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HOCHEE JOHN 07-09, 38-39, 51-53 (1789)
Born 1789, in Hyan-Shan,
Canton, China
Came to England 1819
Married in 1823
Died 1869
John Hochee was a native of
Hyan-Shan in Canton, China, born of Chinese parents in 1789. His father was Ho
Foo and his own name was originally Ho Chee. For reasons not fully known, he
came to England in August 1819 and settled in Braughing, Hertfordshire. He
adopted the name "John." On 6 January, 1823 he married a
seventeen year old English girl, Charlotte Mole. In 1825 he moved to the parish
of Lingfield, where he farmed. He and Charlotte had eight children. He died in
1869.
Researches by Alexandra
Knight (17194F)
1 Her great-grandfather was Henry St.John Knight
(15015BM)
The story of his life has
been researched by Alexandra Knight1, a great-great-great grand-daughter
of Ho Chee. The following is based partly on her researches and on the 1966
edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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HO FOO was
a mandarin
2 Mandarin, general
name under the empire for a Chinese magistrate or public official, civil or
military. The civil mandarins, chosen from the men of letters or scholars from
every part of the country, were divided into nine degrees, each consisting of
two classes, the highest of which were ministers of state, counsellors of the
emperor, and presidents of the supreme court. Each order was distinguished by a
button worn on the top of the cap, while the highest grade also wore a
peacock's feather at the back of the cap, not as a sign of office or rank, but
as a reward for peculiar merit. The buttons of the higher orders were made of
coloured coral, the lower of glass, and the lowest of gilt metal.
Ho Chee was born in Canton,
China, in 1789 during the Qing (or Manchu) dynasty. Very little is known about
his life except that he was the son of Ho Foo, a mandarin2. The
family lived at Hyan-Shan in Canton (now known as Guangzhou in the province of
Guangdong) and were landowners. Mandarins were the qualified Government
officials and Ho Foo may have been dealing with trade matters, the chief
occupation of Canton, which brought him into contact with the East India
Company. At this time Canton was a major trading post for the company in China;
the East India Company had large tea factories in Canton and had a lucrative
and flourishing trade there.
The history of this company
in helping to open up China to Western trade is of some interest. With the
coming of the industrial revolution, Britain's need for raw materials at home,
and markets for manufactured goods and investments abroad, induced that country
to take the lead in "opening" China. This was accomplished ultimately
by war, in and after 1839, consequent upon more than two centuries of peaceful
relations.
3 Peking = Beijing
Relationships between
Britain and China.
Attempts at establishing
relationships were made from 1635. The Chinese emperor Ch'ien Lung (1736-96)
commended George III for his "respectful humility" in sending a
"memorial and tribute." The request that an English envoy be
permitted to reside in Peking3 was refused, it being disclosed that
China itself had no desire to be represented abroad. Ch'ien Lung's official
wrote, "As your Ambassador can see for himself, we possess all things. I
set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your
country's manufactures." China's goods, however, are "absolute
necessities to European nations"; therefore, "as a signal mark of
favour" trade might be carried on at Canton - but not, as the English had
asked, at "Ningpo, Chusan, Tientsin and other places . . .,"
including storage of goods at Peking.
Britain was regarded as a
vassal state by the Chinese.
Having dispatched to China
an envoy whose conveyances inland bore flags marked "Ambassador bearing
tribute from the country of England," and who presented gifts
("tribute") to the imperial court even though he did not perform the
kowtow, Britain was definitely rated as a vassal kingdom.
For almost half a century,
despite increasing friction over impositions and limitations upon its trade,
England maintained peace with the Manchus and their subjects. It was during the
Anglo-Chinese wars of 1839-42 and again 1856-60 that Britain took the lead in
challenging Manchu-Chinese pretensions to "sway the ten thousand
kingdoms," and in insisting upon recognition by Peking of the western
state-equality concept.
The Opium trade
Another cause for friction
leading to the Anglo-Chinese wars was the opium trade. Foreign, as opposed to
native, opium was imported into China first by the Portuguese but later by
other westerners. Until April 1834, the East India Company held a monopoly on
English trade with China. The Company began farming out opium in Bengal in
1773, in which year the drug was first imported through Calcutta into Canton.
Determination of the West to have Chinese teas and products; small demand by
the Chinese for western products, including English woollens; unwillingness of
the English to pay for Chinese goods with silver bullion; the high value of
opium and its popularity for smoking; all these explain the phenomenal growth
of the opium trade despite Chinese imperial anti-opium edicts from 1729. These
edicts were disregarded by native officials and non officials and aliens alike.
This opium trade may have
triggered the wars beginning 1839, but the conflict was basically one between
two worlds and two different concepts of international relations.
Through the East India
Company, Ho Chee met John Elphinstone.
It would appear that it was
through the East India Company that Ho Foo and his son Ho Chee met John
Fullerton Elphinstone, eldest son of the Hon. William Fullerton Elphinstone,
one of the directors of the company. John Elphinstone was a
"Supercargo" in Canton, responsible for managing the sale of goods.
Ho Chee became a firm
friend of Elphinstone and followed him to Britain on his return.
Elphinstone was about ten
years older than Ho Chee
It appears that Ho Chee and
Elphinstone came into contact through their work and became close friends.
Elphinstone returned home in January 1816 arriving around April/May 1816. Local
stories in Dormansland say that Ho Chee accompanied Elphinstone to England when
he became ill, and East India Company records confirm that Elphinstone was
indeed prone to Ill health. However, we now know from Ho Chee's application for
denization that Ho Chee did not arrive in England until August 1819.
Ho Chee remained
permanently in Britain. He may have been helpful with Chinese trade.
Although Elphinstone had
fully intended to return to China, he had retired from the East India Company
in 1818 due to ill health. The following year we find Ho Chee arriving in
England. We can only speculate as to the reasons, but it appears to have been
due to their close friendship. This is possibly not the whole story for his
coming. Ho Chee was undoubtedly able to speak English and with his knowledge of
China and its customs he would have been particularly useful to a merchant such
as Elphinstone and the East India Company connections. It is also known that
George III had been keen on establishing diplomatic relations with China and Ho
Chee's advice via the East India Company could have been valuable in this
respect.
The background of the
times. There was no love lost between the English and the Chinese.
No love was lost between
the English and the Chinese; the official term for the chief of the
supercargoes council was "Red-Haired Devil," and all Englishmen were
known as "Red-Haired Devil's Imps". In view of this, it is remarkable
that Ho Chee and Elphinstone should have become friends. The following extract
from "Lords of the East - The East India Company and its Ships" by
Jean Sutton, shows the lack of understanding and distrust between the English
and the Chinese at that time:
"These seemingly
innocent articles in the officers' private trade - generally termed 'sing-songs'
- bedevilled the company's trade with China for a hundred years. The Emperor
collected them, and so they were highly sought after by the mandarins for
bribing their superiors. On the slightest pretext, the mandarin in charge of
the customs, the 'hoppo,' stopped the trade, threatening the company with huge
demurrage bills until a bribe, of which the 'sing-songs' constituted the most
important part, was exacted. Extortion was facilitated by the system of trade
with the Europeans. A handful of Chinese merchants, the Co-Hong, bought the
right to a monopoly of the trade. Each member of the Ho-Cong was appointed a
security merchant to a few European ships and dealt with every aspect of the
trade with the ships' supercargoes and, later, the council of supercargoes
resident in the season at Canton.
