Generation 7
BURROWS,
Thomas
CHANTLER
(CHANDLER),
Unknown
COOPER,
Robert
DICKENSON
(DICKISON), Mary
DOCWRA,
Jacaminea
EGGLETON
(EAGLETON), William
FULTON,
John Williamson
GORDON,
Anne
JARMAN,
Unknown
KEMP,
Unknown
KING,
Mariah (Moriah)
MATTHEWS,
Unknown
POTTINGER,
Eldred Curwen
STARR,
Thomas
UNKNOWN
(‘Beebee Poll’)
WILLMOTT,
Stoughton
BURROWS (BURRACE), Lydia
F7:
BURROWS, Thomas B:
M: Sarah Unknown
D:
Comments:
Of Great Chishall, Essex. Jarman researcher Celia Sheppard
(nee
Jarman) records his Christian name as ‘James’ and his wife as ‘Ann
Unknown’.
M7:
UNKNOWN, Sarah B:
M: Thomas Burrows
D:
Comments:
recorded by Jarman family researcher Celia Sheppard as ‘Ann’
Unknown
(with her husband’s Christian name recorded as ‘James’).
CHANTLER (CHANDLER),
Susan
F7: CHANTLER (CHANDLER), Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M7: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Chantler (Chandler)
D:
COOPER, Faith
F7:
COOPER, Robert B:
M: Ellen Unknown
D:
Robert
Cooper
Robert Cooper, a member of the
1/73 Regiment, arrived ‘free’ in Sydney
on the ship ‘Ann’, 27-2-1810. He was accompanied by his wife, Ellen Unknown,
and three young daughters, Faith (Generation 6), Ann, and Hannah (who was to
marry Joseph Booth in 1821, at age 18).
M7: UNKNOWN, Ellen B:
M: Robert Cooper
D:
EGGLETON, Elizabeth
F7: EGGLETON (EAGLETON), William B: c1756. Probably in Kingston, Herefordshire.
Arrival in NSW: 26-1-1788 on ‘Alexander’
(First Fleet).
M: 17-2-1788, St
Philip’s, Mary Dickenson (Dickison).
D: c
1828, possibly at Bargo, NSW.
Siblings: none
known; however, Sarah Egleton is recorded as having wed
Samuel
Pope, 26-12-1779, St Saviour’s, Southwark (actually, ‘St Saviour
and
St Mary Overie’, the last word being the Saxon word for ‘over water’;
this
was the church – now a cathedral -- at the southern end of London
Bridge);
possibly William’s sister and source of his first daughter’s name.
William
Eggleton (Eagleton).
The birthplace of William Eggleton is reputed to have been both
‘Kingston Ham, Herefordshire’ (in western England, adjoining Wales), and
‘Kingston-upon-Thames’ and ‘Southwark’ (both part of Greater London); since he
was tried at Kingston-upon-Thames following his arrest -- at which time his
place of residence was the Parish of St Saviour’s, Southwark, where several
other ‘Egglestons’ (or, alternatively, ‘Egleton’ and ‘Iggulden’) are recorded –
it is possible that the two separate references to ‘Kingston’ are merely a
confusion of place-names (the ‘Iggulden’ entry refers to Sarah, born 30-7-1759
and baptised at St Saviour’s: possibly William’s sister and the same Sarah
Egleton who married Samuel Pope in this church on 26-12-1779).
While
his birthplace may be in doubt, the details of William’s arrest, trial,
conviction, and subsequent transportation are all well-documented. Nicknamed
‘Bones’, he was arrested (with companion James Spencer) and charged with
breaking into the house of Edward Warren (12-1-1786) and stealing a padlocked
box containing clothing valued at five pounds. Committed for trial on
23-1-1786, he was tried by Sir Henry Gould Knt, and Sir William Ashurst Knt, in
the Surrey Lent Assizes which commenced 22-3-1786, found not guilty of breaking
and entering but guilty of stealing, and sentenced on Thursday morning, March
23, the sentence being transportation for “seven years beyond the sea”.
First
received on the ‘Ceres’ hulk, he was delivered to ‘Alexander’
(6-1-1787), and subsequently transported to New South Wales, arriving on
January 26, 1788. Following an exhortation from Governor Phillip for convicts
in relationships to marry, he and Mary Dickenson became the fifteenth couple to
wed in the new colony, the marriage taking place (along with several others) on
17-2-1788 (the register recording Mary’s name as ‘Dickison’). Their first
child, Sarah, was baptised on Christmas Day the same year (see report on
Sarah’s life in Generation 6).
The
practice of rewarding law-abiding convicts with land grants worked well in the
case of William and Mary, who took good advantage of the opportunities offered.
They received, first (1791, although not gazetted until 1793), a sixty-acre
land grant at Prospect which William named ‘Eggleton’s Endeavour’ (‘Eggleton Street’ in
the Blacktown area still exists today); in 1794,
they leased seven acres at Petersham, and subsequently held land at Concord.
While
Mary did not survive into the new century (dying in August, 1799, shortly
before William took up an appointment from the Governor to check the quality
and quantity of grain supplied to the Government Stores in Sydney and adjacent
areas), William went on to hold 80 acres at Field of Mars, in the Ryde area
(1802, the same year as he was given a grant at Camden, which, it seems, was
not taken up), and to become a juror in 1826. From around 1806, he resided at
times with Sophia Browne, who was classed as his wife in 1814. The 1822 muster
records him as employed by Robert Lack (Generation 6) at Liverpool; by the
following Muster (1823-5) he was a landowner in Campbelltown, where his
property is today marked by ‘Eggleton Park’, and where a nearby street bears
his name (Robert Lack, to become his son-in-law in 1826, had also moved to
Campbelltown by the time of this muster; Elizabeth Eggleton -- recorded as
Elizabeth Frazier -- is listed as Robert’s housekeeper).
William
died -- probably at East Bargo, the site of
his final land grant, made on 30-6-1823 -- around 1828; the location of his
grave has not been determined, although Helen Paternoster (nee Eggleton)
discovered traces of a homestead on the property in the early 1990s.
