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