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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),
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),
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),
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
‘At the east corner of the
Middle Row, Sir James Branscombe kept a lottery-office for forty years, He had
been footman to the Earl of Gainsborough, and was knighted when Sheriff of
London and Middlesex, in 1806.’ [74]
@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.[75] [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.[76] 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.[78]
16 October, St.
Austell,
26 October, prob
The
The estate of in Talaton, property of Sir J.totally destroyed by fire.[79]
6 December:
`In 1808 some
weavers on strike invaded the homes of others who would not join them and took
away their shuttles.'[80]
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..[83]
5 July, St.George
The Martyr, Southwark: John Stephen, son of John & Mary Ann Branscomb,
baptised.[84] [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),
2 August,
Shillington, Bedfordshire: Eliz. Branscombe, daughter of Samuel & Sarah,
marries Jas. Gray of Holwell.[85] [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][86]
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.[87]
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.[92] [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.[93]
22 July,
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire: William aged 1 year, son of John & Mary Bransom,
baptised.[94] [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.[95]
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.[96]
In a single week,
the imports to
15 September,
Morchard Bishop: Christian Branscombe [Morrish
- wife of Joseph - m. 1785] is buried, aged 45.[98]
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.[104] [m.29 March 1812]
27 May: J.
Parsons, Rector of Holwell, Bedfordshire, conducts a survey of the population
in his parish:[105] [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.[106]
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.[107] [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.[110]
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.[112] [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),
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.'[113]
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.[115]
14 October,
St.George The Martyr, Southwark: Eliza Sarah, daughter of John & Mary Ann
Branscomb, baptised.[116] [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),
25 October,
13 December,
St.Mary, Whitechapel: George, son of Thomas & Sarah Branscomb, baptised.
Born 20 November `roadside'. [118] [cf: 1811. Poss second family with parents of
this name in east
Anthony Gibbs
esquire of
Calstock,
@1813
11 January, Holy
Trinity,
6 June, Morchard
Bishop: Sophia, first child of Joseph Branscombe, weaver of
16 August, St.Mary
Steps,
5 September,
Topsham: William Francis Buttall Pearce, son of William, mariner of Topsham,
& Margaret, baptised.[126]
7 October,
St.George's,
A year of poor
harvests in
The East India
Company monopoly on trade with
Kingsbridge:
Approximate year of birth of carpenter William Branscombe. Married Grace
(Neyle?) of Chillington, nr. Kingsbridge, in about 1834 [22 January @ St.Andrew's,
Branscomb's
Lottery Offices 1 Holborn Bars &
42
Dawlish?
Approximate year of birth of
@1814
25 February,
(Southwark?): Maria Mary, daughter of John & Mary Branscomb, born. Baptised
St.Ann's, Blackfriars, 1829.[127] [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),
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.[128] [George signed Hearing. cf: 1805 Grace Trout
marries Robert Branscombe, Topsham Also cf: 1816 double entry for this marriage
in IGI?]
12 August,
19 August,
St.George the Martyr, Southwark:
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].[130]
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?
[131] 3rd great-grandmother of Robin Holmes of
The
Volcanic eruption
of Tamboura. May have led to atmospheric conditions
over
`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 [
Gas becomes the
primary lighting medium for .[134]
`
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.'[136]
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
Branscomb's Lottery
Office
1 Holborn Bars, near Middle row
@1815
26 February,
Topsham: Frances, daughter of Charles Pearce, mariner of Topsham, &
Elizabeth, baptised.[137]
18 April,
St.Leonard's, Shoreditch: Sarah Branscomb marries Samuel Williams. (IGI)
16 September, St.David's,
24 September,
St.Botolph-without-Aldgate,
30 November,
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),
`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
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.[142]
The
Davy, Sir Humphry Davy invents his safety lamp for miners.
The will of Warren of Bishopsteignton, is proved.[143] [poss. m. 1782
`During the
Napoleonic Wars,
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.[145]
`The city ... was
still essentially the
John Branscombe Crews born. Mayor of
@1816
3 March,
Withycombe Raleigh: Henry Hayman Branscombe, aged 16 months, buried.[149] [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? [150] 3rd great-grandmother of Robin Holmes of
1 May 1816: W.
Branscombe, Junr, Plymouth, Tanner, May 4, 18 and Jun 11 at Guildhall. [151]
2 May, Plymouth: W. Branscombe junior bankrupt.[152] [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,
2 July, Ashburton:
Richard Branscombe, tanner of Newton Bushel, marries Mary Edwards (of
Ashburton?), by licence.[154] [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
14 July,
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
13 November,
The Hobart Town Gazette is first published.
The first
immigrant ship to
`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.'[158]
`The Year Without
a Summer', in
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]
@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.'[161]
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.[162] [Marjorie Thomas transcribes this as John
Barker.[163] Robin Holmes transcribes it as Baslen.[164] 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,
10 May,
St.David's,
8 June, Topsham:
Samuel George Pearce, son of labourer John of Topsham, & Mary, is baptised.[167]
13 July, Tonbridge
Independent Chapel: Martha, daughter of shoemaker Edward & Mary Crouch, is
baptised. Born
18 July, Newport
Pagnell, Buckinghamshire: John, son of Thomas & Alice Branscomb, baptised.
(IGI) [cf: 1886 Emily Mary J Branscomb born,
21 July,
St.Mary's,
1 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Henry, son of John Branscombe, joiner, & Elizabeth
(Seward - m. 1816 Exeter?), born.[168] [bap. 9 Aug., m. 1836 Exeter, Mary Ann Horn.
cf: 1851 census. Died 1876,
9 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Henry, son of John Branscombe, joiner, & Elizabeth,
baptised.[169] [b. 1 Aug. cf: 1818 John Branscombe, joiner & sub-postmaster of Heavitree]
_______________________________________________________________________
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",
______________________________________________________________________
5 October,
St.David's,
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][171] [ancestor of Robin Holmes?]
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.[172] [cf: 1804]
@1818
19 April,
30 April, Dawlish:
23 July,
St.Gregory's, Dawlish: Anne Starling, daughter of Edward Branscombe, [painter
&] glazier, & Anne (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth), baptised.[177] [IGI says 22 Feb this year]
10 September:
Thomas Bowden of Topsham, shipwright, marries Frances Hannaford.[178]
1 October: Article
of agreement of co-partnership between Anthony Gibbs, George Henry Gibbs &
William Branscombe. Trade carried on in
11 December,
14 December,
Morchard Bishop: Burial of Henry Branscombe of
Correspondence
between William Branscombe [m.Honour Leigh Dartmouth 1799?] at
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
British forces
defeat Marathas, and effectively become rulers of
John Sims Reeves,
famous English tenor vocalist and later teacher of Edward George Branscombe
[George Edward Salmon], is born. [d. 1900][184]
`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.'[185]
Nathaniel &
Henry Branscombe, sons of Arthur and Rachel of Grand Lake, move from
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,
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,
John Branscombe,
joiner and sub-postmaster, lives at
1818
Joseph Branscomb
@1819
February-September:
Series of letters sent to William Branscombe in
7 February,
St.George The Martyr, Southwark: William Edward Butler Branscombe, son of
Richard & Mary Ann Branscombe, baptised.[191] [Richard senior poss third child of John
Branscombe & Ann (? - m?), bp. 1772
8 February,
Dawlish: George Beard marries Mary Hoare. (IGI) [possibly George Beard, builder, father of Mary, who marries William
Waymouth Branscombe
19 April,
Littleham: John Bishop of Littleham marries Alice Branscombe of Littleham.
Witnesses Mary Ann Bastin and John Blackmore.[192] [cf: 1817 Mary Anne Branscombe m. John
Bastin, Withycombe Raleigh. Also cf: 1813 - John Bishop m. Jane Mary Branscombe]
24 July,
5 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Charles Branscombe son of John, carpenter, & Elizabeth,
born [bap. 22 Aug].[194]
8 August,
St.David's,
Approximate year
of
15 August,
Dawlish: Susanna, daughter of Edward Branscombe, baptised.[196] [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.'[197]
22 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Charles Branscombe, son of John, carpenter, &
Elizabeth, baptised.[198] [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.[199]
29 September,
Topsham: Harriett Branscombe marries cordwainer Thomas Garlick. Both of this
parish.[200] [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 (
3 November,
Withycombe Raleigh?: George Branscombe, son of Mary Ann Branscombe, spinster,
born. [bap. 1827][202]
19 December,
St.Andrew's, Holborn: Mary Ann Cross Branscumb, daughter of cooper George and
Mary Ann, of
Approximate start
of the reign of `Governor Wally' (Henry Wallen), on
John Branscombe of
Morchard Bishop - testamentary cause.[204] [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 skill and some modest capital, such as lasts and needles, though lasts could
be hired from merchants ... Under this domestic system, the merchants risked
very little capital. Any downturn in trade would result in giving out fewer
strips, the cost of recession being borne, therefore, by the shoemakers. The
shoemakers had the freedom to take strips from any merchants and do the work at
their pace in their own time: they would reputedly spend half the week earning
their monies by ferocious efforts, staying awake all night to complete their
tasks, and the other half of the week getting drunk ... There was no
distinction between left and right shoes until after mechanisation. Earnings
were poor even by contemporary standards: only ten shillings a week or less in
many parts of the country until the 1850s ... The shoemaking trades were widespread,
as every city, town or village had its resident shoemaker, cobbler or clogger
... The trades employed 250,000 people in 1861, when they formed the sixth
largest employment category in the national census, employing more people than
the coal-mining, railways or engineering industries.'[205]
The American ship
Approximate year
of birth of John Branscombe, registered in the household of Hannah Davis, in
Littleham, in the 1841 census. Also in the household is John [Branscombe?]
Bastin, a bricklayer. [cf: 1818]
St.Aldate's,
@1820
8 February,
Stockland,
15 February,
Topsham: Benjamin Ward Buttall Pearce, son of master mariner William of
Topsham, & Margaret, is baptised.[209]
20 February,
Cheriton Fitzpaine: Eliza & Sarah Ann, daughters of William & Sarah
Branscombe, christened. (IGI)
25 March, Torquay:
Robert Bowden Branscombe born, son of William the shoemaker & Ann(e).[210] [cf: 1836]
15 April,
St.Martin's-in-the-Fields,
26 July, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Wesley Branscomb marries Jane Dobbs.[211]
13 November,
St.Thomas the Apostle,
Little
1820's: Severe
agricultural depression.
`James Ladbroke
was busying himself, in the 1820s, with plans and on an Act of Parliament for
the layout of the great estate whose church, square, crescents and communal
gardens were in due course to provide one of the last examples of London's
great tradition of residential development.'[213]
`During the prime
period [of the express post coach system] at the beginning of the 1820s, Carey's Itinerary shows that seven
hundred and ninety-five mail and express passenger coaches spread out across
the country from London every day of the week.'[214]
Possible year of
marriage of Thomas Branscomb, labourer/warehouseman, & Mary Elizabeth ?,
possibly in Whitechapel. Their son Henry (bp. 1825) marries Jane (Waterlow - m.
1849 Stepney). They run a hatters in
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel,Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel,Mile End
Thomas Branscomb
Edwin Branscomb
Redbourne: Third
great-grandfather James Halsey marries Elizabeth Bingham. [children: Elizabeth (1821?), James (1824?), George (1826?), Emmanuel
(1827?) John (1829?), Ann (1833?), Thomas (1834?), Emma (1837?), Charles
(1839?), Eliza (1843?)]
Approximate year
of birth of
Reign of George
III ends (since 1760). George IV succeeds to the throne (to 1830).
Russelville,
Robert Branscomb
Greensville
County, Virginia
Benjamin Brancomb
Edmund, Richard & Tabitha Branscomb [215]
@1821
19 January,
Topsham: Robert Branscombe, bachelor fisherman of Topsham, marries spinster
sojourner Amelia Clare, by banns. He signed his name, while she signed with a
mark. Witnesses include Thomas & Harriett Garlick, (Peter Richards?), and
one other whose name is indecipherable.[216] [Possibly Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged
40, son of mariner William & Jane (Pain - m. 1781 Topsham), described as a
rope-maker in 1837 and a mariner in the 1851 census when he has moved to
Littleham. He and Amelia had at least ten children: Susanna Mary (1821), Mary Jane Harriet (1822), William Clare (1824),
George Eastman (1827), Robert (1829),
2 January,
Tiverton: Bartholomew Branscombe of Bampton, miller, makes his will. He
bequeaths Grist Mills, with lands and orchard, in Elmore, Tiverton, to his son
James, miller of Tiverton. Bartholomew signs with a mark.[217] [cf: 1833]
6 February,
Topsham: Mary Martha (Heander?) Pearce, daughter of master mariner William of
Topsham & Margaret (Heander?) Pearce, is baptised.[218] [cf: 1820]
9 March,
St.Gregory's, Dawlish: William, son of Edward Branscombe, [painter &]
glazier, & Ann [direct ancestors], baptised.[219] If
not already there, at some time during the next five years, the family moves to
Exeter, St. Sidwell's parish, from where they are removed in 1826.
27 March,
Tiverton: Bartholomew Branscombe of Tiverton dies. His will is proved on 6
July, in
1 April, Topsham:
Susanna Mary Branscombe, first child of mariner Robert & Amelia (Clare - m.
19 Jan. Topsham), baptised. (IGI) [possibly
Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged 40, son of William & Jane (Pain),
described as a fisherman on his marriage, as a rope-maker in 1837 and a mariner
in the 1851 census when he has moved to Littleham. He and Amelia had at least
ten children: Mary Jane Harriet
(1822), William Clare (1824), George Eastman (1827), Robert (1829),
28 May: R. Lucas,
Curate of Holwell, Bedfordshire, conducts a survey of the population in his
parish:[221] [cf: 1811]
inhabited houses: 26
(+2)
families: 29
(-1)
houses building: 0
houses uninhabited: 0 (-2)
families chiefly employed in agriculture: ALL
(+1)
families chiefly employed in trade etc: 0
(-1)
males: 89
(+17)
females: 90
(+15)
persons: 179
(+32)
Bishop Carey of
`Between 1811 and
1821 the population [of
Towards the end of
the 1820s the full daily wage for a skilled carpenter ranged from 3s 6d to 3s
8d Bricklayers were paid between 3s 6d and 3s 9d. (At
The population of
Torquay is 5982, compared with 838 in 1801.[224]
27 August,
Morchard Bishop: Frances Branscombe marries George Edwards by banns. Both of
this parish. Witnesses are Jane
5 September,
St.Sidwell's, Exeter: William Dacie, second child of William Branscombe, accomptant of St. Sidwell's parish, and
Eliza (Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter), baptised. [siblings:
9 September,
Ottery St.Mary: Betsy Branscombe marries Richard Bending. Both of this parish.[226] [cf: 1851 census for
11 November,
St.Mary, Whitechapel: Rebecca, first child of Thomas & Mary Elizabeth
Branscomb of High Street, baptised. She was born on 3 October. Thomas is said
to be a labourer at the E.I. warehouse.[227] [East India warehouse? cf: 1824 Thomas Branscombe, china glass
& earthenware dealer, 34 High Street, Mile End]
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel,Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel,Mile End
Thomas Branscomb
Edwin Branscomb
Edward Branscombe,
Clerk's Award,
Future site of
Mudgee, N.S.W., discovered by Lt. William Lawson, who becomes a pioneer
landowner there.
Approximate year
of birth of John Branscombe, tanner, in
Redbourne:
Approximate year of birth of Elizabeth Halsey, first child of third great-gra
St.Aldate's,
Greenslades Farm,
on the east side of Crosspark Hill, Oakford, is leased to William Branscombe
until 1823 or later.[228] [William & Grace? cf: 1823 son John Hinam
b.]
Dawlish:
approximate year Mary Beard born. [later
wife of William Waymouth Branscombe - daughter of George Beard, builder of
Dawlish, and Mary (Hoare - m. 1819 Dawlish?) cf: 1841 census]
@1822
20 January,
St.Mary The Virgin, Sunbury-on-Thames: William Branscomb, son of labourer
Edward & Sarah Branscomb, baptised.[229]
5 February,
Tormoham, Torquay: Ann(e) Smith Waymouth Branscombe born to William, shoe-maker
of Torquay, and Ann. Baptised Tormoham,
26 March, Exmouth:
Newspaper report. `
23 May, Bere
Ferrers: John Gregory marries Elizabeth Branscumbe. Both of this parish.[231] [both signed with a mark. cf: 1830 Dawlish,
Lewis Gregory m. Mary Ann Branscombe]
23 June,
Withycombe Raleigh: Charlotte Branscombe, aged 6, buried.[232]
Monday, 1 July,
Littleham: Robert Hooper, branch pilot at Exmouth, owner & master of the King George, pilot sloop, marries Miss
Jane Perriam, daughter of Mrs Jane Perriam of the Swan Inn, Exmouth.[233]
9 July,
4 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: John Branscombe, son of John, carpenter, & Elizabeth,
baptised.[235]
30 August,
Topsham: Mary Jane Harriot [Harriet?] Branscombe, second child of mariner
Robert & Amelia (Clare - m. 1821 Topsham), is baptised. (IGI) [possibly Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged
40, son of William & Jane (Pain), described as a fisherman on his marriage,
as a rope-maker in 1837 and a mariner in the 1851 census when he has moved to
Littleham. He and Amelia had at least ten children: Susanna Mary (1821), William Clare (1824), George Eastman (1827),
Robert (1829),
11 September,
St.Leonard's, Shoreditch: Edward Richard, James Francis & Mary, children of
Thomas & Sarah Branscomb, baptised.[236] [cf: 1880 Edward Richard Branscombe, stoker,
is executor of the will of Mary Branscombe of Walworth. Edward poss d. 1887
Camberwell?]
16 October,
Dawlish: Fourth Great Uncle Edward Branscombe, aged 70 years, buried.[237] [son of Edward & Elizabeth née Pearce][238]
Approximate year
Henry Firman Salmon, father of Edward George Branscombe [George Edward Salmon]
is born in Rochford, Essex, to Henry, wine merchant.[239]
William Cobbett
begins his "rural rides" [to 1826].
St.Aldate's,
Chalon-sur-Saône:
Joseph Nicéphore Niepce fixes an image on a glass plate and claims to have
invented photography.
Approximate year
of birth of James Brownscombe, buried in Appledore, aged 45, in 1867. [cf: 1820
11
January, Oakford, Bampton: John Hinam Branscombe born, son of William &
Grace.[241] [John m.
1855, d. 1895. William probably farmer son of William & Sarah, b. 1789, m?,
d. 1835]
8 February,
Whimple: William Branscombe marries Elisabeth Granger. (IGI) [cf: 1825 for possible duplication. Probably
the fourth child of John & Alice (Mitchell - m. 1791 Broad Clyst?) of
Whimple, baptised
25 March,
25 May,
Headington,
21 June,
17 September, St.
Sidwell's, Exeter: Selina, third child of William Branscombe, common carrier of
St. Sidwell's parish, and Eliza (Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter), baptised. (IGI) [In 1821 William was described as an
accomptant. Siblings:
22 September,
Bratton Fleming: The will of Mary Brownscomb is proved in the Court of the
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.[247] [cf: 1819, William of Bratton Fleming also]
2 October, Exeter: Thomas Fox, fourth child of third great-gra
12 November,
20 November,
21 December,
St.Mary, Whitechapel: Emma, daughter of labourer Thomas & Mary Elizabeth
Branscomb of High Street, baptised. Born 24 September.[250] [m. 1846 Grenwich? cf: 1824 Thomas Branscombe, china glass & earthenware dealer,
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St.Mary,Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel,Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel,Mile End
Thomas Branscomb
Edwin Branscomb
23 December,
Topsham: William Clare Branscombe born, son of Robert & Amelia (Clare - m.
1821 Topsham). Baptised
`A map of
The first iron
steamboat is trialed, on the
Approximate year
Jane Beard, daughter of plumber John, is born in Saxmundham,
Thomas Bransome,
farmer of Chalgrove, Tebworth, Bedfordshire - probate record.[255]
Steyning, Sussex:
Approximate year of birth of Mary Branscombe, registered as a housemaid in the
1851 census for Argyll House, 7 Argyll Street, Golden Square sub-district, the
home of George G -?, the Earl of Aberdeen.
1824
16
January,
2
February,
19
February, Morchard Bishop: Abraham Branscombe of Street buried, aged 87.[260] [b. 1737
Morchard, son of John, serge-maker? Poss m. 1758
17 June, Dawlish:
John Branscombe, aged 77 years, buried.[261] [b. about 1747? possibly husband of Agnes
Pike, m. 1781 Dawlish? Poss father of John (1782-1795), Captn. Joseph
(1784-1866), Anne (1787-1787), Sarah (1790-1849), Catherine (1793-1855), John
(1796), Anne (1798), Captn. William (1803)?]
26 August,
Wolborough: John Branscombe of Wolborough marries Sarah Alsop of Wolborough, by
licence.[262] [this could be John the draper, bp. 1789
Highweek, firstborn child of John & Mary (Mountstephen - m. 1787 Wolborough).
They may have had a child called Sarah, who is born about 1827. She is recorded
living with John in the household of Richard Beard, photographer husband of
John's sister Elizabeth, in the 1851 census]
September: oxley,
John Oxley lands at the future site of
9 October,
14 October,
St.Aldate's,
5 November,
Topsham: George Branscombe born. Goes to sea in 1839 as a Boy, served six
months in the Royal Navy and is issued his seaman's ticket in 1845.[265] [cf: 1826]
Imperial Gas
Company; introduces first gas supply to Paddington:
`Up to this time, during the long winter evenings, the muddy
roads which led to the cottages on the Paddington estate were in total
darkness, unless the "parish lantern" chanced to offer its acceptable
light.'[266]
St.Gregory's,
Dawlish, is re-built. `The east lychgate ... was removed, and an adjoining
house, the property of Mr.James Hexter (b. 1758, m. 1782?), was purchased for
£60.'[267]
Redbourne:
Approximate year of birth of James Halsey, second child of third great-gra
The Bank of Englandd loses its monopoly on
joint-stock banking.
Heavitree: a Poor
Rate survey shows a Mrs Branscombe living in a house owned by Mr S. Hore, worth
£12 a year. She does not appear in the 1838 and 1854 surveys.[268] [cf: 1818 John Branscombe of Heavitree,
joiner & sub-postmaster]
PIGOT'S 1823-24
DIRECTORY OF
Thomas Branscombe china glass & earthenware dealer
[poss bp. 1799 Morchard Bishop? Described
in 1823 as a labourer, in the register of St.Mary, Whitechapel, on the baptism
of his second child, Emma]
Thomas Telford
recommends the building of a ship canal from the
@1825
3 January, Torquay: William Waymouth Branscombe born.[269] [cf: 1840. Granted Captain’s ticket 1855]
6 January, St.
Bride's, Fleet Street: Sarah Branscomb marries John Currie. (IGI)
15 January: Arthur Branscombe [b.
about 1751 Devon?] dies `in his new home in the wilderness' and is buried at
Grand Lake, New Brunswick, Canada, aged 74.[270]
8 February,
Whimple: William Branscombe marries Elisabeth Granger. Both of Whimple.[271] [cf: 1823 for possible duplication. Also
cf: 1767 Woodbury, William Branscombe m. Ann Granger]
9 March, India:
Eliza Branscombe is registered as a servant to Mrs Ann Coppin. [272]
12 March,
Wolborough: Marriage of Elizabeth Branscombe [b. 1797 Highweek, daughter of
John & Mary (Mountstephen - m. 1787 Wolborough)] to Richard Beard junior,
grocer, by licence. Both of Wolborough.[273] [sister of John Branscombe, draper - cf: 1851
census for St. Pancras - Richard becomes a coal dealer, one of Britain's
pioneer photographers, and a "medical galvanist"]
17 March, Topsham:
William Clare Branscombe, third child of mariner Robert & Amelia (Clare -
m. 1821), baptised. (IGI) [Presbyterian
Church. William was born 23 December 1823. Father possibly Robert Bradford
Branscombe, aged 40, son of William & Jane (Pain), described as a fisherman
on his marriage, as a rope-maker in 1837 and a mariner in the 1851 census when
he has moved to Littleham. He and Amelia had at least ten other children: Susanna Mary (1821), Mary Jane Harriet
(1822), George Eastman (1827), Robert (1829), Elizabeth or Amelia (1832),
Harriet Garlick (1834), Susan & Sophia (1837), Thursa or Thirza (1838)]
20 March, East
Buckland: Mary Brownscombe, aged 25, is buried.[274] [cf: 1821 Edward Brownscombe, Clerk's Award,
East Buckland, 1827 Edward & William Brownscombe, 1832 Susan Brownscombe
& 1834 Catherine Brownscombe, all buried East Buckland]
2 April,
Withycombe Raleigh?: William Branscombe, son of Mary Ann Branscombe, spinster,
born [bap.1827]. William emigrates to
Australia with his family in 1854, and becomes a tinsmith in Mudgee, where he
is buried.[275]
21 August, St.
Mary, Whitechapel: Henry, son of labourer (E.I.H? = East India H? - Thomas is
called a warehouseman on Henry's 1849 marriage certificate) Thomas & Mary
Elizabeth Branscomb of High Street, baptised. Born 30 June.[276] [becomes a hatter - marries Jane Waterlow
1849 - dies between 1862-1870]
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Thomas Branscomb 19 Jan 34 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Edwin Branscomb 25 Jun 37 St. Dunstan, Stepney
26 August, St.
Sidwell's, Exeter: John Austwick, fourth child of William Branscombe, common
carrier of St. Sidwell's parish, & Eliza (Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter),
christened. (IGI) [Dalby says this middle
name is Answick.[277] Siblings: Louisa (1819), William Dacie (1821),
Selina (1823), Frederick (1827), Rev. George Henry Dacie (1831), Eliza Austwick
(1834). William senior d.1859 Paddington]
1 September,
Tiverton: R. Voysey, glazier & plumber, dies.[278]
22 December,
Newton Abbot: Report of a fire on the premises of Samuel Branscombe, tanner.[279]
Charles Pearse,
plumber of Topsham, has premises in Fore Street, (Exeter/Topsham?).[280] [In 1879, James Crocker sketches a ceiling
and fireplace at #171 Fore Street, Exeter, then the showroom of messrs. James
Pearse & Co.][281]
The repeal of a
law preventing export of machinery and skilled men from England results in the
export of textile machinery to India and North America, forming the basis of
new industry in those countries.
The Bubble Act of 1720 is repealed. There is
a financial crash in Britain - many English banks fail.
Oxford: Approximate
year of birth of Richard Adolphus, third child of Robert Branscomb (b. 1786
London), tinman, & Eliza(beth) (Talboys - m. 1819 Oxford).[282] [Siblings: Frederick Alphonso (1820-1902),
Mary Ann (1822-1896), Elizabeth (1827-1902), Emily (1833-1872), Edward
(1836-1893), James Adolphus (1838)]
@1826
A year of
widespread unemployment and distress. [cf: 1837]
`... over a
thousand power looms were destroyed in the area around Blackburn and Bury.'[283]
26 January: An
order to the chuchwardens and overseers of the poor in St. Sidwell's parish,
Exeter and in Dawlish, for the removal of Edward & Ann Branscombe and their
children from Exeter to Dawlish. The order is signed on behalf of the City of
Exeter by the mayor of Exeter, ?W. Payne?, and a J.P., ?Thomas Froud? It names
Edward, Ann, Ann Starling aged 8 years, Susan aged 6, William aged 5 and Thomas
aged 2. It says Dawlish was place of their last legal settlement. The order is
made under the provisions of the Poor Law.
A second document, dated the same day, refers to the family as paupers.
It notes a suspension of the removal order has been granted because Edward is
ill.
11 February,
Exeter: Second Great Grandfather Edward Branscombe, third son of Edward &
Ann (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth), born. [baptised
Tormoham 1828]
4 March: A second
removal order, signed by the same people. It states Edward is now well enough
to travel. It also includes a bill to Dawlish churchwardens and overseers of
the poor of £12.5.2, being expenses incurred in keeping the family at public
expense in the interim, to be paid to William Smallridge.
9 March, Dawlish:
The minutes of a Select Vestry meeting of the churchwardens and overseers of
the poor contain the following note -
`It is agreed to pay Edward Branscom £3.10.0 in need, and to
allow him and his family 10/- per week while (ill? jaundice?)'
They would
normally have ended up at a workhouse, under the Poor Law [is this true at this
date? cf: 1834], but may have gone to Torquay, to brother William, as Edward
was baptised in Torquay. To qualify for
removal, the Branscombes must have been resident in Exeter for less than one
year, or Edward must not have been in continuous work, or he was self-employed.
Temporary or permanent shifts of settlement required certificates from the parish
of origin. Removals sometimes followed arrival without such certification. The
removal order was always to the last place of legal settlement, not always the
parish of birth. There was a hearing before a magistrate to determine the last
legal place of settlement, and to generate the paperwork.
14 May, Topsham:
George Branscombe born. Goes to sea as a Boy in 1838, awarded seaman's ticket
in 1848.[284] [cf: 1824,1848]
25 June, St.
Marylebone parish church: John, son of John & Mary Branscomb, baptised.[285] [cf: 1814 Maria Mary born]
16 July, Bratton
Fleming: Ann, daughter of Thomas Brownscombe, christened. (IGI)
29 July,
Withycombe Raleigh?: Sarah Ann Branscombe, daughter of Mary Ann, spinster,
born.[286]
29 August,
Kingsbridge: Elizabeth Branscombe of Kingsbridge marries scrivener Francis
Collins of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, by licence.[287] [parents of writer Mortimer Collins, b. 1827
Plymouth? Elizabeth was born in Kingsbridge in 1791, second child of William
& Charlotte (Mortimer - m. 1789 Wolborough). By 1851, Elizabeth was a
widow, as she is registered in the census of that year at Ringmore, Shaldon,
living with her sister Ann. Also cf 1881 census: Patience Collins, aged 39, b.
West Indies, living off investments, is living at Warberry Villa, Warberry
Lane, St. Marychurch, Torquay, in the household of Martha Branscombe (Crouch -
m. 1865, third wife of William Branscombe the shoemaker)]
14 September,
Whimple: Peternella Branscombe marries William Pratt. Both of Whimple.[288] [Petronella? cf: 1806 - probably sixth child
of John & Alice of Whimple]
30 September, Van
Diemen's Land: Thomas Branscombe is a tenant and agent at Kensington.[289] [cf: 1832 a Thomas is owner of a farm at
O'Brian's Bridge]
Governor Arthur is
appointed to sort out the chaos of bushrangers and administrative disorder, in
Van Diemen's Land.
The first
permanent photographic image is produced by Joseph Neipce. [cf: Fox-Talbot 1835].
William Halsey,
bricklayer, lives in Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire.[290] [cf: 1841 census]
`The first really
successful reaper was brought out in 1826 by Patrick Bell of Forfarshire ...
his reaper was pushed by horses, and not pulled behind them ... Before the
introduction of mechanical reaping more labour per unit was required for
harvesting than for any other task on the farm. It was customary to hire extra
labour every year to harvest the crops.'[291]
Year of birth of
Henry Voysey, master bootmaker of Portsmouth, father of Edwin George Voysey,
master shoemaker. [1863-1941: traded in
Gosport & Portsmouth][292]
State-run
lotteries are wound up. Private lotteries were banned in England in 1698. `...
even though they had helped finance such worthy schemes as fresh-water supplies
for London. Politicians were worried about the evils of gambling, and the
Treasury found it hard to control the profits of the private firms contracted
to run the lotteries.'[293]
Redbourne:
Approximate year of birth of George Halsey, third child of third
great-grandparents James & Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [Baptised 1827. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?),
James (1824?), Emmanuel (1827?) John (1829?), Ann (1833?), Thomas (1834?), Emma
(1837?), Charles (1839?), Eliza (1843?)]
Bideford: Edwin
Browncombe born. Married 1853, Gloucestershire, Sarah Martin Mountjoy. [294][cf:
1829 duplicate entry]
@1827
13 January, Topsham:
George Eastman, fourth child of Robert & Amelia (Clare - m. 1821 Topsham)
Branscombe, christened. (IGI) [Father
possibly Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged 40, son of William & Jane (Pain),
described as a fisherman on his marriage, as a rope-maker in 1837 and a mariner
in the 1851 census when he has moved to Littleham. He and Amelia had at least
ten other children: Susanna Mary
(1821), Mary Jane Harriet (1822), William Clare (1824), Robert (1829),
Elizabeth or Amelia (1832), Harriet Garlick (1834), Susan & Sophia (1837),
Thursa or Thirza (1838)]
22 January,
Withycombe Raleigh: Mary Ann Branscombe, daughter of William & Sarah,
marries Josias Knight Beavis, blacksmith. She was his third wife, and his
junior by 31 years. Although the register describes her as a spinster, Mary Ann
had three children baptised on the day of her marriage: George (b.3 November
1819), William (b.2 April 1825), and Sarah Ann (b.29 July 1826). They were all
baptised as Branscombe, although they immediately adopted the name Beavis.
There is no direct evidence Josias was the father of all or any of them, but he
did leave his business to George, which may indicate he was the natural heir.
Josias and Ann produced two children after their marriage, Charlotte and Josias
Knight.[295] [cf: 1841 census]
1 February,
Dawlish: Joseph Branscombe marries Hannah Williams.[296] [Master mariner in the merchant service,
yeoman farmer & owner of houses. b. 1784 Dawlish, son of John & Agnes
(Pike - m. 1781 Dawlish). Poss siblings: John (1782-1795), Anne (1787-1787),
Sarah (1790-1849), Catherine (1793-1855), John (1796), Anne (1798), Captn.
William (1803)? Hannah dies, Dawlish, 1831. Joseph dies, Dawlish, 1866]
19 February,
Bampton: James Branscombe, son of William [d.1828] dies, aged 29.[297] [possibly Chelmsford tea-dealer, husband of
Susan & father of Susan, brother of Eliza, Sarah, Francis [draper], Thomas,
William, Robert, John [tea-dealer], & Richard [lime-merchant/farmer?]
25 February,
Torquay?: Elizabeth Webber Branscombe born. [daughter of William, bootmaker of Torquay?]
15 March, East
Buckland: William Brownscombe aged 30 is buried.[298] [cf: 17 December this year - Edward
Brownscombe, aged 68, buried, East Buckland. Also cf: 1821 Edward Brownscombe,
Clerk's Award, East Buckland. Also 1825, Mary Brownscombe, 1832 Susan
Brownscombe & 1834 Catherine Brownscombe, both buried East Buckland]
22 March, Hobart,
Tasmania: Thomas Branscombe marries Hannah Regan.[299] [poss second marriage for Thomas, as Hannah
is probably aged about 38 or 41, if she is the same Hannah Branscombe who dies
in Hobart in 1873, aged 84 or 87]
25 March,
Withycombe Raleigh: Sarah Ann Branscombe, daughter of John, carpenter, &
Elizabeth, baptised.[300]
(16/18?) May,
Wayne County, Kentucky: (Hiram/Henry?) Branscomb marries Elizabeth Burris.[301]
29 June, Plymouth:
Poet & novelist Mortimer Collins born, son of a Plymouth solicitor. [probably the first child of Francis &
Elizabeth (Branscombe - m. 1826 Kingsbridge)]
2 August,
Wolborough, Newton Abbot: Samuel Branscombe of Highweek marries Mary Hannaford of
Wolborough, by licence.[302] [b. 1805 Newton Bushel, only child of Samuel
(b. 1780 Highweek - d. 1805 in Highweek) & ? (poss Mary Perrett - m. 1803
Paignton?). Samuel & Mary become parents of Samuel Hannaford Branscombe
(bp. 1828 Newton Bushel), draper of Northants. Samuel d.1858, Mary d.1857]
2 August, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Isaac Branscomb marries Ruth Gregory.[303]
23 August, Holy
Trinity, Exeter: Harriet Underhill (Branscombe?), daughter of labourer Thomas
(Branscombe?) & Mary Underhill of Magdelen Street, baptised privately.
Married Andrew Badgery, 29 August 1849 as Harriet Underhill Branscombe, giving
her father as Thomas Branscombe, farmer. But the birth certificates of her 9
children gave her maiden name as Underhill. She was also unsure of her birthplace.
In 1851 it is St. David's, Exeter; in 1861/71 Ide; in 1881 Exeter. Her mother,
Mary, describes herself as unmarried in all censuses except 1871, when she says
she is a widow. She is described as the daughter, not the daughter-in-law of
William & Joanna. Each of her three other children named a different
father.[304] [siblings of Harriet: Anna Maria (b. 1829),
William Thomas (bp. 1834), John (b. 1838, d.1858)]
11 September, St.
Andrew's, Plymouth: Henry Branscombe, tanner of Kingsbridge, marries Mary Crouch
of St. Andrew's, by licence, with consent of (Mary's?) parents.[305] [she was underage? Henry may have been born
in 1806, Kingsbridge, the fifth child of tanner William Branscombe &
Charlotte (Mortimer - m. 1789 Wolborough)? Poss children: Elizabeth (1830-1835),
Mary Crouch (1835-1853), Elizabeth (1837)]
11 September, St.
Sidwell's, Exeter: Frederick Branscombe, fifth child of William Branscombe,
gentleman of St. Sidwell's parish, & Eliza (Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter),
christened. [William is described as an
accomptant in 1821 and a common carrier in 1823 & 1825. This Frederick is
the only candidate so far for Frederick George Branscombe, house decorator/oil
& colorman of Chelsea & Mayfair, m. 1850 Elizabeth ? Siblings: Louisa
(1819), William Dacie (1821), Selina (1823), John Austwick (1825), Rev. George
Henry Dacie (1831), Eliza Austwick (1834)]]
30 September,
Sundon [nr. Dunstable], Bedfordshire: Elizabeth Ann Brancom baptised, daughter
of Thomas & Mary. (IGI)
4 October, St.
Peter's, Exeter: Betty Branscombe marries Henry Rowe. Both of Cathedral Close.[306] [George Rowe, artist, born 1796 - spent some
time on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia - any relation?][307]
6 December,
Bampton: William Branscombe, yeoman, makes his will. [proved 4 September 1828][308]
16 December, St.
Aldate's, Oxford: William Branscombe is buried, aged 66.[309] [cf: 1824 St. Aldate's, Ann Branscomb buried,
aged 75. William poss bp. 1762 Clyst St. George, son of William and Elizabeth
Branscomb, poss William & Elizabeth (Chapple - m. 1757 Clyst?). This may
have been their only son and Elizabeth may have died in childbirth?]
17 December, East
Buckland: Edward Brownscombe, aged 68, is buried.[310] [poss will proved in Barnstaple Archdeaconry,
25 January 1829? cf: 15 March this year - William Brownscombe, aged 30, buried,
East Buckland. Also cf: 1821 Edward
Brownscombe, Clerk's Award, East Buckland. And cf: 1825, Mary Brownscombe, 1832
Susan Brownscombe & 1834 Catherine Brownscombe, both buried East Buckland]
Newton Abbot:
Approximate year of birth of Sarah Branscombe, who is registered as an
unmarried fund-holder and head of household at 4 Mount Pleasant, Wolborough, in
the 1881 census. This may be the daughter of John Branscombe of Newton Bushel.
Both are registered in the Mecklenburgh Square household of photographer
Richard Beard, in 1851. Richard is married to John's sister and Sarah is
described as a neice, which could mean she is the daughter of John, who is a
widower by this time, or his brothers Samuel, Richard or Philip. It may be the
same Sarah who dies a spinster at 9 Mount Pleasant, Wolborough, in 1899, aged
71.
Approximate year
of birth of Ann Branscombe, who is a 14 year-old female servant in the
household of tailor William Clay of Littleham, in the 1841 census.
St. Aldate's,
Oxford: Approximate year of birth of Elizabeth, fourth child of Robert
Branscomb (b. 1786 London), tinman, & Eliza(beth) (Talboys - m. 1819
Oxford). [Elizabeth junior poss living in
Abingdon and working as a music teacher, in the 1851 census for North &
South Hinksey. Lived in Park Lane, Aston when she was married, in 1868, in Birmingham, to Charles Hunt. According to a
descendent, she later ran a school for young ladies. When teaching piano, she
used to tap the child's knuckles with a ruler, every time there was a wrong
note. When Queen Victoria died, she burst into tears and said, "Oh, the
dear Queen - how I shall miss her!". She died 14 May 1902.[311] Siblings: Frederick Alphonso (1820-1902), Mary
Ann (1822-1896), Richard Adolphus (1825), Emily (1833-1872), Edward (1836-1893),
James Adolphus (1838)][312]
Redbourne:
Approximate year of birth of Emmanuel Halsey, fourth child of third
great-grandparents James & Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [Baptised 1827. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?),
James (1824?), George (1826?), John (1829?), Ann (1833?), Thomas (1834?), Emma
(1837?), Charles (1839?), Eliza (1843?)]
Morchard Bishop:
Approximate year of birth of Eliza Branscombe, registered in the 1851 census a
24 year old unmarried assistant in a linen drapers in Milsom Street, Bath.
@1828
January, Van
Diemen's Land: Thomas Branscombe granted land in Buckingham County.
Sunday, 20
January, Carbonear, Newfoundland: Mr. William Branscombe marries Margaret,
daughter of the late Mr. James Kennedy of Carbonear. Married by the Rev. Mr.
Devereaux.[313] [according to the Summers documents, James
Kennedy had two sons and five daughters. William was described as a
"planter and landholder" of St. Johns. In 1829, premises in St. Johns
owned by him or his father William, were leased for £140 a year, which would
indicate a large establishment. A William may, in the 1830s, have been involved
in the mercantile firm of William Wilking Bulley and Thomas Chancey, in
Conception Bay. A William was a prominent member of St. Johns
"society" until the 1850s] [314]
12 March,
Edmonton: Richard Branscombe born. Is apprenticed to the sea in 1845. In that
year, his address is given as 2 Ely Place, Edmonton.[315] [cf: 1845]
13 March: Branscombe senior, tanner of Gittisham/Kingsbridge/Plymouth, discharged.[316] [bankrupt? - cf: 1816 William Branscombe
junior bankrupt in Plymouth - Samuel Branscombe, tanner of Newton Abbot 1825.
Also 1848 - Agnes, widow of William Branscombe junior of Kingsbridge, dies in
Stoke Damerel]
11 April, Bampton:
William Branscombe, yeoman farmer, dies aged 73. Executors are John Branscombe
of 88 Pall Mall, tea-dealer and Richard Branscombe of Bampton, yeoman [sons].
Proved 4 September 1828, Exeter. Effects under £600. Testator confirms marriage
bond to wife Sarah Branscombe [d.1837] for £200 and gives her a further sum of
£400. His daughters Sarah Greenaway and Eliza get £150. His farmer son William
Branscombe [d.1835 - husband of Grace -?,
father of John Hinam, draper] gets an annuity of £5 per annum out of lands
in Birch Down, Bampton. Other sons mentioned are Thomas, Richard [above],
Robert and Francis [draper, d.1863
Marylebone]. Also mentioned is Susan Branscombe, daughter of James
Branscombe, son of testator [d.1827]. The residue of the estate to sons Richard
and John Branscombe [above]. Will made and signed 6 December 1827. Witnesses
John Partridge of Tiverton, Thomas Tarrant and John Edwards.[317]
21 April Tormoham,
Torquay?: Joanna, sixth child of Edward & Ann (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth)
Branscombe [direct ancestors], born. She is baptised privately on 3 May,
possibly because she was not expected to live. [she died, aged 5, in 1833]
25 April, Newton
Bushel: Samuel Hannaford Branscombe, son of Samuel [b.Newton Bushel 1805] & Mary Hannaford [b.Kingsbridge 1808, m. 1827 Wolborough], is born.[318] [1st m. 1861, 2nd m. 1865. d.1874 Chelveston,
Northants., a draper]
8 June, Tormoham,
Torquay: A triple Branscombe baptism. Joanna [6
weeks old - d.1833], is baptised for the second time, also Thomas Fox, aged 4 [b. 2 Oct 1823 Exeter], and
second great- grandfather Edward, aged 2, children of third great-grandparents
Edward & Ann (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth).
