Ruvigny Addition: Exeter Descent for Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas (1815-1905)

[Brad Verity]

While researching the ancestry of Maj. Guy Richard Tufnell Gillett, Royal Artillery (1911-1942), I realized that his father was overlooked by Ruvigny in his Anne of Exeter volume of the Plantagenet Roll. In expanding that particular line of Gillett’s ancestry, and its various branches, I was surprised to discover that his great-grandmother, Hon. Alice Gertrude Townsend (Stephens) Vernon (1830-1913) was the second cousin to Francis Richard Lubbock (1815-1905), the 9th Governor of Texas, and to his brother Thomas Saltus Lubbock (1817-1862), a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, for whom Lubbock County in Texas was named.

Governor Francis Lubbock wrote a memoir, 'Six Decades in Texas', published in 1900, in which he wrote of his paternal grandfather (p. 2), “Capt. Richard Lubbock settled in Georgia about the same time [the last decade of the eighteenth century]. He was an elegant old gentleman, and social in his habits and full of fun and frolic.” Later (p. 11), Lubbock wrote, “My father died of country fever [in 1830 in Savannah] while he was preparing for a trip to England to look after an estate to which he was entitled. He was just thirty-seven years old.”
https://archive.org/details/sixdecadesintexa00lubb/page/10/mode/2up

It turns out that the estate in England that Governor Lubbock’s father was entitled to was Chavenage House, Gloucestershire. Thanks to research by the late Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (1928-2016), we know that Governor Francis Lubbock’s grandfather Captain Richard Lubbock who emigrated to Augusta, Georgia, in 1790-91, had a wife Diana Sophia (Sandwich) Willis, who was appointed executor of the will of Ann Packer Willis, who died on October 28, 1806, between 7 and 8 am, at the house of Richard Lubbock in Beaufort, South Carolina. Her will dated at Charleston, South Carolina, on January 13, 1804, was proved first in the district court of Beaufort by Richard Lubbock on April 18, 1807, then in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 10 December 1808 by Temperance Jane Willis. I accessed the will through Ancestry.com’s Prerogative Court of Canterbury database. Ann Packer Willis names “my sister Diana Sophia Lubbock wife of my Brother Richard,” as well as “My Eldest Sister [Temperance Jane Willis]…with my Love and mature affection for her more than parental kindness since the day of my birth to the present date,” “to Sophia [Willis, her youngest sister]…with my affectionate Love and best wishes that she may be as happy as herself can wish,” “To Louisa my beloved sister I give fifty pounds…,” “To Amelia my beloved Sister thirty pounds with my dear brother’s sampler,” “To Harriet [Shute, another sister] or if she is removed from a world replete with misfortunes to her dear little girl twenty pounds to be given her aunt Temperance who will dispose of it I am sure as will be most for the advantage of dear little Alice.”

A Richard Lubbock Willis was born and baptized in North Walsham, Norfolk in March 1770, the son of Henry and Jane Willis. Temperance Jane Willis, daughter of the same couple, was baptized there in 1767, as was Amelia Willis in 1768, and Harriet Willis in 1771. In Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, Ann Packer Willis, daughter of Henry and Jane Willis, was baptized in December 1780. In a codicil to his will, dated 30 August 1791, Rev. Henry Willis wrote, “My eldest Son Richard Lubbock Willis having by his infamous Conduct forfeited my favour & affection I here cut him of[f] from any Share of my Effects except one shilling to be paid Him a month after my decease by my Executors.”
https://www.sciway3.net/clark/beaufort/willisconnection.htm

Whether it was Richard Lubbock Willis’s emigration to the United States that caused his father to cut him out of his will, or whether the falling out with his father led to his emigrating to the U.S., is not now known. But clearly once he settled in Georgia, married, and started a family, Richard Lubbock Willis dropped his surname Willis, and went simply by Richard Lubbock, which had been his mother’s maiden name.

On p. 618 of his Exeter volume, Ruvigny lists “Rev. Henry Willis, m. Jane, da. of Richard Lubbock of North Walsham, co. Norfolk; and had (with other das.) issue 1e to 5e.” The five children of the couple enumerated by Ruvigny are “1e. Richard Willis, 2e. Lubbock Willis, 3e. Henry Willis, afterwards Stephens of Eastlington, Horsley, and Fretherne, 4e. Winchcombe Hartley Willis, an Officer in the Army, 5e. (Temperance) Jane Willis.” Ruvigny erred by splitting Richard Lubbock Willis into two separate sons, but the other three children Ruvigny assigned the couple are accurate.

The Lubbock brothers of Texas are fourteenth-generation decendants of Anne, Duchess of Exeter, the sister of Edward IV and Richard III, and are additions to Ruvigny, as follows.

Anne, Duchess of Exeter (1439-1476) had a dau
A1) Anne St Leger (1475-1526) m. George Manners, 11th Lord Ros (1470-1513, descended from Edward I), and had
A2) Katherine Manners (c.1500-bef.1558) m. Sir Robert Constable of Everingham (by 1495-1558), and had
A3) Barbara Constable (c.1535-by 1565) m. Sir William Babthorpe of Osgodby Hall (1534-1581), and had
A4) Margaret Babthorpe (c.1560-1628) m. Sir Henry Cholmley of Roxby Castle (1553-1616, descended from Edward III), and had
A5) Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby Abbey (1580-1631) m. 1) Susanna Legard (1578-1611, descended from Edward III), and had
A6) Sir Hugh Cholmley, 1st Baronet of Whitby (1600-1657) m. Elizabeth Twysden (1600-1655, descended from Edward III), and had
A7) ANNE CHOLMLEY, b. Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, bapt. 7 Dec. 1634 St Mary Church, Whitby; d. 17 Nov. 1712, bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Eastington, Gloucestershire; m. July 1654, RICHARD STEPHENS of Eastington House (bap. 1620 St Eadburgha Church, Ebrington, Gloucestershire; d. 4 Mar. 1679, bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Eastington), son of Nathaniel Stephens of Eastington House (1589-1660) & Katherine Beale (c.1590-1632, descended from Edward I), and had
A8) ELIZABETH STEPHENS, b. 14 Oct. 1657 London, bapt. same day St Clement Danes, London; d. 27 June 1695; m. JOHN PACKER of Shellingford Castle, Berkshire (b. c.1658; d. 25 Sept. 1682), son of Robert Packer of Shellingford Castle (1614-1682)[*1] & Temperance Stephens (d. 1705), and had

[*1] Robert Packer of Shellingford Castle has an entry in HOP:
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/packer-robert-1614-82

A9) ANNE PACKER, b. Oct. 1680 Shellingford Castle, bapt. 4 Nov. 1680 St Faith Church, Shellingford; d. 1701, bur. St Faith Church, Shellingford; m. 1 Oct. 1698 St Peter Le Poer, London, Sir EDWARD HANNES of Westmister, physician (b. c.1663; d. 21 July 1710, bur. St Faith Church, Shellingford)[*2], son of Edward Hannes of Devizes, Wiltshire, and had

[*2] Sir Edward Hannes has an entry in ODNB:
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-12217?rskey=xFUhhy&result=1

A10) TEMPERANCE HANNES, bapt. 13 Jan. 1700 St Clement Danes, London; d. 1765, bur. St George Church, Beckenham, Kent; m. (eloped) 21 May 1713 St Mary Church, Teddington, Surrey, JOHN WILLIS of Redlingfield Hall, Suffolk (d. 23 Sept. 1764, bur. St George Church, Beckenham) [*3], and had

[*3] I cannot find anything on the parentage of John Willis of Redlingfield Hall. He purchased that estate, he did not inherit it, making it more difficult to trace his parentage and ancestry. He and Temperance lived for a time at Windsor Castle, and in one source he is called “John Willis of Ipswich.” From 1716-1739, John and Temperance (Hannes) Willis had at least eight children, four of whom (Mary, Lucy, Elizabeth, Henry) lived to adulthood. Eldest surviving daughter Mary Willis (bapt. 3 Mar. 1718 St Mary at Hill Billingsgate, London; d. unm., bur. 16 July 1792 St Adeline Church, Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire) kept a diary, which is among the Willis documents at the Gloucester Record Office. It may provide clues as to her father’s lineage. The article ‘Notes on Chavenage and the Stephens Family’ in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Volume 22 (1899), has a useful pedigree of the Stephens family:
https://archive.org/details/transactionsbris22bris/page/136/mode/2up

A11) Rev. HENRY WILLIS, Rector of Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire 1788-94, bapt. 22 Dec. 1739 St James Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; d. 4 June 1794 Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; m. 1 Sept. 1765 St Andrew Church, Redlingfield, JANE LUBBOCK (bapt. 17 Feb. 1744 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk; d. 10 Apr. 1799 Tetbury, Gloucestershire), only dau. of Richard Lubbock of Norwich, wine merchant (1706-1783)[*4] & Jane Attesley (b. 1720), and had

[*4] Richard Lubbock of Norwich (1706-1783) was the son of Richard Lubbock, Mayor of Norwich (1676-1717) and Elizabeth Palgrave (1682-1725). Richard Lubbock the Mayor was in turn a great-grandson of Nicholas Lubbock of North Walsham, cordwainer (d. 1592), the direct male-line ancestor of the Barons Avebury. A DNA comparison was done between Eric, Lord Avebury and John Lubbock, a descendant of Captain Richard Lubbock of Beaufort, South Carolina, which indicated they did not share the Y-DNA paternal line, further evidence that Captain Richard Lubbock of Beaufort was originally Richard Lubbock Willis.

