Early Life
Anne Maule Murdoch was born on the 18^th of April 1803 to William Murdoch of Gartincaber and his wife Sarah Murdoch. Anne was their only child and thus became the heiress of the Gartincaber estate (Stirlingshire) on the death of her father in 1805, when she was just two. Anne's baptism was witnessed by Edward Burn of Coldoch, who could perhaps be an uncle of Anne's future husband John Burn. The other witness was James Murdoch, Anne's maternal grandfather.

Family Life
Anne married John Burn on the 18^th of March 1820 in Gartincaber, when she was just 17. One of the conditions of her inheritance was that whomsoever she married must adopt the Murdoch name; hence her husband changed his surname to Burn-Murdoch and here started the Burn-Murdoch family that is still extant today.

For details on their children, see the entry for her husband John.

Annie Jessie Burn-Murdoch recalled the following memories of her grandmother Anne Maule Murdoch in a 1914 letter to her cousin Hector Burn-Murdoch:¹


Death
Anne died on the 21^st of December 1871, aged 68, nine years after her husband.

Murdoch Surname
The Burn-Murdoch arms include a Murdoch quartering:

This matches the arms of the Murdoch family arising in Cumloden in Galloway. See here for an origins story of the arms; also repeated in L_Unknown_Kerby (Family Archive). There is also some evidence in the family archive for and against this connection:

1. D_Murdoch (Burn-Murdoch Scrapbook) describes Archibald Murdoch (Anne Maule Murdoch's paternal grandfather) as "a cadet Murdoch of Cumloden".
   
2. L_Unknown_Burn-Murdoch_Cumlodden, written by Hector Burn-Murdoch, opens with a denial of any link to the Cumloden Murdoch's but then presents other family stories which also seek to clarify the link to the Bridge of Teith Murdochs (i.e the family of Anne's mother Sarah Campbell Murdoch).
   

Annie Jessie Burn-Murdoch certainly spent a lot of time investigating the Cumloden link, though (based on the extant letters) without any particular success.

Footnotes
A bible, gifted by Anne to her maternal grandfather James Murdoch, is in our family archive. It has a short dedication from Anne to James, and the names and dates of birth and baptism of all her children.
[1] L_1918_03_Bryans_Burn-Murdoch_1
[2] This is probably Anne Murdoch, who married Macnab of Borain. Their son Archibald succeeded his uncle as Laird of Macnab (the 17th chief); Archibald would have been Anne Maule Murdoch’s first cousin; he started a branch of the family in Canada
[3] Here she’s talking about Francis Macnab, the 16th Chief and Archibald Macnab’s uncle

Early Life
Anne Maule was born on the 20^th of January 1727, daughter to James Maule and Jean Strachan. Her baptismal record reads:


Family Life
Anne married Archibald Murdoch of Cessintully and Gartincaber in 1745.

Death
Anne died in January 1758 (unverified - taken from Ancestry trees).

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Maule surname
From The Surnames of Scotland¹:


Footnotes
[1] The surnames of Scotland, their origin meaning and history by George F. Black, available at HathiTrust

Early Life
Anthony Beckwith was the son of Thomas Beckwith and Margaret Johnson¹.

Family Life
Anthony married (or, as the hint in the footnote suggests, perhaps he had illegitimate children with) Margaret Loftis and had the following:

1. Anne, bapt. 1601
   
2. Mary, bapt. 1608
   
3. Jane, bapt. 1609
   
4. Sarah, bapt. 1611
   
5. Christopher, bapt. 1612 and who died in 1670

Given the large gap between Anne and Mary, there may have been other children too.

Note that there was a burial for "the wife of Anthony Beckwith [of Notwithcoate] on the 13th of March 1602/3, so perhaps he married twice?

Death
Anthony died in 1623, probably still in his 40s, and was buried on the 19^th of February that year in Masham.

Footnotes
[1] The Visitations of Durham (Joseph Foster: Pedigrees Recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham (1575, 1615, 1666))
Page: Beckwith of Nutwithcoat; pages 10-11) make Anthony the son of Christopher of Nutwith Cote, and brother of Thomas, but this wouldn't allow Anthony's sons to be born in the early 1600s. The fact that the Visitation describes him as a "second son" suggests strongly to me that he was actually the brother of Christopher of Nutwith Cote. Fisher (The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire, John Fisher, London (1865); Lonsdale of Masham, p508) has the following salacious tidbit about Anthony: On the 22nd April, 1594, Anthony Beckwith of Nutwith Cote was excommunicated by the Peculiar Court of Masham "for that a proper young woman was brought to his house and there bare a child begotten in fornication, and he hayth suffered her to depart unpunished."

Early Life
Anthony Gylby was probably born in the early 1600s (given that he married in 1637), son of Sir George Gylby of Stainton and Elizabeth Fitzwiliam. He can't have been born after 1609 as that was when his father died. He appears in the Gilby pedigree of FMG¹.

There is a slight problem with this lineage in that his parents Elizabeth (and George) appear to have been born in the 1560s, so would have been quite old by the time Anthony was born. This causes an offset in the Fitzwilliam line that causes it to be up to a century off compared to parallel lines. One explanation is that the source¹ for this pedigree has skipped a generation and George and Elizabeth were actually Anthony's grandparents, rather than parents. On the other hand, Anthony is described (below) as the 6th son, so if a few daughters are thrown in too, he could well be 18-20 years younger than the eldest child.

Family Life
Anthony married Ruth Rogers (daughter of Robert Rogers and Elizabeth Sandford) c. 1637 in Everton (Nottinghamshire). They had:

1. Anthony, b. 1640, who married Elizabeth Scroggs
   
2. Bridget, b. 1642
   
3. Thomas, b. 1645
   
4. William, b. 1654, who married Elizabeth Bluck
   
5. Elizabeth

Other
From Visitor UK:


From History of Parliament Online:


Footnotes
[1] Familiae Minorum Gentium by Joseph Hunter, London 1894-1896, Volume 4, page 1227

Early Life
Archibald Adair Brice was the fourth and youngest son of Edward Brice and Jane Adair, of Kilroot in Ireland. Archibald was born on the 10^th of November 1769, most likely at Kilroot House which was the family home.

Career
At the age of 18, Archibald was signed up by his father for a five-year clerkship (in preparation to becoming a lawyer) with Oliver Farrer of Bedford Square and James Farrer of Chancery Lane. This life clearly didn't appeal to him as, four and a half years later he was admitted to Pembroke College in Cambridge. He swapped colleges a few times, transferring to Clare (or perhaps Clare Hall, there are records for both). In the interim, he was ordained Deacon in December 1793, aged 24. Finally ending up at Emmanuel College, Archibald graduated on the 10^th of June 1795 and was ordained priest 18 days later, apparently at Windsor Castle chapel. The same year, Archibald was appointed Rector of South Elmham St James in Suffolk, a position which he held for the rest of his life.

It is worth pointing out that Archibald's grandfather William Adair owned the Flixton estate in Bungay - a few miles from South Elmham. Almost certainly this was no coincidence - perhaps William (or rather his nephew and heir Alexander Adair 1743-1834 given that William died in 1783) pulled some strings to find Archibald a suitable curacy.

Family Life
Archibald married Martha Porter, daughter of William Porter and Mary Haultain on the 11^th of March 1800 at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London when he was 30. Evidently this union was very much not approved by Martha's father, who in his will (dated 1795) had indicated that he would disinherit Martha if she married Archibald (beyond the will itself, this friction between William Porter and Archibald is revealed in a court case taken by Martha and Archibald against the executors of her father's will, one of whom was Francis Haultain, her uncle).

Martha's maternal family were the Haultains, and this marriage was not the only intersection between the Brice and Haultain families: her first cousin Arthur married Maria Isabella Anstruther Brice, who was Archibald's niece through his brother Robert.

Archbald and Martha had three children:

1. Courtenay Boyle, born 7^th November 1800, who married Margaret Augusta Kelso
   
2. Maria Isabella, born 13^th Jan 1802 (died aged 2)
   
3. William Adair, born 3^rd July 1803, who married first Elizabeth Merceron and secondly Henrietta Mount

Archibald obtained a Royal grant to change his name from Brice to Bruce on 1^st October 1825, something his cousin Edward (b. 1753) had also done 14 years earlier. Thus the descent from the "noble house of Bruce, of Airth in Scotland" (quoting from the grant) was re-established, albeit I've still to find any actual evidence of the link. For a considerable amount of analysis of whether the Brices really did descend from the Bruces of Airth, see the entry for Edward Bryce.

Legal Disputes
As mentioned above, Archibald helped his wife Martha in a claim against the executors of her father's will, including Francis Haultain (her uncle). In turn, Francis counter-sued (see here).

Death
Archibald died in 1828 in Cheltenham aged 59, and was buried at Walcot St Swithin near Bath in Somerset. Both his father and mother were buried at the same church.

Early Life
Archibald Hamilton was born in 1619 (inferred from his age at death, which is given as 75), the son of Patrick Hamilton and Elizabeth Glen (note, he was not the son of Hans Hamilton as described in the History of the County of Ayr, nor can he have been the brother of Viscount Claneboye as mentioned in Burke's 11th, as the latter was born in 1560).