7 July,
Greensville County, Virginia: Enoch Branscom marries Margaret Richardson.[319]
18 July, All
Saints, Highweek: John Branscombe buried, aged 68.[320] [husband of Mary, d.1834]
19 July, St.
George's, Hanover Square: George Ley Branscombe marries Mary Davis.[321] [George Ley bp. 1808 St. Austell, Cornwall,
son of William & Elizabeth Branscombe, poss. William, yeoman m. 1807 Stoke
Damarel, Elizabeth Steer?]
12 October, Sion
Chapel, Union Street, (Lady Huntingdon's)-Nc, Mile End Old Town: Eliza,
daughter of Thomas & Mary Elizabeth Branscomb, baptised.[322] [m. 1850 John Scarlett Gale, wood-turner]
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Thomas Branscomb 19 Jan 34 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Edwin Branscomb 25 Jun 37 St. Dunstan, Stepney
24 October, St.
Luke's, Old Street, Finsbury: Hellen, daughter of John & Mary Branscomb,
baptised.[323] [cf: 1818 birth of brother John, 1840 - John
& Emma Scales marry]
Plumbers working
for rouse, Richard Rouse at the Corn Market, Exeter, in 1828 were paid 3s a day. In
general therefore, skilled craftsmen were paid 18s to 22s 4d a week, provided
employment lasted the full six days.'[324]
Stanton, Suffolk:
Approximate year of birth of Eliza(beth), wife of Frederick George Branscombe.
Married 1850 St. George Hanover Square district. Mother of Elizabeth (b. about
1851 Chelsea), George William (b. about 1855, oil & colorman), &
Horatio Arthur (b. about 1857 entered New College Oxford 1875, married 1878
Holborn, poss registered in Liverpool 1905 as a Professor of Music (?), d.1941
north Wales). Frederick George was a house decorator in Chelsea, in 1861-2. cf:
1861 census for Chelsea. He became an oil & colorman in Mayfair. Eliza(beth)
senior took over the business after his death in 1879 at 18 Shepherd's Market.
She died 1884 Mayfair.
@1829
25 January, East
Buckland: The will of Edward Brownscombe is proved in the Court of the
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.[325]
20 January, St.
John's, Newfoundland: `Much and deservedly respected, Mr. William Branscombe, a
native of this town, aged 78. Friends of the family are requested to attend his
funeral, which takes place on the 25th at one o'clock.'[326] [b. circa 1751]
11 March, St.
Ann's, Blackfriars: Maria Mary, daughter of John & Mary Branscomb,
baptised.[327] [adult christening - born 25 February 1814 -
marries Rusk 1841? Poss daughter of John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss siblings 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)]
14 April, St.
John's, Newfoundland: Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Branscombe, dies
aged 23. Funeral on the 18th at 11 o'clock.[328] [b. circa 1806]
24 April, Topsham:
Robert Branscombe, fifth child of mariner Robert & Amelia (Clare - m. 1821
Topsham), baptised. (IGI) [possibly
Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged 40, son of William & Jane (Pain),
described as a fisherman on his marriage, as a rope-maker in 1837 and a mariner
in the 1851 census when he has moved to Littleham. He and Amelia had at least
ten other children: Susanna Mary
(1821), Mary Jane Harriet (1822), William Clare (1824), George Eastman (1827),
Elizabeth or Amelia (1832), Harriet Garlick (1834), Susan & Sophia (1837),
Thursa or Thirza (1838). Robert junior apprenticed to sea 1844]
13 May, Highweek:
Samuel Branscombe marries Mary Eales by licence. Both of Highweek.[329]
14 May, Newton
Abbott: Advertisement for Branscombe, milliner.[330]
2 June, Exmouth:
Notice that the John & Jane will
ply weekly to the Channel Isles from Topsham, for particulars to Captain
Michael Perriam opposite the Dolphin,
Exmouth.[331]
4 July, Grayson County,
Virginia: Frances Branscom marries Alfred O'Neal.[332]
31 July: Johanna
Branscombe born, daughter of William & ?
13 August,
Tormoham, Torquay: Elizabeth Jane Sparkes, seventh child of Edward & Ann Branscombe [direct ancestors], born.
Baptised, 6 September (3 weeks). [cf:
William Sparks, an officer of the Exeter Relief Society - a neighbour, and on
friendly terms with Edward and his family at the time of his drowning in 1843.
Perhaps William showed the Branscombes some kindness in pursuit of his duties,
at the time of their removal from Exeter in 1826? Perhaps they therefore called
their next child after him?]
22 October, St.
Marylebone parish church Charlotte Branscomb, daughter of ? Branscomb &
Charlotte Singleton, baptised.[1]
December, Exeter:
Anna Maria, illegitimate daughter of Mary Underhill of Magdalen Street, born.
Baptised 24 January 1841. Married in 1866, giving her father as Thomas
Underhill, deceased, clerk, but father possibly Thomas Branscombe, labourer?
[334] [siblings: Harriet (bp. 1827), William Thomas
(bp. 1834), John (b. 1838, d.1858)]
Hobart; is
described as having rough streets and squalid houses. Drunkenness is said to be
common; murder and robbery commonplace. There were chain gangs in the streets,
two or three hundred yards long, in heavy irons. However a visitor from
England, a Mrs. Bessie Fenton, recounts a visit to a cottage in
Macquarie Street that is:
`... within a little compound of shrubs and flowers, with a
small, cheerful drawing-room, being evidence of the high tone of its
occupants.'
The London
Metropolitan Police are formed.
Western Australia's first colonists arrive at the on board the Parmelia & Caroline. On board the Caroline, Henshaw, fisherman, who will become the
second husband of Sarah Branscombe, in 1836.[335]
John & Henry
Branscombe are assessed for tax on their stock-in-trade [tannery] at
Kingsbridge at 5s [to 1832]. They have taken over the business established by
their father William in 1792. It only lasted another two years. [defrauded?][336] [cf: 1831]
Redbourne:
Approximate year of birth of second great-grandfather John Halsey, fifth child
of third great-grandparents James and Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [m. 1850 Paddington to Martha Hiller. d.
ABOUT 1872. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?), James (1824?), George (1826?),
Emmanuel (1827?), Ann (1833?), Thomas (1834?), Emma (1837?), Charles (1839?),
Eliza (1843?)]
Exmouth: The
largest part of Bicton Street was built during this year.[337]
Devonshire: Edwin
Branscombe born. Marries Sarah Mountjoy in Gloucestershire. Children: William
James (b. 1857 Fryer’s Creek, Victoria, Australia).[338] [duplicate entry lists Edwin Browncome, b.
1826 Bideford, married Sarah Martin Mountjoy in Gloucestershire, 1853. Also
lists two more children: Mary Ann Brownscome (b. 1858 Forest Creek, Victoria),
Edwin Brownscombe (b. 1861 Inglewood, Victoria]
Plymouth: A
pre-1830 edition of Pigot’s directory lists the following:
Wm. Branscombe,
tanner, Frankfort Street.
Wm. Branscombe,
glue manufacturer, Frankfort Street.
@1830
24 January,
Dunchideock: Thomas Branscombe marries Mary Jackman. Both of St. Thomas,
Exeter.[339] [poss children baptised in St. Thomas: Thomas
& William (1833), Mary (1835), Eleanor (1837)]
25 January,
Grayson County, Virginia: Isaac Branscom marries Anne Buman.[340]
18 March Newton
Bushel?: Letter from Sam Branscombe (jun?), tanner, to Sir Thomas Acland M.P.,
regarding a case Acland `mentioned in the House on Monday', of Sam's workers
tanning two aprons for their own use, and thereby putting Sam `in jeopardy'.
Sam refers to a court appearance connected with the matter, set down for
Teignmouth, 29 March 1830.[341] [cf: 1825 Samuel Branscombe, tanner of Newton
Abbot]
18 April, Sion
Chapel, Union Street (Lady Huntingdon's - non-conformist), Mile End Old Town:
Matilda, daughter of Thomas & Mary Elizabeth Branscomb, baptised.[342] [m. 1853 Bethnal Green?]
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Thomas Branscomb 19 Jan 34 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Edwin Branscomb 25 Jun 37 St. Dunstan, Stepney
The Alfred or West of England Journal and General Advertiser
8 June 1830
WRESTLING
At Blue Ball
Competitors
John Bastin, Exmouth
24 years, 5 feet 8 inches, 8 score & 6 lbs
James Cann, Exeter
38 years, 5 feet 10 inches, 8 score
Richard Dennis, Sowton (formerly of Littleham)
30 years, 5 feet 10 inches, 8 score & 4 lbs
WRESTLING - ST.THOMAS - A.CANN
September:
Approximate year and month of the birth of Elizabeth, daughter of John
Branscombe and Mary (Crouch - m. ? Plymouth). Buried at Kingsbridge 4 November
1835. [Parents poss Henry Branscombe (b.
1806 Kingsbridge, 5th child of tanner William Branscombe & Charlotte
(Mortimer - m. 1789 Wolborough)? Henry m. 1827 Plymouth, Mary Crouch. Poss
siblings: Elizabeth (1837), Mary Crouch (1835-1853). Also cf: Martha Crouch,
third wife of William Branscombe, shoemaker of Torquay, b. Penshurst, Kent]
3 November,
Greensville County, Virginia: Edmund Branscom marries Martha R. Caudle.[343]
24 November, St.
Mary Somerset, London: Elizabeth Branscomb of Upper Thames Street, buried, aged 54.[344] [cf: 1834 Richard Branscombe, wholesale
ironmonger of 195 Upper Thames Street]
25 December, St.
Gregory's, Dawlish: Lewis Gregory marries Mary Ann Branscombe. (IGI) [there appears to be some kind of family
connection here, other than the name of the bride, but we don't yet know what
that is. A Lewis Gregory of Bartholomew Street was the informant of the death
of Ann Branscombe, first wife of William, shoemaker of Torquay, in 1849. Ann
died in Bartholomew Street. Also cf: 1841 census Bartholomew Street, Exeter -
Lewis Gregory (b. Exeter, circa 1796-1801) husband of Mary, (not b. Exeter,
circa 1801-6. Mary poss bp. 1801, St. Andrew's, Holborn, daughter of William
& Sarah Branscombe of Grays Inn Lane? Also cf: 1822 Bere Ferrers, John
Gregory m. Elizabeth Branscumbe]
Approximate year
of birth in Burford, Oxfordshire, of Henry Hambridge. In the 1851 census he is
recorded as a patient at St. George's Hospital, Hanover Square.
Highweek:
Elizabeth Branscombe, first child of tanner Samuel & Mary (Eales - m.
1829), born. [remained a spinster. cf:
1831 - sibling Anna]
`In the 1830s,
amid the building that was going on over the western fringe of London, main
drainage was not yet common; it was to be another 30 years before Joseph
Bazalgette could build London's full sewerage system.'[345]
`By a great effort
Manchester had built thirty-two miles of sewers by 1830, but this still left
nearly half the town without. Things were much worse in Liverpool where there
were only eleven miles of sewers, and these were in the wealthiest areas that
needed them least.'[346]
William
Branscombe, gentleman of St. Sidwell Street, Mrs. Branscombe of Heavitree &
Elizabeth Branscombe, butcher of (85/86?) Fore Street. [directories] [347]
Reign of King
George IV ends (since 1820). William IV succeeds to the throne (to 1837).
As late as 1830,
when the cotton industry might truly be said to have lived in a
turmoil of invention for sixty years, there were still, in England and , at least 200,000 hand-looms working in
cotton.
George Augustus Robinson rounds up the last Tasmanians, and takes them to Flinders Island.
1830's:
Commencement of Britain's main railway lines.
410-12 Macquarie Street, South Hobart built?
`... mounting
rural discontent in the early nineteenth century produced widespread riots in
southern England in 1830 - where `night after night [the] blazing sky told that
Captain Swing had been at work'- many men found themselves condemned even more
arbitrarily to imprisonment, transportation or death.'[1]
Branscombe: Trafalgar House (now Barnells) built by Captain Yule, R.N.,
into whose arms, it is said, Nelson fell, at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Kingsbridge:
Approximate year of birth of William Branscombe, who marries Emma Bigwood in
Bristol, 1860. Children: Henry James (1862 St. Kilda, Melbourne), Mary
Elizabeth (1863 Richmond, Victoria), William Harcourt (1873 Bristol), John
Ernest Mackay (1879 Barton K district). William d.1912 Eastbourne, Emma d.1927
Herne Bay, Kent, William Harcourt d.1901 Ashanti. William, aged 72, is
registered in Swansea in the 1901 census, possibly with Emma, John and Mary.
PIGOT’S DIRECTORY
OF DEVON (pre-1830?)
Branscombe tanner Fore Street, Kingsbridge
[poss William Branscombe (m. Charlotte
Mortimer 1789 Wolborough) or Henry, their son?]
Branscombe, James miller Elmore Street, Tiverton
[poss James, nephew of Sir James of Holborn.
James the miller dies intestate, in 1833]
Branscombe, John linen-draper East Street, Newton Abbot
[poss bp. 1789 Highweek, firstborn child of John
& Mary (Mountstephen - m. 1787 Wolborough). John junior m. 1824 Wolborough,
Sarah Alsop of Wolborough. They may have had a child called Sarah, who is born
about 1827. She is recorded living with John in the household of Richard Beard,
photographer husband of John's sister Elizabeth, in the 1851 census]
Branscombe, Samuel fellmonger Newton Bushel, Newton Abbot
Branscombe, Samuel tanner Newton Bushel, Newton Abbot
[poss Samuels junior &
senior. Samuel junior b. circa 1802. Married 1829 Highweek, Mary Eales. Samuel
senior poss bp. 1791 Highweek, second child of John & Mary (Mountstephen -
m. 1787) poss siblings: John (1789), Richard (1793), Philip (1796), Elizabeth (1797).
Samuel and Mary have nine children. Mary dies 1845-51, Samuel dies 1874 in
Highweek]
Branscombe,
William glue manufacturer Frankfort Street, Plymouth
Branscombe,
William tanner Frankfort Street,
Plymouth
[poss William, b. 1790 Kingsbridge, first
child of William bp. 1765 Wolborough Street Salem Chapel (independent) son of
Samuel & Elizabeth (Shapley - m. 1758 Wolborough), m. 1789 Charlotte
Mortimer in Wolborough? The couple, William junior may have moved to
Kingsbridge in 1791, where Samuel becomes a tanner. Poss formerly an
inn-keeper?]
PIGOT’S DIRECTORY
OF DEVON 1830
Branscombe, Henry corn merchant Fore Street, Kingsbridge
Branscombe, Henry tanner & fellmonger Fore Street, Kingsbridge
Branscombe, Henry carrier from Dodbroke to
Dartmouth every Saturday
Year of birth of
Hiram Branscum. Married Mary A. Black. Children include: John James (aka Little Jim). Hiram d. 1895, Wayne
County, Kentucky. USA.[349]
Tasmania:
Thomas Branscombe subscribes to the New Town Church appeal. [Launceston
Examiner] [350]
Ottery
St Mary: William Branscombe, shopkeeper, Sandhill Street. [351]
@1831
3 January, St.
Sepulchre, London (also known as Holy Sepulchre without Newgate): Emma,
daughter of John (deceased) & Mary Branscomb of 8 West Street, Smithfield,
baptised. Said to be thirteen years of age at baptism.[352] [cf: 1818 for poss. birth, 1846 for poss.
marriage]
8/12? January,
Dawlish: Hannah [Williams], wife of Captain Joseph Branscombe [m. 1827], dies, aged
42. Buried at .
SACRED
to the memory of
HANNAH the wife of
JOSEPH BRANSCOMBE
who departed this life
January 8th 1831
aged 42 years
22 February, East
Stonehouse, Plymouth: John Branscombe, labourer, marries Sarah Allen. Both of
East Stonehouse.[353] [Bishop's transcript]
6 April, St.
Sidwell's, Exeter: George Henry Dacie & Eliza (Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter), christened.
(IGI) [Sixth child of William, gentleman,
accountant & common carrier of St. Sidwell's. William d.1859 - George
becomes a Reverend - cf: 1855. Siblings: Louisa (1819), William Dacie (1821),
Selina (1823), John Austwick (1825), Frederick (1827), Eliza Austwick (1834)]
7 September,
Tormoham or Dawlish: Adelaide Salome Branscombe, daughter of William the
shoemaker & Ann, born. [m. Alfred Nye
1850]
30 September,
Stoke Damerel: Charlotte Branscombe marries draper Edward Granville. Both of this parish.[354] [bp. 1794, Kingsbridge, fourth child of
William Branscombe & Charlotte (Mortimer - m. 1789 Wolborough)? Siblings:
William (1790 Wolborough), Elizabeth (1791), Ann (1792), Henry (1806 -
Kingsbridge?), John (1808). There was also a
seventh child, Catherine, mentioned as a sister in the 1851 will of Ann,
as yet unaccounted for]
October: Asiatic
cholera first reaches Britain.
11 October, The Alfred or West of England Journal,
Exmouth: `The fishing boat we mentioned in our last as being swamped while
boming over the bar at Topsham belonged to Mr. Beavis of Exmouth. Four men
perished, George Andrews leaving a widow and 7 children, Joseph Beavis a widow
and a child, Thomas Parker a widow and child and George Perriam who was
unmarried. Andrews belonged to Topsham and the other 3 to Exmouth.'[355]
6 November,
Grayson County, Virginia: Rhody Branscom marries Nathan Thompson.[356]
28 December,
Fremantle, Western Australia: Sarah Branscombe, spinster, & Thomas
George Rees/Reece (b. 1801 - d.1834) arrive ex-London per the Egyptian.[357] [Sarah poss baptised 25 December 1805, Ottery
St. Mary, daughter of Charles & Sarah Branscombe. 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, Lydia (1808/1811?) - bp. Ottery St. Mary]
An account of the
previous year's (?) voyage to the settlement from London, by the same ship and under the same
captain (W. ) is published in Durack's book To Be Heirs Forever.[358]
`The settlers who
arrived at the Swan River Colony after 1 June 1829 confronted an
inhospitable environment. Those two hundred or more who landed from the pioneer
ships Parmelia [June 2 1829] and Sulphur [December 25, 1830] spent the first
three months in makeshift huts of limestone, canvas and thatched bushes built
on the lee side of swan River, W.A.Garden Island. When land was eventually allocated, the
settlers were too busy with survival to be concerned about the
australiaAborigines, and there are few records of their first
encounters.'[359]
2 December, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Lucinda Branscomb marries Marcum Vaughan. [360]
North Molton: John
Brownscombe marries Ann Gibbs. [361]
Paddington Green: Siddons dies.
The Helene of Russia visits Lower House, Branscombe. With about 100 servants,
she took up residence in Sidmouth for some months.
New London Bridge opens to traffic. It cost £1,458,311.
`By 1830-31, a
number of tradespeople were occupying premises in the Strand [Dawlish],
including:
No 16 Daniel Litton jun., Chemist & Druggist
(now #26-7
Brunswick Place)[362]
Henry & John
Branscombe are owners and occupiers of estates or property in Kingsbridge
assessed for land tax at £1.1.8d, or £9 if rented [to 1832]
[363]
James Pearce dies
at Venbridge Farm, Kenton, aged 84. The farm is the property of Henry Anning
& Frances (Pearce).[364] [cf: 1809]
William Bransome
of Meppershall, Bedfordshire - probate record.[365]
Ashton
[nr.Doddiscombsleigh, Exeter]: Approximate year of birth of Thomas Branscombe,
recorded as a general carrier's clerk lodging in the household of coach-driver
Peter Jones, in Plymouth St. Andrew, in the 1851 census. The 1881 census shows
a Thomas Branscombe, aged 50, born in Ashton, living with his family in
Islington. He is a clerk. His wife, Mary A., 47, a milliner, was born in High
Laver, Essex. Their three children were born in Brixton and Highbury. This is
possibly Mary Ann Nottage, who marries a Thomas Branscombe in Lambeth, 1863.
Calstock,
Cornwall?: Possible date and place of marriage between Elizabeth -? of Calstock
& John Branscombe, pilot and waterman of Bere Alston. They are recorded in
the 1851 and 1881 census living in Prospect Place, Plymouth St. Andrew. Their
son, John Oliver, is born in Calstock in 1832.
Highweek: Anna,
second child of tanner Samuel & Mary (Eales - m. 1829 Highweek), is born.[366] [d.1836] [cf:
1829,1832 for siblings]
`In the sixty
years before 1831, Manchester increased its size six times.'[367]
EXETER POCKET JOURNAL 1831
Eliz Branscombe, butcher, 85 Fore Street
[this entry repeated every year from
1830-1837 but not after]
The Earldom of
Devon, held dormant since 1556 by seven successive descendants of Edward
Courtenay, owners of Powderham Castle, is recovered by William, Viscount
Courtenay of Powderham.[368] [There were another five earls between 1831
and 1892]
@1832
24 January,
Kingsbridge: Elizabeth Branscombe, widow,
marries William Roberts, widower, by licence. Both of this parish.[369]
11 February,
Topsham: Elizabeth?/Amelia? Branscombe, daughter of Robert & Amelia (Clare
- m. 1821 Topsham) christened. (IGI) [possibly
sixth child of mariner Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged 40, son of William
& Jane (Pain), described as a fisherman on his marriage, as a rope-maker in
1837 and a mariner in the 1851 census when he has moved to Littleham. He and
Amelia had at least ten other children:
Susanna Mary (1821), Mary Jane Harriet (1822), William Clare (1824), George
Eastman (1827), Robert (1829), Harriet Garlick (1834), Susan & Sophia
(1837), Thursa or Thirza (1838)]
2 April, Van
Diemen's Land: Henry Branscombe, steward,
departs on the James Pattison
for Madras & Calcutta.[370]
19
May, Hobart: Thomas Branscomb sworn in as a juror in the case of Molloy vs
Sorrell, Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, Justice Pedder presiding.
5 June, Dulverton:
Frederick Branscombe born. Seaman's ticket issued in 1849.[371] [poss the subject of a newspaper appeal for
next of kin, in 1858? Poss married Elizabeth ? Liverpool, 1862? Poss
children: Matilda (1863-1863), Frederick
John (1865), Elizabeth (1866), Ellen (1869)? Poss d.1869 W Derby? ]
3 July, St.
Andrew's, Plymouth: Richard Dare marries Harriet Branscombe. Both of this
parish.[372]
20 September, East
Buckland: Susan Brownscombe aged 28 is buried.[373] [cf: 1821 Edward Brownscombe, Clerk's Award,
East Buckland, 1825 Mary Brownscombe, 1827 Edward & William Brownscombe,
1834 Catherine Brownscombe, all buried East Buckland]
21 September: Sir
Walter Scott dies.
20 October,
Barnstaple: The will of Susanna Brownscombe is proved in the Court of the
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.[374]
23 November, Van
Diemen's Land: Thomas Branscombe is the owner of a farm at O'Brian's Bridge.[375] [cf: 1826 - a Thomas is a tenant and agent at
Kensington]
17 December,
Tormoham, Torquay: Robert John, eighth and last child of third
great-grandparents Edward Branscombe & Ann ( - m. 1817, Dartmouth), born. [bp. 27 Jan, Tormoham. Cf: 1901 census for St
Pancras. Poss d.1911 Pancras?]
Approximate year
of marriage of Walter Branscomb to Jane ? [Walter
James, b. 1797 Holborn, son of James & Sarah (Jackson). Jane dies before
1861 census, Walter James d.1865, Newington. Children: Sarah Marianna (1833),
Walter James (1836), (Samuel ABOUT 1837?), James Alexander (1838), Marianna
Ursula (1839), Alexander Charles (1846). Descendant Joan Margaret Lubbock says
Jane’s maiden name was Cowling]
There are two
weekly coaches between Hobart and Launceston. The one-way fare is £5.
There are theatres
operating in Sydney and Hobart.
The Reform Act.
Registers of parliamentary voters first began to be systematically kept. Before
this, constituancies were unequal, and electoral qualifications varied from
district to district. Some areas of the country were entirely unrepresented in
Parliament, whereas ancient boroughs returned two M.P. s to the House of
Commons, even those that had dwindled in size and importance, the so-called Rotten Boroughs. The grouping of
boroughs gave a preponderance of representatives to the south and east of the
country, at the expense of the new industrial towns of the midlands and the
north, and the boroughs returned approximately three times as many M.P. s as
the counties. Most people recognized that reform of parliament was of paramount
importance, since much-needed reforms in other administrative institutions,
such as the church, the universities and the law courts, was unlikely to come
about until its inception. The electoral system as it stood gave the landed
aristocracy an unacceptable hold over the House of Commons, which needed a
wider basis for its authority. The obvious remedy lay in an extension of the
franchise and the redistribution of seats.
The Act created a
uniform franchise in the boroughs, consisting of owners and occupiers of
property worth £10 in annual value. Franchise in the counties was given to £10
copyholders and £50 leaseholders, while the long-standing rights of 40s.
freeholders were upheld. This added about 217,000 voters to an electorate of
435,000 in England and Wales. Prior to the Act, Devon had returned 26 MPs - 2
county members, 2 for the city and county of Exeter, and 2 each for the
boroughs of Ashburton, Barnstaple, Beer, Alston, Dartmouth, Honiton,
Okehampton, Plymouth, Plympton, Tavistock, Tiverton and Totnes. After the Act,
the number of MPs was cut to 22, and split the county into two divisions, North
and South, each returning 2 MPs. The boroughs of Beer, Alston, Okehampton and
Plympton were disenfranchised. Ashburton and Dartmouth each lost 1 MP, and 2
members were given to the new borough of Devonport ... Before 1832 there were
no comprehensive lists of voters; the electorate was small in most boroughs,
while in the counties, most voters could prove their qualification by producing
receipts for payment of land tax ... the increased franchise made a list
necessary, and the duty of compilation was given to the overseers of the poor.
Annual lists of eligible voters were to be deposited with the Clerk of the
Peace, who produced printed registers from them.'[376]
The decade of
political frenzy that accompanied the Reform Acts of 1831 and 1832 fostered an
increasing interest in science. Debates developed on such themes as `The
decline of science in England', and whether the Royal Society had too dominant
a role in leading English science. The computer pioneer Charles Babbage played
an active part in leading these debates.
The British
Association for the Advancement of Science came into existence in 1831 as a
rival to the Royal Society, but it differed by being both provincial and
itinerant.[377]
Carbonear,
Newfoundland: (Captain) George Branscombe born.[378] [cf: 1867, receives captain’s ticket,
Greenock. Poss d.1874?]
Great cholera
epidemic, Exeter.
Dawlish: `When
cholera was raging all over Devon, the Select Vestry took precautions about a
Cholera Hospital and burial gound, but there does not appear to have been a
single case in the parish, though many in the neigbouring parishes.'[379]
The Western
Australia census mentions Sarah Branscombe [arrived Fremantle 1831], and
describes her as a servant. Her daughter, Elizabeth, is born in September of
this year. She is married in 1833.[380]
Kingswear:
Approximate year of birth of Sarah Hannaford, recorded as an unmarried servant
imprisoned in Devon County prison, Exeter, in the 1851 census.
Highweek: Emily
Branscombe, daughter of Samuel & Mary (Eales - m. 1829 Highweek), born.[381] [m. 1854? to ? Cooke, d.1872]
Calstock,
Cornwall: Approximate year of birth of John Oliver, son of pilot & waterman
John & Sarah (- ?, m. 1831 Calstock?). John Oliver becomes a
waterman/bargeman also & marries Sarah Northsworthy of Kingsbridge, in
1856, East Stonehouse. John Oliver dies 1908 Plymouth, by which time he is a
pawnbroker. [cf: 1851,1881 censuses]
Kingsbridge: Last
year in which the tannery of John & Henry Branscombe, established by their
father William in 1792, is in their possession.
Chester: The 208
ton barque Jane Prowse is launched,
owner W. Prowse. Registered at Liverpool. In 1838-40, her master is Captain
William Branscombe. [William Prowse of
Paignton, m. 1779 East Teignmouth Elizabeth Saunders.[382] cf: 1837 for sister ship "Margaret"]
Torquay: W.
Branscombe ‘boot & shoemaker to Her Majesty’ 8 Braddens Row. Also, Henry
Branscombe, tanner & fellmonger, Fore Street & Henry Branscombe,
carrier, to Dartmouth every Saturday. [383]
@1833
8 January,
Bideford: William Brownscombe born, son of James and Ann of Alverdiscott.
Baptised 13 February. [384]
22 January,
Hastings: William Thomas Branscombe born. Apprenticed to the sea in 1845. Awarded
his seaman's ticket in 1848.[385] [cf: 1841 census for Hastings. Poss son of
Mary & (Samuel Stace - blacksmith?). Also cf: 1810 poss year of birth of
sister Mary & 1817 year of birth of poss brother, mariner/miner Samuel
(James) Henry Branscomb of Hastings]
Possible year of
birth of William Branscomb, [house?] painter. Died St. Kilda, Melbourne, 1877.
Approximate year
of birth of Henry Branscombe, former sailor with the Royal Navy and postman of
Sheerness, Kent, who is jailed for twelve months, in 1880, for making death
threats to a Post Office employee.
27 January,
Tormoham, Torquay: Robert John (1 month), eighth & last child of Edward
Branscombe & Ann ( - m. 1817, Dartmouth), baptised.
28 January: James
Branscombe, miller, dies intestate[386] [i.e. leaving property but no will] in
Tiverton, aged 73. [b. 1760?] The Gentleman's
Magazine decribes him as the nephew of `... the late well-known Sir James
Branscombe, stock-broker and lottery-office keeper [& lay sheriff of
London]. The deceased had been in business for fifty years; and it is a
remarkable fact that, though his mill [Grist Mill at Elmore - see below] was
completely surrounded with water, no death had occurred under his roof for the
last seventy years.'[387] He
was the son of Barthomew Branscombe, who died 6 July, 1827 [1821?]. James left
one child, Sarah, who married Robert Pring, baker of Bampton.[388] [cf: 1841]
13 February,
Bideford: William Brownscombe baptised, son of James and Ann of Alverdiscott.
Born 8 January. [389]
26 February,
Tiverton: John Hussey marries Sarah Branscombe. Both of this parish.[390]
27 March: Mortgage
by demise for 1000 years of Grist Mills Close of Land and Orchard in Elmore,
Tiverton, by Robert Pring, baker of Bampton, and Sarah his wife [née
Branscombe), upon trust to Rebecca Maunder, widow of Bampton, for sale, for
securing £200 and interest.[391] [cf: 1821]
16 April, St.
Thomas the Apostle, Exeter: Thomas & William, sons of Thomas & Mary
Branscombe, christened. (IGI) [Thomas
senior, accountant of Oakhampton Street.[392] Poss Thomas & Mary Jackman `of St.
Thomas', m. 1830 Dunchideock? Poss siblings, both bp. St. Thomas: Mary (1835),
Eleanor (1837). Thomas junior poss b. Ashton, nr Exeter? If so, may be
accountant’s clerk husband of Mary Ann Nottage (m. 1863 Lambeth)?]
24 April,
Fremantle: Sarah Branscombe (b. 1797 - d.1867) marries Thomas George
Rees/Reece. They both arrived on the same ship in 1831. Thomas was a boatman
& fisherman at Fremantle. He was recorded as having recovered the
Challenger Buoy (?) Both were unable to write their names on the register. They
already had a child, Elizabeth Branscombe-Rees (b. 1832 - d.1883) Thomas dies
the following year, 1834.[393]
27 April, St.
Saviour's, Dartmouth: George Buckingham Branscombe buried, aged 19. Son of
William & Elizabeth of St. John's, Newfoundland.[394] [b. Carbonear. Keith Matthews in the Earl
Kennedy papers says he died 27 March, and that he was an employee of Samuel
Codner and Company, of Dartmouth and St. John's. cf: 1834, 30 July - marriage
of Leonora Sophia, fourth daughter of William Branscombe of St. John's]
7 May, Withycombe
Raleigh: William Branscombe, aged 81, buried. Grandfather of William
Branscombe, tinsmith of Mudgee.[395]
28 June, Hobart: A
letter is published in the Hobart Mercury addressed to Thomas Anstey, Police
Magistrate at Oatlands and requests that he convene a meeting to discuss the
building of a church in Oatlands. [396]
5 July, Tormoham,
Torquay: Joanna, sixth child of Edward Branscombe & Ann (Starling - m.
1817, Dartmouth), dies aged 5. [cholera?
Approximate year in which Edward begins work for Messrs. White & Rouse,
Exeter. By 1841, the family is resident at Bartholomew Street (North), in a
small cottage opposite the New Cemetery. Employer possibly John H White, master
plasterer b. about 1802 Kenton?]
11 July, Newton
Bushel: Mary Hannaford Branscombe [d.1863],
daughter of Samuel Branscombe [b.Newton
Bushel 1805] & Mary Hannaford [b.Kingsbridge
1808], born.[397] [sister of Samuel Hannaford Branscombe (1828)]
9 September, St.
Teath, Cornwall: Marriage between John Branscombe of Kingsbridge, bachelor, and
Anne Graham of St. Teath, spinster [b.Gibraltar
1803], by licence. Witnessed by Robert R. Bake & John Oliver.[398] [John b. 1808, son of William & Charlotte
(Mortimer). Children: John Graham (1834), Ellen (1837), Charlotte Mortimer
(1841), Henry (1844). cf: 1874 death of John, & 1881 census for 166
Highbury New Park, Highbury. Executor of John's will was Samuel Graham Bake of
166 Highbury Park. St. Teath is about 2 miles from Lanteglos, home of the
Chenneours]
24 September,
Grayson County, Virginia: Horbert Branscom marries Nancey Dalton.[399]
24 October, St.
Andrew's, Holborn: Sarah Marianna, daughter of solicitor Walter & Jane
Branscomb [Walter son of Sir James Branscombe?] of 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet
Street, baptised. Born (21 January?)[400] [Siblings: Walter James (1836), (Samuel ABOUT
1837?), James Alexander (1838), Marianna Ursula (1839), Alexander Charles
(1846). In 1994, 1 Wine Office Court is still there, opposite the famous
"Cheshire Cheese" pub, and just around the corner from Gough Square,
home of Samuel Johnson. The inn and court are associated with many literary
figures, including Dickens, who features Wine Office Court in "A Tale of
Two Cities"]
17 November, Great
Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire: Martha Brancom is baptised, daughter of David
& Mary. (IGI)
6 December,
Highweek: Samuel Quick dies, aged 69.[401] [cf: Samuel Branscombe & Ann (Quick - m.
1775) of Highweek. Also widow Mary Quick d.1834]
`From 1833,
schools in England & Wales received Government grants. Before it became
clear an organized system was necessary, educating the poor was a religious and
moral duty; an outlet for charity. Middle-class children were brought up to
learn that social inferiors were acceptable if they were diligent, and
acquiescent. The schoolchild in the charity school could be tolerated, if it
were clean, orderly and deferential. This attitude is clearly reflected in the
juvenile literature of the period. All conform to the standards demanded; the
teacher is a symbol of moral worth, rather than of intellectual power. This
contrasts with the later fashions, where non-conformity is all, and the teacher
is often an object of ridicule.'[402]
The East India
Company's monopoly of trade with China ends.
`In these early
decades of the nineteenth century, science gained a place in popular debate,
helped especially by the Penny Magazine
and the Penny Cyclopaedia. When the Cyclopaedia started, in 1833, 75000
copies of each issue were printed, priced at a penny. Geology was at the heart
of many of the popular debates. The age of the earth came under scrutiny as
scientists began to move away from a version of history taken literally from
the bible. The fossils that collectors such as Mantell had gathered inspired
further debates over whether species had evolved or were the results of
separate acts of divine creation.'[403]
William Devonshire
Saull, London wine merchant, opens a museum. Saull, a socialist, believed
firmly in education for the masses, and his museum was open to all, even the
working classes, on Thursdays.
The Royal William completes the first
crossing of the Atlantic using steam power only. It takes 20 days.[404]
`... the cotton
mills employed 60,000 men, 65,000 women, and 84,000 children and young
persons.'[405]
William Halsey,
baker & mealman, at High Street, Berkhampstead.[406] [cf: 1841 census & 1855]
Rugby: Approximate
year of birth of William Branscombe, registered in the 1881 census for Rugby as
a railway engine driver and married to Charlotte ?, born in Bilston,
Staffordshire.
Oxford:
Approximate year of birth of Emily, fifth child of Robert Branscomb (b. 1786
London), tinman, & Eliza(beth) (Talboys - m. 1819 Oxford). [Emily m. 1850 to glass-maker Joseph Tomey.[407] She died in 1872.[408] Siblings: Frederick Alphonso (1820-1902),
Mary Ann (1822-1896), Richard Adolphus (1825), Elizabeth (1827-1902), Edward
(1836-1893), James Adolphus (1838)]
Approximate year
of birth of Ann Halsey, sixth child of third great-grandparents James &
Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [Baptised
1843. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?), James (1824?), George (1826?), Emmanuel
(1827?) John (1829?), Thomas (1834?), Emma (1837?), Charles (1839?), Eliza
(1843?)]
Approximate year
of birth (St. Johns, Newfoundland?) of Captain George Branscombe, who dies at
his residence, Victoria House, Waldegrave Street, of heart disease, aged 41, in
1874.[409]
@1834
19 January, Sion
Chapel, Union Street, Lady Huntingdon's non-conformist, Mile End Old Town:
Thomas, son of Thomas & Mary Elizabeth Branscomb, baptised.[410]
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Thomas Branscomb 19 Jan 34 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Edwin Branscomb 25 Jun 37 St. Dunstan, Stepney
22 January, St.
Andrew's, Plymouth: William Henry Branscombe marries Grace (Neyle?). Both of
this parish.[411] [William possibly a carpenter. By the 1851 census,
William & Grace 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. Grace poss d.1866,
Kingsbridge district?]
22 January:
William Branscombe of St. Sidwell's, gentleman, by order of the Mayor and
Council, is made a Freeman of the City of Exeter. [Also on the same day, Burne Gurney, surgeon, is created a Freeman by
order of the Mayor and Council]
14 February, St.
Sidwell's Exeter: Eliza Austwick, seventh and last child of William Branscombe,
gentleman of St. Sidwell's parish & Eliza (Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter),
christened. [William described in 1825 as
a `common carrier'. cf: 1851 census, where Eliza is found at Larkbeare House
School, Topsham Road, Heavitree. m. 1858 Kingsbridge to ? Siblings: Louisa (1819), William Dacie
(1821), Selina (1823), John Austwick (1825), Frederick (1827), Rev. George
Henry Dacie (1831)]
27 February,
Willand [Tiverton]: Mary Branscombe marries Thomas Richards.[412]
16 March,
Highweek: Mary Quick, widow of Samuel [d.1833],
dies, aged 69.[413] [cf: Samuel Branscombe & Ann (Quick - m.
1775) of Highweek]
24 May, Topsham: Harriet
Garlick, Robert Branscombe & Amelia (Clare - m. 1821 Topsham), christened.
(IGI) [seventh child of mariner Robert
Bradford Branscombe, aged 40, son of William & Jane (Pain), described as a
fisherman on his marriage, as a rope-maker in 1837 and a mariner in the 1851
census when he has moved to Littleham. He and Amelia had at least ten other
children: Susanna Mary (1821), Mary
Jane Harriet (1822), William Clare (1824), George Eastman (1827), Robert
(1829), Elizabeth or Amelia (1832), Susan & Sophia (1837), Thursa or Thirza
(1838). Also cf: 1819]
On Ascension Day,
the first ceremony of `beating the bounds' of the new Parish of Hammersmith.
(formerly included with Fulham)
`The West London
Railway runs in the bed of an ancient stream (Counters Creek] which rose north
of Wormwood Scrubs, and ended at Chelsea Creek, and this brook was crossed by a
bridge at the place where the railway bridge (Addison Bridge) now stands on the
Hammersmith Road. The stream was evidently the determining factor in the old
parish boundary line between Hammermith and Kensington, but Hammersmith Borough
includes the line in its course from Willesden to Uxbridge Road, going beyond
it to the Harrow Road and Kensal Green Cemetery at the northern end; further
south it runs out in an irregular loop to include Latimer Road Station,
returning to the railway at Uxbridge Road; subsequently it dips just westward
of the railway to Hammersmith Road. Northward it runs to the Uxbridge Road,
follows this eastward for a few yards, and strikes again northward up Old Oak
Road and Old Oak Common Road, until it reaches Wormwood Scrubs public and
military ground. It then trends north-eastward, curves back to meet the Midland
and south-Western line as it crosses the canal, and follows Old Oak Common Road
until on a level with Willesden Junction Station, from thence eastward to the
Harrow Road.'
`Goldhawke Road is
an old Roman road, a fact which was conclusively proved by the discovery of the
old Roman causeway, accidentally dug up by workmen in 1834.'[414]
16 July: John
Graham Branscombe, first child of John Branscombe of Kingsbridge & Ann
Graham of Gibraltar [m. 1833], born. Baptised 12 November 1834 in Kingsbridge.
Went to sea in 1850, as a Boy, awarded seaman's ticket in the same year.[415] [siblings: Ellen (1837), Charlotte Mortimer
(1841), Henry (1844)]
24 July, St.
Gregory's, Dawlish: Captain William Branscombe (b. 1803), son of John &
Agnes (Pike - m. 1781 Dawlish), marries Sophia Willis (aged 29 - d.1873),
witnessed by Samuel and Ann Branscombe. [by licence?] [Sophia may be the daughter of Thomas & Anna Willis, and the brother
of William. Thomas Willis was the tenant of the Branscombe estate in Dawlish
Water 1793-8. By 1840, this is owned by Joseph Branscombe, Captain William's
brother. Anna Willis, aged 75 and possibly widowed, is a farmer in Dawlish
Water in the 1841 census. William Willis, aged 40 and possibly her son, is
living on the farm with her. Sophia, by then married with her 6 year-old
daughter Sarah Ann, is living in the same household, although marked as a
separate family. Her husband, William, is away at sea, half-way through a trip
to Sydney. William's poss siblings: John (1782-1795), Captn. Joseph
(1784-1866), Anne (1787-1787), Sarah (1790-1849), Catherine (1793-1855), John
(1796), Anne (1798)]
24 July, Dawlish:
William Branscombe marries Elizabeth Preston, spinster?
[416]
30 July, St.
John's, Newfoundland: Leonora Sophia, fourth daughter of Mr. William Branscombe
of this town, marries Mr. George Winter of Winter and Preston, Demerara.
Married by the Rev. F.H. Carrington.[417]
13 August: The
Poor Law Amendment Act. The system of Workhouses is introduced, in Britain.
`... it came as near to the work of the devil as it is possible to imagine ...
a reform conceived in the hard inhuman spirit of modern science.' [It] so
lacked humanity that the poor preferred to starve in their cottages rather than
enter the new workhouses, for these aptly named bastilles: `... lacerated their
bruised souls in the only spot where feeling was left: the law tore asunder husband
and wife, parents and children.''[418]
`...in effect,
[it] nationalised the poor... [It was] the first major social reform to follow
the great Reform Act. [It was] brought about by changing times...
industrialisation, unemployment, and a rapid increase in the population - it
established a pattern of social relief which lasted for more than 100 years.
Had it worked the way it was planned as a self-operating test of need,
providing humane care for the indigent, and deterring the idle from sponging
off the rates, it might have proved a benefit to all. In the event, it punished
the poor for even demanding the right to eat and, by many cruel economies,
cutting the cost of relief to the bone, achieved substantial savings in the
rates to the benefit only of those who grudgingly paid them.'
[419]
`... working men
did not have any political power. There was no party in Parliament to represent
them and they did not have the vote. There was no legal way at all to make
Parliament change an old law, or make a new one, except to send in a petition.
