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Family History Beginners Board / Re: ISAAC FEARON (1779- 1818) born Brigham, Cumberland.
« on: Friday 27 January 17 00:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Hollow Oak

I'm sending you links to the articles I've written about Captain Fearon and his nephew Edward Fearon Burrell as I've included genealogical info in them, some of which is straight from the horses's mouth, so to speak. Edward Fearon Burrell left a handwritten genealogy of Isaac & Elizabeth Fearon's family which his gt-grandson still has in his possession and kindly lent me. I don't believe that Elizabeth Fearon (formerly Baty nee Hodgson) returned to Cumberland after Isaac's death in any permanent way, but stayed in London, where she died and was interred next to Isaac at St John's, Hackney. However, with no census records available that early in the piece, it's not something I can confirm. I think it llikely that she stayed with her oldest son, John Hodgson Fearon. Incidentally, John married in 1833, the year after his mother's death - coincidence or not? Intriguing to note that John's daughter Mary was born in the East Indies in 1839 - was John involved in the East Indies trade? I had wondered if Isaac might have had a connection with the East India Company, as a number of merchants did at the time. John was living in Cumberland in 1841, but back in London by the time of his death in 1855.

Interesting that John Hodgson paid for Edward's schooling -Id say grandfather as brother would have been recorded John Hodgson Fearon. Edward was apparently not impressed with school as he ran away to sea! You don't happen to know which school he was sent to, do you? Edward did name his olest son John Hodgson, though.

Articles

Captain Edward Fearon (1813-1869): The "King of Motueka"
http://rustlingsinthewind.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/captain-edward-fearon-1813-1869-king-of.html

Edward Fearon Burrell (1840-1909) of "Penton", Orinoco: A Versatile Settler
http://rustlingsinthewind.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/edward-fearon-burrell-1840-1909-of.html

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: ISAAC FEARON (1779- 1818) born Brigham, Cumberland.
« on: Wednesday 25 January 17 01:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Hollow Oak - thanks very much for making contact. Yes, I do still have an interest in the Fearon family, though my interest was mainly in Emma's sister Mary and brother Edward. Both Edward and his nephew and namesake Edward Fearon Burrell (Mary's son) emigrated to Nelson, New Zealand, in the 19th century and I have written articles about them both.

However I'm interested in Isaac, Elizabeth and all their family. It has to be said that few of them reached a ripe old age. Emma's is a sad story, dying so soon after her marriage, and her daughter doesn't appear to have led a particularly happy life. The Martin in Emma's name could have been a family friend or relative - at Mary Fearon's marriage to Thomas Gibbard Burrell the witnesses included a Mary Martin Buck, her sister Sarah Fearon and her cousin Dr George Tinniswood, who later married Mary's younger sister Emma Martin Fearon.

Isaac is recorded variously as a stockbroker and merchant, but I haven't been able to find out what area of business he was involved in as a merchant - don't know if you have that detail by any chance?

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Derbyshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents/grandparents of Martha Hicking or Hickling of Littleover, m Richard Lee.
« on: Wednesday 10 August 16 02:18 BST (UK)  »
Hi Derbyderek - Just curious because I haven't seen her place of baptism mentioned, but wonder if there is a record of Martha Hicking being baptised at St Lawrence? Date of baptism is believed to have been 27 March 1842, birth at Ripley, Derbyshire.  Parents were George Hicking  (farmer) and Mary (nee Watson).

I notice that Thomas and Stephen Watson (presumably working in partnership) are mentioned as being freeholders of Codnor & Loscoe in the parish of Heanor in 1821 (History & Gazetteer of the County of Derby, Vol 2, Part 1) and wonder if they are connected to Martha's mother Mary (nee Watson), whose parents I believe to have been Thomas & Hannah (nee Baker) Watson. Mary was born at Loscoe and baptised at St Lawrence Heanor on 2 September 1807, and it may be significant that she named her youngest son Stephen.

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Derbyshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents/grandparents of Martha Hicking or Hickling of Littleover, m Richard Lee.
« on: Monday 08 August 16 08:38 BST (UK)  »
Well, I've now sighted Martha's cert and it seems we are on exactly the right track - her father is given as George Hicking (farmer) and mother as Mary nee Watson, her birth having taken place at Ripley, Derbyshire, England.