It was therefore the
security merchant who was forced to purchase the 'sing-songs' to placate the
'hoppo.' Captain Wordsworth's chiming clock, at £150, was relatively cheap; the
more sophisticated - with figures dancing minuets, jigs, and gavottes, birds
singing and waterfalls cascading - were extremely expensive, frequently
bringing the security merchants to the verge of bankruptcy and so threatening
to increase the already unhealthy monopoly of the Co-Hong."
The voyage from China to
England was geared to the monsoons; outward journeys were normally only
undertaken between April and September, and homeward between November and
March. The larger ships (usually those of more than 1200 tons) were used for
trade with China. The East India Company used ships of its own fleet, amongst
which were ships such as the "Elphinstone" and the
"Broxbournebury." The ships were necessarily fast - journeys taking
approximately four months - not only for trading reasons but also to outmanoeuvre
pirate boats. They were also armed to ward off pirate attacks. Goods brought to
England included fans, ivory carvings, lacquer ware and porcelain. After 1700
tea was the major commodity as well as lead, cotton and silks. Commanders and
officers were able to trade privately, and traded in sugar, bamboos and spices
as well as other luxury goods.
4 Denizen = An alien admitted to residence and to certain rights of
citizenship in a country.
Ho Chee may well have had
it in mind to return to China after visiting his friend but, presumably because
of the close bond with John Elphinstone, decided to stay. He later became a
naturalised British subject by denization4 (denization 1839;
naturalisation 1854).
Ho Chee settled in Braughing and in 1823 married seventeen year old English
girl, Charlotte Mole.
There is a short gap in our
information here, but Ho Chee somehow found his way to the village of Braughing
in Hertfordshire. We believe Elphinstone lived in or near the parish. It was
here in Braughing that Ho Chee met seventeen-year-old Charlotte Mole, the ninth
child of Chamberlain Mole who rented Braughingbury Farm, covering approximately
175 acres.
He became known as John
Hochee.
Sarah was born in 1824
Ho Chee and Charlotte were
married on 6 January 1823 at St. Mary's, Braughing, and they continued to live
in the parish for another three years. Ho Chee gradually became known as John
Hochee and Charlotte took Hochee for her surname. The following year their
first child, Sarah, was born on 7 March 1824, and she was baptised at St.Mary's
on 27 July the same year.
John Elphinstone bought
Ford Manor, Lingfield, in 1826.
Henrietta born 1826.
Hochee moved to Lingfield.
Early in 1826, John
Elphinstone purchased Ford Manor, in what is now the village of Dormansland in
the Parish of Lingfield, Surrey, but at that time numbered a few houses and
surrounding farms. On 14 March that year, their second daughter, Henrietta, was
born at Braughing and they moved to Ford Manor with Elphinstone before she was
baptised at the Parish Church of St. Peter and St.
Paul, Lingfield on 30 July
1826. Dormansland and the Parish of Lingfield became home to the Hochee family
and it was to remain so, for some time at least, into the next century.
John Elphinstone Fatqua
Hochee, born 1828, who later, in his army career used the name of Milton.
Daughter Jane christened in
1831.
5 his maternal grandmother's maiden
name
On 12 June 1828, the
Hochee's first son was born and was named John Elphinstone Fatqua Hochee,
probably in gratitude for the help and friendship of John Elphinstone, who may
also have been a God-father. It is also known that one of the Chinese security
merchants in Canton was named Fatqua and may have been a relative. However,
John Elphinstone Fatqua Hochee was not christened until May 1831 when he was
baptised along with his year-old sister, Jane. John E.F. Hochee later used the
name John E. Milton5, although this was probably not until after his
father's death. He later became a lieutenant in the Madras Army.
John Hochee moved to
Nortons Cottage, Lingfield in 1831.
In 1831, Elphinstone
purchased Nortons Cottage which he let to Ho Chee. It seems that a new house
was built on the same site around this time. This house still stands although
its name has been changed several times. It is an impressive building for the
area; it has been described by a local historian as a "country house of
quiet distinction."
Other children: James,
Letitia, Ann, Emily followed.
6 Both Letitia and Ann
became great-great-grandmothers
to Alexandra Knight who compiled this section.
Their younger son, James,
was baptised in 1832. Letitia Charlotte6 (baptised 12 April 1835)
and Ann Hochee6 (born 9 June 1840) followed. Their last child,
Emily, was baptised on New Year's day 1845.
Only a year later, on 1
April 1846, their daughter Jane, died at the age of sixteen. She was buried in
Lingfield churchyard, where she was to be joined, many years later, by her
elder brother and her mother.
Ho Chee referred to as a
Gentleman. Assisted John Elphinstone.
It is not known whether
either Elphinstone or Ho Chee ever went abroad again. Ho Chee is always
referred to as a gentleman on certificates and in Parish Registers, although he
may have acted as a secretary to John Elphinstone. Elphinstone owned several
other properties in England and Scotland and it seems that Ho Chee managed Ford
estate while he was away. Hoopers Farm provided a home for Charlotte's brother
Thomas Mole and his wife, and a house known as Crosses was occupied by John Sue
Achow, also Chinese, and his family. Achow arrived later in 1832. Thorold
Lowdell wrote that, when he was a boy, there were elderly residents who could
recall seeing the Chinese about the village.
He petitioned for
denization in 1839.
Ho Chee petitioned for
denization on the 26 July 1839 giving his status as a yeoman and `reason to
believe I should become possessed of Freehold Landed estate..... if the
Disability of my being alien born were removed by Letters Patent of Denization
or otherwise by Royal Concession or Favour.'
In 1839 John Elphinstone
gave Ho Chee his Surrey Estate.
Elphinstone wrote a Deed of
Gift in December 1839 giving Ho Chee his Surrey estate following his
denization. It may be no coincidence that the news of the confiscation and
destruction of the British opium stocks in Canton (March/April 1839) had
recently arrived in England. This seizure led directly to the Opium War of
1840. Ho Chee's position in England as a Chinese native would have been
untenable in the mounting climate of war and this could have prompted his
application for denization.
John Elphinstone died in
1854.
He left property to John
Hochee.
In 1854, events took a turn
for the worse when John F. Elphinstone died at the age of 75. He was buried in
the extra-mural cemetery in Brighton as he had died while staying in the town.
It appears that both Elphinstone and the Hochee family often spent the winter
in Brighton, as was fashionable at that time. Elphinstone
willed Ford Manor, and
several other properties to his friend Ho Chee. In his will he wrote:
"I, John Fullerton
Elphinstone in consideration of the long and continued attachment and of the
services I have received and for the attention he has given to the management
and the improvement of my landed property in Lingfield Surrey On the event of
my death I hereby give and devise unto Mr. John Hochee formerly of Macao and of
Canton in China but for many years residing at Nortons in the Parish of
Lingfield and now by her Majesty's Letters Patent a Denizen of the United
Kingdom all my landed property situated in the Parish of Lingfield and County
of Surrey known as Ford Farm Hoopers Crosses Nortons Milkhouse Farm together
with all cottages or other appendages Manorial rights as may be thereunto
belonging."
