding the School House, of which he was a member for eight years, as a second home, and his last visit for the Christmas concert left the happiest impression on those who knew him best.
W. H. C.

Source for additional information: The Vigornian, June 1917, No.89, Vol.VIII
 
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Look for Hannah Emily Margaret in Sri Lanka. There are 5 children of William Ingram Cotton and Margaret Jane Cotton all married at Holy Trinity Church Nuwara Eliya Ceylon Sri Lanka.
Anne Julia
George John Ingram
Mary Alice
Victoria Maria
As well as Hannah Emily Margaret.
 
Archie's Mum said:
Look for Hannah Emily Margaret in Sri Lanka. There are 5 children of William Ingram Cotton and Margaret Jane Cotton all married at Holy Trinity Church Nuwara Eliya Ceylon Sri Lanka.
Anne Julia
George John Ingram
Mary Alice
Victoria Maria
As well as Hannah Emily Margaret.
Click to expand...
Sorry...these are all births, not marriages...Hannah Emily Margaret was born in Sri Lanka along with her siblings.
 
Marguerite Marie Antoinette Ingram-Cotton was born on 4th May 1901, in Bangalore, the daughter of Henriette Elizabeth Gaudart (1875 – 1918) and George John Ingram Cotton (1874 – 1953). [2] George Cotton, himself born in Amabawella, Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, was a dental surgeon in the British Army in India, treating amongst his various Bangalore patients Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling and Baden Powell. Her mother Henriette, daughter of the Irish Elizabeth Donaghue and Frenchman Francois Gaudart, was born in Karikal, India (south of Pondicherry).
Just a bit more to whet the appetite.....:D
 
Google Book...The Mission Fields 1908.
Just a bit of history from the book.
In 1890 Arthur Limbrick came to run the Ramdan Mission School in Southern India. It comprised a boys boarding school of 82 boys and a girls boarding school of 59 girls. Mrs Limbrick carried out medical work amongst the women in Ramnad as well as the districts.
 
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