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Probate registration


Freemasons lodge details


Shipping list for Ralph 1908 from Durban to Southampton.

I have tried to look at the Australian connection and unfortunately there is not much to go by. I have noted Dr. Ralph T. Jupp arrived in Hobart, Tasmania on 6th February 1908 on the s.s. Wimmera and departed from Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, Victoria on the s.s. Marathon on the 4th March 1908 and is listed for London via ports.

 A previous departure article on the 26th February 1908 from Dalgety's Wharf, Miller's Point, Sydney lists that Dr. R. L. Jupp is travelling to Capetown, not to London as I would have imagined.

No other information is gained by his short stay in Australia but I did locate an article published on the 18th March 1909, nearly 12 months later, for the Marriage between Mr. Stanley R. E. Singleton to Miss Iris M. Lord on the 10th March at St. George's Church, Malvern, Victoria. I'm not sure what the link is here but one of the many gifts that were received by the married couple was a cheque from Dr. Jupp of England.

Trev

Bit more info -
The membership registers of Royal Albert Lodge No. 2315, Klerksdorp show that Ralph was initiated on 18th November 1902, passed on 11th December 1902 and raised on 7th May 1905 and given his Grand Lodge Certificate on 25th November 1905. Initiation (Entered Apprentice), Passing (Fellow Craft) and Raising (Master Mason) are the three degrees of freemasonry that every freemason as to go through before they can take an office in their lodge, receive a certificate from the United Grand Lodge, visit other lodges or join any other masonic orders. Ralph is mentioned in the membership registers of Royal Albert Lodge twice. The first time says that he was excluded on 31/12/1909 and the second time says that he was excluded on 20/1/1910. One of these dates will be an error by either the lodge’s secretary or the clerks at Freemasons’ Hall, although it is clear that his membership of the lodge did not continue beyond these dates.
Exclusion is done by a lodge to a member and is usually for some kind of minor rule infringement, like not paying your fees. These was really common for lodges whose membership was transient (such as English lodges abroad). I suspect that Ralph left the lodge without resigning (possibly because he was leaving Klerksdorp or South Africa) and because of this they carried on charging him his lodge dues. After a couple of years of non-payment, he would have been excluded. To rejoin the lodge, or join another lodge, he would have needed to pay Royal Albert Lodge what he owed them. As he never appeared to have joined any other lodges, he may not even have known that he owed the lodge money.
The United Grand Lodge of England had (and still has) lodges all over the world, especially in countries that were once part of the British Empire. During the 19th Century and early 20th Century South Africa had lodges that were affiliated with the United Grand Lodge of England but they also had lodges associated with the Grand Lodge of Scotland, the Grand Lodge of Ireland and the Grand Orient of the Netherlands (Dutch Grand Lodge).