In 1854, Sarah married
Thorold Lowdell.
In 1866, Henrietta married Sydney Poole Lowdell.
In the same year of
Elphinstone's death (1854), their eldest daughter, Sarah, married Thorold
Lowdell at Lingfield. The Lowdell family lived at Baldwyns, now on the
outskirts of East Grinstead, although included in Lingfield parish. The
Lowdells were land owners and also in the professions. Sarah and Thorold later
moved to Woodgates Farm (also known as Milkhouse farm) which was owned by Ho
Chee. On 23 August 1866, Henrietta Ho Chee married Sydney Poole Lowdell, who
had trained as a doctor and who eventually inherited Baldwyns. Members of the
Lowdell family also became associated in a doctors' practice with the Pococks
in Brighton. Crawford John Pocock later married Ann Hochee.
The mystery of Letitia
Hochee and Anthony Knight.
Secret marriage in 1860.
Second marriage, with the family in 1861.
After marriage, Letitia and
Anthony went abroad to New Zealand.
One of the unsolved
mysteries of this family is that of the marriage of Letitia Charlotte Hochee to
Anthony Knight. On 24 October 1860, they were married at All Souls, Marylebone;
no member of either family witnessed the marriage and, if anything, it seems to
have been secret. In the census of 7 April 1861 Letitia Charlotte is living at
Nortons and she has been declared unmarried, presumably by her father. On 1st
August 1861, Anthony and Letitia married again at Lingfield, with members of
both families present. It may be no coincidence that Elphinstone owned number
23 York Terrace, Regents' Park, a near neighbour of number 3 Cornwall Terrace,
owned by the Knight family. Within a short time of this second wedding they
emigrated to New Zealand and did not return until both their fathers had died.
In 1864, James, now a
surgeon, married Emma Fry.
On 27 July 1864, James
Hochee, who was by this time a surgeon, previously working in India, married
Emma Fry at Redhill; they later lived at Finchley and were the only ones to
perpetuate the Hochee name as John E.F. Hochee did not marry.
Around 1867, Ford Manor and
the surrounding land was sold off, although various farms and cottages were
kept. The following year a new house, now known as Greathed Manor, was built
near to Ford Manor by the new owners.
John Hochee died in 1869.
Eventually on 1 March 1869,
Ho Chee himself died whilst staying at Devonshire House, Brighton. He was
buried in a grave adjoining and identical to that of his benefactor, John
Elphinstone. One of the provisions of his will was:
"I give and devise
unto my said wife Charlotte Hochee all that piece of Freehold land now planted
with fir on which a limekiln formerly stood situate at the cross of roads at
Dormans Land in the Parish of Lingfield in Surrey."
The Hochee Almshouses at
Lingfield.
In the will there is no
obvious reason for this but a few years after his death we find that Charlotte
gave the Hochee Almshouses, built on this land, to the village.
Marriage of Ann and Emily
Hochee
There were two more
marriages at Lingfield; on 18 July 1871 Ann married Crawford John Pocock of
Brighton and on 24 September Emily married Frank Abrahams of Croydon.
1882: Charlotte died.
Oil painting of Ho Chee and
his father Ho Foo now with the Lowdell family.
On 1 July 1882, Charlotte
died at the age of 77. She was buried at Lingfield with her daughter; their
grave was given a Chinese inscription which reads "Ho Chee." In her
will Charlotte left an oil painting of Ho Chee to her sons "with the hope
that it will always remain in the family." Portraits of Ho Foo in Chinese
robes and a smaller one of Ho Chee in Western Dress are now in the possession
of the Lowdell family.
John E.F. Hochee died 1882.
The Hochee Almshouses contains a bust of Ho Chee.
End of the section based on
the work of Alexandra Knight
In 1882 Dormansland Church
was completed with the help of contributions from local landowners including
John E.F. Hochee. John E.F. Hochee died the next year at his London home, 33
Wimpole Street and he was buried with his mother in Lingfield.
The Hochee Almshouses, with
a marble bust of Ho Chee himself presiding over the tiny hallway, still survive
to this day providing a permanent memorial to this unusual family.
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Some detail of his Naturalisation
request is given below:
Applied for Naturalisation
in 1839 so he could inherit and own property.
"Denizen" = an
alien admitted to residence and to certain rights of citizenship in a country.
"Yeoman" = a
countryman, especially one of some social standing, who cultivates his own
land.]
In August 1839 he wrote to Lord Russell, Principal Secretary of State for the
Home Department
In the Naturalisation
records of the London Records Office there is a letter that appears to have
been written by Hochee himself applying for citizenship. This initial
application appears to have been unsuccessful. He then employed a solicitor to
write a second letter. The record is as follows:
Ho Chee - The Petition of
Ho Chee formerly of Hyan-Shan in Canton, China but now of Nortons in the Parish
of Lingfield in the County of Surrey, Yeoman. To be a free Denizen - Awarded 21
Nov 1839
I Ho Chee of Nortons in the
Parish of Lingfield in the County of Surrey, Yeoman a petitioner to Her Majesty
for letters patent of Denization do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am a
Native of Hyan-Shan in Canton, China that I was born of Chinese parents and am
about forty-nine years of age. That I came to England in the month of August in
the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and resided at Braughing in
the County of Hertford until the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty
five wherein I went to live in the Parish of Lingfield aforesaid and where I
have continued to live ever since. That I have reason to believe I should come
possessed of freehold landed estate either in Fee or on lease for life or years
if the disability of my being alien born were removed by Letters of Denization
or otherwise by Royal Concession or Favour and I further declare that I am the
lawful Husband of an English Woman by whom I have a family of six children and
am desirous of living permanently in England and that I am undeniably well
affected to Her Majesty's person and Government and I make this solemn
declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the
provisions of an Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years of His late
Majesty William the fourth entitled an Act to repeal an Act of the present
session of Parliament entitled an Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths
and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State and to
substitute declarations in being thereof and for the more entire supposition(?)
of voluntary and extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provisions
for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Declared at the Mansion
House, London 23 July 1839
Ho Chee
and further,
1st August 1839
To the Right Honourable
Lord John Russell Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department. The Humble Petition of Ho-Chee formerly of Hyan-Shan, Canton, China
but now of Nortons in the Parish of Lingfield in the County of Surrey, Yeoman.
Thewth - That your
Petitioner is a Native of China and was born at Hyan-Shan aforesaid of Chinese
parents and is aged forty nine years or thereabouts. That your Petitioner came
to England in the month of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen and took up his abode at Braughing in the County of Hertford and
continued that residence til the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty
five when he went to live in the Parish of Lingfield aforesaid and has not
since resided out of that Parish. That your Petitioner farms an Estate which is
called Nortons and he is aforesaid to the different County and Parochial Rates
and Assessments in his own name. That your Petitioner on or about the sixth of
January 1823 married according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of
England at Braughing Church, Charlotte Mole of Braughing aforesaid Spinster and
Native of that Parish. That your Petitioner and his wife have six children
videlicet Sarah, Henrietta, John, Jane, James, Letitia. That your Petitioner
has reason to believe that he may become entitled to an Estate of Inheritance
in Fee Simple or Lease for Life of lands in the County of Surrey provided no
legal impediment existed but your petitioner is advised that being born an
Alien he cannot possess Landed or any other Real Property without Her Majesty's
gracious Letters of Denization being first granted to your Petitioner.
