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@1800
13 January, Newton
Ferrers: Mary Brooking, widow, makes her will. [proved 1802][1]
13 February,
Littleham: Thomas Branscomb buried.[2]
March: The Lady Nelson departs
5 April,
St.Bride's, Fleet Street: Thomas Branscomb marries Mary Savage. (IGI)
13 April,
Meppershall, Bedfordshire: Ann, daughter of Samuel & Sarah Bransome,
baptised.[3] [cf: 1788, 1790 - their two previous children
were baptised `Branscombe' in the register, although the Bishop's Transcript
shows `Bransome']
2 June, St.Thomas,
14 June: Napoleon
routs the Austrian army at Marengo. The English fleet continues to blockade
8 July: The Lady Nelson arrives at
October: The Geographe and Naturaliste sail from
7 October: The Lady Nelson sails from
19 October,
St. John's,
Newfoundland: `The only houses that stood off Water Street (about 1800) between
McBride's Cove and Hutchings' House, at Barking Kettle, was Mr. Carter's house
on Burstheart Hill (now Carter's Hill), and Mr. Branscombe's house, which stood
back of where Mr. Smith built at the foot of Theatre Hill and a cooperage near
Lion's Square.'[7]
November: The Harbinger departs
December: The Lady Nelson, under the command of
Lieutenant James Grant makes the first recorded passage of
16 December: The Lady Nelson arrives, Sydney Town.
The first of two
years of poor harvests in
The union of parliaments
of the United Kingdom of England and
By 1800 the City
of
Samuel Waymouth,
seaman of St.Marychurch, aged 23, completes a voyage on the packet
ON ENCLOSURES:
The law doth punish man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the Common
But leaves the greater felon loose
Who steals the Common
From the goose!
The Napoleonic War
and agricultural depression combine to force the men of Branscombe to join the
popular Jack Rattenbury of Beer in smuggling.
Littleham: Thomas
Branscombe buried.[9]
@1801
January: Captain
John Black of the Harbinger names
1 January: The
union between
6 January,
12 February:
Robert and
16 March: H.M.S. Invincible wrecked off the
22 March, Whimple:
William, fourth child of John & Alice Branscombe, christened. (IGI) [John; poss bp. 1765 Whimple, fifth child of
Thomas Branscombe & Ann (Shepherd - m. 1756 Whimple)? Poss m. 1791 Alice
Mitchell, in Broad Clyst? Poss siblings: Mary Ann (1793), Alice (1795), Betty
(1798), Thomas (1803), Petronella/Peternella (1806), Henry (1808), Sarah
(1811), all bp. Whimple. William prob. m. 1823 - Elizabeth Granger]
25 March: Czar
Paul of
2 April: The
12 April,
St.Andrew's, Holborn: Mary Ann, daughter of William & Sarah Branscombe of
1 June:
4 June: George
III's birthday. At the age of 63, he has been on the throne for 41 years. He is
subject to fits of madness.
19 June,
Branscombe: William Cawley dies, aged 40. An inhabitant of Beer, but born in
Branscombe, the son of John & Sarah Cawley. ` He had been on a smuggling
expedition, and was found dead early in the morning by John Halse, in a field
of oats called Five Acres, on the west side of Markel's Hill; lying on his back
with his head downhill, and [a] cask of spirit at some distance from him,
below.' Buried on 21 June.[13]
18 July: H.M.S. Investigator, under Captain Matthew
Flinders, departs
22 August,
1 October: An
armistice is signed with
2 October,
St.Saviour's, Southwark: Thomas Branscomb marries Sarah Park. (IGI) [cf: 1802 Holborn, Sarah, daughter of Thomas
& Sarah baptised]
6 October,
Highweek: Samuel Branscombe buried.[14] [poss b. 1730 or 1735, Highweek or
21 October,
Dawlish: Robert Branscombe dies, aged 51.[16] [direct ancestor]
The first national
census: the population of
The population of
Torquay is 838 - by 1841 it will be 5982. `Torquay first began to gain repute
during the Napoleonic wars [1793-1815]. In those stirring times, war ships and
even fleets were often sent to
The second of two
years of poor harvests in
`Labour was often
hired on a family basis, particularly at harvest-time, when everybody tended to
be roped in, and this proved more than satisfactory from the farmer's point of
view, since women workers were paid less than men (and children less still).
This was certainly the custom in Dorset and, as a result of wives working alongside
their husbands in the fields `... the poor little ones are locked up all day,
or left under the care of some young girl of seven or eight years of age, who
has enough to do to mind the baby; and when the mother comes home, smashed
crockery and sullen tempers have been the result of the family left without
proper guardianship or control.' Boys in Dorset, moreover, often have to go to
work at the age of eight or earlier, forced to get up with their fathers at
four or five o'clock in the morning and then working almost continuously until
early afternoon; as a result, not only is the boy's `mind deadened, but his
poor little body is permanently injured.''[18]
The first Ordnance
Survey map, of
From 1340 to 1801,
every English monarch adopted the title King or Queen of France.
James, Lord de
Saumerez, promoted from Captain to Rear Admiral of the Blue. [to 1804]
Panshanger House
built by the fifth Earl Cowper. [Demolished 1953]
22 December,
The population of
J Branscomb Lottery Office 11 Holborn
Year of baptism of
Charlotte Halsey, fifth child of fourth great-gra
@1802
6 January,
Abbotsham: Catharine, daughter of Henry Brownscombe, christened. (IGI)
14 February: The Lady Nelson enters
April (approx):
The crew of the sealing ship, Harrington,
anchored at
5 April: Matthew
Flinders, in the Investigator, names
7 April: Flinders
comes across the Baudin expedition, in
16 April, Stoke
Damerel: Eliza Branscombe marries William Fitzgerald. (IGI) [or 14 December?][21]
18 April, Venn
Ottery: Ann, daughter of Charles Branscombe & Sarah, christened. (IGI) [Charles poss. bp. 1773 Ottery St.Mary, son
of Peter Branscomb & Ann Davies? Charles m. 1799 Venn Ottery, Sarah
Hellier. cf: John Hellier m. 1749. Poss other children of Charles & Sarah:
Mary (1799), William (1804) - all bp. Venn Ottery, Sarah (1805),
The Harbinger (re-named
West India Docks,
16 June: Will of
Mary Brooking, widow living at Newton Ferrers, is proved. She gives everything
to her daughter, Mary Dolling of Newton Ferrers.[22] [cf: 1841 William & Elizabeth Dolling of
Dawlish]
4 July,
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire: Thomas, son of John & Mary Bransfield or
Bransome, baptised.[23] [cf: 1809
1 August,
St.Andrew's, Holborn: Sarah, daughter of Thomas & Sarah Branscomb of
10 October, Emma
Place Independent Chapel,
3 December,
Branscombe: The wreck of the Danish frigate Ornen
(Brown Eagle) off Branscombe. The
Captain and two Hands are drowned and buried at St.Winifred's. 10 men and a boy
are rescued.[26]
Captain Herman Simpsing of Huntspill,
aged 42. Buried 28 December.
Neils Haagensen of Huntspill, aged 26.
Buried 7 December.
Christian Rosenberg Holst of Grimsted,
aged 19. Buried 11 December.
31 December,
Aylesbeare: Mary Branscombe marries John Farrant. (IGI) [Mary poss widow of William, mother of Elizabeth & Susanna, bp. 1787
Aylesbeare?]
Charlotte Dundas,
the first steam ship on the
Approximate year
of birth of Mary Eales, wife of tanner Samuel Branscombe of Highweek, b. 1792,
m. 1829 Highweek, d. 1847 Highweek.[28]
J Branscomb Lottery Office 11 Holborn & 37 Cornhill
Year of baptism of
William Halsey, sixth child of fourth great-gra
An estimated 200
men, mostly American sealers, are settled on islands in
@1803
6 January,
Paignton Samuel Branscombe of Highweek marries Mary Perrett, by licence and
with the consent of (Mary's?) parents.[1] [poss
Samuel b. 1780, d. 1805, father of Samuel, b. 1805, who marries Mary Hannaford,
parents of Samuel Hannaford Branscombe?]
5 February: George
now a private ship's captain, leaves
6 February,
Meppershall, Bedfordshire: James, son of Samuel & Sarah Bransome, baptised.[30] [cf: 1800 - some previous children were
baptised Branscombe] The 1851 census for Holwell, Bedfordshire (later
Herts.), shows a James Brandsom, aged
48, born in Meppershall, and his wife Mary, born in Shillington.
5 March: First
edition of the Sydney Gazette and N.S.W.
Advertiser, the first newspaper in .
