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Ancestors of Ivan Simon Cary Elwes


      152. John Berkeley He was the son of 304. Thomas Berkeley of Spetchley and 305. Mary Davies. He married 153. Catherine Bodenham May 02, 1763 in St. Paul Covent Garden, Westminster, London.

      153. Catherine Bodenham She was the daughter of 306. Charles Bodenham and 307. Catherine Huddleston.
     
Child of John Berkeley and Catherine Bodenham is:
  76 i.   Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, married Appollonia Lee 1792.


      154. Richard Lee, died 1829. He married 155. Mary Jones December 01, 1767 in Llanfoist, Monmouth.

      155. Mary Jones, born 1731. She was the daughter of 310. John Jones of Llanarth and 311. Florence Morgan.

Notes for Richard Lee:
of Great Delce, Kent, and Clytha and Llanfoist, Monmouth
     
Child of Richard Lee and Mary Jones is:
  77 i.   Appollonia Lee, born Abt. 1772 in Llanfoist, Monmouth; married Robert Berkeley of Spetchley 1792.


      158. Henry Swinburne of Hamsterly, born July 19, 1743 in Bristol; died April 01, 1803 in Trinidad. He was the son of 316. Sir John Swinburne, Baronet and 317. Mary Bedingfeld. He married 159. Martha Baker March 24, 1767 in Aix-la-Chapelle.

      159. Martha Baker She was the daughter of 318. John Baker and 319. Mary Ryan.

Notes for Henry Swinburne of Hamsterly:
from "Dictionary of National Biography":

"SWINBURNE, HENRY (1743-1803), traveller, born at Bristol on 8 July 1743, was the fourth son of Sir John Swinburne of Capheaton, Northumberland, third baronet, and head of an old Roman catholic family, who married on 20 July 1721 Mary, only daughter of Edward Bedingfield, and granddaughter of Sir Henry Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Norfolk. His father died in January 1744-5, and his mother died at York on 7 Feb. 1761. Henry was educated at Scorton school, near Catterick, Yorkshire, and was then sent to the monastic seminary of Lacelle in France. He afterwards studied at Paris, Bordeaux, and in the Royal Academy at Turin, devoting special attention to literature and art.

"The death at Paris on 1 Feb. 1763 of his eldest brother, who had in the previous year devised to him a small estate at Hamsterley in Durham, combined with his patrimony, placed him in independent circumstances. He proceeded to Italy, where he carefully examined the pictures, statues, and antiquarian relics at Turin, Genoa, and Florence, and learnt the language of the country. On his way back to his native land he met at Paris Martha, daughter of John Baker of Chichester, solicitor to the Leeward islands, a young lady with a good fortune, being educated at a convent of Ursuline nuns. They were married at Aix-la-Chapelle on 24 March 1767.

"The young couple then settled at Hamsterley, where the husband laid out the estate 'with a painter's eye.' After a few years they tired of life spent among country squires and their wives, and went abroad. They passed the autumn of 1774 and the following months until September 1775 at Bordeaux, and then visited the Pyrenees. There Swinburne left his wife, and, in the company of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, travelled through Spain, returning to Bayonne in June 1776. The manuscript descriptive of his journey was sent to England, and committed to the editorial care of Dr. Samuel Henley [q.v.] It was published in 1779 as 'Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776,' and was illustrated with many excellent and accurate drawings, taken on the spot, of Roman and Moorish architecture. In 1787 it was reprinted in two octavo volumes, and in the same year a French translation by J. B. De la Borde came out in Paris. Abridgments, with engravings from some additional drawings by Swinburne, appeared in 1806 and 1810. Swinburne was the first to make known in this country 'the arts and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Spain.' His 'Travels' are often cited by Gibbon (_Decline_and_Fall_, chaps. ix. and x.)

"Immediately on his return to Bayonne in June 1776 Swinburne, with his family, travelled to Marseilles, and a supplementary volume describing the expedition was issued in 1787. They then proceeded by sea to Naples, and travelled in the two Sicilies, where they stayed for 1777 and 1778, and for the early months of 1779. Their return to England was by Vienna, Frankfort, and Brussels, and they arrived in London in July 1779, but after a few months in England passed once more through France to Italy. Their stay in that country was from March to July 1780, and they stopped from that month to the following November in Vienna. As lovers of antiquity and Roman catholics in religion, they formed acquaintance with the chief literati in each country, and received many compliments from the catholic sovereigns. At Vienna Maria Theresa conferred on Mrs. Swinburne the female order of 'La Croix Etoilee,' and the Emperor Joseph stood godfather to their son of that name. They were in Brussels from February to June 1781, and again crossed to England.

