Hi Bernard & Linda
I'm most intrigued by both of your replies! We have done a fair amount of research on the Meyrick line and their multiple connections to the Stantons, but have had little luck finding anyone else also researching these families.
Bernard - We have so far found a number of children whom we believe are Thomas Meyricks (b.1763), including the 4 boys you mention - all up we have:
John Stanton Meyrick b. 1785 m. Sarah ?
Mary Ann Meyrick b. 1787
Charlotte Page Meyrick b.1789
King Meyrick b. 1791 m. Mary Edwards
William Meyrick b. 1792 m. Isabella Cowper Stanton Stephens
Harriet Frances Meyrick b.1797 m. Benjamin Thomas
Elizabeth Meyrick b. 1800 m Thomas Lewis
Edward Stanton Meyrick b. 1803 m Amelia Tripp
Peter Puget Meyrick b.1806 m. Ann Bryant (This is my ggg grandfather)
Eliza Maria Meyrick b. 1809 m. Thomas Jones
Thomas Meyrick b. 1811 m. Ann ?
We also have a number of the descendents for each of these lines. We have certificates for the marriages of Peter Puget, and Eliza Maria Meyrick, but have also been sharing some research with a Ralph Crosby, whose wife is descended from Isabella Stephens, mother of the first Ada Charlotte.
My ancestor Peter Puget Meyrick went to London, and lived around the corner from Edward Stanton Meyrick - both of whom were victuallers. Going back to their father Thomas Meyrick, we have him in the 1841 census with his daughter Eliza, but he died in 1845. We believe his wife may be a Cassandra Stanton (which adds to my interest in the Stanton research that you have done Linda). We have nothing on her and found the possible name through an online tree, the author of whom is also a descendent (from Canada), that we have not been able to make contact with. Interestingly, both Edward Stanton Meyrick and Peter Puget Meyrick each named a daughter Cassandra, and its not a particularly common name in the early to mid 1800s. I do have Isabella Stanton Stephens (M. William Meyrick as above) with a mother Isabella Stephens nee Stanton, her father William Stanton so would to love to see what information you have on the Stantons - inlcuding whether a Cassandra Stanton is in anyway connected.
The grave of Willliam Meyrick who died 1811 is very intriguing - I guess depending on his age, could be either a brother or a father to Thomas Meyrick bn 1763. The fact that he was the town butcher almost for certain connects them! I have also wondered if the family in any way connected to the aristrocratic Meyrick lines, but havent been able to find anything beyond Thomas and Cassandra, inlcuding where either were born, to prove or disprove that.
Kathryn