Your Petitioner therefore
humbly prays your Lordship that you will be pleased to grant to your Petitioner
Her Majesty's most gracious Letters of Denization and that under the Authority
thereof your Petitioner may be enabled to take either by Gift or Purchase
landed or other property and your Petitioner will ever pray.
Ho Chee
We the undersigned are well
acquainted with Mr Ho Chee and believe him to be rightly deserving of the
Indulgence he solicits.
William Rixon Snr -
Solicitor, Jewry St, Aldgate - intimate with him from his first arrival
William Rixon Jnr -
Solicitor
W.H.Blackmore 16 Gauld(?)
Sq, City
Thomas Robson Aylesford,
Kent
Brailsford(?) Bright First
Gate, Essex.
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Census records for Nortons, Lingfield 1841 ,1861
The British 1841 census
Lingfield HO107, 1077, 35 p16, Nortons, described him as a farmer. At that time
there were three female servants in the house [Eliza Friend (20), Esther
Longend (15) and Hannah Standish (15)] and an Agricultural Labourer [William
Lambert (15)].
The British Census of 1861
for Nortons Lingfield, (reference R.G.9/579, 143 page 5), states his age as 70, and that he
was born in Canton, but became a Naturalised British subject.
John Hochee's eight
children
His death
His last will and testament
Birth certificates and
other records show that he and Charlotte had eight children: John, Sarah,
Henrietta (known in the family as "Netta"), Jane, James, Letitia, Ann
and Emily.
John Hochee died on 1 March
1869 {recorded in the parish of Brighton for the March 1869 quarter, 2b 128
(aged 80).}
A copy of his Last Will and
Testament has been studied. It is a long, handwritten, and partly illegible,
legal document that showed him as a man of some substance. He left his lands
and premises for the use of his wife, although these were eventually to go to
his son, John, to be sold, and the proceeds to be equally divided amongst his
children.. He gave his servant, John White, £50. He left legacies to his
children as follows: Sarah, £200; Henrietta, £700; Letitia, £200; Ann, £700;
Emily, £1,700; John, £200; James, £200. He stated he had made these unequal as
he had already advanced certain sums to some of his children. [See entry for
Charlotte Hochee for mention of an oil painting.]
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The Australian Rumble
family's search for details of Hochee and his family.
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Until recently (1991) the
Australian branch of the Rumble family knew very little about their Chinese
ancestor. In the 1930s and 1940s Dorothy Fall7 thought that Hochee
was a mandarin, possibly Ambassador to Britain. This seemed unlikely. Dorothy
said:
My mother Kate Rosaline
Rumble had a small black mole on her hand. She said this was hereditary, and a
branch of the family had been given the name 'Mole'." Dorothy
said that Hochee had married a sixteen year old English girl and she thought
her name might have been "Mole."
When Dorothy died in
October 1988 her son John Fall8 found a scrap of handwritten paper
tracing a family tree. Hochee was listed with the note: "from Oxford
University." Brenda Rohl9, who was at that time living at
Oxford, checked Foster's Alumini Oxonensis from 1715 to 1886 without success.
Brenda then obtained a birth certificate for Ann, one of John Hochee's
children. This certificate described Ho Chee's occupation as
"Gentleman." His residence was given in 1840 as Nortons, Lingfield.
From this Brenda was able to consult census and other records to build an
initial picture of him.
There was also much initial
confusion over the number and names of John Hochee's children. Dorothy Fall
knew of two daughters, Letitia and Florence. She said there was also a son who
became a captain in the army and changed his name to Meredith as he did not
like the Chinese name. Further information was given by Anton Knight10,
grandson of Letitia Hochee and Anthony Knight. Anton was brought up for most of
his childhood by Letitia. In a letter to Dorothy Fall he omitted the names of
Florence and Meredith, but added Annie and Netta Hochee. Henry St.John Knight11
in an 1897 letter to his sister Kate12 stated that "Elphin
Hochee married on 20.2.1895," also "Uncle James Hochee died
at Finchley at the end of 1896."
We now know that Florence13
was the granddaughter of John Hochee, being a child of his son James14.
We also know that John Hochee's other son, John Elphinstone Fatqua Hochee15,
became an officer in the army and changed his name to Milton, not to Meredith.
The Elphin Hochee who married in 1895 was found to be John Elphinstone James
Hochee16, the first child of James Hochee. "Netta" was
Henrietta17.
Thus, the complete picture
of Hochee's family emerged from a diligent search of the London records. This
research was confirmed in 1991 when Brenda Rohl contacted Alexandra Knight who
had independently researched the family.
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017A 12
003A F MOLE CHARLOTTE 07-09, 38-39, 51-53 (1806)
harlotte, a native of Braughing,
Hertford, UK was born in 1806. She was the ninth child of Chamberlain Mole. Her
mother's maiden name was Milton. Very little is known other than that listed
under John Hochee. Charlotte married Hochee in the Church of England at
Braughing on 6 January 1823 when she was seventeen.
1871 Census for her home
The Census records of 2
April 1871 give details of those residing at her home on that night, as
follows:
RG 10, 1057, 30 page 2: Nortons,
Lingfield: Charlotte Hochee, Head, Widow, aged 65, (employs 3
labourers);Emily Hochee, daughter, unmarried, aged 26; M.D.Wearing, Servant,
Unmarried aged 32 , cook; Esther Chapman, Servant, unmarried, aged 19, Kitchen
Maid; Elizabeth A. Lepard (?), Servant, unmarried, aged 15; Charles Hunk(?),
servant, unmarried, aged 16, groom.
Her death in 1882
We know nothing of
Charlotte's life. She died at Lingfield on 1 July 1882. Her death, at the age
of 77, is recorded in the parish of East Grinstead for the September 1882
quarter, reference 2b 87. The entry in the Index of Wills states:
Her Will.
Estate £14,837
The Will with a codicil of
Charlotte Hochee late of Nortons in the parish of Lingfield in the County of
Surrey Widow who died 1 July 1882 at Nortons was proved at the Principal
Registry by John Elphinstone Fatqua Hochee of Nortons Esq and James Hochee of
Finchley in the County of Middlesex Surgeon Sons the executors. Personal Estate
£14,837 3s 2d.
Charlotte's will is simple
compared with that of her Husband, John. She starts by stating:
Husband's oil painting left
to sons
I give and bequeath the oil
painting of my late dear husband to the said John Elphinstone Fatqua Hochee and
James Hochee and the survivor of them absolutely but with the hope that it may
always remain in the family...