14 April,
St.Dunstan-in-the-West,
21 April, Dawlish:
William Branscombe, eighth and last child of John & Agnes (Pike - m. 1781
Dawlish), born. Baptised St.Gregory's, 8 May.[31] [Becomes a master mariner. Poss siblings:
John (1782-1795?), Captn. Joseph (1784-1866), Anne (1787-1787), Sarah
(1790-1849), Catherine (1793-1855), John (1796), Anne (1798)]
18 May: The Peace
of Amiens is broken once again declares war on
10 July, St.George
The Martyr, Southwark: Richard Thomas, son of Richard & Mary Ann Branscomb,
baptised.[32] [Richard senior poss third child of John
Branscombe & Ann (? - m?), bp. 1772
26 July: `The
Surrey Iron Railway, opened on [this day] between Wandsworth and Croyden, was
the first railway in the world to provide a public service. In 1805 it was
extended to Merstham ... This continuation was called the Croyden, Merstham and
Godstone Iron Railway.'[33]
28 August:
Lieutenant leaves
6 September: Lady Nelson anchors, Ralph's Bay.
9 September: Lady Nelson anchors, Risdon Cove.
25 September,
Whimple: Thomas, fifth child of John & Alice Branscombe, christened. (IGI)
[John; poss bp. 1765 Whimple, fifth child
of Thomas
Branscombe & Ann
(Shepherd - m. 1756 Whimple)? Poss m. 1791 Alice Mitchell, in Broad Clyst?
Thomas poss becomes a post-boy and dies at Willand, 1847? Poss siblings: Mary
Ann (1793), Alice (1795), Betty (1798), William (1801), Petronella/Peternella
(1806), Henry (1808), Sarah (1811), all bp. Whimple]
14 October, St.
Marychurch, Tormoham: Elizabeth & Philip married. Susanna &
16 October: The first
colony settles at Port Phillip, under Colonel David .
5 November,
From 1803 the
ground between the old
Thomas Jefferson
agrees to purchase
The Exeter Militia
List of this year includes William Brandscomb, accomptant of Holy Trinity
parish. He is marked down as class 1, which means he is between 17 and 30 years
of age, unmarried, with no children under 10 years.[37] [possibly William Tucker Branscombe, bp. 1784,
only child of William & Mary (Tucker - m. 1783
J Branscomb Lottery Office 11 Holborn & 37 Cornhill
Morchard Bishop:
Approximate year of birth of Mary Branscombe, registered in the 1861 census as
an unmarried stay-maker lodging in Devonport.
Napoleonic War;.
(to 1815)
`When a man was
called for militia service, the maintenance of his dependents fell upon his own
parish, and if he obtained a substitute from another parish, the costs still
fell upon his own. Whatever parish the substitute belonged to, his family were
paid by Dawlish parish, and the money was either paid to the
Baudin & Freycinet carve Frenchman's Rock at
American sealers wrecked on
Approximate year
of birth (
@1804
21 February,
St.Mary Major,
1 April, St.George
The Martyr, Southwark: Eleanor Ann, daughter of John & Mary Ann Branscomb,
baptised.[42] [poss John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss children baptised in Southwark: Eleanor Ann (1804), William
Samuel (1805), Emily Sophia (1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth &
Eliza Sarah (1812), Louisa Maria (bp. 1814), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp. 1829 Blackfriars)]
21 May, Venn
Ottery: William Branscombe, son of Charles & Sarah, baptised. (IGI) [Charles poss. bp. 1773 Ottery St.Mary, son
of Peter Branscomb & Ann Davies? Charles m. 1799, Venn Ottery, Sarah
Hellier. cf: John Hellier m. 1749. Poss other children of Charles & Sarah:
Mary (1799), Ann (1802) - both bp. Venn Ottery, Sarah (1805),
2 June,
St.Peter's,
23 September,
St.Gregory's, Dawlish:
John completes construction [begun 1800] of
`At the close of
the year 1804, Napoleon, having arrived at the zenith of his power, determined
to invade this country, and for that purpose actually collected together at
Boulogne an enormous flotilla of some 2000 craft, with 16000 sailors and
160,000 soldiers. The feverish excitement into which the audacious threat threw
the inhabitants of the southern shores of
James, Lord de
Saumerez, promoted from Rear Admiral of the Blue to Rear Admiral of the White.
[to 1805]
Newton Abbot:
Richard Bowden Beard & Elizabeth, of
St.Albans: Edward
Halsey is born.[47]
J Branscomb Stock-broker 11
Holborn & 37 Cornhill
Approximate year
of birth of Sophia Willis [d. 1873], wife of Captain William Branscombe. [cf:
1841 census]
@1805
17 February,
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire: Edith, daughter of John & Mary Bransfield or
Bransome, baptised.[48] [cf: 1809
25 February,
Bampton: Eliza Branscombe born, daughter of William Branscombe and Sarah
(Passmore). [Eliza marries Charles Hazell in Hobart, 1843. Died in
Sunday 24 March,
St.George The Martyr, Southwark: Amelia Elizabeth, daughter of Richard &
Mary Branscomb, baptised.[50] [Richard poss third child of John Branscombe
& Ann (? - m?), bp. 1772
Sunday, 24 March,
31 March,
Meppershall, Bedfordshire: Mary, daughter of Samuel & Sarah Bransome,
baptised.[52] [cf: 1800 - some previous children were
baptised Branscombe]
7 April,
St.Martin-in-the-Fields,
5 July,
4 August,
St.Leonard's, Shoreditch: Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas & Sarah Branscomb,
baptised.[55] [cf: 1802 Sarah, 1807
21 October: The
Among those
serving on Nelson's flagship, H.M.S.
Victory, is Captain Youll, a lieutenant, and resident at Barnell's, Branscombe [later called Trafalgar House for a number of years].
He attended 's funeral in an official capacity. [cf:
1806]
Among those
present on H.M.S.
27 October,
St.George the Martyr, Southwark: William Samuel, son of John Branscomb &
Mary, baptised. (IGI) [poss John &
Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803 London)? Poss other children baptised in Southwark:
Eleanor Ann (1804), Emily Sophia (1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth
& Eliza Sarah (1812), Louisa Maria (bp. 1814), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp.
1829 Blackfriars)]
4 November,
Topsham: Robert Branscombe marries Grace Trout. (IGI) [cf: 1806 birth of Mary Anne. Robert may have died soon after, as a
Grace Branscombe marries in 1805 (or 1816!)]
13 November,
2 December,
Branscombe: Rachel Perry dies, aged 20. Daughter of William & Susanna
Perry. `She lost her life by a fatal accident. A young man named Henry
Northcott, her Sweetheart, going into the house of James Gush where she was
sitting by the side of Gush's wife, who had a young child in her lap, by the
fire, and taking down Gush's Fire-Lock to see if it was clean, he incautiously
touched the trigger, not suspecting the gun was loaded and the gun instantly
going off, log's its whole contents in her Bowels. The muzzle of the Gun was so
close to her when discharged, that the perforation (which was through the upper
part of the thigh and over the groin, as she was sitting on a very low seat)
was just as if it had been made by a Ball; tho' the Gun was loaded with Shot.
She languished the whole of the day (it being about
28 December,
25 December,
Ottery St. Mary: Sarah, daughter of Charles & Sarah Branscombe, christened.
(IGI) [Charles poss. bp. 1773 Ottery
St.Mary, son of Peter Branscomb & Ann Davies? Charles of Ottery St.Mary m.
1799, Venn Ottery, Sarah Hellier. cf: John Hellier m. 1749. Poss other children
of Charles & Sarah: Mary (1799), Ann (1802), William (1804) - all bp. Venn
Ottery,
James, Lord de
Saumerez, promoted from Rear Admiral of the White to Rear Admiral of the Red.
[to 1810]
24 ?, Highweek:
Samuel, son of Samuel Branscombe & Ann (Quick - m. 1775), dies, aged 25.[59]
J Branscomb Stock-broker 11
Holborn & 37 Cornhill
HOLDEN'S TRIENNIAL
DIRECTORY OF
Mr.James Branscomb Hanwell,
Middlesex
[cf: 1780 Thomas Branscomb of Hanwell]
@1806
28 April,
St.Andrew's, Holborn: John Frederick Gap Branscombe, son of John & Sarah of
Saffron Hill, baptised.[61]
18 May, Whimple:
Petronella [Peternella? cf: 1826],
sixth child of John & Alice Branscombe, christened. (IGI) [John; poss bp. 1765 Whimple, fifth child of
Thomas
Branscombe & Ann
(Shepherd - m. 1756 Whimple)? Poss m. 1791 Alice Mitchell, in Broad Clyst?
Married as Peternella, 14 September1826 in Whimple, to William Pratt of
Whimple. Poss siblings of Peternella: Mary Ann (1793), Alice (1795), Betty
(1798), William (1801), Thomas (1803), Henry (1808), Sarah (1811), all bp.