Further
details on William Eggleton, including an alleged copy of his signature, can be
found at http://fmpro.uow.edu.au/FirstFleet/details.aspx?-recid=32855
M7: DICKENSON (DICKISON), Mary B: c 1761 (Southwark, UK)
M:
17-2-1788, St Philips Church of England,
Sydney Cove, William
Eggleton
(Eagleton)
D: August, 1799
Mary
Dickenson (Dickison)
Living
in the same neighbourhood (Southwark, England) as her husband-to-be, William
Eggleton (it has, therefore, been suggested that they may have been acquainted
before their arrival at Sydney Cove on 26-1-1788, with the First Fleet) Mary
Dickenson, giving her occupation as ‘barrow woman’, was arrested after being
seen (22-11-1786, shortly after 5 p.m.) fleeing the shop of Richard Marks
(Fishmonger’s Alley, St Saviour), from where she had stolen eleven waistcoats
(while the dwelling was occupied, as she disturbed the housekeeper, Elizabeth
Martin, who yelled “Stop, thief!” as she fled from the rear wood yard,
resulting in her apprehension by a bystander, John Hall, of 20 Redcross
Street). Arraigned (23-11-1786) by Thomas Waterhouse, convicted (8-1-1787) at
Southwark Quarter Sessions, and sentenced to seven years’ transportation “to parts beyond the seas”, Mary was first held at Gravesend Prison, before being ultimately delivered (31-1-1787) to
‘Lady Penrhyn’, on which she travelled to Sydney, NSW, arriving
26-1-1788 (‘Lady Penrhyn’, least-seaworthy of the eleven ships, was the
last to make port).
Her
acquaintanceship with fellow-Southwarkian William Eggleton either established
or renewed upon arrival, Mary became the new colony’s fifteenth bride (her name
recorded as ‘Dickison’), marrying William at St Philip’s Church in a joint ceremony organised (17-2-1788) by
order of Arthur Phillip. Their first child, Sarah, was baptised on Christmas
Day of the same year, and the marriage subsequently produced William (who died
in infancy), William (born 1793, a year after the death of the previous
William), and, finally, Elizabeth (Generation 6), husband of Robert Lack
(Elizabeth and Robert’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth Mary, would become the
wife of John Eggleton, son of Elizabeth Eggleton’s elder brother, William).
Mary
Dickenson lived only eleven years in the colony, but in that time she and
William had become respected landowners, with holdings in Prospect, Petersham,
and Concord.
She died in Sydney in August, 1799; her date of
burial (in the Old Sydney Burial Ground, where Sydney Town Hall
now stands) is 25-8-1799.
Further
information on Mary Dickenson (Dickison), including an alleged copy of her
signature, can be found at http://fmpro.uow.edu.au/FirstFleet/details.aspx?-recid=32834
FULTON, Eliza
F7: FULTON, John Williamson B: 5-10-1769, Lisburn.
M: (i) ‘Beebee Poll’ (Indian or
anglo-Indian wife or mistress, mother
of
Eliza).
(ii)
Anne Robertson, widow of
Captain John Hunt, Bengal Army.
D:
2-1-1830 (4, Upper Harley St, West,
London)
John
Williamson Fulton.
The family of John Williamson Fulton has been thoroughly researched to the 17th
century, when his great grandfather, Robert Fulton, left England for Jamaica. The family is mainly
associated with Lisburn, Ireland, the retirement choice of Robert’s son,
Richard (born c 1678) after a career as a cavalry officer in the army of
William III; Richard’s second son, John Fulton (usually referred to as ‘Of
Calcutta’), was John Williamson’s father.
Joining his father in Calcutta
in 1788 (confirmed in the Bengal Kalendar of 1792), John Williamson Fulton, the
third son, entered into business with partners Mackintosh (the brother-in-law
of his second wife) and McClintock, marrying an Indian or anglo-Indian woman
referred to in his will (held in the India Office library) as ‘Beebee Poll’.
She was, possibly, his mistress rather than his wife; however, the term
‘beebee’ usually designates a wife, and since the three children -- Eliza
(Generation 6, also mentioned in the will), Joseph, and Francis Graham -- from
this marriage were accepted by the family in Ireland, the probability is that
she was, in fact, a legal spouse (‘Poll’ being, possibly, a contraction of
‘Polly’).
While “a book-keeper in the
office to the Accountant of the Board of Revenue”, Bengal, John Williamson
Fulton was the author of British Indian
Bookkeeping: a new system of double entry, exemplified in a variety of
compendious methods, published in Bengal in 1799 (a later London edition was published in 1800).
John Williamson Fulton married
(a second time, after the death of ‘Beebee Poll’) Ann Robertson, widow of
Captain Hunt of the Bengal Army, who had died 27-5-1845; this marriage produced
two sons (John Williamson and Joseph Hennessy) and five daughters: Eleanor
Sophia, Anne (who died in infancy in 1808), Anne (born the year following the
death of her sister), Mary Chronne, and Charlotta Hayes).
Appointed High Sheriff (1816),
John Williamson Fulton eventually left India
and returned (1820) with a substantial fortune to London, where he lived (at no. 4, Upper Harley Street)
until his death in 1830. His eldest child, Eliza -- bearing the same first name
as John Williamson’s sister, Eliza Overend Fulton (1771-1819), with whom she is
sometimes confused -- remained in India, having married (7-6-1814) Lt. Thomas
Pottinger, widower (his first wife had been Charlotte Moore), in Calcutta. This
marriage is reported in the Belfast Newsletter (10-1-1815).
John Williamson Fulton’s
grandson, Edmund Fulton, later said of him, “He was an advanced liberal in politics with highly
developed Irish sympathies, but his views would not now be at all acceptable in
the neighbourhood of Belfast,
where the people are nearly all conservatives and strong Anti-Gladstonians”.