£600 between James'
children remainder divided between her children
She directed that lands and
property be sold, leaving legacies to John Hochee, £200; James Hochee, £200,
with the remainder divided equally amongst her children. In a codicil she gave
to her son James £600 to be divided equally amongst his children. The oil
painting is today (1991) in the possession of the Lowdell family.
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002A 12
004A M FALL EDWARD (REV) 10,22-28 ( ?. ?.1779)
Married 1808 trained for
Baptist ministry
Died 1859. Buried at
Newbold
1 16021M, great-great
grandson.
2 15016M
His oil painting
dward was born in 1779, probably the
son of a brewer from Warwick. He married Mary in 1808. He trained for the
Baptist ministry at Bristol and was the second incumbent of the Rugby Baptist
church from 1811 until 1848 when he retired to Park Cottage in the nearby
village of Newbold on Avon. He died on 12 April 1859 and was buried in the
Anglican churchyard in that village where his tombstone may be found.
John Fall1
visited the Baptist church in 1958. Church records prior to 1848 had been
destroyed by a fire, but the minutes for 1848 record an afternoon tea given by
the parishioners on the occasion of Edward's retirement. Victor Fall2
said that he was reputed to have been a great orator, and was known as the
"Silver tongued". His oil painting was handed down to Victor George
Fall and then to John Fall, in whose possession it was in 1994. John Fall also
possesses the flyleaf of Edward's bible, on which he inscribed the names and
dates of birth of his children, and the dates of marriages and the names of
spouses.
His children
Record of his death
His Will
Disposal of his home,
Park Cottage.
3 Park Cottage was still
standing in 1958.
He had eight children: Edward, Emma, Rebekah, Hannah, Thomas, James, Mary Ann,
and Susanna. His first child, Edward, died just under the age of fourteen years,
but the others survived. The last entry on his bible flyleaf is in another hand
and states:
The Revd. Edward Fall, 56
years a minister and 40 years the pastor of the Baptist church at Rugby, died
on Tuesday April 12th 1859 at 8 ofClk in the evening, at Park Cottage, Newbold
and in the Eightieth year of his age and was buried in Newbold churchyard on
Saturday April 16th 1859. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Ian Jones
to a crowded audience in the Baptist Chapel Rugby from 2nd Corth. 5 Ch 8 v.
He made his Last Will and
Testament on 8 October 1852, a few months after his wife, Mary, died. In it he
left his real and personal estate to be shared equally between his seven
children. Writing of his house, he said:
My real estate consists in
my house in which I now reside built at my own expense and cost and called by
the name of Park Cottage together with a garden and orchard attached and a
small field adjoining unitedly containing about two acres or thereabouts be the
same more or less I do hereby give and bequeath the whole thereof to my seven
children aforenamed in this my said Will the value and proceeds of which shall
be equally divided amongst them, To Emma, Rebecca, Hannah, Thomas, James, Mary
Ann & Susanna.
However, he also desired
that Park Cottage3 should remain in the family and requested that
his son Thomas, or failing that, James, should buy it and that the proceeds
then be divided equally between all seven children. It is not known whether
Thomas or James agreed to this request.
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0 12 004A F
? MARY 10,22-28 ( ?. ?.1778)
e do not know the maiden name of
Mary Fall. She was born in 1778 and married Edward Fall. She had eight children
and died on 3 March 1852. Edward noted in his bible:
Mary Fall, the wife of
Edward Fall Died on March 3rd 1852 aged 74 years - 'Possessed of a good Hope
through Christ' Having been the Faithful and virtuous wife for 44 years. Buried
in Newbold Church.
Nothing else is known. Like
her husband, Mary is buried in the Anglican churchyard at Newbold near Rugby,
England.
007A 12 005A M TOWNSHEND
GEORGE 10 (17??)
e know that George was an Officer in
the Excise, Coventry, England. We do not know his date of birth, marriage or
death, nor the name of his wife. He had a daughter, Louisa, but we know nothing
of other children.
004A 12 006A M SMITH EDWARD
13 (+?) (1???)
dward is described in family papers
as a Husbandman and was probably a farm labourer. We do not know his date of
birth or death in England. He married Sarah Wells and they had a daughter, Mary
Elizabeth, but we know nothing of other children.
003A 12 006A F WELLS SARAH
13 (+?) (25. 2.1821)
arah,the eighth child of William
Wells and Ann Pitcher, was born in England on 25 February 1821. She
married Edward Smith.
0 12 018A M BRADFORD JOHN
24 (1???)
The father of Susan
Bradford who married Thomas Fall. Nothing else is known other than that he came
from Shilton Fields, England.
0 12 026A M POCOCK ? 38
(1???)
is son was a medical practitioner
who married Ann Hochee. Nothing else is known.
0 12 028A M SPENCER THOMAS
HENRY 41 (+?) (1???)
e know little of Thomas. He lived at
Bath, in the United Kingdom. His son William came to Bunbury, Western Australia
and married Hannah Properjohn. Shortly after their son William migrated, Thomas
and his wife also came to Western Australia, taking up land in the Australind
district.
0 12 029A M PROPERJOHN
CHARLES 41 (+?) (1???)
harles married Elizabeth, but that
is all we know. His daughter Hannah married William Spencer.
0 12 029A F ? ELIZABETH 41
(+?) (1???)
Married Charles Properjohn.
Nothing else is known.
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010A 12 030A
M KNIGHT VALENTINE 07,55-63 (1792)
Born 1792
1 17194F
alentine, the son of Valentine and
Mary Knight, was born in 1792. His family was researched by Alexandra Knight1,
a great-great-great-grand-daughter, and her story is given below:
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The Knight Family
1821: He became a Freeman
of the Goldsmith's Hall
1823: married daughter of a
watch-case maker.
Children: Valentine,
Elizabeth, William.
Valentine Knight was born
in 1792 (baptised 1 January 1793) in London. Very little is known about his
early life until 5 December 1821 when he became a Freeman of the Goldsmith's
Hall by Patrimony. On 13 December 1823 he married Elizabeth Watson, the
daughter of William Watson a watch-case maker of Clerkenwell, at St.James,
Clerkenwell. Their first son, Valentine Catherwood Knight, was baptised on 26
January 1825; he was followed in 1826 by Elizabeth Knight (baptised 14 August
1826) and in 1828 by William Watson Knight (baptised 8 February 1828).
Became a goldsmith
specialising in Engine Turning
His obituary in the
Horological Journal recounts how he was renowned for the quality of his work
and for his character.
At this time the family was
living at 4 Newcastle Place, Clerkenwell Close where Valentine had recently set
up as a goldsmith specialising in engine turning, a process for producing
symmetrically patterned engravings. He found a substantial demand for engraved
gold and silver dials for clocks and watches and pursued this line of business
in particular. The business flourished due to Valentine's dedication and the
high quality of his work. His obituary in the Horological Journal of 1
December, 1867 reproduced below, reviews his life and work:
Memoir of Valentine Knight
With deep regret it becomes
our sad duty to record the death of Valentine Knight Esq., President of the
British Horological Institute, which happened on the 17th November, 1867, at
his residence, Thornycroft, Leatherhead, in Middlesex. He was in his 75th year,
but until lately was hale and active, having a much younger appearance.