Career
From Fasti¹:

From The Hamilton Manuscripts², page 83

From The Hamilton Manuscripts². page 39:

From Fasti¹, again:


Family Life
Archibald married his cousin, Jane Hamilton and had four surviving children:

1. John
   
2. Archibald
   
3. Henry
   
4. Mary who married John Kelso

Death
Archibald died at Wigtown on the 29^th of June 1695.

Footnotes
[1] Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae, Vol. 2, page 383 https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc02scot/page/382/mode/2up?q=archibald+hamilton(https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc02scot/page/382/mode/2up?q=archibald+hamilton)
[2] The Hamilton Manuscripts, Sir James Hamilton, publ. Belfast, 1867
[Other]
- Some details here: http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps45/ps45_058.html
- Pedigree here too: https://fabpedigree.com/s056/f315131.htm

Early Life
Archibald Hamilton would have been born around 1500 (based on the births of his children), the son of James Hamilton of Raploch and Isobel Weir.

Family Life
Archibald married first Marion Ogilvy by whom he had no issue. Secondly he married Margaret Hamilton, why whom he had two daughters:

1. Margaret, who married Sir James Somerville of Cambusnethan
   
2. Elizabeth, who married Robert Baillie of Park

He also had two illegitimate sons, Archibald and Hans, by an unknown mother. They were both legitimated under the great seal in 1553¹.

Death
From Genealogical Memoirs¹:


Footnotes
[1] Hamilton of Raploch, pages 363-367; Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, John Anderson, Edinburgh (1825)
[Other] See https://garymcguire.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/the-curious-connection-between-william-rowan-hamilton-and-other-hamiltons/

Early Life
Archibald Kelso succeeded to the estates in 1576 (according to Burkes¹) , so presumably must have been at least 18 at the time and so born no later than 1558. If he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Langside which took place in 1568 then he more likely was born prior to 1550. This corresponds well with extrapolations backwards from his 2x great grand-son Capt. Robert Kelso (b. 1677). Archibald's father was Thomas Kelso; his mother's name is not known.

Career
From Kelso of Kelsoland²:

Some sources (e.g. History of the Counties of Ayr³) also give Archibald a third son, Giles.

Footnotes
[1] e.g. 1st Edition, Volume 2 (1835) page 535
[2] Kelso of Kelsoland, Compiled by Clarence E Kelso and Wilber M Kelso. page 13
[3] History of the counties of Ayr and Wigton; Volume 1, part 2, page 742

Early life
Archibald Nisbet was born in 1673, eldest and only surviving son of Archibald Nisbet of Carphin and his wife Eupham Scroggie.

Career
Archibald sold the Orkney property that he inherited form his father in 1727 to James Trail, a lawyer in Edinburgh¹

Family Life
The marriage record is hard to make out - this is roughly what it says:

The mysterious mention of having to go to England to marry would be intriguing to investigate further but without some help on reading the handwriting I'm stuck at this point. There is another record, on the 26^th January 1701, between Archibald Neisbet [sic] of Carphin and Emilia Stewart, but this record is at Bothwell in Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, where Archibald resided.

Finally, the Extracted Parish Records on Ancestry read:


Death
Archibald died in 1739¹, though lots of online pedigrees have a date of 29^th September 1740 with no source. I can't find a primary source to confirm his d.o.b.

Footnotes
[1] Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Series 5, Volume 2, Pages 44-52

Early Life
Archibald Stewart was born in 1643 and baptised in Canongate, Edinburgh on the 28^th or 29^th of February that year. The day itself is hard to distinguish from the baptismal record - transcribers say 28, I read 29. Note that 1644 (in the modern calendar, 1643 in the Julian) was a leap year, so the 29^th of February was possible. He was the fifth son of James Stewart, 4^th Earl of Moray, and Lady Margaret Home.

The Scots Peerage¹ notes this about the Canongate property:

The baptismal record also mentions various other nobles, who may have been godparents or witnesses, viz:

• James, Lord Marquis of Hamilton²
  
• Archibald, Lord Marquis of Argyll³
  
• ?, Lord Earl of Lauderdale⁴
  
• George? Lord Gordon⁵
  
• Lord Maitland⁶

Debrett's Peerage⁷ mentions Archibald:

Career
Some pedigrees have him as Governor of Stirling Castle though I've yet to see any actual evidence of this outside of a mention in Burke's Landed Gentry.

Family Life
Archibald married Anna Henderson, daughter of Sir John Henderson of Fordell, on the 16^th of March 1669 at Hamilton, Lanarkshire. NB The marriage record gives her name as "Hendersoune". They had:

1. Margaret, b. c. 1669
   
2. Charles, b. c. 1670, first son and heir
   
3. John, b. c. 1672
   
4. Emilia, b. between 1673 and 1680, who married Archibald Nisbet of Carphin
   
5. Anna, b. c. 1674
   
6. Francis, b. c. 1675
   
7. Elizabeth, b. c. 1678
   
8. Alexander, b. c. 1681

Death
Archibald died in February 1688, aged only about 45.

Footnotes
[1] The Scots Peerage, by Sir James Balfour Paul, Volume 6, Edinburgh (1909); page 321
[2] Possibly James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, who would have been 34 at the time
[3] Possibly Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who would have been 33
[4] Possibly John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale
[5] Possibly George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly
[6] Possibly John Maitland, 2nd Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, the father of John, 1st Duke of Lauderdale mentioned above, or else the John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, the son of John mentioned above
[7] Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1904, page 604, available here

Early Life
Arthur Bryans was born on the 14^th of March 1852, the third son (of 12 children!) of Rev. William Bryans and Sophia Anna Lonsdale. Arthur was born in Harley Street, London (home to his maternal Lonsdale grandparents), whereas all his siblings were born in Tarvin, or Ash Parva, where their parents lived at the time. He was baptised at Trinity Church in St Marylebone, London on the 21^st of April 1752.

Unlike all his brothers, it appears that Arthur did not go to Oxford (or Cambridge, for that matter). Perhaps his parents had decided that he wasn't the academic type; maybe he exhibited a more entrepreneurial bent. In any case, Arthur attended Haileybury College from 1866 (aged 14) to 1868 (aged 16). Haileybury had been formed in 1858 out of the existing buildings which comprised the East India College (the training establishment for administrators of the East India Company). So there was definitely some element of East India trading / tea etc inculcated into Arthur even at this young age. At least one of his brothers (Herbert) also went to Haileybury.

Career
After school, Arthur joined his cousin PR Buchanan¹ in managing the Chargola tea estate in Sylhet, Assam (now part of Bangladesh) between 1869 and 1877 (so he would have gone out to Assam aged only 17). The following is extracted from a letter his mother Sophia wrote to his elder brother Edward^¥:


The following is taken from a newspaper article^§ about Arthur, recalling his early life in Sylhet:


Arthur subsequently became an East India merchant and partner at PR Buchanan & Co, 45 Leadenhall St, EC, London. In 1877 PR Buchanan set up a business in London (PR Buchanan & Co.) and Arthur may well have been a partner at that point (he almost certainly became a partner by 1922). By 1878, supervising tea estates was their main business and the backbone of that business was Chargola. Chargola Tea Co² was floated in May 1877 and developed into the Chargola Tea Association³ in 1891, which comprised Chargola, Singlacherra, Maguracherra, Hingajea. In 1878 there were reported to be 4,800 acres under cultivation.

A letter^† from Arthur's wife Annie Jessie Burn-Murdoch to their son Henry reads:


Arthur was chairman of the Indian Tea Association in 1901-1902 and became president in 1930. He was also a member of the committee of the South Indian Association and the Ceylon Association. He retired in 1933.

As an aside, one of Annie Jessie's cousins was William Fitzjames Urmston (1859-1883), son of her aunt Marion Burn-Murdoch who married William Brabazon Urmston. William Fitzjames Urmston died in Chargola, so it seems plausible that he was actually working with or for Arthur on the tea estates.

Family Life
Arthur married Annie Jessie Burn-Murdoch on the 15^th September 1875 in Edinburgh, when he was 24 and she was just 19. The wedding was officiated by William Bryans, Arthur's father. It's not clear how they met given that the Bryans family were based in Cheshire and the Burn-Murdochs in Edinburgh, but there's a chance that the families knew each other some how.

Arthur and Annie had six children:

1. Dorothy, born in 1879 and who married Robert Alexander John Berry in 1902; they had no issue
   
2. Amy Lonsdale, born in 1881 and who married Lionel Mowbray Hewlett in 1910; her son Anthony married his cousin (and Amy's niece) Frances Celia Lodge
   
3. Helen Maud, born in 1883 and who married John "Jack" Talbot in 1906
   
4. Nora Margaret, born in 1885 and who married Francis Cecil Lodge in 1913; their son married his cousin (and Nora's nephew) Anthony Hewlett; from Nora descend the modern-day families of Lodge, Chapman and Mackay
   
5. Henry Murdoch, born in 1892 and who married Fanny Curtis Mitchell in 1916
   
6. William Buchanan, born in 1893 and who married firstly Mildred Isobel Eleanor Ramsbotham in 1917 with issue, and secondly, Constance Holt; from William descend the modern-day families of Byrans and Lampitt

Residences

• 1881/1891: Foots Cray Cottage, Foots Cray, Kent
  
• c1900: Woollet Hall (now Loring Hall) in North Cray, Kent
  
• 1911: The Manor House, Woodmansterne, Surrey
  
• 1922: Number 8, Talbot Square, Hyde Park, London (City residence)
  
• 1922-1944: Holmwood Cottage, Surrey (Country residence)
  

Annie Jessie died in December 1929, leaving Arthur a widower for 15 years.