John
Williamson Fulton was also a patron of the Irish Harp Society, for whom,
according to the Lixburn Historical Society (http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume10/volume10-3.html)
he raised “substantial funds… before his death in 1830”.
Further information: Sir Theodore Hope (1903): The Fultons
of Lisburn.
M7:
UNKNOWN (‘Beebee Poll’) B:
M: John Williamson Fulton
D:
Unknown (‘Beebee Poll’)
‘Beebee
Poll’ was the name by which John Williamson’s Anglo-Indian wife (or mistress)
was referred in his will; researcher Hugh Casement mentions her (at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/1999-09/0937335990,
14-9-1999), and she is also included in the biography of Eldred Pottinger (son,
by his first wife, of her son-in-law) at http://www.ashbourne-derbyshire.co.uk/Herat.htm.
Eliza
Fulton having been so unreservedly accepted by his family in Ireland, it has been suggested that
Beebee Poll was a wife, and not merely a mistress, of John Williamson Fulton.
In a discussion of the word ‘beebee’, Andrew Sellon (19-8-2005, at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2005-08/1124489054)
notes that “Beebee
(or Bebee) means no more than 'woman', or possibly 'Mrs'. In Swahili, in which
a number of words from India
are incorporated, it is 'bebe'.” Rabia Zafar adds: “Bibi is an alternative
spelling - it is not a title nor a person's forename or surname. It is added
when one speaks with respect - either when talking to or about a woman”
(20-8-2005, at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2005-08/1124516789).
It has been suggested that ‘Poll’ is simply a diminutive
of ‘Polly’. It could also be a corruption of the traditional Indian name,
‘Payal’ (Assamese
for ‘anklet’).
JARMAN, Henry (Henery)
F7:
JARMAN, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M7:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Jarman
D:
KEMP, Charles
F7: KEMP, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M7: UNKNOWN
B:
M: Unknown Kemp
D:
LACK, Robert
F7: LACK, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M7: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Lack
D:
MATTHEWS, John
F7: MATTHEWS, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M7: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Matthews
D:
POTTINGER, Thomas
F7: POTTINGER, Eldred Curwen B: Mountpottinger
M: 1779, Anne
Gordon
D: August, 1814
Eldred
Curwen Pottinger
Eldred Curwen Pottinger
is a descendant, on his father’s side, of Thomas Pottinger, First Sovereign of
Belfast; on his mother’s side, he is a descendant of William of Normandy.
Although little is known of his
life, we know that five of his sons (including the most celebrated, Sir Henry
Pottinger) were “shipped out to India, there to make
their careers, and often to end their lives”(George Pottinger, 1997, Sir Henry Pottinger, First Governor of Hong
Kong).
M7: GORDON, Anne B:
M: 1779, Eldred
Curwen Pottinger
D: November, 1819.
STARR, William
F7:
STARR, Thomas B:
c 1770
M: 17-10-1798, Jacaminea Docwra
D:
Comments:
Witnesses at the wedding included Ann Starr, Peter Cupis,
and
Thomas Church. The families of Docwra and Starr were closely linked
at
this time: another daughter of Thomas and Jacaminea, Sarah Starr,
married
(18-6-1816) Thomas Docwra (two of their children -- Edward and
Stephen – emigrated to Australia). “Sarah Starr was baptised 7th July,
1799
at Bassingbourne, Cambs., the daughter
of Thomas Starr of
Bassingbourne,
and his wife Jacaminea(also nee Docwra). In fact
Jacaminea
(bap. 1772) was a daughter of John
Docwra and Elizabeth Sell
(m.
1776) of Bassingbourne. A son of the
same John Docwra/Elizabeth Sell
was
William Docwra, who married Elizabeth Quy, at
Bassingbourne
(1793),
and they had several children,one of whom was William Docwra
(bap.
1798) who we are almost sure is the
same William as married Sarah
Starr
in 1816. So it seems that Sarah Starr and William
Docwra were 1st
cousins.”
(Anne Nichols, 21-10-2001, at
10/1004045847).
M7:
DOCWRA, Jacaminea B: before 2-3-1772, Bassingbourn,
Cambridgeshire
M: 17-10-1798, Thomas Starr
D:
Comments: Daughter of John
Docwra and Elizabeth Sell.
Siblings: William (born before
6-3-1768); Charlotte (before 18-3-1770
before 9-3-1825); Elizabeth
(born before 14-4-1771); John (before 17-6-1771-before 17-6-1771); John (born
before 11-9-1774); Mary (born before 13-9-1778); Keziah (before 18-3-1781
before 14-4-1782). ‘Keziah’ is the Hebrew form of ‘Cassia’; other names in the
Docwra family around this time include Abraham, Jacob, Jabez, Rachel, Rebecca,
and Ruth.
WILLMOTT, Hannah (Anna)
F7:
WILLMOTT, Stoughton B: 1768,
Litlington, Cambridgeshire
M:
(i) 26-10-1790, Litlington, Cambridgeshire, Ann Sell
(ii) 23-10-1797, Mariah (Moriah) King
D:
September, 1842, Litlington, Cambridgeshire
Comments:
his son, William (christened 20-4-1805) married (19-11-1831)
Mary
Jarman (christened 12-4-1812), daughter of Thomas Jarman and
Sarah
Unknown.
M7:
KING, Mariah (Moriah) B: c 1777,
Litlington, Cambridgeshire
M:
23-10-1797, Stoughton
Willmott
D:
February, 1847, Litlington, Cambridgeshire
Generation 8
ARBUCKLE,
Alice
BURROWS,
Unknown
COLLICE,
Ann
COOPER,
Unknown
CULLEDGE,
Jane
CURWEN,
Frances
DICKENSON,
Edward
DOCWRA,
John
EGGLETON
(EAGLETON), Unknown
FULTON,
John
GORDON,
Robert
KING,
Unknown
POTTINGER,
Thomas
SELL,
Elizabeth
SPENCER,
Mary
STARR,
Thomas
WADE,
Anne
WILLMOTT,
Stoughton
BURROWS, Thomas
F8:
BURROWS, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M8:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Burrows
D:
COOPER, Robert
F8:
COOPER, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M8:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Cooper
D:
DICKENSON (DICKISON), Mary
F8:
DICKENSON, Edward
B:
M: Mary Spencer
D: possibly December, 1769
(buried 21-12-1769, St Peter’s, Netherseal,
Leicestershire).
