Full House; Genealogy Bingo!

When a British person is given the prompt "full house", the first thing that will come to mind is 'BINGO'! To that end, when I saw this coming up I knew that I would have to create a Genealogy Bingo card. In the course of this post, I'll show how I can call 'Full House!', or at least will in a week or two!

Since starting this #52Ancestors challenge in January this year I have written about many of my ancestors. In February I wrote about my 2x great grandfather, and his life as a collier, and later chip shop owner. The following week I turned my attention to the other side of my tree, and write about the Newells who left England in the early 1600s, to start a new life in the new world. Later their descendants emigrated back to the UK, and settled in Scotland.

In a post from March, I detailed the life of my great grandfather, who seems to have been a bigamist. He got away with it, and lived a happy life with my 2x great grandmother, whilst his first wife apparently remarried, so no big deal. I believe bigamy was far more common, when divorces were harder to come by. That same great grandfather was initially a cook in the Brighton workhouse, and later a cook in a mental hospital. During WWI, it seems he switched from being a cook, to being a nurse in the same mental hospital. 

I also wrote, in March, about the Bell family, the father of which was a publican, and he and his daughters formed the Victorian Music Hall stage act Les Trois Cloches. They even performed at the London Hippodrome; quite a distance from their home town in the north west! The same month, I wrote about our Gambier ancestors, and their seeking refuge in England, after the French king Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, basically making many French protestant Huguenots religious refugees.

I went from writing about one kind of religious persecution, to another, when I wrote about an 11x great grandfather, Richard Sherborn, and his family, who were Catholic recusants in Elizabethan England, and the family's subsequent downfall.

March was a busy month, because I also wrote about my husband's great grandfather, and his service in WWI. Later in June I wrote about my husband's grand uncle who was an airman in WWII, and who died, with the rest of his flight crew in the early hours of D Day. Whilst neither were soldiers (they were each a sailor and an airman respectively), they were both active participants in the war efforts, and I think that's good enough for my Bingo squares! Continuing on, with my husband's family, I recently wrote about his 2x great grandfather and his family of railway workers. In another post about my in-laws' family, I wrote about a story well told by the newspapers of the time, and the murder of two games keepers, the surviving third game keeper being my husband's 3x great granduncle, who was the star witness for the prosecution.

A  further murder was written about in August, when I wrote about the murder/suicide committed by my 2x great granduncle. In researching that ancestor and his story, I discovered that his first wife died of cancer in the Brighton workhouse. I also discovered that the child who was possibly his son, by the woman he murdered, and who was orphaned by his heinous crime, became a British Home Child, and was sent to Canada as a result.

Just last month I wrote about the slave trade, and the Gambier branch of our family were slave owners, and also played a key role in the abolition of slavery. And just the month before I shared some details of a book written by my 3x great grandfather, who was just one of many mariners in my family.

In early October I wrote about the wife and child of my husband's 3x great grandfather, who both died as a result of TB, or consumption as it was then known. And last month I wrote about how I discovered that I am descended from King Edward III, and his wife Queen Philippa of Hainault.

I plan to write about maids next week, in the 'Lost Contact' week, and the following week, 'Challenging', will be when I write about a particularly challenging ancestor, who was a doctor in New England, during the time of the Witch Trials.

So, as you can see.... I am left to find someone who fought in the American Revolutionary War, and that someone is my 5x great grandfather Jedediah Phipps.

Jedediah Phipps was born on the 11th March 1724, in Sherborn, MA. He was the son of John and Hannah Phipps. Jedediah Phipps was settled in  Douglas, MA prior to the start of the war. He was a committed revolutionary, and his name appeared on a list of officers commissioned in the first regiment of militia in Worcester, MA, dated 1st March 1763. It seems that at the close of the Seven Years War (known in the USA as the French and Indian War) some sort of a plan for a revolution against the British empire was being formed, and Jedediah Phipps was signing up at the start. He was in Captain Caleb Hill's company, based in Douglas, and in Colonel John Chandler's regiment.

The Second Congregational Church, Douglas, MA

With the rank of lieutenant, Jedediah and his family returned to Sherborn in May 1768, and sometime near the beginning of the war Jedediah Phipps was heard by the General Court. At this point in the history, the colonial army were almost out of ammunition. Jedediah had a solution.

