Hello Neil,
I hope I can help you back from Daniel Courtnage. Today the family spell their name Courtney. Daniel Courtnage was my husband's Greeat Great Grandfather.
Daniel married Francis Kewell. They had 11 children. Included in the 11 are a set of twins. Daniel may have been born in the latter part of 1825, but was batpised on the 15th January 1826 at Headley, in Hampshire. In 1881, one of Daniel's other children Henry was a serving Stoker on HMS "Jumma".
Daniel's parents were Henry Coutnage and Charotte Trussler. They married on 4th December 1824 at Frensham in Surrey.
Daniel was one of 6 known children.
Daniel's Father Henry was one of 7 known children; Charlotte, Sarah, Henry*, Harriet, Ann, Charles and Shadrack. Shadrack was the ultimate criminal and was sent to Tasmania on a prison ship where he ended up in what was then known as Van Diemans Land. I have a full history of him.
Henry's parents( Grandparents of Daniel) were Henry Courtngae and Sarah Mitchell. This Henry married twice. Sarah was his first wife who sadly died when little Shadrack was only 16 months old, leaving Henry with 7 children to care for. His Son Henry was only 13. Henry and Sarah married on the 19th June 1793 in Kridford, Sussex. Obviously, Henry simply could not manage and he re married two years later to Charlotte Hounsome on the 13th July 1816 at Bepton in Sussex.
Henry and Charlotte had 8 children together; Eliza, John, George, James, Daniel, Catharine, Caroline and Eleanor, sometimes known as Emily. Altogether he fathered some 15 children, so we have a situation where 1 children have the same Father, but different Mother's i.e. half siblings to each other.
Henry was 21 years the senior of Charlotte, and Henry died aged 87 years and is buried in Headly, Hampshire. He is recorded as having come from "Arford".
Twice married Henry was baptised on the 21st February 1768 in Farnhurst. His parents were John Courtnage and Sarah Bridger.They had 5 known children.
Sarah, John, Ann, Henry* and Thomas. John and Sarah married on 6th February 1755 in Farnhurst, Sussex- today known as Fernhurst.
John's parents were Henry Courtnage and Hannah (possibly Cliffton). Henry and Hannah had 6 known children; Elizbeth, Jane, Mary, Henry, John* and Ann.
Married circa 1720. The earliest recorded Henry Courtney I have, is for a baptism on 11th August 1593 in Richmond Surrey.
The Courtney family historically flow from the Earldom of Devon. A digression of the Families of Redvers and Courtenay.
The first Courtenay on record was "Atho" a French Knight, universally admitted to have been nameless origin, who built at castle in Courtenay, a small town in the Gatenoise, sixty miles from Paris, early in the eleventh century, and took his name from his residence. His elder Grandson, Milo, was certainly Lord of Courtenay whilst Josceline, the first Count of Edessa whose territory extended on both sides of the Euphrates river, was, as certainly, a younger Brother of the said Milo.
I have a huge history on the origins of the name and have a good collection of Census Returns back to 18411 and beyond that many church extractions concerning the main bloodline, of which my husband Leon is a direct descendent.
I hope this has been of some help to you Neil, and if I can help any further, I certainly will.
Kind Regards
Lesley