A12) RICHARD LUBBOCK [WILLIS] of Beaufort, South Carolina, b. 5 March 1770 North Walsham, bapt. there; d. 9 Feb. 1826 Hamburg, Aiken County, South Carolina; m. 1791, DIANA SOPHIA SANDWICH (bapt. 11 Apr. 1777 St Giles Cripplegate, London; d. 5 July 1834 Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, bur. 6 July 1834 Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta), dau. of Thomas Sandwich of Augusta, Georgia, girls boarding school master (c.1753-1817) & Leah Langton Barrett (1752-1801), and had
A13) Dr. HENRY THOMAS WILLIS LUBBOCK of Charleston, South Carolina, physician & ship owner, b. 24 July 1792 Augusta, Georgia; d. 15 Feb. 1830 Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia; m. 1811, SUSAN ANN SALTUS (b. 16 May 1793 Beaufort, South Carolina; d. 4 July 1835 Charleston, bur. First Baptist Churchyard, Charleston), dau. of Capt. Francis Saltus of Beaufort (1752-1831), and had 5 sons and 2 daughters, of whom
A14) FRANCIS RICHARD LUBBOCK, 9th Governor of Texas 1861-63, b. 16 Oct. 1815 Beaufort, SC; d. 22 June 1905 Austin, Travis County, Texas, bur. Texas State Cemetery, Austin
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lubbock-francis-richard
B14) THOMAS SALTUS LUBBOCK, Colonel Confederate Army, Texas Ranger, b. 29 Nov. 1817 Charleston, SC; d. 9 Jan. 1862 Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, bur. Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lubbock-thomas-saltus

Governor Francis Lubbock, Col. Thomas Saltus Lubbock, and four of their siblings, all have descendants alive today – American additions to Ruvigny’s Plantagenet Roll.

Cheers, -----Brad

[Will Johnson]

The marriage license dated 1 Dec 1675 for John Packer abt 18 to Elizabeth Stephens abt 18

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Allegations_for_Marriage_Licences_Issued/iqwKAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA248

[Nathan Murphy]

Post by Brad Verity
[*4] Richard Lubbock of Norwich (1706-1783) was the son of Richard Lubbock, Mayor of Norwich (1676-1717) and Elizabeth Palgrave (1682-1725). Richard Lubbock the Mayor was in turn a great-grandson of Nicholas Lubbock of North Walsham, cordwainer (d. 1592), the direct male-line ancestor of the Barons Avebury. A DNA comparison was done between Eric, Lord Avebury and John Lubbock, a descendant of Captain Richard Lubbock of Beaufort, South Carolina, which indicated they did not share the Y-DNA paternal line, further evidence that Captain Richard Lubbock of Beaufort was originally Richard Lubbock Willis.

Brad,

Where can we learn more about the Y-DNA evidence? I'm very intrigued.

Thanks,
Nathan

[Brad Verity]

Post by Will Johnson
The marriage license dated 1 Dec 1675 for John Packer abt 18 to Elizabeth Stephens abt 18

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Allegations_for_Marriage_Licences_Issued/iqwKAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA248

Thank you, Will. The couple (John Packer & Elizabeth Stephens) was married 7 December 1675 at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church in London.

Post by Will Johnson
Brad,
Where can we learn more about the Y-DNA evidence? I'm very intrigued.

Dear Nathan,

From the online article 'The WILLIS family and Richard LUBBOCK the emigrant':
"Jim Lubbock, a direct descendant of Richard LUBBOCK the emigrant, suggested that Richard’s identity could be tested by comparing his own DNA with that of Eric LUBBOCK (Lord Avebury), whose 11G grandfather Nicholas LUBBOCK (b 1593), was 3G grandfather of Jane LUBBOCK. If Richard the emigrant was a Lubbock, and a near relation of Jane’s, say a nephew, Nicholas would be Jim’s and Eric’s common paternal ancestor (CPA). Samples of Jim’s and Eric’s DNA were submitted to Oxford Ancestors, and the differences between their ‘Y-Clan Signatures’, equivalent to the number of mutations between the two samples, calculated in accordance with the rules set out in the booklet ‘Using your Y-Clan signature for Genealogical Research’, is 5, as follows: ... Oxford Ancestors indicate that beyond three mutations, the chance of having a common paternal ancestor in the last thousand years becomes vanishingly small. In other words, it is almost certain that Richard LUBBOCK the emigrant was in fact Richard Lubbock WILLIS."
https://www.sciway3.net/clark/beaufort/willisconnection.htm
[Scroll down a little more than halfway for the above paragraph, plus a table of the DNA markers & comparison]

The contact listed for the article is the late Lord Avebury, who died in February 2016, and I'm not sure who to follow-up with today for further information.

I'm still fairly confused by the details of DNA genealogy, so if your reading of the table can shed further light, please share!

I'm working on a follow-up post, detailing the descendants of Rev. Henry Willis and his wife Jane (Lubbock) Willis. There are more living today than those of Texas Governor Francis Lubbock and his siblings. Several more in Australia and the UK, including those of the uncle and nephew who founded the Yorkshire-based pharmaceutical company Smith & Nephew (today a global corporation employing more than 16,000 people)
https://www.smith-nephew.com/about-us/who-we-are/our-history/

Like Governor Lubbock, all are additions to Ruvigny. I hope to have the post up in the next few days.

Cheers, ------Brad

[Brad Verity]

Post by Brad Verity
I'm working on a follow-up post, detailing the descendants of Rev. Henry Willis and his wife Jane (Lubbock) Willis. There are more living today than those of Texas Governor Francis Lubbock and his siblings.

It turns out that the one child of Governor Francis Lubbock of Texas was adopted, so though there are those living today who could, using a broad definition, be considered descendants of the Governor through his adopted son, they are not descendants of Rev. Henry Willis and Anne, Duchess of Exeter (see note [*15] in the post below).

I understand that this is off topic to the SocGenMed newsgroup, but, if we broaden the scope to include individuals who can be traced back to the medieval period, I hope the newsgroup will accept this post in that spirit. There are around one hundred various family trees on Ancestry alone, which involve portions of the Rev. Willis descendants named below. None of them trace his Ancestry back to Anne, Duchess of Exeter, and many of them do not even trace back to Rev. Henry Willis. Perhaps someday one or more of the genealogists who created those trees comes across this post online, finds it interesting or useful, and joins this newsgroup.

It's a long post, so I've divided it into three parts. This Part 1 is an introduction, the eldest two children of Rev. Willis, and their descendants (the Smiths). Part 2 covers the next two children of Rev. Willis, and their descendants (the Lubbocks and the Shutes), and Part 3 details the remaining children of Rev. Willis and their descendants (the Lavers).

Cheers, ------Brad
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The source for Ruvigny’s enumeration of the children of Rev. Henry Willis (1739-1794), Rector of Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, on p. 618 of his Anne of Exeter volume, was the ‘Stephens of Eastington, Lypiatt, and Cherrington’ pedigree from ‘The Visitation of the County of Gloucester 1682-83’, edited by Thomas F.P. Fenwick & Walter C. Metcalfe (1884). The book is only available snippet view through Google Books, but a digital copy can be accessed thru FamilySearch (p. 176):
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/55177?availability=Family%20History%20Library

It’s easy to understand why, in the last decades of the 19th-century, Fenwick & Metcalfe, and Ruvigny, had difficulty tracing the descendants of Rev. Henry Willis. His father John Willis was successful enough in life to purchase the Suffolk estate of Redlingfield Hall, but the family was not of landed gentry status generations previous, and financial difficulties plagued John Willis in his final years so that Redlingfield was not passed down to his only surviving son Henry.