Death
Arthur died on the 1^st of March 1944, aged 92, at home in Holmwood Cottage, Holmwood in Surrey. He was buried three days later at St Mary Magdalene Church in South Holmwood.

Footnotes
[1] PR Buchanan & Co. was established by Patrick Robertson Buchanan, who was married to Harriette Bryans. In turn, Hariette Bryans was Arthur's cousin, so effectively PR Buchanan was Arthur's cousin-in-law and just six years older than him.
More info on PR Buchanan: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/b2321881-e162-3865-92fb-99c020d82e62
[2] Chargola Tea Association https://archive.org/stream/teaproducingcomp00gowwrich/teaproducingcomp00gowwrich_djvu.txt
[3] Arthur's brother Herbert William Bryans was listed as a Director of the Chargola Tea Association
† Letter from Annie Jessie Bryans (née Burn-Murdoch) to her son Henry, 18^th November 1918; L_1918_11_Bryans_Bryans_1
§ N_Unknown_ABryans_Profile
¥ L_1869_03_Bryans_Bryans_1

Early Life
Arthur Lupton was born on the 20^th of January 1748 and baptised on the 15^th of February at St Peter's, Leeds. His parents were William Lupton of Whitkirk in Leeds and Mary Hickson/Higson.

Career and Family Life
Wikipedia has:

Arthur married Olive Rider, daughter of David Rider and Olive Airy, on the 17^th of November 1773 at St Peter's, Leeds. Their marrage announcement in the Leeds Intelligencer¹ reads:


Death
Arthur's death was reported in the York Herald, 18 July 1807:


Footnotes
[1] Leeds Intelligencer, 23 November 1773, page 3

Early Life
Beatrix Elizabeth Campbell was born c. 1740; she was baptised on the 22^nd of November 1740 at Killin in Stirlingshire, the seventh daughter of Patrick Campbell and his wife, Ann Campbell.

Family Life
Beatrix married James Murdoch of Kilmadock on the 21^st of August 1762 at Kilmadock in Doune, Stirlingshire. They had ten children; see his entry for more details on the family.

Death
Beatrix died on the 5^th of February 1817, as recorded on an inscription at Kilmadock Cemetery:

Beatrix's husband James survived her for another 5 years.

Early Life
Benjamin John Johnson is currently a brick wall as I can find no sign of a baptismal record. He was noted as 71 years old when buried in 1818, making his date of birth some time between the 21^st of April 1746 and the 20^th of April 1747.

There is a number of candidate baptismal records (narrowed down to London based on where he spent his life):

1. Benjamin Johnson, b. 30 Aug 1747, bapt 20 sep 1747 to James and Rachel at St Anne, Soho [on FindMyPast]
   
2. John Johnson, b. 28 Feb 1746, bapt. 27 March 1747 to John and Mary In Westminster (note that this is slightly too early, unless there's an issue with Julian/Georgian dates)
   
3. John Johnson, born 24 Mar 1745/6 and bapt. 16 April 1746 at St Lawrence, Jewry, to John and Mary.
   

Bill Johnson's pedigree (derived probably from handwritten pedigree by Walter Hugh Lowthian Johnson) notes Benjamin, born 1746, as the son of John and Mary (and the latter John is shown as the son of another John and Mary) but without any sources. This is obviously nicely consistent with either the second or third records mentioned above, but not firm enough to really clarify the relationship properly.

Contrary to this, a bit of analysis of the names of Benjamin's children (see Family Life below) might suggest that Benjamin's parents were called William Johnson and ____ Fountain. We can certainly find a Mary Fountain who married a John Johnson, but this was in 1680 (in London) which is too old to be Benjamin's parents, but could be his grandparents.

Career
Benjamin is listed as a "Gentleman" in his probate documents, and recorded as living at 5 Abingdon Street, Westminster (a building which no longer exists), implying he was well-to-do. There are various American Loyalist claims documents which list a Benjamin John Johnson (of Jermyn St) being an "attorney" acting for various citizens who lost assets during the American War of Independence. This would suggest Benjamin was a lawyer or barrister, which is in line with his evident wealth. His will (see below) makes mention of a Charlotte Skinner, who can also be found in discussion of American Loyalist claims at this link. There's a small chance that the Caroline Smyth also mentioned in his will is Georgiana Carolyn Pitt Pilkington, daughter of John Carteret Pilkington and later the partner of Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth, an American Loyalist (see this entry at Wikipedia).

Family Life
Benjamin married Ann Paterson on the 28^th of November 1780 at St George Hanover Square. The wedding was witnessed by Walter Paterson (could this be the father of Ann?) and another witness whose name is unclear but looks like V Haleth.
They had at least two children:

1. William Fountain, born 1781, who married Isabella Hawthorn but had no issue
   
2. Walter Rankin, born 1787, who married Louisa Stephens and had two children (Walter and Isabella)

It seems unusual that they only had two children with a six year age gap, but so far I've been unable to find records for any others. I wonder if William, as the elder son, was named after his paternal grandfather whereas Walter was named after his maternal grandfather? This then leaves the question of where the "Fountain" and "Rankin" middle names come from. Rankin is a Scottish name, so probably comes from Ann Paterson's side; perhaps her mother's maiden name? Equally, "Fountain" might be Benjamin's mother's maiden name.

Death
Benjamin John Johnson died in April 1818, aged 72 and was buried at St Margaret's, Westminster, which would have been right round the corner from his house on 5 Abingdon Street.

Some extracts from his will:

And a relevant bit from Davison Munton’s will:

Davison Munton is a bit of a mystery man (though the death of his wife is mentioned in this document).

Early Life
Bryan Sanford is given in Hunter¹ (as the father of Hercy), but no further line is provided. Visitations² has a Sandford line, ending in a John Sandford. The father of this John - Bryan - has a note stating 'He was knighted 1497, after the battle of Blackheath'. Perhaps this latter is the father of the Bryan of this page and grandfather of Hercy?

However, the article in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph³ says that Hercy was the grandson of Sir Bryan Sandford who fought at Bosworth (the article states 1465, but the battle was in 1485). I think it likely that the Sir Bryan who fought at Bosworth is the same as the Sir Bryan who fought at Blackheath and what was actually meant here was great-grandson.

So the succession could be:
Sir Bryan (Bosworth 1485, knighted 1497) -> John -> Bryan -> Hercy (c. 1535-1582)

The rough generational timings:
Sir Bryan (b. c. 1470), John (b. c. 1490), Bryan (b. c. 1510), Hercy (b. c. 1535)

Family Life
Bryan had at least two children:

1. Hercy, last male in line, b. c. 1535 and who married Margaret Copley and left three daughters
   
2. Elizabeth, who married Francis Rodes, one of the justices of the court of common pleas

Footnotes
[1] South Yorkshire, rev. Joseph Hunter, London, 1828; Vol. 1, p310
[2] Visitations of the North (Vol. 4, page 22)
[3] 3rd June 1927

Early Life
Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell was born on the 25^th of October 1836 in Pembroke in Wales, the eldest of five children. His father, Hugh Mitchell, being in the Royal Marines was perhaps stationed at the dockyards there. His mother, Constance Bullen, was the grand-daughter of John Bullen, Surgeon-General of the British naval force. Things therefore seemed set for Charles to follow a well-worn family path into the navy, and this he did, joining the Royal Navy School.

Career
Aged 16, Charles left school and entered the Royal Marines as an officer (2nd lieutenant¹) in 1852. He saw service in the Baltic campaigns in 1854-56, aged 18. His career progressed with a serious of ever more illustrious appointments overseas, particularly in the Caribbean and then later Africa and then even later in the Far East:

• August 1868: Colonial Secretary of British Honduras (now Belize)
  
• 1870 and again in 1874: Administrator of British Honduras
  
• 1876: promotion to Major and repeated appointment as Administrator of British Honduras
  
• 1877: Receiver General for British Guiana, then in November, Colonial Secretary for Natal
  
• 1878: promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel whereupon he retired from the Royal Navy
  
• 1880: awarded the C.M.G
  
• 1881: appointed Acting Governor of Natal
  
• 1883: awarded the K.C.M.G
  
• 1885: re-appointed Acting Governor of Natal
  
• 1886: appointed Governor and High Commissioner of Western Pacific in Fiji
  
• 1888: appointed Governor of the Leeward Isles
  
• 1889: appointed Governor of Natal
  
• 1894: appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements (now Singapore)
  
• 1895: awarded the G.C.M.G
  

Family life
In 1862, around the time of his promotion to Captain, Charles Mitchell married Fanny Oakley Rice, the daughter of William McPherson Rice, a famous shipwright and therefore probably well known to Charles by reputation, if indeed the Rices were not actually family friends of the Mitchells through their shared naval connections. Charles and Fanny's only son Hugh was born on the 24^th of May 1863 in Chelsea.

Through Fanny Curtis Mitchell (the grand-daughter of Charles & Fanny) and her daughter Pamela (my grandmother) an enormous amount of letters and notes from Fanny and Charles' times in Belize and Natal have been preserved and I am slowly working on indexing and transcribing them. The following are some extracts which I will add to through time as I work my way through the material.