".... Mr Jedediah Phips of Sherborn, has produced to this Court several pounds of salt petre, of his own manufacturing, and given full evidence of his knowledge in discovering earth impregnanted therewith, as well as of his abilities to manufacture said commodity; and has also consented to entre into the employment of the Government for improvnig the art and business aforesaid, and engaged to communicate his useful discoveries therein; Therefor resolved, that the said Jedediah Phips be taken into the service of this Colony, as aforesaid, until the 15th of December next, and he is hereby directed to repair to Newburyport as soon as he maybe, and use his utmost efforts with Dr Whiting, Mr Baker, and Capt John Peck, a committee of this Court for the purpose aforesaid, or either of them to make further improvements in the art of manufacturing said commodity and for every day which he shall be absent from his home and employed agreeable to this resolve he shall be allowed and paid out of the Public Treasury, the sum of 6s per day for his services, and 20s per week, to defray his expenses, as already provided for said committee."

Salt peter, an important ingredient in black gunpowder, is crucial to the manufacture of explosives and ammunition. There were not many manufacturers of ammunition and weapons in the 'colony', and whilst the French did support the weaponising of the Revolution eventually, this aid did not come until about 1778. The first 3 years or so were a struggle of cobbling together what the Continental Army could muster, against the well equipped British army. The ingenious method described by Jedediah Phipps was clearly one of the answers to this issue.

Salt Peter was referred to as Chinese Snow, by the ancient Arabian people.

Jedediah Phipps had a good estate in Sherborn, between Peter's Hill, and the Framingham Road which left the town of Sherborn travelling north towards Framingham and Mansfield. He and his wife, Sarah Learned, had at least 5 children; John (1757-1831), Jedediah Phipps (1760-1847), Jesse Phipps (born 1763), Sarah Phipps (1766-1838), Persis Phipps (born 1768), Mary Polly Phipps (1770-1851; my 4x great grandmother), and Anna Phipps (1778-1867). 

From an 1857 map of Sherborn, MA

Throughout the Revolutionary War Jedediah Phipps worked in various guises, including his work on developing salt peter. He was a selectman (1773 & 1780). A selectman was, and still is, a local political position. Selectmen during the colonial times of New England were generally responsible for licensing, the twon watch, and poor relief. He was moderator of Sherborn town meetings in 1778 & 1779, and was on the Sherborn committee of safety in 1780. The committee of safety, along with other committees (inspection, & correspondence), took control of the governance of a locality in  the Thirteen Colonies, which significantly reduced amount of power and authority held by the British overseers.  As a member of the committee of safety, Jedediah Phipps would have been party to passing laws, and regulations, and enacting statutes. 

Continental Soldiers

Jedediah Phipps lived to the grand old age of 94, and died in Sherborn on October 14th, 1818.  The book 'The Ancestors and Descendants of John Phipps, of Sherborn, 1757-1847' tells us that the genealogist Rev. Abner Morse visited Jedediah in his final months. He related the following description of him;

"He had never been sick in his life. At 94 he retained a great vigour in the faculties of his mind and had a rare sensibility to the beauties of nature, language and art. He could describe the constellations as clearly as the fields of his own farm; he could at that gerat age repeat quotations correctly from the classics, and he could give the names of his former acquaintances who had conversed with Peregrin White. He dwelt much on divine goodness. Though professedly a laboring mind, he had stored his mind by a habit of spending his minutes of relaxation in reading, and he had long been the oracle of the vicinity, and was well known in all the bordering towns."

He certainly sounds like he was an interesting man.

Now, my Bingo card looks almost full. By the end of the month I will be able to call 'HOUSE!!'

What is on your Genealogy Bingo card?

#Newell

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More Most; Money Births contd, & Most Reverends

In my last blog entry, I detailed the births of Mary Webster, who birthed 13 babies in her lifetime. One of those babies was Susannah Money, her sixth child, and third daughter. Susannah also birthed 13 babies, and together they hold the record in our family tree of birthing the most number of babies. This post is dedicated to the 13 births of  Susannah Money, who possibly holds the record of birthing the most number of boys who became clergymen, and girls who married clergymen. It seems that the Moneys were both prodigious, and faithful to the Anglican strain of Christianity.

Susannah Money was born on 23rd April 1779. She married Robert Chatfield in 1800, in the parish church of Much Marcle. Robert Chatfield was a clergyman, and was the vicar of Chatteris, in Cambridgeshire, however at the time of the marriage it seems that he may have been the vicar at Kings Caple, Herefordshire, not far from Much Marcle.