"The first volume of Swinburne's 'Travels in the two Sicilies, 1777-1780,' was published in 1783, and the second came out in 1785, and the plates in both volumes were of great excellence. Swinburne's drawings were faithful to fact and elegant in design. A second edition appeared in 1790; a French translation of them by La Borde was issued at Paris in 1785, and in the same year a German translation by J. R. Forster was published at Hamburg. At a later date La Borde translated the supplementary 'Journey from Bayonne to Marseilles.'

"Hannah More met Swinburne in London society in May 1783, and described him as 'a little genteel man. He is modest and agreeable; not wise and heavy, like his books'....By this time his wife's property in the West Indies had been 'devastated and utterly laid waste by the French and Caribs.' Having obtained letters of introduction to the French court from Vienna, he proceeded to Paris (1783), and through Marie-Antoinette's influence obtained 'a grant of all the uncultivated crown lands in the island of St. Vincent,' valued at 30,000 [pounds]. In February 1785 Pitt offered half that sum for it, and on receiving a refusal passed through parliament a bill to impose heavy taxation upon the unproductive lands in all the West Indian islands. Swinburne then parted with his interest for 6,500 [pounds]. From September 1786 to June 1788 Swinburne was again in Paris, and high in favour with Marie-Antoinette, who directed that his eldest son should be enrolled among the royal pages, and placed under the especial care of the Prince de Lambesc. Swinburne's last years were clouded by misfortune. His eldest daughter, Mary Frances, married on 7 Sept. 1793 Paul Benfield [q.v.], when magnificent settlements were made for her, but that adventurers wealth crumbled away as rapidly as it grew, and Swinburne was involved in the ruin. His eldest son perished in a storm on his way to Jamaica in 1800.

"In the meantime Swinburne was sent to Paris in 1796 as commissioner to negotiate an exchange of prisoners with France, but, in consquence of difficulties arising from the capture by the French of Sir Sidney Smith, was unsuccessful, and in December 1797 was recalled to England. In December 1801 he went out to the lucrative post of vendue-master in the newly-ceded settlement of Trinidad, and also as commissioner to deliver up the Danish West Indian islands to a Danish official, when he acquitted himself so well that the British merchants made him a handsome gift, and the king of Denmark presented his widow with 2,000 [pounds]. He died from a sunstroke at Trinidad on 1 April 1803, and was buried at San Juan, where his friend, Sir Ralph Woodford, raised a monument to his memory. He had issue four sons and six daughters...."
     
Child of Henry Swinburne and Martha Baker is:
  79 i.   Mary Frances Swinburne, died 1828; married Paul Benfield 1793.


      160. Francis Rodd, born 1683; died August 25, 1736. He was the son of 320. Bampfylde Rodd and 321. Bridget Drewe. He married 161. Alicia Sandford.

      161. Alicia Sandford She was the daughter of 322. William Sandford of Exeter.

Notes for Francis Rodd:
Capt. Coldstream Guards; inherited Trebartha 1727 from cousin Mary, dau. William Spoure of Trebartha, Cornwall (his fiance)
     
Child of Francis Rodd and Alicia Sandford is:
  80 i.   Francis Rodd of Trebartha Hall, born July 12, 1732; died January 23, 1812; married Jane Hearle.


      162. John Hearle He married 163. Mary Paynter.

      163. Mary Paynter She was the daughter of 326. Francis Paynter of Trelissick and 327. Margaret Paynter.

Notes for John Hearle:
perhaps the John Hearle christened 27 Dec 1692 in Saint Just in Roseland, Cornwall, son of James and Jane Hearle; or the John Hearle who was christened 6 Jun 1686 in Saint Gluvias, Cornwall, son of Digory and Rachel Hearle
     
Child of John Hearle and Mary Paynter is:
  81 i.   Jane Hearle, born in Penrhyn, Cornwall; died 1780; married Francis Rodd of Trebartha Hall.


      164. John Rennell He married 165. Anne Clarke.

      165. Anne Clarke, born in Chudleigh, Devon.
     
Child of John Rennell and Anne Clarke is:
  82 i.   James Rennell, born December 03, 1742 in near Chudleigh, Devon, England; died March 29, 1830 in London; married Jane Thackeray 1772 in Calcutta, India.


      166. Thomas Thackeray D.D., died August 25, 1760. He was the son of 332. Timothy Thackeray. He married 167. Anne Woodward July 26, 1729.