Belize
More biographical material to come:
- Privations of tropical life

Natal
More biographical material to come:
- Zulu wars, Iswandlana
- Lord Chelmsford, Sir Bartle Frere
- Sidney Thompson, their nephew
- Fanny's illness

In 1889, four years after the death of Fanny (from ovarian cancer), Charles re-married to Eliza Welldon, who was actually Fanny's first cousin. They had no children.

Death
Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell died on the 7^th of December 1899 in Singapore (or as it was then called, the Straits Settlements). The cause of death was noted as "paralysis" though it seems from family letters that he actually had a stroke or series of strokes. He was buried in Bukit Timah Cemetery in Singapore. His gravestone was removed in 1970 with the intention of installing it at Freemason's Hall; plans are afoot to restore the headstone and place it in from of the Hall with a plaque setting out a brief description of his life (as of Aug 2020).

Sadly, Charles's only son Hugh died just two years later, in India.

Footnotes
[1] The Royal Marines, although part of the Navy, use the same rank structure as the Army, hence the entry point for an officer was 2nd Lieutenant, rather than Warrant Officer or Midshipman as it would be in the Navy.

Early Life
Charles Liddell was born c. November 1701 and baptised on the 10th of November 1701, at Gateshead, County Durham, son of Samuel Liddle and Ruth Atkinson¹.

Career
A 1750 document at the National Archives indicates that Charles was a mariner. This is confirmed again in 1755. The Register of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne¹ lists Charles as a son of Samuel Liddle, 'master mariner', having been made a freeman on the 15^th of January 1721 (when he was about 19). A link with the sea also explains why Charles' daughter Ruth married a Royal Navy surgeon from Somerset.

Family Life
It appears that Charles and Joan had:

1. Mary, b. 1729
   
2. Samuel, b. 1731
   
3. Margaret, b. 1734
   
4. Ruth, b. 1735 and who married John Bullen of Somerset

Death
The date of death of 15th November 1779 comes from D_Unknown_Bullen but I haven't found a matching burial record. The closest I get is 17th November 1780 for Charles "Liddle", of Lowlights, buried at Tynemouth. I think these must be the same person and that the date of 1779 is an error.

Footnotes
[1] We arrive at Charles' parents as follows:
a) He must have been born c. 1700 given his marriage to Joan in 1728
b) There is a baptismal record for a Charles Liddle on 10 Nov 1701, at Gateshead, son of Samuel Liddle
c) There is a marriage record for a Samuel Liddle and a Ruth Atkinson, date 20 May 1697, at St Mary in Gatehead
d) Charles called his daughter Ruth
e) The Royal Naval Biography of Charles Bullen (grandson of Charles Liddle) mentions that his mother Ruth, the daughter of Charles of this page, was a second cousin of Lord Eldon (John Scot)
f) John Scot's parents were William Scot and Jane Atkinson, daughter of Henry Atkinson
g) If Henry Atkinson was the brother of Ruth Atkinson (the proposed mother of Charles Liddle of this page) then that would make Ruth Liddle and Lord Eldon second cousins, as claimed
h) Charles' daughter Ruth married John Bullen, of the Royal Navy; Charles himself, and his father, were mariners
i) All this being said, note that online trees suggest Charles' father was also called Charles, but I can find no records to back this up.
[2] The Register of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle (1926); page 42

Early Life
Charles Parsons was born c. 1660; his father was John Parsons of Kemerton in Worcestershire. He was evidently the younger son as his older brother John inherited the Kemerton properties.

Family Life
Charles married Mary Turner on the 25^th of April 1689 at Kemerton. Details of their marriage settlement with Mary's mother and Charles' father are available at Gloucestershire Archives.

They had at least three daughters, two of whom survived to adulthood:

1. Elizabeth, b. 1691, died aged 14 in 1705 and buried at St Giles in Bredon
   
2. Susannah, b. 1693
   
3. Mercy (named possibly after her maternal grandmother), b. 1703 and who married Thomas Hayward of Quedgeley in Gloucestershire in 1732

A little more detail on the daughters.

Death
Charles Parsons died in March 1732 and was buried on the 11^th at St Giles in Bredon. His wife Mary survived him for 7 years. His daughter Mercy was named as sole executrix to his will, which was dated 1731¹.

Minor details regarding his grave are available at GraveStonePhotos and also at Google Books. The Mercy Turner listed on the same memorial stone is his mother-in-law.

Footnotes
[1] https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp279-292 mentions the will of a Charles Parsons of Bredon dated 1731
[2] Susannah: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~wrag44/bredon/bredonvol1pt13.htm
[3] Burial of Elisabeth and baptism of Mercy: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~wrag44/bredon/bredonvol2pt02.htm

Early Life
Christina Kelly was born on the 14^th of January 1787 and baptised, in Glasgow, on the 3^rd of February that same year. Her parents were William Kelly and Elisabeth Duncan.

Family Life
Christina married William Gordon Mack on the 5^th of October 1807 in Glasgow. See his entry for more details on the family.

Death
Christina died in 1858, at 23 Stafford Street, Edinburgh.

Early Life
Christopher Beckwith was born in 1612 and baptised on the 25^th of October that year at St Mary's, Masham in Yorkshire North Riding. His parents were Anthony Beckwith of Roomer, just outside Masham, and Margaret Loftis.

Family Life
Fisher¹ on page 553, in a description of court proceedings held 24^th May 1631 before Gilbert Horsman, mentions:

Further, on page 551, it is noted that a court held at Kirkby Malzeard church on the 6th of November 1626 found that

In 1626, Christopher would have been around 14 years old, so a bit young for this to be the same person, but it looks like Masham was a hotbed of incestuousness and illegitimate births so not entirely impossible.

Note, also, that "Mary, the wife of Christopher Beckwith [of Rowmer] was buried on the 29th of August 1670", which if this is indeed Christopher's wife, meant she died just a few days after her husband.

Death
Whilst it's hard to be definitive, given the number of Beckwiths around Masham, there is a record for a Christopher Beckwith of Rowmer who died in 1670 and was buried on the 21 August 1670, which I think is probably the correct one. As noted above, a Mary, wife of Christopher Beckwith of Rowmer, died just a few days later.

Footnotes
[1] The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire, John Fisher, London (1865); Lonsdale of Masham

Early Life
Christopher Whichcote was born in March 1602/3 and baptised on the 20^th at Burford in Shropshire. His parents were Christopher Whichcote of Stoke (in Shropshire) and Elizabeth Fox.

Career and Family Life
Christopher was the Governor of Windsor Castle.

We know for sure that Christopher's wife was called Katherine, as that name matches the baptismal record for their daughter Mary. Ancestry trees give her full name as Katherine Hudson. However, a Boyd's Inhabitants of London record for 1635 gives his wife's names as what looks like "Fordith Catherine". But actually the first word is Judith, and has been crossed out, because whoever filled in this record had got confused with a record from 1631 for Edward Whichcote (Christopher's brother) who had married a Judith Foxcroft. Unfortunately, the details of her actual surname and parents are left empty in this record.

According to that same record, Christopher and Katherine had:

1. John, b. 1636
   
2. Christopher, b. 1638
   
3. Elizabeth, b. 1639, who married Matthias Crabbe
   
4. Mary, b. 1640, who married the Rev. John Worthington

Death
Ancestry trees give his death as 26 April 1664 in London, with no sources.

Early Life
Christopher Whichcote was born on the 31^st of April 1571, to Christopher Whichcote and Lucy Bosvile.

Family Life
Christopher married Elizabeth Fox, presumably circa 1597/early 1598. They had 11 children:

1. Lucy, bapt. 8 Oct 1598
   
2. Edward, bapt. 24 Sept 1599
   
3. Charles, bapt. 7 Dec 1600
   
4. Christopher, bapt. 20 March 1603 who became the Governor of Windsor Castle and married Katherine Large
   
5. Thomas, bapt. 23 June 1603
   
6. Elizabeth, bapt. 2 August 1604
   
7. Sara, bapt. 18 March 1606
   
8. Katherine, bapt. 4 July 1607
   
9. Anne, bapt. 2 August 1608
   
10. Benjamin, bapt. 15 Mar 1609/10; d. 1683, became Provost of King's College Cambridge
    
11. Samuell, bapt. 26 March 1610
    
12. Jeremias, their youngest, baptised 1614.

Death
Christopher died at the beginning of April 1620. His will was proved at the end of June and reads as follows:

Early Life
Courtenay Boyle Brice was born on the 7^th of November 1800 at Broome in Norfolk, the eldest son of Archibald Adair Brice and Martha Porter, daughter of William Porter of Shepperton near London.

At baptism his surname was Brice, but many of the family (including Courtenay) changed their surname to Bruce, believing (and having convinced the College of Arms) that they descended from the family of Bruce of Airth, and ancient Scottish family from near Falkirk.

Career
Courtenay was a clergyman, ordained priest in 1825. In October 1826 he was appointed¹ Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of York (Prince Frederick, who was the inspiration for the rhyme "The Grand Old Duke of York"). In November 1828 Courtenay was appointed² to the Rectory of St James South Elmham in Suffolk, "on the presentation of Alexander Adair, Esq. of Flixton".