It was not usual for Parliament to pay much attention to petitions from working
men, so it is not surprising that many of them became frustrated and tried to
win their way by illegal means.'[420]
11 September, East
Buckland: Catherine Brownscombe, aged 25, is buried.[421] [cf: 1821 Edward Brownscombe, Clerk's Award,
East Buckland, 1825 Mary Brownscombe, 1827 Edward & William Brownscombe,
& 1832 Susan Brownscombe, all buried East Buckland]
25 September, Holy
Trinity, Exeter: William Branscombe marries Betty Woolaway.[422]
26 September,
Pilton: The will of Catherine Brownscombe is proved in the Court of the
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.[423]
29 December,
Exeter: William Thomas, son of Mary Ann Underhill, spinster of St. James'
Street, baptised privately. Married Harriet Westcott in Plymouth, 1859, giving
father as William Underhill, accountant. William Thomas has been described as a
splendid and proud old man who would never say who his father was. It was
thought by his family that his reticence was due to resentment of the fact that
his parents were not married.[424] [father possibly Thomas Branscombe,
labourer/farmer/accountant? siblings:
Harriet (bp. 1827), Anna Maria (b. 1829), John (b. 1838, d.1858)]
Thomas George
Rees/Reece, fisherman of Fremantle, dies. [cf: 1833][425] His wife Sarah (Branscombe) re-marries in
1836.
Calstock,
Cornwall: Approximate year of birth of Louisa, daughter of pilot & waterman
John & Sarah (-?, m. 1831 Calstock?). [cf:
1851,1881 censuses]
Highweek:
Charlotte Branscombe, daughter of Samuel [tanner,
b. 1792, d.1874] & Mary (Eales - m. 1829, d.1847), & sister of Anna
(1840-1913) born. [remained a spinster -
d.1883]
Approximate year
of birth of Thomas Halsey, seventh child of third great-grandparents James
& Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [Baptised 1838. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?), James (1824?), George
(1826?), Emmanuel (1827?) John (1829?), Ann (1833?), Emma (1837?), Charles
(1839?), Eliza (1843?)]
Hobart's
population c.14000.
Point Puer
juvenile reformatory opened.
`Any sensible
Englishman of the upper or middle class might wish that he had been born in the
Spring of 1834, and had died in the Spring of 1914, at the age of 80. It was
the latest time when he would have had a real continuity of life, and have been
warmed by a steady belief in progress; the latest when he would have enjoyed
all but a minute fraction of his income; the latest when he would have left his
capital and his possessions almost undiminished, to his heirs; the earliest at
which he could have enjoyed inventions of the modern age-railways, steamships,
good sanitation, anaesthetics, antiseptics, electric light and, in his old age,
telephones and motor-cars.'[426]
`... the quantity
of water daily supplied by the eight
different water companies of London [is] upwards of 21,000,000 imperial
gallons. By far the greatest portion of this [is] drawn from the Thames, a
small quantity from the springs and ponds of Highgate and Hampstead, and the
rest from the River Lea and the New River.[427]
Invention of the
first mechanical reaper, in America.
LONDON POST OFFICE
DIRECTORY 1834
R Brandscombe Wholesale
Ironmonger
195
Upper Thames Street
[May be Robert Bradford, son of William
& Jane of Topsham, baptised 23 July 1797? - cf: 1841 Marylebone census. cf:
1830 Elizabeth Branscomb dies, Upper Thames Street. cf: 1840 premises at 27 Old
Fish Street]
W Brandscomb Solicitor
1
Wine Office Court, Fleet Street
Approximate year
of birth of Henry Branscombe, former sailor with the Royal Navy and postman of
Sheerness, Kent, who is jailed for twelve months, in 1880, for making death
threats to a Post Office employee.
@1835
26 February: Title
deed to John Branscombe, builder of Exmouth & Joseph Gay, mason of Exmouth.
Lease of land and six houses in Bicton Street, Littleham, Exmouth, from Thomas
Teed of Salterton, East Budleigh; his wife Hannah; also William Teed of
Salterton, shoemaker (a minor) & others, for sixty years, at £2 a year.
(EPNI) [cf: 1856] [cf: 1893 John Teed,
boot & shoemaker & 1841 census - Thomas Gay, mason of Dawlish. Also
John Gay Wilkinson, husband of Lydia Obrecht Branscombe]
5 April, St. John
The Baptist, Shoreditch: Jane Branscumb marries Edward Williams. (IGI)
Monday
6 April, Home Circuit Kingston: Mr Justice Gaselee considers the case of Foote
v Branscombe and another.
At a little after 8 o/c on
the evening of February 4th last year, Foote was knocked down crossing
Blackfriars Road by a gig which belonged to and was being driven by Branscombe,
an Ironmonger, accompanied by Pocklington, a butcher. Witnesses could not be sure if it was the gig
that knocked him down or a cab behind.
Branscombe and Pocklington pleaded Not Guilty. Verdict was a payment of damages of
20/-. The defendants had been to Epsom
that day to course. [428] [cf: 18
November. The 1834 Postal Directory for London lists an R Brandscombe,
Wholesale Ironmonger, at 195 Upper Thames Street. May be Robert Bradford, son
of William & Jane of Topsham, baptised 23 July 1797? cf: 1841 Marylebone census. cf: 1830
Elizabeth Branscomb dies, Upper Thames Street. cf: 1840 premises at 27 Old Fish
Street]
22 April, St.
Thomas the Apostle, Exeter: Mary, daughter of Thomas & Mary Branscombe, and
Joshua Branscombe, son of Joshua, are baptised. (IGI) [Thomas, accountant of Oakhampton Street.[429] Poss Thomas & Mary Jackman `of St.
Thomas', m. 1830 Dunchideock? Poss siblings, all bp. St. Thomas: Thomas &
William (1833), Eleanor (1837)]
6 June, Dawlish:
Catherine Branscombe dies, aged 61.[430] [b. about 1774]
9 June, Dawlish:
Sarah Ann, daughter of William Branscombe, seaman, and Sophia (Willis - m.
1834), baptised.[431] [Sarah Ann m. 1856 Henry Holman]
30 July, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Sarah Branscomb marries Travis Thomas.[432]
August: William
Henry Fox-Talbot makes the world's first photographic negative, a tiny exposure
of an oriel window at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. [cf: Joseph Neipce 1826, Daguerre 1839]
23 August, St.
James, Westminster: Eliza Branscombe marries Charles George. (IGI)
30 August,
Tormoham: Emma, daughter of Isaac Starling/Sterling, labourer of Torr, and
Elizabeth, born.
11 October, Castle
Green Independent, Bristol: Mary Crouch Branscombe, daughter of Henry and Mary
Crouch Branscombe, baptised. (IGI) [d.1853
Clifton district. Henry may have been born in 1806, Kingsbridge, the fifth
child of tanner William Branscombe & Charlotte (Mortimer - m. 1789
Wolborough)? Henry m. 1827 Plymouth, Mary Crouch. Poss siblings: Elizabeth
(1830-1835), Elizabeth (1837). Also cf: Martha Crouch, third wife of William
Branscombe, shoemaker of Torquay, b. Penshurst, Kent]
18 October,
Calstock: Ann Allen Branscombe baptised, daughter of John & Sarah of
Calstock. [cf: 1836 Calstock, Ann Allen Branscombe buried, also 1837
Calstock, Richard Branscombe baptised]
4 November:
Elizabeth, aged 5 years 2 months, daughter of Henry & Mary Branscombe of
Bristol, dies. Buried at Kingsbridge.[433] [cf: 11 Oct.above. Elizabeth b. 1830 Sept?]
Wednesday
18 November, Bail Court: Foote v Branscombe and Pocklington.
Mr Shee applied to the Court
to discharge a rule nisi for a new trial.
The action was tried at the Surrey March assizes when the plaintiff
obtained a verdict for 20/- damages against both the defendants who, from
careless driving, had run over and seriously injured the plaintiff in
Blackfriars Road. The application for a
new trial alleged that the defendant Branscombe, who held the reins, was the
only party against whom a verdict ought to have been returned, and that
Pocklington should have been examined as a witness. He had an Affidavit, stating that a collusive
settlement had been since entered into with the plaintiff, under which he had
accepted a reduced sum of 15/- and had been, by the hand of the defendants,
removed to Ireland, the object being to deprive the attorney who had conducted
the plaintiff’s case, of the means of obtaining his costs and Rule granted. [434] [cf: 6
April & 26 November]
Tuesday
26 November, Bail Court: Foote v Branscombe and Pocklington.:
Mr Turner appeared to show
cause against a rule nisi obtained by Mr Shea ... to be continued. [435]
6 December,
Bampton: William Branscombe junior, farmer, dies aged 46.[436] [son of William d.1828 - possibly husband of
Grace & father of John Hinam Branscombe, b. 1823?]
29 December,
Dodbrooke: William Henry Branscombe, aged five weeks, buried.[437] [poss son of William Henry & Grace
(Neyle? - m. 22 January this year?]
`One of the first
of the Bog People was Queen Gunhild, who was discovered in Haraldskjaer Fen, in
1835. Her fame spread immediately throughout the country, and she was given a
coffin by King Frederick VI, and taken to the church of St. Nicolaj, in Vejle.'[438]
Time-capsules...vehicles
for a 300-year journey...a wooden coffin-tree of Oak.
One log had a
small hole cut in it...big enough for a small child to get in and loot it. In
some cases, this tomb-robbing had been done soon after burial. Either way, and in particular considering the
superstitious nature of the people then, and even in recent times, the children
thus employed must have developed a strong stomach, and an even stronger
psyche. Another, which had been looted soon after burial, had only a small
hole, big enough to insert a small, hooked Hazel branch, which was found
nearby. It was suggested such a branch could not only have been the instrument
of invasion, but may also have been the divining rod, by which the location of
the grave, and its precious metal contents was determined.
John Batman founds
Melbourne at Port Phillip.
The Neva wrecked, at Cape Wickham. 219
drowned, 7 starved to death, 15 survived.
The Rothschild
family buys Gunnersbury Park as a suburban residence.
Aloysious Hansom
introduces his two-wheeled closed carriage to the streets of London, where it
remains a familiar feature until ousted by the motor-car, in about 1910.
A painting of the Jane Prowse off New Brighton [mouth of the Mersey] by Samuel Walters,
is dated this year. It was in the collection of Sir Ernest Royden, of Hillbark,
Frankby.[439]
Samuel Walters
(1811-1882) ... `dominated the Liverpool scene, and understandably so ... As is
well recorded, Samuel Walters was in the most literal sense born into his
profession, being born on a sea passage from Bideford to London on 1 November,
1811.'[440]
Highweek: Louisa
Branscombe, daughter of Samuel & Mary (Eales - m. 1829), born. [may have m. 1876 Totnes?]
Kingsbridge:
Approximate year of birth of (Elizabeth?) Eunice, first child (? - cf: 1834 William Henry buried Dodbrooke
aged 5 weeks) of carpenter William Branscombe of Kingsbridge & Grace
(Neyle? of Chillington, nr. Kingsbridge - m. 1834 Plymouth?). [cf: 1837. Also June Q 1863 - poss marriage,
Plymouth?]
Devon: Approximate
year John Branscombe born. He is registered in the 1841 census, aged 6, in the
household of William Bartlett, farmer of Goveton, nr.Kingsbridge.
St. John's,
Newfoundland: William Branscombe donates £5 to the Winton Fund.[441]
@1836
24 March, Jackson,
Fayette County, Ohio: Benjamin Franklin Branscombe born. Son of Joseph Edmond
Branscome & Dianah Pierce.[442] [B.F. Branscombe founded the township of
Branscomb, California. cf: letter from B.F., 1903]
The family soon
moved to Dekalb County, Missouri, where Joseph became Sheriff. He was shot and
killed 3 days before President Lincoln was assassinated. In 1857, Benjamin
joined an ox-team wagon train that was headed for California. He settled in
Somoma County and farmed there for about twenty years. He married one of the
daughters of the captain of the wagon train, Mary Jane Taylor, and they had 10
children, 6 boys and 4 girls. They moved to Jackson Valley, Mendocino, in 1880,
where he homesteaded 160 acres of land and 40 acres more under the Timber Act.
He was instrumental in starting the first school in that area. He built a large
home which, after his family had grown up, he turned into a hotel. A small
grocery store, meat market and livery stable were added later. After more
people came into the area, he was even able to establish a post office. This
was named after him. After his death, in 1921, one of his sons, John, inherited
the property and ran it until 1959, when he sold it to the Harewood family, who
built the timber mill in Branscomb.[443]
24 April,
Calstock: Ann Allen Branscombe, aged 7m, buried. [probably daughter of John
& Sarah of Calstock. cf: 1835 Calstock, Ann Allen Branscombe baptised, also
1837 Calstock, Richard Branscombe baptised]
April: The James Matheson launched, Dumbarton. 408
tons, registered at Liverpool. Built of spruce with copper bottom. Owner in
1842/3: W. Prowse. Wrecked 1844/5, on a voyage from Liverpool to China. [William Prowse of Paignton, m. 1779 East
Teignmouth, Elizabeth Saunders]
3 May, St. Mary
Major, Exeter: Henry Branscombe marries Mary Ann Horn. Both of this parish.[444] [carpenter & builder, b. & bp. 1817
Withycombe Raleigh, son of John Branscombe, joiner, & Elizabeth (Seward -
m. 1816 Exeter?). cf: 1851 census. Henry d.1876 Victoria, Australia. cf: 1780
Littleham, Mary Brandscombe Horn buried]
a.m., 21 June, St.
George's, Demerara, Newfoundland: Mary Branscombe, daughter of Mr. William
Branscombe of St. John's marries George Smith Crawford, M.D., son of the late
Rev. Oliver Crawford of Trinity College, Dublin. Married by the Rev. James
Lugur.[445]
9 August,
Withycombe Raleigh: Henry, son of John Branscombe, joiner, & Elizabeth,
baptised.[446] [b. 1 Aug cf: 1851 census. Henry becomes a
builder in Withycombe Raleigh, after some years in Bath]
13 June, St. Andrew's,
Holborn: Walter James, (second child? - cf: 1833) of solicitor Walter &
Jane Branscomb of 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, baptised. Born 21 January.[447] [siblings: Sarah Marianna (1833), (Samuel c1837?),
James Alexander (1838), Marianna Ursula (1839), Alexander Charles (1846). In 1859, a Walter James
Branscomb is the proprietor of a "fancy repository" in King Street,
Hammersmith. Walter James married Maria ? in Southwark, in 1860; he died 1865,
in Newington. Also cf: 1863 Henry Branscomb's death registered in Newington.
Walter senior, b. 1897, may be son of James & Sarah of Holborn]
27 July, Reeves'
Point, Kangaroo Island: Official colonisation of South Australia.
22 September,
Dawlish: Agnes (Pike), wife of John Branscombe, dies aged 76 years.[448]
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
AGNESS
WIFE OF JOHN BRANSCOMBE
WHO DIED ?? SEPTEMBER 1836
AGED 76 YEARS
September, Perth,
Western Australia: Sarah Branscombe-Rees remarries, Thomas Henshaw [cf: 1833].[449]
8 October: Admiral
James, Lord de Saumerez, dies.
30 November, Clyst
St. George: George Waldron Pearse, bachelor of Topsham, marries Ellen Gaynor
(Finch?), spinster of Clyst St. George. Witnesses are Anna Maria Pearce &
P.J. Pearce.[450]
6 December, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Polly Branscomb marries John Bertram.[451]
Francis Smith and
John Ericsson individually solve the problem of screw propulsion, and its
superiority [over paddle wheels] was soon apparent.[452]
Heavitree:
Approximate year of birth of Ellen ? [d.1911
Heavitree], future wife of John Branscombe.[453]
Robert Bowden
Branscombe becomes an apprentice at sea.[454] [b. 1820, Torquay - son of William the
shoemaker & Ann(e) cf: 1845]
The Dissenter's
Marriage Act allows non-conformist churches to be licenced for marriage
ceremonies.
Oxford: Birth of
Edward Branscomb, glass manufacturer. [marries
Sarah Yardley, Birmingham 1854.[455] Sixth child of Robert Branscomb (b. 1786
London), tinman, & Eliza(beth) (Talboys - m. 1819 Oxford).[456] Edward died 1893. cf: 1855 for son Frederick's
birth]
Admiral Saumarez
dies.
The United States
takes 25% of all British exports. 80% of Lancashire's raw cotton comes from the
Southern states.
The Breech-loading
gun is invented, in Prussia.
London's first
railway station, at London Bridge, opens.
Elizabeth
Branscombe, daughter of William (dec'd) & Sarah. (EBMI)
The Tithe
Commutation Act establishes a Tithe Commission, empowered to effect a
commutation of tithes in kind to an annual money payment, by voluntary
agreement between tithe owner and landowner wherever possible, but by
compulsion if necessary ... The principles of the 1836 Act remained the basis
of rent-charge conversion until the 1936 Tithe Act provided for the gradual
redemption of all tithes by the end of the century.'[457] [cf: 1839 for Dawlish]
Newfoundland:
Arthur Kennedy Branscombe, poss son of William Branscombe, planter of St. Johns
& Margaret (Kennedy - m. 1828 Carboneur), dies in this year.[458]
@1837
14 February,
Bampton: Sarah Branscombe, wife of William [d.1828] dies, aged 73.[459]
17 March,
Kingsbridge: Ellen Branscombe, daughter of John Branscombe of Kingsbridge &
Anne (Graham - m. 1833), born. Baptised at Kingsbridge on 9 April 1837.[460] [remained a spinster. cf: 1881 census for
Highbury. Siblings: John Graham (1834), Charlotte Mortimer (1841), Henry (1844)]
31 March, Topsham:
George Waldron Pearse, son of yeoman George Waldron Pearse & Eleanor Gaynor
Pearse, is baptised.[461] [m. 1836 Clyst St. George, d.1838]
19 April, St.
Thomas the Apostle, Exeter: Eleanor, daughter of Thomas & Mary Branscombe,
christened. (IGI) [Thomas, accountant of
Oakhampton Street.[462] Poss Thomas & Mary Jackman `of St.
Thomas', m. 1830 Dunchideock? Poss siblings, all bp. St. Thomas: Thomas &
William (1833), Mary (1835)]
26 April,
Moretonhampstead: Mary Branscombe marries Walter Mortimore. Both of this
parish.[463]
22 May,
Cheltenham: Death of Sarah, wife of Robert Long esq., of the Manor House,
Dawlish. Buried in a vault at Swindon with her husband, who died at Leamington
on 13 December, 1842.[464]
25 May, Castle
Green Independent, Bristol: Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Mary Crouch
Branscombe, baptised. (IGI) [Henry
Branscombe m. 1827 Plymouth, Mary Crouch. Henry may have been born in 1806,
Kingsbridge, the fifth child of tanner William Branscombe & Charlotte
(Mortimer - m. 1789 Wolborough)? Poss
siblings: Elizabeth (1830-1835), Mary Crouch (1835-1853). Also cf: Martha
Crouch, third wife of William Branscombe, shoemaker of Torquay]
15 June, Calstock:
Richard Branscombe baptised, son of John, a labourer, and Sarah. [poss
sibling Ann Allen (1835-36)]
25 June, St.
Dunstan's, Stepney: Edwin, son of Thomas & Mary Elizabeth Branscomb,
baptised.[465] [possibly d. December quarter, Whitechapel
district?]
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Thomas Branscomb 19 Jan 34 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Edwin Branscomb 25 Jun 37 St. Dunstan, Stepney
1 July: Civil
registration of births, deaths and marriages commences in England & Wales.
`... following a
Royal Commission, 7000 non-parochial registers from all over the country were
sent to Somerset House. These were subsequently transferred to the Public
Records Office... '[466]
30 July, Holwell,
Bedfordshire (later Herts): James, son of James Branscombe, labourer of
(Fakeswell?) and Mary, baptised.[467] [Possibly son of John & Mary Bransome,
bp. Sharnbrook 1811, or son of Samuel & Sarah Bransome, bp. Meppershall
1803?]
16 August,
Topsham: Susan & Sophia Branscombe [twins?], eighth & ninth children of
rope-maker Robert & Amelia (Clare - m. 1821 Topsham), baptised.[468] [possibly Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged
40, son of William & Jane (Pain), described as a fisherman on his marriage,
as a rope-maker in 1837, a pilot on the 1848 marriage certificate of Mary Jane
Harriet, and a mariner in the 1851 census when he has moved to Littleham. He
and Amelia had at least ten other cwheels] was soon apparent.[1]
Heavitree: Approximate year of birth of Ellen ? [d.1911
Heavitree], future wife of John Branscombe.[1]
Robert Bowden Branscombe becomes an apprentice at sea.[1]
[b. 1820, Torquay - son
of William the shoemaker & Ann(e) cf: 1845]
The Dissenter's Marriage Act allows non-conformist
churches to be licenced for marriage ceremonies.
Oxford: Birth
of Edward Branscomb, glass manufacturer. [marries Sarah Yardley, Birmingham
1854.[1] Sixth child of
Robert Branscomb (b. 1786
London), tinman, hildren: Susanna Mary (1821), Mary Jane Harriet (1822),
William Clare (1824), George Eastman (1827), Robert
(1829), Elizabeth or Amelia (1832), Harriet Garlick (1834), Thursa or Thirza
(1838)]
December quarter, St. Mary Newington district: Mary Branscomb marries ? [1] [poss Mary Branscome born Devonshire 1817,
m. John Cameron of Inverness in London. Children: John, b.1856 Prahran,
Victoria, Australia?] [1]
December quarter,
Whitechapel district: Edwin Branscomb's death is registered.[1] [possibly bp. June thiario: Henry William Branscombe
born, son of Arthur (b. ABOUT 1802 New Brunswick) & Catherine (Burlingham).
Siblings: Reuben B., Sarah A., Phebe, Nathaniel, Elizabeth & Huldah. Henry
William was the father of Gena Branscombe Tenney, pianist & composer (b.
1881). He died in 1924.[469]
Approximate year
of birth of Emma Halsey, eighth child of third great-grandparents James &
Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [Baptised
1844. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?), James (1824?), George (1826?), Emmanuel
(1827?) John (1829?), Ann (1833?), Thomas (1834?), Charles (1839?), Eliza
(1843?)]
Chester: The 253
ton barque Margaret launched, owner
W. Prowse, master in 1839/40 is ? Prowse. Registered at Liverpool. Sister ship
of the Jane Prowse (1832), master
Captain William Branscombe, 1838-40. There is a picture of the Margaret at Torquay in about 1855 in
Michael Bouquet's book, No Gallant Ship.
[William Prowse of Paignton, m. 1779 East
Teignmouth, Elizabeth Saunders]
Holborn? Possible
year of birth of Samuel Branscomb, mystery third child of solicitor Walter
& Jane Branscomb, of 1 Wine Office Court. Samuel is mentioned once only in
the 1841 census, in which James Alexander (b. 1838) is not mentioned. Perhaps
they are the same person? [siblings:
Sarah Marianna (1833), Walter James (1836), (Samuel ABOUT 1837?), James
Alexander (1838), Marianna Ursula (1839), Alexander Charles (1846)]
`After 1837 ...
productivity shot up ... and agriculture entered its so-called "golden
age" of apparently effortless expansion, which continued for nearly three
decades.'[470]
The Hippodrome was
a racecourse covering the area later occupied by the Ladbroke Estate in North
Kensington. It operated from 1837-1841, but was not a success.[471]
Kingsbridge:
Approximate year of birth of carpenter Frederick, second child of carpenter William
Branscombe of Kingsbridge & Grace (Neyle? of Chillington - m. 1834
Plymouth?). [cf: 1835,1839]
ROBSON'S LONDON
DIRECTORY 1837
R Branscombe Nail factor 27 Old Fish Street
[May be Robert Bradford, son of William
& Jane of Topsham, baptised 23 July 1797? - cf: 1841 Marylebone census. cf:
1834 Directory, described as a wholesale ironmonger with premises in Upper
Thames Street. cf: 1840 Directory, premises at 27 Old Fish Street]
A year of
widespread unemployment and distress. [cf: 1848]
Reign of King
William IV ends (since 1830). June: Queen Victoria ascends the throne (to
1901). [whenever her wedding to Albert
was, the £1000 lace wedding dress was made in Beer and Branscombe][472]
Jack Rattenbury of
Beer, one of Devon's most notorious smugglers, publishes Memoirs of a Smuggler (Sidmouth). Gout has caused him to give up
his career.[473]
Hobart: Thomas
Branscombe and his wife are registered in the census of this year at New Town.[474]
@1838
29 January, St.
Andrew's, Holborn: James Alexander, (third child?) of solicitor Walter &
Jane Branscomb of 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, baptised. Born 22
September 1837.[475] [siblings: Sarah Marianna (1833), Walter
James (1836), (Samuel ABOUT 1837?), Marianna Ursula (1839), Alexander Charles
(1846). Walter (b. 1797) is the son of James & Sarah (Jackson - m. 1795) of
Holborn]
26 February, St.
Olave's, Exeter: Susan Branscombe, servant of Bartholomew Yard, an underage
spinster, daughter of painter Edward Branscombe & Ann (Starling - m. 1817,
Dartmouth), marries labourer Henry Box Thomson, an underage bachelor also of
Bartholomew Yard, son of labourer John Thomson. Bride and groom sign with a
mark. Witnesses are William Pim and Matt Bennett.[476] Registered March quarter, Exeter district.[477] [William Pim married Ann Crook Branscombe in
St. Leonards, Exeter, in 1801. Ann was the daughter of baker Nicholas &
Elizabeth (Harris - m. 1775 Exeter) and was baptised 30 June 1776 in St.
George, Exeter. Was Bartholomew Yard off Bartholomew Street, where Edward &
Ann were, 1841 census?]
March, poss
Exeter: John, bastard son of Mary Underhill of Magdalen Street, born. Baptised
12 October 1840. Became Brigadier Underhill of the Cavalry Regiment. Died
unmarried, 1858, while serving in the Indian Mutiny campaign. His sister
Harriet (bp. 1827 Exeter) married in 1849 as Harriet Underhill Branscombe,
giving her father as Thomas Branscombe, farmer.[478] [siblings: Harriet (bp. 1827), Anna Maria (b.
1829), William Thomas (bp. 1834)]
March quarter,
Tiverton district: John Francis Branscombe's birth is registered.[479] [poss. d.1838 Sept Q.Tiverton?]
June quarter, St.
Thomas district: Richard George Branscombe's birth is registered.[480] [poss d.1874 St. Thomas?]
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: John Branscombe's birth is registered.[481] [prob seventh child of tanner Samuel
Branscombe of Highweek & Mary (Eales - m. 1829 Highweek), d.1839. Or could
have married, 1861?]
18 June: Deed of
Release from George Rossiter, druggist of Kingsbridge, to Mrs. Rachael
Branscombe of Tiverton (d.1842), widow of the late James Branscombe of
Tiverton, miller, and Robert Pring, baker of Tiverton, and Sarah, his wife,
daughter of James, and others - James Salter, stationer of Tiverton,
administrator of the will of the late William Salter, stationer of Tiverton;
John Puddicombe, inn-keeper of Tiverton, and Jane Matilda, his wife, heretofore
Jane Matilda Rossiter, widow, mother of the said George Rossiter; and Ann
Catford of Tiverton, aforesaid widow of the other part. According to a deed
poll signed by James Branscombe and William Salter on 28 February, 1823, there
is £233.6.8d to be divided equally. James died on 28 January, 1833.[482]
Rival steamships Sirius and Great Western race across the Atlantic. The Great Western wins with a time of fifteen days.[483]
William Halsey,
baker, at High Street, Berkhampstead.[484] [cf: 1841 census & 1855]
George [Eastman?]
Branscombe of Topsham [b. 1826], goes to sea as a Boy.[485] [cf: 1848]
19 August,
Topsham: Sophia Gaynor Pearse, daughter of yeoman George Waldron Pearse &
Eleanor Gaynor (Finch - m. 1836 Clyst St. George), is baptised.[486] [cf: 1837]
September quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Mary Ann Branscombe marries ?
[487]
September quarter,
Exeter district: Sarah Branscombe marries ? [488] [poss daughter of John Branscombe, farmer of
St. Mary Arches, married James Wilmott?]
September quarter,
Exeter district: Elizabeth Branscombe's death is registered.[489]
September quarter,
Tiverton district: John Francis Branscombe's death is registered.[490] [possibly b. Tiverton district, March Q?]
17 October,
Topsham: George Waldron Pearse, aged 18 months, buried.[491] [cf: 1837]
Approximate year
of birth of (Thursa/Thirza), tenth child of mariner Robert Bradford Branscombe
and Amelia (Clare - m. 1821) of Topsham/Littleham. [possibly Robert Bradford Branscombe, aged 40, son of William & Jane
(Pain), described as a fisherman on his marriage, as a rope-maker in 1837, a
pilot on the 1848 marriage certificate of Mary Jane Harriet, and as a mariner
in the 1851 census when he has moved to Littleham. He and Amelia had at least
ten other children: Susanna Mary
(1821), Mary Jane Harriet (1822), William Clare (1824), George Eastman (1827),
Robert (1829), Elizabeth or Amelia (1832), Harriet Garlick (1834), Susan &
Sophia (1837), Thursa or Thirza (1838). Also cf: 1851 census]
Calstock,
Cornwall: Approximate year of birth of Richard, son of pilot & waterman
John & Sarah (-?, m. 1831 Calstock?). [cf:
1851,1881 censuses]
December quarter,
Kingsbridge district: (Male) Branscombe's birth registered.[492] [poss Fracham, s. William & Grace (Neyle?
- m. 1834 Plymouth?) of Kingsbridge - cf: 1851 census Kingsbridge]
December quarter,
Bloomsbury district: Catharine Branscombe marries ?[493]
6 December, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Polly Branscomb marries John Butram.[494]
28 December, St.
Aldate, Oxford: James Adolphus, seventh and last child of Robert Branscomb (b.
1786 London), tinman, & Eliza(beth) (Talboys - m. 1819 Oxford), is
baptised. [James marries Amy Parsons,
Birmingham 1860.[495] He dies before 1891. Siblings: Frederick Alphonso (1820-1902),
Mary Ann (1822-1896), Richard Adolphus (1825), Elizabeth (1827-1902), Emily
(1833-1872), Edward (1836-1893)][496]
Torquay: W. Pearce
is the master of the brig Flora,
launched in Topsham in 1815, and owned by Cockings. Her home port is Torquay,
and she is engaged on the Teignmouth to Swansea route. N. Prowse is master of
the brig Usk, also owned by Cockings,
whose home port is also Torquay. She is employed on the Teignmouth to Quebec
run.[497]
Plymouth: The
Tolpuddle Martyrs return from Australia.
Captain William
Branscombe skipper of Jane Prowse on
a voyage from Liverpool to Lima.
The original
Paddington station is opened, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. (It was
re-built in 1850-4)
The first electric
telegraph in Britain is commissioned.
[? cf: 1816]
Thomas Gould, artist, and Elizabeth, arrive in Hobart, where their fifth child is born.
`The most
characteristic Victorian colony is New Zealand, founded in 1838 through the enthusiasm
of William Wakefield, (cf: South Australia) a man of dubious reputation, and
persuasive tongue, who sold £100,000 worth of `land orders' to emigrants and
speculators by every device of publicity, and the aid of commission agents,
before he had a right to any land to meet their claims.'[498]
@1839
a.m., 21 January,
St. John's, Newfoundland: William Branscomb, blockmaker, dies. His will, dated
11 July 1834, names P.W. Carter & Samuel Mudge, merchant of St. John's, as
executors. He is survived by 3 sons and 4 daughters. His property is worth
£5-6000. The will is probated on 11 July 1839.
item: Executors to pay rents on part
of his estate on
the north side of Water Street now let to
John
Bovey and that part let to Thomas Connell
and on
his field on the (Barrens?) near Topsail
Road.
item: To son Richard for his natural
life, his Water
Street workshop premises, which adjoin
part let
to Bovey. To be
conveyed in trust to his heir.
item: To son William premises fronting
on Water Street
and on Williams Lane now on lease to John
Sanders, and
premises fronting on the lane leased to
Patrick Kelly, and that part of those other
premises fronting on Duckworth let under
(grant?)
lease to William Freeman and William
Thomas,
presently possessed by William Freeman,
and large
meadow on north side Duckworth between
land of
William Thomas and French plantation, in
trust.
item: To son James when he is 21. Premises
fronting
Duckworth and
adjoining Williams Lane let to
William Freeman
& William Thomas and dwelling
house Branscomb
occupies and all his plantations
between Thomas
Williams' meadow and the road
leading to the
Amateur Theatre at the S.W. (est?)
of Mr. Peter
Carter's house to the (Barrens?),
including the
houses behind my own at present let
to Dunn, Ennett,
Bridget Duggan & John Murphy, and
my present workshop, but not including the house
and premises adjoining my own at present
let to John
(Ni-?). Rents from these to support
and educate son
James, to put him in a business
and profession.
item: To 4 daughters Mary, Amelia,
Leanora & Sydney,
after the youngest
has become 21. They are to get
Water Street
premises (South side of) which is
between Thomas
Williams & John (Dunscomb's?)
premises and
currently let to Benjamin Williams &
John Nichols. Also
the field and premises near
Easeys Farm let to
Pat Casey.
item: To neice Amelia Davis, £130.
item: His pew in Established Church
for use of family.
Codicil,
19 January 1839:
item: All household furniture, plate,
linen, china,
books &
pictures to executors in trust, for use
of unmarried
daughter.
[In 1810, Richard is described as a clerk to
the firm of McCarthy, Hoyles and Brown of London and St. Johns. According to
Keith Matthews in the Earl Kennedy papers, James Branscombe of St. Johns was a
ship's captain who flourished between 1820-1840, in the West Indies trade]
20 February,
Carbonear, Newfoundland: The fiftieth annual meeting of the B.I.S. is held at
Mr. William Branscombe's Long Room.[499]
Royal Gazette
St. John's, Newfoundland
21 February
`All persons having demands against the
estate of the late Mr. William Branscombe of this town, are hereby requested to
send their accounts to the subscribers, to whom all debts due the said estate
are requested to be paid. P.W. Carter & Samuel Mudge ...
WHO OFFER FOR SALE
Belonging to the above estate
1 horse
3 cows
2½ tons of hay
1 carriage
1 sleigh & harness
2 carts and harnesses
A quantity of sticks, blocks, etc..'
2 April, Highweek:
John Branscombe dies, aged 10 months.[500] [seventh child of tanner Samuel & Mary
(Eales - m. 1829)]
6 May: Brealey, carpenter of Dawlish aged 23,
his wife aged 21, and one male child, accepted by Mr.James, agent, for a free
passage to South Australia. Although an embarkation number #2774 is
noted, it doesn't necessarily mean applicants actually embarked or arrived.[501]
June quarter,
Whitechapel district William Joseph Branscomb's birth is registered.[1] [No
marriage registered - could have died Sept Q 1843?]
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Ann Branscombe's death registered.[503]
June quarter,
Bolton district: John Branscombe's death is registered.[504]
17 June, London:
Richard Beard of East Stonehouse, husband of Elizabeth (Branscombe - m. 1825),
files British patent #8109, relating to the colour printing of calicoes and
other fabrics.[505]
23 July: Daniel
Branscombe born, son of Josiah L. & Charlotte (Brewer, m.1836). [poss
siblings: Cynthia (1841), Anna Mariah (1834), Sarah Elisa (1846), Stephen Henry
(1849) Alice M. (1853).]
August, Paris: L J
M Daguerre announces the world's first commercially successful photographic
process. `H de St Croix, who had attended Daguerre's first demonstrations,
started similar shows in London on 13 September ... Richard Beard purchased the
right to use the process for £150 annually, and in June of 1841 bought outright
Daguerre's patent rights for the process in England.'[506]
2 August, St.
Andrew's, Holborn: Marianna Ursula, fourth child of solicitor Walter & Jane
Branscomb of 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, baptised. Born 7 March.[507] [Walter (b. 1797) is the son of James &
Sarah (Jackson - m. 1795) of Holborn. In the 1861 census, Marianna, still
unmarried, says she was born in St. Brides parish. siblings: Sarah Marianna (1833), Walter James
(1836), (Samuel ABOUT 1837?), James Alexander (1838), Alexander Charles (1846)]
9 August, Van
Diemen's Land: Thomas Branscombe receives the title deed for 500 acres of land
in Launceston.[508] [cf: 1826 a Thomas is tenant and agent in
Kensington & 1832 is owner of a farm at O'Brian's Bridge, Glenorchy]
13 August, St.
John The Baptist, Shoreditch: William Branscombe, bachelor porter of full age,
marries Sarah Whelpdale by banns. William is living at Gloucester Street, Hoxton,
and is the son of Thomas Branscomb (deceased), a City Officer [& Sarah?].
Sarah is a widow of full age, of New Inn Yard. Her father, John Park
(deceased?) was a milkman. Both parties signed their names. The witnesses were
John Park & William Ballard [who witnesses many marriages at this time].[509] Registered as William Branscomb, September
quarter, Shoreditch district.[510] [Poss b. 1809 Shoreditch, bp. 1810
Bishopsgate, son of Thomas & Sarah? William & Sarah possibly registered
in the 1861 census for Hampstead, licensees of the "White Horse"?
Sarah and son Thomas (1845) are registered in the 1881 census for West Ham
occupying the same house. Sarah is listed as a widow]
September quarter,
St. Thomas district: Elizabeth Jane Branscombe's birth is registered.[511] [poss. m. 1865 Lambeth?]
24 October, Van
Diemen's Land: Thomas Branscombe buys 29 perches of land in Hobart.[512] [cf: 1841 & 1844 - more land purchases in
Glenorchy & Melville]
24 October,
Grayson County, Virginia: Nancey Branscom marries John Marshall. [entry also for 7 November, Nancy Branscum
marries John Marshall][513]
24 December:
`Three quarters of a mile of Dowland Cliff split off and sank into the sea
overnight.'[514] [east of Seaton] `About 20 acres of land
subsided, carrying with it cottages, fields and hedgerows, leaving a ravine
150' deep and 300' wide, and forcing land ahead of it into the sea. Offshore, a
mile-long reef was forced up about 40' high, but it subsided shortly
afterwards. Astonishingly, one cottage was borne along with events to arrive near
the shore more or less intact, and the crops in the transported fields were
harvested the following year, when there were great celebrations and people
came from far and wide to look and wonder.'[515]
Captain William
Branscombe skipper of the barque Jane
Prowse, 208 tons, on a voyage from Liverpool to Lima.
William Waymouth,
builder, apprentice of Robert Cornish junior, made a freeman of the City of
Exeter
Alfred Stephen of
Van Diemen's Land, is appointed to the bench of New South Wales. An address of
thanks is published in the Australian
newspaper on 9 May 1839. Among the dozens of signatures of grateful residents
and land-owners of Hobart and surrounding areas is one Thomas Branscomb. [poss Thomas who m. 1827 Hobart, Hannah
Regan?]
John Sims Reeves
[1818-1900], famous English tenor and later teacher of Edward George Branscombe
[George Edward Salmon], makes his first public appearance as a vocalist.[516]
Samuel Cunard is
granted a large subsidy to carry British mail across the Atlantic. His first
regular service used four wooden paddle steamers.[517]
George Branscombe
of Topsham [b. 1824] goes to sea as a Boy.[518] [cf: 1845]
Highweek: Anna
Branscombe, daughter of Samuel & Mary (Eales - m. 1829), born. [cf: 1851 census for Exeter St. David -
unmarried visitor in the household of George Cline? Anna d.1913?]
December quarter,
Oxford district: Frederick Alphonso Branscomb marries ? [519] [Frederick b. ABOUT 1821 d.1902 Birkenhead,
m. Harriet Hitchcock d.1891, Birkenhead.[520] Children: Susan Elizabeth (1841), Harriet L (c.1848), Frederick John Pennington
(1849), Rosette (1851), George Arthur (1852), Samuel (c.1858). Sidney/Sydney
(1855)?]
28 December,
Topsham: Fanny Pearse, daughter of builder Samuel Whiteway Pearse of Topsham,
& Barbara, is baptised.[521]
Approximate year
of birth of Charles Halsey, ninth child of third great-grandparents James &
Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [Baptised
1839. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?), James (1824?), George (1826?), Emmanuel
(1827?) John (1829?), Ann (1833?), Thomas (1834?), Emma (1837?), Eliza (1843?)]
Tithe commutations
in Dawlish produce a detailed assessment of landowners and tenants for this
year. An estimate of titheable land in the prologue to the apportionment tables
gives a total of 4217 acres; 2725 arable, 500 pasture, 429 wood, 25 common, 172
orchard & garden, 368 furze & course land. The gross rent estimated for
the parish, including the Glebe, is £800.3s, of which £440.3s goes to the vicar
and £360 to the appropriators.
PIGOT'S 1839
DIRECTORY FOR CHELMSFORD, ESSEX
Susan Branscombe grocers
and tea-dealers
[poss m. 1847 Heavitree, Stephen Farmer?]
ROBSON’S 1839
DIRECTORY FOR BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Branscomb &
Benson, solicitors, Church Street, Aylesbury
@1840
15 February,
Greensville County, Virginia: George L Branscomb marries Mary A.D. Robinson.245
March quarter, St.
George in the East district: Sarah Branscomb's death is registered.[523]
3 May, Topsham:
William Shepherd Salter Pearse, son of builder Samuel Whiteway Pearse of
Topsham & Barbara, is baptised.[524] [cf: 1839]
June quarter,
Islington district: Sarah Elizabeth Branscomb's birth is registered.[525] [poss married 1881 St. Saviour (Southwark)?]
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Anna Branscombe's birth is registered.[526] [remained a spinster - d.1913, eighth child
of Samuel (tanner of Highweek, b. 1792, d.1874) & Mary (Eales - m. 1829,
d.1847), & sister of Elizabeth (1829-60), Anna (1831-36), Emily (1832-72),
Charlotte (1834-83, spinster), Louisa (b. 1835 - spinster), Mary (1837-52),
John (1838-39), Lucy (1842-57), John (1843-51), Amelia (1846-63) & Rebecca
(b & d 1847)]
12 June, Bratton
Fleming: The will of Thomas Brownscombe is proved in the Court of the
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.[527]
29 July, Wesleyan
Chapel, Newton Bushell: John Branscombe Crews witnesses the marriage between
John North and Mary Gillard.[528][cf:
1810 Highweek, Charles Crews marries Mary Branscombe]
4 August, The Royal Gazette, St. John's,
Newfoundland:
Lately, in St.
John's Church, Amelia Branscombe, third daughter of the late William
Branscombe, was married to John Winter M.D., the son of George Winter, of the
Ordnance Department, by the Reverend T.F.H. Barnes.
[William Branscombe, `much respected inhabitant
of this town', d.21 January 1839]
17 August, St.
John The Baptist, Shoreditch: John Branscombe, bachelor wood turner of full
age, marries Emma Scales, spinster of full age, by banns. John is resident at
Pritchards Place, and is the son of John Branscombe (deceased), mercantile
clerk. Emma, of the same address, is the daughter of Thomas Scales (deceased),
coachman [& Sarah?]. They both signed the register, and the witnesses were
Frances Muckett & William Ballard [who
witnesses many marriages at this time].[529] Registered September quarter, Shoreditch
district.[530] [In the 1881 census for Hackney, John says he
was born in London circa 1819. cf: 1818 for poss. birth of John & 1841
census. Children of John & Emma:
Thomas (1845), Mary (1848), John (1852), William (1853), Edwin (1856), Emma
(1861), William Mortlock (1863), Ernest (1865), Alice Maud. (1869)]
September quarter,
Bath district: Elizabeth Emily Branscombe's birth is registered.[531] [possibly d.1841 December Q, or 1849, Bath
district?]