Whimple]
26 May, Topsham:
William Branscombe marries Jane James. (IGI)
31 May, Great
Marlow, Buckinghamshire: Bartholomew Branscomb buried, aged 66.[62] [cf: 1805 for death of his wife, Susanna]
12 July: George
Hambridge, sentenced to transportation for life at Oxford Assizes,
13 July, Topsham:
Mary Anne Branscombe, first child of Robert & Grace, baptised. (IGI) [Robert & Grace Trout m. 1805 Topsham]
13 July,
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire: Charlotte, daughter of John and Mary Bransfield or
Branscome [Branscombe?], baptised.[64] The marriage of John & Mary, on
`Every register
affords instances of surnames with many variant spellings. In Sharnbrook, three
families apparently had doubts as to the pronunciation of their names. The
registrar between 1796 and 1808 was obliged to use alternatives; Bransfield or Bransome, Bransfield or Branscome
... it is common knowledge that there was much illiteracy in
30 September,
Morchard Bishop: Eliza, daughter of John & Agnes Branscombe, christened. (IGI)
6 October,
Morchard Bishop: Eliza, daughter of John Branscombe & Agnes (Mare - m. 1790
Morchard), baptised.[66]
(Kingsbridge?):
Henry, fifth child of William Branscombe & Charlotte (Mortimer - m. 1789
Wolborough), born.[67] [m. 1827
Bere Alston [nr.Plymouth & the Cornish border]:
Approximate year of birth of John Branscombe, possibly the son of Richard
Branscumbe of Bere Ferrers and widow Elizabeth (Culwill - m. 1794 Bere Ferrers).
John becomes a pilot & waterman in
Branscomb & Co Lottery Office Keepers
11 Holborn, 37 Cornhill & 38 Haymarket
Year of baptism of
Phoebe Halsey, seventh child of fourth great-gra
A band of escaped
convicts and renegades occupies
Nelson's funeral.
Captain Yule [Ewell?], of Branscombe (cf: 1805), carries a `bannerol of
lineage' (?) Nelson buried in the crypt of
@1807
12 March,
(Shoreditch/Bishopsgate?): Elizabeth Branscomb born, daughter of Thomas &
Sarah. Baptised Bishopsgate 1810. [cf:
1801 Thomas Branscomb m. Sarah Park, Southwark. Also cf: 1802 Sarah, 1805 Mary Ann, 1808 Tho. Branscomb, licenced
victualler, "The Two Brewers", Hog Lane, Shoreditch]
22 April: James
Branscombe of Bampton [1735-1809], stockbroker, lottery contractor & lay
sheriff of
James' obituary in
The Gentleman's Magazine of December
1809, says he served as one of the sherrifs of London & Middlesex in this
year.
The slave trade is abolished within the
Jorgen paints his self-portrait, in
26 July, St.George
The Martyr, Southwark: Emily Sophia, daughter of John & Mary Branscomb,
baptised.[69] [poss John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss children baptised in Southwark: Eleanor Ann (1804), William
Samuel (1805), Emily Sophia (1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth &
Eliza Sarah (1812), Louisa Maria (bp. 1814), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp. 1829
Blackfriars)]
28 August,
8 November,
St.George The Martyr, Southwark: John Ould James Branscomb, son of Richard
& Mary Branscomb, baptised.[1] [Richard
senior poss third child of John Branscombe & Ann (? - m?), bp. 1772
23 November, Stoke
Damerel: William Branscombe, yeoman,
marries Elizabeth Steer.[72] [son George Ley b. 1808 St.Austell? - cf also
1769 William Steer & Abraham Branscombe of Morchard Bishop witness a
marriage]
20 December,
Meppershall, Bedfordshire: Hannah, daughter of Samuel & Sarah Bransome,
baptised.[73] [cf: 1800 - some previous children were baptised
Branscombe]
Branscomb & Co Lottery Office Keepers &
Stock-brokers
11 Holborn, 37 Cornhill & 38 Haymarket
@1808
24 January,
Tiverton: Sarah Branscombe marries Robert Pring. (IGI) [Robert Pring, baker. Sarah prob bp. 1786, only child of miller James
Branscombe & Rachel (Andrews - m. 1785 Tiverton). cf: 1821 will of
grandfather Bartholomew, miller of Bampton]
3 May, Morchard
Bishop: Frances Branscombe (Southcott), aged 75, is buried.[74] [wife of serge-weaver Abraham, m. 1758,
mother of William? (attorney) bp. 1759 East Worlington, d. 1796, Joseph, bp.
1762, John bp. 1764 & Elizabeth bp. 1777 d. 1799]
12 May,
Kingsbridge: John, sixth child of William Branscombe & Charlotte (Mortimer
- m. 1789 Wolborough), born. [m. 1833
St.Teath, Cornwall, Ann (Graham b. 1803 Gibraltar) d. 1874, 166 Highbury New
Park.[75] Siblings: William (1790 Wolborough),
Elizabeth (1791), Ann (1792), Charlotte (1794), Henry (1806 - Kingsbridge?). There was also a seventh child, Catherine, mentioned as a
sister in the 1851 will of Ann, as yet unaccounted for]
17 July, Ottery
St.Mary:
2 August,
14 August, Whimple: Henry, seventh child of John & Alice Branscombe, is christened. (IGI) [John; poss bp. 1765 Whimple, fifth child of
Thomas
Branscombe & Ann
(Shepherd - m. 1756 Whimple)? Poss m. 1791 Alice Mitchell, in Broad Clyst? Poss
siblings: Mary Ann (1793), Alice (1795), Betty (1798), William (1801), Thomas
(1803), Petronella/Peternella (1806), Sarah (1811), all bp. Whimple]
8 September:
Article of agreement of co-partnership between Anthony Gibbs of the City of
24 September,
Kingsbridge: Mary Hannaford, future wife of Samuel Branscombe of Newton Bushel,
is born.[77]
16 October, St.
Austell,
26 October, prob
The
The estate of in Talaton, property of Sir J.totally destroyed by fire.[78]
6 December:
`In 1808 some
weavers on strike invaded the homes of others who would not join them and took
away their shuttles.'[79]
Sir J Branscomb
& Co Lottery Office Keepers
& Stock-brokers
11
Holborn, 37 Cornhill & 38 Haymarket
HOLDEN'S TRIENNIAL
DIRECTORY OF
Blackfriars
Road
Tho. Branscomb The Two Brewers
Hog
Lane, Shoreditch
[cf: 1801 Thomas Branscomb m. Sarah Park,
Southwark. Also cf: 1802 Sarah, 1805
Mary Ann, 1807
@1809
12 February, Rock
Spring Farm,
13 February,
St.George,
27 April,
(Shoreditch/Bishopsgate?): William Branscomb born, son of Thomas & Sarah.
Baptised 1810 Bishopsgate. [this birth
possibly 1808? William poss m. 1839 Shoreditch, Sarah Whelpdale? If so, he is the
son of Thomas (by then deceased), a City Officer. William possibly becomes a
publican in Hampstead. A Thomas Branscomb is a publican at the "Two
Brewers",
1 June, St.Mary's,
St.Mary le Bone,
Middlesex: Philip Husted, bachelor, marries Elizabeth Branscombe, spinster.
Witnesses: T.B., W.R..[82]
5 July, St.George
The Martyr, Southwark: John Stephen, son of John & Mary Ann Branscomb,
baptised.[83] [poss John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss children baptised in Southwark: Eleanor Ann (1804), William
Samuel (1805), Emily Sophia (1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth &
Eliza Sarah (1812), Louisa Maria (bp. 1814), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp. 1829
Blackfriars)]
2 August,
Shillington, Bedfordshire: Eliz. Branscombe, daughter of Samuel & Sarah,
marries Jas. Gray of Holwell.[84] [Elizabeth poss b. 1790 Meppershall,Beds.
This is the only occurrence of the name Branscombe in the Shillington parish
registers index]
10 August, Kenton:
Sophia Pearce of Kenton marries Thomas Anning of Kenton, by banns. [Sophia's sister, Frances, married Thomas'
brother Henry, and they made their home at Venbridge Farm, south of Kenton,
where Henry continued to farm until his death. A James Pearce made his home
with Henry and Frances at Venbridge until his death in 1831, aged 84][85]
16 August,
DawlishThe Strand at Dawlish completed. Charles (1812-1870) knew and liked Dawlish very
much, as did the novelist with whom he was deeply out of sympathy, Jane . The eponymous hero of Nicholas Nickleby (completed 1839) was `born' in Dawlish.