Descended through his mother from the Stephenses, a Gloucestershire gentry family, by 1790 Rev. Willis was the heir apparent to his maternal grandmother’s elderly, childless first cousin, Henry Stephens (1710-1795), the last of that family. For more than two centuries, the chief seat of the Stephens family was Eastington, Gloucestershire, but in the latter half of the 18th-century, the family had moved it to Chavenage, in the parish of Horsley, and the manor house at Eastington was demolished in 1778. Rev. Henry Willis made an agreement to assume the surname of Stephens on the inheritance of these estates. The Willis family would once again be landed gentry. Rev. Willis died in June 1794, seven months before his elderly cousin Henry Stephens. Having disinherited his eldest son Richard Lubbock Willis, it was the reverend’s second son, Henry Hannes Willis who became the heir to Eastington and Chavenage, and he assumed the surname of Stephens, though the estates remained in the hands of Ann (Huntley) Stephens, the widow of old Henry Stephens. Rev. Willis’s widow, Jane (Lubbock) Willis, moved to Tetbury, the closest town to Chavenage, in anticipation of her son inheriting the Stephens estates, and she died there in 1799, two years before the death of elderly widow Anne Stephens in 1801. The 26-year-old Henry Hannes Willis, now Henry Hannes Stephens, proved to be a poor estate manager. He sold the Eastington estate in 1806 to a wealthy clothier, and let out Chavenage House, fleeing to the continent, first Portugal, then eventually France, where he converted to Catholicism, became a monk, and suffered from the effects of a mental disorder, until he died a bachelor in 1821.

With their eldest brother disinherited and far off in America, their youngest brother an officer in the army who died childless on service in the West Indies at age 25, and their brother Henry, the theoretical head of their gentry family, an absentee landlord on the continent, it’s not surprising to find that none of Rev. Henry Willis’s six adult daughters made grand marriages. The eldest sister Temperance Willis, the practical head of the family, was the glue that held them together after the death of their parents, and never married. Second sister Amelia Willis married a carpenter wheelwright from Bristol five years her junior. It’s noteworthy that Amelia’s marriage to a man below her station occurred a year after her father’s death, as it’s unlikely Rev. Willis would have approved. The next sister Harriet Willis married in 1799 a customs officer in Bristol of a minor gentry family, whose father and grandfather had been clergymen. Two years later in 1801, Louisa Willis married a linen draper, though he was resourceful enough to eventually rise to manage a bank in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, and serve a term as mayor of that town. The two youngest sisters relied on their siblings, with Ann Packer Willis joining her brother Richard in America, and Sophia Willis close enough to her brother Lt. Winchcombe Willis, that she was a witness at the 1813 second marriage in London of his widow Ursula Maria (Bath) Willis to William Brookes, a surgeon from Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Brookes died five months after the wedding, but his younger brother, Samuel Brookes, also a surgeon, would, eleven years later in 1824, marry Sophia Willis, then middle-aged at 38, sparing her from spinsterhood.

In January 1804 in Charleston, South Carolina, Ann Packer Willis made out her will, leaving her sister “Harriet or if she is removed from a world replete with misfortunes to her dear little girl twenty pounds to be given her aunt Temperance who will dispose of it I am sure as will be most for the advantage of dear little Alice.” Harriet (Willis) Shute died almost two years later, leaving a 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, Alice. Whether it was due to her early death, or due to the fact that, of all the Willis sisters, Harriet had made the most socially acceptable marriage, when Henry Willis Stephens made out his own will in December 1814, he designated his late sister Harriet’s son his heir to Chavenage House, to be entered upon when he reached the age of 25. The son, Henry Richmond Shute, was age 21 when his uncle died in 1821, but never became the master of Chavenage House since he died only two years later, in 1823. Henry Willis Stephens had designated his niece Alice Shute, Harriet’s daughter, the next heir if her brother died, and so the young lady found herself owner of Chavenage House. In 1826, she took for her husband the new 35-year-old vicar of Thornbury, Rev. Maurice FitzGerald Townsend, a second son of a landed gentry family in county Cork, Ireland, who dutifully assumed the additional surname of Stephens seven months after the wedding. The surviving Willis sisters may then have faced a quandary: their American nephew, physician Henry Thomas Willis Lubbock, who had taken courses at Oxford University some years back, and so was familiar to all the family in Gloucestershire, was the direct male-line heir of their father Rev. Henry Willis. Did he have the more natural right to Chavenage House, if Rev. Willis’s rash disinheritance of his eldest son in 1791 was put aside? “My father died [in February 1830] of a country fever while he was preparing for a trip to England to look after an estate to which he was entitled” [Francis Richard Lubbock, ‘Six Decades in Texas’ (1900), p. 11]. It’s interesting to ponder how the course of history may have been different if instead of governor of Texas during the American Civil War, Francis Richard Lubbock had been esquire of Chavenage House in Gloucestershire.

Thanks to the wonders of our 21st century digital age, it is now possible to trace all the descendants of Rev. Henry Willis, who had previously eluded the research of Victorian genealogists like Ruvigny. I’ve done so to the fourth generation. Not surprisingly, the descendants of Alice (Shute) Townsend Stephens of Chavenage House remain well within the British landed gentry, some even found in Burke’s Peerage. But the descendants of her disinherited American uncle, and those of her aunts who married socially ‘lower’, cover a wide range, from a governor of Texas and a founder of a company that today is a British multinational corporation, to blacksmiths and carpenters, land agents and road surveyors, mariners and miners, farmers and dentists, stationers and surgeons. And, by the beginning of the 20th century, spread out over three continents.


Rev. HENRY WILLIS, Rector of Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire 1788-94, bap. 22 Dec. 1739 St James Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; d. 4 June 1794 Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, son of John Willis of Redlingfield Hall, Suffolk (d. 1764) and Temperance Hannes (1700-1765, descended from Edward III thru Anne, Duchess of Exeter); m. 1 Sept. 1765 St Andrew Church, Redlingfield, JANE LUBBOCK (bap. 17 Feb. 1744 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk; d. 10 Apr. 1799 Tetbury, Gloucestershire), only dau. of Richard Lubbock of Norwich, wine merchant (1706-1783) and Jane Attesley (b. 1720), and had issue, three sons and seven daughters (#s 1 to 10 below):

1) TEMPERANCE JANE WILLIS, bap. 28 Aug. 1767 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk; dunm. 26 Feb. 1843 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bur. 3 Mar. 1843 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury.

2) AMELIA WILLIS, bap. 21 Dec. 1768 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk; d. 15 Dec. 1849 Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, bur. 21 Dec. 1849 St James Churchyard, Iron Acton; m. 13 Sept. 1795 St John the Baptist Church, Bedminster, Somersetshire, JAMES SMITH of Iron Acton, carpenter/wheelwright (b. c.1774 Gloucestershire; d. 17 Nov. 1847 Iron Acton, bur. 21 Nov. 1847 St James Churchyard, Iron Acton) [*1], and had issue, three sons and two daughters (2A to 2E below):

2A) JAMES HENRY SMITH, bap. 20 Nov. 1796 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. young, bur. there 31 Aug. 1800.

2B) HORATIO NELSON SMITH of Little Gonerby, Grantham, Lincolnshire, road surveyor, bap. 3 Mar. 1799 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 24 July 1879 Little Gonerby; m. 1st 20 May 1826 St Peter & St Paul Church, Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire, JANE STRODE (b. 10 Mar. 1808 Shepton Mallet, bap. 6 May 1808 Hephzibah Chapel, Shepton Mallet; d. 10 Mar. 1842 Little Gonerby), dau of Thomas Strode of Shepton Mallet, cordwainer (d. 1821) & Jane Bryant (d. 1832), and had issue, four sons and one daughter (2B1 to 2B5 below); m. 2nd 3 Mar. 1846 St Wulfram Church, Grantham, ANNE STAPLEFORD (b. c.1810 Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire; dsp. 16 Mar. 1864 Little Gonerby), dau of Samuel Stapleford of Newark-on-Trent, cordwainer (1774-1857) & Elizabeth Robinson. Issue (all by 1st wife):

2B1) THOMAS JAMES SMITH of Kingston-upon-Hull, wholesale druggist, founder of Smith+Nephew, today a British multinational medical equipment manufacturing company, bap. 17 June 1827 St John Church, Whitfield, Northumberland; dunm. 3 Oct. 1896 Wilton Terrace, Hornsea, Yorkshire. [*2]

2B2) HENRY NELSON SMITH of Manchester, commercial insurance agent, bap. 7 Jan. 1829 St John Church, Whitfield, Northumberland; dsp. 26 July 1879 Park Bank House, Higher Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, bur. 30 July 1879 Manchester General Cemetery; m. 27 Dec. 1859 Eccleston Chapel, Belgravia, London, RACHEL MARTIN (b. 1829 Woolwich, Kent; d. unknown), dau of William Martin of Woolwich, shipwright & Mary Pool (d. 1829). [*3]

2B3) WILLIAM JOSEPH SMITH of Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia, mariner, bap. 14 Mar. 1830 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 20 June 1903 Southmere, 33 Windsor Street, Paddington, New South Wales, bur. 22 June 1903 Pioneers Memorial Park, Leichhardt, New South Wales; m. 11 Feb. 1856 Newcastle, New South Wales, HARRIET MCLEAN (b. 8 Mar. 1833 Sydney, New South Wales; d. 7 Oct. 1879 29 Moncur Street, Woollahra, bur. 8 Oct. 1879 Pioneers Memorial Park, Leichhardt), dau of John McLean of Armidale, New South Wales (1798-1880) & Sarah Margaret Alford (c.1807-1899), and had issue, three sons and three daughters. [*4]

2B4) GEORGE FREDERICK SMITH of Hampstead, Middlesex, stationer, bap. 20 May 1832 St Cadoc Church, Llangattock, Monmouthshire, Wales; d. 17 Feb. 1906 172 Finchley Road, Hampstead; m. 17 Dec. 1861 St Mary Church, Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire, LUCY HARDING (b. 8 Sept. 1832 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, bap. 3 Oct. 1832 St Peter at Gowts Church, Lincoln; d. Dec. 1914 Hampstead), dau of James Anthony Harding of Lincoln, solicitors clerk (1802-1856) & Sarah Pennell (1806-1898), and had issue, two sons and one daughter. [*5]

2B5) AMELIA ANN SMITH, bap. 9 Apr. 1838 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; dunm. 21 Mar. 1905 Wilton Terrace, Hornsea, Yorkshire.