Burr became a partner in
1842
Valentine Knight was
essentially a self-made man. The scene of his earliest life was in Newcastle
Place, Clerkenwell Close, where for many years he conducted a flourishing
business as gold and silver dial-maker and engine-turner. For some years before
quitting the business, he joined partnership with Mr Burr. He was renowned for
the style and excellence of his work in the palmier days of watch making,
particularly for his success in the color of his dials. At the annual dinner of
the Institute in 1863, he said of himself, in the genial manner peculiar to him
:-
He retired in 1851 at
the age of 59
He was a director of Mutual
Life Assurance Society at least by 1847
"I have always felt a
deep interest in the welfare of Clerkenwell, and I hope I shall always continue
to do so. At an early age I set up in business in it, in the engine-turning and
gold-dial departments. I happened to have a very lucky rise. I chanced to make
an article in the gold line, such as I believe I may say with truth was
equalled by no other person. When Americans came to Coventry or London to give
orders for watches, they almost always insisted upon having Knight's dials.
That was a very great advantage to me. To a certain extent I was a child of
fortune. I succeeded much beyond my expectations. During many years I worked
sixteen and eighteen hours a day, and sometimes all night. Such an enormous
business I was sure could not last, and I therefore thought it better to make
hay while the sun was shining. I did so, and at a comparatively early age was
enabled to retire from business."
His retirement from the
business in Clerkenwell, only however necessitated
employment in other affairs
for a mind so active and a head so clear as his.
He was one of the earliest
directors of the Mutual Life Assurance Society, a flourishing association,
which was the first (excepting the Amicable) to raise its claims to public
support on purely mutual principles. Having its origin among Clerkenwell
supporters, it is gratifying to know, the Mutual is one of the solidist
institutions discharging the important functions of Life Assurance. Mr Knight's
business habits led him to take a very active interest in those great works of
modern times, railways, and his voice was often effectively raised at their
public meetings against prodigal expenditure. After giving up his trade
pursuits, Mr Knight filled for some years the office of Magistrate for
Middlesex. He was elected to, and liberally and worthily discharged the duties
of President to several trade institutions.
In 1858 he chaired a
meeting to set up the British Horological Institue, becoming its first
president
He was President of the
Watch and Clock Makers' Asylum, to which he contributed generously. He was
intimately associated with the Horological Institute from its very beginning,
having been called upon by the Preliminary Committee to preside over the public
meetings which they had called, and which took place at the "Belvidere
Tavern," Pentonville, on the 15th June, 1858, having for its object the
founding of the Institute. To that call he responded, and by his capital
ability as chairman, and by starting a subscription list with his own cheque
for ten guineas, he made an acknowledged success of that first effort.
When the institute had been
organised, Mr Knight was unamimously elected to the honorable post of
President, to which he has been year by year unanimously re-elected ever since.
His lamented decease causes the first vacancy in the presidentship.
At the Inaugural Dinner of
the Institute, he said, "Other countries might have carried the science of
horology to a great extent, but it would be a disgrace to Clerkenwell to be
second to any nation under the face of the sun in that art." And he
invariably insisted upon the claims of the Institute, not only upon the trade,
but the public also. "He pronounced the Institute to be an association
which was wanted for the honor of the country and the trade, to enable it to
flourish as it ought to do; and he was sure that through its means, watchmaking
would prosper. Although he considered himself an outsider of the trade, he
should be happy at all times to give all the assistance to it which lay in his
power, not only by personal attendance at its meetings, but by subscribing to
its funds, and assisting it in causing it to prosper to the extend which it so
highly deserved. He felt deeply interested in horology, and had a high respect
for every man connected with it, and should always feel pleasure in meeting
them upon such happy and convivial occasions." How faithfully he bore in
mind and acted upon his promise, never swerving or becoming lukewarm, is well
known to the members.
In January 1865 he led a
Horological Institute deputation to the Goldsmith's Hall concerning injuries
wrought upon fine gold work by the stamping of hallmarks and the high charges
imposed.
During his presidency, the
British Horological Institute has been greatly indebted to him; firstly, for
his great attention to the duties of his office, secondly, for his warm
advocacy of the claims of the Institue to public support, but above all, for
the great influence he possessed with all connected with horology whether
immediately or remotely, this influence being constantly exerted to expand the
Institute and its funds, while few could withstand the solicitations of one so
generally beloved.
His social position was
eminently conducive to the success of his kind intentions. He had retired from
business in Clerkenwell long enough to prevent even the memory of trade
jealousy to remain, even if he had ever exhibited any, which is very doubtful,
for he was personally of an excellent presence, a very amiable temper, and
possessed of a manner well calculated to endear him to those with whom he was
brought into contact. He was, without exception, the most liberal supporter of
the Institute, took the warmest interest in it, and made it a point of honor
and duty to assist whenever his services were required, or he could aid it by
his influence. Whenever it was necessary to confer with him, upon the affairs
of the Institute, he was always a ready listener, and from his great and varied
experience, and good judgement, he was an excellent counsellor.
At the anniversary dinner
in 1861, he stated modestly, but how truthfully his conduct has always shown;
"I shall never deem it a condescension on my part to do what I possibly
can to promote the interests of any society which tends to the welfare of the
parish of Clerkenwell, and more particularly to the watch trade. Having spent
many years of my life within that district, and having taken some money out of
it, I should be ashamed of myself if I looked back without having a feeling of
kindness and good fellowship towards those with whom I was formerly associated;
and until the last day of my life I assure you that I shall have very great
pleasure in forwarding the interests of all the societies connected with the
parish."
At the anniversary dinner
which took place this year he said he was fast getting into the sere and yellow
leaf, but as long as he lived and could appear before the members of the
Horological Institute, nothing would give him greater pleasure.
Those who heard these words
little thought how soon he who uttered them would be lost to them. Peace be
with him! Clerkenwell will long remember him, self-made men, yea all men, might
well have imitated his happy disposition, and geniality of character.
By 1843 he had a much
larger family:
By 1843 Valentine had a much
larger family with John Watson (born 10 March, 1830), Anthony (born 24 October
1831), Frederick (baptised 4 March, 1834), Charlotte Russell (baptised 13 May
1836), Katherine (baptised 6 December, 1838), Henry (born 13 June, 1841) and
Alice Mary (born 27 July, 1843). Valentine sent two of his sons to Oxford
University:
Valentine Catherwood
matriculated to University College in 1844, graduating in 1848. He was called
to the bar, Inner Temple, in 1850, and later became curate at Pucklechurch,
near Bristol. He died in 1876 near Boulogne, France.
Valentine's sixth son,
Henry, matriculated to Brasenose College in 1860.
His various homes.
Before his retirement in
1851, the family had moved to number 3 Cornwall Terrace on the Outer Circle of
Regents' Park, near the top of Baker Street. They later moved to Thorncroft, an
elegant country manor, built in the 1770's, on the outskirts of Leatherhead,
then in the county of Middlesex, but now in Surrey. There had been a house on
this site since before Domesday and it held one of the two Manorial Courts in
the area. The house still stands today but is used as offices.