The new road from
Dawlish to Teignmouth is completed, and marked by the arrival of the first
stage-coach. Before this, passengers had to travel to Chudleigh by horse, to
connect with the coach.[86]
7 December: Sir
James Branscombe of Bampton, stockbroker, lottery contractor & lay sheriff
of
The Gentleman's
Magazine
December 1809
At Four-tree hill, Enfield, after a short illness, much
respected, aged 74, Sir James Branscomb, Knt., of Holborn, etc., upwards
of 40 years a lottery office-keeper, and more than 30 a member of the Common
Council for the Ward of Farringdon Without. He served the Office of one of the
Sheriffs of
Sir J Branscomb
& Edward Eyton Lottery Office
Keepers
& Stock-brokers
11
Holborn, 37 Cornhill & 38 Haymarket
Ottery St.Mary:
Approximate year of birth of Henry Davy, later Attorney-at-law in Ottery &
executor of Honour Branscombe (Leigh - m. 1799
Approximate year
of birth of Robert Brinscombe, baker of Bampton. [cf: 1841 census]
Year of baptisms
of Elizabeth & John Halsey, eighth and ninth children of fourth great-gra
@1810
21 January,
St.Botolph, Bishopsgate: Elizabeth & William, children of Thomas &
Sarah Branscomb, baptised.
26 January,
Branscombe: John Stuckey dies, aged 91. `He was more than [blank] years a Magistrate, and was the oldest Magistrate in the
County for several years before he died. He died possessed of vast worldly
property which, after he had long possessed without enjoying and without using,
he was at length constrained to leave to others.' Buried 3 February.[91] [Weston Barton, Stuckey's main house (he also
evidently owned Hole at this time) is reported to have burned down this year,
under suspicious circumstances. As a Magistrate, Stuckey would not be liked by
the smugglers who were popular heroes of the time]
30 June, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Rowland Branscomb marries Nancy Barrow.[92]
22 July,
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire: William aged 1 year, son of John & Mary Bransom,
baptised.[93] [cf: 1806 Charlotte, his sister, baptised
Bransfield or Branscome] The 1851 census for Sharnbrook lists a William
Bransome, aged 42, born in Sharnbrook, and his wife Rhoda, 35, born in Harrold,
Bedfordshire. Their two sons, Samuel aged 12 and George aged 10, were born in
Sharnbrook. There is also a Mary Bransome aged 75, born in Harrold, living
elsewhere in the village.[94]
A year of poor
harvests in (cf: 1812/1813). Wheat reaches almost
famine prices, at 100s a quarter.
Heavy rain causes
extensive flooding on newly-reclaimed land adjoining the brook at Dawlish. Some
new houses were washed away, as well as the Poorhouse, and the wooden bridges.[95]
In a single week,
the imports to
15 September,
Morchard Bishop: Christian Branscombe [Morrish
- wife of Joseph - m. 1785] is buried, aged 45.[97]
25 October,
Highweek: Mary Branscombe marries Charles Crews. (IGI) [cf: Robert Crews Northsworthy Branscombe (b. 1870
1
November,
6 December,
James, Lord de
Saumerez, promoted from Rear Admiral of the Red to Vice Admiral. [to 1814]
Sir J Branscomb
& Co Lottery Office Keepers
& Stock-brokers
11
Holborn, 37 Cornhill & 38 Haymarket
[Entries for Sir James' business are
missing from the next two editions of the Directory, re-appearing in 1813]
Anthony Gibbs
& Son, merchants
[cf: 1808 for agreement between Anthony
Gibbs, his son George Henry, both of
Year of baptism of
Lucy Halsey, tenth and last child of fourth great-gra
1810
Jeremiah Branscom
Edmund Branscomb
Thomas " " "
@1811
2 January,
14 January,
13 February,
15 March, Morchard
Bishop: Joseph Branscombe, widower [cf: 1785,1810], & Frances Horwell, both
of Morchard Bishop, publish marriage banns.[103] [m.29 March 1812]
27 May: J.
Parsons, Rector of Holwell, Bedfordshire, conducts a survey of the population
in his parish:[104] [cf: 1821]
inhabited houses: 24
families: 30
houses building: 0
houses uninhabited: 2
families chiefly employed in agriculture: 29
families chiefly employed in trade etc:
1
males: 72
females: 75
persons: 147
NB: `one man in the Staffordshire local militia
not included in the account’'
2 June, Exmouth: A
sudden, violent tidal wave hits Exmouth in broad daylight and otherwise good
weather.[105]
23 June, Whimple:
Sarah, eighth and last child of John & Alice Branscombe, christened. (IGI)
[John; poss bp. 1765 Whimple, fifth child
of Thomas
Branscombe & Ann
(Shepherd - m. 1756 Whimple)? Poss m. 1791 Alice Mitchell, in Broad Clyst? Poss
siblings: Mary Ann (1793), Alice (1795), Betty (1798), William (1801), Thomas
(1803), Petronella/Peternella (1806), Henry (1808), all bp. Whimple]
19 July, Stoke
Damerel: Mary Branscombe marries Samuel Branscombe. (IGI)
28 July,
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire: James, son of John & Mary Bransome, baptised.[106] [cf: 1806 sister Charlotte baptised Bransfield
or Branscome] The 1851 census for
Sharnbrook shows a James Bransome aged 39, born in Sharnbrook. His wife Mary,
aged 36, was also born in Sharnbrook. Their children Betsey aged 12, Thomas
aged 10, William aged 7 and Mary aged 2, were all born in Sharnbrook.
17 August,
Maidenhead: Charles Hazell born, son of John Hazell and Elizabeth (Draper). [worked
for John Branscombe at 88
15 September,
Christ Church Spitalfields, Stepney: George, son of gentleman Thomas &
Sarah Branscomb of
28 September,
Branscombe: William Stedham dies, aged 18. Son of Thomas Stedham of Coliton
Raleigh. `This poor lad came very early in the morning to Mr Ford's Lime Kiln
for a load of lime. It being very cold it is supposed that he sat down at the
kiln's mouth and that, being overcome with sleep, he fell forward in upon the
burning Lime, where he was found by Robert Perryman, one of the Kiln Men, burnt
to death.' Buried St.Winifred's, 30 September.[109]
24 December:
H.M.S. St.George wrecked on the coast
of
29 December,
Ottery St.Mary:
Marine artist
Samuel Walters born on a sea passage from Bideford to
Bampton:
Approximate year of birth of
The new industrial
centres of
Governor Macquarie
lays down his street plan for
@1812
5 January,
St.George The Martyr, Southwark: Clara Elizabeth, daughter of John & Mary
Branscomb, baptised.[111] [poss John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss children baptised in Southwark: Eleanor Ann (1804), William
Samuel (1805), Emily Sophia (1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth &
Eliza Sarah (1812), Louisa Maria (bp. 1814), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp. 1829 Blackfriars)]
A year of poor
harvests in
`The working
people reacted [to their inability to peacefully and lawfully change their
circumstances through political means] in many ways, and one of these was
violence ... In 1812 someone shot dead an unpopular Yorkshire manufacturer
called William Horsfall ... These were more or less spontaneous uprisings, made
with little planning or forethought, but there was also an organised campaign
of destruction, carried on by people calling themselves Luddites. These took
their name from Ned Ludd who, according to one story, was an apprentice who
smashed his employer's equipment as revenge for a beating. More likely, no such
person ever existed, Ned Ludd being a
name the workers made up and used when signing their threatening letters. The
Luddite movement began in the counties where stockings were manufactured -
Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. There was no power-driven
machinery in this trade, instead the weavers worked at home on small stocking
frames. In the early nineteenth century their trade was already depressed
because fancy hose had gone out of fashion, and so many people had taken up
stocking weaving that the employers could pay low wages. They now made things much
worse by bringing in a new type of wide frame, which produced a cheap, inferior
stocking that brought prices down even further and wages along with them The
weavers banded together and went around at night, invading cottages where there
were wide frames, and smashing them. By and large the weavers were successful
and the masters had to meet their demands. This is a verse from a song called General Ludd's Triumph:
The guilty may fear, but no vengeance he aims,
At the honest man's life or estate,
His wrath is entirely confined to wide frames
And to those that old prices abate.
These Engines of mischief were sentenced to die
By Unanimous vote of the Trade:
And Ludd who can all opposition defy
Was the grand Executioner made.'[112]
By 1812, exports
of bar-iron exceed the imports of foreign iron retained for home consumption,
although Swedish iron continues to be bought for the use of the steel-makers.