Thanks very much all - considering the lack of names to be going on with, I'm impressed at how much we've worked out between us :)

And as a footnote, I have tracked Martha's missing sister. In 1879 she married a former English soldier who became a gold miner on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. They lived around Greymouth and had a daughter. Mary Ann's husband Allen Haig had been serving in India (he was a veteran of the Indian Mutiny) when Governor Grey called for reinforcements to deal with  an uprising by the native Maori tribes of New Zealand and he stayed on after the 68th (light Durham Infantry) were to be sent home in 1866. By coincidence Allen Haig was deployed to Tauranga, New Zealand, and took part in the Battle of Gate Pa.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/war-in-tauranga/gate-pa

Later my grandmother (Martha's granddaughter) lived there with her own family and my father and his sisters grew up running around the redoubt and trenches of Gate Pa, relics of that former battle. The effectiveness of the Maori trenches as a defense mechanism was noted by the British Army and were probably at least partly responsible for those infamous trenches we associate with the horrors of WWI.


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Derbyshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents/grandparents of Martha Hicking or Hickling of Littleover, m Richard Lee.
« on: Sunday 07 August 16 00:51 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for this , Spendlove. I had looked at John Hicking & Elizabeth Fisher, but couldn't find a George (b 1785) among their children, so good to have it confirmed that he was a member of that family. This church of St Lawrence in Heanor keeps popping up in both Watson and Hicking records too.

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Derbyshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents/grandparents of Martha Hicking or Hickling of Littleover, m Richard Lee.
« on: Saturday 06 August 16 08:51 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jo, sorry,to be confusing.  I'm talking about Richard and Martha's son George Reuben Lee, but also about whom I think might be Martha's brother George Hicking, b. abt 1833

I have the latter at Ripley in the Census of Engalnd 1871 Reg district Belper, Sub-reg Ripley.

George Hicking (38) Head of household, Coach Builder, b. Ripley, Derbyshire
Mary Hicking, (35) wife, b. Greenwich, Ripley
George John, son (14), b. Ripley.

However, there do seem to be quite a few George Hickings about so this might just be one possibilty.

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Derbyshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents/grandparents of Martha Hicking or Hickling of Littleover, m Richard Lee.
« on: Saturday 06 August 16 03:43 BST (UK)  »
Apprenticed to a relative, you'd think?. Richard & Martha (nee Hicking) Lee are recorded at 8 Lammas Tce, Nottingham, in 1871 with their three children Henry, Annie and George. Richard is working as an engine fitter so perhaps they went there because there was a family connection able to get Richard work. I have this brother George in 1871 as a coach builder in Ripley, with a wife and child, which would fit with his training as a wheelwright.

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Derbyshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents/grandparents of Martha Hicking or Hickling of Littleover, m Richard Lee.
« on: Friday 05 August 16 23:47 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for all this- you are amazing! I did note the large age gap between George and his wife Mary, which as you say seems to fit with the family legend of the family friend marrying the woman he had known from when she was a small girl. Assuming that his wife was Mary Watson (and that 1833 marriage does seem likely given the children's birthdates), I have found a Mary Watson bapt. at St Lawrence Anglican Church, Heanor, Derbyshire, on 2 September 1807, which could fit. Her parents are given as Thomas & Hannah Watson. An Anglican baptism, though, probably puts paid to my guess that her parents' group of philanthropic friends might have in fact have been Friends (Quakers) .

Another snippet from the family history says that my grandmother's grandmother, Martha, nearly didn't make it off the ship. She gave birth on board the ""Cartvale" and had such a difficult delivery  (the baby was lost) that she was believed to have died as a result. Preparations for a burial at sea were under way when her husband Richard noticed one of her hands give a tiny twitch. She was revived and went on have another five children in New Zealand!

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Derbyshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents/grandparents of Martha Hicking or Hickling of Littleover, m Richard Lee.
« on: Thursday 04 August 16 22:49 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the confirmation of the name of the ship Richard & Martha Lee travelled out on. Family notes have it as "Carte Vale", but spotting the correct name "Cartvale" as per Richard's obit. has enabled me to find the family on the passenger list, where Richard is described as a "hammerman". I take this to be some sort of smith or metal worker:

1874 "Cartvale"  London to Wellington, NZ , Passenger manifest.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/Cartvale.htm

Richard Lee (31), wife Martha (30), children Henry (6), Annie (5) & George (3)

This indicates that they are definitely the same couple in the 1871 census as per jomcd967

One interesting family story has it that Martha's sister ((again, no name given) travelled out to NZ with Martha & Richerd, but got lost on arrival amid the confusion of unloading passengers and cargo and that Richard & Martha eventually had to give up the hunt for her and move on. How frightening for a single woman to find herself all alone in a strange country! I would have thought this story ridiculous, but for the fact that I have found at least one other case of a family who also "lost" a sister on arrival in NZ! It does perhaps beg the question of whether these surplus sisters may have wanted to get lost :)

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