In 1832 he was appointed³ to the rectory of St Cross in Homersfield, also in Suffolk and again on the presentation of Alexander Adair. He was to hold this position for the rest of his working life.

Family Life
Courtenay married Margaret Augusta Kelso, the daughter of Maj-Gen Robert Kelso of the 69^th Regiment, on the 27^th of August 1829 in her local chuch in Bungay, Suffolk. They had three children:

1. Edward Courtenay, b. 1834 but who died that same year
   
2. Louisa Margaret Kelso, b. 1836, who married Harry Curtis Nisbet, a solicitor
   
3. Alexander William Courtenay, b. 1845 and who married Catherine Campbell and emigrated to Canada; they may have had a child called Courtney Harry Campbell Bruce, born 1871

Death
Courtenay's will is dated 1845, and he says that he only has one child (Louisa Margaret Kelso), which implies his first son Edward Courtenay died. His 3rd child, Alexander, was born in 1845 so would have post-dated the will.

Footnotes
[1] St James's Chronicle, 7 October 1826, page 1
[2] London Evening Standard, 7 November 1828. Alexander Adair was Courtenay's first cousin twice removed; their common ancestors were Patrick Adair and Isabella Adair, the 2x great-grandparents of Courtenay and the grandparents of Alexander.
[3] Baldwin's London Weekly Journal, 10 March 1832, page 4

Early Life
Damaris Worthington was the daughter of the Rev. John Worthington (the Rector of Fen Ditton in Cambridgeshire at the time) and his wife Mary Whichcote; Damaris was born on the 2^nd of April 1661 and baptised on the 23^rd at Fen Ditton.

Family Life
Damaris married Nathaniel Turner on the 27^th of April 1685 at Canterbury in Kent.

Death
Damaris died on the 1^st of October 1703 and was buried on the 5^th at St Dunstan-in-the-West in London. Her armorial bearings are/were shown at St Dunstan's Church in London:

¹"Denham" refers to Views exhibiting the exterior & interior & principal monuments of the very ancient and remarkable church of St. Dunstan in the West by Joshua Frederick Dunham. Unfortunately I have yet to find a digitised version of this book.

Early Life
Darnton Lupton was born on the 20^th of July 1806 in Leeds, the eldest son and second child of William Lupton and Ann Darnton. He was baptised on the 7^th of November that year; the Lupton family were non-Conformists and Darnton and his siblings were all baptised at the Chapel, an Arian Independent (i.e. not Anglican) church. Darnton's unusual first name was clearly taken from his mother's surname.

Career
Darnton followed his family into merchantry and general commerce. He was a director of the Bank of Leeds and in 1844, aged 38, Darnton became mayor of Leeds. At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 he was created a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, by Napoleon III. He was also a magistrate (J.P).

Family Life
Darnton married twice: firstly his cousin Sarah Darnton Luccock, daughter of his father's business partner John Luccock, by whom he had one child, Kate (later Baroness von Schunck) in 1832. However, Sarah Luccock died soon after in 1834, and four years later Darnton remarried Anna Jane Busk, the daughter of a British merchant out of St Petersburg in Russia and grand-daughter of Sir Wadsworth Busk, one-time Attorney General for the Isle of Man. Their wedding, on the 1^st of May 1838, was held in Bradford Cathedral. With Anna, Darnton had five children:

1. Darnton, his namesake, born 1842
   
2. William Walter, born 1844
   
3. Alan, born 1846 and who married Emma Buckton
   
4. Sydney, born 1850
   
5. Percival, born 1853 but who died aged 4
   
6. Bertram Neville, born 1858 but who died aged 10

Death
Darnton died in Leeds on the 11^th of December 1873², aged 67. His will was executed on the 23^rd of January the following year by his sons William Walter and Sydney.

Residences

• 1840s: Potternewton Hall^3,5 Darnton and Anna lived there for a time; his son Alan was born there and most likely the other children too. However, by 1860 Darnton's brother Francis had bought the Freehold.
  
• 1855: Darnton leased⁴ the Harehills House and Estate, naming the dower house "Bleak House". The Harehills, on Harehill Lane, is given as his place of residence in the 1861 and and 1871 censuses. After his death in 1874 the estate was sold but Anna, Darnton's widow, was allowed to stay there until her death in 1888.
  
• In the 1860s¹, Arthur Lupton (Darnton's younger brother, b. 1809, owner of Newton Hall) gave to his brothers Darnton and Francis some land on the estate so they could build homes for their heirs. The two brothers appointed an architect to design a residential development in the southern part of the estate. Ultimately, Darnton died before the designs were executed. However, the Newton Hall Estate still exists and the entrance can be seen here.
  

Both Newton and Potternewton Halls were demolished by the Second World War and replaced with a large housing estate.

Footnotes
[1] http://www.penraevon.co.uk/newton-park-estate/
[2] Details of family graves
[3] https://houseandheritage.org/2015/12/01/potternewton-hall/
[4] https://www.flickr.com/photos/burmantofts/5696924363
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potternewton

Early Life
David Maule was the eldest son of George Maule of Cairncorthie and Muircloss and Janet Milne.

This is a problematic part of the tree. David's father (George Maule of Cairncorthie) was probably born c. 1545, but David's grandson James was born in 1694. This makes a span of ~150 years for 3 generations. It's just about possible
George Maule of Cairncorthie b. 1545
David Maule (this entry) b. 1590 when his father was 45
Patrick Maule b. 1640 when his father was 50
James Maule b. 1694 when his father was 54

So three successive generations of very old fathers are required to cover this span of time with so few generations

Early Life
David Maule was the son of William Maule of Auchrinne and Janet Carnegy. David must have been born before 1552 when he was named in a charter for the lands of Boath and Cairncorthie. Given that his father William was born around 1470, David is unlikely to have been born much later than 1520. David's wife Catherine Balfour survived until at least 1623, so must have been quite a bit younger.

Death
David's eldest son, also called David, was served heir 8 Feb 1596, so David senior must have died before then.

Early Life
David Ramsay was most likely born c. 1675, the son of William Ramsay of Murthly and Margaret Campbell.

Career
The following is from the Scottish Antiquary¹:

He might have had a brother James (https://rps.ac.uk/search.php?a=fcf&fn=williamii_trans&id=56982&t=trans)

In any case, I haven't found any independent proof of David's heritage beyond the above mention in the Scottish Antiquary. The more convincing Ancestry trees also seem to have taken this route, but I'll hold off until I get more reliable evidence.

Family Life
David Ramsay married first Jean Campbell in 1692, and second on 30th June 1699 Euphemia Elphinstone, daughter of Michael Elphinstone of Quarrell. After this second marriage he settled at Mungall, near Falkirk.

Death
Scotland's People has a number of records for the death of a David Ramsay in Edinburgh (which is where I assume he died) in the period 1721 to 1736 but I haven't tried them all to see if there is any clear evidence of one being for the right person. Red Book³ quotes a death date of July 1736.

Footnotes
[1] The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries Vol. 8, No. 31 (1894), pp. 137-142 (6 pages), available at jstor.org
[2] See the entry for David in the Society of Writers to the Signet for some details, including estimated death.
[3] The Red Book of Scotland, Gordon MacGregor, 2021 Edition; Vol. 8, pages 281-285

Early Life
Edward Brice was born around 1659, most likely to Robert Brice (of Castle Chichester), making him the grandson of Edward Bryce.

Burke's⁴ indicates that Edward:

This matriculation is available from the Court of the Lord Lyon and reads:
.

A similar, but briefer, entry is available from ScotlandsPeople, being a register of coat of arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon.

Note that many modern commentators dispute such a descent from Bruce of Airth.

Career
Edward was a Belfast merchant and shipowner, most likely helped with capital from his father Robert, who was a wealthy man in his own right. Edward fled Belfast during the Jacobite wars and went to Scotland to raise a company. He eventually returned to Belfast and was elected Burgess in 1697 and sovereign in 1707 but he declined to qualify himself. Edward was MP for Dungannon 1703-1713. In 1715 he is described² as a Captain of "Upton's Horse", perhaps a Cavalry Brigade out of Castle Upton (see Family Life).

Edward acquired in 1718 the Kilroot estate from his nephew Randal, son of his brother (also called Randal), which is how it entered into this side of the family's estates. A copy of a search requested of the Registery Office from The National Library of Ireland reads as follows:


Family Life
Edward married first Dorothy Upton, some time before 1690. They had a daughter, Dorothy, born around 1690 who married Henry Maxwell in 1713.

Secondly, Edward married Jane Dobbs in 1718 and they had:

1. Mary Elizabeth, who died aged 2 in 1726
   
2. Edward, born c. 1721, who married firstly Rose Stewart and secondly, Jane Smith Adair
   
3. Alexander

Note that one of the pedigrees at the National Library of Ireland³ gives his wife as Jane Knox, sister of Thomas Knox. Whilst this is possible (Edward's sister Mary married Thomas Knox) this is the first and only time I've seen this marriage mentioned so I discount it.

Death
Edward died on the 11^th August 1742, aged 83. He was buried at Templecorran, County Antrim.