Chatteris Parish Church, Cambridgeshire

Just a year after Susannah's marriage to Robert she birthed her first baby; a daughter, Susannah Mary Anne Chatfield. She was born about 1801 and baptised at Kings Caple parish church on 22nd July 1801. Susannah Mary Anne later married Robert Edward Hankinson, the rector of Halesworth parish church, Suffolk, who later became the archdeacon of Norwich. Together they had two daughters; Marian, and Eugenia Hankinson. Susannah Mary Anne Chatfield died in 1881 at the age of 83, in Norwich.

Rev Robert Hankinson

Dorothea Chatfield was their second baby. She was born in 1802, and like her sister, also baptised at Kings Caple, on 22nd July 1802. Dorothea married Martin Boswell, a clergyman, in 1823, at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Together they had 2 daughters, Dorothea and Eugenia Boswell, and 3 sons, Martin Theodore, Rowland, and John Albert Boswell. Dorothea died in 1872, in the family home of Iver Lodge, Buckinghamshire, at the age of 70.

Iver Lodge was built for the Boswell family.

Susannah's third child, another daughter, Eugenia Chatfield, was born in Kings Caple and was baptised at the parish church there on 11th October 1803. She married a banker, named Samuel Smith on 4th July 1821, at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Eugenia and Samuel had 3 sons, Samuel George, Frederick Chatfield, Rowland, and Horace James Smith, and 1 daughter, Charlotte Eugenia Smith. Eugenia Chatfield died shortly after her daughter was born in the spring of 1838. Records suggest that she may have died as a result of childbirth.

Eugenia Chatfield

Susannah and Robert's first son, and fourth child was born 19th August 1804; Robert Money Chatfield. Robert married Anna Maria Jesson in 1829, and was the vicar at Woodford and Wilsford, in Wiltshire. Together they had 5 daughters, Mary Madeline, Catherine Maria, Caroline Blanche Cecilia, Ella Eugenia, and Alice Chatfield, and 3 sons, Alfred John, George and Robert Edward Chatfield. Robert Money Chatfield died in Woodford, Wilstshire in 1882.

Woodford Church, in 1812

The fifth child and second son was Thomas Kyrle Ernle Chatfield, who arrived on 14th March 1806. Thomas was a student at Cambridge University, but died before he could make much of a mark on this world. He died on 13th July 1835, at the age of 29, and was buried at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.

Vincentia Money Chatfield was Susannah's sixth baby to be born. She was born in Chatteris on 22nd March 1807. In May 1831 Vincentia married Rev Charles Rush Wells, the son of a slave woman, who had been freed by his Welsh father Nathaniel Wells. Nathaniel Wells was the son of William Wells, and Juggy, a female slave, in St Kitts. Nathaniel Wells was sent to England by his father with the hope that he would attend Oxford University, however when William Wells died Nathaniel inherited his estate, and Nathaniel decided against Oxford, and chose the 'university of life' instead. Nathaniel led a vibrant and successful life in the UK, and became the first High Sherriff of colour, in the United Kingdom, serving for Monmouthshire in Wales. Charles and Vincentia had three daughters together; Margaret Vincentia, Gertrude, and Eugenia Wells. Charles Rush Wells died in 1848, and Vincentia died in 1881, some 33 years later.

Charles Rush Wells may have been the vicar of the church in Nicholaston, Gower, wales, where he lived when he died in 1848.

The seventh child of Susannah Money and Robert Chatfield was a son named Allen William Chatfield. Allen was born in 1809, and was baptised at Chatteris on the 2nd October of the same year. Allen married Anne Sober at St Nicholas', Brighton, Sussex, on 25th June 1833. Allen William Chatfield was a graduate of Charterhouse, and Trinity College. Cambridge. He became a clergyman and eventually took the vicarage-ship at Much Marcle. He was a talented translator of Greek, and wrote many hymns, which could be found in the popular hymn book, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Allen and Anne had 3 sons, Kyrle Mitford, George Kemp, and Henry Rowland Spencer Chatfield, and 2 daughters, Emma and Mary Chatfield. Allen William Chatfield died on 10th January, 1896 at the age of 88, at Much Marcle.

Much Marcle Church

Maria Chatfield was the eighth child born to Susannah Money and Robert Chatfield. She was born in Chatteris, in 1810, and in 1829 she married a banker named David Barclay Chapman. David Barclay Chapman was a partner in the bank which became Barclay & Co Ltd in 1896. Most Brits of today will recognise the name Barclays Bank, which still today is a popular high street bank in the UK. Maria was his second wife, his first wife having died in 1828 following the birth of their son David Ward Chapman. Maria and David went on to have 3 sons together, Horace, Spencer, and Peter Godfrey Chapman, and 3 daughters Ellen, Eugenia, and Adeline Chapman. In 1871 Maria's sister Vincentia, by then a widow, was living with her, and her family at 29 Brunswick Square, in Brighton, Sussex. Maria Chatfield died in 1881.