The marriage of his
children
Of the daughters, Elizabeth
married William Atkinson Langdale in 1857. Charlotte married William Hill,
later Lieutenant-General of H.M. 2nd West India Regiment. Katharine married
Arthur Drinkwater Bethune Chapman; a Colonel Drinkwater Bethune once owned
Thorncroft in the mid-eighteenth century. Alice married the Reverend Henry
Vincent Shortland.
Died 1867
Valentine died on 17
November 1867 at Thorncroft at the age of 74. He was buried at Highgate
cemetery with his father-in-law William Watson, who had died on
25 November 1857. Valentine had hoped that the family would keep and use
Thorncroft but his widow, Elizabeth, sold the estate and moved to a house
called Glenthorne in Eastbourne. It was here that William Watson Knight, a
bachelor, died in 1893. His mother survived him for two more years, dying at
the remarkable age of 93.
Son Anthony became a
solicitor, Married Letitia Hochee, emigrated to New Zealand.
Anthony Knight, fourth son
of Valentine and Elizabeth, became a solicitor; his firm Humphreys and Knight,
was established at 33 Spital Square and also at 40 Parliament Street, London.
He subsequently married Letitia Charlotte Hochee in 1860. Soon after their
marriage they emigrated to New Zealand, travelling in the
600 ton sailing ship
Victoria, arriving there on 30 March 1862. They did not return to England until
both of their fathers had died.
Anthony's family
Whilst in New Zealand,
Anthony and Letitia's first children were born. They were Valentine Elphinstone
(born 22 November 1862), Frederick William Anthony (born 3rd August 1864), Kate
Rosaline (born at Christchurch on 15 March 1866), and Henry St.John (born 24
July 1867). Nothing else is known of their life in New Zealand. The family left
New Zealand on 8 March 1869 on the Gothenberg bound for Australia and returned
to England via Melbourne on the City of Vienna, arriving home on 26 July 1869.
Back home, Mary Georgina and Churchill were born. Henry St.John was sent to
boarding school in Arundel at the age of four. In 1877 the family was living in
Gill's Green near Hawkhurst in Kent. They settled at number 2 Vanbrugh Terrace,
Blackheath some time before 1890. Anthony and Letitia both spent the rest of
their lives there.
Frederick
Frederick worked for
"Cable and Wireless" in Buenos Aires; he married Mary Gerard and they
lived at La Fosse, St.Martin's, Guernsey, Churchill worked in China until he
retired to Barnstaple. Both Kate and Mary married members of the Rumble family.
Henry St.John
Henry St.John entered the
Royal Engineers, eventually becoming a Major. In 1894 he married Ellen Theresa
Glanvill and the following year they had a son, Anthony Henry. Soon afterwards,
Ellen became ill and, when she knew she was dying, she asked her husband's
cousin, Mary Emily Pocock, to look after her young son.
Henry St.John and Mary
Emily were married at St.Peter's, Brighton, in 1901. Their first child, Edith,
died in infancy, and they had two sons, Ernest St.John and William Crawford.
Mary Emily died in March 1943 and was buried at Brighton with her parents.
Henry St.John remarried, his third wife being Susie Turrell. They had three
sons: Percy Allan, Graham Frederick and John Watson. Henry St.John died in 1951
and is buried at Eastleigh, near Southampton.
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Details of Valentine's
grave
2 17033F
Details of the grave of
Valentine and his wife in Highgate cemetery, London are given below:
Owner of grave: William
Odling 2/12/1857. Original cost £21. Size 9 feet by 6 feet 6 inches. Occupants
with date of burial: William Watson [1857]; Valentine V. Langdale [1860];
Frederick Knight [1864]; Valentine Knight [1867]; Florence A. Langdale
[1870]; George Odling [1872]; Mary Odling [5/6/1884]; Elizabeth Knight
[15/3/1895].
In 1989 Brenda Rohl2
visited Highgate cemetery, and gave the following description:
Highgate cemetery is the
most amazing place; very Victorian!! I had to walk up the "Egyptian
Avenue" and around the "Circle of Lebanon" where the crypts are.
The poor Knights seem like the paupers on the block!! The grave is mottled
brown marble and is only about knee height.
There are three separate
inscriptions on the grave. These are:
1. "Sacred to the
memory of William Watson Died Nov 25th 1857
Aged 84 Years"
2. "In loving memory
of George Odling Died April 26th 1872
Aged 77 Years.
Also Mary Ann Odling wife
of above Died May 31st 1884
Aged 84 Years"
3. "In loving memory
of Valentine Knight Died Nov 17th 1867
in his 75th Year
Also of Elizabeth Knight
wife of above Died March 10th
1895 Aged 93 years
Also of Frederick Knight of
H.M. 69th Regt Son of above
Died June 8th 1864 Aged 30
years
Also of Valentine Vavasour(?)
Langdale
Died March 1st 1860 Aged 3
months
And of Florence Ada
Langdale Died July 29th 1870
Aged 11 years."
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009A 12
030A F WATSON ELIZABETH 07,55-63 (?. ?.1802)
Born 1801
Died 1895
Her will
1 14015M
2 13007F
3 14004F
4 16021M
5 17033F
lizabeth, the daughter of William
Watson, was probably born in 1802. She married Valentine Knight on 13 December
1823, and died on 10 March 1895. This information was in an old diary found by
Henry St.John Knight1 at No.2. Vanbrugh Terrace, Blackheath, London,
when Letitia Knight2 died in 1920. Henry wrote to his sister Kate3
giving this information. Part of the letter is in the possession of John Fall4.
In 1989, Brenda Rohl5
obtained a copy of Elizabeth's will, dated 1882. She left her house for her son
William to occupy for three years after her death with the option to purchase
it for £4,725 stg. Otherwise the house was to be sold and the proceeds then
became part of her estate, which was divided equally amongst her children. In
1882, a house of this value, must have been substantial. In her Will, she also
refers to marble busts of herself and her late husband by E.H. Bailey.
0 12 031A M LOWDELL GEORGE
39,51,75-83 (17??)
1 International Genealogical Index of
marriages.(IGI)
2 The IGI records them as Christened
at Southam.
eorge Lowdell became a surgeon, as
stated on the marriage certificate of his son Thorold. On 27 August 1811 he
married Jessamine Lowdell at Southam1. He and Jessamine had eleven
children2 : George, Isaac, Joseph, Sarah, Thorold, Emily, Louisa,
Charles, Frederick & William (twins), and Sydney. George died on 7 March
1853. The entry in the Index of Wills states:
Lowdell George - The Will
of George Lowdell of Baldwyns Hill in the parish of Lingfield in the County of
Surrey Gentleman deceased who died 7 March 1853 at Brighton in the County of
Sussex was proved by Principal registry by the Oaths of George Lowdell of
Cannon Place Brighton aforesaid Surgeon and Thorold Lowdell of Lingfield
aforesaid the sons and Emily Lowdell of Lingfield aforesaid Spinster the
Daughter three of the Executors therein substituted. The Probate of the said
Will granted by the Prerogative Court of Cantebury May 1853 having ceased and
expired.
Personal Effects and Estate
£30,000.
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0 12 031A F
? JESSAMINE 39,51,75-83 (1791?)
