My grandfather, Guillermo Oliva Ravest, was the start of the UK Ravests. I have found only a few records concerning my grandfather. He is recorded in the 1911 UK Census as an engineer, aged 30, and being married for 8 months to my Grandmother, Maudie, aged 19, [full name Ethel Maude Ravest, 1891-1973].\u00a0 It records that she was born in Woking, Surrey. They were living in Holborn, London.\u00a0 From this I assume that he was born around 1880.<\/p>\n
I understood from older members of my family that Guillermo was a navel officer, attached to the Chilean embassy. \u00a0I can now confirm this. \u00a0He graduated from the\u00a0Escuela de Aspirantes Ingenieros de la Armada in 1900.<\/p>\n
The passenger list for the Pacific Line ship\u00a0Orissa<\/em> names Lieutenant Guillermo Ravest as leaving Liverpool for Valparaiso on 1 June 1911.\u00a0 He was with four other lieutenants, all traveling first class. One of these, (Lieut. Victor Soffia), graduated from the Escuela in 1904. \u00a0My Grandmother travelled later.<\/p>\n I believe that he was in England on a mission related to the procurement by the Chilean Navy of a new class of destroyer, the Admirante Lynch Class.\u00a0 Six of these destroyers were ordered in early 1911.\u00a0 They were significantly larger and heavier armed than contemporary British destroyers. Only two were delivered before the First World War.\u00a0 The others were taken into the British Navy of which three survived to be delivered after the war.<\/p>\n My father, (Guillermo Mario Ravest on his birth certificate), was born in Concepcion, Chile on 2 Sept 1913. He was brought to England by his mother under the name William Ravest. They traveled second class on the Orita, arriving Liverpool 8 December 1913, when my father was aged 3 months. My father was later known as Lesley Ravest.<\/p>\n I am very keen to get more information on Guillermo Ravest, his family and career.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My grandfather, Guillermo Oliva Ravest, was the start of the UK Ravests. I have found only a few records concerning my grandfather. He is recorded in the 1911 UK Census as an engineer, aged 30, and being married for 8 months to my Grandmother, Maudie, aged 19, [full name Ethel Maude Ravest, 1891-1973].\u00a0 It records […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}