Susannah's ninth child was Rowland Wesley Chatfield, born in Chatteris on the 23rd August 1811. Rowland worked for the Civil Service in India, and was an employee of the East India Company. He lived for a while in Madras, India, where he met and married Gertrude Trevor Tyler. Gertrude was the daughter of George Peter Tyler, an East India Company man, and she was born in Kolkota in 1811. They had 1 daughter, Gertrude Maria Chatfield, and 2 sons Rowland, and Alexander Charles Davidson Chatfield. Both boys died in infancy. His daughter Gertrude married and had two sons with a Bernard Ward. Sadly Gertrude died at age 28,  following the birth of her second son. Gertrude, Rowland's wife, died in 1870, after they had returned to the UK. Rather scandalously, Rowland met a Mary Brown, who was 34 years his junior, and with whom he lived as if she were his wife. They had a son together, Alfred Chatfield, who was born in 1874, and they eventually married in 1887, when he was 75 and she was 41. I wonder what it was that caused the delay in their marriage. Rowland died just 4 years later, in 1891. He named his son in law, or grandson (both have the same name) as his executor.

Felicia Chatfield was the tenth child born to Susannah and Robert. She was born on  the 14th September 1812, at Chatteris. She sadly did not survive childhood, dying in 1818 at the age of 6. Susannah's eleventh child, Mary Chatfield, was born in 1813, in Chatteris. She married Charles Tombs, a clergyman educated at Oxford University. He was a vicar at Aden in Bombay (now known as Mumbai, India. Mary and Charles had one daughter together; Mary Eugenia Tombs. She was born in India in 1845, and just a year later, at the age of 30, Rev Charles Tombs  died, in India. Mary and her daughter returned to  England, and resided at Western Cottages, Brighton, which may have been owned by the Sober family (the in-laws of her brother Allen William). Mary Chatfield died in 1859. Mary Eugenia, her daughter, was just 14, and an orphan. Her uncle John Tombs and his wife Ann took her in and she was living with them in 1861.

The building of the Brighton Pavillion began in 1787, and was the Royal seaside residence. This brought Brighton to the attention of the rest of the country, and raised it's profile. It became a favourite place for many in the upper classes of Great Britain during the Regency period.

Susannah's last two children both died in infancy.Caroline Elizabeth Chatfield, the twelfth child, was born in 1815. She died in 1818, at just 2 years of age. Her brother, James William Kyrle Chatfield, was the last and thirteenth child birthed by Susannah Money. He was born in 1817, and died just a year later.

Susannah Money birthed 13 children over 16 years, from the age of 22 to 38. It seems that after Robert Chatfield retired from the church the family relocated to Brighton, the fashionable regency seaside resort in Sussex, where other members of the family were living. They were living at 7 Montpelier Crescent in the 1851 census, and it seems likely that they were still residing there when Robert died in 1853. Susannah died a few years later, in 1857, and was buried with Robert at St Andrew's church, Brighton.

Susannah outlived 5 of her 13 children, with her youngest surviving daughter Mary dying two years after Susannah's death. Susannah and Robert were grandparents to a total of 41 Chatfield children. And out of the 9 surviving sons and son-in-laws there were a total of 6 clergymen. That's a lot of praying!

'A Clerical Alphabet' by Richard Newton, published in 1795

#Newell

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Most; More on the Money's- The Most Births

Whilst researching the Money's and their stately pile, Homme House, for the recent 'homestead' post I discovered a pair of women who both individually birthed the most number of babies in our family tree. Both mother and daughter birthed 13 babies each, which makes my 'non math' mind boggle when trying to figure out the number of uncles, aunts and cousins etc. In this post I will tell you about the mother, Mary Webster. I shall save Susannah for a subsequent post.... More Most!