Footnotes
[1] Belfast Merchant Families in the Seventeenth Century, Jean Agnew
[2] e.g. New 1st Edition (1847) - Bruce of Scoutbush and Killroot
[3] Registered Pedigrees Vol. 15, Genealogical Office Manuscripts Collection, National Library of Ireland, Department of Manuscripts. Page 192 (http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000530338#page/192/mode/1up)

Early Life
Edward Brice was born in ~1720/1721¹, mostly likely in County Antrim, Ireland, to Lieutenant Colonel Edward Brice and Jane Dobbs, who had married in 1718.

Legal issues
There are various records of legal disputes between Edward and various relatives and other people. For instance, an entry in the London Courier & Evening Gazette (7^th June 1831) notes:

At the National Archive, there is a series of documents relating to these cases, including this one which notes Edward (probably Edward junior, his first and only son by Rose Stewart) as a plantiff and the defendants to include:

• Sir Samuel Shepherd
  
• Sir Coutts Trotter
  
• Archibald Adair Brice (his son)
  
• Dame Maria Isabella Anstruther (his daughter, who married John Anstruther Bart.)
  
• Arthur Haultaine [sic], the husband of his grand-daughter Maria Isabella Anstruther Brice (daughter of his son Robert)
  
• Charles Harrington Graeme, the husband of his grand-daughter Sarah Jane Anstruther Brice (other daughter of Robert)

It is probably relevant that his wife Jane, in her will, left legacies to Samuel Shepherd, Coutts Trotter, Archibald Adair and others. My suspicion is that Edward junior sued the various trustees of Jane's estate because he felt that his inheritance from his father had bypassed him and gone to his wife Jane and she in turn had passed these assets on to her children to his exclusion.

Family Life
Edward married first Rose Stewart in 1752 (when Edward was aged ~30) with whom he had his heir Edward Brice (b. ~1753). He may also have had a son Alexander Brice², who died without issue. Presumably Rose subsequently died in the next few years as he then remarried, to Jane Smith Adair, only daughter of William Adair of Pall Mall and Flixton House, Suffolk. The latter marriage was conducted in Belfast on the 4^th December 1758 (Edward was about 37; Jane ~21).

The Adairs were, like the Brice family, from County Antrim in Ireland and would certainly have been well acquainted with each other. Jane was the daughter of William, who had moved to England but had been born in Kirkmaiden in Scotland; her grandfather was the Reverend Patrick Adair from Carrickfergus, just round the corner from the Brice family seat at Kilroot.

With Jane, Edward had the following children:

1. William Adair (b. 1762? unconfirmed from Ancestry) who was First Lieutenant of HMS Agammemnon and died off Martinique on 12^th April 1782 with no children¹
   
2. Maria Jane (b. ~1763), who married (in ~1788) the Right Hon Sir John Anstruther, Bart.
   
3. Arthur (b ~1768, d. 16^th Mar 1801 aged 33), Lieut-Col. in Coldstream Guards and killed whilst on service in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercrombie. No children.
   
4. Archibald Adair (b. 1769; d. 1828), who moved to Bath and worked in Suffolk as a vicar; he married Mary Porter
   
5. Robert (b. 1771, d. 1812) who was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and lived much of his life in India and spawned quite a few generations of India-based Brices/Bruces
   
6. Margaret, unmarried and younger than Maria Jane
   
7. John and James (mentioned in Edward's will): maybe they remained in Ireland; there's little other information on them

At some point, no later than 1787 but after 1771 (when Edward's son Robert was born in Dublin), Edward moved to England. In 1787, Edward's son Archibald Adair signed up for a clerkship in Lincoln's Inn and Edward's address is given as Berner's St in London.

Edward was an executor on the will of William Adair (his father-in-law).

Death
Edward died on the 8^th of May 1808 in Bath; his will was proved on the 21^st May 1808 in London.

The memorial inscription in St Swithin's church, Walcot, reads:


Footnotes
[1] Note that about half the online and printed pedigrees say he was born in 1725, rather than 1720/21. The later date is required if indeed he was a minor when his father died in 1742 (as mentioned in these pedigrees).
[2] Registered Pedigrees Vol. 15, Genealogical Office Manuscripts Collection, National Library of Ireland, Department of Manuscripts. Page 192 (http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000530338#page/192/mode/1up)
[3] For more, see https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=1257&p=surnames.adair, http://glosters.tripod.com/egypt1801.htm, https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/adair/4197/, https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/adair/4204/, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4a7fc6b2-57ec-42ce-a56b-4d98b51d1038 and https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D353332

Early Life
Edward Clark Parish would have been born c.1704 (he was 60 when he died in 1764, see Death below), probably at Ipswich. His father was Samuel Parish, a linen draper from Ipswich.

Career
Though most likely born in Suffolk, Edward moved to London and spent much of his working life there. An apprenticeship record from 1719 (when he would have been 15) shows that Edward was apprenticed to George Newport, a Merchant in the City of London. It's clear that he did extremely well, as his estates bequeathed in his will (see Death) were large. However the Parish family were definitely well-to-do: his father bequeathed £2,000 to Edward, which would be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds today.

In 1727 Edward was made a freeman of Ipswich.

Edward did business in the Caribbean (e.g. see this site). He was the executor of the will of Abraham Cumberbatch of Barbados (https://cumberbatch.one-name.net/getperson.php?personID=I529&tree=001). He was also a co-owner of the merchant ship Rebecca (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books-papers/vol4/pp334-348).

His memorial (see Death below) describes him as a Merchant. The entry at the Manxnotebook says he was a West India (i.e. Caribbean) Merchant.

In 1748 Edward was appointed a Governor of St Thomas's Hospital in London, an institution which he recognised with a bequest in his will.

Family Life
Edward married Elisabeth Paris, daughter of Joseph Paris, a London broderer, on the 29^th of June 1728 at St Benet in the City of London. Given that Edward's father was a linen draper, there may well have been some business connection between the Parish and Paris families, if indeed they were not actual cousins. In the marriage records Edward is described as of "St Dionis Backchurch" and Elisabeth of "St Mary le Bow". They had at least three children, though I suspect many more given the age range:

1. Elisabeth, eldest daughter, who married Ebenezer Radcliffe¹
   
2. Alice, born c. 1738, who married Sir Wadsworth Busk
   
3. Anna, who probably died as a child (see Death below)

I cannot find baptismal records for any of the daughters.

Death
Edward died on the 3^rd of January 1764, aged 60².

A memorial on the wall at Ipswich St Lawrence reads:


The History and Description of the Town and Borough of Ipswich² also notes the following:

His death was also reported in the Gentleman's Magazine where he is described⁴ as of "Crutchet-friars" (which is a street in London), possibly where he did business.

His will, dated 26 March 1763, also describes him as "of Crutched Friars, London" and mentions:

• His wife Elizabeth
  
• His daughters Elizabeth and Alice
  
• His sister-in-law Elizabeth, wife of his brother Robert Parish and their daughter (his niece) Elizabeth Parish
  
• His wife's sister Mrs Jane Proctor and her husband the Rev. Henry Proctor
  
• Richard Parish Witts, son of Jane Proctor by her former marriage
  
• His cousin Elizabeth Park?
  
• His cousins James, Samuel, Eleazer and Sarah Loasell?
  
• His business partner Samuel Osborne
  
• His friend Mr James Butler Harris (link) of the island of Barbados, for his friendship and care in looking after Edward's "concerns in that island" was made executor for all his estate in Barbados
  His will mentions quite extensive farming and other estates in Suffolk: Brantham, Rattlesden, Whatfield, Grundisburgh and Hitcham which he left in trust for his daughter Elizabeth. Further Suffolk estates in East Bergholt, Harksted, Witnesham and Lawford (in Essex) he left in trust for his daughter Alice.

Footnotes
[1] Wadsworth Busk corresponded with Ebenezer Radcliffe regarding the death of his wife Alice
[2] History and Description of the Town and Borough of Ipswich, p203
[3] Possible portrait: http://www.artnet.com/artists/noah-seaman/portrait-of-a-edward-clark-parish-in-blue-jacket-qudjytbSXygdHI1VK6sULQ2
[4] This source suggests he died on the 4th of Jan, not the 3rd.

Early Life
Edward Fox was the fourth son of William Fox of Ludlow and Jane Downs, daughter and heir of Richard Downs.

Family Life
Edward married Katherine Crowther, the daughter of Ludovic Crowther of Ludlow in Shropshire.

Early Life
Elisabeth Paris was born in 1708 and baptised on the 26^th of October that year at St Mary-le-Bow in London. Her father was Joseph Paris of All Hallows, Honey Lane, married to Sarah ___, as per a Boyd's family record.

Family Life
Noted as of "St Mary le Bow" in her marriage records. See her husband's entry for more detail on the family.

Elisabeth and her 2 daughters were left £10 each by Robert Dinwiddie, late of Colony of Virginia "but now of Saint Albans Street in Westminster".

Death
Died 1776 aged 68 (see Death section for her husband Edward Clarke Parish). Her will, dated 20 Jan 1770, mentions:

• Elizabeth Perk?, spinster
  
• Sarah Lowe, widow
  
• Mr and Mrs Syms "her good friends"
  
• Her servants Richard Crawford, Ann Elliot, Frances Blason, Diana Wright
  
• Her brother Robert Parish of Ipswich (brother-in-law?)
  