Comments:
According to Linda Eggleton’s research, Edward and Mary
(nee
Spencer) were the parents of Mary Dickenson, First Fleeter; this
information,
however, is unverified.
M8:
SPENCER, Mary
B:
Unknown (a ‘Mary Spencer’, daughter of John
and Mary, was baptised
on 6-9-1742 at St Peter’s, Netherseal,
Leicestershire, the site of the
later burial of Edward Dickenson;
however, a further entry in the same
church lists a burial of John and Mary’s
daughter on 20-9-1743; a
further Mary Spencer, daughter of John,
was baptised at this same
church
on 2-9-1744/45).
M: Edward Dickenson
D:
DOCWRA, Jacaminea
F8:
DOCWRA, John B:
before 1-4-1745
M:
1776, Elizabeth Sell, in Bassingbourne
D:
Comments:
Siblings: Sarah (born before 16-1-1736); Mary (born before
10-9-1738);
Elizabeth (before 16-12-1739 – before 19-6-1741); Elizabeth
(D.O.B.
13-3-1743); William (born before 22-11-1747); John (before 22-
11-1747
– before 1-1-1748); William (born before 24-2-1750); Ann
(before
27-11-1753 – before 5-12-1753); Thomas (before 26-3-1755 –
before
8-8-1755).
M8:
SELL, Elizabeth B: 7-7-1745
M: 1776, John Docwra
D:
before 22-3-1782
Comments: The records show two
different Christening dates for
Elizabeth Sell, three
years apart, with father either Thomas Sell (and wife
Ann
Unknown) or (in Celia Sheppard’s research) John Sell (and wife Ann
Phipps).
Possibly two different Elizabeth Sells are referred to. This present
research
will allow for both ‘John’ and ‘Thomas’ as Christian names for
Elizabeth’s father.
EGGLETON (EAGLETON), William
F8:
EGGLETON (EAGLETON), Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M8: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Eggleton
D:
FULTON, John Williamson
F8:
FULTON, John B: 1723 (or 1716), Belsize
(Bellasize), near Lisburn.
M:
1750, Anne Wade
D:
26-7-1803, off Cape of Good Hope, on ‘Minerva East Indiaman’. Buried
at
St Helena Bay.
John Fulton.
John Fulton was the first
‘Fulton of Lisburn’ (having given the name to the estate in Antrim after the
nearby village); usually, however, he is referred to as ‘Of Calcutta’, where
much of his life was spent.
The second, and youngest, son
of Richard Fulton and Margaret Camac, John Fulton (born 1723) married (in 1750
or 1751) Anne Wade, daughter of Joseph and Ellen Wade of Clonebraney,
Crossakiel, County
Meath. They resided at
Lisburn (John having named their estate after the nearby village) where their
third son, John Williamson Fulton, was born in 1769.
In 1780, John (Senior) was
appointed registrar of the Supreme Court of Calcutta, India, and proceeded to
take up the post, being, however, shipwrecked en route and eventually arriving
in 1782, only to learn that the position had been filled in the meantime.
Undaunted, he turned his attention to the world of commerce, with such success
that his son, John Williamson (Generation 7), joined him there in 1788.
Leaving his son in India (John Williamson would eventually return
to London in 1820), John left Calcutta for England in April, 1803, on the Minerva East
Indiaman; he died (26-7-1803) on board, while the ship was off the Cape of Good Hope. It was long thought that he was buried at St Helena, as letters
have been found stating that such was the fact; more recent research has,
however, indicated that his body was actually taken ashore for burial at
St Helena Bay, a small military fort close to the Cape of Good Hope (which
seems more likely, since St Helena was at at least three weeks sail from the
Capeat the time of his death).
His Will, which was proved in The Supreme Court of
Calcutta was dated 24th September 1801, and a Codicil dated 26th January
1803. Petition for Probate was filed 10th April 1807 by Henry Burden Esq.
of Old Court House Street, Merchant and one of the nominated executors (the
others being Messieurs James Laird,
Alexander Colvin, David Colvin, and Richard Fulton). Real and Personal Property was left to his son Joseph Fulton of Lisburn, to James Fulton of Lisburn, to Captain John Fulton son of James Fulton aforesaid, to his three
daughters (Eleanor, Ann, and Eliza Fulton), to his sister Mary Ann Kenby, to his nephew Richard Fulton (son of James Fulton and brother of Robert Fulton, the American Engineer),
to the four daughters of his deceased sister (Margaret Mc Aulay), and to Mrs
Elizabeth Overend and her daughter Mrs Jane Morris. His sons, Joseph and James,
were residuary legatees. In the Codicil, property is left to his grandson Nicholas, third son of Joseph Fulton, and to Henry Fulton, fourth son of Joseph Fulton of Lisburn, with special
provisions for their sisters (daughters of Joseph Fulton).
M8:
WADE, Anne B:
M: 1750. John Fulton, of Lisburn,
Antrim.
D:
GORDON, Anne
F8:
GORDON, Robert, Esq. B: Florida
Manor, County Down.
M: 1755, Alice
Arbuckle
D: 1797
Robert
Gordon
Robert Gordon (‘of Florida’)
probably built the Florida Manor house (part of a 17th-century
estate which included the townlands of Ballybunden, Drumreagh, part of Kilmood,
Ballygraffen, Lisbarnet, Ballyminstragh, Raffery, Ravera and Tullynagee), situated about 2
kilometres north-west of the village of Killinchy, in County Down (Florida
Manor was later described by author Sir
Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett, as a ‘rather mysterious house’).