Mary Webster was the daughter of William Webster of Whitby, Yorkshire, and Mary Burdon of Stockton, Durham. The Burdon family were a well established and highly noted family in Stockton Upon Tees. Her father, Revered Rowland Burdon inherited the Burdon estate from his uncle, Henry Burdon, a mariner and local tenement owner. Rev Rowland Burdon, and his wife Mary Lackenby had just one child- Mary. She inherited the property known as 'Blue Posts' which had been the family home since the time of Henry VII. The home was so called due to the two posts or pillars of Frosterly marble that supported the gable frontage and created the entranceway to the home. The building, which had stood at numbers 8 & 9 Main Street in Stockton, was demolished in 1811. Although the building no longer stands, the name 'Blue Posts' lives on, now naming an adjacent yard to where the house once stood. It is thought that Mary Burdon married William Webster in the early 1740s (records are yet to be found), and their daughter Mary Webster was born in Stockton Upon Tees in 1743. 

William Money was the eldest son of James Money, the gent who inherited Homme House, and the rest of the Kyrle estate, from his aunt Lady Constantia Dupplin (as described in the aforementioned 'homestead' post). William's mother was Eugenia Stoughton, of Warwickshire. Her first name will be used again and again throughout many further generations of Money women. William Money was born in 1748, at his father's Pitsford estate in Northamptonshire, 5 years before his father was to inherit Homme House from Lady Dupplin, who died in 1753. The current Pitsford Hall, in Pitsford, Northamtonshire was built by James Money in 1764, when William was 16 years old. James and Eugenia had 3 boys altogether; William, George, and James. James died at the age of 15, in 1769, and George also died before his father James' death in 1785, leaving William Money the sole heir of the Pitsford, Whetham, and Much Marcle estates, as well as Mary's Stockton property.

James Money, 1724-1785, father of William Money

It seems to me that William Money and Mary Webster were set upon filling all these large properties to the gunwales. So many previous generations of meagre heirs perhaps put fire in their loins, and made them all the more keen to ensure there were heirs aplenty going forward. Their first child, Mary, was born on 11th January 1773, in Stockton, presumably at the Burdon home of Blue Posts. She did not survive childhood, and died at the age of 10, on 30th September 1783, in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

Their second daughter, was born around 1775 in Stockton. (I have not found her exact birth record, but can estimate her birth year by her age at death. She may have been the 2nd born, or the 3rd born, but it's impossible to tell without better records.) Eugenia Money was to marry another Money; William Taylor Money, from Walthamstow, Essex. William Taylor Money was from (I believe) an unconnected Money family, who had strong connections to the East India Company. He was a director of the East India Company, and the family lived in India for a time, where many of Eugenia's children were born. Eugenia died in 1865, after having 8 children with William Taylor Money.

William and Mary's first son and third child was James Money, born in 1775, in Stockton. I have pondered on why the family were still living in Stockton, while there were bigger estates and houses in which they could have made their homes. William's father James did not die until 1785, and Pitsford Hall was under construction from 1764. It was, and still is, a large Georgian house and it would have taken a considereable time to build. I also do not know how long the inheritance from Lady Dupplin was under dispute, in which case they may not have had access to the Whetham estate for a while either. It is entirely possible that the Stockton residence was their only option.

James Money Kyrle, 1775-1843

William Money was born in 1776; the first child to be born on the Much Marcle estate of Homme House, and fourth child. William Money became a cleric, at Calne, Wiltshire, near the Whetham estate in Wiltshire. He married Emma Down, in 1805 and together they had 8 children (7 sons, and 1 daughter). In 1809 his older brother James gifted the estate of Whetham, in Wiltshire, to William.

Rev William Money Kyrle, 1776-1848

James Money was heir to his father William's estate. James assumed the last name Kyrle, by Royal Warrant in 1809, and married Caroline Ann Taylor in 1811. They had no children, so when he died in 1843 the Much Marcle estate, and the baronetcy passed on to his younger brother William.

The fifth child of William and Mary was George Money, who was born in 1743, in Stockton. At the age of 40 George married Pulcerie de Bourbel, the daughter of the Marquis de Bourbel- Montpincon; Antoine Raoult Henrie de Bourbel, from the Normandy region of France. Pulcerie's father escaped to England during the French Revolution in 1790, and did somewhat well establishing a coal and jewelry trading company. (I say somewhat, because the company went bankrupt when his business partner returned to France in 1802, when Napoleon became First Consul of France, for life.)

Kolkata, spelled by the English as Calcutta, in 1788, was where George and Pulcherie lived. 

George and Pulcerie had 6 children together, with some of the most interesting names in our family tree; Aurelian James, Edward James d'Oyly Thrale, Alonzo, George Henry, Mary Frances Vincentia, and James William Bayllie. George died in 1751, at the age of 74, in his home of Hill House, Berkshire.

