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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

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