• Her daughter Elizabeth Ratcliffe
  
• Son-in-law Ebenezer Ratcliffe
  
• Her daughter Alice Bushe
  
• Her son-in-law Wadsworth Bushe
  
• Her grandchildren Edward Bushe, Jacob Hans Bushe, Robert Bushe and WIlliam Bushe [no mention of the youngest son Hans, who wasn't born until 1772]

Early Life
Elizabeth Barlow is shown as the daughter of John Barlow and Christian Barlee in A Brief Summe of Geographie This pedigree is also shown in Burke's Extinct Baronetcy¹. She was born around 1485 (by extrapolation from descendants).

Career
Maid of honour to Queen Margaret Tudor (wife of James IV).

Family Life
Elizabeth married Alexander Elphinstone in August 1507.

Death
Wikipedia has her date of death as September 1518, with no sources. FamilySearch has 10^th of February 1523, with no sources.

Footnotes
[1] The Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Scotland & Ireland, by John Burke and John Bernard Burke, 2nd Edition, London (1841); Barlow of Slebetch, page 39

Early Life
Elizabeth Cary must have been born around 1630, given the age of her husband and the birth of her eldest son in 1651. Her parents were George Cary of Redcastle and Jane Beresford, daughter of Tristram Beresford and Susannah Brooke.

From FHoHoD¹:


Footnotes
[1] The Family History of Hart of Donegal, by Henry Travers Hart, London, 1907, page 35

Early Life
Elizabeth FitzWilliam must have been born in the mid-late 1550s (no later than 1563, given that she married in 1584). Her parents were Charles Fitzilliam of Saundby and Mary Littlebury.

Family Life
Elizabeth married twice; firstly to Sir George Gylby, secondly¹ to Richard Bolle in 1611.

Familiae Minorum¹ says the following (whilst neglecting to mention the second marriage):
. There seems to be some confusion between Bole, the place, and Bole, the possible second husband.

Footnotes
[1] Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Vol 1, page 356
[2] Familiae Minorum Gentium by Joseph Hunter, London 1894-1896, Volume 4, page 1227

Early Life
Elizabeth Fox was born roughly 1570s, probably after 1575 assuming she was younger than her spouse. Oldest child Lucy born in 1598, meaning Elizabeth must have been born prior to 1580 to be of age at time of birth. Her parents were Edward Fox of Greete in Shropshire and Katherine Crowther.

There is a baptismal record for an Elizabeth Foxe at Condover in Shropshire in 1579 but that seems too far away. No father is given.

The Shropshire Registers¹ says her father was called George (whereas Lincolnshire Pedigrees² gives him as Edward, as does the Visitation of Shropshire 1623³).

Footnotes
[1] Shropshire Registers & Records; Parish Registers of Burford, 1558-1812; Page viii#
[2] Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Rev. Canon AR Maddison, Volume 3, Harleian Society (1904); Whichcot of Harpswell, page 1070
[3] The Visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623, Part 1, ed. George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, London (1889); Fox of Caynham, Bromfield, Greet etc, pages 191-194

Early Life
Elizabeth Fretwell was born in 1729 and baptised¹ on the 3^rd of July that year at Bawtry. She was the daughter of Robert Fretwell and Bridget Gylby.

Death
It looks like Elizabeth must have died from complications of childbirth. The Hooper website linked above has a memorial dedication, without source, but apparently from a church in Wakefield:


Footnotes
[1] The only baptismal record I've found is 3 July 1729 at Bawtry, which is the same place that Elizabeth married Charles Steer. However, some other pedigrees have her baptism as 30 July 1729 at Grimley on the Hill, about 6 miles away. Grimley is where her father lived. So it's not clear which of the two is right.

Early Life
Elizabeth Gipps was born in 1758 and baptised on the 8^th of October that year at Saltwood in Kent. Her parents were Henry Gipps, an apothecary in Saltwood, Kent and Ann Andrews.

Death
My best guess is that Elizabeth died in 1837 in Marylebone; the date is reasonable and the location makes sense. However, it is still somewhat tentative.

Gipps Surname
Possibly a shortened form of Gilbert, and related to the surnames Gibson and Gipson. There is some speculation that the town of Ipswich (first recorded as Gippeswic) may share some naming connection with the family - possibly Ipswich itself was named after a famous Gilbert. Or the Gipps family were named after Gippeswic since that is where they came from.

Footnotes
- See https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol12/pp136-149 (note 34) for Elizabeth's ancestry

Early Life
Elizabeth Harmer was born c. 1505, the daughter of William Harmer and ___ Scrope.

Family Life
Elizabeth married Richard Selwyn of Stanley St. Leonards. They had:

1. William, b. c. 1530, who married Catherine Clutterbuck
   
2. Walter, Thomas, Isabella, Anne, Alice and Joanna

Death
Elizabeth died in 1580. Per Transactions¹:

the following inscription is said ... to have been visible sometime ago on a fiat stone, laid across the path leading to the south door of Stanley Regis Church

CASTA MATRONA
COMES VERTVTIS ET
ARTIS AMIGA IRRVIT
IN CINERES ELIZA
BETHA LEVES HVI
VS ERAT TOTVM
STVDIUM PLACA
RE IEHOVAM ET LA
VDARE BONVM P
RO BONITATE DE
VM ILLA FERENS
MORTIS PER AC
ERBA VVLNERA
FLATV DIXIT IN E
XTREMO MORE
MIHI GRATA VENl
ELIZABETH SELW
IN DESESED THE
10 OF MARCH, 1580

A rough translation of the inscription is:

Chaste mother, an honourable companion and lover of art; her only desire was to submit to God and praise His goodness. She, dying of mortal wounds, said in her last breath "

Footnotes
[1] Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1877-8, Vol. II, Bristol; Some Records of Matson, pages 241-284

Early Life
Elizabeth Martin was likely born in the 1630s, probably around 1635, the daughter of Sir William Martin of Woodsford and Nettleswell, and Marie Lee/Leigh, the daughter of Sir Henry Lee.
Her name (Elizabeth) is confirmed on her son Matthew's baptismal record.

There is a baptismal record for Elizabetha Martyn at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 10 Dec 1631, which is about the right time and place. Unfortunately no parents are given. If this is the right record, then she would have been a year older than her husband, which isn't impossible. More unlikely is that she would have been 27 when her first child was born. For this reason, I discount this as being the right record.

Early Life
Emma Buckton was born on the 28^th of July 1849 in Potternewton, Leeds, to George Buckton and Elizabeth Marriott.

Family Life
Emma married Alan Lupton on the 8^th of October 1872 in Leeds and they had three children:

1. Alan Cecil, born c. 1874, later a major in the army, who married Mary Emma Burrell
   
2. Alice Hilda, born 1876 and who married Walter Lyulph Johnson
   
3. William Walter, born in 1880 and who died young

Death
Emma Buckton died on the 20^th of July 1938 at The Priory in Roehampton.

The 'Buckton' Surname
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names¹ describes the surname thus:

Footnotes
[1] The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, publ. 2016 by Oxford University Press

Early Life
Esther Midgley was born in 1669 and baptised on the 28^th of April at St John the Baptist in Adel, Leeds. Her parents were Ralph Midgeley, a yeoman farmer in Breare, and his wife Francis Burnistone.

Online trees identify Esther to have been born in April 1669, daughter of Ralph Midgeley (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J938-5V4) and baptised in Adel, Yorkshire. The Wikipedia entry for the Lupton family also has this fact, indicating that Ralph was a yeoman farmer in Brearey. The fact that Esther later married Francis at Adel (in the same church) gives me some confidence that this is the correct person.

Death
I can't find any death records for Esther in Leeds. Her youngest son John was born in 1707, so she would have died some time between 1707 and 1779, most likely before 1750.

Early Life
Fanny ("Fay") Curtis Mitchell was born on the 27^th of March 1895 in Khandwa, Bengal, India, to Hugh McPherson Mitchell and Agnes Lockhart Nisbet. At the time, her father was working as a civil engineer on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. Her younger brothers Norman and Hugh were born in 1896 and 1898 respectively (though Norman died as an infant).

In 1901, on the 18^th of March, Fay's father died of pneumonia in Lanouli, Bombay; Fay was only six at the time. By the 1901 census which was taken on the 31^st of March (just 13 days later) the family is listed as resident in Wimbledon, at 43 Church Road (this would have been Fay's grandparents' house), so they must already have been in England at the time of Fay's father's death. The census lists 8 people and 6 servants in the property. So it must have been either a very large house (unlikely, given that it appears to be a fairly standard terraced house) or a temporary squeeze to accommodate the new widow and her family until they got settled somewhere else.

By 1911, Fay, aged 16, was living at 2 Thornton Hill, Wimbledon, with her mother and two servants. Her younger brothers may have been at boarding school as they are not listed at this address. She was still living here in 1916 when she married.

Family Life
Fay married Henry "Hal" Murdoch Bryans on the 13^th of August 1916, at her local church Wimbledon St Mary's . Fay was 21 and Hal was 24. Their only daughter, Pamela Anne Murdoch Bryans was born a year later, on the 16^th of November 1917. They apparently had no more children.

Fay and Hal loved to travel. They would often go to Kenya to visit Fay's brother (Hugh) and other records show them going on a three month journey, leaving Southampton for Sri Lanka in December 1955 and returning from Australia in March 1956. For lots more on Fay and Hal, see Hal's own entry.