2C) TEMPERANCE ANN SMITH, bap. 11 July 1802 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. in infancy, bur. there 26 Dec. 1802.

2D) LOUISA ANN SMITH, bap. 6 Jan. 1805 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; dsp, bur. there 10 Feb. 1828; m. 25 June 1827 St John the Baptist Church, Bedminster, Somersetshire, JOB SMITH of Bedminster. [*6]

2E) JAMES HENRY SMITH of Brighton, South Australia, carpenter and wheelwright, emigrated to Australia with his wife and children 1852 [*7], Town Clerk Brighton Council 1863-66, bap. 8 Feb. 1807 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 13 June 1878 Brighton, South Australia, bur. 15 June 1878 St Jude Churchyard, Brighton; m. 1st 19 Oct. 1828 St Peter & St Paul Church, Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire, MARY CHAPLIN STRODE (b. 2 Sept. 1806 Shepton Mallet, bap. 14 Oct. 1806 Hephzibah Chapel, Shepton Mallet; bur. 20 Jan. 1843 St James Church, Iron Acton), dau of Thomas Strode of Shepton Mallet, cordwainer (d. 1821) & Jane Bryant (d. 1832), and had issue, three sons and three daughters (2E1 to 2E6 below); m. 2nd 13 May 1843 Temple Church, Bristol, Gloucestershire, HESTER GAINER (bap. 22 Sept. 1805 St Mary Church, Kingswood, Gloucestershire; d. 3 Dec. 1875 Brighton, South Australia, bur. St Jude Churchyard, Brighton), dau of Samuel Gainer of Kingswood, dyer (1779-1869) & Hester Werrott (c.1779-1833), and had further issue, one son and two daughters (2E7 to 2E9 below):

2E1) MARY JANE SMITH, bap. 22 May 1831 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; dsps. 13 July 1901 Kew Lunatic Asylum, Victoria, Australia; m. 10 May 1855 St James Church, Melbourne, Victoria, ALFRED JAMES WALKER KEEN of Queenscliff, Victoria, master mariner (b. Dec. 1828 Halesworth, Suffolk, bap. 4 Feb. 1829 St Andrew Church, Aldringham, Suffolk; d. 29 Jan. 1883 Queenscliff), son of Robert Keen of Claydon, Suffolk, miller (b. c.1805) & Anna Walker (c.1804-1875), and had issue, one son. [*8]

2E2) THOMAS JAMES SMITH, bap. 3 Nov. 1833 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; bur. there 1 Sept. 1846.

2E3) LOUISA ELIZABETH SMITH, bap. 30 Aug. 1835 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 2 Jan. 1900 Flemington, Victoria, Australia; m. 1st 11 June 1853 Adelaide, South Australia, GEORGE LEVASON GEORGE of Fitzroy, Victoria, dentist (b. c.1828 Chester, Cheshire; d. 10 July 1873 Fitzroy, bur. Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria), son of Lewis Levason of Liverpool, Lancashire, dentist (c.1800-1876) & Catherine Jones (1801-1873), and had issue, six sons and four daughters [*9]; m. 2nd 1891 Victoria, as his 2nd wife, HENRY BULLIN of Flemington, watchmaker (b. c.1823; d. 31 Aug. 1898 Flemington, bur. Melbourne General Cemetery), son of Thomas Bullin & Esther Hodges.

2E4) JOHN HENRY SMITH of Kingston, South Australia, wheelwright & blacksmith, bap. 5 Mar. 1837 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 25 Oct. 1876 Kingston; m. 4 July 1857 Brighton, South Australia, SARAH (MCINESS(?)) HINDE (b. c.1832; d. 18 Feb. 1911 Maylands, South Australia) [*10], and had issue, four daughters.

2E5) NELSON SMITH of Kingston, South Australia, blacksmith, bap. 20 Mar. 1839 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 28 Aug. 1874 Kingston); m. 20 Feb. 1864 St Peter Church, Robe, South Australia, as her 1st husband, ALICE O’DONNELL (b. c.1839 County Tipperary, Ireland; d. 23 Oct. 1914 Naracoorte, South Australia, bur. Naracoorte Cemetery), dau of John O’Donnell of Tipperary & Winifred Keefe (c.1806-1891), and had issue, three sons and two daughters. [*11]

2E6) AMELIA ANNE SMITH, bap. 3 Jan. 1841 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 29 June 1881 Kingston, South Australia; m. 16 Jan. 1867 Robe, South Australia, as his 2nd wife, EDMUND EAGER of Silverton, New South Wales, carpenter (b. c.1825; d. 22 June 1898 Silverton, bur. Silverton Cemetery), son of John Eager, carpenter, and had issue, seven sons and one daughter. [*12]

2E7) SARAH ANN SMITH, b. Mar. 1844 Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. in infancy there, bur. 23 Mar. 1844 St James Church, Iron Acton.

2E8) ESTHER EMILY SMITH, bap. 2 Nov. 1845 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. 30 Jan. 1861 Brighton, South Australia, bur. St Jude Churchyard, Brighton.

2E9) SAMUEL JAMES SMITH of Richmond, Victoria, Australia, dentist, bap. 19 Mar. 1848 St James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; d. unknown [*13]; m. 18 Dec. 1872 Victoria, Australia, as her 1st husband, MARION EMILY JOHNSON (b. 12 May 1856 Victoria; d. 18 Oct. 1894 Victoria, bur. Melbourne General Cemetery), dau of Peter Johnson of Richmond (c.1829-1911) & Emily Mary Kent (1838-1924), and had issue, one son and one daughter.