7 February:
Charles Dickens born, New Town or Mile End, on the outskirts of
29 March, Morchard
Bishop: Joseph Branscombe, serge-weaver, aged 50, marries Frances Horwell, his
second wife [cf: 1785], by banns, which
20 April, Topsham:
John William Pearce, son of labourer John Pearce of Topsham & Mary,
baptised.[114]
14 October,
St.George The Martyr, Southwark: Eliza Sarah, daughter of John & Mary Ann
Branscomb, baptised.[115] [poss John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss siblings: Eleanor Ann (1804), William Samuel (1805), Emily Sophia
(1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth & Eliza Sarah (1812), Louisa
Maria (bp. 1814), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp. 1829 Blackfriars)]
25 October, North
Tawton: Mary Branscombe, base child of Elizabeth Branscombe, baptised.[116]
13 December,
St.Mary, Whitechapel: George, son of Thomas & Sarah Branscomb, baptised.
Born 20 November `roadside'. [117] [cf: 1811. Poss second family with parents of
this name in east London at this time? Poss siblings: Edward Richard, James
Francis & Mary, all bp. 1822 Shoreditch]
Anthony Gibbs
esquire of London's account current with Messrs. Anthony Gibbs, son &
[William] Branscombe.[118] [cf: 1808,1813]
Calstock,
Cornwall: Approximate year of birth of Sarah -?, who marries John Branscombe,
pilot & waterman of Bere Alston about 1831. [cf: 1851 1881 censuses Plymouth St.Andrew]
St. John the
Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland: Leanora Sophia, daughter of merchant William
Brandscomb and Elizabeth, baptised.[119] [poss William m. 1799, Elizabeth Barnes? Poss
siblings: Richard (1801), George Buckingham (bp. 1814), John Arthur (1816),
Sydney (1818)?]
Hastings:
Georgina, daughter of fisherman George Branscombe and Mary, is born.[120] [poss sibling: Mary (1809)]
Dumfrieshire,
Scotland: Margaret Branscombe born. Married Henry Fisher in Taunton, 1840.
Children: William (1842), Henrietta (1844), Albert (1848), Margaret (1854
Melbourne, Victoria) [121]
@1813
11 January, Holy
Trinity, Exeter: Elizabeth Branscombe marries John Banberry. Both of this
parish. [John signed Banbery.[122] Mark Dalby says this name is Bunberry.[123]]
6 June, Morchard
Bishop: Sophia, first child of Joseph Branscombe, weaver of Lower Town, and his
second wife Fanny (Frances Horwell - m. 1812 Morchard), baptised. (IGI)
16 August, St.Mary
Steps, Exeter: Jane Mary Branscombe marries shipwright John Bishop. Both of
this parish.[124] [poss bp. 1791 Topsham, daughter of William
& Mary Branscombe?]
5 September,
Topsham: William Francis Buttall Pearce, son of William, mariner of Topsham,
& Margaret, baptised.[125]
7 October,
St.George's, Exeter: William George, third child of William Tucker Branscombe
& Elizabeth (Lake - m. 1809 Exeter), baptised. (IGI) [Siblings: Henry Lake/Harry Luke (1809-1810), Helen (1811), George
William (1815). cf: 1809]
A year of poor
harvests in Britain (cf: 1810/1812). Wheat prices soar.
The East India Company
monopoly on trade with India ends. Its monopoly of the China trade continues.
(to 1833)
Kingsbridge:
Approximate year of birth of carpenter William Branscombe. Married Grace
(Neyle?) of Chillington, nr. Kingsbridge, in about 1834 [22 January @ St.Andrew's, Plymouth?]. By the 1851
census, they had four children - (Elizabeth?) Eunice (b. about 1835), Frederick
(b. about 1837), Frocham/Fracham (b. about 1839) & Dorcas/Dorchas (Garland?
b. about 1841), all in Kingsbridge. In the 1841 census, Grace and the children
are registered without William, in Dodsbrooke.
LONDON POST OFFICE
DIRECTORY 1813
Branscomb's
Lottery Offices 1 Holborn Bars &
42 Cheapside
London:
Approximate year John Branscome born, relation of Maria B Barnes. (IGI)
Dawlish? Approximate
year of birth of
@1814
25 February,
(Southwark?): Maria Mary, daughter of John & Mary Branscomb, born. Baptised
St.Ann's, Blackfriars, 1829.[126] [poss John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss children baptised in Southwark: Eleanor Ann (1804), William
Samuel (1805), Emily Sophia (1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth &
Eliza Sarah (1812), Louisa Maria (bp. 1814), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp. 1829
Blackfriars). Maria marries Rusk 1841?]
17 March, Axmouth:
Susanna Branscomb marries Jeffery Jefford. (IGI) [Susanna poss bp. 1787 Aylesbeare, daughter of William & Mary?]
Start of
Non-Conformist records for Dawlish parish (to 1837).
July: H.M.S. Orion broken up. (Robert Branscombe
served, 1793-99)
9 August, Topsham:
Grace Branscombe marries labourer George Herring. Both of this parish.[127] [George signed Hearing. cf: 1805 Grace Trout
marries Robert Branscombe, Topsham Also cf: 1816 double entry for this marriage
in IGI?]
12 August, St.
John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland: George Buckingham, son of merchant
William Brandscomb and Elizabeth, baptised.[128] [poss William m. 1799, Elizabeth Barnes? Poss
siblings: Richard (1801), Leanora Sophia (bp. 1812), John Arthur (1816), Sydney
(1818)?]
19 August, St.George
the Martyr, Southwark: Louisa Maria, daughter of John & Mary Branscomb,
baptised. (IGI) [poss John & Mary Ann
(Lambeth - m. 1803 London)? Poss children baptised in Southwark: Eleanor Ann
(1804), William Samuel (1805), Emily Sophia (1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara
Elizabeth & Eliza Sarah (1812), Maria Mary (b. 1814, bp. 1829 Blackfriars).
Maria marries Rusk 1841?]
11 September,
Morchard Bishop: Mary Branscomb marries Henry Cheriton. Witnesses are Roger
Cheriton, John Challice and Peter Comyns Tucker [who witnesses most marriages at this time].[129]
6 November, Venn
Ottery: Henry Hayman Branscombe, son of Mary Ann Branscombe, christened. (IGI)
[No husband listed. Henry d. 1816, buried
Withycombe Raleigh. cf: 1796 Withycombe Raleigh, Mary Ann, daughter of William
Branscombe & Sarah (Haymen - m. 1793 Withycombe), baptised. Sibling: John
(1794). Mary Ann marries Beavis in 1827, is mother to William Branscombe,
tinsmith of Mudgee?
[130] 3rd great-grandmother of Robin Holmes of High
Wycombe? Also cf: 1807 Elizabeth Branscombe m. West Teignmouth, Robert Hayman]
The Van Diemen's Land Gazette is first
published.
Volcanic eruption
of Tamboura. May have led to atmospheric conditions
over England recorded in Turner paintings.
`Lysons notes that
7/12 of the property [of Branscombe villageEdge Barton] belongs to the Earl of Ilchester by inheritance, and 5/12
to B.J. Stuckey-Bertlett [Bartlett?][131], whose ancestor, John Stuckey, had purchased the moiety from
the Hon. Percy Wyndham. As far as it is known, the
house was occupied by tenant farmers from 1618 until 1933.'[132]
Gas becomes the
primary lighting medium for .[133]
`
While through
all thy wondrous days,
Heaven and earth enraptured gazed;
While vain sages think they know
Secrets thou alone can show;
Time alone will tell what hour
Thou'lt appear to `greater' power
inscription on Joanna
Southcott's
tombestone,
James, Lord de
Saumerez, promoted from Vice-Admiral to Admiral. [to 1836]
George
Stephenson's first locomotive runs at Killingworth Colliery.
`Oddly enough, [The Times] was involved in a `new
technology' dispute in 1814 (as in the 1980s) when John Walter II introduced
the steam printing press, and rolled up his sleeves to get the paper out
himself when his men struck.'[135]
St.Thomas:
Approximate year of birth of (Hanna?) Branscombe Davy, wife of Henry Davy in
1851 census and niece of Honour Branscombe (Leigh - m. William Branscombe 1799
Dartmouth).
Bristol:
Approximate year of birth of Eliza(beth?) -?, future wife of Henry Branscombe
of Barnstaple, haulier in Bath. They marry in Bristol in 1844 or 1845. She died
in Newport, 1866. [cf: 1861 census]
LONDON POST OFFICE
DIRECTORY 1814
Branscomb's
Lottery Office
1 Holborn Bars, near Middle row
@1815
26 February,
Topsham: Frances, daughter of Charles Pearce, mariner of Topsham, &
Elizabeth, baptised.[136]
18 April,
St.Leonard's, Shoreditch: Sarah Branscomb marries Samuel Williams. (IGI)
16 September,
St.David's, Exeter: William Chenneour, born in Lanteglos, Cornwall, marries
Mary Southcombe, born in Tavistock, by banns. Both are of the parish. They both
sign their names, as does the witness, John Keen.[137] [parents of Mary Ann Chenneour (bp. 1822
Exeter), who marries Edward Branscombe in Coventry, 1847. Therefore they are
our third great-gra
24 September,
St.Botolph-without-Aldgate, London: George William, fourth and last child of
William Tucker Branscombe & Elizabeth (Lake - m. 1809 Exeter), baptised.[138] [cf: 1840 or poss 1843 marriage to Amelia J ?