In the year of his marriage (to the widow of Thomas Whyte), Robert signed a
memorandum of agreement (still extant) in favour of Hugh Agnew, a brickmaker,
for ‘fifty thousand bricks or any greater number...’ dated 1775, probably for
the construction of the house, on the occasion of the marriage (described as
‘fortuitous’, as Alice was ‘niece and heiress-in-law to David Crawford of
Florida Manor’; the Gordons had hitherto been wine and spirit merchants, but
Robert and Alice’s son, David, went on to establish Gordon and Company bankers,
which later became Belfast Banking Company).
Florida Manor remained a
possession of the Gordon family until its sale in 1910.
The Public Records of Northern Ireland holds, under the title The Gordon Papers (November, 2007,
http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_gordon_d4204-2.pdf) “correspondence of Robert Gordon during the latter half of the eighteenth
century (which) reveals a litigious streak apparent from a constant run of
disputes over bog boundaries with landlords such as Sir John Blackwood of
Ballyleidy (Clandeboye) whose estate adjoined Florida Manor.” (page 8)
M8: ARBUCKLE, Alice B:
M: (i) Thomas Whyte (left her a widow)
(ii) 1755, Robert Gordon.
D:
Comments:
heiress to the Crawfords of Crawfordsburn.
KING, Mariah (Moriah)
F8:
KING, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M8:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown King
D:
POTTINGER, Eldred Curwen
F8:
POTTINGER, Thomas
B: c 1731, St
Michael, Workington.
M:
29-10-1752, St Michael’s, Workington, Cumberland:
Frances Curwen.
D:
Thomas
Pottinger
Thomas Pottinger was living at Mount Pottinger,
County Down, in 1749, as is evidenced by “an
advertisement in the Newsletter of that year, letting a farm of fifteen acres
in Ballymacarrett to James Biggar for thirteen pounds thirteen shillings per
annum for a very long term” (Benn, George (1877): A History of the Town of Belfast, Vol II, p. 170).
Thomas was High Sheriff of Belfast, 1759 (list of sheriffs published in
Newry and Louth Advertiser, 10/08/1857). His “place of business was likely 111 High Street, near the present
Pottinger's Entry” (Ulster Journal of
Archaeology, Vol. 8, at http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/ulster-archaeological-society/ulster-journal-of-archaeology-volume-8-ala/page-19-ulster-journal-of-archaeology-volume-8-ala.shtml).
M8:
CURWEN, Frances B:
Baptised 5-4-1732, Workington, Cumberland.
M:
29-10-1752, Workington. (Thomas Pottinger)
D: March, 1823, Bath,
England
Siblings:
Jane (died 27-4-1762); Isabella (born 1727); Julian (baptised 22-
6-1735).
Frances Curwen
The marriage of Thomas
Pottinger to Frances Curwen joined the Pottinger line with one of the oldest
and most distinguished families in England, able to trace their
ancestors back to both Scottish and Anglo-Saxon royalty. Direct lines to Cedric,
first King of the West Saxons, who landed in England from Saxony in 494, and to
Alpin, King of the Dalriad Scots (died 834) have been published, although this
research does not include the findings. The Curwen line back to William of
Normandy (‘the Conqueror’, Generation 30) is, however, shown by this research.
Frances Curwen’s sister, Jane,
also joined the Curwen line with the Christian family, whose most famous
member, Fletcher Christian (of the mutiny on the Bounty), was the nephew (brother’s son) of Jane’s husband, John
Christian, whom she married on 28-9-1745. John’s brother, Charles Christian
(1729-1768), married Ann Dixon (1730-1820), and their son, Fletcher, was born
on September 23, 1764, twelve years after the marriage of Frances Curwen to Thomas
Pottinger. Fletcher Christian ‘married’ Maimiti Mauatua in Tahiti (c1788), and
died at Pitcairn Island on 3-10-1793.
The son of John Christian and
Jane Curwen, John (12-7-1756 – 13-12-1829), who was eight years older than his
notorious cousin, married twice: his first marriage, on 10-9-1775, to Margaret
Taubman, took place three years before he was appointed guardian to his cousin,
thirteen-year-old Isabella Curwen (2-10-1765 – 21-4-1820) upon the death of her
father, Henry Curwen of Workington Hall, who had left her his entire estates.
John subsequently married Isabella, taking the name and arms of Curwen, and
was, subsequently, known as John Christian Curwen, a Whig Member of Parliament
who achieved prominence as a leader in the fields of social welfare and
agriculture).
John Christian Curwen and
Isabella Curwen have a further connection to the Pottinger family. Their son,
Henry Curwen (5-12-1783 -16-10-1860) married Jane Stanley, and this union
produced Henry Curwen (9-11-1812-26-8-1894), husband of Dora Goldie; Henry and
Dora’s son, Sir Henry Curwen (1845-1892), a novelist whose works include Lady Bluebeard, became (in 1890) editor
of the Times of India. Following his death (at sea, on the P.& O. Steamship
‘Ravenna’), a commemorative plaque was erected, in his memory, in Mumbai, at St
Thomas’s Cathedral, the same church in which is erected a monument to Major
Eldred Pottinger, C.B., of the Bombay Regiment of Artillery, hero of the Afghan
campaign and half-brother to Lionel Henry Pottinger (Generation 5).