2nd World War
In the 1939 Register, Fay and Henry are listed as resident at the Queensberry Hotel, in Amesbury, Wiltshire. Perhaps this was a temporary posting, as part of her and Henry's mobilisation? She is listed as a member of the Women's Voluntary Service.

Residences

• 1901: 43 Church Road, Wimbledon. Home of her grandparents Harry Curtis Nisbet and Louisa Margaret Bruce. It looks like this building was knocked down and rebuilt, as the modern building looks way too small to house the 8 people and 6 servants described in the 1901 census.
  
• 1911: 2 Thornton Hill, Wimbledon. This is the house at the very top of the road, just at the junction with Thornton Road.
  
• 1938: Little Manor, Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire. It is listed as Fay and Hal's address in the wedding announcements for their daughter Pam.
  
• ?: Lithend, Bishop's Waltham
  
• Up to 1975: In 1975, at the time of drafting his first will, Hal and Fay lived at "Martins", Chilbolton, Stockbridge in Hampshire. This looks like it would have been a property on Martins Lane in Chilbolton; the exact house is not given. It may have belonged to Fay's brother Hugh.
  
• From 1975 until her death: Flat 1, 92 St Cross Road (Stockholm Court), Winchester. This would be where I (Charlie) have the vaguest of vague memories of visiting them (I would have been aged between 3 and 6).
  

Death
Fay died on the 3^rd of March 1982, in Winchester, three years before her husband.

Memories
From Aunt Helen:


The Mitchell surname
Patronymica Brittanica¹ has the following on the origin of the Mitchell surname:


Footnotes
[1] Patronymica Brittanica, A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom, by Mark Antony Lower, Publ. London 1860

Early Life
Frances Bosvile was the daughter of Robert Bosville of Eynesford in Kent, a merchant in London, and his wife Elizabeth Sybyll. Frances would have been born some time between 1582 and 1586 (most likely=1583). The Bosvil(l)e family intersects this tree in multiple places, including the Whichcote and Fitzwilliam lines. Also, through the Bosviles we trace back to Roger le Bigod, one of the Magna Carta Barons.

From FHoHoD¹:

The same source then has this picturesque, if unflattering, description of Frances:


Footnotes
[1] The Family History of Hart of Donegal, by Henry Travers Hart, London, 1907, page 32, quoting a "Kilderry manuscript"

Early Life
Frances Burnistone was the daughter of George Burnistone of Potternewton in Leeds. The name of her mother is not known.


Death
Frances died on the 21^st of February 1706 and was buried on the 9^th of March at St John the Baptist in Adel, a suburb of Leeds. Her headstone reads:

Here interred is the body of RALPH MIDGLEY of West Breare who departed this life the 10th of July anno 1694 in the 72 year of his age.
Also FRANCES his wife who departed this life the 21st of Febru anno 1706 in the 76th year of her life.
They have had 14 children of which 8 are interred here.

Early Life
Frances Nelson was the daughter of Richard Nelson and Margaret Adams; her exact date of birth is not known but she was probably born around 1695, given that she married in 1716 and that her son Nelson Burtsal was born in 1735 (it's unlikely Frances was much older than 45 when she had her son).

Family Life
'of Bungay' in her marriage record, she married William Burtsal of Ludham in Norfolk, at St Stephen in Norwich, on the 29^th of April 1716.

Death
Frances died on the 31^st of January 1760. A memorial at St Mary's in Bungay reads as follows:

Early Life
Francis Kirby must have been born c. 1585, given the birth of his children in the 1610s.

Career

Family Life
Francis married Susan Downing, the daughter of George Downing, a schoomaster from Ipswich in Suffolk. The marriage must have taken place after 1611, at which time Susan is apparently unmarried in the will of her father.

Death


Footnotes

https://www.geni.com/people/Francis-Kirby-London/6000000001363815756
Visitation of London (1633-1636) Vol. 2 has entries for Kerby/Kirby (acr 41, of Ipswich which is where I think Francis was born) and Kyrkby (acr 52)
- Note that the Downings (Francis married Susan Downing) were from Suffolk (Ipswich and Beccles)



https://books.google.ae/books?id=xKKB3XzQpnMC&lpg=PA374&ots=raIkik69eR&dq=%22balaam%20balam%22%20kirby&pg=PA373#v=onepage&q=%22balaam%20balam%22%20kirby&f=false
- lots of biography and details on death

https://books.google.ae/books?id=plTHDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA96&ots=yEpKQghKjJ&dq=%22francis%20kirby%22%20downing&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q=%22francis%20kirby%22%20downing&f=false
https://books.google.ae/books?id=9U6qXPSwqOQC&lpg=PA316&ots=tooMgqqxQq&dq=%22francis%20kirby%22%20downing&pg=PA318#v=onepage&q=%22francis%20kirby%22%20downing&f=false
https://books.google.ae/books?id=FqZ2DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA137&ots=GPdqAK72sa&dq=%22francis%20kirby%22%20downing&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q=%22francis%20kirby%22%20downing&f=false
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kirby-169
- makes him son of John Kirby of Watton, Herts and Joan Cranfield
- note that this makes the Kirbies of Hertfordshire, not Ipswich as per Vis Lond

https://www.masshist.org/publications/winthrop/index.php/view/PWF03d114
http://www.thekingscandlesticks.com/webs/pedigrees/26365.html

Early Life
Gabriel Wayne was born on the 10^th of December 1653 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, to Capt. Gabriel Wayne and an unknown mother. By the time he died he had moved to Conham, near Bristol (viz his will), and established a new southwestern branch of the Wayne tree. According to Sellers¹ his baptismal record comes from the Register of St Mary and All Saint's Parish Church, in Chesterfield, though I haven't seen the original.

Career
Gabriel appears to have been involved in various inventions relating to mining, including a patent for making pitch and tar.

Family Life
Gabriel may have married twice, according to Sellers¹. We can certainly find the death record of his wife Katherine, dated 1710 (but unfortunately no marriage record, so we don't know her surname). The other marriage, to an Elizabeth Sharpe, is based on an entry in Burke's Landed Gentry (1852, p. 1223) which mentions that Elizabeth, daughter to William Sharpe and Market Beake, married Gabriel Wayne Esq. However, I can find no record of this second marriage, outside of the Burke's entry itself. The closest I can get is in 1687, when an Elizabeth Sharpe married a Gabriel Heynes/Hanes at Goudhurst in Kent. I've seen the original entry and it is definitely Hanes, so either Burke mis-stated the surname, or the correct marriage record has not survived.

Sellers states that Gabriel's children were by his first wife, Elizabeth Sharpe, though on what basis I don't know (perhaps because their daughter was called Elizabeth). By the time of Gabriel's will (1721) there is no mention of a wife, which is consistent with Katherine being either the second, or only, wife, and dying in 1710. So for this lack of clarity on who was the mother of this children, I am leaving the entry blank for the time being.

Gabriel had at least three children:

1. Elisabeth, born 1695, who married William Clarke or Taylor of Dublin
   
2. John³, born before 1697, of Conham, who married Sarah Baker
   
3. Matthew, born 1697
   

Death
Gabriel died around 1722 - his will was proved on the 14^th of February that year and mentions:

• His youngest son Matthew Wayne
  
• His grandson Gabriel Wayne, the eldest son of his eldest son John Wayne
  
• His grandson John Wayne, other son of his eldest son John Wayne
  
• His daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Williams Clarke of Dublin²
  

Footnotes
[1] English Ancestry of the Wayne Family of Pennsylvania, Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Philadelphia 1865
[2] In the will of John Wayne (Gabriel's son), Elizabeth is said to have married a Mr Taylor of Dublin, not a Mr Clarke
[3] We know he was the eldest son, but not if he was the eldest child

Early Life
Gabriel Wayne was the son of John Wayne and Margaret Bishop. His date of birth is not known (though his younger brother Matthew was baptised in 1627).

Career
From the Wayne Genealogy Report²:


Gabriel was a Captain of a troop of horses, part of Colonel Francis Hacker's Regiment of Horse⁴. This website mentions that his troop was in Hamilton (in Scotland) in 1656. The regiment...


Gabriel is mentioned in the House of Commons Journal³ for 1659:


Family Life
Most trees I've seen make the wife by which he had all his children Martha Saunderson (his second wife). However, in the Waynes of Pennsylvania it is clearly stated:

Later, in the same entry, he states (underscoring is mine):

So most online trees are wrong: presumably they are based on the Wayne Genealogy Report² that makes Martha the mother of all Gabriel's children, and states that the marriage took place in 1644.

Death
Wayne Genealogy Report² gives his date of birth as after 1678, though I'm not sure on what basis.

Gabriel Wayne is the common ancestor of many modern-day Wayne cousins in the US, via his son Anthony Wayne, who emigrated to Pennsylvania.

Footnotes
[1] English Ancestry of the Wayne Family of Pennsylvania, Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Philadelphia, 1927, pages 14 and 18
[2] https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.wayne/67.68, which is a copy of an RTF document "Wayne_Genealogy_Report" which can be found online
[3] https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-jrnl/vol7/pp786-787; Volume 7, 27 Sept. 1659
[4] http://wiki.bcw-project.org/commonwealth/horse-regiments/francis-hacker