Children include Effie Julia (1846), (Louisa/Francis? c1854?), Clara (c1856?).
1851 census - George is a Lay Vicar at Exeter Cathedral & "professor
of music" in Exeter. George’s siblings: Henry Lake/Harry Luke (1809-1810),
Helen (1811), William George (1813)]
30 November,
Brunswick County, Virginia: Benjamin Branscomb marries Tabitha Seward.[139]
24 December,
Brailsford, Derbyshire: Anne, daughter of James & Anne Branscombe,
baptised. (IGI)
Chillington,
nr.Kingsbridge: Approximate year of birth of Grace (Neyle?), who married
carpenter William Branscombe of Kingsbridge in about 1834. By the 1851 census,
they had four children - (Elizabeth?) Eunice (b. about 1835), Frederick (b.
about 1837), Frocham/Fracham (b. about 1839) & Dorcas/Dorchas (Garland? b.
about 1841), all in Kingsbridge. In the 1841 census, Grace and the children are
registered without William, in Dodsbrook.
`In about 1815 the
death rate stopped falling and, in fact, it increased slightly. It did not
start to fall again until after 1870. Obviously something had gone wrong, and
we can get some idea as to what it was if we look not only at the increase of
the population, but also at changes in its distribution. Between 1801 and 1841
the population of the whole country rose by about 60%, but the large towns grew
by nearly 140%. Individual towns grew even faster than this, as we can see from
Manchester and Bradford. In the sixty years before 1831, Manchester increased
its size six times. Bradford grew by 50% every ten years between 1811 and 1851,
and by that time only half the people living in the town had been born there.
Before the Industrial Revolution, most people of England and Wales lived in the
countryside; by 1851 half of them were town dwellers. From being a farming
country we had become the first nation in the world to be mainly industrial.
This was one of the most important developments in our history, but it brought
its problems.'[140]
LONDON POST OFFICE
DIRECTORY 1815
Branscomb's
Lottery Office
1 Holborn Bars, near Middle row
Topsham: The brig Flora is launched, owners in 1839/40 are
Cockings, when its home port is Torquay, and it is engaged on the Teignmouth-Swansea
run, and the master is W. Pearce.[141]
The Battle of
battlesWaterloo.
Davy, Sir Humphry Davy invents his safety lamp for miners.
The will of Warren of Bishopsteignton, is proved.[142] [poss. m. 1782 Elizabeth Branscombe, sister
of Robert?]
`During the
Napoleonic Wars, Britain had enjoyed considerable prosperity, but in the years
that followed - from 1815 almost to the accession of Queen Victoria - there was
a long period of deflation. Lord Ernle saw this as `one of the blackest periods
of English farming', although historians now consider that the distress was
precipitated by plummeting wheat prices, and was largely confined to arable
farming in the South and East.'[143]
The Statute of
Artificers (or Apprentices), in force since 1563, is repealed. Although it had
long ceased to be put completely into practice, it had largely controlled the
development of the British industrial economy for 250 years.[144]
`The city ... was
still essentially the Exeter of the Tudors, enclosed within the old city walls.
The Chenneours would have witnessed the bustle and jostling of the street
traders which caused considerable congestion in the High Street, a daily
re-enactment of the scene going back to medieval times. Within the walls there
remained much of the old city, its narrow alleys and packed slums interspersed
with the open spaces formed by gardens and the courts that had once belonged to
the wealthier merchants and industrialists. Exeter was no longer one of the
wealthiest and largest cities of the kingdom as it had been in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries when the wool trade was supreme. Water was still
obtained from private wells, an ancient conduit, cisterns and a few public
pumps. Through the narrow cobbled streets, open gutters provided the only means
for the disposal of sewage and household slops.'[145]
St. John's,
Newfoundland: William Branscombe serves on the Grand Jury during this period.[146]
@1816
3 March,
Withycombe Raleigh: Henry Hayman Branscombe, aged 16 months, buried.[147] [cf: 1814 Henry Hayman bp., Venn Ottery, son
of Mary Ann Branscombe, daughter of
William Branscombe & Sarah (Haymen - m. 1793 Withycombe). Mary Ann marries
Beavis in 1827, is mother to William Branscombe, tinsmith of Mudgee? [148] 3rd great-grandmother of Robin Holmes of High
Wycombe?]
1 May 1816: W.
Branscombe, Junr, Plymouth, Tanner, May 4, 18 and Jun 11 at Guildhall. [149]
2 May, Plymouth: W. Branscombe junior bankrupt.[150] [cf: 13 March 1828 - W. Branscombe
senior. 1807 William Branscombe marries Elizabeth Steer in Stoke Damerel. 1848
Agnes Branscombe, widow of William Branscombe junior of Kingsbridge, dies]
3 June,
St.Sidwell's, Exeter: John Branscombe, carpenter, marries Elizabeth Seward.[151] [Both sojourners in St.Sidwell? Poss. son of
William & Sarah, b.Withycombe Raleigh 1794? cf: 1854 Sept Q Exeter, Elijah
Seward Branscombe's death registered. Also cf: 1818 Heavitree, John Branscombe,
joiner & sub-postmaster]
2 July, Ashburton:
Richard Branscombe, tanner of Newton Bushel, marries Mary Edwards (of
Ashburton?), by licence.[152] [possibly bp. 1793 Highweek, third child of
John & Mary (Mountstephen - m. 1787 Wolborough)? If so, he is brother of
John the draper & Elizabeth (Beard). cf: 1817 for the birth of their first
child, Richard, who becomes a carpenter, and then a licenced victualler in
Hertfordshire and London. When Richard junior married Eliza Lovelace in
Paddington, 1840, Richard senior was said to be a baker. Poss second son Frank?
b. 1824/5 Newton Bushel? An apprentice wood-turner in Shoreditch in the 1841
census. Poss m. 1856 Chelsea, Ann Bartlett. If so, his father Richard is
described as a clerk, while Frank himself is an engraver. By 1881, he is a
wood-turner in Berkhampstead. He poss d. 1907 Christchurch district?]
14 July, St. John
the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland: John Arthur, son of merchant William
Brandscomb and Elizabeth, baptised.[153] [poss William m. 1799, Elizabeth Barnes? Poss
siblings: Richard (1801), Leanora Sophia (bp. 1812), George Buckingham (1814),
Sydney (1818)?]
8 August, Topsham: Grace Branscombe marries herring, George Herring. (IGI) [cf: 1814 - double entry in IGI for this marriage?]
15 September,
Morchard Bishop: Henry, son of Joseph; Branscomb & Frances (Fanny Horwell - m. 1812 Morchard),
christened. (IGI) [d. 1818. Second child
of weaver Joseph, of Lower Town & his second wife. Henry's sister Sophia
bp. 1813. Marjorie Thomas' transcript of parish register [154] says Joseph's wife is Anne]
13 November,
Greensville County, Virginia: Polly Branscomb marries Thomas Hill.[155]
The Hobart Town Gazette is first published.
The first
immigrant ship to Hobart, the Adamant, arrives.
`In Kelmscott
House, Hammersmith, lived William Morris, whose influence on the artistic
development of printing and in many other directions is well known. On a small
outer building adjacent is a tablet stating that in this house Sir Francis
Ronalds, F.R.S., made the first electric telegraph, eight miles long, in 1816.'[156]
`The Year Without
a Summer', in Britain. Grain prices at record levels. `There were ... big
variations in the price of bread, the staple food of working class families.'[157]
Mary Shelley
writes Frankenstein.
Exmouth:
Approximate year of birth of Joseph Perriam, future husband of Susanna Mary
Branscombe, b. 1821 Topsham to Robert & Amelia (Clare). [cf: 1851 census]
Henrie County,
Virginia: Joseph Edmond Branscome born, son of Benjamin & (Southwood).
According to a letter written by Joseph’s son, Benjamin Franklin Branscombe, in
1903, Benjamin senior arrived in America from Scotland with his two brothers,
one of unknown name and the other, Edmond, shortly after the conclusion of the
Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Joseph Edmond moved to Ohio and married Dianah
Pierce, a second cousin of Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the US
(1853-1857). They moved to Knox County, Illinois, settling on the Spoon River
in 1838. Joseph went to California in 1853 and returned in 1855, when the
family moved to Iowa. They moved again, in the following year, to Maysville,
Missouri, where he became Sheriff. In July 1865, he was shot and killed by a Mr
Stoffel.[158]
@1817
January: Five acres
of Dawlish Warren washed away.