STARR, Thomas
F8:
STARR, Thomas B: 9-2-1745,
Bassingbourn, Royston, Cambridgeshire
M:
11-10-1762, Ann Collice
D:
Comments:
occupation: labourer
M8:
COLLICE, Ann B:
c 1745
M:
11-10-1762, Thomas Starr
D:
29-1-1796, Bassingbourn, Royston, Cambridgeshire
UNKNOWN (‘Beebee’ Poll)
F8:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown
D:
M8: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown
D:
WILLMOTT, Stoughton
F8:
WILLMOTT, Stoughton B: c
1741, Harlton, Cambridgeshire
M:
14-2-1766, Harlton, Cambridgeshire,Jane Culledge
D:
26-12-1787
M8:
CULLEDGE, Jane B: c
1741
M:
14-2-1766, Harlton, Cambridgeshire, Stoughton
Willmott
D:
c 5-7-1800
Generation
9
ARBUCKLE,
James
BARRAVES
(BARRAUES), Sarah
CAMAC,
Margaret
CLENMORE (CLENMOE), Julian
COLLICE, Unknown
CRAWFORD, Anne
CULLEDGE, Unknown
CURWEN, Eldred
DICKENSON (DICKISON), Unknown
DOCWRA, John
DUNLOP, Mary
FULTON, Richard
GORDON, Unknown
PARKER, Mary
PHIPPS, Anne
POTTINGER, Joseph, R.N.
SELL, John (or Thomas)
SPENCER, Unknown
STARR, Thomas
WADE, Joseph
WALDOCK, Mary
WILLMOTT, James
ARBUCKLE, Alice
F9: ARBUCKLE, James B: 1700
M: Anne Crawford
D:
1734
James
Arbuckle
A James Arbuckle, believed born in County Down, is listed
in the Ulster Dictionary of Biography,
and may well be the James Arbuckle of County Down who married Anne Crawford
(another James Arbuckle, a customs collector from Donaghadee, participated in
the 1798 rebellion in County Down, but it is likely that this James Arbuckle
would be too young to have a daughter marrying in 1755 and a wife who died in
1765).
James Arbuckle qualified as a doctor of medicine in Glasgow, after which he
became a teacher, poet and essayist, and ran the Dublin Weekly Journal. He
published two collections of poetry, Snuff (1717) and Glotta
(1721), and an essay on Swift, Momus Mistaken.
M9: CRAWFORD, Anne B:
M: James Arbuckle
D:
December, 1765
Comments:
of parish of Kilmood, County
Down. “Daughter of John
Crawford
and niece and heiress of
David Crawford of Florida”,
Public
Record
of Northern Ireland:
The Gordon Papers, D4202, p. 4, November,
2007
(http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_gordon_d4204-2.pdf )
COLLICE, Ann
F9: COLLICE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M10: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Collice
D:
CULLEDGE, Jane
F9: CULLEDGE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M9: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Culledge
D:
CURWEN, Frances
F9: CURWEN, Eldred B: 11-4-1692
M: c 1726, Julian Clenmore (Clenmoe), of Cornwall
Comments: Of Sella
Park and Workington. MP
for Cockermouth 1738-41.
D: Buried 25-1-1745/6
Eldred
Curwen
“Eldred Curwen, of Sella Park, and Workington, M.P. Cockermouth 1738-41….made his will 13 October, 1745; buried at Workington 25 January following; married Julian Clenmoe, of Cornwall; she buried with her husband 20 July, 1759, having had 2 sons and 5 daughters” (The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. Together with their paternal ancestry, 1893, www.archive.org/stream/royallineageofou02fost/royallineageofou02fost_djvu.txt)
(The youngest son – Eldred, born 1736, died in infancy, 12-4-1738).
“Eldred, the next surviving son of Darcy, who was born April 11th, 1672, succeeded to the property. He was member for Cockermouth 7 Geo. H. He married Julian, daughter of (Unknown) Clenmoe, of Cornwall. He was buried at Workington, January 26th, 1745, and his wife, July 20th, 1759” (William Jackson, c 1866, Publications, at http://www.archive.org/stream/publications05cumb/publications05cumb_djvu.txt)
M9: CLENMORE
(CLENMOE), Julian B: c
1692, Cornwall.
M:
c 1726, Eldred Curwen of Sella
Park.
D:
Buried 20-7-1759.
DICKENSON
(DICKISON), Edward
F9: DICKENSON (DICKISON) Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M9: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Dickenson
D:
DOCWRA, John
F9: DOCWRA, John B: before 17-10-1705
M:
22-8-1735, Sarah Barraves (Barraues) at Duxford St John,
Duxford,
Cambridgeshire
D:
Comments:
Siblings: Francis (before 27-9-1702 – before 8-12-1782);
Thomas
(bef. 19-9-1708 – bef. 7-8-1709); Anne (born bef. 24-9-1710).
John Docwra
The following information on the life of John Docwra is
provided by Docwra researcher Lois Willis, and extracted from
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~loiswillis/a9.html:
“A letter in the possession of Lois Willis, sent to her
great aunt Annie Lade, nee Docwra, mentions John Docwra and Sarah Barraues,
although Lois and Annie’s relationship to them is not mentioned. The Docwra
Surname Database and IGI shows that John Docwra and Sarah Barraues (Barraves)
were married at Duxford St John (Cambridgeshire) in 1735, John was listed as
being ‘of Bassingbourn’, born about 1710, and there are several entries on the
Bassingbourn Parish Registers with parents John and Sarah from 1736, including
two Johns, the first baptised 1745, the second baptised 1747, and a burial of a
John in 1748.
The Bassingbourn Parish Registers show a John Docwra baptised 14 Oct 1705, son of Francis & Sussan. This would probably be Francis Docwra and Susanna Searle.
The IGI shows a Francis Docwra born around 1676 in
Bassingbourn, buried 17 Mar 1740 in Bassingbourn, son of James Docwra and Ellen
Fisher.”
M9: BARRAVES (BARRAUES), Sarah B: c 1718
M:
22-8-1735, John Docwra, at Duxford St John, Duxford,
Cambridgeshire
D:
Comments:
date of birth generally recorded as 1710 or 1714, but, given
the
dates of birth of her children, this would seem too early.
FULTON, John
F9: FULTON, Richard B:
c 1678
M:
c 1718, Margaret Camac, sister of John Camac,
Kilfallert, near Maralin, County Down.
D:
Richard
Fulton
Richard
Fulton became a cavalry officer in the army of William III.
On his retirement -- prior to his marriage, which produced
four children: James (who migrated to Pennsylvania
circa 1752), Mary Ann, Margaret, and John (Generation 8) -- Richard settled in
Belsize (Lisburn) on the estates of the Seymour
family.