[*1] Per the 1841 England Census, James Smith was born in Gloucestershire, and per his burial entry in the Iron Acton Parish Register, James was age 73 at his death. There are too many James Smiths baptized in Gloucestershire in the period 1772-76, to determine which entry is this James Smith, husband of Amelia Willis. Some family trees on Ancestry name James’s parents as John and Elenor Smith, but there are no supporting records provided.
[*2] Thomas James Smith has an entry in ODNB:
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39049
Smith+Nephew has the history of the company on its website:
https://www.smith-nephew.com/about-us/who-we-are/our-history/
[*3] Rachel (Martin) Smith’s brother, Rev. Samuel Martin (1817-1878), has an entry in ODNB:
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-18209?rskey=xUMh5G&result=2
I have not yet been able to determine a date of death, or locate a burial entry, for Rachel (Martin) Smith. Her husband, Henry Nelson Smith, is overlooked by most genealogies, including that in ‘Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industry’ by James Foreman-Peck (University of Michigan, 1995):
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Smith_Nephew_in_the_Health_Care_Industry/rAdtAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=horatio%20nelson%20smith
[*4] William Joseph Smith followed his uncle James Henry Smith (see 2E above), and emigrated to Australia in the early 1850s. The children of William Joseph and Harriet (McLean) Smith were: 1) Amelia Ann (Smith) Poulter (1857-1934), 2) William James Smith (1860-1911), 3) Edwin Horatio Nelson Smith (1862-1942), 4) Harriet Martha Smith (1865-1875), 5) George Frederick Smith (1867-1947), 6) Florence Ada Elizabeth (Smith) Dunckeur (1869-1931). There are descendants in Australia living today.
[*5] The children of George Frederick and Lucy (Harding) Smith were: 1) Thomas Brooks Smith (1862-1938, issue extinct 1974), 2) Annie Amelia Smith (1863-1919), a journalist and suffragette, and 3) Horatio Nelson Smith (1874-1960), the “Nephew” of Smith+Nephew, who has descendants in the UK living today. See the Smith family tree on p. 1 of the book ‘Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industry’, linked in note [*3] above.
[*6] Job Smith, the husband of Louisa Ann Smith, was likely a kinsman, as they were married in the same parish, Bedminster, as her parents were in 1795. I can find no further information on him.
[*7] James Henry Smith emigrated (departed London 21 Jan. 1852, arrived Port Adelaide, South Australia 31 May 1852) on the ‘Surge’ with his second wife Hester, and children Mary Jane, Louisa Elizabeth, John Henry, Nelson, Amelia Anne, Samuel James & Esther Emily.
https://passengers.history.sa.gov.au/node/661212
His first wife, Mary Chaplin (Strode) Smith, was the sister of Jane (Strode) Smith, the first wife of his elder brother, Horatio Nelson Smith (see 2B above).
[*8] The only child of Mary Jane (Smith) Keen was: Alfred Henry Keen, b. Jan. 1856, d. in infancy, bur. 29 Feb. 1856 St Kilda Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.
[*9] The children of Louisa Elizabeth (Smith) (George) Bullin were: 1) Mary Catherine (George) Strudwicke (1854-1943), 2) Grenville Levason George (1856-1859), 3) Henry Lewis Levason George (1857-1898), 4) Alfred Horatio George (1859-1867), 5) Rose Jane Esther (George) Dibden (1861-1921), 6) Lilla May (George) Curlewis (1863-1945), 7) Frank George (1867-1945), 8) Arthur Ernest George (1869-1939), 9) Wynne Ernest George (1871-1917), 10) Amy Leah (George) Shorland (1873-1955). There are living descendants today in Australia and New Zealand.
[*10] Per the entry in the Australia Marriage Index, the father of Sarah (Hinde) Smith was “Jesse Mciness”. Per the Australia Death Index, she was age 78 at her death. Many family trees on Ancestry identify her as the Sarah Hinde bap. 18 July 1832 St Peter Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, dau of William Hinde, butcher, and his wife Elizabeth. This though doesn’t match up to her marriage index entry. The children of John Henry and Sarah (Hinde) Smith were: 1) Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Garvie (1858-1926), 2) Annie Jane Mcewen (Smith) Clark (1860-1893), 3) Emily Louise Smith (1862-1951), 4) Hester Helena Smith (b. 1864). There are descendants living today in Australia.
[*11] The widow of Nelson Smith m. 2nd 9 Feb. 1875 Kingston, South Australia, George Connley Dudley (1848-1916). The children of Nelson Smith were 1) John Henry Smith (1865-1937), 2) Thomas James Smith (b. 1866), 3) Alfred James Smith (1868-1914), 4) Alice (Smith) Fergusson (1871-1918), 5) Winifred Bernard (Smith) Snodgrass (1873-1951). There are descendants living today in Australia.
[*12] The children of Amelia Anne (Smith) Eager were: 1) Henry Eager (1867-1919), 2) Edmund Eager (1868-1932), 3) Samuel Eager (1870-1901), 4) Emily Jane (Eager) Slocum (1872-1938), 5) Arthur Nelson Smith Eager (1874-1876), 6) William Eager (1876-1877), 7) Frank Eager (1878-1938), 8) Thomas Eager (1880-1931). There are descendants living today in Australia.
[*13] Samuel James Smith “is charged, on warrant issued by the Richmond Bench, with deserting his wife on the 7th instant. Description:—English, a dentist, 28 years of age…31st January 1876” [Victoria Police Gazette]. Samuel James Smith “is inquired for by his son, Arthur Samuel Smith, Aldgate, South Australia. He was last heard of 25 years ago, as employed by Mr. Meyers, a dentist, in Melbourne…31st August, 1904” [Victoria Police Gazette]. The children of Samuel James Smith were: 1) Emily Violetta (Smith) (Arrowsmith) Nugent (1874-1937), and 2) Arthur Samuel Smith (1875-1914). There are descendants of the latter living today in Australia.

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3) Capt. RICHARD LUBBOCK [WILLIS] of Beaufort, South Carolina, mariner, emigrated to United States about 1791, where he dropped his surname Willis, and used his middle name (his mother’s maiden name) Lubbock as his surname instead, b. 5 Mar. 1770 North Walsham, Norfolk, bap. St Nicholas Church, North Walsham; d. 9 Feb. 1826 Hamburg, Aiken County, South Carolina; m. by 1791, DIANA SOPHIA SANDWICH (bap. 11 Apr. 1777 St Giles Cripplegate, London; d. 5 July 1834 Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, bur. 6 July 1834 Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta), dau of Thomas Sandwich of Augusta, musical instrument maker & educator (c.1753-1817) & Leah Langton Barrett (1752-1801), and had issue, (at least) two sons (3A to 3B below):

3A) Dr. HENRY THOMAS WILLIS LUBBOCK of Charleston, South Carolina, physician & steamship owner, b. 24 July 1792 Augusta, Georgia; d. 15 Feb. 1830 Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia; m. 1811, SUSAN ANN SALTUS (b. 16 May 1793 Beaufort, South Carolina; d. 4 July 1835 Charleston, bur. First Baptist Churchyard, Charleston), dau of Capt. Francis Saltus of Beaufort, sailing master & cotton planter (1752-1831), and had issue, five sons and two daughters (3A1 to 3A7 below):

3A1) SARAH SOPHIA LUBBOCK, b. 21 July 1814 Beaufort, South Carolina; d. 30 Aug. 1839 Charleston, South Carolina, bur. First Baptist Churchyard, Charleston; m. 1830 Charleston, JAMES CURRY of Charleston (b. 17 Jan. 1806 England or Ireland [*14]; d. 20 June 1839 Charleston, bur. First Baptist Churchyard, Charleston), and had issue, four sons and one daughter.

3A2) FRANCIS RICHARD LUBBOCK of Austin, Texas, 9th Governor of Texas 1861-63, b. 16 Oct. 1815 Beaufort, South Carolina; d. 22 June 1905 Austin, bur. Texas State Cemetery, Austin; m. 1st 5 Feb. 1835 New Orleans, Louisiana, ADELE FRANCOISE BARON (b. 19 Oct. 1818 New Orleans; d. 1 Dec. 1882 Austin, bur. Texas State Cemetery, Austin), dau of Noel Auguste Baron of New Orleans, cotton & sugar dealer (1782-1833) & Francoise Laure Bringier (1792-1859), and had issue, one adopted son [*15]; m. 2nd 1883 Austin, SARAH ELIZABETH (BLACK) PORTER (b. c.1838 York County, South Carolina; d. 9 Aug. 1902 Austin, bur. 11 Aug. 1902 Texas State Cemetery), widow of Abner Addison Porter, pastor Southern Presbyterian Church Austin 1869-72 (1817-1872), and dau of James Augustus Black of Columbia, South Carolina, Representative US Congress 1843-48 (1793-1848) & Elizabeth Sarah Logan (1801-1870); m. 3rd 12 Aug. 1903 Austin, MARY LOUISE SCOTT (b. 6 Jan. 1860; d. 24 Apr. 1907 Austin, bur. Abilene Municipal Cemetery, Taylor County, Texas).

3A3) THOMAS SALTUS LUBBOCK of Houston, Texas, Colonel Confederate Army, Texas Ranger, b. 29 Nov. 1817 Charleston, South Carolina; d. 9 Jan. 1862 Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, bur. Glenwood Cemetery, Houston; m. 14 Dec. 1843 Houston, SARAH OBEDIENCE SMITH (b. 8 Apr. 1826 Yazoo City, Mississippi; d. 26 July 1907 Houston, bur. 27 July 1907 Glenwood Cemetery), dau of John William Nicholas Arthur Smith of Brazoria County, Texas (1794-1843) & Mary L. Fort, and had issue, three sons and four daughters. [*16]

3A4) WILLIAM MARTIN SMITH of Alameda, California, mining & river steamer line owner, b. 1 Jan. 1820 Charleston, South Carolina; d. 20 Oct. 1899 1441 Grand Street, Alameda; m. 16 Jan. 1840 South Carolina, SARAH CURTIS (b. 20 Apr. 1824 South Carolina; d. 7 Dec. 1899 Alameda) [*17], and had issue, three sons and two daughters.

3A5) HENRY SHULTZE LUBBOCK of Alameda, California, master mariner, b. 2 Apr. 1823 Charleston, South Carolina; d. 8 Dec. 1908 2141 San Antonio Avenue, Alameda, bur. Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park, Hayward, Alameda County, CA; m. by 1845 New York, MARY G (WARNER) HAUGHWOUT (b. 12 Sept. 1819 New York; d. 28 Aug. 1893 Alameda), widow of Tunis Haughwout of Manhattan, NY (d. 1844), and dau of William Warner & Sarah Dusenberry, and had issue, three sons and one daughter. [*18]

3A6) ANNA BLYTHEWOOD LUBBOCK, b. 26 Mar. 1826 Charleston, South Carolina; d. 9 Oct. 1890 Houston, Texas, bur. Glenwood Cemetery, Houston; m. 31 Dec. 1843 Harris County, Texas, ROBERT LOCKART of Houston, land agent (b. 4 July 1814 Downington, Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. 28 Apr. 1886 Houston, bur. Glenwood Cemetery) [*19], and had issue, eight sons and four daughters.