September quarter,
Exeter district: George William Branscombe marries ? [532] [poss son of William Tucker Branscombe &
Elizabeth (Lake - m. 1809 Exeter), b. 1815 London? Lay vicar & `Professor
of Music'? cf: 1851 census. Also cf: 1843 marriage of George William Branscombe
- the same person? This marriage may be to Elizabeth Wedderburn Sydney, who
dies in 1841, shortly after the birth of their daughter Effie. The second wife
may be Amelia Julia -?]
14 September, St.
James, Paddington: Richard Branscombe marries Eliza Lovelace. (IGI) Registered
in the September quarter, Kensington district.[533] [poss. b. 1817 Ashburton, first child of
Richard, tanner of Newton Bushel, & Mary (Edwards - m. 1816 Ashburton). At
the time of this marriage, Richard is a carpenter living in Dudley Grove and
his father has become a baker. On his
death in 1872, Richard junior is a licenced victualler]
29 November,
Manchester Cathedral: George La French, son of Mary Ann Branscombe, christened.
(IGI) [cf: 1846, 12 July, Manchester
Cathedral, spinster Mary Ann Branscomb of 1 New Street, Salford, daughter of
William Branscomb, Engineer, marries Henry Wall]
December quarter,
Bolton district: George Branscome marries ? [534]
December quarter,
Bolton district: William Branscome's birth is registered.[535] [poss d.1841 March Q Bolton?]
December quarter,
Clifton district: Mary Branscombe's death is registered.[536]
19 December:
Captain William Branscombe departs Liverpool with the James Matheson, en route to Cape Town and Sydney. (First voyage in charge of this
vessel?)
James Matheson (1796-1878) and William Jardine (1784-1843) formed an opium trading business called Jardine and Matheson. They even published newsletters called Opium Circulars, which gave information about various opium markets and their current prices.
David Matheson, a younger family member resigned from the family business rather than profit from the drug trade, since opium destroyed many lives. Matheson's nephew, Hugh Matheson, used his profits in the mining industry. His company, Rio Tinto Zinc Company, still exists today.
James Matheson's mother's family, the McKays, held the title of Earl of Inchcape. The McKays conrolled the board of steamer lines. The first opium clipper ships, were called the Alexander Baring and the Falcon. [537]
Cowes: The Grecian
Queen is launched. (William Waymouth Branscombe to captain, in 1855)
`It was, for the
first time in English history, an age of emigration on a large scale. In 1840, 90,743
emigrated.' [538]
The population of New Zealand is estimated at 100,000. (reduced to
40,000 by 1870.)
The `penny post' is introduced. One of the great
innovations of Victorian Britain, it lasted 78 years, to 1918. It saw the
introduction of the world's first postage stamp.
Tithe map of
Dawlish shows the estate called , consisting a house, yard & orchard,
owned and occupied by [Capt] Joseph Branscombe. [d.1866 Dawlish, b. 1784 Dawlish, son of John & Agnes (Pike - m.
1781 Dawlish), brother of John (1782 - 1795?), Anne (1787 - 1787), Sarah (1790
- 1849), Catherine (1793 - 1855), John (1796), Anne (1798) & Capt. William
(1803). Married Hannah Williams in 1827. She died in 1831]
Hounds Pool is owned and occupied by brock, Richard Brock.
Shutterton is owned by eales, Richard Eales and occupied by pitts, William Pitts.
Duck Aller is owned and occupied by newman, Sir
Robert Newman.
The Great Western
Railway opens.
`[The Times] obtained its nickname of `The
Thunderer' in the 1840s, from the tough leaders of Captain Edward Sterling.'[539]
The Royal Navy
General Service Medal is issued to survivors of naval campaigns of the late
eighteenth-century, including the Battle of the Nile.
DIRECTORIES 1840
John Branscombe
& Co., tea dealers, are established at 88 Pall Mall East. Lord de Saumerez
has an address in Pall Mall, at the United University Club.
Walter Branscomb, solicitor, has offices at 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street [cf: 1841 census].
Robert Branscombe & Co., iron & steel merchants & wholesale
ironmongers, have premises at 27 Old Fish Street. [cf: 1834 R Brandscombe, wholesale ironmonger, 195 Upper Thames Street. May be Robert Bradford, son of William
& Jane of Topsham, baptised 23 July 1797? - cf: 1841 Marylebone census]
William Salmon, linendrapers, are at 22 Red Lion Street, Holborn.
Also in Red Lion Street, number 12, in Clerkenwell, is John Beard,
engine-turner.
William John Beard, plumber & painter, is at 9 Bedford Place, Southwark
Buildings Road.
John Halsey & Son, painters & glaziers, are at 1 Jewin Crescent,
Cripplegate.
Charles Hambridge, coachsmith, spring and hoop tire manufacturer, is at 73
Curtain Road, Shoreditch.
Edward Charles Hooton, merchant, is at 2 Walbrook Buildings.[540]
Thomas Bartlett, dealer in marine stores, is at High Street, Hadley, Chipping
Barnet.[541]
David Howie
settles on Robbins Island.
The James Matheson is surveyed at Dartmouth for a voyage from Liverpool to Sydney.
William Branscombe
of Torquay [b. 1825] is apprenticed to the sea.[542] [cf: 1845]
Dawlish: The
parish church, dedicated to St. Gregory the Great since before 1301, changed
dedication after 1840 to St. Michael. `Dedications to St. Gregory indicate
churches of an early date, and they represent Saxon recognition of St.
Gregory's influence in the conversion of England.'[543] Other churches in east Devon dedicated to St.
Gregory are Harpford, Seaton & Venn Ottery.
William Doubleday,
b. 1823 Newcastle, first goes to sea as a boy, according to information on his
mariner's ticket, 1846.[544] [poss relative of Mary Doubleday, m. 1844
Monkwearmouth, Samuel (James) Branscombe of Hastings?]
Taunton: Margaret
Branscombe, born 1812 Dumfriesshire, Scotland, marries Henry Fisher. Children:
William (1842), Henrietta (1844), Albert (1848), Margaret (1854 Melbourne,
Victoria) [545]
Approximate year
of birth of William Brankston, who dies at sea in 1884, aged 44, on board the Gulf of Venice.
Westminster:
Approximate year of birth of Joseph Branscombe, d.1919 Portsmouth, aged 78. [cf:1901
census for Portsmouth]
@1841
6 January, Grayson
County, Virginia: G.M. Branscom marries Sally Lundy.[546]
24 January,
Exeter: Anna Maria Branscombe, illegitimate daughter of Mary Underhill of
Magdalen Street, baptised. Born December 1829.[547]
7 February,
Morchard Bishop: John, son of Sophia Branscomb, of Polson Hill, single woman
[serge-weaver], christened. [no father listed]
[548] Birth possibly registered in March Q. Crediton
district? [549] Sophia was the daughter of Joseph,
serge-maker, and Frances Horwell. She married widower John Davy in Morchard
Bishop in 1844.[550] In
the 1851 census, by which time Sophia is a widow, her son John is known as
Branscombe, although her other two sons are called Davy. [John Branscombe, d.1888 Heavitree, future husband of Ellen & father
of Robert Douglas][551]
14 February:
Captain William Branscombe departs Cape Town in the James Matheson.
March quarter,
Tiverton district: Charles Branscombe's birth registered.[552] [could have died, Sept Q 1842? Could have
married 1869?]
March quarter,
Kingsbridge district: Dorcas Garland Branscombe's birth is registered.[553] [Dorcas/Dorchas Garland, fourth child and
second daughter of carpenter William Branscombe of Kingsbridge & Grace
(Neyle? of Chillington, nr. Kingsbridge - m. 1834 Plymouth?). m. 1883
Camberwell? cf: 1839,1841 census]
March quarter,
Bolton district: William Branscombe's death is registered.[554] [poss b. 1840 Dec Q Bolton? cf: 1842 John
Dodd Branscombe's death registered, Bolton district]
23 March, London:
Richard Beard opens England's first commercial photographic portrait studio on
the roof of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, 309 Regent Street. He employed
the Daguerrotype process, for which he was paying Daguerre £150 annually in rights. With rights
also to the recently-invented Wolcott mirror camera, which cost him over £7000,
and a faster exposure process which he had paid a chemist, John F Goddard, to
perfect, he was ready to make money. In June, he bought Daguerre's exclusive
rights in England, which didn't prevent a rival, Antoine Claudet, from opening
a studio in a glasshouse on the roof of the Royal Adelaide Gallery, just off
the Strand, in the same month. In his first three months, Beard made £3000.[555]
27 March,
Tiverton: Mortgage by demise for 1000 years of Grist Mills close of land and
orchard in Elmore, Tiverton, upon trust for sale, for securing £200 and
interest. Mrs. Rebecca Maunder, widow of Bampton, is lending the money to
Robert Pring of Bampton, baker, and Sarah his wife. The late Bartholomew
Branscombe of Tiverton, miller, died seised of the property. In his will, dated
22 January, 1821 and proved on 6 July 1821, he bequeathed it to his son James.
Bartholomew died on 27 March 1821. On 28 January, 1833, James died intestate.
Sarah (Pring) was his only child.
29 March, Bristol:
Charlotte Mortimer Branscombe born. Daughter of John Branscombe of Kingsbridge
& Anne (Graham, of Gibraltar - m. 1833). Baptised 28 April 1841 at St.
Paul's, Bristol.[556] Registered June Q. Bristol district.[557] [Named after John's mother, Charlotte
Mortimer, who married William Branscombe, (inn keeper?)/tanner, at Wolborough
in 1789. cf: 1881 census for Highbury - Charlotte, aged 40, is in residence.
She died in 1923, a spinster, at "Kingsbridge House", 166 Highbury
New Park, the house her father is said to have built on his return from China.
Siblings: John Graham (1834), Ellen (1837), Henry (1844)]
15 April: Captain
William Branscombe arrives in Sydney Town, master of the barque, James Matheson. The voyage from
Liverpool has taken 98 days.
20 April, St.
James, Westminster: Maria Mary Branscombe marries Nathaniel Rusk.[558] [poss. Maria Mary, daughter of John &
Mary Branscomb? bp. 11 March 1829, St. Ann's, Blackfriars - adult christening -
born 25 February 1814. Parents poss John & Mary Ann (Lambeth - m. 1803
London)? Poss siblings baptised in Southwark: Eleanor Ann (1804), Emily Sophia
(1807), John Stephen (1809), Clara Elizabeth & Eliza Sarah (1812)]
22 May: Captain
William Branscombe departs Sydney for Valparaiso, in ballast. (coal?)
June, Plymouth:
Richard Beard opens the first commercial photographic portrait studio outside
London, in his home town.[559]
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Robert Bowden Branscombe marries Mary Linnards. [560] [apprentice seaman, aged about 21, son of
William, shoemaker of Tormoham, & Ann(e). Children: William (1841), Mary
(1843), Eleanor (1845), John (1849). Robert is dead by the 1881 census, when
Mary, a monthly nurse, is registered in Paddington with her daughter Katherine,
an unmarried upholsterer b. about 1858 in London. Mary says she was born in
Dawlish (c.1818)]
1841 CENSUS
6 June: The
British census records a population of 14,995,508 in ; 91,321 in . has nearly 2 million. Only 5 other
cities have populations over 100,000. The enumerators are charged with
recording in detail for the first time who slept in which premises on the night
preceding, even if they are not physically present at the time of the census.
They also had to estimate the numbers sleeping in boats, barges, sheds, tents,
in the open air or in mines or pits. Ages had to be accurate for those 15 and
under, but all other ages were supposed to be rounded down to the nearest five.
Thus a 19 year-old would be registered as 15. [in fact many enumerators simply
recorded the exact age] Place of birth was only indicated, in this census, by a
mark if the person was or wasn't born in that particular parish of England or
Wales. Foreigners, Irish and Scots had special marks. Enumerators were also to
make a note of any extraordinary movements of population on the day which would
otherwise distort the figures for an area, including an assessment of the
reasons why. There was as a stiff fine for anybody refusing to answer.
The population of Devon is estimated at 532,959.[561]
The population of Torquay is 5982, up from 1925 in 1821.[562]
London - City
At 1 Wine Office
Court, off Fleet Street, Walter Branscomb (43), solicitor, is head of his
household. He was born in the County of Middlesex [1797 Holborn, to James &
Sarah (Jackson - m. 1795)]. His wife, Jane (38), was not born in Middlesex, or
in England and Wales. The three children listed were all born in Middlesex:
Walter [James - b. 1836 Holborn], Samuel (4) [no record so far of his birth -
try St. Brides?], Marianna [Ursula - b. 1839 St. Brides]. There are two
house-servants, both born in Middlesex: Jane Brown (24) & Anne Glendon
(17).[563]
According to the St. Andrew's, Holborn,
register, there were two other children baptised to Walter & Jane before
this date: Sarah Marianna [bap.1833] & James Alexander [b. 1837]. Sarah
would have been about 8 if she survived. James Alexander goes on to get married
[1860] and die [1897]. He was born at about the same time as Samuel above, of
whom there is so far no further mention, and for whom there is so far no sign
of baptism. Perhaps the two are somehow the same person? There is a fifth
child, Alexander Charles, born to this couple in 1846, listed in the 1861
census for 3 Ormond Place, Camberwell, by which time Walter senior is a
widower.
Old Fish Sreet:[564]
Henry Holt 30 packing-case maker No
Ann
" 40 (?) Yes
Charlotte (Hailes?)20 (?)
"
Ann " 15
"
Ann Beckett 12
"
_________________________________________________________
John (Gould?) 17 (?) No
John Bush 40 book-keeper Yes
Lydia " 40 (?)
"
_________________________________________________________
Robert Branscombe 44 ironmonger No
James (Millman?) 21 N "
_________________________________________________________
[Robert may be Robert Bradford, son of
William & Jane of Topsham, baptised 23 July 1797? - cf: Marylebone census]
London -
Shoreditch
Pritchard's Place,
Hackney/Shoreditch:[565]
Sarah Scales 55 seamstress Born in Middlesex
John Branscombe 20 turner "
Emma 20 dressmaker "
[John, possibly born in 1818, is the son
of John Branscombe, mercantile clerk, deceased by the time of his marriage to
Emma in 1840. Sarah is Emma's mother, widow of Thomas Scales, coachman, also
deceased by 1840]
New Inn Yard,
Shoreditch:[566]
Gilbert Clampit 36 turner Not
born in Mdx
Dianna 27 "
Elizabeth 5 "
Ellen 3 Born
in Middlesex
Frank Branscombe 17 apprentice Not born in Mdx
William (Harvie?) 28 cabinet maker
[Poss b. ABOUT 1824 Newton Bushel, son of
Richard? cf: 1856 Frank Branscombe marriage. Poss d.1907 Christchurch district? John Clampit, 30, man servant born
in Devon, resident at Luscombe House, Dawlish, home of Charles Hoare, in the
1841 census]
London -
Marylebone
19 Upper George
Street:[567]
James Hunt 40 (corndealer?) No
Sophia " 40 "
Mary " 6 Yes
_________________________________________________________
Sarah Little 15 F.S. "
Jane Morel 35 Ind.
"
_________________________________________________________
John Taylor 75 Ind.
"
Jane " 65
"
Ann Barrett 20 F.S.
"
_________________________________________________________
Geo. Goddard 15 architect "
_________________________________________________________
[Jane Morel may be the future wife of
Robert Branscombe, merchant, m. St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, 5 February 1842.
If so, she is a widow, born Jane Randall, daughter of William Randall, livery
stable keeper, deceased at the time of the marriage. Robert is the son of
William, a farmer, also deceased at the time of the wedding. This may be
William Branscombe of Topsham, in which case Robert would be Robert Bradford
Branscombe, bap. Topsham 1797, or it may be William of Bampton. Robert may be
the Robert Branscombe who is registered in Old Fish Street, City of London, as
an ironmonger, aged 44, in this year's census]
London - St.
Pancras
Egremont Place:[568]
Richard Beard 35 coal merchant No
Elizabeth " 25 ind. "
Richard " 15 "
Mary " 13 "
Ann " 11 "
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Ralphs 25 F.S.
"
_________________________________________________________
[Richard Beard, (b. 1801 East Stonehouse,
m. 1825 Wolborough) opens London's first public photographic studio, in Regent
Street, this same year. Elizabeth his wife is Elizabeth Branscombe, daughter of
John & Mary of Highweek]
Exeter
The census finds
third great-grandfather Edward Branscombe and family resident in
exeterBartholomew Street, Exeter. Edward is working for Messrs. . [cf:
1843. Ages over 15 in this census are supposed to be rounded down to the nearest
5 years][569]
Not
born in Exeter
Edward Branscombe 50 painter "
Ann 47 "
Thomas 17 tailor (app.)
"
Edward 15 labourer "
Elizabeth 10 "
Robert
7 "
Also in
Bartholomew Street, William Sparke, probably the person described as a friend
and neighbour, in the Exeter Flying Post
report on Edward's death, 1843:[570]
William Sparke 35 mason Born
in Exeter
Ann 30 Not
born in Exeter
William 3 Born
in Exeter
Edward
1
"
8 dwellings
further on in Bartholomew Street:[571]
Lewis Gregory 40 smith Born
in Exeter
Mary 35 Not
born in Exeter
Jane 7 "
Charles 3 Born
in Exeter
William 1
"
Johanna (Tucker/ (house-keeper/
Tuckerman?) 82 seamstress? Not born in Exeter
[cf: 1830 - Lewis Gregory marries Mary
Ann Branscombe in Dawlish. A Lewis Gregory of Bartholomew Street was the
informant of the death of Ann Branscombe, first wife of William, shoemaker of
Torquay. She died in Bartholomew Street in 1849]
Still in
Bartholomew Street:[572]
William Chenneour 48 labourer Not
born in Exeter
Mary 45 "
Mary Ann 19 Born
in Exeter
Frederick 15
"
William 14 brickmaker "
Charles 13
"
John 10
"
Richard 8
"
Charlotte 6
"
[This is the family of Mary Ann
Chenneour, here aged 19, who married second great-grandfather Edward Branscombe
in Coventry, 1847. Mary's father, William, is then described as a servant.
William's parents were from Lanteglos, Cornwall. His wife Mary's maiden name
was Southcombe. They were married at St. David's, Exeter, 16 September 1815]
In Mary Arches
Street, 7 dwellings up from Fore Street:[573]
Grace Holman 50 (laundress?) Not born in Exeter
(Thirza/Theresa?) 24 "
William 20 (coppersmith?) "
James 30 plasterer (Scotland?)
Sarah 30 Not
born in Exeter
Frederick 1m Born
in Exeter
Dawlish
The population of parish is 3132, spread over 5017 acres.
[cf: 1871] Returns include:
jewell, King Street
Samuel; Jewell 70 DawlishBorn
in Devon
Old Town Street:[574]
Olivia Knighton 49 independent
"
Jane Railton 9 visitor Scotland
Louisa Stentiford 25 F.S. Born
in Devon
_________________________________________________________
George Voysey 25 shoemaker "
Jane " 25 "
[cf: 1826 & 1863 Henry Voysey, master
bootmaker of Portsmouth, father of Edwin George Voysey, master shoemaker,
traded in Gosport & Portsmouth][575] [cf: 1850 trade directory - Dawlish]
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Dolling 62 nurse
William
" 33 j. carpenter
[cf: 1802 Mary Dolling of Newton Ferrers]
Mariner Cottage, Old
Town Street:
Elizabeth Tucker 45 independent "
Mary
" 40 " "
_________________________________________________________
Mary Bassett 20 F.S.
"
voysey, Dawlish
Water
Joseph; Branscombe 50 independent means dawlish
Sarah " 40 F.S.
"
[Joseph was born in 1784, so should be
57. Could Sarah be Joseph's sister b. 1790? If so, she should be 51. She dies at Dawlish Water in 1849, aged 59.
One of my notes also has a male, Stuckey/Starling aged 20, in this household. Joseph married Hannah Williams in Dawlish
in 1827, but she died in 1831]
_________________________________________________________
Anna Willis 75 farmer
"
William " 40
"
Sophia Branscombe 35 independent means "
Sarah Ann "
6
"
[This is Sophia (Willis), m. Captain
William Branscombe 1834. Sophia may be the daughter of Thomas & Anna
Willis, and the brother of William. Thomas Willis was the tenant of the
Branscombe estate in Dawlish Water 1793-8. By 1840, this is owned by Joseph Branscombe,
brother of Captain William, registered in Dawlish Water (above). If Thomas was
the above Anna's husband, and if he has perhaps died, Anna could be working the
farm with the help of her son. Sarah Ann is Sophia & William's only child.
William is away at sea, half-way through a trip to Sydney]
Eastdon:[576]
Richard Eales 80 Clerk of the Peace "
Elizabeth " 75
"
Ann Branscombe 35 F.S.
"
Elizabeth Drake 30 "
"
Jane Underhill 15 "
"
Sarah Elson 20 "
"
[In 1840 the Shutterton estate is owned
by a Richard Eales. Also cf: 13 May 1829, Highweek: Samuel Branscombe marries
Mary Eales. In the 1851 census, Michael Eales is the head of the household,
while his cook is Elizabeth Hodge, an orphan b. about 1804 in Starcross. cf:
Robert Branscombe's widow, Joanna, married a Hodge in Dawlish, in that year]
[Aller is occupied by Battins (cf: John
Branscombe Battin of Exmouth) - Richard & Ann Brook are at Botchell Farm -
Samuel, William & Ann Maunder are ag labs at Branscombe Farm - William Pike
is an ag lab at Duckaller with his wife Mary, and William & Sarah Gilpin]
Cockwood:
[William Ferris, farmer, is resident and
also the census enumerator. There is a Louisa Morrish, 26, shop-keeper]
Marine Parade:[577]
William Pearse 60 mariner Born
in Devon
Jane " 30
"
Louisa " 20
"
Anna " 20
"
[cf: 1775 Kenton, William Pearce, mariner
of Dawlish, marries Mary Pearce of Kenton]
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Knighton 60 lodginghouse
keeper "
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Harding 30 independent "
Mary Hill 20 upholstress "
_________________________________________________________
Frederica Carmichael 45 independent Not born Devon
" " 20 "
_________________________________________________________
George Beard 50 builder Born
in Devon
Mary " 50
"
George " 20 j. carpenter "
Mary " 15
"
Jane " 15
"
Thomas " 45 cabinet-maker "
Mary " 35
"
Albert " 9
"
Elizabeth "
7
"
Mary " 1
"
[George senior's wife Mary is probably
Mary Hoare. They married in Dawlish, 1819. Mary aged 15 (actually 19) will
marry William Waymouth Branscombe in 1854]
Teignmouth Hill:[578]
Thomas Beard 75 independent Born in Devon
Sophia " 55 "
Mill Row:[579]
John Beard 55 builder Born
in Devon
Ann
" 45 Not
born Devon
John " 20 j. carpenter Born in Devon
Susanna " 15
"
_________________________________________________________
Charles Miller 9 Not born
Devon
Brunswick Place:[580]
Nicholas Beard 45 builder Born
in Devon
Sarah
" 45 Not
born Devon
Ann " 15 Born
in Devon
_________________________________________________________
Ann Cott 45 grocer Not born Devon
Lucy " 45 H.S.
"
[Nicholas Beard is the enumerator for
this book]
Strand:[581]
John Knighton 60 independent Born in Devon
Amelia " 70 Not born
Devon
[A Jno. Knighton of Dawlish, aged 10,
joined the crew of HMS "Orion" in 1795, with Roberts Branscombe
father & son]
_________________________________________________________
Daniel Litton 40 chemist Not
born Devon
[+ wife & child] [cf: 1831 - then at #16 Strand]
Beach Lane:[582]
John Pearce 50 ag labourer Born in Devon
Mary " 45
"
_________________________________________________________
William Knighton 60 shoemaker Not born Devon
Ann " 50 independent Born in Devon
_________________________________________________________
Mary Battin 50 independent "
Caroline "
7
"
Richard " 14 apprentice
?
_________________________________________________________
Edward Welch 20 coastguard service Born Ireland
Dinah " 20 Born in Devon
Lea Grove House,
Little Park Street:[583]
Thomas Holman 75 gardener Born
in Devon
Johanna " 40 H.S.
"
Mary " 45 H.S.
"
_________________________________________________________
Margaret Casely 35
"
Charles
" 1m
"
[This is a dwelling attached to Lea Grove
House, residence of Lady Watson, 45, of independent means, not born in Devon.
She has five servants living in the main house]
Park Street:[584]
Samuel Blackmore 30 ag labourer Born in Devon
Elizabeth " 30 "
_________________________________________________________
James Connatt 75 dairyman
"
Mary Connett 70
"
[cf: 1854 James Connatt m. Johanna
Branscombe, dtr. William of Torquay & Ann]
_________________________________________________________
Edward Luscombe 35 victualler "
Sarah " 35 Not born
Devon
Frances " 2 Born in
Devon
_________________________________________________________
Nicholas Beard 80 Navy H.P.
"
Elizabeth " 65 "
_________________________________________________________
William Fish 45 post boy
"
Ann " 30 "
_________________________________________________________
William Hill 45 coastguard service Not born Devon
Charlotte " 40
"
" " 15 "
Harriet " 13 "
George " 4 Born in
Devon
[Also in Park Street, Henry Coombes, 35, ag
lab, & Ann Coombes, 35, both born in Devon; Richard Friend, 35, j. mason,
& Sally, 30, both born in Devon; Thomas Smith, 45, shoemaker, born in Devon]
Park Lane:[585]
Thomas Holeman 35 plumber Born in Devon
Ann " 35 "
Richard " 13 "
Mary Ann " 11 "
Eliza
9
"
William " 7
"
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Bowden 60 independent "
Queen Street:[586]
William Hayman 48 plumber Born
in Devon
Mary " 48 "
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Berry 60 independent
"
Jeffery Knott 38 tinman
"
Thomas Shipton 19 plumber
"
Richard (Shamell?) 20 painter
"
_________________________________________________________
William Sparke(s?) 50 baker
"
Mary
" (50?)
"
_________________________________________________________
Frederick Battin 15 M.S.
"
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Brooking 30 (sh?)
"
Mary
" 7
"
Elizabeth " 7m
"
King Street:[587]
John Tucker 23 mason
"
Anna " 25 laundress "
Anna " 5m
"
_________________________________________________________
James Tucker 65 independent "
Mary " 65 "
Elizabeth " 35
"
Chapel Street:[588]
John Pike 35 cordwainer "
Elizabeth Pike 35 "
Mary " 12 "
Robert " 10 "
John " 8
"
Amelia " 6
"
Emma " 4
"
Christopher Pike 2
"
Susanah " 8m
"
Brook Street:[589]
James Davey 40 blacksmith "
Susanna " 35
"
Mary " 14 "
Elizabeth " 12
"
Susanna " 10 "
Maria " 4
"
Charlotte " 10m
"
[cf: 1820 Exeter - Mary Ann Branscombe
marries James Davey. Also, two Beavis-Branscombes of Withycombe Raleigh marry
Daveys from Stockleigh - see below]
Manor Row:[590]
Henry Pike 27 cordwainer "
Sarah " 24
"
Lucy " 2
"
_________________________________________________________
William Hooper 30 carpenter "
Mary " 25 "
Elizabeth "
1
_________________________________________________________
Thomas Gay 30 mason
"
William "
8
"
[cf: 1835 Branscombe & Gay, builders
of Exmouth]
_________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Pike 40 laundress
"
Frederick " 20 shoemaker
"
Thomas " 16 "
George " 10 "
Merifield's Row:[591]
James Pike 30 ag labourer "
Torquay
[8
Church Lane, Tormoham, Lower Union Street & Bradns Row - to be checked]
(Ballsdon?)
Terrace:
Mary; Branscombe 20 laundress
[possibly Mary Jane Harriet, second child
of Robert Bradford Branscombe & Amelia (Clare), bp. 1822 Topsham, m. 1848
Plymouth?]
Lower Union
Street:
Wm. Brimmacombe? 45 marble mason
Elizabeth 45 wife?
Susan 20 daughter?
Elizabeth 15 straw bonnet-maker
William 12 son?
[cf: 1850 Whites Directory - Henry
Branscombe, clothes dealer of Lower Union Street, Torquay. Polwhele; says
(1793) the cliffs near Marychurch
contain the best marble in Devon][592]
Withycombe Raleigh
Josias Beavis 75 blacksmith
Mary " 45
George " 20
William" 15
Charlotte " 12
Josias " 9
[Mary Ann Branscombe, daughter of William
& Sarah, married Josias Knight Beavis, blacksmith, in Withycombe Raleigh,
1827. She is his third wife, and his junior by 31 years. Although the register
describes her as a spinster, Mary Ann had three children baptised on the day of
her marriage: George (b.3 November 1819), William (b.2 April 1825), and Sarah
Ann (b.29 July 1826). They were all baptised as Branscombe, although they
immediately adopted the name Beavis. There is no direct evidence Josias was the
father of all or any of them, but he did leave his business to George, which
may indicate he was the natural heir. Josias and Ann produced two children
after their marriage, Charlotte and Josias Knight. Between this date and 1842,
their son William, aged 16 at this time, a tinsmith, travels to Jersey, where
he marries Ann Davey from Stockland. The marriage register says he is from
Exmouth. He and Ann migrate to Australia in 1854, where they are both buried,
in Mudgee cemetery. Note Sarah Ann, b. 1826, is missing from this entry]
Berkhampstead,
Herts.
Glossoms End:[593]
William Halsey 50 labourer Born
in Herts
Elizabeth 52
"
"
George 11
"
"
High Street:[594]
William Halsey 45 baker "
(Jean/Joan?) 30 Not
born in Herts
William 10 Born
in Herts
Harry 8 "
Isabella 6 "
Charlotte 3 "
Littleham
22 Beacon:[595]
George Westcott 55 Ind. Not
born in Devon
Mary " 40 "
Amelia " 20 "
Mary Gilman 70 Ind. "
Susan Branscombe 20 F.S. Born
in Devon
Harriet Kinsey 15 F.S. Not
born in Devon
[There are at least two candidates for
Susan, who could have been born any year between 1816-1821: Susanna Mary, first
child of Robert Branscombe of Topsham & Amelia (Clare), bap.1821 - see
below OR Susan(ne?), daughter of Edward & Ann (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth),
bap.1819. Joseph Westcott, aged 11, is a house-servant for Joseph Branscombe at
Dawlish Water, in the 1861 census]
The Quay:[596]
Thomas Perriam 26 mariner Born
in Devon
Mary Ann 25 "
_________________________________________________________
William Branscombe 57 mariner
"
Jane
" 57 "
Mary Ann Giles 10 "
[This may be William, bp. 1781 in
Topsham, whose newspaper apology to Charles Gifford appeared in 1817. His
brother Robert, bp.Topsham 1797, also a mariner, married Amelia Clare in 1821.
Their first child, Susanna Mary, who may be the Susan at 22 Beacon, above,
would have been the niece of William & Jane. She married a Joseph Perriam in about 1843, who
would have been about 25 at this time. He and all their children, were born in Exmouth. cf: 1851 census for more on
Perriam connection. An Exmouth newspaper [597] report of
16 April 1852 refers to a Richard Giles, who was slain with a knife on board
the schooner "Richard Hill" of Exeter on 14 August 1851 in Lowestoft
Roads, Richard Street of Exmouth was tried at Ipswich in April 1852, charged
with the "feloneous slaying" of Giles. He was sentenced to one day in
prison]
Bicton Street:[598]
Joseph Perriam 50 master RN half-pay Born
in Devon
Ann " 40
"
George " 10 "
Ann " 9 "
_________________________________________________________
John Branscombe 45 carpenter "
Elizabeth " 50 "
[John Branscombe, carpenter, aged 46,
baptised Withycombe Raleigh 1794, son of William & Sarah (Haymen - m. 1793
Withycombe)? His first wife, Elizabeth (Seward - m. 1816?) also hails from there, she's 53. He
marries his second wife, Mary Ann ? after the 1851 census and before he died in
1872 in Exmouth. cf: 1851 census for Bicton Street. Children of John & Elizabeth: Henry (1817) & Charles (1819),
both builders. Henry d.1876 in Victoria, Australia]
Fore Street:[599]
Sarah Eveleigh 40 shopkeeper
"
" " 23 dressmaker "
_________________________________________________________
Hannah Davis 32
"
John Branscombe 22
"
John Bastin 23 bricklayer "
Thomas Charles 14 bricklayer ap. Not born Devon
[could be John Branscombe Bastin, b. 1818
Littleham, 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]
_________________________________________________________
William Beavis 38 coal dealer Born
in Devon
Elizabeth " 36 "
William
" 15
"
Thomas " 13
"
Faith
" 5
"
Charlotte " 5m "
_________________________________________________________
Susan Star 75 lodger
"
Webbers Lane,
Cross Street:[600]
William Clay 43 tailor j. "
Sarah " 43 "
Thomas " 12 "
Ellen " 7
"
_________________________________________________________
Ann Branscombe 14 F.S.
"
Bishopsteignton
In the village:[601]
Andrew Holman 40 ag labourer Born in Devon
Mariah " 35 "
Andrew " 1 "
_________________________________________________________
William Weeks 12 F.S. child "
_________________________________________________________
Richard Holman 40 shoemaker Born in Devon
Elizabeth " 40 "
Henry
"
9
"
[This is the Holman family whose son,
Henry, marries Sarah Ann Branscombe, only child of Captain William & Sophia
(Willis), in 1856. By the 1851 census, Richard has become a farmer and has
taken in William's sister, Catherine, as a lodger]
Bampton
Brook Street:[602]
Susan Branscombe 35 independent Not born in Devon
Susan " 15 "
[could this be Susan junior, daughter of
James (d.1827 Chelmsford/Bampton?) & the future Mrs Phillips of Heavitree?]
(Britain?) Street:
James Greenaway 50 -? officer Born in Devon
Sarah " 50 "
Mary Ann " 20 "
Thomas " 14 "
Matthew Brown 20 M.S.
"
Edward Cottrell 15 M.S.
"
Jane Lyddon 40 F.S.
"
(Ellen?) Greenaway 75
"
[James Greenaway is the enumerator for
this census. His wife is Sarah Branscombe, daughter of William & Sarah,
brother of Richard, below. (Ellen?) may be his mother]
Box Hedge, Petton
Quarter:[603]
Robert Brinscombe 30 baker Born
in Devon
Martha
" 35
"
Luke Street:[604]
Richard Branscombe 35 maltster Born
in Devon
Francis
" 30 independent "
Matilda " 30 Not born in Devon
Frederick " 7 "
Charles " 4m "
Betsey Cottrell 40 F.S. Born
in Devon
Sarah Hill 40 F.S.
"
[Richard and Francis are the brothers of
Sarah Greenaway above]
Dulverton -
Somerset
Wood Living:[605]
Betty Rice 70 farmer Born
in Somerset
Grace Boaden 70 "
Ann Frost 55 independent "
Grace Branscombe 55 " "
Robert Bindon 40 butcher "
_________________________________________________________
Robert Sully 15 ag labourer "
Mary Woodbury 14 F.S. "
William Austen 25 ag labourer "
_________________________________________________________
[Grace Branscombe may be the widow of
William Branscombe, farmer of Bampton, and mother of John Hinam Branscombe. Her
maiden name may have been Hinam. There is a John Hinam of similar age living
nearby - perhaps her brother? It may be that Grace came from here, originally]
Higher Marsh:[606]
John Hinam 55 independent Not born Somerset
Jane " 40 "
Lawrence Hart 17 independent "
Harriet " 20 "
Charlotte " 20 F.S. Born
in Somerset
Richard Mogford 20 ag labourer Not born Somerset
Isaac Venn 20 " "
William Balmont 16 " Born in Somerset
John Wolcomb - " "
[Also in Dulverton, at Fore Street,[607] George Anstey, 30, Clerk Ind., & Eliza
his wife, 29, neither born in Som., and their 5 children]
East Teignmouth
Quay Street:[608]
James Brimblecombe 40 master mariner Born in Devon
Ann
" 40
"
_________________________________________________________
Sophia Thomas 29
"
George " 9
"
[Also in East Teignmouth,[609] John Bidwell, painter & glazier, and
family]
Dodbrooke -
Kingsbridge
Eburyton Street OR
Barrack Street:[610]
Grace Branscombe 28 Born
in Devon
Eunice "
7 "
Frederick " 4 "
Frocham " 2 "
Dorcas
" 3m "
[cf: 1851 census, when this family is
living in Kingsbridge, at Fore Street. William Branscombe aged 38, a carpenter,
is then head of the household. As with all his family except his wife Grace, he
was born in Kingsbridge. Grace (Neyle?), aged 36, was born in nearby
Chillington. They possibly married in St. Andrew's, Plymouth, 22 January 1834.
Their daughter (Elizabeth) Eunice is 16 and unmarried. Son Frederick, though
only 14, is said to be a carpenter. Another son, aged 12, has the unusual name
of Fracham. Their youngest daughter, aged 10, also has an unusual name, Dorchas
(Dorcas Garland) poss m. 1883
Camberwell]
Goveton -
Charleton (Kingsbridge)
William Bartlett 50 farmer Born in Devon
Mary
" 50
"
Stephen Nichols 25 M.S.
"
William Di**nd 12 M.S.
"
Hanna (Dine?) 20 dressmaker "
Elizabeth (Dine?) 20
"
John Branscombe 6
"
[Bartletts & Branscombes were
together in East Budleigh in 1782 - cf also: George Bartlett Branscombe &
wife Catherine 1805 in London]
Ensham - Oxfordshire
Queen Street:[611]
George Hambridge 33 Born in Oxfordshire
Sarah " 31 "
Mary " 8 "
Thomas " 6 "
George " 3 "
Hastings - Sussex
West Hill Cottages
(Hill Street?):[612]
Mary Branscomb 55 ? wife Born in Sussex
Mary
" 30 daugh "
William "
8 son "
[Mary may be the wife of blacksmith
Samuel Stace, and the mother of Samuel (James) Henry, mariner/miner of
Newcastle, who marries 1844 Monkwearmouth, Mary Doubleday and again 1866 in
Ararat, Victoria, Annie Elizabeth Vibarr? In 1847, a Mary Branscom marries in
the Hastings district. William is the right age to be William Thomas, mariner,
apprenticed 1845. Samuel (James) d.1870 Ballarat, Victoria]
6 July, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Harrison Branscomb marries Polly Ann F Hamilton.[613]
August: Wheat
prices in are 86s/quarter.
`On 2 August 1841,
Owen gave his famous lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of
Science at Plymouth, on the subject of the land-dwelling fossil reptiles. Owen
was a rising star at the Royal College of Surgeons and St. Bartholemew's
Hospital, in London.
16 September:
Cynthia Branscombe born, daughter of Josiah L. Branscombe & Charlotte
(Brewer, m.1836). [poss siblings: Daniel (1839), Anna Mariah (1834), Sarah
Elisa (1846), Stephen Henry (1849, Alice M. (1853)]
September quarter,
St. Thomas district: John Branscombe's birth registered.[614] [could have married 1859?]
September quarter,
London West district: John Branscombe's birth is registered.[615]
September quarter,
Headington district: Susan Elizabeth Branscomb's birth is registered.[616] [prob daughter of Frederick Alphonso
Branscomb & Harriet (Hitchcock - m.
1839 Oxford, d.1891, Birkenhead) [617] Poss siblings: Harriet L (c.1848), Frederick
John Pennington (1849), Rosette (1851), George Arthur (1852), Samuel (c.1858)]
September quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Lucy Branscombe's birth is registered.[618] [prob daughter of tanner Samuel & Mary
(Eales - m. 1829) of Highweek. d.1857 aged 15]
18 September, Van
Diemen's Land: Thomas Branscombe buys 74 acres 2 roods of land at Glenorchy.[619] [cf: 1839 & 1844 for other land purchases
at Hobart & Melville]
25 November, Holy
Trinity, Exeter: Effie, daughter of accountant Charles William Branscombe &
Elizabeth Wedderburn Sydney, Friars, baptised.[620] Birth registered December quarter, Exeter
district.[621] December quarter, Exeter district: Elizabeth
Wedderburn Sidney Branscombe's death is registered.[622] [Registered as Effy, daughter of accountant
Charles William & Elizabeth Wedderburn Sydney, of Friars (Walk), baptised
25 November, Holy Trinity.[623] No marriage registered, so may have died in
childhood - cf: 1845 Effie d. Lambeth district? 1846 Effie Branscombe born,
Exeter]
December quarter,
Bath district: Edwin Harry Branscombe's birth is registered.[624] [no marriage found, so may have died in
childhood]
December quarter,
Bath district: Elizabeth Emily Branscombe's death is registered.[625] [possibly b. 1840 September Q, Bath district?]
December quarter,
Newton Abbot district: William [Linnards?] Branscombe's birth is registered.[626] [cf: William Branscombe, who is registered in
the 1871 census at 105 Albany Street, St. Pancras, as head of the household,
married, aged 30, born in Devon and a comedian by profession! Also registered
in the 1881 census at 4 New Street, Kensington, aged 39, a clothier - poss. son
of Robert Bowden Branscombe & Mary (Linnards - m. 1841, June Q). A William
L marries 1866, St. James'. A William Linards marries 1875 St. Giles. A William
L Branscombe d.1916 in Fulham, aged 74. Siblings: Mary (1843), Eleanor (1845),
John (1849)]
A private survey
of land in Kingsbridge, carried out this year, shows the tannery formerly owned
by William Branscombe (bp. 1765 Wolborough? Husband of Charlotte Mortimer), on
a lowland site adjacent to the River Dod, in the centre of town, is owned by
Henry Grant.[627]
LONDON POST OFFICE
DIRECTORY 1841
Robert Branscombe
& Co., iron & steel merchants & wholesale ironmongers 27 Old Fish Street. Drs Commons
GORE'S DIRECTORY
OF LIVERPOOL 1841
Branscombe, Samuel hide & leather merchant (Boutcher, Mortimer & Co.), 13
Brougham Terrace, West Derby Road
[Boutcher, Mortimer & Co. are listed
separately at 19 Brunswick Street]
Prowse, Cheshire
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, Joshua shipchandler,
Hope Cottage, Old Chester Road, Tranmere
Prowse & Co. shipchandlers
& sailmakers, 24 Ansdell Street
Prowse, William shipchandler
(J.P. & Co.) & ship &
anchorsmiths (P.C. & Co.), Holt
Hill, Tranmere
Prowse, William Henry rose-engine turner,
43 Newsham Street
EXETER JOURNAL & ANNUAL COMPANION 1841
P Branscombe, fellmonger, Okehampton Street
[this entry is omitted in the 1846
Companion - look this up in the census!]
Newspapers were
divided about what interest such science might have for their readers. The Times, long unenthusiastic about the
BAAS, simply reported that Owen's lecture was `very long'. The West of England Conservative newspaper
definitely did not believe in any advancement of science. In its 4 August
issue, the paper `opposed the almost general expectation that men would be made
wise by the fertilising overflow of science.''[628]
LONDON DIRECTORIES
1841
Walter Branscomb,
solicitor, 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street.
Robert Branscombe & Co., iron & steel merchants & wholesale
ironmongers, 27 Old Fish Street.[629]
Richard Beard & Co., coal merchants. Purfleet wharf, Earl Street,
Blackfriars, & Western wharf, Edward Street, Regent's Park basin. [Richard Beard, (b. East Stonehouse, m. 1825
Wolborough) opens London's first public photographic studio, in Regent Street,
this same year. His wife is Elizabeth Branscombe, daughter of John & Mary
of Highweek. cf: 1841 census St. Pancras, above]
Wm J. Beard, painter & plumber, 9 Bedford Place, Southwark (Building?)