The Fultons of Pennsylvania.
The most famous of the Pennsylvania Fultons is undoubtedly
Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, who was born (14-11-1765) in Little
Britain Township, Pennsylvania. His father (also Robert Fulton, according to
most research) had emigrated (around 1734), with his own father (variously
recorded as ‘Alexander Fulton’ and ‘William Fulton’) and several brothers
(David and John are two of the names often mentioned by researchers) from County Kilkenny, Ireland, when still a very young
man.
While Kilkenny, in south-eastern Ireland, is not close to
Lisburn (which is in the north-west), there seems little doubt that the Fultons
of Kilkenny were, in fact, a branch of the Fultons of Lisburn; family researcher
Richard S. Fulton (RichardFulton@hotmail.com) notes that “the landlords of the
entire area around Lisburn and Dirriaghy in NW County Down and SE County
Antrim, Northern Ireland, were the Lord Conway Family. The Conway family also had lands in the Kilkenny
area as researched by Trevor Fulton. See his link:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jennings/trevor/conway.htm. It is possible that a William Fulton of the
early Lisburn group ended up in Kilkenny due to these Conway connections….I think there was a
Fulton Family in Kilkenny, who had origins in Lisburn and had moved to Kilkenny
likely around 1698 in connection with the linen industry”.
The exact connection between James Fulton -- brother of
John (Generation 8) – who migrated to Pennsylvania
c 1752 or 1753, and the inventor of the steamboat is unclear. Since several
other members of the Fulton family chose to
migrate to the same area in Pennsylvania
(other research shows brothers John, Robert, Hugh and Andrew with their father,
who is unnamed), it seems clear that the idea of a new start in Pennsylvania was readily accepted by members of the Fulton family in Ireland.
Trevor Fulton (Killultagh@aol.com), who has posited a very
close connection between ‘Steamboat Robert Fulton’ and Richard Fulton (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FULTON/2000-08/0966781055),
notes that “the entry in the
1891 ‘Colonial Gentry’ for John Fulton lists Richard son of Rev Robert of
Jamaica as having lived in Ireland, served in the army of William III in 1690,
married in about 1718 and had two sons :- “1. James of Little Britain, Lancaster, Penn. b. about
1720 emigrated to Pennsylvania
about 1752 where he died about 1768 having issue by Margaret his wife two sons
1. Richard..... and 2. Robert b.1765 at Little Britain, Penn.
was first an artist and then turned his attention to chemical studies and is
believed to have been the famous American engineer, the founder of Practical
Steam navigation in America
and d. 1815 leaving issue”. I make no claim to the authenticity of
this entry except to say that it originated from a Fulton born in 1827, who can
only have learned of the earlier history of the Lisburn family from the
previous generation or even that of his grandparents for he was born in India
(where his father worked) and then retired to New Zealand. The information
would therefore have been from someone who was contemporary with Steamboat
Robert.”
M9: CAMAC, Margaret B:
c 1683
M: c 1718 Richard Fulton
D:
Margaret Camac
There is some dispute regarding the biography of Margaret
Camac; one research (alafl@adelphia.net, tracing the ancestors of George Andrew
Ackermann) has her as born circa 1670, and marrying (2-2-1690), not Richard
Fulton, but John Fulton (as his second wife, the first being Margaret
English/Inglish, whom he is recorded as having married 18-12-1677). However,
this record then confuses the two Margarets by saying that Margaret Camac’s
1670 birth “would only make her 7 years old at time of marriage”, when in fact
the 1677 marriage was to the other Margaret.
This present research will accept the alternative (and
much more comprehensive) genealogy put forward by Rob Fulton, of Dunedin (New
Zealand), on September 7, 1894.
GORDON, Robert
F9: GORDON, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M9: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Gordon
D:
POTTINGER, Thomas
F9: POTTINGER, Joseph, R.N. B:
M: Mary Dunlop
D:
M9: DUNLOP, Mary B:
M: Joseph Pottinger, R.N.
D:
Mary
Dunlop
Mary Dunlop was, according to George Pottinger (Henry Pottinger: First Governor of Hong Kong,
p. 3) “the daughter of Lady Mary Dunlop, daughter of the sixth Earl of
Dundonald and thus related to the second Marquis of Montrose”; i.e. Joseph’s
wife was the granddaughter of the 6th Earl of Dundonald, Thomas
Cochrane (1702-29-5-1737). Yet the date of birth of her son, Thomas (Generation
8) – who would, if this interpretation of the data were accepted, be the
great-grandson of Thomas Cochrane -- is reliably recorded as 1731, less than
thirty years after the 6th Earl’s birth. Clearly the
generally-accepted reading is in error, and we must look at alternative
theories for any relationship between the Pottinger family and the Cochranes.
In fact, a further connection between the two families is
posited: researchers into the Sinclair(e) family of Belfast
record that Thomas Sinclair(e) (1719-1798) “married, in 1753, Esther
Eccles, daughter of Thomas Pottinger of Belfast
(by his wife, Lady Grisetta, daughter of the sixth Earl of Dundonald)”. Notwithstanding the difficulties in
identifying this Thomas Pottinger – only one marriage, to Frances Curwen, on
29-10-1752, is recorded for Joseph’s son, Thomas – the dates are still
problematic, as a wedding of Thomas Cochrane’s granddaughter forty years after
his birth would necessitate marriages for himself and his descendants at around
thirteen years of age.
The only other Thomas Pottinger
in the records is Joseph’s father, Thomas (Generation 10), who was married c
1685, and died in 1715; while little is known of his wife (‘Unknown Eccles’),
not only are the dates quite incompatible, but this would make Esther Eccles
and Joseph Pottinger siblings, and both Joseph and his wife grandchildren of
the 6th earl of Dundonald.