`The passage from the Dawlish side to Exmouth was a ferry
for a very long time. It is mentioned in our earliest Dawlish records simply as
"passage". There was a passage house on the Exmouth side, with a bell
to recall the ferryman, but no house or bell seems to have been provided on the
Dawlish side.'[159]
23 February,
Ashburton: Richard Brandcombe, son of Richard & Mary (Edwards), baptised.
(IGI) [m. 1840 Eliza Lovelace, St.James
Paddington. His father, Richard was then a baker, while Richard junior was a
carpenter, living in Dudley Grove. By the time of his death in 1872, Richard
junior was a licenced victualler]
27 March,
Withycombe Raleigh: Mary Anne Branscombe marries John Basten. Both of this
parish.[160] [Marjorie Thomas transcribes this as John
Barker.[161] Robin Holmes transcribes it as Baslen.[162] This could be John Bastin, father of John
Branscombe Basten/Bastin, born in Littleham circa 1818. The 1851 census for
Withycombe Raleigh includes an aunt, Elizabeth Branscombe, aged 53, born in
Payhembury, in his household]
8 April,
St.Clement's, Townstal, Dartmouth: Bachelor Edward Branscombe, painter [&
glazier] of Dawlish, marries Ann Starling of Townstal [direct ancestors].
Witnesses are Mary Fox and Henry Tuckerman.[163] Ann Starling's great-aunt Mary Merrygame
married a Thomas Fox. Ann & Edward's fourth child, born in 1823, is called
Thomas Fox Branscombe.
10 May,
St.David's, Exeter: William Branscombe [d. 1859] marries Eliza Dacie. [164] [cf: 5 October - double entry? William d. 1859
Paddington]
8 June, Topsham:
Samuel George Pearce, son of labourer John of Topsham, & Mary, is baptised.[165]
13 July, Tonbridge
Independent Chapel: Martha, daughter of shoemaker Edward & Mary Crouch, is
baptised. Born Penshurst, Kent. Becomes third wife of William Branscombe,
shoe-maker of Torquay, in 1865, and dies at Eton in 1901. [sibling: Mary (about 1814), married Bird - a widow living with Martha
in 1881 census]
18 July, Newport
Pagnell, Buckinghamshire: John, son of Thomas & Alice Branscomb, baptised.
(IGI) [cf: 1886 Emily Mary J Branscomb
born, Newport Pagnell]
21 July,
St.Mary's, Newington, Surrey: Thomas Branscombe marries Mary Elizabeth Roxby.
(IGI) [Possibly Thomas Branscomb,
labourer/warehouseman, & Mary Elizabeth? If so, their son Henry (bp. 1825)
marries Jane (Waterlow - m. 1849 Stepney). They run a hatters in Cambridge
Road, Mile End. cf: 1824 Thomas
Branscombe, china glass & earthenware dealer, 34 High Street, Mile End]
1 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Henry, son of John Branscombe, joiner, & Elizabeth
(Seward - m. 1816 Exeter?), born.[166] [bap. 9 Aug., m. 1836 Exeter, Mary Ann Horn.
cf: 1851 census. Died 1876, Victoria, Australia]
9 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Henry, son of John Branscombe, joiner, & Elizabeth,
baptised.[167] [b. 1 Aug. cf: 1818 John Branscombe, joiner & sub-postmaster of Heavitree]
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Exeter Flying Post
Thursday 21 August 1817
Whereas I, William Branscombe, of Exmouth, Boat-master, was
on Monday 11th. instant, hired by Charles Gifford Esq. to take him in my boat
to Teignmouth, where I grossly insulted him, from which he commenced a
prosecution against me, but has condescended to withdraw it, on my paying one
pound seven shillings to the Humane Society, in Exeter, and publicly
acknowledging my fault: I hereby express my contrition for my offence, and my
humble thanks for his foregiveness.
The Mark of
William Branscombe
Witness Henry Southcott
[Charles Gifford, brother of Lord Gifford,
resided permanently at Exmouth in what was known as "Brimstone
House", Prospect Place, demolished before 1885. The Giffords owned
considerable property in the area. cf: 1726 Sandford: Mary S. Brownscombe (d.
1778) & Robert Southcott, marry. Also cf: 1841 & 1851 censuses]
______________________________________________________________________
5 October,
St.David's, Exeter: William Branscombe, Gentleman of Holy Trinity, Exeter [accomptant/common carrier/gentleman of
St.Sidwell's], marries Eliza Dacie of St.David's, by licence.[168] [cf: 10 May - double entry? Children: Louisa
(1819), William Dacie (1821), Selina (1823), John Austwick (1825), Frederick
(1827), Rev. George Henry Dacie (1831), Eliza Austwick (1834)]
5 November,
Morchard Bishop: Elizabeth Branscombe of Morchard Bishop marries William
Holmes, husbandman and resident, by banns. Witnesses are Jas Branscombe, Roger
Cheriton, William Oxnam. [a regular witness][169] [ancestor of Robin Holmes?]
Hobart is said to
be `no more than a collection of huts'. Church services are held in the King's
store. Convict women lack shelter at night, and `depravity' is widespread.
Wives are bought and sold. Government officers keep concubines.
Captain William
Bligh buried at St. Mary, Lambeth.
John Nash builds
the villa of Stonelands, Dawlish, which became the home of Sir John Rennie,
eminent architect and engineer.[170] [cf: 1804]
Hastings:
According to the Merchant Navy records in the P.R.O. Kew,[171] this is the year of birth of Samuel (James)
Henry Branscomb, master mariner (1851 Newcastle), ship-owner & miner of
Sunderland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Australia. Married Mary Doubleday in
Monkwearmouth, 1844. Living in St.Lawrence Row, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the
1851 census. Their children probably include: Mary (1845-1845), Mary (1846),
Henry Samuel (1848), Charles (1850) & Isabella (1853), all born in
Newcastle or the Tyne area. Samuel went to Australia in about 1853 and probably
never returned. He married for the second time, bigamously, in 1866 in Ararat,
Victoria, Annie Elizabeth Vibarr. They had no children. He died 1870 in
Ballarat. [Victoria Pioneers Index gives
his mother as Mary (U?)]
Devonshire: Mary
Branscome born. Married John Cameron of Inverness, in London. Children: John
(b1856 Prahran, Victoria, Australia).[172] [poss
m.1837 Dec , St Mary Newington as Mary Branscomb?]
@1818
19 April, St.
John's, Newfoundland: Sydney, (son/daughter?) of merchant William Brandscomb
and Elizabeth, born. Baptised St. John the Baptist, St. John's, 24 July 1819.[173] [poss d. 1885 Barbados? William m. 1799,
Elizabeth Barnes? Poss siblings: Richard (1801), Leanora Sophia (bp. 1812),
George Buckingham (1814), John Arthur (1816)?]
30 April, Dawlish:
23 July,
St.Gregory's, Dawlish: Anne Starling, daughter of Edward Branscombe, [painter
&] glazier, & Anne (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth), baptised.[175] [IGI says 22 Feb this year]
10 September:
Thomas Bowden of Topsham, shipwright, marries Frances Hannaford.[176]
1 October: Article
of agreement of co-partnership between Anthony Gibbs, George Henry Gibbs &
William Branscombe. Trade carried on in Cadiz in the commission line. Resident
in Cadiz - William Branscombe. Witnessed by M.O. Osborne, Attorney, Bristol,
and Thomas Goddard, merchant, Cadiz.[177] [cf: 1808. Agreement lasted seven years?
Corporation of London Records Office has correspondence in relation to this
partnership 1818-25][178]
11 December,
Greensville County, Virginia: Lucy Branscomb marries Herbert Harris.[179] [cf: 1793 Greensville Co., Frances Branscomb
m. William Harris]
14 December,
Morchard Bishop: Burial of Henry Branscombe of Lower Town, aged 2.[180] [b. 1816 son of Joseph, weaver of Lower Town
& Anne (or Fanny?)]
Correspondence
between William Branscombe [m.Honour Leigh Dartmouth 1799?] at 4 Longbrook
Street, Exeter, and Henry Gibbs concerning the administration of the late
Captain Philip Leigh's estate.[181] The beneficiaries listed are:
Sarah Burrell £35.00
Honor Branscombe £34.19
W. Branscombe £ 3.10
Mary Berry £ 3.10
Wm. Burrell £ 1.15
Sarah Richardson £ 1.15
Elizabeth Chorley £ 1.15
Ring and Dump
coins first introduced into Van Diemen's Land.
British forces
defeat Marathas, and effectively become rulers of India.