3A7) JOHN BELL LUBBOCK of Austin, Texas, business salesman, b. 29 Mar. 1829 Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia; d. 20 May 1908 Texas Christian Sanitarium, Houston, bur. 22 May 1908 Oakwood Cemetery, Austin; m. 11 Oct. 1855 Bastrop County, Texas, MYRIA TURNER (b. 21 Sept. 1836 Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee; d. 21 Jan. 1892 Austin, bur. Oakwood Cemetery), dau of James Monroe Turner of Trenton, TN, farmer (1793-1849) & Tabitha Billingsley (1804-1884), and had issue, three sons and four daughters. [*20]

3B) Capt. RICHARD LUBBOCK of Georgia, mariner, d. (unm?) c.1832. [*21]

4) HARRIET WILLIS, bap. 1 Aug. 1771 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk; bur. 11 Dec. 1805 st James Church, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire; m. 1 May 1799 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, RICHMOND SHUTE of Iron Acton, customs officer in Bristol (b. c.1751; bur. 30 Nov. 1833 St James Church, Iron Acton), son of Rev. Thomas Shute, vicar of St Lawrence Reading 1748-63 (c.1707-1763) & Joan Cotterell, and had issue, one son and one daughter (4A to 4B below):

4A) HENRY RICHMOND SHUTE of Chavenage House, Gloucestershire, inherited on death of uncle Mar. 1821 but restricted from full possession until he turned age 25, b. 31 Mar. 1800 Bristol, bap. 11 July 1800 St Paul Portland Square, Bristol; dunm. (at age 23) Dec. 1823 Brighton, Sussex, bur. 20 Dec. 1823 St Michael & All Angels Church, Eastington, Gloucestershire.

4B) ALICE ELIZABETH SHUTE, inherited Chavenage House, Gloucestershire on death of brother Dec. 1823, bap. 29 Aug. 1802 St Paul Portland Square, Bristol; d. 1 Nov. 1831 Castletownsend House, County Cork, Ireland, bur. St Barrahane Churchyard, Castletownsend; m. 16 May 1826 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Rev. MAURICE FTZGERALD STEPHENS-TOWNSEND of Castletownsend House, Vicar of Thornbury 1823-72, assumed additional surname of Stephens 27 Jan. 1827 (b. 7 May 1791 Ireland; d. 21 Mar. 1872 Thornbury, bur. 27 Mar. 1872 St Mary Church, Thornbury), 2nd son of Richard Boyle Townsend of Castletownsend House, M.P. County Cork 1776-83 (1756-1826, descended from Edward III) & Henrietta Newenham (1764-1848) [*22], and had issue, one son and two daughters (4B1 to 4B3 below):

4B1) HENRY JOHN TOWNSEND STEPHENS-TOWNSEND of Chavenage House, Gloucestershire, inherited on death of mother Nov. 1831 but held in trust until 1848 when he reached his majority, Lieutenant 2nd Life Guards 1851-57, bap. 1 Nov. 1827 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; d. 7 Sept. 1869 Castletownsend House, co Cork, Ireland, bur. St Barrahane Churchyard, Castletownsend; m. 29 Sept. 1864 Christ Church, Kilfaughnabeg, Co. Cork, Ireland, as her 1st husband, JANE ADELIZA CLEMENTINE HUSSEY DE BURGH (b. 1 Mar. 1846 Dromkeen House, Co Limerick, Ireland; d. 1937 County Cork(?)) [*23], est dau of John Hamilton Hussey de Burgh of Dromkeen House (1822-1887, descended from Edward III) & Louisa Jane Townsend (c.1823-1912, descended from Edward III), and had issue, two sons.

4B2) GERALDINE HENRIETTA TOWNSEND STEPHENS, bap. 12 Feb. 1829 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; dsp 3 Nov. 1911 Thornbury House, bur. 7 Nov. 1911 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury [*24]; m. 30 Apr. 1870 St Mary Church, Thornbury, as his 2nd wife, PIERREPONT HENRY MUNDY of Thornbury House, Major-General Royal Horse Artillery (bap. 13 Aug. 1815 All Saints Church, Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire; d. 16 Feb. 1889 Thornbury House, bur. 21 Feb. 1889 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury), son of Godfrey Basil Meynell Mundy (1776-1848, descended from Edward III) & Hon. Sarah Brydges Rodney (1780-1871, descended from Edward III).

4B3) ALICE GERTRUDE TOWNSEND STEPHENS, bap. 18 Oct. 1830 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; d. 21 May 1913 St Martha’s Lodge, Guildford, Surrey; m. 25 Mar. 1856 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Rev Hon. COURTENAY JOHN VERNON, Rector of Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire 1854-92 (b. 27 July 1828 London, bap. 30 Aug. 1828 St Dunstan Church, Cheam, Surrey; d. 2 July 1892 Grafton Underwood, bur. 5 July 1892 St James Church, Grafton Underwood), son of Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden (1800-1873, descended from Henry IV) & Emma Mary Fitzpatrick (c.1807-1882, descended from Edward III), and had issue, two sons and one daughter. [*25]