1 See 1851 census detail given under her son, Thorold Lowdell
(13051M).
essamine may have been born in 1791.
She married George Lowdell and died on 3 July 1862 at East Grinstead. The
Census records for 1841 state:
1841, HO 107, 1077, 60 -
Baldwin's Hill, Lingfield
Jane Lowdell Head Wid 50
Louisa Dau Unm 15
Harriet Goldsmith Serv Unm
23
Mary Goldsmith Serv Unm 19
George Lowdell was still
alive at this time. If "Jane" was the name by which Jessamine was
known, there is an inconsistency in describing her a "Widow". Her
daughter Louisa would have been 19 at the time, not 15 as stated in the above
record. We do not have a record of another "Jane."1
After her death, the
following was recorded:
Lowdell Jessamine - Letter
of Admin of the personal estate and effects of Jessamine Lowdell late of
Baldwyns Hill in the Parish of Lingfield in the County of Surrey Widow who died
3 July 1862 at Baldwyns Hill proved at the Principal Registry by George Lowdell
of Brighton in the County of Sussex Surgeon and one of the children of the said
deceased he having been first sworn.
Personal Effects less than
£3,000.
0 12 032A M ABRAHAM THOMAS
ROBERT 53 (17??)
e know nothing of Thomas. The
marriage certificate of his son Frank, states his rank as
"Gentleman."
006A 12 034A M HUMFREY
THOMAS 7ch (1790)
homas, the son of Thomas Humfrey and
Hannah Lowsley was born in 1790 and died in 1865. He married Ann Mundy and they
had seven children including Ann, Jane, Ellen and Heber. {Source: family
tree supplied by Michael Rumble (16001M)}
0 12 034A F MUNDY ANN 7ch
(1???)
Ann married Thomas Humfrey.
She may have died in 1876.
006A 12 035A M HUMFREY JOHN
(1800)
ohn, the son of Thomas Humfrey and
Hannah Lowsley was born in 1800 and died on 10 May 1860(?). {Source: family
tree supplied by Michael Rumble (16001M)}
006A 12 036A M HUMFREY
WILLIAM 4ch (1???)
illiam, the son of Thomas Humfrey
and Hannah Lowsley, married and had four children. His date of birth is
uncertain. He died in 1867. {Source: family tree supplied by Michael Rumble
(16001M)}
0 12 037A M NEWTON ? 2ch
(17??)
Mr Newton married Elizabeth
Humfrey.
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006A 12
037A F HUMFREY ELIZABETH 2ch (1791)
lizabeth, the daughter of Thomas
Humfrey and Hannah Lowsley was born in 1791 and died in 1870. She married a Mr
Newton and had two children.{Source: family tree supplied by Michael Rumble
(16001M)}
006A 12 038A F HUMFREY JANE
? (1793?)
ane, the daughter of Thomas Humfrey
and Hannah Lowsley was born in 1793 (?) and died in 1846. {Source: family
tree supplied by Michael Rumble (16001M)}
0 12 039A M WESTRIDGE ? 3ch
(1???)
Mr Westridge married
Eleanor Humfrey.
006A 12 039A F HUMFREY
ELEANOR 3ch (1798)
leanor, the daughter of Thomas
Humfrey and Hannah Lowsley was born in 1799 and died in 1872. She married a Mr
Westridge and had 3 children. {Source: family tree supplied by Michael Rumble
(16001M)}
0 12 040A M SPICER JOHN 03
(18??)
ohn Spicer was the Father of Lydia
Mary, who married Thomas William Rumble. The marriage certificate of his
daughter describes his profession as "Smith".
0 12 041A M COLLINS RICHARD
83 (1???)
Richard was born in Ireland
and married Margaret. They had a son, John.
0 12 041A F ? MARGARET 83
(1???)
Nothing is known of
Margaret who married Richard Collins, except that she was born in Ireland.
0 12 042A M FAILEY PATRICK
84 (1???)
Patrick was born in Ireland
and married Rose. They had a daughter Catherine.
0 12 042A F ? ROSE 84
(1???)
Nothing is known of Rose
who married Patrick Failey, except that she was born in Ireland.
014A 12 043A M WYATT THOMAS
LEWIS 88
+ 4 others ( ?. ?.1831)
1 Beryl married Ross
Rumble (16010M)
homas Lewis, the son of Charles
Wyatt and Francis Halphide was born in 1831. He married Rachel Pryer, and died
in 1914. They had five children: Mary Ann (1855), Alice Maria (1857-1940),
Fanny Susan (1859-?), James Lewis (1863-1937) and Thomas.
Beryl Osborn1 is
a descendant of Mary Ann Wyatt.
0 12 043A F PRYER RACHEL 88 + 4 Others (18??)
Rachel Pryer married Thomas
Lewis Wyatt. They had five children.
015A 12 044A M LANGDALE
MARMADUKE ROBERT 57 +3 others ( 6. 4.1785)
he entry in The Landed Gentry
states Marmaduke Robert as Esquire of Garston House, Godstone, Surrey and Pix
Hall, Hawkhurst, Kent, F.R.A.S., F.R.B.S. and the eldest son of Marmaduke
Langdale and Sarah Kelham, being born on 6 April 1785. On 1 October 1812 he
married Louisa and they had four children: Marmaduke (b.1813) who married
Henrietta Chapman, Alfred (b.1815) who married Charlotte Keene, George Augustus
(b.1817) who married Elizabeth Wollaston, and William Atkinson [1357M]. He died 26 September 1860.
-PN- GN
-FN- G SURNAME GIVEN NAMES CH.FNs BIRTH DATE
0 12 044A F
JORDAN LOUISA 57 +3 others (17??)
ouisa was the daughter and co-heir
of George Jordan, Esquire. She married Marmaduke Langdale. She died 23 July
1863. Nothing else is known.
017A 12 045A M MOLE JOHN ?
(1789)
John, the first child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1789.
017A 12 046A F MOLE SUSANNA
? (1790)
Susanna, the second child
of Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1790.017A 12 047A F MOLE
MARY ? (1792)
Mary, the third child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1792.
017A 12 048A F MOLE SARAH ?
(1795)
Sarah, the fourth child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1795.
017A 12 049A M MOLE WILLIAM
? (1797)
William, the fifth child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1797.
017A 12 050A M MOLE THOMAS
? (1799)
1 12003F
homas, the sixth child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1799. His sister, Charlotte1,
married Ho Chee and settled at Lingfield Surrey. At one time Thomas and his
wife were living at Hoopers Farm, being part of the estate left to Ho Chee by
his friend John Elphinstone.
017A 12 051A M MOLE ROBERT
? (1801)
Robert, the seventh child
of Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1801.
017A 12 052A F MOLE MARTHA
? (1803)
Martha, the eighth child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1803.
017A 12 053A M MOLE CHARLES
? (1807)
Charles, the tenth child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1807.
017A 12 054A F MOLE JANE ?
(1809)
Jane, the eleventh child of
Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1809.
017A 12 055A F MOLE AMELIA
? (1812)
Amelia, the twelfth child
of Chamberlain Mole and Martha Milton, was born in 1812.