Confusing the issue still
further is the list (from Debrett’s
Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1820) of known children of the
sixth Earl: William (who became the 7th Earl), Katherine (married
William Wood), Basil (died 6-9-1748), Mary (died unmarried, also on 6-9-1748),
and Charlotte (buried 10-5-1740). Grisetta is mentioned by only a few
researchers, and no corroboration is offered; moreover, if, as the records
quite-specifically state, Mary died unmarried, the use of the name ‘Dunlop’ for
her daughter is difficult to explain (it was not uncommon for two children of
the same parents to have the same Christian name, usually in the case of the
first bearer of the name dying in infancy or childhood; however, if the date of
death of ‘unmarried Mary” is correctly reported as eleven years after the death
of her father – and, moreover, on the same day as her brother, which suggests
some kind of misadventure – then this circumstance is clearly unable to apply
in this instance).
In A genealogic and heraldic
dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire, author John Bernard Burke advances
an alternative theory which, while not explaining the relationsship between the
Pottingers and Lady Grisetta and Esther Eccles, at least solves the
difficulties associated with ‘unmarried Mary’ and the date of birth of Mary
Dunlop’s supposed grandfather: Mary was the daughter of “Lady Mary Dunlop,
sister of Thomas, 6th Earl of Dundonald, who was son of William
Cochrane” (under this reading, ‘unmarried Mary’ could well have been named
after her aunt, a fairly common occurrence).
‘William Cochrane’, Thomas Cochrane’s father, is not the 5th
Earl of Dundonald (who, nonetheless, was also William Cochrane (born 1708),
great-grandson of William Cochrane and Lady Catherine Kennedy, who succeeded to
the title of Earl at age about twelve on 5-6-1720 and died (17-1-1724), still
unmarried, less than four years later).
The William Cochrane who is the father of the 6th Earl was a distant
cousin of the 5th Earl: the
son of William Cochrane and Lady Catherine Kennedy, and husband of Lady Grizel
Graham, the daughter of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose.
This William Cochrane died in August, 1717; his children,
in addition to Thomas, the 6th Earl, are recorded (www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/cc4aq/cochrane02.htm) as
Catherine (married David Smythe, sies 19-03-1772); Isabella (married John
Ogilvy of Balbegno, died 21-12-1770); Grizel (married John Cochrane of
Ferguslie, died 12-09-1753); William (born April, 1688, died young); Anne (died
6-05-1756); and Christian (died 6-01-1778).
While there is no mention of a daughter ‘Mary’ (except on
the website
www.infused-solutions.com/rdemo2/index.php%3Fm%3Dfamily%26id%3DI1786+%22grizel+graham%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au,
which includes her name without any details of birth or death), or of marriage
to a Dunlop, her omission from the records seems less crucial than an entry
which specifically states that the supposed-mother of Mary Dunlop died
unmarried, which remains a major hurdle in attempts to assign Mary Dunlop as
the granddaughter of the 6th Earl. Since the date of death of
William Cochrane, husband of Lady Grizel Graham, is well within the bounds of
possibility for a man whose granddaughter was to take a husband born soon after
1685 (the date of the marriage of Thomas Pottinger (Generation 10) and Unknown
Eccles), the theory that Mary’s mother was a sister to the 6th Earl
(making Mary Dunlop his niece rather than his granddaughter) seems a
more-likely scenario, and will be
adopted for the purposes of this research.
William Cochrane’s great-grandfather (the grandfather of
the William who married Catherine Kennedy) was Sir Alexander Blair (later
Cochrane), who married Elizabeth Cochrane and died before 07-1641. Alexander
and Elizabeth had nine children: John, Sir William (who became the 1st
Earl), Alexander, Hugh, Sir Bryce, Uchtred, Gavin, and Elizabeth, and, finally,
Grizel Cochrane (born c 1615), who is recorded as being the wife of Thomas
Dunlop of Househill. It is possible that Mary Dunlop’s mother, Lady Mary
Dunlop, is a product of this union.
As for Thomas Pottinger and Grisetta Cochrane, the only
remaining conclusion would seem to be that they are part of an associated
branch of the Pottinger family and do not form part of this genealogy.
SELL, Elizabeth
F9: SELL, John (or Thomas) B: 16-7-1710
M: Ann Phipps
D:
c 1763
Comments:
Celia Sheppard’s research identifies Elizabeth
Sell’s father as
‘John’,
born 16-7-1710. The records also show an Elizabeth Sell (or
possibly
two, since two christening dates three years apart are recorded)
as
daughter of Thomas Sell, husband of Ann (with no surname recorded).
Lois
Willis writes, of Thomas Sell, son of Thomas (Generation 10),
“Thomas
and Anne's son Thomas married Rebecah Cook in 1730/31. She
died in 1736/37, so it was probably this Thomas who
married Mary Wood” (www.loiswillis.com/getperson.php?personID=I760&tree=2)
This present research will follow Celia Sheppard’s interpretation.
M9: PHIPPS, Ann B:
18-8-1717
M: John (or Thomas) Sell
D:
SPENCER, Mary
F9: SPENCER, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M9: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Spencer
D:
STARR, Thomas
F9: STARR, Thomas B: April, 1696
M:
2-10-1726, Wendy-cum-Shingay, Mary Waldock
D:
M9: WALDOCK, Mary B:
M:
2-10-1726, Wendy-cum-Shingay, Thomas
Starr
D:
WADE, Anne
F9: WADE, Joseph B:
M: Ellen Unknown
D:
Comments:
of Clonebraney, Crossakiel, County
Meath.
M9: UNKNOWN, Ellen B:
M: Joseph Wade
D:
Comments:
Ellen Wade’s watch, along with her daughter Anne’s portrait,
are
in the possession of the Hon. Edmund M.H. Fulton, of Braidjule.
WILLMOTT, Stoughton
F9: WILLMOTT, James B: 9-8-1693
M:
8-10-1719, Mary Parker
D:
13-7-1779
M9: PARKER, Mary B:
c 1696
M:
8-10-1719, James Willmott
D:
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