Road.[630]
Rachel Branscombe
(Lafurgie), widow of Arthur of Grand Lake, New Brunswick, Canada, dies aged 90.[631]
`Numbering of
houses within streets was not generally in use until a quite late date. [in Dawlish] only a few thoroughfares
were numbered as late as 1851, though some of the census enumerators went to
the length of inventing numbers, which did not agree with those in use at the
time, and later, for every house in their districts. Numbering grew up
gradually and far from consistently over the next 70 years, and the chaos was
finally resolved by an official re-numbering which was completed in April,
1933.'[632]
There are some 380
lamp-lighters employed in London streets. The city's eighteen gasworks,
employing 2½ thousand people, burn 180,000 tons of coal a year to produce 1.46
billion cubic feet of gas for more than 400,000 customers.[633]
`Between 1801 and
1841 the population of the whole country rose by about 60%, but the large towns
grew by nearly 140%.'[634]
`In addington, the population increased from less than
2000 in 1801 to over 25,000 in 1841. Paddington, through an extension of the
Grand Junction Canal in 1795 had, for a short while, become
an inland port, and in 1831 half the male population of the parish was engaged
in retail trades and small businesses.'[635]
The Hippodrome was
a racecourse covering the area later occupied by the Ladbroke Estate in North
Kensington. It operated from 1837-1841, but was not a success.[636]
118,592 emigrants
left in this year.
The rise of the Benefit
Societies, providing mutual assistance against
sickness and accident. Independent Oddfellows, , , , Order of the Ark and of the Peaceful
Dove, the Loyal Ancient Shepherds and Shepherdesses, Order of Ancient Buffalos, etc.. The Unity had 8000 members in Leeds alone.
The working people of Leeds subscribed an estimated £15,000 annually to
benefit societies, which paid 10s a week to members while sick, with medical
attendance; £10 on the death of a member, and £5 to the widow, if the
deceased's brother was married.
`By 1841,
improvements in printing and technology and paper manufacture meant that
newspapers and magazines were becoming both cheaper and more common. And better
education meant that more people could read.'[637]
Approximate year
of birth (St. Johns, Newfoundland?) of Elizabeth Catherine Branscombe, second
daughter of William. She dies in 1861, aged 20.[638]
Queens County, New
Brunswick: John Branscombe born. Receives his captain’s ticket, St John, New
Brunswick, 1873.[639]
@1842
The James Matheson is surveyed at Dartmouth
for another Liverpool to Sydney voyage, under Captain William Branscombe. Owner
William Prowse. [cf: 28 June, below]
? St. Helier,
Jersey: William [Beavis?/Branscombe?], tinsmith from Exmouth, marries Ann Davey
from Stockland, Devon.[640]
5 February, St.
Mary's, Bryanston Square, St. Marylebone: Robert Branscombe of full age,
bachelor merchant of [19?] Upper George Street, son of William Branscombe,
deceased farmer [of Bampton? or Topsham?], marries Jane Morel, widow of full
age, of same address [cf: 1841 census], daughter of William Randall, deceased
livery stable keeper.[641] Marriage registered in the March quarter,
Marylebone district.[642] [Robert may be the Robert Branscombe who is
registered in Old Fish Street, City of London, as an ironmonger aged 44, in the
1841 census. Possibly d.1843 Marylebone? OR 1854 St. Olave?]
March quarter, St.
George's, Southwark district: Susan Branscombe marries ?
[643]
March quarter,
Bolton district: John Dodd Branscome's birth registered.[644] [poss d. June Q this year, Bolton?]
7 March,
Greensville County, Virginia: Mary Ann Branscomb marries John A Bailey.[645]
22 March, St. Thomas
district: Eliza, wife of William Branscombe, dies.[646] Registered in the March quarter.[647] Said to be of “Topshaw” in the May edition of
the Gentleman’s Magazine.
8 April, Huntshaw:
The will of James Brownscombe is proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of
Barnstaple.[648]
21 May, Grayson
County, Virginia: Elizabeth Branscom marries Churchwell Combs.[649]
June quarter,
Tiverton district: Rachael Branscombe's death is registered.[650] [cf: 1838 - possibly widow of the late James
Branscombe of Tiverton, miller?]
June quarter,
Bolton district: John Dodd Branscombe's death is registered.[651] [poss b. March Q this year, Bolton? cf: 1857
Bolton district - John Dodd Branscomb born and died]
Liverpool
28th June 1842
Capt Branscombe
Dear
Sir
The
Ship James Matheson under your command being now loaded and ready for Sea you
will with the first opportunity sail and proceed to China and there consigning
the vessel to Messrs (Diron?) & Co deliver your cargo according to Bills of
Lading (which are at Whampoa or Hong Kong) and you will perceive that if the
Vessel proceeds up to Whampoa you are to receive 17 P ton additional which you
will (see?) and recover. We
have consigned to you for sale on our account the undermentioned
49 coils de
cordage
4 bales canvas and
3 bales twine
100 barrels ale
and porter
58 kegs paint
100 jars paint oil
A quty of naval
stores
180 deals
The whole of these articles being invoiced very low and by the last accounts
being all scarce we anticipate a very handsome profit upon them you will
dispose of them for the best price you can get but should you think your
consignees could dispose of any of them on better terms than yourself you can
authorise them to do so and if you are not able to sell the whole while you
stop leave the remainder with them along with the invoices instructing them to
dispose of them as soon as possible and on the best terms they can account to
us for the proceeds
With regard to your homeward freight the present unsettled state of China
prevents us from giving you any definite instructions and we must leave it
entirely to yourself to obtain the best that may be going for Liverpool or
London but on your arrival and discharge should freights be low or scarce you
might then endeavour to obtain employment for the vessel in the Country until
an Amendment took place if you could obtain a fair offer
In chartering for Tea see that in your Bills of Lading the freight is expressed
P ton of 50 cubic feet and not by the Company's Weight
You must keep us advised by every opportunity both by ship and the Overland
Mail (especially by the Mail as the vessel is only insured out and (hle?) 30
days after arrival) of your progress and proceedings during the voyage letting
us have a duplicate of each letter and as we have given you a discretionary
power in the management of the vessel we trust to your judgement and exertions
for our Interest as well as the Interest of all concerned
Wishing you a pleasant and prosperous voyage we remain your respectfully
I
Prowse Co.
`In those days of
slow communications the Captain of a ship was usually his own agent,
responsible not only for the safety of the ship but for securing payable
freight. It was for this reason that many captains were sold a small share in
the ship in the belief (or hope) that he was more likely to be careful in his
business transactions when he was going to participate in any resulting profit.
If the master was not the owner of a small number of shares in the ship (the
legal ownership of ships was, and still is, divided into sixty four shares -
for reasons lost in the mists of time, but generally assumed to be derived from
the number of oarsmen in a Norse galley who each shared in the loot gained in
raiding parties) the Captain was often tied to the interests of his owners by
payment of a small retainer and a percentage of the profit of the voyage.
Either way, the system often worked to the detriment of passengers. The
Captain, naturally seeking the highest return from his cargo or passengers,
supplied the latter with as little as possible, be it food, water or space.'[652]
September quarter,
Bath district: George Branscombe's birth is registered.[653] [poss m. 1869 St. Thomas?]
September quarter,
Tiverton district: Charles Branscombe's death is registered.[654] [possibly b. 1841 Tiverton district?]
Sir Edwin Chadwick
publishes his parliamentary report, On
the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population. In it she showed the
link between insanitary living conditions and disease. He urged strong
Government action to bring sanitation reform. He said disease costs more than
sanitation would. The report was an instant success and over 30,000 copies were
sold or given away. It forced the reluctant Home Secretary, Sir James Graham,
to appoint a Royal Commission, the Health
of Towns Commission, to look into the state of the towns. Not surprisingly,
when the Commission reported in 1844, it endorsed everything Chadwick had said
in his report of 1842.[655]
Lord Shaftesbury
introduces a famous reforming law, prohibiting the employment of women and
children underground.
The Vagrancy Act
is brought in to deal with the problem of homeless soldiers after the
Napoleonic Wars. Under its provisions, begging became an offence. It was still
in force in 1994.
128,592 emigrate
from England.
John Branscombe
born, Carroll County, Virginia. (cf: 1864)
@1843
7 January: Third
great-grandfather Edward Branscombe, painter, of Bartholomew Street, Exeter,
goes missing. He is found in the Exe River, five weeks later. His pocket-watch
had stopped at 11:21pm.
8 January, Bratton
Fleming: Betsy (Elizabeth), daughter of Thomas Brownscombe, christened. (IGI)
5 February,
Withycombe Raleigh: Sarah Branscombe, aged 80, buried. Wife of William
(deceased) and grandmother of William, tinsmith of Mudgee.[656]
16 February,
Exeter: Third great-grandfather Edward Branscombe, found drowned in the Exe
River, aged 52. The death is registered in the St. Sidwell's
sub-district. The Coroner is Jno. Warren, of Bradninch Place. The death is
registered on 15 March by Frederick (Granley?) Farrant, Registrar.[657]
The Exeter Flying Post
DISCOVERY OF THE BODY, AND INQUEST ON THE LATE UNFORTUNATE EDWARD BRANSCOMBE.
It may be recollected that on the night
of Saturday the 7th of January last, Edward Branscombe of this city, painter,
was missed - supposed to have been accidentally drowned - but although
publicity was given to the circumstance, and other means used, the body of this
unfortunate man was not discovered until Thursday last. The deceased was 52
years of age, a married man with a family - of very steady habits - and
latterly residing in a small cottage opposite the entrance to the New Cemetery,
Bartholomew Street (North). He had been in the employ of Messrs. White &
Rouse, of this city, painters etc., for ten years, being highly valued by his
masters, and respected by his fellow workmen and all who knew him. Indeed such
was his steadiness, and the confidence reposed in him, that whenever men in
this line were required to work at Haldon House (Messrs. White & Rouse
being among the tradesmen employed by Sir Lawrence Palk), Branscombe was always
sent as one of them, and had been so employed in the week preceding his death.
His body was discovered in this way. Other means having failed, on Wednesday
last (12 March], William Sparks, an officer of the Exeter Relief Society - a
neighbour, and on friendly terms with the deceased and his family - employed
two men, named William Finnemore and George Baker, to search the river
commencing at Head Weir. They pursued their search through that day, and
resumed it on Thursday morning, and about half-past two o'clock in the
afternoon, discovered the body (with the exception of one leg), imbedded in
sand and mud, a few yards below the landing place opposite the ferry at the
quay, and rather towards the Haven Banks side of the river than otherwise. The
deceased had all his clothes, including his great-coat, on, and his hat
missing. And such was the quantity of sand held by his clothing, particularly
the great coat, that it was with difficulty the body was raised. His pockets
were full of sand.
The body was in a state of decomposition, and being placed
in a boat, was taken up the lake by the foundry, and there lodged. The inquest
was taken at five o'clock that evening before John Warren Esq., Coroner for
Exeter, at Balcock's Custom House Inn, Quay Gate. On an inspection of the
clothing, it was found the watch of the deceased stopped at twenty-one minutes
past eleven o'clock, but was not down, and it was judged this must have been
about the time that, by some means, he became immersed in water. In his
pockets, there were 14s.9d. three-farthings. It was learned that the deceased
has recently suffered from attack of jaundice, and that this was only the
second week of returning to his work. From Haldon House he had a commission to
execute, and money to pay to a person residing on St. David's hill, and this he
had done. From the evidence of Mr.Rouse (White & Rouse), it appeared that
Branscombe arrived at the shop about half-past six in the evening, and was paid
his wages. Messrs. W. & R. that evening gave a supper to the men and
persons in their employ at Bromfield's Victory public house, Sidwell's Street,
and there, with his fellow workmen, Branscombe went, but complaining that he
did not feel very well, did not stop to supper. he was, however, prevailed upon
while he sat there, to take a couple of glasses of brandy and water. From this
place he returned home, and gave his wife his wages. He then said he would go
to the Three Cranes public house, South Street, in the expectation of finding
Mr.White, slater and plasterer, there, with whom the deceased had a son an
apprentice, to enquire how the youngster was going on. His wife accompanied him
as far as the shop of Mr.Treffry, grocer, Fore-street, which she entered while
he pursued his way. Mr.Richard Pain said Branscombe came to his house about
half-past nine o'clock on the night in question, and was in conversation with
Mr.White, in a small room adjoining the bar. While there he drank two half-pint
glasses of beer. Mr.White left at about a quarter-past ten, and hearing no-one
in the room, Mr.Pain considered Branscombe had left with him. About a quarter
of an hour afterwards, however, he saw Branscombe go out, and then thought he
must have fallen asleep. He noticed that Branscombe did not go out at the front
door into South Street, but by a back entrance which opens into a lane leading,
according to the direction taken, either into Guinea Street or Sun Street.
Mr.Pain did not notice that he at all appeared the worse for liquor - he walked
steadily and straight on - Mr.White was not in Exeter at the time the inquest
was held. William Wreford, tailor, in the employ of Mr.Ridge, resides near the
Quay. On the night of the 7th of January, soon after 11 o'clock, he was
returning home from New Bridge-street, by the Commercial-road, and when near
Mr.Northam's foundry met an apparently elderly man wearing a drab great coat
and bearing a resemblance in dress and otherwise to the person whose body had
been found. This man asked the witness to tell him the way to Mary
Arches-street. He directed him to follow the lamps until he came to
Bridge-street,and then turn to the right. The person replied that when he came
there, he should know where he was. This man did not appear to Wreford,
intoxicated; he walked very well. This was all the evidence that could be
adduced, and after considering the circumstances, the jury returned a verdict
of Found Drowned, but by what means he came into the water no evidence has been
produced before the jurors. At 10 o'clock that night the remains of Branscombe
were placed in a coffin, and removed to the room at the entrance to
Bartholomew-yard, and on Sunday - followed by his sorrowing family, and some 16
or 20 fellow workmen and friends - interred in the New Cemetery.
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: John Branscombe's birth is registered.[658] [probably tenth child of tanner Samuel of
Highweek & Mary (Eales - m. 1829 Highweek). d.1851 Highweek.[659] Also cf: 1874 Poll Book]
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Catharine Branscombe marries ? [660]
June quarter, St.
Thomas district: Sarah Branscombe's death is registered.[661]
15 June, Hobart,
Tasmania: Eliza Branscombe, aged 37, marries Charles Hazell, aged 32.[662] [Eliza b. Bampton 1805.] [663] [poss
son William Branscombe Hazell born, c.1847]
September quarter,
Whitechapel district: William Branscombe's death is registered.[664] [possibly b. 1839 Whitechapel, June Q?]
13 September, St.
Helier, Jersey: Mary Ann, daughter of William Henry Beavis, tinsmith of Bath
Street, & Ann (née Davey), born.[665]
16 November,
Claiborne County, Tennessee: Benny Branscomb marries Andrew J Harmon.[666]
The James Matheson is surveyed at Dartmouth
for a voyage from Liverpool to China, under Captain William (M?) Branscombe.
Bishop Nixon
arrives in Hobart, the first Protestant bishop.
Queen Victoria
declares open Brunel's Thames tunnel, between Wapping and Rotherhithe, after 18
years and £600,000. The road approaches to the tunnel were never built, and it
became a favourite spot for prostitutes and pickpockets. It was never used, as
intended, by road traffic, and is now a part of the Metropolitan Railway Line.[667] [now called the East London line]
church, Exeter, is pulled down, to widen South Street. It had been built originally by the
Saxons, probably in the 10th. century.[668]
Perthshire,
Scotland: Birth of Katherine Clarke, diarist of the 1864 voyage of the Hamilla Mitchell to Dunedin under
Captain William Waymouth Branscombe.[669]
Brunel designs the
first successful iron ship, the Great
Britain. `Although she proved that iron ships could be lighter and roomier
than wooden ones of similar size, the prejudice against iron gave way very
slowly.'[670]
December quarter,
Bristol district: Charlotte Branscombe's death is registered.[671] [possibly b. 1841, June quarter, Bristol?]
December quarter,
Marylebone district: Robert Branscombe's death is registered.[672] [possibly m. 1842 Marylebone?]
December quarter,
Honiton district: William Branscombe's death is registered.[673]
December quarter,
Exeter district: George William Branscombe marries ? [674] [poss duplication or second marriage of
George William, son of William Tucker & Mary, b. 1815 London, a lay vicar
and `professor of music' in the 1851 census. cf: 1840 marriage. Or could this
be George's brother, William George, bp. 1813 Exeter?]
December quarter,
Greenwich district: Mary Ann Branscomb marries ?
[675]
December quarter,
Bath district: Elizabeth Ann Branscombe's birth registered.[676] [probably third child of Henry Branscombe,
carpenter of 6 Beaufort Square, formerly of Littleham, & Mary Ann (Horn -
m. 1836 Exeter). Elizabeth is the only one of their children born out of Devon.
By 1847 they are living in Withycombe Raleigh. cf: 1851 census]
December quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Mary Branscombe's birth registered.[677] [poss d.1847? Or pauper, born Tormoham,
Torquay, in 1851 census, Newton Abbot Workhouse? daughter of Robert Bowden
Branscombe & Mary (Linnards - m.
1841). Siblings: William (1841), Eleanor (1845), John (1849)]
Approximate year
of birth of Eliza Halsey, tenth and last child of third great-grandparents
James & Elizabeth (Bingham - m. 1820 Redbourn). [Baptised 1843. Siblings: Elizabeth (1821?), James (1824?), George
(1826?), Emmanuel (1827?) John (1829?), Ann (1833?), Thomas (1834?), Emma
(1837?), Charles (1839?)]
GORE'S DIRECTORY
OF LIVERPOOL 1843
Branscombe, Samuel hide & leather factor & commission
agent, 11 Brougham Terrace, West Derby Road. Office: 18 Brunswick Street
Prowse, Cheshire
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, Joshua shipchandler,
Parkfield, Claughton Road, Birkenhead
Prowse & Co. shipchandlers
& sailmakers, 24 Ansdell Street
Prowse, Wm. book keeper,
Camden Cottage, Claughton Road, Birkenhead
Prowse, Wm. shipchandler (J.P. & Co.) & shipsmith (P.C. & Co.), Brook Lane, Holt Hill,
Tranmere
Prowse, William Henry rose-engine turner,
13 Belle Street
The first garden
gnomes are imported to Britain.
Bristol:
Approximate year of birth of Emma Bigwood, who marries William Branscombe of
Kingsbridge in Bristol, 1860. Children: Henry James (1862 St. Kilda,
Melbourne), Mary Elizabeth (1863 Richmond, Victoria), William Harcourt (1873 Bristol),
John Ernest Mackay (1879 Barton K district). William d.1912 Eastbourne, Emma
d.1927 Herne Bay, Kent, William Harcourt d.1901 Ashanti. William, aged 72, is
registered in Swansea in the 1901 census, possibly with Emma, John and Mary.
@1844
4 January: Anna
Mariah Branscombe born, daughter of Josiah L. Branscombe & Charlotte
(Brewer, m.1836). [poss siblings: Daniel (1839), Cynthia (1841), Sarah Elisa
(1846), Stephen Henry (1849, Alice M. (1853)]
5 March: Henry,
son of John Branscombe of Kingsbridge & Anne Graham of Gibraltar [m. 1833],
born. Registered 1 April 1844 in the parish of St. Paul's, Bristol.[678] Baptised at St. Barnabas, Holloway, London, 8
July 1862.[679] [poss married, Kensington district, September
Q, 1871? Henry is an executor of his father's will, in 1874. Siblings: John
Graham (1834), Ellen (1837), Charlotte Mortimer (1841)]
18 March, Van
Diemen's Land: Thomas Branscombe and Edward Chaplin buy 100 acres of land at
Melville.[680] [cf: 1839 & 1841 for other land purchases
in Hobart & Glenorchy]
June quarter,
Marylebone district: Ellen Branscombe marries ?
[681]
26 July:
Conveyance from William Hartropp Hull and others, to Henry Branscombe. A piece
of land, being a part of Seven Acres,
with house erected, in Brunswick Road.[682] [Withycombe Raleigh - cf: 1848 for similar
conveyance]
September quarter,
Bristol district: Mary Branscombe's death is registered.[683]
5 November, St.
Peter's, Monkwearmouth, County Durham: Samuel Branscomb, of full age, bachelor
shipowner & master of Monkwearmouth, marries Mary Doubleday, of full age,
spinster of Bishop Wearmouth, daughter of Henry Doubleday, gentleman, by
licence. Samuel's father, Samuel, is a blacksmith. Witnesses are Sarah
(Maddison/Naddison?) & (Frances?) Doubleday.[684] Registered September quarter, Sunderland district.[685] [On the birth certificate of their son Henry
Samuel (1848), Samuel is shown as Samuel Henry Branscombe. By the time of the
1851 census, he is calling himself James Henry Branscomb, born in Hastings. cf:
5 February 1849 - Samuel Branscombe the prosecutor in a case of simple larceny.
Also cf: 1850 launch of the ship "Branscombe" at Sunderland. There
are no Branscombes registered in Monkwearmouth in the 1841 census, and no other
Branscombes in Newcastle in the 1851 census. In an 1844 Directory of Sunderland
[686] there is a Captain Henry Doubleday at 1 Tatham
Street, Bishopwearmouth, but no Doubledays in Tatham Street in the 1841 census.
A Mrs. Ann Doubleday, teacher, is listed at 13 South Durham Street,
Bishopwearmouth, but again, she is not there in the 1841 census. There is a
Philip Maddison, joiner, cabinet-maker and undertaker, at 15 Coronation Street,
Bishopwearmouth, who is registered at this address in 1841.[687] He is then aged 53, and was born in County
Durham. Also in his household is a Sarah Maddison, then aged 70. There is an R.
Maddison at the Customs House Tavern, Thomas Street, Sunderland, in the 1844
Directory, and also at the Brewer's Arms, 93 High Street, Sunderland. An 1856
directory lists a Mary Doubleday running a seminary at 12 Norfolk Street,
Bishopwearmouth, and an R. Maddison, victualler, at the "Friendly
Tavern", 1 Thomas Street, Sunderland. Neither Samuel
Branscombe nor Henry Doubleday are mentioned in the poll lists of this period. Also cf: 1767 Samuel
Branscombe, blacksmith, son of Joshua
Branscombe, becomes a freeman of the city of ,
by succession. cf: 1708 Joshua Branscombe, locksmith,
freeman of Exeter. 1752 will of Joshua Branscombe of Exeter administered. In
the 1851 & 1871 censuses, Mary's birthplace is shown as Durham. Samuel went
to Australia in about 1853 and became a miner. He married again, bigamously, in
1866 in Ararat, Victoria, Annie Elizabeth Vibarr. He died in Ballarat in 1870.
Children born to Samuel & Mary: Mary (1845-1845 Tynemouth), Mary (1846
Tynemouth), Henry Samuel (1848 Newcastle), Charles (1850), Isabella (1853)]
12 November:
Private Thomas F Branscombe of the 34th Regiment of Foot, begins 2 years and
272 days of service. He is finally discharged on 10 August 1847.[688]
16 November,
Morchard Bishop: Sophia Branscombe, spinster, of full age [31], weaver,
daughter of Joseph, serge-maker, and Frances (Horwell), marries John Davy,
widower, of full age, tailor [d.before 1850]. Son of Richard, tailor. Witnesses
Ann Southcott & Samuel Mare.[689] Registered December quarter, Crediton
district.[690] [cf: 1790 Sophia's uncle John married Agnes
Mare - also John Mare witness at marriage of Sophia's half-sister Frances, 1821]
December quarter,
St. Thomas district: Henry Branscombe's birth registered.[691] [poss. m. 1871 Kensington?]
December quarter,
Bristol district: Henry Branscombe [b.Barnstaple about 1809] marries Elizabeth
-? [born about 1814 in Bristol].[692] Henry becomes a haulier in Bath. He and
Elizabeth have four children - Jane Elizabeth (b. 1847), Sarah Ann (b. 1849),
William Henry (b. 1852), in Newport, Mon., and John Thomas (b. 1856) in Bath.
Henry dies in Newport, 1870. [a Henry
also married in Bristol in 1845 - could be this Henry, or could be his second
marriage? cf: 1861 census]
The James Matheson is surveyed at Dartmouth
for a voyage from Liverpool to China, under Captain William Branscombe. Owner
William Prowse. Lloyds of London records show it was wrecked, on this voyage.
The West London
Railway built, from Willesden to West Kensington.
The South Devon
Railway commences construction.
The Devon parish of including the site and demesne of the
former Forde Abbey, (dissolved, 1539) is transferred to
Dorset. Previously, the parish had been in the
unusual situation of being an `island' of Devon, surrounded by Dorset and
Somerset. [Stockland Parish, formerly part of
Dorset, is transferred to Devon from this date]
Torquay: Pigot's
1844 Directory of Devon has no listing for Branscombe under "Boot &
Shoe Makers", but does list, under that heading, William [cordwainer of Combe Pafford in the 1841
census] & Samuel Waymouth, in St. Marychurch. In Exeter, it shows,
under "Gentry", William Branscombe of Summerland Place. No other
Branscombes are listed.[693]
`... less than a
quarter of the 420,000 workers in the cotton industry were men over eighteen.'[694]
Robert Branscombe
[b. 1829 Topsham], son of mariner Robert & Amelia (Clare - m. 1821), is
apprenticed to the sea as a Boy.[695] [cf: 1845]
`Co-operative
stores were established by the working classes in the second half of the
nineteenth century following the example of the Rochdale Weavers who organised
the first successful co-operative in 1844.'[696]
@1845
7 January,
Plymouth: Robert Bowden Branscombe of Torquay is awarded his seaman's ticket.
He is a Mate, aged 25, with brown hair, fair complexion scarred by smallpox,
hazel eyes, and is 5'7½" tall. He can write.[697] [b. 1820 - son of William the shoemaker &
Ann(e), m. 1841 - Mary Linnards. cf: 1849]
10 January,
Newhaven: Robert Branscombe of Exmouth is awarded his seaman's ticket. He is a
Boy, aged 16. He can't write. He's described as 4'9" tall, with a clear
complexion and no distinguishing marks. He has brown hair and grey eyes.[698] [b. 1829 Topsham - son of mariner Robert
& Amelia (Clare - m. 1821)]
17 January,
Dartmouth: William [Waymouth] Branscombe of Torquay [b. 1825] is awarded his
seaman's ticket. He is a Seaman, aged 20, with brown hair, fair complexion,
grey eyes, and is 5'10" tall. He can write.[699]
2 March, St.
Luke's, Old Street, Finsbury: Thomas, first child of John Branscombe & Emma
(Scales - m. 1840), baptised.[700] Registered March quarter, St. Luke's district.[701] [cf: 1841 census. Poss d.1907? Siblings: Mary
(1848), John (1851), William (1853), Edwin (1856), Emma (1861), William
Mortlock (1863), Ernest (1865), Alice Maud (1869). Married Mary A. (?) of
Southwark. By the time of the 1881 census, he was living in Shoreditch with 6
children, working as a wood carver]
26 March, London:
Richard Branscomb of 2 Ely Place, Edmonton, is awarded his seaman's ticket. He
is an Apprentice, aged 17. He can write. He is decribed as "growing",
with a fresh complexion and smallpox scars, light brown hair and hazel eyes.[702] [b. 1828. cf: 1856 Richard Branscomb's death
registered, City of London district]
28 May, Exmouth:
`A singular attempt was made at Exmouth, which may prove a step to the
long-coveted art of flying. At day-break, a man singularly clad was observed to
leave the beach near the sea wall and, by a series of motions with his apparel,
almost similar to those of a bird attempting to fly, he crossed the water and
landed safely on the Warren. The time occupied was about ten minutes. On his
landing he was observed to make some alterations in his dress, and he then
proceeded across the Warren, so that no more was seen of him.'[703]
June quarter,
Pancras district: Thomas Branscomb's birth registered.[704] [son of William & Sarah (Whelpdale?). In
the 1861 census, Thomas is an apprentice, possibly to his father, a licenced
victualler at the White Horse public house in Hampstead. poss d.1907
Kensington? cf: 1881 census, Thomas is unmarried, an “artizan” living with his
widowed mother. a housekeeper]
4 August: The Cataraqui is wrecked, on King Island. 399 drowned. The 9 survivors are found
by David Howie, on August 15.
28 August,
Linskill Street, Tynemouth: Mary Branscombe born. First child of master mariner
Samuel Henry and Mary (Doubleday - m. 1844 Monkwearmouth). Registered 27
September by mother.[705] [d. 25 September. Siblings: Mary (1846),
Henry Samuel (1848), Charles (1850), Isabella (1853)]
25 September,
Linskill Street, Tynemouth: Mary Branscombe dies, of diarrhoea. First child of
master mariner Samuel Henry and Mary (Doubleday - m. 1844 Monkwearmouth).
Registered 27 September by mother.[706] [b.28 August. Siblings: Mary (1846), Henry
Samuel (1848), Charles (1850), Isabella (1853)]
27 September,
Tynemouth District: Mary (Doubleday - m. 1844 Monkwearmouth Samuel Henry
Branscombe) registers the birth and death of her first child, Mary. Referred to
as “occupier” of Linskill Street. [cf: 31
October 1846 - birth of second child, Mary]
September quarter,
Huntingdon district: Lydia Branscombe's birth is registered.[707]
September quarter,
Lambeth district: Effie Branscombe's death is registered.[708] [cf: 1841 December Q. Exeter district - Effy
b. & 1846 Exeter - Effie Julia b.]
15 September,
Tormoham, Torquay: Ellenn, daughter of mariner Robert Bowden Branscombe &
Mary (Linnards - m. 1841), is born. Registered by the mark of Mary, of 8 Church
Lane, Tormoham, on 26 September.[709] [registered at St. Catherines House as
Ellenor.[710] In the 1851 census, she is Eleanor, a pauper
in the Newton Abbot Workhouse.
Siblings: William (1841), Mary (1843),
John (1849)]
2 October,
Portsmouth: George Branscombe of Topsham [b. 1824], is awarded his seaman's
ticket. He is a Seaman, aged 21. He can't write. He is described as 5'7½"
tall, with brown hair, a fair complexion and hazel eyes. He is said to have an
anchor tatooed on his left arm and a man and a woman on his right hand. He has
served six months in the Royal Navy. Last entry reads: `Deserted at Baltimore
19 May 1847.'[711]
Friday
Nov 21, Thames Police Court: Samuel Branscombe, master of The
Countess of Malmesbury, appeared to a summons charging him with having
broke bulk of cargo of coals on the 21st October without paying city dues. Mr
Pearson attended on the part of the city, and Mr Ballantine, a barrister,
attended for the defence. The case was a curious one. The fact of breaking bulk was admitted, but it
was contended that the article upon which the dues were sought to be collected
did not come within the operation of the act, being neither cinders, culm, or
coal. A large square brick-shaped mass was here placed on the table by Mr
Ballantine, whilst Mr Pearson produced a smaller piece of the same substance,
and a long discussion ensued as to whether it was or was not coal. Mr Rose,
inspector of the city coal dues, said the article produced was no other than
coal reduced to powder, and then by some process of mixture with drying by
heat, or otherwise moulded to the present form. Being cross-examined by Mr
Ballantine, the witness expressed as his opinion , that no heat to which the
coal could be subjected would totally disengage the sulphuric acid gas, which
formed one of its inherents. Mr Ballantine said his client had been served with
three separate summonses, describing the article in three different ways, a
fact which implied a doubt even on the part of those who issued them. When dues of this kind were sought to be
exacted, it should be shown affirmatively that the article came within the
meaning of the act; but, in this instance, persons most conversant with coals
hesitated to denominate it by that name. Mr Rose, though not a practical
chymist, yet having great experience as to coals, refused to admit that the
sulphuric acid could be wholly evolved from them. Why did he refuse to make the admission? Because he was aware that, if sulphuric acid
gas were wholly evolved, the coal, losing one of its elements, would become
another substance, as one of the ingredients which constituted coal would be
absent. It could be shown that the
“fuel” (Wyam’s patent), though principally composed of coal in the first
instance, was so changed by the process thorough which it went - had been so
changed by abstraction of one of the elements - that it became another
substance, to which, if a mineralogist chanced to alight on it, he must, to
preserve scientific distinctions, assign another designation. From any substance composed of several
elements, extract one of the elements, and it is no longer the same substance.
The Magistrate, having viewed the mass of “fuel”, which looked like a block of
blackened granite, and having also examined the lesser piece produced by Mr
Pearson, said that, in his opinion, the substance was coal, and would present
all the phenomena of that body to the mineralogist. Even the chymist, though discovering the
absence of sulphuric acid gas, which was not one of the primary elements of
coal, would call it by the same name. Mr Ballantine - Why you may as well call
it wood. Magistrate. - So I should, if it assumed the appearance and
qualities. (Laughter.) If we are rightly informed coal beds were
originally deposits of wood, but being subjected to certain influences assumed
another form. Mr Ballantine. - That is what I contend for. The coal here has undergone a change. The
Magistrate. - But not to an extend which changes it as a generic
substance. It has not been deprived of
an indispensable ingredient. I cannot
consider that substance any other than coal.
If you have a power of appeal you can try, and as to the sulphuric gas,
I consider it not a necessary but an accidental ingredient. You are doing the best for your case, but all
the writers on identity are against you. Mr Ballantine. - Perhaps so, as to the
human being, but not so as to animals, and much less as to inert matter. If there were a duty on the importation of
sheep, but not upon mutton, and that circumstances induced parties to kill
sheep at sea, would you, for the duty’s sake, on the landing, insist on giving
the mutton a misnomer. (Loud
laughter). If I can shew, by scientific
men, that this substance is not coal, surely you’ll pause to consider. If one of the gasses were omitted from our
atmosphere, it would not be the same substance. The Magistrate. - It would
still be an atmosphere, though there would be a difference, as there is between
the atmosphere of this court and that of Hampstead-heath. Mr Pearson. - If you
think you have a case, pay the dues under protest, and try the question by an
action. That has been done in another
case, but the action is allowed to stand over. Mr Burnell, of No.1, Great
Winchester-street, who was acquainted with the process since the commencement,
thought the coal, as a substance, was completely altered by the process to
which it was submitted. The small coals
were subjected to the action of a very high temperature, until the volatile
sulphurous portion was evolved, then bitumen and a portion of peat were added,
which greatly increased the power of combustion. In his cross-examination by Mr
Pearson, Mr Burnell admitted that the bitumen used was coal-tar, and the
portion of peat, as compared with the tar, was but as one to a hundred. He would not swear that all the sulphuric
acid gas had been evolved from the “fuel” on the table. John Greaves, formerly
captain of one of the Waterman steam-boats, had a good deal of experience in
coal. He would not call the substance on
the table by that name. He would call it
“fuel”. There was no sulphurous
exhalation from it, and he wished for the sake of the poor that it was in more
general use, as they could not then be cheated either in quantity or quality.
The
Magistrate. - Well, this inquiry seems likely to make an advertisement for
it. I am held in some suspense, but if I
am called upon to come to an immediate decision, I must express it as my
opinion that the article is coal. Mr Ballantine. - We are desirous of your
decision, Sir, but should like it to remain over for a time, that you may consider
the subject, and that I may produce other evidence. After some further
conversations with respect to arrangement, it was agreed to defer the hearing
until the week after next. [712]
December quarter,
Haverfordwest district: Matilda Branscomb's death is registered.[713]
December quarter,
East Stonehouse district: John Branscombe marries ? [714] [poss John Branscombe, tanner, a widower in
the 1851 census?]
December quarter,
Bath district: Harriet Mahala Branscombe's birth is registered.[715] [cf: death registered St. Thomas, Dec Q 1849.
Also Mahala Branscombe b. 1853 St. Thomas]
December quarter,
Bristol district: Henry Branscombe marries ? [716] [poss duplication or second marriage of
Henry, m. 1844 Bristol district?]
13 December,
Devonport: Private #1092 John Branscombe, carpenter & joiner, born Exmouth,
aged 22 years 4 months, joins the 12th Company, Royal Sappers and Miners. He
serves 305 days and is discharged with a diseased lung, 13 October 1846.[717]
The Great Britain makes her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.
`In North
Kensington, in 1845, 137 houses were built by 31 firms, of which two were
responsible for 26 and 28 each, while none of the other 29 firms had more than
11 houses each ... we are told that house-builders seldom ventured more than a
mile from their yards, or engaged to build more than 10 houses at a time... '[718]
H.M.S. Rattler, 888 tons, 200 h.p., fitted with
the newly developed screw propulsion, is lashed to the stern of H.M.S. Alecto, 796 tons, 200 h.p., fitted with
paddle-wheels, for an official tug o'war. Rattler
towed Alecto backward at 3 knots,
thereby proving the superiority of screws over paddles.[719]
William Thomas
Branscombe of Hastings [b. 1833] is apprenticed to sea.[720] [cf: 1841 census for Hastings. Poss son of
Samuel & Mary? Also cf: poss brother Samuel (James) Henry Branscomb of
Hastings, married Monkwearmouth, 1844 & Ararat, Victoria, 1866]
GORE'S
DIRECTORY OF LIVERPOOL 1845
Branscombe, Samuel hide & leather factor &
commission agent, Mersey Lodge, Bootle. Office: 18 Brunswick
Street
Prowse, Barclay
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, Joshua shipchandler,
2 Parkfield Terrace, Conway Street, Birkenhead
Prowse & Co. shipowners,
shipchandlers & sailmakers, 24 Ansdell Street
Prowse, Wm. master
mariner, Camden Cottage, Claughton Road, Birkenhead
Prowse, Wm. shipchandler
(J.P. & Co.) & shipsmith (P.B. & Co.), Brook Lane, Holt Hill, Tranmere
William Doubleday,
master of the Mary, sails twice from
Newcastle to London, this year.[721] [poss relative of Mary Doubleday, m. 1844
Samuel Branscombe of Hastings? William b. 1823 Newcastle. Receives mariner's
ticket 1846]
@1846
4 January, Christ
Church Spitalfield, Stepney: Henry Firman Salmon, bachelor of full age [24],
marries Jane Beard, spinster of full age [23]. Henry's father, Henry Salmon, is
a wine merchant. Jane's father, John, is a plumber. They are both residing at
24 Union Street, at the time of the marriage. Henry Firman was born in Rochford,
Essex, Jane was born in Saxmundham, Suffolk. Witnesses are Eliza Ann Beard and
Jonathan (Root?).[722] [This is the father of "Edward
George" Salmon/Branscombe, b. 1864, m. 1892, d.1931, singer with/manager
of, the Westminster Glee Singers]
17 January, St.
Helier, Jersey: Charlotte Emily, daughter of William Henry Beavis, tinsmith of
Commercial Street, & Ann (née
Davey), born.[723]
6 February,
Exeter: Effie Julia, daughter of accountant George William Branscombe, of
Friars Walk, & Amelia Julia, born. Baptised Holy Trinity, 8 February 1847.[724] Registered March quarter, Exeter district.[725] [poss first child of lay preacher &
professor of music, William & Amelia J (? - m. 1840 or 1843 Exeter)? Effie
m. 1871 St. Pancras? cf: 1841 - Effy
Branscombe b. Also 1845 September Q. Lambeth district - Effy Branscombe d. Also
cf: 1871 census for St. Pancras. cf: 1848 sister Emma Elizabeth born. Possible other siblings: Louisa/Frances
(185-?), Amelia Clara (1854)?]
March quarter,
Holborn district: Mary Branscombe's death is registered.[726]
March quarter,
Marylebone district: Male Branscombe's birth is registered.[727]
March quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Amelia Branscombe's birth is registered.[728] [poss b. Highweek, eleventh child of tanner
Samuel & Mary (Eales - m. 1829)? Remained a spinster. d.1863]
March quarter,
Exeter district: Charles Branscombe marries ? [729] [his first wife, Harriet. m. second wife Jane
(Baker?) in 1770. Charles is second son of builder John Branscombe of Littleham
& Elizabeth (Seward - m. 1816). He was baptised in Withycombe Raleigh in
1819. He died in Exmouth in 1872, the same year as his father]
30 May: The South
Devon Railway is opened as far as Teignmouth.
June quarter, St.
Thomas district: Sophia Branscombe's death is registered.[730] [b. 1837, daughter of Robert & Amelia?]
16 June: William
Doubleday receives his mariner's ticket #331744. Born Newcastle 25 March 1823.
Literate. Sails as master of the Mary
from Newcastle to London and return, this year.[731] [poss relative of Mary Doubleday, m. 1844
Samuel Branscombe of Hastings?]
19 June, St.
Andrew's, Holborn: Alexander Charles, fifth child of solicitor Walter &
Jane Branscomb of 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, baptised. Born 25 May.[732] [Walter son of Sir James Branscombe &
Sarah (Jackson - m. 1795?). In the 1861 census, Alexander, a scholar aged 14,
is said to have been born in St. Brides parish. siblings: Sarah Marianna (1833), Walter James
(1836), (Samuel c1837?), James Alexander (1838), Marianna Ursula (1839). Later known
as Charles Alexander Branscomb, he marries Maria Ellen Goodwin in St Olave’s
district, Sept quarter 1876, and is the father of Ettie Marianne. Registered in
the 1881 census for West Ham, Essex, as a dock clerk. Children include: Charles
George (1877), Walter Alexander (1879), Gertrude Ellen (1880-1882)]
12 July,
Manchester Cathedral: Spinster Mary Ann Branscomb of 1 New Street, Salford,
daughter of William Branscomb, Engineer, marries bachelor Henry Wall, porter of
the Royal Hotel, Market Street, son of John Wall, joiner, by banns. Witnesses:
Deborah & ? Grant.[733] [cf: 1840, 29 November, George La French
Branscombe christened, son of Mary Branscombe]
September quarter,
Greenwich district: Emma Branscomb marries ? [734] [b. 1818? bapt.1831? or bp. 1823 St. Mary
Whitechapel, daughter of Thomas & Mary Elizabeth, sister of Henry the
hatter of Mile End?]
13 October,
Woolwich: Private #1092 John Branscombe, carpenter & joiner, born Exmouth,
discharged from the 12th Company, Royal Sappers and Miners, with lung disease.
He joined up at Devonport on 13 December, 1845 and served 305 days. His
discharge papers[735] note ‘he has never been tried by a court
martial and ... his general character is exemplary.’ His medical report states:
‘In January last, whilst engaged in extinguishing
a large fire in Wellington Street, Woolwich, he caught a severe cold by getting
wet ... the following day he was admitted in Hospital suffering from a
formidable attack of inflammation of the right lung, which ended in
solidification of the organ. The disease has proved extremely obstinate, and
the symptoms now lead to the conclusion that he labours under confirmed organic
disease of the lungs. Disability caused by his military services.’
The opinion of the
Principal Medical Officer at Woolwich is dated 7 September 1846:
‘After a careful examination, I am of the
opinion that John Branscombe is unfit for service and likely to be permanently
disqualified for military duty and incapable of contributing to earn a (-?)’
Discharge approved
at Woolwich, 22 September 1846. Final Description:
age 23
years 2 months
height 5
feet 8 and a half inches
hair dark
brown
eyes blue
complexion dark
trade carpenter
31 October,
Linskill Street, Tynemouth: Mary Branscombe born. Second child of master
mariner Samuel Henry Branscombe and Mary (Doubleday - m. 1844 Monkwearmouth).
Registered Tynemouth District, 10 December, by the mother.[736] [Not baptised Christ Church, Tynemouth, 1 Jan
1846-12 July 1848. Not baptised All Saints, Newcastle, 1 Jan 1846-31 Dec 1850. Siblings:
Mary (1845-1845), Henry Samuel (1848), Charles (1850), Isabella (1853)]
30 November: Sarah
Elisa Branscombe born, daughter of Josiah L. Branscombe & Charlotte
(Brewer, m.1836). [poss siblings: Daniel (1839), Cynthia (1841), Anna Mariah
(1834), Stephen Henry (1849), Alice M. (1853)]
December quarter,
Eltham district: John Branscombe marries ? [737]
December quarter,
Bristol district: Charlotte Waddams Branscombe's birth is registered.[738] [m. 1870 Clifton district]
General Tom Thumb
tours England. In London, he appears at the Egyptian Hall. `They rush by
thousands to see [him]. They push, they fight, they scream, they faint, they
cry "Help!" and "Murder!"'[739]
Halsey Street,
London SW3, is named about this time, probably in honour of the Reverend John
Halsey, one of the persons heir to a portion of land of which the street site
forms a part.[740]
BATH DIRECTORY
1846
Henry Branscombe carpenter 6
Beaufort Square
Probably Henry Branscombe, builder of
Littleham (m. Mary Ann Horn 1836 Exeter). Their daughter Elizabeth is born in
Bath, registered December quarter 1843, the only one of their children born out
of Devon. By 1847 they are living in Withycombe Raleigh. [cf: 1851 census]
Stoke Gabriel:
Approximate year of birth of Robert Branscombe, carpenter. [cf: 1868 & 1881 census]
John Branscombe
discharged from the Royal Sappers and Miners Regiment, aged 23. He claims to
have been born in Exmouth. He enlisted in 1845.[741]
Devon: approximate
date of birth of Sarah Branscombe, registered with Eliza Branscombe (b. 1856?