Susannah Money was the sixth child and 3rd daughter. More on her later, as she was the daughter with more births than anyone else, equal to the number birthed by her mother.

The next (seventh) child, born January 1781, was Kyrle Ernle Money. Kyrle married Mary Thomasina Ffrench. He was the vicar of Much Marcle's parish church, St Bartholomew. Kyrle and Mary had 4 daughters, and 3 sons. Kyrle died in 1846, at the age of 64, leaving Mary a widow at just 58.

St Bartholomew, Much Marcle, Herefordshire

The eighth child was John Kyrle Ernle Money, who was a commander in the Indian Navy, and who died without issue on the 6th August 1825. Strangely, the family memorial in St Bartholomew's Church, Much Marcle, refers to John as the youngest son of William Money and Mary Webster. He was, however, succeeded by one further son, Rowland Money, who was my 4x great grandfather.

Rowland, the ninth child, was born on the 28th April, 1782. He was a naval captain, who at one time saved all the souls on a merchant brig which had grounded in dangerous weather conditions off the coast of Harwich. Rowland married Maria Money, of the Walthamstow Money family and sister of William Taylor Money who had married Rowland's older sister Eugenia. (You can only imagine how complicated all these different Money's were to trace!) Rowland and Maria had 11 children together. (Perhaps they were competing for most number of births!) Since they are in our direct line I shall list them and their dates;

1. Maria Rowlanda Money (1807-1874) [My 3x great grandmother.]
2. Amelia Mary Money (1810-1873)
3. Rowland Money (1812-1883)
4. Ernle Kyrle Money (1814-1883)
5. Mary Martha Money (1815-1817)
6. William Taylor Money (1817-1877)
7. David Inglis Money (1819-1843)
8. Angelica Mary Money (1820-1883)
9. Emma Martha Money (1822-1854)
10. Eva Maria Money (1824-1877)
11. George James Gambier Money (1827-1829)
Rowland Money died in Cheltenham in 1860 at the age of 78.

The last four children born to Mary Webster were all daughters, none of whom married. The first of these four, and tenth child, was Dorothea Money who was born in 1783. Dorothea, towards the end of her life at least, lived with her sister Susannah in Brighton, Sussex. At her death she bequeathed parts of her estate to her nephews (by her brother George) Alonzo and George Henry Money, to her brother Rowland Money, and to her sister Susannah, and Susannah's daughter Vincentia. Dorothea died in 1857, at the age of 74.

The brothers Alonzo and George Henry Money wrote this book together, about their experiences in the Crimean War.

Hester Money, the eleventh child, was born in 1784. She died in Cheltenham in 1854, at the age of 70, as a spinster. I suspect she was residing with her brother Rowland, at the end of her life. In her will she bequeathed her estate to her nephews (by older sister Eugenia) William and Charles Forbes Septimus Money.

Alice Money, the twelfth child, was born in 1788. She did not survive to adulthood, and died in 1802, at the age of 14. Her younger sister, the final thirteenth child, Vincentia Money was born in 1789. She lived only a short few years more than her sister Alice, and died in 1816 at the age of 26.

Throughout her life Mary Webster birthed a total of 13 babies, from the age of 30 to 46. Some of her children were conceived within the same year as having given birth to their previous sibling. My body aches at the thought of so much babymaking, and can only imagine what a physical toll this must have made on her body. Mary Webster died in 1813, in Much Marcle, Herefordshire. She outlived just two of her children; daughters Mary and Alice. Considering her age at the start of her birthing years, and the maternal death rate in the Georgian era, this was quite some feat, no doubt helped along by the family's wealth.

Breastfeeding, 18th century caricature by James Gillray (1756-1815)

#Newell

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Least; The Least Lived

I struggled with this writing prompt; least what? And then I stumbled across a person in my husband's ancestry, whilst researching the original Ferguson for the 'Symbol' post a few weeks ago. In that story I searched for the birth, marriage, and death records for Helen Ferguson's parents. Helen Ferguson, and her husband Ebenezer Grosset were my husband's 3x great grandparents. Ebenezer Grosset was born on the 26th October 1829, in Burdiehouse, Liberton, Midlothian, in Scotland. Liberton is now considered a neighbourhood in the south of Edinburgh city.  Before he married Helen Ferguson, Ebenzer Grosset was married to an Elizabeth Thompson (sometimes spelled Thomson). They married on the 30th June 1852, when Ebenezer was 22 and Elizabeth was 26. /