      167. Anne Woodward, died January 23, 1797. She was the daughter of 334. John Woodward and 335. Anne.

Notes for Thomas Thackeray D.D.:
Headmaster of Harrow

More About Thomas Thackeray D.D.:
Baptism: December 08, 1693

Marriage Notes for Thomas Thackeray and Anne Woodward:
ancestors also of William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist:

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863); Richmond Thackeray and Anne Becher; William Makepeace Thackeray and Amelia Richmond Webb; Dr. Thomas Thackeray and Anne Woodward
     
Children of Thomas Thackeray and Anne Woodward are:
  83 i.   Jane Thackeray, married James Rennell 1772 in Calcutta, India.
  ii.   William Makepeace Thackeray, born 1749; died 1813; married Amelia Richmond Webb January 31, 1776 in Calcutta, India.


      168. James Thomson
     
Child of James Thomson is:
  84 i.   Alexander Thomson, died September 25, 1798 in Edinburgh, Scotland; married Mary Elisabeth Spencer November 24, 1770 in Christ Church, Savannah, GA.


      170. William Spencer, died 1776 in Christ Church Parish, GA. He was the son of 340. William Spencer and 341. Elizabeth. He married 171. Avery Abt. 1745 in GA.

      171. Avery, born Abt. 1724. She was the daughter of 342. Capt. Joseph Avery and 343. Margaret.

Notes for William Spencer:
Given that he was of "Lemster" (Leominster, Hereford), that he had a "near relation" named "Counsellour Pritchard" of Hereford, and that he was 39 when he went to Georgia, he was probably the William Spencer baptized 24 Oct 1702 in Leominster, son of William and Elizabeth Spencer (IGI, from FHL #992,234). Those parents were perhaps the William Spenser and Elizabeth Hanley who were married 27 Jul 1697 in Edvin Ralph, Hereford (IGI, from FHL #1,040,198 ). There was a William Spencer who was baptized 10 Apr 1675 in Leominster (son of Coningesby and Margaret Spencer), perhaps William's father (IGI, from FHL #992,234). Coningesby Spencer married Mary Caswall 7 May 1674 in Leominster (same source); he was baptized 9 Sep 1652 in Pencombe, Hereford (son of William and Sarah Spenser) (IGI, from FHL #1,040,325).

"Counsellour Pritchard of Hereford" was undoubtedly George Prichard of Lincoln's Inn, William Spencer's 2nd cousin:
      from Lincoln's Inn admissions (1:387): "1721 May 5 [folio 33] George Prichard, son and heir app. of Basil P., of Colwall, co.             Hereford, gen."
      from Alumni Oxonienses (new series 3:1151): "Prichard, George, s. Basil, of Colwall, co. Hereford, gent. MERTON COLL.,             matric. 17 March, 1721-2, aged 17; bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1727."
      from IGI (various):
            George Prichard: bp. 16 Jun 1704 Colwall, Hereford, son of Basil Prichard and Susanna ____
            Basil Prichard: m. Susanna Skipp 18 Aug 1701 Ledbury, Hereford
            Basil Prichard: bp. 30 Sep 1675 Colwall, Hereford, son of John Prichard
            John Prichard: m. Susanna Spencer 26 Nov 1674 Little Cowarne, Hereford
            Susanna Spenser: bp. 23 May 1650 Pencombe, Hereford, dau. of William Spenser and Sarah ____

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will dated 27 Jan 1776; proved and recorded 22 Aug 1776; extracted on p. 130 of "Abstracts of Colonial Wills of the State of Georgia 1733-1777" (1962). Will of "William Spencer, Christ Church Parish, Gent.," names sons John Spencer, George Basil Spencer, William Henry Spencer, and Joseph William Spencer; daughters Elizabeth Parker, Jane Bowen, Mary Thomson, Susannah Spencer, and Sarah Spencer; and son-in-law Alexander Thomson.

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Member of Masonic lodge in Savannah 1756, apparently having attained Master Mason in 1735 in GA. However, see next:

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from "A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia" (Coulter and Saye, eds.), Athens, GA: University of GA Press, 1949; p. 49 (under those who went from Europe to GA at the Trustees' charge):

"Spencer, [?] and family--Bailif & assistant at Savannah; embark'd 20 Feb 1741-2; arrived May 1742."


