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Other Countries / Re: Antigua: The Wenham Sugar Plantation c. 1760
« on: Tuesday 06 February 18 16:27 GMT (UK) »
From the study named below (1) , which I have only recently come across, I have learned that the Mr Collins referred to in my previous post was in fact the Revd. Henry (Harry) Rawle Collins and his mother,who was the great granddaughter of Thomas Wenham the elder of Nevis and Antigua, was Martha Hamilton Collins (nee Baker) (1834-1918).
The study suggests that Thomas Wenham born c. 1726 was likely to have originated from Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire. However, it was the Sussex branch of Wenhams whose family crest depicted a greyhound on a chapeau (2) and it is for this reason that I believe that Thomas Wenham was from the Sussex line of Wenhams.
From the chart below it is easy to see how Martha Hamilton Collins may have come into possession of some of the Wenham silver but no so easy to determine how Thomas Wenham came by it!
In Catherine Pullein's article mentioned in an earlier post it seems that the Revd. Harry Collins was to some degree certain that Thomas Wenham had a sister Hannah and that they were both the children of the Rev. George Wenham of Rotherfield. I don't believe this to be true for reasons stated earlier. I have discovered via the SFHG website that there was a Thomas Wenham b. 1730 in Ninfield and his sister Hannah Wenham b. 1928 also in Ninfield. Their parents were said to be Thomas Wenham and Elizabeth. They fit the timescale mentioned by Revd. Harry Collins . However it is not clear to me what Elizabeth's maiden name. Without that knowledge I have hit another brick wall!
Thomas Wenham/Martha Williams (nee Sanders)
Mary Williams
m. John Smith (Gent)
Mary Susannah Wolfe Smith Martha Williams Smith
m. Henry Wilkinson Baker m. Walter Lewis Bucke
Martha Hamilton Baker Walter Henry Bucke
m. Revd. John Mackechnie Collins
Revd. Henry (Harry ) Rawle Collins
Eleanor Linda Collins
Zoe Clara Collins
(I suggest reading the Study (1) referred to below to learn about other family connections. It makes very interesting reading.)
Turning now to Thomas Wenham’s son Francis Wenham for whom the Study (1) has no details I believe he had at least 2 children, (a) Francis Herbert Wenham (1789-1841) married to Maria Sarah Watson with whom he had 9 children including Francis Herbert Wenham (1825-1908 ) and Horatio Wenham (1827-1848) and (b) Thomas Wenham (1792 – 1877), stockbroker, who married Elizabeth MacDonald and had 3 sons and 1 daughter and also later or earlier had married Hannah Watson with whom he had one son and one daughter.
Francis Herbert Wenham (1824, Kensington – 1908) was a British marine engineer who studied the problem of manned flight and wrote a perceptive and influential academic paper which he presented to the first meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society in London in 1866. Wenham's report, "Aerial Locomotion". (3) There is a photograph of him online.
(1) Source: The Mountravers Plantation Community - Part 3 Chapter 2
Copyright: Christine Eickelmann 2016, 2017.
(2) Source: British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry” .
(3) Source: Wikipedia"homas Wenham of Nevis and Antigua
The study suggests that Thomas Wenham born c. 1726 was likely to have originated from Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire. However, it was the Sussex branch of Wenhams whose family crest depicted a greyhound on a chapeau (2) and it is for this reason that I believe that Thomas Wenham was from the Sussex line of Wenhams.
From the chart below it is easy to see how Martha Hamilton Collins may have come into possession of some of the Wenham silver but no so easy to determine how Thomas Wenham came by it!
In Catherine Pullein's article mentioned in an earlier post it seems that the Revd. Harry Collins was to some degree certain that Thomas Wenham had a sister Hannah and that they were both the children of the Rev. George Wenham of Rotherfield. I don't believe this to be true for reasons stated earlier. I have discovered via the SFHG website that there was a Thomas Wenham b. 1730 in Ninfield and his sister Hannah Wenham b. 1928 also in Ninfield. Their parents were said to be Thomas Wenham and Elizabeth. They fit the timescale mentioned by Revd. Harry Collins . However it is not clear to me what Elizabeth's maiden name. Without that knowledge I have hit another brick wall!
Thomas Wenham/Martha Williams (nee Sanders)
Mary Williams
m. John Smith (Gent)
Mary Susannah Wolfe Smith Martha Williams Smith
m. Henry Wilkinson Baker m. Walter Lewis Bucke
Martha Hamilton Baker Walter Henry Bucke
m. Revd. John Mackechnie Collins
Revd. Henry (Harry ) Rawle Collins
Eleanor Linda Collins
Zoe Clara Collins
(I suggest reading the Study (1) referred to below to learn about other family connections. It makes very interesting reading.)
Turning now to Thomas Wenham’s son Francis Wenham for whom the Study (1) has no details I believe he had at least 2 children, (a) Francis Herbert Wenham (1789-1841) married to Maria Sarah Watson with whom he had 9 children including Francis Herbert Wenham (1825-1908 ) and Horatio Wenham (1827-1848) and (b) Thomas Wenham (1792 – 1877), stockbroker, who married Elizabeth MacDonald and had 3 sons and 1 daughter and also later or earlier had married Hannah Watson with whom he had one son and one daughter.
Francis Herbert Wenham (1824, Kensington – 1908) was a British marine engineer who studied the problem of manned flight and wrote a perceptive and influential academic paper which he presented to the first meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society in London in 1866. Wenham's report, "Aerial Locomotion". (3) There is a photograph of him online.
(1) Source: The Mountravers Plantation Community - Part 3 Chapter 2
Copyright: Christine Eickelmann 2016, 2017.
(2) Source: British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry” .
(3) Source: Wikipedia"homas Wenham of Nevis and Antigua