Devon) as unmarried dressmakers, in the 1881 census for Lambeth.
@1847
24 January,
Willand: Thomas Branscombe, aged 42, a post-boy, dies.[742] [poss bp. 1803, Whimple, fifth child of John
& Alice Branscombe?]
31 January,
Chatham: Discharge proceedings for Private Thomas F Branscombe of the 34th
Regiment of Foot, are commenced. He started service on 12 November 1844. He is
finally discharged on 10 August.[743]
March quarter,
Tiverton district: Thomas Branscomb's death is registered.[744] [Poss Thomas, aged 42, above?]
March quarter, St.
Pancras district: William Branscomb's death is registered.[745]
19 May, Baltimore:
George Branscombe of Topsham, seaman, deserts his ship.[746] [cf: 1845]
June quarter,
Edmonton district: Edward Branscombe marries ?
[747] [cf: 1828,1845 Richard Branscombe of Edmonton]
June quarter,
Tiverton district: Maria Branscombe marries ?
[748]
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Rebecca Branscombe's birth is registered.[749] [twelfth child of tanner Samuel & Mary
(Eales - m. 1829). Rebecca dies 15 July 1847, aged 10 weeks.[750] Mary, the mother, dies on 3 November this year]
15 July, Highweek:
Rebecca Branscombe [above] dies.
25 July, St.
Woolas, Newport, Monmouthshire: Jane Eliza Branscomb christened, daughter of
Henry & Eliza (b. about 1814 Bristol - m. 1844 or 1845 Bristol). (IGI)
Registered September quarter, Newport district.[751] [Henry, haulier of Bath (b. ABOUT 1809
Barnstaple). Jane m. 1871 Newport? cf: 1849 - sister Sarah Ann]
August, Exeter:
Selina, [b. 1823] second daughter of William Branscombe Esquire & Eliza
(Dacie - m. 1817, Exeter), marries the Reverend William Sloane Evans.[752] Registered September quarter, Exeter district.[753]
August, Heavitree:
Susanna, only child of Mrs. Phillips (re-married?) of Heavitree and the late
James Branscombe of Chelmsford, marries S[tephen?] Farmer of Edinburgh.[754] Registered September quarter, St. Thomas
district.[755] [Susan poss a grocer and tea-dealer in
Chelmsford, 1839? Stephen Farmer cf: will of John Branscombe 1860]
2 August, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Levena Branscom marries Thompson Guffey.[756]
10 August,
Chatham: Discharge for Private Thomas F Branscombe of the 34th Regiment of
Foot. He started service on 12 November 1844, serving a total of 2 years, 272
days. His medical report says he has impaired motion of the left wrist joint.
‘This man has become unfit for Military
Duty on account of contraction and stiffening of left wrist joint, the
consequence of a severe attack of rheumatic inflammation following (???) for
which he was (???) treatment in February 1846, and since that period he has
never performed any duty in the Ranks. This man’s disability has been
contracted in the service, but is not the consequence of Military Duty. It has
not been aggravated by vice or misconduct. He has been 143 days in hospital for
this disease and his conduct while under treatment has been good.’
His discharge is
signed at Horse Guards, by the General Commander-in-Chief. His final
description:
Age 21
Height 5
feet 7 inches
Hair Light
Brown
Eyes Grey
Complexion Fresh
Trade (slater/plaisterer?)
No Marks or
Scars [757]
September quarter,
St. Thomas district, Exeter: Susannah Branscombe marries ?
[758]
September quarter,
Plymouth district: Philip Branscombe's death is registered.[759]
September quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Rebecca Branscombe's death registered.[760] [twelfth child of tanner Samuel & Mary
(Eales - m. 1829, d.3 November 1847). Rebecca dies 15 July 1847, aged 10 weeks.[761] Mary, the mother, dies on 3 November this year]
5 September, St.
Michael's, Coventry: William Branscombe (26), bachelor mason, son of painter
& glazier Edward Branscombe [deceased] & Ann (Starling - m. 1817,
Dartmouth - m ?), marries (Mary) Ann Mitchell, spinster minor, daughter of
labourer John Mitchell, by banns. They both give their address as Much Park Street,
Coventry. Witnesses are Edward Branscombe and Mary Simmonds, who signs with a
mark.[762] In
1851, William & Ann are living with Ann's parents in Rugby.
3 October, St.
Michael's, Coventry: Second great-grandfather Edward Branscomb (21), painter
and glazier, younger brother of William and son of plumber & glazier Edward
Branscombe & Ann (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth - m ?), marries Mary Ann , daughter of servant William Chenneour
of Exeter, by banns. They both give their address as Much Park Street.
Witnesses are Mary Simmons, as at William's wedding a month earlier, who signs
with a mark, and William Johnson. In 1851, Edward & Mary Ann are living in
Manchester.[763] [Mary Ann was living in Bartholomew Street,
Exeter, a few doors away from Edward, at the 1841 census. Her father William
was a labourer at that time, as was Edward. Edward & Mary Ann’s first
child, Henry was born in Exeter this year. Possibly dies Windsor, 1892?]
3 November, Highweek:
Mary (Eales - m. 1829 Highweek) Branscombe, first wife of tanner Samuel, dies,
aged 45.[764] [Mother of: Elizabeth (1829-60), Anna
(1831-36), Emily (1832-72), Charlotte (1834-83, spinster), Louisa (b. 1835 -
spinster), Mary (1837-52), John (1838-39), Anna (1839-1913, spinster), Lucy
(1842-57), John (1843-51), Amelia (1846-63). Mary's last child, Rebecca, was
born and died, earlier this year]
24 November: Otago's first emigrant vessel, the John Wickliffe departs Gravesend, bound for Dunedin.
`In its humble
way, this exodus of Scottish folk was perhaps the last expression of that
religious impulse which reached its climax with the Puritan migration...During
the `Hungry Forties', the departure of an emigrant ship from
Great Britain possessed a poignancy which iron fortitude and inspiring
resolutions could do little to dispel. The breaking, with the abruptness of
death, of hallowed ties, the uprooting of families with the inevitable
separation accepted with the resignation of utter despair, the tears of the
last sad farewell - all these were the accompaniments of scenes that repetition
could never dull.'[765]
December quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Mary Branscombe's death is registered.[766] [wife of Samuel of Highweek - daughter
Rebecca died, September Q this year]
December quarter,
Bristol district: William Branscombe's death is registered.[767]
December quarter,
Hastings district: Mary Branscom marries ? [768] [poss Mary of West Hill Cottages, aged 30, in
the 1841 census for Hastings? Or poss Mary, her mother, aged 55 in the 1841
census? Mary senior may be the wife of blacksmith Samuel Stace, and the mother
of Samuel (James) Henry, mariner/miner of Newcastle, who marries 1844
Monkwearmouth, Mary Doubleday & again in 1866 Ararat, Victoria? In 1864, a
Mary Branscombe's death is registered, in the Hastings district. cf: 1833
William Thomas Branscombe, poss son/brother]
6 December, St.
James Register Office: Ann Smith Waymouth Branscombe, spinster boot-binder of
full age, sister of Captain William, marries bachelor tailor Robert Hannaford,
of full age. They are both shown as living at 47 Carnaby Street. Robert's
father is William Hannaford, a cordwainer, as is of course Ann's father
William. Witnesses are James and Emma Edgson.[769] [cf: 1859] [neither 1841 or 1851 censuses show any sign of Branscombes or
Hannafords in Carnaby Street]
11 December: Dame
Sarah Branscombe [Jackson? - m. 1795], wife of
Sir James, dies, aged 70. (EBMI) [cf: 1848]
John Towson
recommends the Great Circle route for the first time.[1]
John Branscombe
& Co., 88 Pall Mall, tea dealers & purveyors of coffee to the Lord
Steward's Department. (by appointment to Queen Victoria)[771] [Possibly daughter Cecilia married a Hazell
or Bender of Van Diemen's Land? cf: 1851 census]
Walter Branscomb,
solicitor of 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street [son of James & Sarah Jackson - m. 1795].
William Branscomb
grocer & beer retailer of 20 Harmwood Street, Hampstead Road.[772]
John Sims Reeves
[1818-1900], famous English tenor vocalist and later teacher of Edward George
Branscombe [George Edward Salmon], assumes the name of Sims Reeves.[773]
Ontario: Arthur
Branscombe dies. b. ABOUT 1803 New Brunswick, son of Nathaniel & Sarah
(Miller). Married Catherine Burlingham. Children: Reuben B., Sarah A., Phebe,
Nathaniel, Henry William (1837-1924), Elizabeth & Huldah. Henry William was
the father of Gena Branscombe Tenney, pianist & composer.[774]
GORE'S
DIRECTORY OF LIVERPOOL 1847
Branscombe, John gentleman, Belle View,
Netherfield Road North
Branscombe, Samuel hide
& leather factor & commission agent, Mersey Lodge, Bootle. Office: 18 Brunswick
Street
Prowse, Barclay
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, Geo. anchorsmith
(P.B. & Co.), 17a Hill Street,
Toxteth Park
Prowse, John sailmaker,
28 Essex Street, Toxteth Park
Prowse, Joshua shipchandler,
Hemingford Terrace, Parkfield, Birkenhead
Prowse & Co. shipowners,
shipchandlers & sailmakers, 24 Ansdell Street
Prowse, William master
mariner, 11 Portland Place, Everton
Prowse, William shipchandler
(Joshua P. & Co.) & shipsmith
(P.B. & Co.), Holt Hill, Tranmere, Cheshire
Prowse, William Henry rose-engine turner,
4 Harford Street
Approximate year
of birth of Harriet L., (second?) child of Frederick Alphonso Branscomb &
Harriet (Hitchcock - m. 1839 Oxford). [siblings
include: Susan Elizabeth (1841), Frederick John Pennington (1849), Rosette
(1851), George Arthur (1852), Samuel (c.1858)]
William Doubleday,
master of the Mary, sails from
Belfast to London and return, this year.[775] [poss relative of Mary Doubleday, m. 1844
Samuel Branscombe of Hastings? William b. 1823 Newcastle. Receives mariner's
ticket 1846]
Mile End:
Approximate year of birth of William Branscombe, who is registered in the 1881
census for London (St. George) as a deaf and dumb potman servant in the
household of George Gumprecht.
Approximate year of birth of William Branscombe Hazell, poss son of Eliza
Branscombe & Charles Hazell, m. 15 June, Hobart, Tasmania. [Eliza b. Bampton 1805.] [776] [William
m. 31 Oct 1872, Sorell, Tasmania, Susannah Newitt. He died on 28 May 1874 in
Tasmania]
@1848
January: First
edition of the Otago News published, new ZealandDunedin.
6 January, London:
George [Eastman?] Branscombe of Tooley Street [b. 1826 Topsham], a Seaman aged
22, is awarded his seaman's ticket. He went to sea as a Boy in 1838. He is
described as 5'9" tall, with dark brown hair and dark complexion, with
brown eyes. He has a (GB?) anchor and crown tattoo on his left hand. He can't
write.[777] [possibly son of mariner Robert & Amelia
(Clare - m. 1821). If so, his brother Robert (bp. 1829) is also a mariner]
16 January, Stoke
Damerel: Agnes, widow of William Branscombe junior of Kingsbridge, and
`mother', dies.[778] Registered as `Branscomb', March quarter,
Stoke Damerel district.[779] [cf: 1816 William Branscombe junior bankrupt
in Plymouth]
22 February, St.
Andrew's, Plymouth: Jane Mary Harriet Branscombe, spinster of full age, of York
Street, Plymouth, daughter of Robert Branscombe, a pilot, marries James Hooke
Anthony, a bachelor of full age, mariner on the schooner Queen Esther, the son of Thomas Anthony, a dyer, by licence. Jane
signs with a mark. Witnesses: James Hooke Anthony and Elizabeth Bayly.[780] Registered March quarter, Plymouth district.[781] [Mary Jane Harriet, second child of Robert
Bradford Branscombe & Amelia (Clare - m. 1821), bp. 1822 Topsham. cf: 1841
census for Torquay]
24 February,
Exeter: Emma Elizabeth, daughter of accountant George William Branscombe, of
Friars Walk, & Amelia Julia, born. Baptised Holy Trinity, Exeter. Buried 3
May 1848, aged 3 months.[782]
March quarter,
Marylebone district: Mary Branscombe marries ?
[783]
March quarter,
Tiverton district: Sarah Branscomb's death is registered.[784] [Milton: Dame Sarah Branscombe, wife of Sir
James of Bampton (d.1809), dies, aged 70. cf: 1847]
March quarter,
Bolton district: William Branscom's birth is registered.[785] [cf: 1849 Benjamin Branscomb b. & 1852, 30 October, Little Bolton, Lancashire:
George Arthur Branscomb baptised. Benjamin possibly d. March Q, Greenwich
district?]
23 March: Otago's first emigrant ship, the John Wickliffe arrives at new ZealandPort Chalmers after a voyage of a hundred days from
Portsmouth roads.
6 April, Withycombe
Raleigh: Conveyance of a piece of land in Brunswick Road, Withycombe Raleigh,
from William Hartropp Hull & others to Henry Branscombe of Exmouth,
builder, currently engaged in building a house on the land.[786] [cf: 1844 - similar conveyance]
10 April, House of
Commons: Chartist M.P., F.O'Connor, tables a petition signed by 5,706,000
persons, and another signed by 30,000, praying for annual parliaments,
universal suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral districts, no property
qualifications, and the payment of Members. `The petition was then, amidst
great laughter, ordered to be brought up, and the simple sheet containing the
petition without the signatures was brought up and read by the clerk at the
table.'[787]
14 May, St.
Luke's, Old Street, Finsbury: Mary, second child of John Branscomb & Emma
(Scales - m. 1840), baptised.[788] Registered as Branscombe, June quarter, St.
Luke's district.[789] [Poss. m. 1875 Bethnal Green? Siblings:
Thomas (1845), John (1851), William (1853), Edwin (1856), Emma (1861), William
Mortlock (1863), Ernest (1865), Alice Maud (1869)]
June quarter,
Exeter district: Emma Elizabeth Branscombe's death is registered.[790]
June quarter, St.
Thomas district: Harry Branscombe's birth is registered.[791] [prob b. Withycombe Raleigh, son of Henry,
builder, & Mary Ann (Horn - m. 1836). Cf: 1851 census for Withycombe. In
the 1881 census for Camberwell, a Harry Branscomb, bricklayer, of the right age
is registered with his wife Emma and four children. He states he was born in
Bath, but there’s no record of it. In the 1901 census for Southwark, he’s
almost certainly working as a bricklayer,registered with his wife Emma. He now says he was born
in Exmouth, while she says she was born in the City of London. Poss d.1924 Southwark
district?]
21 August, St.
Lawrence, All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Henry Samuel Branscombe born. Son of
master mariner Samuel Henry & Mary (Doubleday - m. 1844 Monkwearmouth).
Registered by Mary 22 September.[792] [Not baptised All Saints, Newcastle, 1 Jan
1846-31 December 1850. In the 1851 census for St. Lawrence Row,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Samuel is shown as James Henry Branscomb. Possible
siblings: Mary (1845-1845), Mary (1846), Charles (1850), Isabella (1853). Henry
marries Mary Swan of Durham, poss Dec Q 1870 in Gateshead? They have at least
four children, all baptised in Newcastle: Robert Oliver (1871), Mary (1873),
Henry Samuel (1874), Charles (1876). Henry is described as a boot &
shoemaker in 1871, a boilermaker in 1873, and a rivetter in 1874]
27 August, Sun
Street, Exeter: William Henry, first child of plasterer Thomas Fox
Branscombe I & Mary (Hill - m. 1855 Notting Hill), born. Registered
September quarter, Exeter district.[793] [Thomas is son of third great-grandparents
Edward (deceased) & Ann (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth). William Henry
becomes a plasterer, like his father, & marries Caroline Newson in 1873, in
Paddington. He is still alive, living in Paddington, in 1931. Possible
siblings: Ann Starling (1849), Edward Thomas (1852-55), Emily (1856), Thomas
Fox II (1857), Mary Jane (1859), Eliza Esther (1860)?]
29 August: Cape lighthouse comes into service, the
second on the Australian mainland.
3 September, St.
Matthews, Rugby: Ann Elizabeth, daughter of William Branscomb & Ann, is
christened. (IGI) Registered June quarter, Rugby district.[794] [daughter of William & Ann (Mitchell),
niece of Edward of Dawlish]
12 October, Rye:
William Thomas Branscombe of Hastings [b. 1833], Apprentice aged 15, is awarded
his seaman's ticket. He is described as 5'0" tall, with sandy hair and
fair complexion, hazel eyes and no distinguishing marks. He can write.[795] [cf: 1847 Mary Branscom & 1818 Samuel
(James) Henry Branscombe, mariner/miner of Hastings]
December quarter,
Whitechapel district: Henry Branscomb's birth registered.[796] [poss m. 1873 St. Olave?]
December quarter,
West Ham district: John Branscombe's birth registered.[797] [poss John, b. Canning Town, general
merchant, registered with his family in the 1881 census for Newington? If so,
he is the father of Frederick John, cork merchant. Poss m. 1872 December
quarter, Camberwell, Agnes P? cf: 1901 census – John registered in Lambeth, a
wholesale stationer’s accountant, born Canning Town]
December quarter,
St. Thomas district: Joseph Branscombe's birth is registered.[798] [m. 1864 Torrington?]
December quarter,
London East district: Matthew Branscomb's birth registered.[799]
21 December, St.
Leonard's, Shoreditch: George Bartlett, bachelor bricklayer of King Street, son
of labourer John Bartlett, marries servant Emma Bonnett, spinster of full age,
daughter of gardener Charles Bonnett, by banns. They both sign with a mark.
Witnesses are George Yarrow and Martha Baker, who signs with a mark.[800]
Karl and Friedrich publish their Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Richard Jeffries is born, at Coate.
`It was as early
as 1848 that [electricity's] use for lighting was first demonstrated in London
when battery-powered arc lamps lit up a part of Trafalgar Square.'[801]
Bryant Waymouth,
grandson of Henry Waymouth, founder of the Western Bank in Exeter, migrates to
Adelaide with his young family. His uncle, Colonel Samuel Waymouth, is on the board
of the South Australian Company. Waymouth Street in Adelaide is named after
him.[802]
John Sims Reeves
[1818-1900], famous vocalist and later teacher of Edward George Branscombe
[George Edward Salmon], becomes the premier English tenor of the period.[803]
Approximate year
Bradbury House (White House) Hare Street [built c.1600] is re-built.
LONDON POST OFFICE
DIRECTORY 1848
John Branscombe
esquire, 11 Noel Street, Islington
Mrs. Branscombe, 14 Beaufoy Terrace
Stoke Reming,
Devon: Approximate year of birth of John Hannaford, bootmaker. [boarder with Emmanuel Back, (Beedles?)
Terrace, Exeter, 1871 census]
M'CORQUODALE'S
DIRECTORY OF LIVERPOOL 1848
Branscombe, Samuel hide & leather factor &
commission agent, Mersey Lodge, Bootle. Office: 18 Brunswick
Street
Prowse, Barclay
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, Joshua shipchandler,
Hemingford Terrace, Parkfield, Birkenhead
Prowse, Joshua & Co. shipowners,
shipchandlers & sailmakers, 24 Ansdell Street
Prowse, William shipchandler
(Joshua P. & Co.) & shipsmith
(P.B. & Co.), Holt Hill, Tranmere, Cheshire
Prowse, William Henry rose-engine turner,
4 Harford Street
A year of
widespread unemployment and distress.
William Doubleday,
master of the Mary, sails from
Newcastle to Belfast, this year.[804] [poss relative of Mary Doubleday, m. 1844
Samuel Branscombe of Hastings? William b. 1823 Newcastle. Receives mariner's
ticket 1846]
Calcot, Somerset:
approximate year of birth of Lucy Chare, daughter of John Hinam Branscombe and
Emily Womak (Ridley). [cf: 1881 census
Hackney]
@1849
21 January,
Bartholomew Street, Exeter: Ann Branscombe, first wife of William, shoemaker of
Torquay, and mother of William Waymouth, dies. She was born about 1789, and may
have had the surname Waymouth, Smith, Bowden or Webber. She and William
probably married about 1819, possibly in Torquay. Her death certificate says
she died of "a pectoral complaint". The informant was Lewis Gregory
of Bartholomew Street, present at the death.[805] [A Lewis Gregory married a Sarah Ann
Branscombe in Dawlish, in 1830. It may be that Ann(e) Branscombe was staying
with them when she died, but as yet we have no family connection established,
nor do we know who Sarah Ann's parents were. The Bartholomew Street address,
however, is another puzzle, as it is the same street where William's brother
and our third great-grandparents Edward Branscombe and his wife Ann (Starling -
m. 1817, Dartmouth), lived from at least 1841 to at least 1843, when he was
drowned in the River Exe. Further to that, the 1841 census shows a Lewis
Gregory living with his family in Bartholomew Street, but his wife is Mary, not
Sarah Ann. He is a smith aged between 40-44]
5 February,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Samuel Branscombe is the prosecutor in a case against Hugh
Johnston, heard in the Quarter Sessions. Hugh is convicted of simple larceny,
and sentenced to four months hard labour. Samuel is awarded expenses of £6 10s
4d.[806] [cf: 5 November 1844 - Samuel Branscomb,
shipowner & master mariner of Monkwearmouth, marries Mary Doubleday. Also
cf: 1850 launch of the ship Branscombe at Sunderland]
March quarter,
Bolton district: Benjamin Branscomb's birth is registered.[807] [cf: 1848 William b., Bolton district, 1852,
30 October, Little Bolton, Lancashire: George Arthur Branscomb baptised.
Benjamin possibly d. March Q, Greenwich district?]
March quarter,
Bristol district: Emily Janes Branscombe's birth registered.[808] [probably dies 1852 Clifton district]
March quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Ann Branscombe marries ? [809] [d. of John?]
March quarter,
Greenwich district: Benjamin Branscombe's death is registered.[810] [cf: Benjamin, b. March Q this year, Bolton
district]
11 March, Catcott,
Somerset: Richard Branscombe Chave is born, fourth child of John Richard Chave,
yeoman of Catcott, and Eleanor (?Greenway?). Registered 13 April 1849 in the Sub-district
of Polden Hill, Bridgewater, Somerset, by the father.[811] [cf:
1861 census for Exeter. Richard Branscombe Chave, author of ‘Adventures of a
Guano Digger in the Eastern Pacific’ (1871), an autobiographical manuscript
held at the National Library of New Zealand.[812] May be related to actor Branscombe Richmond
through Delphine & John Chave, aunt and uncle to Branscombe’s father, Leo,
who raised him in Tahiti after his parents, who were not married, split up.]
14 March, Dawlish
Parish Church: James Coombe of Dawlish, bachelor miller of full age, son of
miller James Coombe, marries Ann Branscombe of Dawlish, spinster of full age,
daughter of labourer John Branscombe. Witnesses are William Branscombe and Elizabeth
Drake.[813]
21 April, Dawlish
Water: Sarah Branscombe [b. 1790], spinster domestic servant, daughter of John
& Agnes, sister of John (1782 - 1795?), Joseph, master mariner (1784 -
1866), Anne, (1787 - 1787), Catherine (1793 - 1855), John (1796), Anne (1798)
& Captain William (1803), dies of a seizure aged 59 years. The informant is
Susanna Perkins, present at the death, who signs the certificate with a mark.[814] [An 1840 tithe map of Dawlish
shows an estate called dawlishBotchell & Branscombe estates;, consisting a
house, yard & orchard, owned and occupied by Joseph
Branscombe. Sarah is almost certainly registered there
as a female servant in the 1841 census]
St Gregory’s, Dawlish:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH BRANSCOMBE
DAUGHTER OF JOHN & AGNES BRANSCOMBE
WHO DIED APRIL 21 1849
AGED 59 YEARS
2 May, St. John's,
Newfoundland: Mr. Richard Branscomb, blockmaker, dies. Besides his widow, Mary,
he left two brothers, William & James, and two sisters, Amelia & Mary.
Amelia married Dr. Winter & Mary married Dr. Crawford. Both marriages in
Newfoundland. He left property in Newfoundland and on Prince Edward Island
worth £1500. His estate in Newfoundland was worth £900.[815] [Kennedy papers say this was Wednesday 8 May,
and that Richard was aged 48. cf: 1850 Mary Frances Branscombe, relict of
Richard, marries George James Hogsett in St. John's]
25 May, Newport
[Mon?]: Robert Bowden Branscombe of Torquay [b. 1820 - son of William the
shoemaker & Ann(e)] is issued with his second seaman's ticket [cf: 1845].
The physical description given differs markedly from that of 1845. He is
described as 5'8¼" tall [5'7½"], of dark complexion [fair] with no
distinguishing marks [smallpox scars], with dark hair [brown] and grey eyes
[hazel].[816]
26 May, Cambridge:
George Henry Dacie Branscombe is admitted to Trinity College, aged 18. The son
of William Branscombe [& Eliza Dacie - m. 1817] of Exeter, he studied at
Exeter School under Mr. Roper, matriculating this year. George gains his B.A.
in 1853, is ordained as a deacon in 1854, is a priest in Exeter in 1855, C. of
Exbourne (?) 1854-5. He disappears from Crockford
in 1890, when he was living at Alresford, Hants., without cure of souls.[817]
June quarter,
Newton Abbot district: John Linnards Branscombe's birth is registered.[818] [son of Robert Bowden Branscombe & Mary
(Linnards - m. 1841). m. 1875 St. Giles? Siblings: William (1841), Mary (1843),
Eleanor (1845)]
11 June, St.
Dunstan's, Stepney: Henry Branscomb, bachelor hatter of full age, son of
Thomas, warehouseman, & Mary Elizabeth, marries Jane Waterlow, spinster of
full age, by banns. John & Jane are both living in Stepney. Jane is the daughter
of John Waterlow, horner. They both sign their names.[819] Registered in the June quarter, Stepney
district.[820] [Henry baptised St. Mary Whitechapel 21
August 1825]
Children of Thomas
& Mary Elizabeth Branscomb
Rebecca Branscomb 11 Nov 21 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Emma Branscomb 21 Dec 23 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Henry Branscomb 21 Aug 25 St. Mary, Whitechapel
Eliza Branscomb 12 Oct 28 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Matilda Branscomb 18 Apr 30 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Thomas Branscomb 19 Jan 34 Sion Chapel, Mile End
Edwin Branscomb 25 Jun 37 St. Dunstan, Stepney
8 July: Stephen
Henry Branscombe born, son of Josiah L. Branscombe & Charlotte (Brewer,
m.1836). [poss siblings: Daniel (1839), Cynthia (1841), Anna Mariah (1834),
Sarah Elisa (1846), Alice M. (1853)]
16 July, St.
Marylebone Parish Church: William Weston of St. Marylebone, bachelor undertaker
of full age, son of grocer Thomas Weston, marries full age spinster Helena Putt
of St. Marylebone, daughter of custom house officer William Putt, by banns.
Witnesses are James Weston and Emma Ann Tate.[821]
September quarter,
Exeter district: Harriett Underhill Branscombe marries ? [822] [Marries Andrew Badgery. The marriage
certificate gives her father as Thomas Branscombe, farmer, but the birth
certificates of her nine children give her maiden name as Underhill. She is
also unsure of her birth-place. In the 1851 census it is St. David's, Exeter;
in 1861/71 Ide; in 1881 Exeter. She was bp. 1827 Exeter][823]
September quarter,
St. Thomas district: Sarah Ann Branscombe marries ? [824]
September quarter,
St. Thomas district: William Branscombe's death is registered.[825]
21 September,
Plymouth: Louisa Branscombe departs on board the Harry Lorrequer, bound for Adelaide. A matron (?), she is probably a
needlewoman, from Somerset, aged 30.
7 October, Church
St, St. Alkmond, Shrewsbury: Frederick John Pennington Branscomb, (third?)
child of compositor Frederick Alphonse & Harriet (Hitchcock - m. 1839
Oxford) is born.[826] Baptised John P Branscomb, 25 November, Swan
Hill Independent, Shrewsbury. (IGI) Registered by Hariett on 22 October,
Shrewsbury district. [cf: 1851 sister
Rosetta born, & baptised at the Swan Hill Independent (Chapel?), Shrewsbury. Other siblings include: Susan Elizabeth
(1841), Harriet L (c.1848), George Arthur (1852), Samuel (c.1858). Frederick may marry in 1882, Barton R
(Glos) district?]
2 November,
Liverpool: Frederick Branscombe of Dulverton [b. 1832], Seaman aged 17, is
awarded his seaman's ticket. He is decribed as 5'7" tall. In the column
for comments it is noted that his last voyage was in 1853.[827]
December quarter,
Birmingham district: Charlotte Louisa Branscombe's birth is registered.[828] [d.1849 Dec Q, Birmingham]
December quarter,
Birmingham district: Charlotte Louisa Branscombe's death is registered.[829] [b. 1849 Dec Q, Birmingham]
December quarter,
Newport District, Monmouthshire: Sarah Ann Branscombe born, daughter of Henry,
haulier of Bath & Eliza(beth - m. 1844 or 45).[830] [cf: siblings Jane Elizabeth (b. 1847),
William Henry (b. 1852), John Thomas (b. 1856). Sarah married in Bristol 1873?]
December quarter,
Tiverton district: Richard Branscombe marries ? [831]
December quarter,
St. Thomas district: Harriet Mahala Branscombe's death is registered.[832] [b. 1845, December Q, Bath? cf: Mahala
Branscombe b. 1853 St. Thomas]
26 December: After
89 days at sea, Louisa Branscombe arrives, Port Adelaide.
Harry Lorrequer:
847 tons, three-mast ship rig. Built 1846, in Quebec. Owners - Lapham &
Waterford. Captain Jeffares.[833]
Western Australia:
Elizabeth Branscombe-Rees marries William Henry Edward Russell. [cf: 1833][834]
28 December, 1
Surrey Street, Landport, Southsea, Hants: Ann second child of Thomas Fox Branscombe, plasterer, son of third
great-grandparents Edward [deceased] & Ann (Starling - m. 1817, Dartmouth), is
born. The mother is shown on the certificate as "Mary Branscombe formerly
Hill". Mary also registers the birth, signing herself with a mark, but
Thomas does not marry Mary until 1855. [poss siblings: William Henry (1848), Edward Thomas (1852-55), Emily
(1856), Thomas Fox II (1857), Mary Jane (1859), Eliza Esther (1860)? Also cf:
1851 census - Plymouth]
Also approximate
birth-year of George Henry who marries Ann Starling Branscombe, in 1874.
Repeal of the British
Navigation Acts opens British ports to ships from all nations.
A great increase
in the demand for tea in Britain stimulates the building of tea clippers.
Calstock,
Cornwall: Approximate year of birth of Bessey Langman, a visitor in the
Plymouth St. Andrew household of pilot & waterman John Branscombe &
Sarah (-?, m. 1831 Calstock?). [cf: 1851
census]
GORE'S
DIRECTORY OF LIVERPOOL 1849
Branscombe, Samuel hide & leather factor &
commission agent, Mersey Lodge, Bootle. Office:
Prowse, Barclay
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, George Christian gentleman,
4 Nelson Street, Birkenhead
Prowse, John sailmaker,
35 Catharine Street, Toxteth Park
Prowse, Joshua shipchandler,
2 Hemingford Terrace, Parkfield, Birkenhead
Prowse & Co. shipowners,
shipchandlers & sailmakers, 24 Ansdell Street
Prowse, Robert Sanders book
keeper, 3 Brook Terrace, Brook Street, Birkenhead
Prowse, William master
mariner, 11 Portland Place, Everton
Prowse, William shipchandler
(Joshua P. & Co.) & smith (P.B. & Co.), Holt Hill
Prowse, William Henry rose-engine turner,
4 Harford Street
Cock-fighting is
banned by law. `The sport of putting game cocks to fight was said to have been
introduced to England by the Romans and became very popular, in fact the great
National amusement, particularly in the north of England ... Berwick-upon-Tweed
was the place most celebrated for it. It was a sport for schoolboys on
holidays, particularly on Shrove Tuesday.'[835]
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@1850
30 January,
Trinity Church, Paddington: Second great-grandfather John Halsey of Westbourne
Park Place, bachelor waiter of full age, son of carpenter James Halsey, marries
spinster Martha Hiller of 5 Woodfield Road, of full age, daughter of labourer
John Hiller, by banns. Witnesses are William Harmer and Jane Trembath.[836] [John b.1829 Redbourne, d. ABOUT 1872. Children: James (1850-1850), Mary Ann
(1854-1860), Martha (1857-1857), Frederick (1858-1932), David (1862), Alice (1867)]
March quarter,
Exeter district: Elizabeth Jane Sparkes Branscombe marries ? [837] [aged 20, seventh child of Edward (deceased)
& Ann, sister of Edward]
March quarter,
Bradford district: Esther Branscombe marries ? [838]
March quarter, St.
George, Hanover Square: Frederick George Branscombe marries ? [839] [Elizabeth -? of Stanton, Suffolk. cf:1861
census for 2 Cadogan Terrace, Chelsea, where Frederick is a house decorator.
Father of Elizabeth (b. about 1851 Chelsea), George William (b. about 1855, oil
& colorman), & Horatio Arthur (b. about 1857 entered New College Oxford
1875, first marriage 1878 Holborn, second 1924 Birkenhead. Poss a Professor of
Music 1905 Liverpool, d.1941 north Wales). Frederick George became an oil &
colorman in Mayfair. He died Mayfair 1879. His wife Elizabeth took over the
business cf:1881 census for Mayfair. She died 1884 Mayfair. The only candidate so far for the identity
of Frederick is the one b.1827 Exeter, son of William
Branscombe, gentleman of St. Sidwell's parish, & Eliza
(Dacie - m.1817, Exeter)]
March quarter, St.
Thomas district: Clement Branscombe's birth is registered.[840] [Clement Courtney, son of builder Henry &
Mary Ann (Horn - m.1836 Exeter?). Married 1877 Marylebone to ? Children:
Clement William (b.1878 St. Saviour Southwark), Florence Isabel Courtney
(b.1879 Marylebone), Mabel Beatrice Courtney (b.1882 Marylebone). Clement
senior is a baker in Exmouth, in 1893, where he dies, 1929. His executors/benefactors
are daughters Florence & Mabel, spinsters of London]
March quarter,
Portsea district: Ann Branscombe's birth is registered.[841] [Ann Starling Branscombe, daughter of Thomas
Fox I & Mary (Hill - m.1855 Notting Hill), b.28 December 1849, Landport,
Southsea, Hants. Poss siblings: William Henry (1848), Edward Thomas (1852-55),
Emily (1856), Thomas Fox II (1857), Mary Jane (1859), Eliza Esther (1860)?]
2 April, St.
John's, Newfoundland: Mary Frances Branscombe, relict of the late Richard Branscomb,
marries George James Hogsett, Barrister at Law. Married by the Right Rev. Dr.
Mullock.[842] [cf:1849 St. John's, Mr. Richard Branscombe
dies]
June quarter, St.
George's Hanover Square district: Frederick George Branscombe marries ? [843] [duplication? cf: March quarter this year]
10 June, St.
Helier, Jersey: Henry "Harry" William, son of William Henry Beavis,
tinsmith of 3 Aquila Road, & Ann (née
Davey), born.[844]
11 June: Newspaper
report of a meeting of the Tidal Harbour Commissioners, Port of Exeter Authority,
at which evidence was given by Captain J.W. Perriam in support of a sea wall
constructed by Mr. Hull, which Mr. Julian considered prejudicial to navigation.
The embankment, half a mile in length on the higher side of Exmouth, had
enabled Mr. Hull to reclaim 60 acres of land, now occupied by several houses.[845]
21 June, Queen
Street, Rugby: William Edward, son of William Branscomb, stone mason, and Mary
Ann (Mitchell - m.1847 Coventry), is born.[846] Registered June quarter, Rugby district.[847] Baptised, St. Matthews, Rugby, 9 Nov 1851.
(IGI) [William Edward married for the
second time, March Q 1881 Rugby? Poss d.1915 Rugby? William senior son of
Edward & Ann (Starling - m.1817, Dartmouth), brother of second
great-grandfather Edward]
June quarter,
Exeter district: Elizabeth Branscombe's death is registered.[848]
1 July, St.
Matthew, Bethnal Green: Adelaide Salome Branscombe [b.1831], of 41 Cole Harbour
Street, daughter of William Branscombe, shoemaker of Torquay and sister of
Captain William Waymouth Branscombe, marries Alfred Nye, bachelor of full age,
a performer. He is of 15 Cole Harbour Street, son of Alfred (Abbott?) Nye, a
traveller. Witnesses are William Arthur and Mary (Maria?) Miller. Registered
September quarter, Bethnal Green district.[849] [cf:1892 P.O. Directory for London - there
are Nyes in the chimney-sweep profession, while there is an Alfred Nye,
linendraper, at 131 Ladbroke Grove. Neither Alfred is in Bethnal Green by the
1851 census. Adelaide & Alfred are registered in Tormoham in the 1851
census - on that occasion, his profession is "perfumer"]
August: New Barnet
station on the Great Northern railway opened, heralding a new phase of
development for East Barnet. `Before then, apart from the stage coaches on the
Great North Road, the only public conveyance to London was a coach which passed
along Cockfosters Road near Bohun Lodge at 9.30 am and reached Oxford Street in
London about two hours later, leaving on the return journey at 3.30 pm. The
improved communications did not bring about a rapid increase immediately. In
1851 the population of East Barnet parish was 663 and it had only increased to
851 ten years later.'[850]
7 August,
Plymouth: John Graham Branscombe of Kingsbridge, a Boy aged 16, is awarded his
seaman's ticket. He can write, but there are no other personal details
recorded.[851] [bp.1834 Kingsbridge, first child of John
Branscombe of Kingsbridge & Ann (Graham of Gibraltar - m.1833). Siblings:
Ellen (1837), Charlotte Mortimer (1841), Henry (1844)]
22 August, St.
Martin's, Birmingham: Emily Branscomb marries Joseph Tomey. (IGI) Registered
September quarter, Birmingham district.[852] [Emily was aged 17. Born 1833 Oxford, fifth
child of Robert Branscomb (b.1786 London), tinman, & Eliza(beth) (Talboys -
m.1819 Oxford). Joseph was a glassblower/maker/manufacturer, the son of
Nathaniel Tomey of Newtown & Mary (Hingeley).[853] Emily & Joseph had 11 children and Emily
died giving birth to the last child in December 1872. Joseph then married
again. A descendant of her third son says Emily was an active member of the
Weslyan Church. She says they lived in a large house beside the factory, both
of which he had built. Each Christmas Day, all his relatives were invited for
dinner, with turkeys cooked in the glass furnaces being a feature][854]
September quarter,
Stepney district: Eliza Branscomb marries ? [855] [this should probably be December Q - see 25
December]
October: Henry
Ryton, ex-tailor of Finsbury Circus, owner of brickfields and small-time
developer, acquired this 100-acre estate [Highbury
New Park], and employed Charles Hambridge as his overseer. `...the choice
of dwellings available, and its good railway connection to the City, made it
attractive to mid-Victorians of solid but unspectacular means.'[856]
22 October,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Samuel Henry Branscombe's boat the Isabella and Jane, is registered. She is of 62 tons, and carries a
crew of four: captain, mate, able seaman and cabin boy. She made occasional
voyages between Newcastle, Shields, Belfast and France, in 1851 and 1852. She
sailed from London on 21 June 1853 and seems then to disappear from the
records. Samuel received his Master Mariner's certificate in Newcastle on 25th
January 1851.[857]
November,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Approximate month Charles, son of master mariner Samuel
(James) Henry Branscomb, & Mary (Doubleday - m.1844 Monkwearmouth) is born.
[cf:1851 census for Newcastle. Possible siblings: Mary (1845-1845), Mary
(1846), Henry Samuel (1848), Isabella (1853)]
December: The shipsOriental, the first American to unload its cargo in London.
25 December, St.
Thomas, Stepney: Eliza Branscomb, spinster of Stepney, of full age, daughter of
Thomas, warehouseman, marries John Scarlett Gale, bachelor of Stepney, of full
age, a [wood] `turner', son of William Gale, undertaker, by banns. Witnesses
are Henry Gale & Frederick Hooper. John Scarlett signs his name, Eliza
signs with a cross.[858] [bp.1828 Sion Chapel, Mile End, daughter of
Thomas & Mary Elizabeth]
December quarter,
Barnstaple district: Charles Branscombe's death is registered.[859]
Captain in the Constance;,
sails Plymouth to Adelaide in 77 days, half the usual time [?],
using the great circle route. [May
have been the first to do so, but cf: the 1849 voyage of the Harry Lorrequer; -
89 days]
End of the
"Little Ice Age" (since 1450).
The britainMines
Act imposes the first regulations on mining
safety and inspection. The estimated
output of British britaincoal mines is 56 million tons. Very little is
exported.
Greater London's
londonpopulation is about 2½ million.
There is a rapid
expansion of European europerailways, mainly used for transporting freight.
`By the
mid-century, British agriculture was almost universally admired: for the
excellence of its institutions - notably the landlord/tenant system, its
technical accomplishments, its profitability, and as much as anything for its
general air of well-being and stability.'[860]
The 412 ton barque
shipsBranscombe is launched, at Sunderland, for the Bridgewater-based . It is surveyed at Sunderland for a
voyage to Calcutta, under Captain .[861]
Oliver [862] says she was 481 tons, built by John Robinson.
There is some confusion in the records about where the Robinson family, James,
John & William, actually built which vessels. John certainly worked, at
around this period, out of Hylton and Ayre's Quay. It was there that he
launched the Heroine, 478 tons, in
January of this year, the Aurore, 811
tons, in October,[863] and the Queen
of The Isles, 240 tons, in December.[864] The Sunderland
Herald, which lists many, if not most, launches, fails to mention the Branscombe for the entire year, and it's
not mentioned in the index, either as a launch or a shipwreck, up to 1900.
By 1850,
shipbuilding output on the Wear had reached 51,374 tons. During this year,
there were 158 ships launched, at an average 325 tons.[865] Most of the shipbuilders in the area were only
on a small scale. In fact in 1851, only eight firms employed more than a
hundred men, and none more than two hundred and fifty.
DIRECTORIES -
William
Branscombe, grocer & beer retailer, is established at 20 (Harmwood?)
Street, Hampstead Road.
[The 1851 census for St. Pancras shows 20
Harmwood Street to be the residence of Joseph Gardiner, 41 year old grocer born
in Bosley, Gloucestershire]
John Branscombe,
of Green & Branscombe, haberdashers, has premises at Church Street, Hackney
[John Hinam Branscombe, see will of John
Branscombe 1860, also marriage 1855 & 1892 London P.O. Directory].
John Branscombe,
wood-turner, 4 Orchard Street, St. Luke's.
[Probably son of John, mercantile clerk.
cf:1840 marriage to Emma Scales & 1841 census. Also cf: Branscombe &
Riches, engravers on wood, 1892 P.O. Directory. Check this address in 1851
census?]