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"The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", vol. 5 (Journal of the Earl of Egmont, First President of the Board of Trustees, 14 Jun 1738 - 25 May 1744):
      p. 598: [3 Mar 1741/42] 2. Mr Spencer's letter to be sent to Georgia at the Trustees charge, with his wife & three children,             was read, & he attending in person we ask'd him several proper questions, to which he answer'd, that he was of             the Town of Lemster and bred at a latin school till the age of 14. That at 17 he came to town and was six years a             Clerk in the sword blade Company's Office. That he has since been near 14 years Clerk assistant to the Vintners             Company, but being unhappily bound for a person who ran away, was reduced to seek for bread in some other             Country, which the Assignees of the broken person would wink at, but could not grant him a lycence of absence.             That he could get a certificate in his favour from many of the Vintners Company, That if we pleased to send him             and his family over, he would wait with patience till some Employment might fall in the Colony to be given him,             and was able to carry with him about 50 [pounds] in money, besides his household goods. We desired him to             procure the certificates he mention'd, and to wait on Mr Vernon at the Excise Office to morrow with Mr Beadle the             Clerk of the Vintners Company. Several of our gentlemen not being present when this past, I told them that if this             Man could bring proper certificates, he might prove a proper Magistrate and Assistant at Savannah, in the room of             Mr Tho. Jones, who in his last letters had desired to resign, as finding himself of no use, the Inhabitants were so             set against him. That he was the more proper, as he wrote a very good hand & understood Accompts, and we did             not know any person in the Northern District of the Colony fit to make a Magistrate. The gentlemen were pleas'd to             acquiesce in what I proposed. He is 39 years old, his eldest daughter 14 years old, & his youngest 2."
      p. 603: "[8 Mar 1741/42] 4. Upon Mr Vernons report of the favourable character of Mr Will. Spencer The Board appointed him             3d Bailif in the room of Mr John Fallowfeild as also Assistant to Col. William Stephens: and that 10 [pounds per]             head should be allow'd him from himself, his wife and 3 children, to pay his freight & furnish him with                   refreshments in his voyage."
      p. 656: "[1742] Nov. 1. 30. Mr Spencer still ill and his wife dead at Frederica."

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"The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", vol. 23 (original papers, correspondence, trustees, general Oglethorpe and others, 1741-1742):
      pp. 516-517 - letter of William Spencer to Harman Verelst dated 23 Feb 1742(/43) Frederica: "...Your's Dated in June last I             reced, and return you thanks for your trouble and care in sending the Clock, which came in good Order, We had a             good passage but since our Arrival I have lost my wife and Youngest Daughter and almost all my Goods and             Effects...I have been Ill ever since the Day after our Landing and for Upwards of 4 Months lost the use of my Legs             (but Thank God) am on the Mending Hand, and hope soon to be at Savanah...pray give my Humble Service to your             good Lady & Neice..."
      pp. 535-540 - letter of William Stephens to Harman Verelst dated 8 Mar 1742/43 Savannah: "...Mr. Spencer's Incapacity for             so long Time to give us his Assistance (occasion'd by such a grievous Sickness; wherein he unhappily lost his             Wife & many of his Effects) we have look'd on as a great Misfortune on us also, forasmuch as his concurrent             Opinion with us, would in many Things have added Strength to our Determinations By the last Advices from             Frederica, we were in hopes of seeing him shortly, from the Acct: given us of his being grown pretty cheerfull             abroad again; but what detain'd him at present, we were told, was his disposing of his Neice & Maid Servant in             Matrimony, who had Husbands provided for 'em. What farther Cause may happen of detaining him there longer, I             know not."

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"The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", vol. 24 (original papers, correspondence, trustees, general Oglethorpe and others, 1742-1745), pp. 113-114 (letter from William Spencer to the trustees, 24 Sep 1743 Savannah):

"...I arrived at this Place the 3d of Augt. last...upon the Chainge of the Air was Ill about a ffortnight but (thank God) am now hearty and well, only a little Weak in my Leggs....to make my Service Acceptable to Madlle. Verelst & Neice....Pray give my Service to Mr. Bedell & Lady, and acqt. him that I Live in hopes of a Line from him, having had none as yet The Country agrees with my Daughter very well, she's gone (sic) a fine Girl"

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"The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", vol. 26 (original papers, correspondence, trustees, general Oglethorpe and others), pp. 6-9: letter of William Spencer to Benjamin Martyn, secretary for the Trustees of Georgia, 18 Jul 1750:

"Sir
The warm Zeal and concern you have expressed for the Welfare of this Colony in General, gives me the pleasure to think you would be a ready and kind helper, where ever you find it wanting, which gives me Confidence, that what I now write to you will not be offensive.--In the year 1742 (the Time of my Arrival in this Colony) I lost by the Spaniards invading of Frederica almost all I had in the World, being upwards of Three Hundred Pounds, and what was most dear to me a loving Wife and two Children....Upwards of Five Years ago (having two Young Daughters the Eldest about Nine Years old, who were in want of a proper Person to learn them how to live in the World) I had the good Fortune to meet with a sober discreet Woman a Daughter of Mr. Avery our late Surveyor Deced, whom I took to Wife, and who has proved a very good one in particular a good Step Mother to my said Daughters, having learnt them to be good House Wifes and also expert at their Needles.-- I have three fine Georgia Boys and a fourth coming...."