[*14] “My sister [Sarah] became a beautiful young woman, and was recognized as a great belle. She was married quite young to Capt. James Curry, of Savannah, Ga., just after my father’s death. They resided in Charleston” [Francis Richard Lubbock, ‘Six Decades in Texas’ (1900), pp. 9-10]. Per the 1880 US Federal Census entry for James Curry’s daughter, her father was born in Ireland. In her 1900 US Federal Census entry, her father was listed as born in England. I could not discover any further information on James Curry. The children of Sarah Sophia (Lubbock) Curry were: 1) James Henry Curry (1832-1850), 2) William Francis Curry (1834-1835), 3) Ker Boyce Curry (b/d. 1836), 4) Wilmot Walter Curry (c.1837-1861), 5) Sarah Ann (Curry) (Bunton) Kellam (1839-1907), on whose death the issue of Sarah (Lubbock) Curry became extinct.
[*15] Theodore Uglow was born 24 Dec. 1840 Houston, Texas to Christopher V Uglow (d. 11 August 1844) and Theresa H Smith (d. 1844); and was adopted 28 Oct. 1844 by Francis Richard Lubbock and his first wife Adele, when he assumed the name Theodore Uglow Lubbock. He died in Houston in 1913, and has descendants living today. Though some bear the surname Lubbock, they are not descendants of Rev. Henry Willis, and, through him, of Anne (Plantagenet), Duchess of Exeter.
[*16] The children of Thomas Saltus Lubbock were: 1) Anna (Lubbock) Kennedy (1844-1919), 2) Francis Richard Lubbock (1848-1911), 3) David Terry Lubbock (1849-1892), 4) Thomas Saltus Lubbock Jr (1852-1913), 5) Mary Elizabeth (Lubbock) Waring (1853-1935), 6) Sally Wharton (Lubbock) Grayson (1856-1925), 7) Frances Terry (Lubbock) Sojourner (1858-1895). There are descendants living today in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S.
[*17] I could not uncover the parentage of Sarah (Curtis) Lubbock. Per her entry in the 1880 US Federal Census, her father was born in New York, and her mother in South Carolina. The children of William Martin Lubbock were: 1) Sarah Anne Curtis (Lubbock) Darling (1841-1905), 2) William Martin Lubbock (1850-1863), 3) Marion Lubbock (1854-d young), 4) Dr Clinton Henry Lubbock (1860-1903), 5) Walter Curry Lubbock (1863-1886). There are descendants living today in California, New York, and elsewhere in the U.S.
[*18] The children of Henry Shultze Lubbock were: 1) James Curry Lubbock (1846-1887), 2) John Warner Lubbock (1848-1861), 3) Oswald John Lubbock (1849-1923), 4) Adele H (Lubbock) Arnold (1854-1924). There are descendants living today in California and elsewhere in the U.S.
[*19] I couldn’t uncover the names of the parents of Robert Lockart. Per his entry in the 1880 US Federal Census, both of his parents were born in Pennsylvania. The children of Anna Blythewood (Lubbock) Lockart were: 1) William Lockart (1844-1847), 2) James C Lockart (1846-1860), 3) Mary Helen (Lockart) Lubbock (1848-1918), 4) Robert Lockart (1849-1920), 5) Thomas Lockart (1851-1869), 6) Adele (Lockart) Sayers (1853-1913), 7) Edward Pierce Lockart (1855-1895), 8) Constant Kirkland Lockart (1857-1936), 9) Francis Lubbock Lockart (1858-1924), 10) Kate Lockart (1860-1862), 11) Anna Lockart (b/d. 1863), 12) Warner Lockart (b/d. 1865). There are descendants living today in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S.
[*20] The children of John Bell Lubbock were: 1) William L Lubbock (1857-1944), 2) Elizabeth Lubbock (1861-1937), 3) Sally Lubbock (1864-1885), 4) Susan (Lubbock) Jaqua (1865-1931), 5) Henry Saltus Lubbock (1867-1933), 6) John Bell Lubbock Jr (1872-1948), 7) Myra T (Lubbock) Williams (1874-1949). There are descendants living today in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S.
[*21] “While clerking with Merritt [in 1830-33], my uncle, Capt. Richard Lubbock, came into port at Charleston with his brig laden with cargo of salt from Turk’s Island. When ready to sail he invited me to visit him and go out with him in his ship over the bar. I accepted his invitation, and was on board by daylight. After a cordial greeting we breakfasted, and then we sped out over the bar. Once in the open sea, I bid a final farewell to my uncle, who died soon afterwards from hardship and exposure” [Francis Richard Lubbock, ‘Six Decades in Texas’ (1900), pp. 16-17]. This is the only record I can find of the younger Capt. Richard Lubbock. Governor Lubbock makes no mention of any other sibling of his father in his memoir. Whether Richard Lubbock married and had children before his death, or whether there were any other children of Richard Lubbock (Willis), is not known.
[*22] Rev. Stephens-Townsend inherited Castletownsend House in 1845 on the death of his childless elder brother Col. John Townsend. There is a detailed account of Rev. Stephens-Townsend, and the entire Townsend of Castletownsend family, at the website ‘The Townsend (Townshend) Family Records’
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/record.php?ref=231
Thru his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth (FitzGerald) Townsend (c.1735-1809), Rev. Stephens-Townsend was a descendant of Lady Elizabeth (Mortimer) Percy, and is covered, along with his descendants, on pp. 365-366 of Ruvigny’s Mortimer-Percy volume (1911):
https://archive.org/details/plantagenetrollo01ruvi/page/365/mode/2up
[*23] The article on ‘Hussey de Burgh’ in ‘Burke’s Irish Family Records’ (1976), pp. 343-344, does not provide a date of death for Jane (Hussey de Burgh) Stephens-Townsend. She m. 2nd 6 Mar. 1877 St Barnabus Church, Kensington, London, Arthur Oriel Singer Cave of Rossbrin Manor, Schull, Co Cork, mining agent (1853-1914), and had further issue. As Mrs. Jane Cave, she was living with her widowed mother at Kilfinnan Castle, Co Cork, in the 1911 Census of Ireland. She is very likely the Jane Cave whose death at age 93 was registered in the 4th quarter 1937 at the district of Skibbereen Co Cork. Shepperton House, one of the Townsend family’s residences, is within the Skibbereen district. The children of Henry John Townsend Stephens-Townsend were: 1) Maurice FitzGerald Stephens Townshend (1865-1948) and 2) Hubert de Burgh FitzGerald Townshend (1867-1941). Castletownsend House continues to be held today by descendants of the elder son.
[*24] There is a detailed account of Geraldine (Stephens) Mundy, as well as her niece, Hon. Evelyn (Vernon) Gillett, at the Thornbury Roots website:
http://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/families/mundy-geraldine/
[*25] The children of Alice Gertrude Townsend (Stephens) Vernon were: 1) Courtenay Robert Percy Vernon, 3rd Baron Lyveden (1857-1926), 2) Hon. Evelyn Mary Geraldine (Vernon) Gillett (1859-1930), 3) Hon. Sydney Charles Fitzpatrick Vernon (1862-1924). There are descendants living today in the UK. See the Lyveden article in Burke’s Peerage (2003), p. 2443.

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5) SOPHIA WILLIS, b. 29 Sept. 1772, bap. 3 Feb. 1775 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk [*26]; d. in infancy 22 Feb. 1775, bur. 24 Feb. 1775 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham.

6) HENRY HANNES [WILLIS] STEPHENS of Chavenage House, Gloucestershire, inherited 1801 from the widow of a distant cousin, when he assumed the surname of Stephens in lieu of Willis, bap. 4 Jan. 1775 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk; dunm. 22 Mar. 1821 Hotel Meurice, Rue St Honore, Paris, France, bur. Pere la Chaise Cemetery, Paris. [*27]

7) WINCHCOMBE HARTLEY WILLIS of Westminster, Lieutenant 68th Regiment of Foot, bap. 22 Apr. 1777 St Mary Church, Lambeth, Surrey; dsp. 1803 West Indies; m. 30 Apr. 1802 Foxley Parish Church, Wiltshire, as her 1st husband, URSULA MARIA BATH (b. 20 Aug. 1772 Thornbury, bap. 16 Sept. 1772 St Mary Church, Thornbury; dsp. Feb. 1824 Haymarket, London, bur. 24 Feb. 1824 St Martin in the Fields, London), dau of Neville Bath of Clifton, Gloucestershire, cutler (1748-1802) & Lydia Cotton. [*28]

8) LOUISA WILLIS, b. 1778 Hockliffe, Bedfordshire [*29]; d. 19 June 1855 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bur. 23 June 1855 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury; m. 8 Mar. 1801 Holy Trinity Church, Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, JOSEPH LAVER of Thornbury, linen draper & bank manager, Mayor of Thornbury 1814-15 (bap. 24 July 1774 St Mary Church, Ilminster, Somersetshire; d. 12 Oct. 1857 Thornbury, bur. 19 Oct. 1857 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury), son of Joseph Laver & Betty – (c.1751-1827), and had issue, four sons and six daughters (8A to 8J below):

8A) FRANK HENRY LAVER, b. 21 Dec. 1801 Bristol, bap. 14 Feb. 1802 St James Church, Bristol; dunm. 5 May 1822 Jamaica.”

8B) FREDERICK LAVER, b. 16 Mar. 1803 Bristol, bap. 1 May 1803 Christ Church, Bristol; dunm. 14 July 1823 Bristol.

8C) WINCHCOMBE WILLIS LAVER, b. 1 Oct. 1804 Bristol, bap. 28 Oct. 1804 Christ Church, Bristol; d. in infancy Bristol, bur. 14 Nov. 1805 Christ Church, Bristol.

8D) Dr. HENRY WILLIS LAVER of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, physician, b. 30 Apr. 1806 Bristol, bap. 25 May 1806 Christ Church, Bristol; dsp. 23 July 1857 Hythe, Hampshire; m. 1st 2 Dec. 1827 St James Church, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, ELLEN (--) SMITH, widow (b. c.1782; d. Jan. 1852 Wells Street, Camberwell, Surrey, bur. 6 Jan. 1852 St George Church, Camberwell); m. 2nd 21 Feb. 1852 St Paul Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, MARY KITCHER (COVEY) LINDEMAN (b. 18 June 1802 Fawley, Hampshire, bap. 1 Jan. 1803 All Saints Church, Fawley; d. 14 Feb. 1883 Fawley), widow of John William Henry Lindeman, surgeon (1778-1830), and dau of John & Sarah Covey of Fawley.

8E) HARRIET LAVER, b. 13 Mar. 1808 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bap. 10 Apr. 1808 St Mary Church, Thornbury; d. 29 Oct. 1877 Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire; m. 14 Aug. 1837 St Mary Church, Charlcombe, Somersetshire, as his 1st wife, FREDERICK JOHN BURGE of Broomsgrove Villa, Hammersmith, Middlesex, surgeon (b. Dec. 1813 Portland Square, Bristol, bap. 1 Jan. 1814 St Paul Portland Square; d. 13 Sept. 1892 26 Quarry Road, Hastings, Sussex), son of John Burge of Bristol, tallow chandler & Mary ---, and had issue, two sons and one daughter (8E1 to 8E3 below):

8E1) FRANK WILLIS BURGE of London, stockbroker, bap. 17 Apr. 1839 St Andrew Church, Blagdon, Somersetshire; dsp 27 June 1884 Copthall Court, London; m. 7 Aug. 1866 St Peter Church, Hammersmith, Middlesex, VIOLETTE GEORGIANA ROSA FINNIS (b. 8 Feb. 1845 Turnham Green, Chiswick, Middlesex, bap. 11 Mar. 1845 St Nicholas Church, Chiswick; dsp 19 Oct 1923 Kew Gardens, Surrey), dau of Robert Fitz Finnis of Turnham Green, solicitor (1794-1845) & Violette Stables Gerard (c.1801-1879).