William Branscomb,
solicitor [son of Sir James], is
still at 1 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street [cf:1840].
William Henry
Halsey, plumber & painter etc., is operating from 51 Jamaica Street,
Commercial Road East.
The Court Directory
lists W Branscomb, solicitor [above],
& John Branscombe esquire, 11 Noel
Street, Islington. [cf:1851 census for
this address]
Mrs.Branscombe, 14
Beaufoy Terrace.
Henry Salmon
esquire, 284 Regent Street.
Henry T. Salmon
esquire, 3 Low[er?], Notting Hill Terrace.
Edward Salmon
esquire, 47 Charlotte Street, Portland Place.[866]
1850 DIRECTORIES -
In Exmouth, at 22
Bicton Street, John Branscombe, carpenter, is registered in White's Directory.
[cf:1851 census]
Henry Branscombe, builder, Albion Street, Exmouth.
William Branscombe is a tenant farmer at Hounds Pool, Dawlish.
George William Branscombe is a lay vicar in Melbourne Place, Exeter.
Richard Rouse is a plumber at 43 Paris Street, Exeter.
John James White is a builder in Barthomew Street, Exeter.
Thomas Branscombe runs an "Academy" at Bridford, four miles east of
Moreton Hampstead, nine miles south-west of Exeter.
William Branscombe is a farmer at Rugg
House, Holcombe Burnell, four miles south-west of Exeter.
In Bampton, Richard Branscombe, lime-merchant, is listed [cf:1851 census].
William Brownscombe is a licenced victualler at the White Hart, Bratton
Fleming.[867]
William Brownscombe, brazier & plumber, Chulmleigh.
Whites Directory
for Devon, 1850, shows William Branscombe, boot & shoemaker, in Bradns Row,
Torquay.
In Lower Union Street, Torquay, Henry Branscombe is a clothes dealer.
Another clothes dealer in Torquay at this time was Bne Smith, of Madrepore
Place.[868] This may be a clue to help discover how Anne
Smith Waymouth Branscombe (b.1822 Torquay) acquired her second name.
George; Voysey, boot & shoe-maker, dawlishOld
Town Street, Dawlish.
voyseyWilliam Voysey, baker, Starcross.
Thomas Anning, baker, Kenton
James Pearse & Son, joiners & builders, Piermont Place (Exeter?).
John Bastin, farmer, West Down, Littleham.
Robert Bastin, farmer, 19 Beacon Hill, Exmouth.
Hy. Bastin, licenced victualler, Globe
Hotel, Strand & Marine Hotel,
19 Beacon Hill.
Henry Bastin & Benjamin Butter, wine & spirit merchants, Wellington
House, Exmouth.
Mrs Eliz. Perriam, Chapel Street, Exmouth.
Mr John Perriam, Australia Cotg., Exmouth.
Henry Perriam, master mariner, 4 Bicton Street, Exmouth.
John Perriam, master mariner, 15 Bicton Street, Exmouth.
Hy. Southcott, colr. (collier?), 3 Stafford Place, Exmouth.
Hy. Southcott, tailor (constable), Fore Street, Exmouth.
Ts. Brownscombe, farmer, Atherington.
Chas. Brownscombe, maltster & victualler, Golden Lion, (High) Bickington.
J. Brownscombe, farmer, Huntshaw (nr. Torrington).
Philip Brownscombe, licenced victualler, Malt
Scoop, Quay, Bideford.
P. Brownscombe, brewer & maltster, Cooper Street, Bideford.
`In 1850 the
equipment of the farm was coming in ever increasing quantities from the
factories of industrial Britain ... A country man living on one of the more
progressive farms between 1770 and 1850 might have witnessed a complete
transformation of farming during his lifetime ... The factory-made plough would
have replaced one made locally; seed formerly broadcast would be sown in rows
by drills and the plants hoed by horses; intricate machines would have replaced
the sickle or scythe for harvesting and the flail for threshing.'[869]
The last inmate of
Dawlish's Poor House is removed to the Union Home in Newton Abbot, and the
poorhouses are sold.[870] [cf:1851 census for Newton Abbot Union
Workhouse]
Kensington: James
Halsey, first child of second great-grandfather John & Martha (Hiller - m.1850
Paddington), is born. Baptised and died this same year. [siblings: Mary Ann (1854-1860), Martha (1857-1857), Frederick
(1858-1932), David (1862), Alice (1867)]
1850 U.S. CENSUS [871]
Robert Branscom District 1,
Muhlenberg County
Isaac Branscom District
2, Wayne County
John Branscom District
2,
Joseph Branscomb 7th sub-div.,
Claiborne Co.
Edmond Branscom 9th
division, Greene County
Nancy J Branscom 9th
division, Greene County
Cyntha Branscomb District
9, Greene County
George Branscomb District
9, Greene County
Margaret J Branscomb District
9, Greene County
Martha E Branscomb District
9, Greene County
Nathan Branscomb District
9, Greene County
Susan A Branscomb District
9, Greene County
Pennsylvania:
painter Jennie Augusta Brownscombe is born. [d.1936]
@1851
13 January, 1 St.
John Street, Islington: The will of Ann Branscombe of Ringmore, spinster, is
made. Ann dies on 30 July 1852 in Ringmore. Proved 26 August 1852, Exeter. [The census of this year, taken on 30 March,
shows this address as the residence of Charles Lavender (37), a clerk in public
office, born in St. Leonard's, Middlesex, his wife, three daughters and a son.
Also resident, his unmarried sister-in-law, Susannah Saunders (22), born in St.
Luke's, Middlesex]
Will of Ann Branscombe
late of Ringmore Devon Spinster Decd
Executor
Henry Branscombe of
Norwood Villa, Ashley Road in the
City of Bristol Currier -
Proved 26th August 1852 in
The Principle Registry of the Lord
Bishop of Exeter.
Effects sworn under £200
I Ann Branscombe at present residing at No 1 St John Street Islington Do make
this my last Will as follows Whereas under and by virtue of the Last Will and
Testament of Mrs Diana Hugo late of Newton Abbott in the County of Devon Widow
deceased I am entitled to the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds payable at
the expiration of twelve months after the decease of Miss Mary Mortimer of
Ringmore in the said County Spinster Now I do hereby give and bequeath the said
sum of one hundred and fifty pounds unto between and amongst my three sisters
Charlotte Granville Elizabeth Collins and Catherine Frowde share and share
alike, and in case of the decease of either of them before the same shall
become payable then to the survivors or survivor of them equally if more than
one I also give and bequeath unto my said three sisters equally all my
household goods and effects and whatever other property I may be possessed of
at my decease for their absolute use and benefit And I appoint and request my
Brother Henry Branscombe of the City of Bristol to be the Executor of this my
last Will. Dated this thirtieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and
fifty one
Signed and declared by the said Ann Branscombe as her last Will in the presence
of us both present at the same time who in her presence and at her request have
subscribed our names as witnesses
Thos Amos 14 Lincolns Inn Ann Branscombe
New
Square
John Sowter 8 Hemingford Cottages
Barnsbury
Park
Proved 26th August 1852 in the Principal Registry of the Lord Bishop of Exeter
by the Oath of Henry Branscombe the sole Executor - Testatrix died 30th July
1852 - Effects sworn under £200 -
Ralph
Barnes
Dep.
Registrar
25 January,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Samuel Henry Branscombe, b.1817 Hastings, receives his
Master Mariner's certificate #599993. He seems to have acquired the Isabella and Jane (62 tons), registered
in Newcastle on 22 October 1850.[872]
4 February,
Exmouth: Newspaper report of a case in Exeter District County Court. Blackmore
v Branscombe. This was a case adjourned for his Honour's judgement. The
defendent, a builder of Exmouth, did not appear. He was ordered to be committed
for Contempt of Court.[873] [cf:11 March this year. Henry Branscombe,
bp.1817, son of builder John & Elizabeth (Seward - m.1816), brother of
builder Charles. A George Blackmore was appointed parish clerk of Littleham in
1831, `a post he held upward of 50 years with zeal and fidelity This office has
been in his family for the last 100 years; his father and grandfather having
held it before him.'[874]]
21 February, 74
Oxford Street, Manchester: Great-grandfather Edward John, son of Edward Branscombe, painter & glazier, &
Mary Ann (Chenneour - m.1847 Coventry), is born.[875] Registered June quarter, Manchester district.[876] Christened 27 June, Manchester Cathedral.
(IGI) Edward senior's older brother, William, is living at 10 Queen Street, Rugby, with his wife's parents. Edward John
m.1873 Kensington, Ellen Bartlett. d.1931 Kensington, aged 79.
25 February,
Exmouth: Newspaper notice. `Whereas a petition of Henry Perriam of No.4 Bicton
Place, Exmouth, in the parish of Littleham, in the County of Devon, previously
of Bicton Street, formerly of Adelaide Place, Exmouth, aforesaid, master
mariner, an insolvent debtor, having been filed in this County Court of Devon,
etc., and an interim order for protection from process having been granted to
the said Henry Perriam, he is required to appear before the said court to be
holden at the Castle, Exeter, on the 8th day of March next at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon precisely for his first examination.'[877] [cf:11 March newspaper report]
March quarter, St.
Thomas district: Abraham Branscombe's birth is registered.[878]
March quarter,
Tiverton district: Richard John Branscombe's birth registered.[879] [born in Bampton, son of Richard & Sarah,
m.1880 Bridgewater? Possibly registered in Hemel Hempstead in the 1871 census,
a shopman aged 20, in the premises of Edward Morgan, draper & clothier born
in Ashford, Kent? cf: census for Bampton below. In the 1881 census, Richard is
living alone in Lambeth, a widower draper’s asistant]
11 March: Newspaper
reports of cases in the Exeter District County Court.[880]
`Henry Branscombe,
late of Exmouth, builder, a prisoner in St. Thomas' Ward, insolvent debtor.
Debts were £2356 7s 7d and credit £237 7s 2d. Messrs. Blackmore & Snow
opposed. Insolvent had built several houses on borrowed money and mortgaged
them, transferred the mortgage and his concerns to a Building Society, to the
expenses of which must be attributed his embarrassment. He stated that while he
had money from an attorney, who had left Exmouth, at 5% he was going on well
but when he was induced to join a building society, what with ... and enormous
law expenses - at one time seven lawyers were ... involved. The creditors
submitted that the arrest was a ... the debt for which he was sent to prison
was not a `bona ... fraudulent preferences by the insolvent handing over a ...
discharged.' [some words missing, due to
bad photocopy. cf: 4 February for previous hearing. Henry is registered in the
census of 30 March in Withycombe Raleigh]
`Henry Perriam, 4
Bicton Place, Exmouth. Debts £124. Assets nill. Insolvent was in possession of
£80-90 a year and had not made any proposition to his creditors. He stated he
was master of the Vansittart,
belonging to Mr. Parker. His wages were £1 a week and he had 5% on the freight
which had amounted to £40 in 48 weeks. He had recieved £6 from a club for his
wife's funeral, but the expenses were £15 charged in the schedule, and the £6
was not accounted for. He had received £20 from Captain Parker two days after
signing the schedule being the balance due to him, but he had to pay the crew
out of it and had only £4 himself. He was asked to give a detailed statement of
what he paid to three seamen and a boy, but as his book was on board, he could
not. He remembered he had paid a boy 30s and £5 to Bond, £3 to one of the men -
he believed Patten and £4 to the other man, he then paid Customs House charges
so there was only £3-4 left for him. He was not aware that he was indebted
until after his wife's death, he had four children, his wife had all his
earnings nearly, the charge of 10s a week personal charges was on account of
his being sick for some time and he was not now fit for sea. There was £20 in
his schedule for clothing and medical attention, almost every harbout he came
to it cost him £2 for medicine, but he could not tell the name ofthe doctors
except Mr.Land of Exmouth who attended him three weeks ago. He had been obliged
to go ashore at different Ports to lodge which he included in his personal
expenses - he had been in a very ill state of health having broken a blood
vessel there was a medicine chest on board but it had run out. He had not paid
any creditor since last August he had not contracted any debts since that time.
A debt of £30 to Mr. Land, surgeon of Exmouth, he did not know anything about
until after his wife's death. He had given his brother a clock worth £4 because
he owed it him for more money. He sold his goods for the purpose of paying the
rent as far as it would go. Adjourned to the 12th of April to have Captain
Parker's evidence on his earnings.' [cf:25
February for previous hearing]
23 March,
Oatlands, Tasmania: Thomas Anstey dies, aged 73.[881] Born 31 December 1777 at Highercombe near
Dulverton, Somerset, to John Anstey and Elizabeth, (née Branscombe). Thomas emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1823, and
was given 2560 acres on a tributary of the Jordan River near Oatlands, which he
called Anstey Park. The fine home he built was called Anstey Barton.[882] [Refs. also to Jorgen Jorgenson, Sorell, Lake
Dulverton? The East window of All Saints church, Dulverton, is a memorial to
George Hall Peppin, a member of a long established family in Dulverton. He died
in Australia, where he is credited with having introduced the Merino sheep,
though this claim is disputed]
26 March, South
Molton: Ann Branscombe, wife of John Branscombe, woolcomber, dies at the age of
36, of `exhaustion from flooding', a condition she has suffered for two months.
Mary Kingdon of South Molton was present at the death. She registered the death
with her mark on 27 March.[883]
29 March, 43
Albion Street, Withycombe Raleigh: James Hook, son of mariner James Hook
Anthony and Jane (Branscombe - m.1848 Plymouth), is born. Registered in the St.
Thomas district by Jane, who signed with a mark.[884]
30 March, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Hiram Branscomb marries Mary Black.[885]
1851 CENSUS
30 March: The
national census puts the population of Devon at 567,098 and of Branscombe at
1017.
Dawlish
Hounds Pool Farm:[886]
William Branscombe head mar 47 Farmer, 40 acres Dawlish
Sophia
" wife mar 46 "
Sarah
" dtr unm 15 "
Ellen Burney vis unm 16
Joseph Hillinan svt unm 32 Agricultural labourer South Bovey
Richard Back svt unm 18
" " Dawlish
George Skinner svt unm 13
" "
"
[Richard Back, unmarried labourer aged
38, born in Dawlish, is an inmate of the new Newton Abbot Union Workhouse]
Dawlish Water:[887]
Joseph Branscombe head wdw 65 proprietor of houses Dawlish
[Joseph's wife, Hannah, d.1831, aged
(42?)]
Eastdon:[888]
Michael Eales head clerk of the peace Ashburton
Elizabeth Hodge orphan unm 47 cook Starcross
[Elizabeth was born about 1804, the year
Joanna Branscombe, widow of Robert, marries John Hodge, widower, in Dawlish.
There was another Hodge marriage in Dawlish, in 1797, when Joanna Pike married
one]
Morchard Bishop
West side of
Green:[889]
Sophia Davy head wdw 38 hand-loom weaver (serge) Morchard Bishop
Richard son 4 "
William "
1 "
John Branscombe " 10 scholar "
Fanny " mother wdw 77 pauper, hand-loom weaver (serge) "
[Sophia Branscombe m.1844 John Davy, son
of tailor Richard Davy of Morchard Bishop. John Branscombe, her bastard son,
bp.1841 Morchard Bishop, no father registered. Sophia was baptised 1813 in
Morchard, daughter of Joseph & Frances (Horwell - m.1812). Fanny must
therefore be Frances. She poss d.1863 Crediton district?]
EXETER - ST. MARY
MAJOR
178 Preston
Street;:
Ann (Starling - m.1817, Dartmouth) Branscombe, widow aged 58 (b.Plymouth, 29
September 1793), is shown as head of household. Her son Robert John is
unmarried, a jobbing labourer aged 18 (b.Torquay, 17 December 1832). A grandson
Henry, aged 2, is also registered. This must be William Henry, the son of
Thomas Fox Branscombe I & Mary (Hill), born in Sun Street, Exeter, 27 Aug
1848. He is missing from their household in Plymouth (see below). Thomas Fox I
& Mary wrongly say they are man and wife on the census form. They don't in
fact get married until 1855, in Ladbroke Grove. [Robert John's future wife, Charlotte, may be the spinster listed in
Coombe Street, below]
Coombe Street:[890]
Charlotte Cave head unm 30 tailoress Exeter
[possibly the future wife of Robert John
Branscombe, above, m.1853 Exeter. However, in this census, Charlotte's age is
given as 30, whereas the Charlotte on the marriage certificate is 27. Charlotte
is the only resident of this dwelling in Coombe Street, where Robert says he is
living, in 1853]
EXETER -
ST.LEONARD'S
Larkbeare House,
Topsham Road:
Caroline Williams head ? 39 proprietor of school Exeter
Louise
" sister ? 34 " "
John (W?) " father mar 71 ship-owner (Portsea?), Hants
Jane " mother mar 73 Exeter
[Eliza [Austwick] Branscombe, aged 17, is
a pupil. She was born in Exeter. [1834 to William Branscombe, accomptant/common
carrier/gentleman of St. Sidwell, & Eliza (Dacie - m.1817, Exeter) Eliza
junior marries ? in Kingsbridge in 1858]
EXETER -
ST.DAVID'S
1 Eldon Place:
George William Branscombe (d.1861?), aged 35, lay vicar born in Middlesex, is
head of the household. He is the son of William Tucker Branscombe and Elizabeth
(Lake - m.1809 St. George, Exeter), and was baptised on 24 September 1815, at
St. Botolph's-without-Aldgate. The 1850 Devon Directory lists him as a "lay
vicar" with premises in Melbourne Place, Exeter. The Exeter Journal &
Almanack of this year lists him as the proprietor of a "lodging
house" at this address. The 1856 Kelly's Directory advertises him as a
"Professor of Music", with rooms in Gandy Street. The 1860 & 1861
Trewman's Pocket Journals list him as a lay vicar living at New Buildings
(Gandy Street). His wife, Amelia J. (?) is aged 33, and was born in Devonport.
They have a daughter, Effie J[ulia - m.1871, St. Pancras?], aged 5, born in
Exeter (1846), and a general servant, Martha Mogridge, unmarried, aged 21, born
in Belstone, Devon.
6 North Street:
John Branscombe, tanner, is a visitor at the premises of Joseph & Ann
(Chiland/Irland?). Joseph is an inn-keeper, and as there are various staff,
including a brewer, cook and ostler living in, it may be that 6 North Street is
an inn. Whether that means John is actually a paying guest not a visitor, is
unclear. John is unmarried, aged 30 and was born in Plymouth.
[cf:1816,1828, William Branscombe, tanner
of Plymouth & 1825 Samuel Branscombe, tanner of Newton Abbot]
Devon County
Prison:[891]
Sarah Hannaford prisoner unm 19 servant Kingswear,
EXETER -
ST.OLAVE'S
[64?] Mary Arches
Street:[892]
William Chenneour head mar 59 servant Cornwall
Mary
" wife " 58 Tavistock,
Devon
Elizabeth " daug unm 28 servant Exeter
Charles
" son " 22 labourer "
John " "
" 19
" "
Richard " "
" 17
" "
Edwin
"
" " 10 scholar
"
Charlotte " daug 14 " "
James
" son 5 " "
Henry Branscombe g/son 4 " "
EXETER - ST.MARY
STEPS
Ewings Street:[893]
Robert Hannaford head mar 53 general labourer Widdecombe, Devon
Susan
" wife " 50 Chagford,
Devon
George
" son 19 general labourer Moreton,
Devon
Nathaniel " " 15 blacksmith "
EXETER -
ST.SIDWELL'S
Devon & Exeter
Hospital:
Arthur Hannaford patient mar 60 farm labourer (Sear?) Bovey
Richard Robert Hannaford " unm 15 farm servant Princes Inn, Dartmoor
Jane (Lydia?) Hannaford " " 20 servant Widdecombe-in-the-Moor
Elizabeth Hayman " " 17
" Exmouth
[Jane Hannaford - cf:Robert Hannaford,
Ewings Street, also from Widdecombe]
PLYMOUTH -
46 George Street:[894]
Thomas (Fox) Branscombe I & Mary (Hill). He is a plasterer aged 27, born in
Exeter, son of third great- grandparents Edward & Ann (Starling - m.1817,
Dartmouth). Exeter is also the birthplace of his wife, aged 26. They marry
officially in Ladbroke Grove in 1855, when they are living at 22 Lonsdale Terrace,
Kensington. Their son William Henry (b.1848 Sun Street, Exeter) is not listed
with them, but their daughter Ann (Starling), aged 2 (b.1849 Landport,
Southsea, Hants.), is. However, this census claims she was born in Exeter.
William Henry may be the "grandson" Henry staying with Thomas's
mother, Ann, in Preston Street, Exeter. William Henry & Ann Starling are
not necessarily twins. It's possible Ann could have been 21 months old on 30
March, and thus counted as two.
PLYMOUTH - St.
Andrew
8 Courtenay
Street:[895]
Thomas Branscombe, an unmarried general carrier's clerk aged 20, born in Ashton
[nr. Doddiscombsleigh, Exeter], is
one of four lodgers at the home of Peter & Elizabeth Jones and family.
Peter is a coach-driver. [probably Thomas
the accountant’s clerk, listed with his family in the 1881 census for Islington]
7 Prospect Place:[896]
John Branscombe head mar 44 pilot Beer
Alston, Devon
Sarah " wife " 40 Calstock,
Cornwall
John " son unm 19 labourer "
Louisa " dtr " 17 "
Richard " son
" 13 "
Bessey Langman vis 2 "
[John possibly son of Richard Branscumbe
& Elizabeth (Culwill, widow - m.1794 Bere Ferrers)? cf:1881 census for
Plymouth St. Andrew. John Oliver b. circa 1832 Calstock, m.1856 East
Stonehouse, Sarah Northsworthy of Kingsbridge. Becomes a pawnbroker &
d.1908 Plymouth]
Bere Ferrers -
Bere Alston
Fore Street:[897]
Elizabeth Branscombe, a blind pauper widow aged 83, formerly a house-servant,
is a visitor at the house of Thomas & Elizabeth Keen. Thomas is an
agricultural labourer aged 48. Another visitor is Ann Gregory, a house-servant
aged (16?). They were all born in Bere Ferrers. [nr.Plymouth]
[this may be Elizabeth Culwill, who
married Richard Branscumbe in Bere Ferrers, 13 May 1794. She was a widow]
KINGSTON -
Heather Street:
Mary Branscomb, a spinster seamstress, is
head of the household, aged 63. She was born in Kingston.
[b. circa 1788. cf:1856, Walter Harry
Branscombe death registered, Kingston district]
LITTLEHAM -
EXMOUTH
Bicton Street:
John Branscombe, carpenter, aged 56, born in Withycombe Raleigh [b.1794 s. William & Sarah]. His wife
Elizabeth [Seward - m.1816?] also hails from there, she's 63.
They have a visitor on census day, Isabella Coram, a widowed nurse aged 62,
born in Exmouth. [cf:1841 census, Bicton
Street. Also cf:1856 Kelly's Directory, which shows John Branscombe, carpenter,
at Bicton Street. The Billing's Directory of 1857 shows Francis Branscombe,
carpenter, at 22 Bicton Street. By his death in 1872, John has acquired a
second wife, Mary Ann. cf: below for son Charles & census for Withycombe
Raleigh for son Henry - both builders]
John &
Elizabeth's son, Charles Branscombe, mason, and his wife Harriet are also
living in Bicton Street. Charles is 32, born [5 August 1819] in Withycombe
[Raleigh]. Harriet is 28, born [1813] in Exmouth.
[Charles m. second wife Jane (Baker?)
1870? He died 1872 Exmouth, four months before his father. Charles was then
described as a builder. cf: census for Withycombe Raleigh for brother Henry]
Giles Court:
68 year-old fisherman William [Payne?]
Branscombe [b.1783, the son of William
& Jane (Pain)? cf: Robert Bradford Branscombe, below] from Topsham, is
living with his wife Jane, of the same age, born in Exmouth. The only other
person present is a niece, Lydia Holman, a `scholar' aged 4 born in Exmouth.
There is a Holman family registered next but one, in `Shard/Shand?': John, aged
33, is a mariner from Lyme in Dorset; Jane, his wife, is aged 33 also, and born
in Exmouth. They have a scholar son John, aged 8, born in Exmouth and a
daughter Eliza Jane aged 1, also born in Exmouth. [cf:1841 census & 1817 newspaper apology]
Back Street:
Robert [Bradford? bp.1797 Topsham, son of
William & Jane (Pain)?] Branscombe, aged 59, is a mariner from Topsham,
and perhaps brother of William, above. Although he is shown as married, and not
a widower, his wife [Amelia Clare m.1821
Topsham] is not present at the census (possibly helping with the birth of
her daughter Jane's first child, in Withycombe Raleigh?). His son Robert is unmarried,
aged 22, also a mariner born in Topsham [cf:1845]. His daughter Harriet
[Garlick], aged 16, is unmarried and a lace-maker. Thursa [Thirza - m. St.
Thomas 1865] is a daughter aged 13, also a lace-maker. Another family also
lives in the same household. Joseph (Perriam?) is a son-in-law to Robert, aged
35, married and a mariner also. He was born in Exmouth. His wife Susan is down
as a daughter-in-law, married [presumably to Joseph] and aged 30. She was born
in Topsham, and is probably another of Robert's daughters, Susanna Mary
[bp.1821 - m.1847?]. George (Perriam?), a grandson [of Robert] and therefore
the son of Joseph & Susan, is aged 7 and is a `scholar'. He was born in
Exmouth, as were are his brother and sisters; Susan aged 5, Georgianna aged 3, and
James aged 1. Not present, apart from Robert's wife, are six of his ten
children: Mary Jane Harriett bp.1822 Topsham (m.1848 Plymouth, James Hook
Anthony) has given birth to her first child, James Hook, just one day before
the census, at 43 Albion Street, Withycombe Raleigh; William Clare bp.1825
Topsham, now aged at least 26; George Eastman bp.1827 Topsham, now aged at
least 24 [possibly a mariner living in London cf:1838,1848];
(Elizabeth/Amelia?) bp.1832 Topsham, now aged at least 19; Susan and Sophia,
bp.1837 Topsham, now aged at least 14.
WITHYCOMBE
42 Albion Street:[898]
Henry Branscombe/head/mar/34/builder/Withycombe
Mary Ann "/wife/mar/35/Littleham
William "/son/14/joiner/
"
George
"/ "/13/at home/ "
Elizabeth "/daug/ 7/scholar/Bath,
Somerset
Harry
"/son/ 4/Withycombe
Clement "/ "/
1/ "
[Henry Branscombe was born in 1817, the
son of Littleham builder John Branscombe, & Elizabeth (Seward - m.1816
Exeter?). Henry's wife is Mary Ann (Horn - m.1836 Exeter?). Several houses in
Albion Street are shown to be under construction. In 1848, a piece of land in
Brunswick Street, Withycombe was transferred to Henry, who was described as a
builder from Exmouth. He was currently building a house on the site. The birth
of a William Branscombe, who could have been Henry's oldest son, was registered
in St. Thomas district in the December quarter of 1837. A Richard George was
registered in St. Thomas, June quarter 1838. He may have died in St. Thomas in
1874. Daughter Elizabeth Ann's birth in Bath was registered in the December
quarter of 1843. John was listed as a carpenter living at 6 Beaufort Square,
Bath, in 1846. Son Harry's birth was registered in the June quarter of 1848, in
St. Thomas district, that of Clement (Courtney) in the same district, March
quarter 1850. Clement became a baker in Exmouth by 1893. He died in Exmouth in
1929, aged 79. See Bicton Street, Littleham, census above for Henry's parents,
and his brother Charles. Henry has only just been discharged from prison as an insolvent
debtor. See newspaper report of 11 March, above. By the end of 1852 he is
reported to have gone to Australia, where he died, in Victoria, in 1876. At 43
Albion Street, on the day before the census, James Hook is born, to mariner
James Hook Anthony and Jane (Branscombe - m.1848 Plymouth). Jane was baptised
Mary Jane Harriet in 1822, in Topsham, the daughter of mariner Robert Bradford
Branscombe and Amelia (Clare - m.1821 Topsham)]
Charles Street:[899]
John Bastin head mar 33 journeyman mason Littleham
Sarah " wife mar 33 Aylesbeare
Mary Jane " daug 4 scholar Withycombe
Elizabeth Branscombe aunt wdw 53 charwoman Payhembury
[John Branscombe Bastin, b.1818
Littleham, possibly the son of Mary
Anne Branscombe and John Bastin/Basten, m.1817 in Withycombe Raleigh. Possibly
a Freemason - see 9 Jan 1857 for a newspaper cutting. John Branscombe Bastin is
registered as a freeholder of property in the Withycombe Raleigh poll-book of
1874. He is also resident at 34 George Street]
HIGHWEEK
Highweek Street:[900]
Samuel Branscombe head wdw 59 tanner, master employing 10
men Highweek
Emily
" daug unm 19 "
Louisa
"
" " 16 "
Mary
"
" " 14 scholar "
Anna
"
" 12 "
Lucy
"
" 9 "
John
" son 7 "
[Samuel Branscombe was born in Highweek,
1791, son of John & Mary (Mountstephen). There are 3 other daughters,
Elizabeth 21, Charlotte 17 & Amelia 6, not listed, running a bakery at 1
Wolborough Road, Wolborough. Also in the bakery at the time of the census,
Richard Anning, baker journeyman of Kenton, unmarried. According to Jean
Stevenson, he later married and ran a bakery in Heavitree[901] cf:13 May 1829, Highweek: Samuel Branscombe
marries Mary Eales - 18 June 1857, Highweek: Lucy Branscombe, aged 15, buried -
5 January 1874, Highweek: Samuel Branscombe, Gentleman, father of Charlotte,
Louisa & Anna, dies. His will is proved on 25 February 1874. Probate is
granted to his three daughters, all spinsters of Highweek. Under £12000 - 10
January 1874, Highweek: Samuel Branscombe, aged 82, buried - 22 February 1883,
Highweek: Charlotte Branscombe, aged 49, buried]
Bampton
Churchyard:[902]
Richard Branscombe head mar 48 landed proprietor Bampton
Sarah
" wife " 37 " " Tiverton
Richard " son 3m Bampton
Mary Snow svt unm 14 general servant "
[Richard is variously described as a
maltster and lime-merchant. His son Richard's birth is registered in the March
quarter, Tiverton district. He is possibly registered in Hemel Hempstead in the
1871 census, an unmarried shopman aged 20, in the premises of Edward Morgan,
draper & clothier born in Ashford, Kent? This is more likely when
remembering he has an uncle, Francis, and a cousin, John Hinam, in the drapery
trade. He may have married in the Bridgewater district, 1880?]
17 Waterloo Place
(just off Pall Mall):
Charlotte Halsey, a widow aged 67, is a house servant. She was born in
Cambridge.[903]
88 Pall Mall:
John Branscombe of Bampton, a tea dealer aged 60 is at home with his wife Ann.
She is aged 70 and also born in Bampton. There are three male shop assistants
on the premises, two male porters and a cook. The housemaid was also born in
Bampton. She is aged 25 and unmarried. Her christian name is Mary. Her surname
is unclear: (Intsen?)
[904] [John, son of William & Sarah, d.1860]
Argyll House, 7
Argyll Street, Golden Square sub-district:
The home of George G -?, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mary Branscombe, aged 28, is a
housemaid. She is unmarried, and was born in Steyning, Sussex.[905]
London -
Paddington
14 Hyde Park
Street:
There is a male servant called Branscombe, although the christian name is
unclear. It could be Walter/Martin/Matthew. He is married, and aged 49, from
Bampton. A visitor, Margaret (Wali-?), was also born in Devon
(Bampfield/Branfield?). She is aged 54. The head of household is Isabelle ?
Goldie, a `Major's widow Queen's service', aged 58.[907]
London - St.
Pancras
31 Mecklenburg
Square:[908]
Richard Beard head mar 49 photographic artist Stonehouse, Devon
Elizabeth " wife " 52 Newton
Bushel "
Mary Elizabeth Beard dtr unm 23 Newton
Abbot "
Anna " " " 21 "
John " son " 19 tea broker's assistant
"
Caroline " dtr
" 16 London,
Middlesex
Henry " son " 13 scholar "
Maria Louisa " dtr 11 scholar at home "
John Branscombe b/law wdw 61 retired draper Newton Bushel, Dev
Sarah " neice unm 24 Newton
Abbot "
Jane West serv " 40 Reigate,
Surrey
Sarah Ann West " " 20 Westminster
"
[In 1841, this house is occupied by
solicitor Henry Vansandon, his wife Emma, & family. Missing from this census
is Richard junior, b.1826. He opened a Daguerreotype studio in Liverpool in
April 1849.[909] During this decade, Richard junior switches to
the manufacture of india-rubber. By 1860, he is living in America. Pritchard
says [910] Beard was bankrupt by this time, filing in
1849 and granted in 1850, although he evidently continued to operate and set up
new photographic businesses until the mid-1850s, when his involvement with
photography began to contract. Eventually, he left the business altogether and
set up as a "medical galvanist". He retired to Hampstead, where he
died on 7 June 1885. John Branscombe bp.1789 Highweek, first child of John
& Mary (Mountstephen - m.1787 Wolborough). May have married Sarah Alsop in
Wolborough, 1824. Elizabeth Beard is his sister, (bp.1797 Highweek). Sarah
Branscombe could be John's daughter?]
London -
Camberwell
1 Trafalgar Place:
Nathan Salmon aged 46, a master baker born in Peckham, is at home with his wife
Susannah aged 42, of (Charlton?) Kent, and their six children, George aged 9,
Ann aged 8, Nathan aged 6, Emily aged 5, Samuel aged 2 and Elizabeth also aged
2.
Joseph Salmon, a carrier, is at 6 Hill Street, Camberwell.
N.B. There are no Branscombes in
Camberwell at this time.
London - Bethnal
Green
26 Cambridge Road:[911]
Henry Branscombe, a hatter, born in Stepney, aged 25, is head of the household.
His wife Jane is 29, born in St. Mary, Whitechapel. They have a daughter Jane,
aged 4, and a son Henry, aged 2, both born in St. Mary, Whitechapel. There is a
visitor, Margaret (Galliger?), a widowed milliner aged 28, born in Bethnal
Green.
[Henry bp.1825, St. Mary Whitechapel, son
of warehouseman Thomas Branscombe & Mary Elizabeth. m.1849 Stepney, Jane,
daughter of horner John Waterlow. Has been a hatter since at least 1849. Henry
d. before 1871 (1864?). cf:1871 census]
?where?
Emma Nye, born in Brighton, Sussex, is aged 55. George Nye, aged 24, was born
in Clerkenwell. Harriet, aged 21, was born in Shadwell, while Harriet aged 4
was born in Bethnal Green, where James,
aged 1, was also born.
London - Hackney
Church Street:[912]
Samuel Green/ Head mar 28 Silk mercer & draper Shefford, Bedfordshire
John H Branscombe/ - - 27 " Oakford, Devon
Elizabeth Green/Wife mar 27 Marylebone,
Middlesex
George Summerfield/Asst/unm/31 Draper's
assistant Hackney, Middlesex
John Lawton/Asst unm 22 " Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Richard Thomas/Asst unm 13 " Bridgewater, Somerset
Jane Hill/ Asst unm 23 " Fratton, Hampshire
John Goring/ Serv unm 22 General servant Portsmouth, Hampshire
Mary (Perin?) Serv unm 34 " Woodford, Essex
[John Hinam Branscombe, b.1823, son of
William & Grace - cf:1841 census Dulverton]
London - Belgrave
(Westminster)
?where?:
John Hannaford, a 35 year-old unmarried carpenter from Kingsbridge, Devon.
King's Arms P.H., Ranalagh Road:
James Halsey, a carpenter and joiner aged 49, born in Great Berkhampstead,
Herts., and his wife Jane, aged 38, also from Great Berkhampstead.
St. George's Hospital, Hanover Square:
Henry Hambridge, aged 21, a labourer born in Burford, Oxon., is a patient.
London - Islington
11 Noel Street:[913]
John Branscombe head mar 43 manager
of a Gutta Percha manufactory Kingsbridge,
Devon
Anne " wife " 47 Gibraltar
Ellen " dtr 14 scholar Kingsbridge
Charlotte " dtr 10 " Bristol
Henry " son
7 " "
Emily Hancock vis 14 " St. George, Mddx.
Alice " " 3 " Brompton, "
[Gutta Percha is an early name for
rubber. It had been known in London since the mid eighteenth century as a
child's toy material and a means of erasing pencil marks from paper. By 1821,
coats coated with rubber were on sale in America. In 1823 Charles Macintosh
invented an improved method of waterproofing cloth, which laid the foundations
of a vast industry. Charles Goodyear patented the vulcanisation process in
America in 1844, but T. Hancock had made the same discovery in England, taking
out his patent in 1843. Until the 1880s almost the only source of raw rubber
was the latex gathered by natives from wild trees in the Brazilian forests]
NEWTON ABBOT
Union Workhouse,
Wolborough:
Mary Branscombe pauper 8 Tormoham
Ellen " " 6 "
Richard Back " unm 38 labourer Dawlish
Samuel Cook " " 64 carpenter "
John Martin " " 59 labourer Kenton
Jane Payne " " 22 " Dawlish
John "
" " 12 "
George Staddon " " 32 "
Harriet Taylor " " 12 "
Louisa
" " " 11 "
[Ellen = Eleanor? poss married 1864
St. Luke?, or 1872 Islington? Richard Back: cf labourer aged 18 registered at
the Hounds Pool, Dawlish, farm of William & Sophia Branscombe]
KINGSBRIDGE
Fore Street,
Kingsbridge:
William Branscombe aged 38, a carpenter, is head of the household. As with all
his family except his wife Grace, he was born in Kingsbridge. Grace (Neyle?),
aged 36, was born in Chillington, nr. Kingsbridge. Their daughter (Elizabeth)
Eunice is 16 and unmarried. Son Frederick, though only 14, is said to be a
carpenter. Another son, aged 12, has the unusual name of Fracham. Their
youngest daughter, aged 10, also has an unusual name, Dorchas.
[In the 1841 census, Grace and the
children are registered without William, in Dodsbrook. Grace poss d.1866,
Kingsbridge district? Dorcas Garland - poss m.1883 Camberwell?]
MEPPERSHALL -
BEDFORDSHIRE
Meppershall &
Upper Stondon:
Elizabeth Brandsom aged 59, born in Meppershall may be the Elizabeth
Branscombe, daughter of Samuel & Sarah, baptised there in 1790. However,
the index shows a Thomas Brandsom aged 56, born in Meppershall, and an
Elizabeth, possibly their daughter, also born in the village, aged 19.[914]
CLIFTON -
N.B: There are no Branscombes in Clifton at this time.
OTTERY ST.MARY
Broad Street:[915]
Henry Davy head mar 42 attorney-at-law Ottery St. Mary
(Hanna?) Branscombe Davy wife mar 37 St. Thomas
(Hanna?) Elizabeth " daug 13 scholar
at home Ottery St. Mary
(Eleanor?) " " 12 " "
James Tresilian " son (4/11?) scholar "
Harriet " daug
7 scholar at home "
Caroline " " 3 "
Edith " " ? "
Honour Branscombe (wife's cousin/aunt?) wdw 81 annuitant
St. Saviour,
Dartmouth
Mary Berry (wife's
mother) wdw 69 " St.
Petrox,Dartmouth
Elizabeth (Batten?) serv unm 31 nurse or child's maid Ottery St. Mary
Mary Ann Giles
" " 18 servant
of all work "
Elizabeth Pile
" " 17 housemaid
& cook Clyst Hydon, Devon
Mary Elizabeth (Letterman?) (governess) " 22 governess
(Castislos?), Cornwall
[(Hanna?) Branscombe Davy is Honour's
neice. A Mary Berry is, like Honour Branscombe (Leigh), a beneficiary of
Captain Philip Leigh's will, in 1818. Whereas Honour, a daughter, gets £34.19s,
Mary gets only £3.10s, the same as Honour's husband, William. In this census,
they are both "annuitants". When Honour dies in 1862, Henry is her
executor]
Sandhill Street:[916]
Richard Bending head mar 52 tailor, master employing 2 men Ottery St. Mary
Betsy
" wife mar 61 "
Richard " son unm 17 tailor's
apprentice "
Johanna Branscombe (mother/law) wdw 98 pauper, shopkeeper Whimple
[Perhaps Johanna kept the family shop?
She is probably Joanna Radford who married William Branscombe in Topsham in
1784. If this is so, Betsy is probably Elizabeth Branscombe, daughter of
William & Joanna, baptised in Ottery St. Mary in 1789? Betsy married
Richard in Ottery, 1821. They were both `of this parish']
Josias Hayman head mar 42 agricultural labourer Farway, Devon
Sarah " wife mar 30 Ottery
St. Mary
Mary " daug unm 16 silkweaver
"
Eli " son unm 12 agricultural labourer "
Sarah " daug 2 "
James Mackintire lodger unm 70 matchmaker
Bishopsteignton
(Westtown?) Farm,
in the village:
Richard Holman head mar 51? farmer Dawlish
Elizabeth " wife mar 55 Stockleigh
English
Henry " son unm 20 farmer's
son Bishopsteignton
Catherine Branscombe lodger unm 56 fundholder, annuitant Dawlish
Ann (Stowe?) visitor unm 25 servant Templeton,
Devon
Mary Martin servant 13 Bishopsteignton
Shaldon - Newton
Abbot
Ringmore:[917]
Ann Branscombe head unm 58 annuitant Kingsbridge
Elizabeth Collins sister wdw 57 "
[bp.1792 Kingsbridge, second child of
William & Charlotte (Mortimer). Ann made her will at 1 St. John Street,
Islington in January of this year. She died at Ringmore in July of 1852.
Elizabeth was born in 1791. She married Plymouth scrivener Francis Collins in
Kingsbridge, 1826. They may have been the parents of writer Mortimer Collins
(b.1827 Plymouth)? This property in Shaldon may be the result of the will of
Joseph Mortimer, mariner of Ringmore,
their grandfather?]
11 & 12 Milsom
Street:
Eliza Branscombe assist unm 24 linen draper's assistant Muchant Bishop, Devon
(Fryer?) Quick [male] apprent unm 20 linen draper's apprentice Exeter
Mary Tucker assist unm 45 draper's assistant Tiverton
[probably Morchard Bishop. Eliza(beth?)
was one of 26 assistants, servants & apprentices in what appears to be a
large drapery store]
St. Lawrence Row:[918]
James Henry Branscomb head mar 33 master mariner Hastings
Mary " wife mar 31 master
mariner's wife Durham
Mary " daughter unm 4 (South
Shields?)
Henry Sml " son unm 2 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Charles " " 5m "
Mary (Maugham?) servant unm 15 general servant (Benwell?) Northumb'd
[Samuel (James) Henry b.1817. He dies
1870 in Ballarat, Victoria. James & Mary (Doubleday) are married 1844 in
Monkwearmouth. He marries again in Ararat, Victoria, in 1866. The marriage
certificate states he's been living in Australia for 18 years. Mary (Doubleday)
is still alive in 1871, when she is listed in the census for Newcastle as a
widowed needlewoman living with her unmarried daughter Isabella (b.1853). For
Charles see 1881 census for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which lists him as a domestic
servant coach(man?), born in Hastings c1852]
BISHOPSWEARMOUTH,
12 Norfolk Road:[919]
Mary J. Doubleday head unm 23 teacher Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Susan " sister unm 22 "
(Antonia?) " " unm 20 "
[also 2 boarders and a servant in the
household. Poss relatives of Mary Doubleday, m.1844 Monkwearmouth, Samuel
Branscombe of Hastings?]
74 Oxford Street:[920]
[incomplete as film too poor to read]
? head 65 cabinet maker ?
(male) 18
(female) 27
________________________________________________________
? mar 25 house
painter Exeter
(employing
8 men?)