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William Spencer applied for grants of town lots 18 May 1744, 4 Jul 1751, and 5 Jun 1754

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"The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", vol. 11 (proceedings and minutes of the governor and council, 3 Apr 1770 - 13 Jul 1771), p. 397:

"[June 1771] Read a Petition of William Spencer Setting forth that he had five hundred and forty five Acres of land...that he had a family Consisting of nine Children and four Negroes and being desirous of Obtaining Land for Cultivation Therefore praying for Six hundred Acres of Land in St. Andrew's Parish..."

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in several letters to Harman Verelst William Spencer gave his regards in closing to Mrs. Verelst and "Neice" (23 Feb 1742/43, 24 Sep 1743, 27 Apr 1744]

More About William Spencer:
Baptism: October 24, 1702, Leominster, Hereford, England
Will Dated: January 27, 1776
Will Proved: August 22, 1776
  Notes for Avery:
there was a Mary Avery (dau. of Joseph Avery and Mary ___ ) who was bp. 7 Mar 1724 in St. Botolph Bishopsgate, London (IGI, from FHL #380,143)

"The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", vol. 24 (original papers, correspondence, trustees, general Oglethorpe and others, 1742-1745): p. 158 (from letter of John Dobell to trustees, dated 13 Oct 1743 Savannah): "...Monday the 31st. October 1743 This morning I went to Mr. Avery's House, the Surveyor & he was not at home; his Daughter said he was gone out..."

Marriage Notes for William Spencer and Avery:
"The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia", vol. 25 (original papers, correspondence, trustees, general Oglethorpe and others, 1745-1750), pp. 105-108 (letter from William Spencer to Harman Verelst, 12 Sep 1746):

"...I beg the favour of you to return them my most Humble and hearty thanks.---
For the Sake of my two Daughters, having met with a Woman Suitable to my mind, I thought it best for me a Second time to enter into a Marriage State, Accordingly I did about a Year and three Quarters ago to the only Daughter of Capt. Avery our late Surveyor deced, by his Second Wife, by whom I have a Jolly Boy Nine Months old, and I believe another acoming, The Capt. Leaving a Widow (who is since dead) and several Children behind him, the Share I had with my Wife was only her Wearing Apparel; but after my perswading Mrs. Avery to deliver up the large Plan &c. She told me She was in great expectation of a gratuity from their Honours and whatsoever She reced, my Wife should have a Child's Share, some small time before She departed She Buried a Son and Daughter, so that there is but one Son, (now an Apprentice in Charles-Town), and my Wife Living, besides the Son he had by his first Wife, he living in Charles-Town at the time of Mrs. Avery's death, immediately after, took all she left, without giving my Wife a Shilling, & but a small matter to the other Brother who was her Son; She is a very good Wife to me, and altho' but Half my age yet makes an Excellent Step Mother to my Daughters, being Mistress of her Needle, don't doubt of her making my Girls the same; some time since I married her, She gave me a Paper Writing of her ffathers, which gives an Acct. of her being entitled to the Reversion of Two ffreehold Houses near the King's Palace in Pall-Mall, after the Death of her Mother's Brother, who is between Sixty and Seventy Years of Age, I have sent a Copy of it to Counsellour Pritchard (a near relation of mine) in Herefordshire, for his opinion thereon, I have likewise sent another to Mr. Bedell of Vintners Hall to desire his, or whom he shall please to Advise with.--...."
     
Children of William Spencer and Avery are:
  i.   John Spencer
  ii.   George Basil Spencer, died February 25, 1791 in GA; married Elizabeth Farley April 22, 1790 in Chatham Co., GA.
  iii.   William Henry Spencer, married (1) Mary S; died Abt. September 11, 1801 in GA; married (2) Lucretia Jenkins October 21, 1802 in Savannah, Chatham, GA.
  iv.   Joseph William Spencer, died Abt. December 19, 1799 in GA; married Dorothy Cuyler July 03, 1783 in Chatham Co., GA.
  85 v.   Mary Elisabeth Spencer, died 1778 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; married Alexander Thomson November 24, 1770 in Christ Church, Savannah, GA.
  vi.   Susannah Spencer
  vii.   Sarah Spencer


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