8E2) MARY ELIZABETH BURGE, b. 1840 Blagdon, Somersetshire, bap. 29 July 1851 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; d. 1894 Bristol, Gloucestershire; m. 20 Aug. 1866 St Peter Church, Hammersmith, Middlesex, THOMAS CLAYTON of Clevedon, Somersetshire, Fleet Paymaster Royal Navy (b. 22 May 1839 Pancras, London; d. 25 Aug. 1924 Clevedon, bur. 29 Aug. 1924 St Andrew Church, Clevedon), son of Thomas Clayton, and had issue, four sons and two daughters. [*30]

8E3) Dr. FREDERICK JOHN BURGE of Bournemouth, Hampshire, physician & surgeon, b. 1844 Kensington, London, bap. 19 Jan. 1845 St Peter Church, Hammersmith, Middlesex; dsp. 1919 Christchurch, Hampshire; m. 3 June 1868 St Stephen Shepherds Bush, London, VIRGINIA EDGER (b. 1 Aug. 1847 Hong Kong, China; d. 5 Aug. 1924 Southbourne Nursing Home, Bournemouth), dau of Joseph Frost Edger of Hong Kong, merchant (d. 1857) & Virginia Gregory (1822-1900).

8F) SOPHIA LAVER, b. 21 Nov. 1809 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bap. 20 Dec. 1809 St Mary Church, Thornbury; d. 5 Jan. 1899 Street, Somersetshire, bur. 10 Jan. 1899 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Street; m. 23 Apr. 1835 St Mary Church, Thornbury, SAMUEL WITCHELL LOVEGROVE of Bristol, wine merchant & accountant (b. 8 Oct. 1807 Maudlin Lane, Bristol, bap. 18 Oct. 1807 Moravian Chapel, Bristol; d. 1876 Bristol), son of William Lovegrove of Bristol & Elizabeth Witchell, and had issue, two sons and two daughters (8F1 to 8F4 below):

8F1) FREDERICK JOHN LOVEGROVE, bap. 28 Sept. 1836 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; living 1851; d. unknown. [*31]

8F2) WILLIAM JOSEPH LOVEGROVE of Harlech, Merionethshire, Wales, hotel manager & accountant, bap. 13 June 1838 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; d. 1914 Croydon, Surrey; m. 8 July 1863 St George the Martyr Church, Southwark, Surrey, MARTHA WULFHILDA ROBERTS (b. Feb. 1840 Plas Newydd, Llandwrog, Caernarvonshire, Wales, bap. 17 Feb. 1840 St Trowg Church, Llandwrog; d. 1906 Waterloo, West Derby, Lancashire), dau of William Roberts of Llandwrog, mason & Mary --, and had issue, five sons and three daughters. [*32]

8F3) LOUISA ELIZABETH LOVEGROVE, governess, bap. 17 Mar. 1840 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; dunm. 3 Jan. 1884 Street, Somersetshire, bur. 7 Jan. 1884 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Street.

8F4) JANE ALICE LOVEGROVE, bap. 28 Dec. 1842 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; dunm. 27 June 1910 Street, Somersetshire, bur. 1 July 1910 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Street.

8G) ELIZABETH LOUISA LAVER, b. 19 Feb. 1815 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bap. 15 Mar. 1815 St Mary Church, Thornbury; d. young there 26 Feb. 1819, bur. there 3 Mar. 1819.

8H) JANE ALICE LAVER, b. 29 Jan. 1817 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bap. 5 Mar. 1817 St Mary Church, Thornbury; dunm., bur. there 24 Nov. 1837.

8I) CHARLOTTE LAVER, bap. 12 Aug. 1818 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; dsp. 4 Jan. 1900 Castle Street, Thornbury, bur. 8 Jan. 1900 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury; m. 21 July 1847 St John the Baptist Church, Bedminster, Somersetshire, JAMES JONES of Thornbury, surgeon (b. 1815 Bristol; d. 5 Sept. 1870 Thornbury, bur. 10 Sept. 1870 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury).

8J) MARIA LOUISA LAVER, bap. 17 May 1820 St Mary Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire; dunm. 6 Jan. 1900 Castle Street, Thornbury, bur. 11 Jan. 1900 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury. [*33]

9) ANN PACKER WILLIS, emigrated to United States by 1804 to join her eldest brother Richard Lubbock, bap. 22 Dec. 1780 St Botolph Church, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire; dunm. 28 Oct. 1806 Beaufort, South Carolina.

10) SOPHIA WILLIS, b. Aug. 1786 Bristol, bap. 16 Aug. 1786 St James Church, Westerleigh, Gloucestershire; d. 11 July 1833 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bur. 16 July 1833 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury; m. 8 July 1824 St Mary Church, Thornbury, SAMUEL PHILPOT BROOKES of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, surgeon (b. 1790 Ross-on-Wye; d. 29 Aug. 1829 Wye River, Herefordshire, bur. 4 Sept. 1829 St Mary Church, Ross-on-Wye), son of William Philpot Brookes of Ross-on-Wye, apothecary & surgeon (1747-1811) & Anne Brookes [*34], and had issue, one daughter (10A below):

10A) JANE TEMPERANCE BROOKES, bap. 14 Aug. 1827 St Mary Church, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire; dunm. 20 Aug. 1882 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, bur. 25 Aug. 1882 St Mary Churchyard, Thornbury.

[*26] The entry for the 3 Feb. 1775 baptism of Sophia Willis in the North Walsham Parish Register is not amongst the other February 1775 baptism entries, but instead is inserted between those of August and September 1775. Somewhat odd, though given that she was baptized a mere month after her brother Henry (4 January 1775), it’s clear Sophia was not baptized closely following her birth. The well-researched online article ‘The Willis family and Richard Lubbock the emigrant’ states Sophia was born 29 September 1772 and died 22 February 1775. It cites the North Walsham parish register as its source. The burial entries from the register have been indexed but not yet scanned. Presumably these dates of birth and death are provided in Sophia’s burial entry, as they most definitely are not from her baptism entry.
https://www.sciway3.net/clark/beaufort/willisconnection.htm
[*27] The article ‘Henry Stephens of Chavenage—a Tragic Convert’ by John Fendley, ‘Gloucestershire and North Avon Catholic History Society’ (1991), is available online. It details the struggles Stephens had with religion, estate management, and his own mental health.
https://btsarnia.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/henry-stephens-of-chavenage.pdf
[*28] Ursula (Bath) Willis m. 2nd 2 Aug. 1813 St George Hanover Square, London, William Matthews Brookes of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, surgeon (1789-1814). The Thornbury Roots website has an account of Ursula and her family, including the story of how Lt. Winchcombe Willis captured a French privateer in the West Indies before he died there of a fever.
http://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/high-street/10-high-street/#willis
[*29] Louisa is the only child of Rev. Henry Willis for whom I cannot locate a baptism entry in online genealogy databases. Per the 1851 England Census, she was age 73 and born in “Hockley” [Hockliffe], Bedfordshire. Per her burial entry in the Thornbury Parish Register, she was age 77 at death. There is a detailed account of Joseph and Louisa (Willis) Laver, and their children, on the Thornbury Roots website:
http://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/families/laver-joseph/
[*30] The children of Mary Elizabeth (Burge) Clayton were: 1) Geraldine Mary Clayton (1868-1925), 2) Thomas Graham Clayton (1870-1874), 3) Francis Herbert Aylen Clayton (1871-1954), 4) Charles Wykeham Clayton (1873-1886), 5) Norman Willis Clayton (1879-1946), 6) Muriel Hartley Clayton (1881-1960), on whose death the issue of Harriet (Laver) Burge became extinct.
[*31] Frederick John Lovegrove was age 15, an “accountant” living with his parents and siblings in Clifton, Gloucestershire in the 1851 England Census. He disappears from record after that.
[*32] The children of William Joseph Lovegrove were: 1) Sophia Hilda Lovegrove (1864-aft.1901), 2) Louisa Alice Lovegrove (1866-1937), 3) Wulfhilda Willis (Lovegrove) Woollard (1868-1935), 4) William Frederick Witchell Lovegrove (1869-aft.1917), 5) Frederick John Lovegrove (b/d. 1870), 6) Henry Willis Lovegrove (1872-1958), 7) Samuel Humphrey Lovegrove (1876-1928), 8) Herbert Winchcombe Lovegrove (1880-1947). There are descendants living today in the U.K.
[*33] At her death on 6 January 1900, Maria Louisa Laver was the last surviving of the twenty grandchildren of Rev. Henry Willis, having outlived her sister Charlotte (Laver) Jones by two days.
[*34] Samuel Philpot Brookes was the younger brother of William Matthews Brookes (1789-1814), second husband of Ursula (Bath) Willis, widow of Lt. Winchcombe Hartley Willis, brother of Samuel’s wife Sophia (Willis) Brookes (see note [*28] above).

Cheers, --------Brad