John Sims Reeves,
famous English tenor vocalist and later teacher of Edward George Branscombe
[George Edward Salmon], is born. [d. 1900][182]
`In 1818 some
Stockport strikers seized a number of girls who were going to work, and held
them under the pump ... there was an attack on a Stockport mill and troops had
to come in to defend it.'[183]
Nathaniel &
Henry Branscombe, sons of Arthur and Rachel of Grand Lake, move from New
Brunswick, where they were born, to Hallowell, western Canada. Nathaniel
married Sarah Miller, while Henry married Lydia Miller, who may have been her
sister. Their brother Arthur [d. 1875], who stayed behind in New Brunswick,
also married a Miller - Martha.[184]
Littleham:
Approximate year of birth of John Branscombe Bastin, possibly the son of Mary
Anne Branscombe and John Bastin/Basten, m. 1817 in Withycombe Raleigh. In the
1851 census, John junior's aunt, Elizabeth Branscombe, is shown living in his
household. [cf: also 1841 census for
Littleham]
Approximate year
of birth of Emma Branscomb, bap.3 Jan 1831, St.Sepulchre, London [also known as Holy Sepulchre without Newgate],
daughter of John (deceased in 1831) & Mary of 8 West Street, Smithfield
(1831). Said to be thirteen years of age at baptism.[185] [cf: 1828 Finsbury, Hellen bapt., d. of John
& Mary, 1846 Greenwich marriage of Emma Branscomb. Poss John & Mary
Hexter, m. 1811 Old Church, St.Pancras?]
Approximate year
of birth, in Middlesex, of John Branscombe, son of mercantile clerk John, who
becomes a wood turner and marries Emma Scales, in 1840. [cf: 1841 census - Shoreditch. Could John senior be the John mentioned
above, husband of Mary, father of Emma & possibly Hellen & John?
Children of John & Emma Scales: Thomas (1845), Mary (1848), John (1852),
William (1853), Edwin (1856), Emma (1861), William Mortlock (1863), Ernest
(1865), Alice M. (1869)]
Joseph Grimaldi
(1778-1837), clown, lived in Exmouth Market, London, from 1818 to 1828.
John Branscombe,
joiner and sub-postmaster, lives at Fore Street, Heavitree. [directory listing.[186] cf: 1817 John Branscombe of Withycombe,
joiner, & Elizabeth (Seward - m. 1816 Exeter?). Also cf: 1824 Mrs
Branscombe registered in Heavitree]
1818 TENNESSEE
CENSUS [187]
Joseph Branscomb
@1819
February-September:
Series of letters sent to William Branscombe in Cadiz from Gibb & Sons
Ltd., merchant & foreign bankers of London, and from his wife.[188] [William d. 1819 November, of yellow fever]
7 February,
St.George The Martyr, Southwark: William Edward Butler Branscombe, son of
Richard & Mary Ann Branscombe, baptised.[189] [Richard senior poss third child of John
Branscombe & Ann (? - m?), bp. 1772 Plymouth. Poss siblings: Ann (1764),
Elizabeth (1767)? Poss m. 1798 East Stonehouse, Mary Ann Jury? Richard &
Mary Ann may have moved to Southwark and baptised: Richard Thomas (1803),
Amelia Elizabeth (1805), John Ould James (1807), William Edward Butler (1819?).
Emma (Bigwood), married William Branscombe, poss 1860 in Bristol? They had two
sons. William Harcourt was born in Bristol in 1873. He went to Cambridge and
rowed for his college. Working as a mining engineer, he was visiting what is
now Ghana when he was attacked by natives and killed, in 1901. John Ernest
Mackay was born in Barton district in 1879. He was a sculptor with studios in
London. He died in Maidstone in 1956. Emma died in Herne Bay, in 1927. Her
executor was Mary Elizabeth Branscombe, a spinster. cf: 1807 brother John Ould
baptised?]
8 February,
Dawlish: George Beard marries Mary Hoare. (IGI) [possibly George Beard, builder, father of Mary, who marries William
Waymouth Branscombe 29 Nov 1854?]
19 April,
Littleham: John Bishop of Littleham marries Alice Branscombe of Littleham.
Witnesses Mary Ann Bastin and John Blackmore.[190] [cf: 1817 Mary Anne Branscombe m. John
Bastin, Withycombe Raleigh. Also cf: 1813 - John Bishop m. Jane Mary Branscombe]
24 July, St. John
the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland: Sydney, (son/daughter?) of merchant William
Brandscomb and Elizabeth, baptised. Born St. John's, 19 April, 1818.[191] [poss d. 1885 Barbados? Poss William m. 1799,
Elizabeth Barnes? Poss siblings: Richard (1801), Leanora Sophia (bp. 1812),
George Buckingham (1814), John Arthur (1816)?]
5 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Charles Branscombe son of John, carpenter, & Elizabeth,
born [bap. 22 Aug].[192]
8 August,
St.David's, Exeter: Louisa Branscombe, first child of William & Eliza
(Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter), baptised. (IGI) [William,
gentleman of St.David's Hill.[193] siblings: William Dacie (1821), Selina (1823),
John Austwick (1825), Frederick (1827), Rev. George Henry Dacie (1831), Eliza
Austwick (1834)]
Approximate year
of Louisa Branscombe's birth. (Somerset?) She arrives in Adelaide, in 1849, as
a spinster emigrant.
15 August,
Dawlish: Susanna, daughter of Edward Branscombe, baptised.[194] [Edward, painter & glazier, & Ann(e)
(Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth). cf: 1841 census Littleham]
`In 1819, [the
Dawlish Poor House] was removed from the Strand to a site near the present
school in Old Town Street ... there were five separate poorhouses here, and
they remained in use as a home for poor old people until 1850.'[195]
22 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Charles Branscombe, son of John, carpenter, &
Elizabeth, baptised.[196] [b.5 Aug. Becomes a mason - cf: 1851 census]
25 August, Bratton
Fleming: The will of William Brownscombe is proved in the Court of the
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.[197]
29 September,
Topsham: Harriett Branscombe marries cordwainer Thomas Garlick. Both of this
parish.[198] [poss bp. 1793 Topsham, third child of
mariner William Branscombe & Jane (Pain - m. 1781 Topsham)? cf: 1821
marriage of Robert Branscombe & Amelia Clare. Also cf: 1834]
November (Cadiz?):
William Branscombe dies of yellow fever.[199]
3 November, Withycombe
Raleigh?: George Branscombe, son of Mary Ann Branscombe, spinster, born. [bap.
1827][200]
19 December,
St.Andrew's, Holborn: Mary Ann Cross Branscumb, daughter of cooper George and
Mary Ann, of Grays Inn Lane, baptised. Born 28 November.[201] [cf: 1801]
Approximate start
of the reign of `Governor Wally' (Henry Wallen), on Kangaroo Island. (to 1836)
John Branscombe of
Morchard Bishop - testamentary cause.[202] [John, son of Abraham and Frances (Southcott),
bp. 1764?]
Approximate year
Ann(e) (Bowden/Waymouth/Webber/Smith?) marries
William Branscombe, shoe-maker, possibly in Torquay.
`Shoemakers had a reputation for radical politics, hard drinking, a fondness for pets, especially songbirds, and ideas above their station. The radical tradition was of long standing. The patron saints of the trade are Crispin and Crispinian and legend says that they were both martyred at Soissons in 285 AD for preaching the then heretical new religion of Christianity [they were both shoemakers] ... The shoe-making trade encompassed many different tasks, of varying skill and status. Though some shoemakers bought and cut their own leather and did all the work in their own establishments, most were employed in a "putting out" system. Under this arrangement the leather was cut to size in a "factory" or "college" (proper mechanised "manufactories" did not appear until around 1860) ... The man who did this was the clicker and had the highest income and status. His skill in cutting hides could make or break a business. In fact, many became merchants in their own right. The strange name comes either from the sound their knives made as they cut the leather, or from the Old French claquer to shout. In olden days, clickers had to advertise their merchant's goods by shouting for trade. Leftovers from the hides would be cut into pieces by a "rough-stuff cutter" and the pieces used for filling heels. The strips of leather were passed out to shoemakers proper, who assembled the shoes. The upper leathers were sewn into shape on a last, which was a wooden or iron foot-shaped template. This relatively light work could be done by women, children or old men, the "hand-binders" or "boot-binders" of census returns. Fit young men sewed the uppers onto the soles, a hard task because of the tough leather. The heels would be sewn on, then the new shoes would be given eyeholes for laces, if necessary, and buffed, polished and generally "finished". Once completed, the footware went back to the "college". The merchant paid his fees and organised the transport and sale of the finished shoes. The merchants were involved at the beginning and end of the system, putting out the raw materials and selling the finished goods. The shoemakers were "labour only" sub-contractors, supplying their skil