From the Ordnance Survey Map of Scotland, 1856-91

Elizabeth and Ebenezer had 4 children together. The first three were Ebenezer, William, and Helen Murray. But it was the fourth child that grabbed my attention for the purpose of this week's writing prompt. You see Elizabeth died on the 17th August 1858. She died from 'phthisis pulmonaris', the archaic medical term for the disease we now call tuberculosis, or TB. Elizabeth had suffered from 'consumption', the colloquial term for the disease, for more than 12 months. During those 12 months Elizabeth became pregnant with her  fourth child, and on her death on 17th August 1858, her baby girl was born prematurely. Elizabeth's daughter lived for  8 short hours, and died on the 18th August 1858. Ebenezer Grosset registered the death of his wife, and the birth and death of his baby daughter, all on the following day; 19th August 1858. It must have been quite a tragic few days for the family, and I can only imagine the sense of loss he would have felt on that day.

Death certificate for Elizabeth Thompson

Birth certificate for Baby Girl Grosset

Death certificate for Baby Girl Grosset

Consumption was also known as the Great White Plague, or the White Death, due to the pallid colour those suffering from the disease would turn. It is thought that tuberculosis is one of the worlds greatest killer diseases throughout history, and has generally hit the most poverty stricken in society. In 1838-1839  somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of poor, working class men died from TB, whilst just 1/6 of the 'gentleman' class died from the disease. Despite these statistics, our family tree, branches of all classes, rich and poor, is littered with deaths from 'phthisis'; usually the type that affects the lungs, although TB can affect many other organs in the body.

The Young Consumptive, by Henry Robinson Peach, 1858

Strangely, the look of consumption was rather 'en vogue', during the Victorian era. It was generally felt, by society, that there was something romantic about the thin, pale, melancholic appearance of a person wasting away from this disease. This romanticism was encouraged by poets and writers, such as Keats, Shelley, and Emily Bronte all of whom, ironically, died of the disease. Lord Byron did not die from tuberculosis, but he did once wish that he would die from consumption, reasoning that "all the women would say, 'See that poor Byron- how interesting he looks in dying.'" It seems so strange to the modern mind, that anyone would desire such an awful, destructive death. 

The rates of tuberculosis in the world have decreased over time, due in part to a better understanding of the disease, better treatment, and mass vaccination programs. In the 19th century tuberculosis killed roughly a quarter of the adult population of Europe. In 2022 the same disease killed around 1.3 million worldwide. I have, however, been pondering on how today's cat walk and fashion models are often very thin, and pale looking, and how it seems that our modern society is still hankering after the 'consumptive' look. When will we return to admiring the looks of a person robust with good health?

#Grosset

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Homestead; A Squabble Over a Money Pile

Recently I wrote about my genealogical connection to Edward III, King of England, and one of the Plantagenet monarchs.  In that post I mentioned how the owner/creator of the site thepeerage.com advised me that my descendancy from the Plantagenets was via the Money family. Whilst researching the Money family more closely, I discovered a story about a 'homestead' of sorts; a stately pile by the name of Homme House (also spelled Hom House). [For the benefit of any non British readers, in the UK stately homes, palaces and grand mansions are often referred to as 'piles'.)

I should make it clear that Homme House is not my homestead, and I make no claim to it, although it is a homestead still held by the Money branch of my family; distant cousins who only have tiny specks of blood in common with me! Tiny specks of blood, and an ancient ancestor by the name of Thomas Kyrle.

Thomas Kyrle was my 13x great grandfather. He was lawyer, money lender, and Minister of Parliament for Chichester in 1571. In 1574 Thomas Kyrle acquired the manor of Much Marcle, a beautiful village in south Herefordshire. This was the estate that was to become known as Hom House (later spelled Homme House.) Thomas Kyrle was not to live for many years after acquiring the property, as he died somewhat abruptly in 1577. A record that may not be attributed to our Thomas Kyrle, reports that a Thomas Kyrle of Herefordshire was murdered in 1577. It's impossible to know whether or not this record refers to my 13x great grandfather, and I have been unable to find any further information about this murder online. He did, however, write his will on the 26th July, and then died just 5 days later, on the 31st July, which suggests that he was unwell, and making arrangements in preparation for the worst outcome.

When Thomas Kyrle died, his eldest son and heir, John Kyrle was only 9 years old. His uncles (Thomas' brothers) Richard and Anthony Kyrlewere appointed as executors, along with the then dean of Westminster, and together they were to hold the land in trust until John came of age. 

