Help on William Davidson Nee Barkly (female)

[MattB]

Hello

I'm looking for any help in finding the family of William Barkly (female) born c 1823 in Scotland who married Robert Davidson in 1820 in London (possibly General JRB Davidson, son of Seneas Davidson) They had children including Hugh Barkly Davidson and Isabella Margaret born 1823 who married Thomas Edward Augustus Napleton, a Lieutenant Colonel who died in India in the 1850s. Isabella died 1893.

Somewhere in this tree is also a Lousia (poss Davidson) who married a delatour in Ireland.

Grateful for any help.

Matt

[KGarrad]

Hello

I'm looking for any help in finding the family of William Barkly (female) born c 1823 in Scotland who married Robert Davidson in 1820 in London (possibly General JRB Davidson, son of Seneas Davidson) They had children including Hugh Barkly Davidson and Isabella Margaret born 1823 who married Thomas Edward Augustus Napleton, a Lieutenant Colonel who died in India in the 1850s. Isabella died 1893.

Somewhere in this tree is also a Lousia (poss Davidson) who married a delatour in Ireland.

Grateful for any help.

Matt

Are you sure about these dates?
William married 3 years before she/he was born?!


Got it!
Marriage at Islington St Mary, 20th June 1820, by license
Robert Davidson Esquire, of Highbury Park, bachelor
William Barkly, spinster

7 witnesses!
Oneus Barkly
Justina Jamieson Barkly
Hugh Barkly
John Innes(?)
Louisa Susanna Barkly
Mary Gordon
John Gordon


A tree on Ancestry has her as Williamina!

[AMBLY]

Snap  -  Found the same nicely clued-up marriage  - but re two of the witness', I'm pretty certain  it was:

Justina Davidson BARKLY
and  at the bottom below the margin, Jane GORDON  as opposed to John.

I think 'John Innes' is right too, I had thought 'Jones' but can see the 'Innes' now you say it!

Cheers
AMBLY

[KGarrad]

1861 census, she is in Kensington?
Class: RG 9; Piece: 18; Folio: 11; Page: 29
2 Gordon Place, St Mary Abbott, Kensington

Davidson, Williamina  Head  Widow  F  61  Independent Lady  b Scotland
Napleton, Isabella M  Daughter  F  38  b Hyde Park, Middlesex
Davidson, Hugh B  Son  M  27  Merchant's Clerk  b Hyde Park
Davidson, Elizabeth  Daughter  F  20  (b Edinwha?!)
Davidson, Ann J  Daughter  F  29  b Hyde Park


In 1850, I think she is Willa Davidson, 51, living with 86 year old Mary Barkly at Braehead, Comarty, Ross & Cromarty.

[AMBLY]

http://shrinkalink.com/65965
Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Jamaica., 1955
34. 111/115 (27 August, 1829) John Innes, Henry Davidson, Oneus Barkly, John Alves to Murray.

I can't bring up any more than that and don't know what the reference is for 

Cheers
AMBLY

[AMBLY]

BURIAL:

St Mary Islington
Louisa Susanna BARKLY, age 56
Abode: Highbury Grove
Buried 8 January 1831

http://www.guyanatimesinternational.com/?p=27018
Plantation Highbury - British Guiana

".....Henry Davidson, Aeneas Barkly, whose only surviving son Henry Barkly would become the 4th governor of British Guiana (1849-1853.......Aeneas Barkly died during the apprenticeship period, and his son Henry took over his father’s affairs."

"....and renamed Highbury, after Barkly’s place, Highbury Grove, in Middlesex ..."

And much more!


Cheers 
AMBLY

[KGarrad]

From:
A List of the Names of Members of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies, who appear, by the company's books, qualified to vote at the General Election, 12th April 1826


Aeneas Barkly, Esq., Lime Street Square
Robert Davidson, Esq., 10 Brunswick Square
Robert Davidson Esq., East India's Company Naval Service

[KGarrad]

Looks like the 2 families were linked commercially?
Davidsons & Barkly, sugar merchants.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/28744
(Includes a biography of Aeneas Barkly)

[AMBLY]

http://shrinkalink.com/65969
Page 636
Robert DAVIDSON Esq of Highbury Park to Miss W BARKLY of Highbury Grove

http://shrinkalink.com/65971
Will of Aeneas Barkly of Highbury Grove , Middlesex
09 December 1836
7 Pages - can be purchased online

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Barkly
Wiki on Henry BARKLY, Aeneus' son ( with an image of Henry).
The Barkly family a number of  West Indies connections - including  Henry's mother (Aeneus' wife) Susannah Louisa, whose maiden name was ffrith, her father was a  Jamaica planter

Cheers
AMBLY