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Born 1929 in Truro, Cornwall, JC is the
eldest of four children from the second marriage of Frederick
Charles CARBIS and Christine JOHANSEN.
Educated at and by various boarding schools,
including Falmouth Grammar, Ponsanooth School, and Dolcoath
Technical College.
In a rush of blood to the head, JC was
enlisted into the British Army at Redruth, Cornwall, on the 24th
July 1947 and after completing basic training with the Duke of
Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Bodmin, was transferred to the Royal
Engineers in the September of that year to continue his military
training this time as a Sapper. JC continued to serve with the Corps
of Royal Engineers, firstly as an architectural draughtsman, for a
short period as a field NCO with 3 Squadron RE, and later as a
Military Clerk of Works, eventually being discharged in 1970 having
completed nearly twenty-three years.
As a civilian Clerk of Works, he was first
employed by the NatWest Premises Department at Crawley, leaving to
take up the position of Contracts Administrator with the Ellis
Williams Partnership in their London office. In 1973 accepted an
offer of the appointment of Garrison Engineer with the Sultan of
Oman’s Defence Department, transferring at the conclusion of a
three year contract to Halcrow in Dubai, as a Clerk of Works
involved with three prestigious construction projects. In 1979,
accepted the appointment of Property Manager at the Gulf Hotel,
Doha. One further and last move in the Middle East was to Riyadh in
Saudi Arabia to the appointment as Assistant Resident Engineer,
firstly on the RISTA Sports stadium and then as a Clerk of Work with
Cable and Wireless involved with works to the then Sangcom Project.
Returning to the United Kingdom in 1986 to
take up the appointment of Office Manager to the architectural
practice of the Johns Partnership located in Newmarket, Suffolk,
almost a full cycle of opportunities covering a period of some
eighteen years was now nearing completion, with JC eventually
establishing his own site inspection consultancy.
With the advent his wife Doreen dying in
1997, he was offered and subsequently accepted as an In-Pensioner of
the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, [those veterans of the British Army
who wear the well known ‘scarlet coat and tricorne hat]. Where for
nearly five years was gainfully employed in the Surveyor of Works
Department, where he produced drawings and related ‘statements of
requirements’ for a variety of building projects required by the
RHC establishment.
J C eventually made the decision in 2002 to leave the
SoW having considered that genealogy, both as a hobby and as an
occupation, required far more time and energy than was being devoted
thus far to furthering those aims. He has now become a ‘family
historian’ and the owner of the CARBIS One Named Society website.
When not actively engaged on family research, he has travelled to
the South Africa, USA, Australia and New Zealand, to meet and join
with other CARBIS peoples.
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