John Kyrle, my 12x great grandfather, was born in 1568. He was a justice of the peace and held the office of High Sheriff of Herefordshire not once, but twice! He was created a Baronet, by Charles I in 1627, and was married to Sybil Scudamore, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son and heir was Francis Kyrle who was married to Hester Tracy. Sadly Francis died a year before his father, in 1649, leaving his eldest son, another John Kyrle, to inherit his grandfather and namesake's estate. 

Charles I was removed as monarch, when Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentary forces won the English Civil War. He was executed in 1649.

John Kyrle, my 10x great grandfather, was born in 1619. He was 31 years old when his father died, leaving him the estate of Much Marcle and Hom House. At this time he was already a married man, having married Rebecca Vincent in December 1647, in the parish church of Much Marcle. John Kyrle was a lawyer and Minister of Parliament for Herefordshire in 1688. Both his father, Francis, and grandfather, John, had acted on the side of the Parliamentarians, in the Civil War, and had worked for Cromwell's republic during the years of the commonwealth. John had continued them in some of their work, but this did not hinder his opportunities, as he was knighted in 1660, after which he was known as Sir John Kyrle, 2nd Baronet of Much Marcle.

Sir John Kyrle, and Rebecca his wife had 4 daughters; Vincentia, Hester, Elizabeth, and Sybil. On Sir Johm's death in 1679, and with a dearth of male heirs, it was Vincentia who inhertited the estate of Hom House, and the manor of Much Marcle. Vincentia was my 9x great grandmother, and she was born in October 1651. She married Sir John Ernle in December 1674. Sir John Ernle was a mariner, and son of yet another Sir John Ernle, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1676- 1689, making him one of the longest serving Chancellors in English history. Sir John Ernle  was a captain who served with the Royal Navy in the Third Anglo Dutch War, and was later an MP for Calne in Wiltshire which was a village close to his Whetham estate. Sir John Ernle and Vincentia Kyrle had just two children; Hester Kyrle Ernle (1675-1723), and John Kyrle Ernle (1682- 1725). It was the younger, male heir that inherited both the Whetham and Much Marcle estates. John Kyrle Ernle married Constantia Rolt, while Hester the older sister, married William Washbourne, of Wichenford, Worcestershire. Hester Kyrle Ernle and William Washbourne were my 8x great grandparents, and it is through the Washbourne branch that we make our way back to Edward III.

Constantia Rolt, and her brother Edward, by Jonathon Richardson, c1690.

It would seem that this was the end of my family's connection to Hom House, however this was not to be. John and Constantia Ernle had just one child; a daughter named Constantia Ernle. Constantia Ernle (my first cousin, 9x removed) was born in 1717. She married Thomas Hay esquire, a statesman and 9th earl of Kinnoull, Perth. He was titled Viscount Dupplin. Constantia and Thomas had one child; Thomas John Ernle Hay.

Constantia Kyrle Ernle

Hester Kyrle Ernle and William Washbourne also had just one child; Elizabeth Washbourne. Elizabeth Washbourne was born in 1700, at her father's estate in Pytchely, Northamptonshire. She married Francis Money, of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, in 1723. They had a son named James Money, who was baptized at Wellingborough on 25th September 1724. 

Elizabeth Washbourne

Thomas John Ernle Hay did not survive infancy. He died in 1743, about a year after he was born. Constantia and Thomas did not have any further children, leaving no heir for Hom House through their line. Constantia died just ten years later, in 1753, and so the estate was passed to the son of her cousin, Elizabeth Washbourne (whose mother was Hester Kyrle Ernle). Thus Hom House, and the manor of Much Marcle was to come to James Money. Viscount Dupplin, now known as Lord Kinnoull, Constantia's husband, was apparently unhappy about the inheritance, and objected to the will. A long lawsuit ensued between Lord Kinnoull and James Money, and his family. 

Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull, and Viscount Dupplin

By all accounts the inheritance was finally settled, and the Moneys could finally call Hom House their homestead; an actual Money pile! 

Today Homme House and the manor of Much Marcle is owned by the members of today's generation of the same family. The house, which was not well maintained for a long while, has been refurbished and renovated, and is now a family home and since 2004 has been a popular wedding venue. Homme House is also open for people to book for a stay, sort of like an uber special Airbnb, from what I can tell. Income from this business goes directly back into the maintenance, renovation, and restoration fund for the house, ensuring that it will be standing for many future generations of the family. 

Homme House

#Newell

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