Mary Ann " wife 29 "
Edward son 1m Manchester
[Great-grandfather Edward John;, son of
Edward
Branscombe, painter & glazier, & Mary Ann
(Chenneour - m.1847 Coventry), born 21 February. Edward & Mary Ann's first
child, Henry, is registered with her parents at Mary Arches Street, Exeter.
Edward senior's older brother, William,
is living at 10 Queen Street, Rugby,
with his wife's parents]
10 Queen Street:[921]
John Mitchell head mar 44 labourer Stratton,
Warwickshire
Elizabeth " wife " 43 (Beartor?) "
E " dtr
8 Rugby "
William Branscombe ldgr mar 27 stone mason Exeter
Ann " "
" (27?) Rugby
Ann " dtr
3 "
William
" son 9m "
TORMOHAM - TORQUAY
10 Braddons Row:[922]
William Branscombe head wdw 55 cordwainer Dawlish
William " son unm 26 seaman Torquay
Elizabeth " dtr " 24 lace worker "
Joanna " "
" 21 dress maker "
Alfred Nye s/law mar 21 perfumer London
Adelaide " dtr " 19 Torquay
[Adelaide Salome Branscombe m.1850
Bethnal Green, Alfred Nye, said to be a "performer" or possibly
“perfumer”]
6 Hisketts
Crescent:[923]
Ann Branscombe svt unm 17 housemaid Brent, Devon
Elizabeth Bolton ldgr wdw 80
3 Madeira Place:[924]
Mary Branscombe head mar 33 laundress Dawlish
William
" son 9 scholar Torquay
John " "
2 " "
Mary Crispin vis 34 plain needle worker (Portlemouth?),
Dev
OXFORD - CITY
Brunscombe:[925]
OXFORD -
HEADINGTON
Oxford Workhouse:[926]
William Branscomb IM unm 46 farmer Oxford
ABINGDON -
North & South
Hinksey.[927]
Elizabeth Branscombe unm 23 teacher
of music Oxford
[bp.1827, St. Aldate's, Oxford, fourth
child of Robert Branscomb (b.1786 London), tinman, & Eliza(beth) (Talboys -
m.1819 Oxford). Elizabeth junior lived in Park Lane, Aston when she was
married, in 1868, in Birmingham, to
Charles Hunt. A descendant refers to her as "Aunt Bessie", and
confirms she was a teacher of music][928]
SHREWSBURY -
53 Baker Street,
St. Chad? [929]
Frederick Alphonso Branscombe Head M 30 Printer
compositor Oxford
Harriet " Wife M 28
Susan E. " Daur
9 Scholar
Harriet L. " Daur
3
Frederick John Pennington " Son
1
John P. Hughes Vis
[Frederick John Pennington becomes a
merchant seaman and marries Sarah Ann Lewis. They have ten children]
31 March, St.
Marylebone Parish Church: Abraham Clark, full age bachelor painter of St.
Marylebone, son of painter Abraham Clark, marries Ann Morriss, full age
spinster also of St. Marylebone, daughter of gardener William Morriss, by
banns. Witnesses are Samuel Carder and Ellen Maize.[930]
28 April,
Highweek: John Branscombe dies, aged 7 years.[931] Death registered in the June quarter, Newton
Abbot district.[932] [tenth child of tanner Samuel & Mary
(Eales - m.1829)]
1 May, 12:00: The
Great Exhibition is opened by Queen Victoria. Inspired,
and partly organized by, the Prince Consort, Albert. The Queen pays 44 visits, between February and
October.
`The Great
Exhibition gave a temporary impetus to the devonlace trade of Devon but by the 1860s it was again
declining.' [933]
`Like a fairy
palace of comfortably solid proportions grew the crystal halls, and men could
not tire of wandering through them. The Great Exhibition was the symbol of an
age that was passing away and the premonition of an age that was to come. It
stood representative of early Victorianism; secure, industrious, pacific. What
made it possible was a force destined to shatter that security.'[934]
`The Great
Exhibition was the self-expression of a metropolis which had multiplied its
inhabitants mightily within a short span of years. In 1801, had some 865,000 citizens; these had
grown to 1.5 millions by 1831, and the following twenty years witnessed a vast
increase. It was these who were the originators and first supporters of the
Exhibition. With their help alone, however, the project could not have hoped to
succeed; it required the attendance of many thousands from all parts of
Britain, required too the visits of other thousands from France and Germany. In
1800 such visits would have been an impossibility, but by 1850 practical scientific
development had provided means of transport undreamed of in the past. Before
1830 had miserably inadequate methods of
conveying its inhabitants from one part of the city to another; twenty years
later, suburbia was in full process of growth. The britainfirst railway (between Manchester and Liverpool) did not come until 1828; by 1843, the
foundations at least of the present railway system had been laid.
The very means of
conveyance which brought the Great Exhibition from a dream to realisation were
the same which wrought a complete change in the world theatrical. Up to the
middle of the nineteenth century, the potential playing-public was exceedingly
small. Although London might be increasing annually, the fact that no suitable
provision was made whereby the ordinary citizens might traverse its extending
area automatically cut off many of these from possible attendance - save on
rare and festive occasions - at the metropolitan londontheatres. When however the railway and the
omnibus became familiar, at once the circumstances were altered. The whole of
the suburban area, west, north and south, was brought into easy association
with the theatrical district, and quantitatively the number of likeley
ticket-buyers was increased a hundredfold.'[935]
19 May, Wayne
County, Kentucky: John W Branscomb marries Eliza C Lair.[936]
20 May, Exmouth:
Newspaper report.[937]
`Insolvents. Henry
Perriam. (Absent at sea) proposed a payment of 8s in the pound. His creditors,
although feeling he should pay all, were however satisfied. Adjourned and
protection withdrawn.'
A very hot summer,
in England.
June quarter,
Manchester district: Edward John Branscombe's birth is registered.[938] [Great-grandfather, son of Edward & Mary
Ann (Chenneour - m.1847 Coventry), m.1873 Kensington, Ellen Bartlett. d.1931
Kensington district, aged 79?]
June quarter,
Honiton district: Joanah Branscombe's death is registered.[939]
8 June, St.
Luke's, Old Street, Finsbury: John, third child of John & Emma (Scales -
m.1840) Branscombe, baptised.[940] [Registered June quarter. Siblings: Thomas
(1845), Mary (1848), William (1853), Edwin (1856), Emma (1861), William
Mortlock (1863), Ernest (1865), Alice M., (1869). John poss d.1923 Kensington?]
28 June, Baker
Street, St. Chad, Shrewsbury: Rosette, (fifth?) child of printer Frederick
Alphonse Branscombe & Hariett (Hitchcock - m.1839 Oxford), is born.[941] Baptised 24 October, Swan Hill Independent,
Shrewsbury. (IGI) [Rosetta. cf:1849 for
birth of brother Frederick John Pennington Branscombe in Shrewsbury district.
cf:1852 for birth of brother George Arthur, in Little Bolton, Lancashire.
Rosetta dies, Shrewsbury district, December Q this year. Other siblings: Susan Elizabeth (1841), Harriet L (c.1848).
Also cf:1859/60 Liverpool Directories - Frederick living at Upper Beau Street]
3 August, 2 Norton
Street, Marylebone: William Frederick, son of William Weston, undertaker, &
Helena (Putt - m ?), is born.[942]
September quarter,
Whitechapel district: Thomas Branscomb's death registered.[943]
September quarter,
Tiverton district: Grace Branscombe's death is registered.[944]
15 October,
Hobart, Tasmania: Thomas Branscombe dies, aged 58. Born in Devon. Buried St.
Matthews Presbyterian Church, O'Brian's Bridge.[945] [cf:1873 death of wife Hannah (Regan - m.1827 Hobart)]
9 November, St.
Matthews, Rugby: William Edward, son of William Branscombe & Anne,
baptised. (IGI) [b.1850 Rugby, son of
William Branscomb, stone mason, and Mary Ann (Mitchell - m.1847 Coventry)]
December quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Emily Branscombe's birth is registered.[946] [poss Emily Jane, daughter of John
Branscombe, builder of Exmouth, & his first wife, Elizabeth (Seward -
m.1816)? - unlikely]
December quarter,
Shrewsbury district: Rosetta Branscomb's death is registered.[947] [b. 28 June this year]
December quarter,
Great Boughton district: Francis Branscombe's death is registered.[948]
December quarter,
Brighton district: Mary Branscombe's death is registered.[949]
19 December, Huntshaw:
The will of Thomas Brownscombe is proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of
Barnstaple.[950]
`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.'[951]
Chelsea:
Approximate year of birth of Elizabeth, first child of house decorator/oil
& colorman Frederick George Branscombe & Elizabeth (? - m.1850 St.
George Hanover Square district). [cf:1861
census for 2 Cadogan Terrace, Chelsea. Siblings: George William (b.1854
Chelsea), Horatio Arthur (b.about 1857 Chelsea). Frederick d.1879 Mayfair.
Elizabeth senior d.1884 Mayfair]
GORE'S DIRECTORY
OF LIVERPOOL 1851
Branscombe, Samuel hide & leather factor & commission
agent
Office:
Prowse, Barclay
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, George Christian gentleman,
4 Nelson Street, Birkenhead
Prowse, Joshua shipowner,
2 Hemingford Terrace, Parkfield, Birkenhead
Prowse & Co. shipowners,
shipchandlers & sailmakers, 21 Ansdell Street
Prowse, Robert Sanders shipsmith
(P.B. & Co.), 16 Claughton
Terrace
Prowse, William shipowner
(J.P. & Co.), & shipsmith (P.B. & Co.), 2 Whetstone Lane,
Tranmere
Prowse, William jun. shipowner (J.P. & Co.), 3 Whetstone Lane,
Tranmere
Prowse, William Henry rose-engine turner,
4 Harford Street
[a rose-engine turner was responsible for
the intricate designs engraved on a fob-watch cover]
The londonMarble
Arch moved from outside londonBuckingham
Palace to present location, when it was
discovered it was too narrow to allow the State Coach to pass through it.
The
australiaVictorian goldrush. In August, gold is discovered in
Ballarat. Over the next ten years, £580,548 worth
is mined. 712 ships arrive in Victoria from overseas.
Stoke Gabriel:
Approximate year of birth of Samuel Brimicombe, labourer. [cf:1881 census]
`... there were
over 66,500 people engaged in building in . Building was, in fact, London's biggest
single industry and during the previous decade alone over 43,000 new houses had
been built there.'[952]
`It has been found
that the nineteenth century development of the London suburbs was substantially
financed from investment by the trustees of family and marriage settlements.'
@1852
23 February,
Holwell, Bedfordshire (later Herts): William Brandsome, bachelor butcher of
full age, living in (Fakeswell?), son of labourer James Brandsome, marries
Lydia (Mill/Mell?), spinster of (Fakeswell?), daughter of farmer Robert.
Witnesses are Henry James (Brothers?) and Eliza Ward.[953] [cf:James Branscombe, baptised 1837, son of
James, labourer of (Fakeswell?) and Mary]
25 February: The
wreck of the Birkenhead.
March quarter,
Exeter district: Edward Thomas Branscombe's birth is registered.[954] [poss third child of Thomas Fox Branscombe I
& Mary (Hill - m.1855)? d.1855 Kensington? Poss siblings: William Henry (1848),
Ann Starling (1849), Emily (1856), Thomas Fox II (1857), Mary Jane (1859),
Eliza Esther (1860)?]
16 March, Exmouth:
Newspaper reports. `On Tuesday last some thief in the absence of the inmates,
who were attending a sale in the neighbourhood, entered into the dwelling house
occupied by Mr S Perriam, painter of this town, and stole two £5 notes and one
half sovereign. Information has been received which will likely lead to a
conviction of the offenders.' [cf:20 July
1857, death of Tabitha, only daughter of Mr Perriam, painter, aged 16]
`Court of
Bankruptcy. Clement Courtenay, late of Exmouth, Innkeeper. Henry Branscombe of
Exmouth was execution creditor. Matthews and Opie of Exeter (wine merchants)
were petitioning creditors. Alleged debts of £95 for work done to his premises
owing to Branscombe. Under a warrant of 17th February property was seized and
sold on 26th February. Both had bills against them for wilful perjury.'[955] [Henry's fifth child, b.1850, was baptised
Clement Courtney Branscombe. Clement's 3
children were all given Courtney as their middle name. Clement, the
Innkeeper, spends the next eight months in debtor's prison. When he is next
brought before the Court, on 14 December, it's stated that Henry Branscombe has
gone to Australia]
21 March,
Highweek: Mary Branscombe dies, aged 15 years.[956] Death registered March quarter, Newton Abbot
district.[957] [sixth child of tanner Samuel & Mary
(Eales - m.1829)]
March quarter,
Taunton district, George Branscombe's death registered.[958]
22 March, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Margaret Ann Branscomb marries William Hair.[959]
June quarter,
Marylebone district: Elizabeth Webber Branscombe marries Thomas Blackie.[960] [daughter of William Branscombe, shoemaker of
Torquay & sister of Captain William Waymouth Branscombe. Thomas, Elizabeth
Webber & Elizabeth (H/K?) Blackie are witnesses at the marriage of James
Connatt, innkeeper, to Elizabeth's sister Johanna, at St. Pancras Church, 17
June 1854. Thomas Blackie, law clerk of 10 College Street, Camden Town, is the
executor of William's will in 1873]
June quarter,
Tavistock district: Elizabeth Branscombe's death is registered.[961]
June quarter,
Clifton district: Emily Jane Branscombe's death is registered.[962] [probably b.1849 Bristol district]
1 June, 19
Devonshire Place, Maida Hill, Paddington: William Branscombe, gentleman, dies
of diseased prostate & bladder & typhoid, aged 62. The informant is
Jane Pritchard of 30 Richmond Street, Marylebone, who was present at the death.[963] [possibly bp.1790 Wolborough or Highweek,
first child of William & Charlotte (Mortimer)? The 1851 census for this
address shows no sign of William. It is the residence of Sarah Perring (73), an
independent widow born in London, and her unmarried grand-daughter, A. Perring
(15), born in Ceylon]
11 July, St. Woolas,
Newport, Monmouthshire: William Henry, son of Henry and Eliza Branscombe,
baptised. (IGI) [Third child of Henry of
Barnstaple & Elizabeth, registered September quarter, Newport district.[964] Married 1895 Newport? cf:1856 - brother John
Thomas born. Also cf: Jane Elizabeth 1847, Sarah Ann 1849, William Henry 1874.
A William Henry Branscombe, b. circa 1853 Newport, married, is registered as a
Sargeant of P(olice?) in Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1881. This William
poss d.1909, Newport?]
15 July, Dawlish:
Captain William (M?) Branscombe, son of John & Agnes, makes his will before
Sydney Pearson, Solicitor of Dawlish and Hugh Oliver Pearson, Clerk.[965] [proved 27 March 1854]
30 July: Ann
Branscombe of Ringmore dies.[966] Registered September quarter, Newton Abbot
district.[967]
26 August, Exeter:
The will of Ann Branscombe of Ringmore, spinster, made at 1 St. John Street,
Islington, on 13 January 1851, is proved in the Principle Registry of the Lord
Bishop of Exeter. The executor is her brother, Henry Branscombe of Norwood
Villa, Ashley Road, Bristol, a currier. Effects are worth under £200.[968]
September quarter,
Exeter district: Jeanie Gertrude Branscombe's birth is registered.[969] [m.1876 Strand?]
30 October, Little
Bolton, Lancashire: George Arthur Branscomb baptised. (IGI) Born at 5
(Haydock/Haycock?) Street, the son of Frederick Alphonso Branscomb, printer,
(b. ABOUT 1820 Oxford) & Harriett (Hitchcock - m.1839 Oxford).[970] Registered December quarter, Bolton district.[971] George Arthur becomes a bricklayer and
emigrates to Australia, where he marries twice, and dies in Maitland, NSW,
1931. [cf:1849 Benjamin Branscom born in
the Bolton district. Also cf:1859/60 Liverpool Directories - Frederick living
at Upper Beau Street. Frederick d.1902 Birkenhead. Siblings of George include:
Susan Elizabeth (1841), Harriet L (c.1848), Frederick John Pennington (1849),
Rosette (1851)]
December quarter,
Bath district: William Branscombe marries ? [972]
2 December, Wayne
County, Kentucky: John Branscomb marries Melinda Thompson.[973]
14 December:
Exmouth newspaper report.[974] `Exeter District Court of Bankruptcy. Clement
Courteney late of Exmouth, Innkeeper, was again before the Court. Henry
Branscombe who was acquitted with Clement and Charles Courteney had now gone to
Australia. Clement Courtney had been in debtor's prison 8 months, he was
discharged at this hearing but made a statement telling the truth about the
pocket of hops and the alleged debts to Henry Branscombe, builder and
carpenter. The witness Thomas Toby and others had told the truth regarding the
removal of the hops sold to Branscombe by him for £9. He paid £6 of it to Mr
Tilbury the Accountant for his balance sheet. He did not owe money at all to
Branscombe but paid him every Saturday night for fitting up his late public
house at Exmouth, for he was too poor to trust him or anyone else to a large
amount. He gave some jewellery to Branscombe for sale probably to about £4
value. Under oath he admitted that his brother conveys the hops to Branscombe's
house at New Town. Discharged.' [Henry
d.1876 in Victoria, Australia]
`By the nineteenth
century the word `discipline' had come to signify the most prized of all
British imperial qualities; a specialised cold-bloodedness and readiness to
take punishment which the OED finds itself unable to define. Its classic case
was perhaps the wreck of the Birkenhead
troopship ... when five hundred soldiers found themselves on a sinking ship
with inadequate lifeboats, in a shark-infested sea. They were drawn up on deck,
maintaining, says the Annual Register
for 1852, `perfect discipline', and told eventually to jump overboard and make
for the few boats which had been launched. But the ship's captain begged them
not to, as the boats with the women in would inevitably be swamped. `Not more
than three', he reported, `made the attempt'. Under this heroic obedience to
discipline, the whole mass were engulfed in the waves by the sinking of the
ship. The event became a part of British mystique, as did the quality.'[975]
1657 ships arrive
in Melbourne from overseas. The value of gold mined in Victoria is £10,953,936.
The Great Britain makes its first voyage to
Melbourne, in 81 days.
George W.
Branscombe is a lodging-house keeper in Eldon Place, Exeter. [Directory][976]
Hastings:
approximate year of birth of Charles Branscombe, registered as a domestic
servant/coach(man?) in the 1881 census for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. [poss Charles, son of (Samuel) James Henry
Branscomb and Mary (Doubleday - m.1844 Monkwearmouth), registered as 5m old in
the 1851 census for Saint Lawrence, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, above?]
[From: ‘London by Day and Night’, by David W.Bartlett, 1852
- Chapter 3 - Places and Sights
GUTTA PERCHA FACTORY.
‘We made a visit one day to the "Gutta Percha
Company's Works," and as they are the only company in the United Kingdom
holding the original patent, and first imported gutta percha from "over
the seas," and as a necessary consequence are at the head of the world in
their manufactures, we will give a hasty sketch of what we saw on our visit.
The manufactory is situated in the northern part of London, near a canal which
runs into the interior of the country, and is large and commodious.
We were introduced to the manager, who is a man of
politeness and urbanity (qualities not too common in the business life of London),
and sat down in his office for a few moments while he gave out orders for
various and distant departments of the large manufactory without leaving his
desk, by simply applying his lips to different mouth-pieces close at hand, the
sound being carried through gutta percha tubes to the farthest corner of the
vast building.
In a few minutes, we repaired to the cutting department.
Here the lumps of gutta percha are sliced into thin pieces by revolving knives,
which cut six hundred slices per minute, propelled by steam. The gutta percha
as it is imported from India is not fit for use - the collectors being careless
- and it must undergo a process of purification here. The slices, when they
drop from the revolving knives, are thin, and have the appearance of old
leather. The manager next took us to the boiling and kneading-room. The slices
are first put into enormous iron boilers, and boiled till of the consistency of
tough dough, when they are thrown into a machine with rows of teeth, revolving
eight hundred times per minute, and which tear the masses of gutta percha into
infinitesimal shreds The shreds are put into cold water, the gutta percha [-57-] pure and unalloyed rising to the surface,
while the dirt and refuse matter sinks to the bottom. It is then skimmed off,
and put into lumps, to which a heat of 200 degrees is applied, and in this
state the lumps, while plastic, are put into steam kneading-machines, to work
out all the air and water that may exist in the pores of the substance. This
process is a very curious and interesting one. After the gutta percha comes
from the kneading-machine, it is by machinery moulded into the thickness of
common leather, and is ready for use, or perhaps it is left in lumps, as
occasion may require.
We next went into the department where soles are made for
boots and shoes. The gutta percha was in a plastic state, and while thus the
soles are cut and shaped. The shoemaker, or mender, by applying enough heat,
can shape the sole of the shoe, or any one can mend his own boots with slight
trouble, by merely applying one side of the sole to a hot fire, and at once
placing it to the bottom of the boot - when cold, it adheres better than if it
had been pegged on, and will not only outwear leather, but will entirely keep
out the wet. There were many boys in this department, and we ascertained that
their wages were about one dollar and a quarter, or a half, per week - they, of
course, boarding and lodging themselves.
We visited the tubing department, and saw the process of manufacturing
gutta percha tubes. A very long one was being tried ; it was for a mine, down
in the country ; the mouth-piece was to be above ground, from which orders
could be given to workmen in the vaults below. It was more than four hundred
feet in length, and was well constructed. Here, too, pumps were made, pipes for
fire-engines, and all manner of tubes. Here we saw the identical electrical
wire, covered with gutta percha, which first connected England with France -
the true chain of brotherhood. The manager gave us a piece, as a memento of the
great feat of connecting the [-58-]
English and French shores, though twenty miles of sea intervenes between them.
Next we visited the most interesting department of all- that
where the nicer and more delicate articles are constructed. Here we first saw a
beautiful frame, with the borders exhibiting every appearance of the finest
carving, and with the inner portions exquisitely gilded. We were surprised that
plaln gutta percha could thus be made to resemble the choicest carved or gilded
oak, rosewood, or mahogany. And not with the chisel, but merely by pressing the
ungainly lumps into a mould, so that once a mould constructed, hundreds and
thousands of beautiful frames are turned out with out the usual expense of
artist-work. And they have a great advantage over wood in the fact that they
never can be broken; dash them to the ground with all your strength, and it
will not harm them. The manager took some delicate-looking flower-vases and
threw them to the floor with violence; they bounded back into the air, but were
not shivered. Here, too, we saw beautiful works of art - the head of a deer,
with the ears falling, like real ears, the horns were slender and natural, but
could not be broken. Impressions of faces and busts hung about the walls of the
room, or were issuing from the hands of ingenious workmen. Some of the faces
were those of distinguished Americans. We also saw some very clever
stereotyping that had been done with gutta percha. There was a beautiful gutta
percha life-boat, which though full of water, and without the usual air-buoys,
will not sink, gutta percha is so much the lighter than water.
There were sou'-wester hats for sailors-capital things, as
they are impervious to water and the action of salt. With leather it is
otherwise, for water saturates it, and salt is its deadliest enemy. There was
lining for bonnets, soft and flexible as silk, yet made of gutta percha. What
surprised as more was an array of liquid gutta percha in bottles, to cure wounds
and cuts and chilblains! There were stethoscopes, and battery-cells, and
insulating-stools, speaking-trumpets, tiller-ropes, &c. &c.
Yet the first sample of gutta percha which ever saw England
was sent by Dr. Montgomerie, in 1843. The tree of which it is the sap, was
discovered by an Englishman in the forests of Singapore. The tree bears a
much-esteemed fruit, the timber is good, a kind of ardent spirits is made from
it, a medicine, and the flowers are also used for food. The first year of the discovery
only two hundred weight were imported into England, while last year over 30,000
cwt. were entered at the docks.’]
@1853
March quarter,
Bethnal Green district: Emma Branscomb's birth is registered.[977] [poss daughter of hatter Henry & Jane
(Waterlow - m.1849)? Poss d.1853 Dec Q?]
March quarter,
Bury district: Hannah Branscomb's birth is registered.[978]
March quarter,
West Ham district: Charles Branscombe's birth is registered.[979] [Charles d.1936 in Balham, aged 83. Executor
was Charles William Branscombe, his son. Charles probably m.1890 Lambeth.
Charles William b.1891 Lambeth district (Stockwell). Or poss Charles Alexander,
m.1876 St Olave, Maria Ellen Goodwin, father of Walter Alexander (b.1879
Camberwell) and Ettie Marianne (b.1882 West Ham)? Charles is probably
registered in the household of his widowed mother, Henrietta, in the 1881
census for Newington. The 1901 census for Lambeth lists a Charles Branscombe,
48, born Plaiston (Plaistow?) Marsh, London, an ‘artist in black and white’]
5 May, Topsham: William
John Pearce, son of publican Henry Pearce of Topsham & Mary Jane, is
baptised.[980] [cf:1854]
June quarter, St.
Thomas district: Mahala Branscombe's birth is registered.[981] [poss. m.1873 St. Thomas? cf:1845 Harriet
Mahala Branscombe b.Bath]
June quarter,
Brighton district: Ann Branscomb's death is registered.[982]
June quarter,
Chelsea district: Frederick George Branscombe's death is registered.[983]
13 June, Exeter
Register Office: Robert John Branscombe (21), bachelor labourer of Coombe
Street, Exeter, eighth and last child of glazier Edward [deceased] & Ann
Branscombe, marries Charlotte Cave (27) spinster tailoress, also of Coombe
Street, daughter of mariner Samuel Cave. Witnesses are Thomas Rowe and Mary
Anne Staddon.[984] [poss second marriage 1873 Kensington for
Robert? cf:1851 census Coombe Street for Charlotte. There are several Thomas
Rowes registered in Coombe Street]
21 June, London:
Samuel Henry Branscombe's boat the Isabella
and Jane (registered 22 October 1850, Newcastle-upon-Tyne), leaves the
Thames and disappears from the records. She is of 62 tons, and carries a crew
of four: captain, mate, able seaman and cabin boy. She made occasional voyages
between Newcastle, Shields, Belfast and France, in 1851 and 1852. Samuel
received his Master Mariner's certificate in Newcastle on 25th January 1851.[985] [Samuel's daughter Isabella b. this year]
5 July, Exmouth:
Newspaper Report.[986]
`A woman named
Perriam (Nancy) of this place has lately had a pension of £10 per year awarded
to her by the Government for assistance she rendered on board one of her
Majesty's ships in Nelson's action. She was employed in supplying the guns with
cartridges. She is 84 years old. The poor woman would have felt more grateful
if it had been settled on her some years since as it is not likely she can live
long to enjoy it.' [cf:1865 - Nancy dies,
aged 98, and £140 better off!]
26 July, Exmouth:
Newspaper report.[987]
`[A] farmer named
Bastin ... had the misfortune to lose a bullock ... the animal falling over the
cliffs and was dashed to pieces. It appears singular that these cliffs are not
protected by a fence.' [cf:1874 electoral
rolls - John Branscombe Bastin of West Down, Exmouth, owns freehold lands at
Oakey Field & Orchard, Payhembury District]
3 August: Alice M.
Branscombe born, daughter of Josiah L. Branscombe & Charlotte (Brewer,
m.1836). [poss siblings: Daniel (1839), Cynthia (1841), Anna Mariah (1834),
Sarah Elisa (1846), Stephen Henry (1849). Alice m. Daniel E. DeMerritt. She
d.1944]
23 August,
Exmouth: Newspaper reports.[988]
`A few days since
a seaman named (Samuel) Franks belonging to this place met his death off
Dawlish under the following melancholy circumstances. [precis ...] The deceased
was aboard the Fleur de Marie the
proprty of F Thierens of Exmouth which was off Dawlish at anchor. Franks who
had won a pize the previous day and had been drinking freely. His master went
ashore without him as he was asleep and on his waking he decided to swim
ashore. He attempted with his clothes tied to the top of his head. He was heard
to sigh once but has not been seen since.'
`Sometime since we
stated that an aged woman named Perriam of this town had been granted by the
Lords of Admiralty a pension of £10 a year for services rendered by her at the
Battle of the Nile. [precis ...] A woman named Salter of Devonport staying with
Mr Youd, tidewaiter of Exmouth (a relative) aged 79 also had an excellent claim
for the same services.'
September quarter,
Bethnal Green district: Matilda Branscombe marries ? [989] [bp.1830 Sion Chapel, Mile End, parents
Thomas & Mary Elizabeth? Sister of hatter Henry of Mile End?]
September quarter,
Clifton district: Mary Crouch Branscombe's death registered.[990] [b.1835 Bristol, daughter of Henry
Branscombe, tanner of Kingsbridge, & Mary (Crouch - m.1827 Plymouth). Henry
may have been born in 1806, Kingsbridge, the fifth child of tanner William
Branscombe & Charlotte (Mortimer - m.1789 Wolborough)? Poss siblings:
Elizabeth (1830-1835), Elizabeth (1837)]
4 September,
Topsham: Charles Pearce, bachelor rope-maker of Topsham, son of Nathaniel
Pearce, rope-maker, marries Eliza Avery, spinster of Topsham, daughter of John
Crabbe Avery, mariner. Witnesses are James Pearce & E.C. Philips.[991]
13 September,
Exeter: Death of Captain George Perriam, aged 84. According to the Exmouth newspaper
obituary of 20 September, his death was sudden. It was said that for many years
he was the master of an Exmouth trading vessel.[992]
7 October, St.
Helier, Jersey: Jane Louisa, daughter of William Henry Beavis, tinsmith of 13
Poonah Road, & Ann (née Davey),
born.[993]
Josias Knight
Beavis, son of Mary Ann Branscombe & Josias Beavis, and brother to William
Beavis, tinsmith of Jersey, marries Elizabeth Davey, sister of his
sister-in-law Ann, William's wife.[994]
30 October, Under
Hill, Chipping Barnet: Ellen, daughter of George Bartlett, bricklayer, &
Emma (Bonnett - m ?), is born.[995]
December quarter,
Kensington district: Emily Branscombe's birth is registered.[996] [poss daughter of Thomas Fox & Mary Hill?
(IGI)]
December quarter,
Bethnal Green district: Emma Branscomb's death is registered.[997] [poss daughter of hatter Henry & Jane
(Waterlow - m.1849)? Poss b.1853, March Q?]
4 December, St.
Luke's, Old Street, Finsbury: William, fourth child of John & Emma (Scales
- m.1840) Branscombe, baptised.[998] William registered December quarter, St.
Luke's district.[999] [poss
buried Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, 20 Feb 1855, aged 15 months? [1000] Siblings:
Thomas (1845), Mary (1848), William or John (1851), Edwin (1856), Emma (1861),
William Mortlock (1863), Ernest (1865), Alice M., (1869)]
29 December: Among
the many desertions from ships recorded in the New South Wales Government Gazette this year are able-bodied seamen
Ratchford and Wakeham, from the barque Branscombe,
at Port Jackson.[1001] [cf:1854]
George Henry Dacie
Branscombe (b.1831) graduates from Trinity College, Cambridge, with a B.A.. [cf:1855]
Cornwall:
Approximate year of birth of Elizabeth Ann Branscombe, registered as a 28 year
old barmaid/servant in the Dartmouth pub of Henry C Collier, in the 1881
census. Her marital status is not given.
Lloyd's Register
for this year notes the barque Branscombe,
launched Sunderland 1850, has been certificated for a voyage from Sunderland to
Calcut, under Captain Harrison.
St. Lawrence
parish, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Approximate year of birth of Isabella, daughter of
master mariner/miner Samuel (James) Henry Branscomb of Hastings & Mary
(Doubleday - m.1844 Monkwearmouth). [Samuel
goes to Australia at about this time, and probably never returns. cf:21 June
this year, his boat, the "Isabella and Jane" leaves London and
disappears from the records. He marries again in 1866, in Ararat, although his
first wife Mary is still alive. He dies, 1870, in Ballarat. cf:1851, 1871
censuses. Isabella m.1872 Sunderland, William Young. She d.1878 Sunderland]
Between 1851 and
1861, the North-East increased its population by a quarter, while the average
increase for England and Wales was just over ten per cent.
GORE'S DIRECTORY
OF LIVERPOOL 1853
Branscombe, Samuel hide & leather factor & commission agent
Office:
Prowse, Barclay
& Co. ship &
anchorsmiths, 10 Roberts Street North
Prowse, John sailmaker,
15 Spring Street, Toxteth Park
Prowse, Joshua shipowner,
2 Hemingford Terrace, Parkfield, Birkenhead
Prowse & Co. shipowners,
shipchandlers & sailmakers, Ansdell Street, Salthouse
Dock
Prowse, Robert Sanders shipsmith
(P.B. & Co.), 15 Claughton
Terrace
Prowse, William master
mariner, 58 Nelson Street
Prowse, William shipowner
(J.P. & Co.), & shipsmith (P.B. & Co.),
Whetstone Lane,
Holt Hill, Tranmere
Prowse, William jun. shipowner,
Whetstone Lane, Tranmere
Prowse, William Henry rose-engine turner,
4 Harford Street
The value of gold
mined in Victoria exceeds £12 million.
Possibly this is
the year of the first voyage of Captain William Waymouth Branscombe to
Melbourne.
The Welch family
leave Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, for Port Adelaide. They travel on the ship Belmont (190 tons). Description of
voyage in Pat Roberts, Emily's Journal.
Van Diemen's Land
officially becomes Tasmania.
The first railway
and telegraph lines are built, in India.
`The late Mr Henry
Howe, son of the well-known actor of the same name, and himself for many years
on the staff of the Morning Advertiser,
informed me that during a visit paid to Branscombe in 1853 he saw an old woman,
reputed to be a witch, who was followed by a number of boys pelting stones at
her. On speaking to one of the inhabitants about it, he was informed "Oh,
she's a witch." She had a blind husband.'[1002]
Gloucestershire:
Edwin Branscombe (b.1826/9 Bideford), marries Sarah Martin Mountjoy. Children:
William James Branscombe (b.1857 Fryer’s Creek, Victoria, Australia), Mary Ann
Browncome (b.1858 Forest Creek, Victoria), Edwin Brownscombe (b.1861 Inglewood,
Victoria).[1003]
@1854
6 January, Dawlish
Water: Captain William Branscombe, son of John & Agnes dies, aged 50.
(EBMI) Registered March quarter, Newton Abbot district.[1004] [cf:1873]
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
(CAPT?) WILLIAM BRANSCOMBE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JAN 6TH 1854 AGED 50 YEARS
My days are gone like a
shadow; and I am withered
like grass Ps cii.II
ALSO SOPHIA
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED 26 MAY 1873
AGED 69 YEARS
His will gives
wife Sophia (Willis - m.1834 Dawlish) and only child Sarah Ann, as
beneficiaries. A `messuage [large house] & land tenements' in Dawlish are
involved. Trustees and executors are Charles Jewell the younger, a blacksmith
of Dawlish, and Moses Paul [Paul Moses? -
cf:1839 Tithe Apportionment, Dawlish] the younger, yeoman of Dawlish, who
are charged with holding `all my monies and stocks, the interest therein to be
paid to testator's wife during her lifetime or widowhood'. The will was made on
15 July 1852. Effects under £800. The solicitor is Sydney Pearson of Dawlish,
and Hugh Oliver Pearson is the solicitor's clerk.[1005] [his barometer and writing-desk were
preserved in 1994 by a descendent of Sarah Ann & Henry Holman, Mary Swales
of Ramsey, Isle of Man. She mentions
also a `large oil painting of his' which her parents owned `in Dawlish', but
which has since disappeared][1006]
20 January, Port
Jackson: The N.S.W. Government Gazette
posts as missing William Legg, described as 5' 5½" tall, of fair
complexion, with brown hair and dark eyes. He was part of the ship's company on
board the Branscombe.[1007] [cf:1853]
Index to assisted migrants arriving in Sydney &
Newcastle, 1844-59, Vol. 1, Archives Authority of NSW, 1987
Branscombe family
arrive, Sydney, 21 October 1854
from Southampton, on an assisted
passage, vessel
Anglo-Saxon:
William age 29
Anne age 34
Mary
A. age 11
Charlotte age 9
Henry age 4
Jane age 1
The shipping list
for the Anglo-Saxon gives his
birthplace as Withycombe Raleigh, and his trade as tinsmith. It said he was
Church of England, and that he could read and write. Ann was shown as being
able to read but not write; Mary Ann could read and write; Charlotte could
read.[1008]
March quarter,
Lambeth district: Edward Branscombe marries ? [1009]
March quarter,
Exeter district: Amelia Clara Branscombe's birth is registered.[1010] [possibly second child of George William
Branscombe & Amelia J (? - m.1840 Exeter)]
March quarter,
Bethnal Green district: William Branscomb's death registered.[1011]
March quarter,
Bolton district: William Branscomb's death registered.[1012]
April: The Times begins to carry notices of
births, marriages and deaths.
18 May, All Souls,
St. Marylebone: Jane Walton Chenoweth marries Charles Howard. (IGI) [Chenoweth is probably the original spelling
of Chenneour]
17 June, Old
Church, St. Pancras: Johanna Branscombe, spinster of full age, marries James
Connatt, inn-keeper, bachelor of full age, by licence. They are both of St.
Pancras.[1013] [Johanna is the daughter of William
Branscombe, bootmaker of Torquay. Thomas, Elizabeth Webber & Elizabeth
(H/K?) Blackie are witnesses. Thomas Blackie married Elizabeth Webber
Branscombe in Marylebone, June quarter 1852. Thomas Blackie of 10 College
Street, Camden Town, is the executor of William's will in 1873]
1 August,
Lawrence, Kansas: Charles Branscomb guides the first group of eastern emigrants
to settle in Lawrence. [1014]
‘ … a party of
about thirty settlers, chiefly from New England … Mr. C. H. Branscomb, of
Boston, on a tour in the territory a few weeks earlier in the summer, had
selected this spot as one of peculiar loveliness for a town site.’ [1015]
‘"The New
England Emigrant Aid Company," which had been chartered by the legislature
of Massachusetts in April, was then called "The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid
Society." But afterwards a new charter was obtained for "The New
England Emigrant Aid Company." The men engaged in it, Eli Thayer, Amos A.
Lawrence, and others, began their work at once, arousing public interest and
making arrangements to facilitate emigration to Kansas. As early as June, 1854,
they sent Dr. Charles Robinson, of Fitchburg, and Mr. Charles H. Branscomb, of
Holyoke, to explore the territory and select a site for a colony.’ [1016]
‘Charles H. Branscomb, a lawyer from Holyoke, Mass., was appointed as a general agent in August, 1854. He worked in various advisory capacities until the summer of 1857 when it was discovered that he had padded his expense account. Despite the evidence, it seems likely that Branscomb was less dishonest than incompetent. He later served in the Kansas territorial legislature and the Missouri state legislature. During the Grant administration he was appointed consul to Manchester, England. In 1886 he was the unsuccessful Prohibition party candidate for governor of Kansas. He died in 1891.—See Johnson, The Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 58-59; "Collected Biography, Clippings," v. 3, p. 148, library division, KSHS. … Although Mrs. Nichols's opinion of Branscomb's ability as a general agent was rather favorable, one Kansas historian has called him "the least important and also the least satisfactory of the original general agents of the Company."—Johnson, The Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 58.’ [1017]
‘Branscomb,
Charles H., who with Charles Robinson selected the site for the town of
Lawrence, was a native of New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Academy,
Exeter, N. H., and Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1845. Subsequently
he studied law at the Cambridge Law School, was admitted to the bar and
practiced for six years in Massachusetts. Upon the organization of the Emigrant
Aid Society (q. v.) Mr. Branscomb became one of its agents. He came to Kansas
in July, 1854, and went up the Kansas river as far as Fort Riley to select a
location for a town, but finally agreed with Dr. Robinson on the site of
Lawrence. On July 28 he conducted the pioneer party of 30 persons sent out by
the society to Lawrence, where they arrived on Aug. 1. The second party, also
conducted by Mr. Branscomb, arrived in October. He continued to act as agent
for the aid society until 1858, when he located in Lawrence and opened a law
office. He immediately began to take an active part in the political life of
the territory; was elected to the territorial house of representatives; was a
member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention; and after his removal to
St. Louis, Mo., was a member of the Missouri legislature. [Page 230 from volume
I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions,
industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a
supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard
Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II
edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.] [1018] [poss
grandson of Charles Branscomb & Elizabeth Turner, m.12 December 1779, prob
Hampton, N.H.]
15 August, Wayne
County, Kentucky: Thomas Branscomb marries Lydia Ellis.[1019]
September quarter,
Newton Abbot district: Emily Branscombe marries ? [1020] [possibly Emily, daughter of Samuel
Branscombe (b.1832) to ? Cooke.[1021] cf:1872, Highweek, Emily buried & 1884,
daughter Loui[s]e buried. Emily is probably the daughter of Samuel, tanner of
Highweek, and Mary (Eales - m.1829 Highweek)]
September quarter,
Exeter district: Elijah Seward Branscombe's death registered.[1022] [poss related to carpenter John Branscombe of
Withycombe Raleigh & his first wife Elizabeth (Seward - m.1816 Exeter)?
Also cf: December Q this year for apparent birth of Elijah Seward - wrong birth
year?]
September quarter,
Marylebone district: Emily Branscombe's death is registered.[1023]
September quarter,
St. Olave district: Robert Branscombe's death registered.[1024]
September quarter,
Chelsea district: Birth of George William, second child of house decorator/oil
& colorman Frederick George Branscombe & Elizabeth (? - m.1850 St.
George Hanover Square district) is registered. [cf:1861 census for 2 Cadogan Terrace, Chelsea. Siblings: Elizabeth (b.
about 1851 Chelsea), Horatio Arthur (b.about 1857 Chelsea). Frederick d.1879
Mayfair, and George takes over the business of oil & colorman with his
mother. George marries 1858 Eleanor E.J. ? Daughter Edith Gertrude born 1880
Pancras. cf:1881 census Pancras. Elizabeth senior d.1884 Mayfair]
24 September,
Topsham: Harriett Susannah Pearce, daughter of victualler Henry Pearce of
Topsham & Mary Jane, is baptised.[1025] [cf:1853]
29 November,
Dawlish Parish Church: William Waymouth Branscombe, bachelor of full age and
master mariner of Tormoham, son of William Branscombe, cordwainer, marries Mary
Beard, full age spinster of Dawlish, daughter of George Beard, builder.
Witnesses are John & Jane Honor Beard.[1026]
December quarter,
Exeter district: Elijah Seward Branscombe's birth is registered.[1027] [Should this be 1853? Cf: Elijah Seward
Branscombe's death registered, September Q this year. Also cf:1816 Exeter -
John Branscombe, builder of Exmouth, m. his first wife, Elizabeth Seward]
December quarter,
St. Thomas district: Elizabeth Branscombe's death registered.[1028]
12 December, Saint
James’ Place, Winchester: George Herbert, son of valet George Branscombe of
Saint James’ Place, Winchester, and Mary (Wright), born. Registered 19 January
1855 Winchester, by George Smith, occupier, Saint James’ Place.[1029][bp.28
April 1855, Saint Lawrence, Winchester]
15 December,
Chawton, Hants: Mary Ann Halsey, second child of second great-grandfather John
Halsey, "waiter at an inn", & Martha (Hiller - m.1850 Paddington)
of 23 Victoria Place, Paddington, is born.[1030] [Baptised 1855 Chawton, died 1860 Kensington.
siblings: James (1850-1850), Martha (1857-1857), Frederick (1858-1932), David
(1862), Alice (1867)]
24 December, All Saints, Birmingham: Edward Branscomb, bachelor "striker" [at a forge - cf:1855 birth certificate for son Frederick] aged 19, of Steward Street, marries spinster Sarah Yardley, aged 20, of Cope Street, by banns. Edward's father Robert is a labourer. Sarah's father William is a Steel Toy Maker. The marriage is witnessed by Robert & Elizabeth Branscomb. All parties sign their names [cf:1855 birth certificate of their son Frederick - Sarah signs with a mark].