Sir Joshua Colles Meredyth1,2,3
M, #252, b. 1 June 1771, d. 27 July 1850
Parents
Biography
Sir Joshua Colles Meredyth was born in 1770.
4 He was born on 1 Jun 1771.
5 He and
Maria Nugent were married in Sep 1795.
4 He and
Doligny Edwards were married on 3 Feb 1822 in Etchingham, Sussex, England
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6 He died on 27 Jul 1850, at age 79, in St James's Terrace, Dover, England
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7,8 Joshua Colles Meredyth assumed the title of 8th Baronet of Greenhills on the death of his father in 1813. The family’s claim to the baronetcy was disallowed in 1904, having become extinct on the death of the 1st Baronet, William Meredith in 1664, who had no male heirs.
According to his obituary, Joshua Colles Meredyth was knighted May 16, 1794, by the Earl of Westmoreland, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, being at that time a Captain in the 89th Foot. He also received the order of Military Merit from Louis XVIII, and that of Louis of Hesse, from the Grand Duke of Hesse; and he was a knight grand cross of St. John of Jerusalem. The Illustrated London News described him as follows”
" This excellent and worthy Baronet was one of the last survivors of the race of old-fashioned courtly gentlemen, now nearly extinct; and he delighted to recall the anecdotes of his earlier years, which, told with a grace and humour peculiarly his own, rendered his society in the highest degree entertaining."
He was recorded as living at Kilcullen, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland in 1786 and at 14 Norfolk Crescent, Bath, England in 1841.
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Family
Connections
TIMELINE: Year Age
1771
179524
Sep 1795
Age: ~17
Birth: ca. 1778
Death: 15 Oct 1813 | Cheltenham, England
G1796~25
181342
181342
His wife
Maria Nugent died on 15 Oct 1813 in Cheltenham, England
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182250
3 Feb 1822 | Etchingham, Sussex, EnglandG Age: ~49
Birth: 1773
Death: 25 Jan 1864 | London, England
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Death:
27 Jul 1850 | St James's Terrace, Dover, EnglandG 1864
Citations
- [S37] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 113, Baronets of Ireland, LDS film no. 0100187, p. 219 and p. 419; There is some confusion in the sources. In this source (and GOMS 105, p.55) there is no mention of the middle name 'Colles'. Furthermore, this source gives his date of death as 1800. This is inconsistent with GOMS, 105, p55 which records the application in 1808 by Joshua Meredith for the baronetcy on behalf of BarryColles Meredith
- [S56] Darryl Lundy, A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe; www.thepeerage.com, gives him a middle name of 'Colles'
- [S95] Leigh Rayment, Baronetage, Url: http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsM2.htm, gives him a middle name of 'Colles'
- [S145] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 113, pp. 419-423, Baronets of Ireland, LDS film no. 0100187
- [S95] Leigh Rayment, Baronetage, Url: http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsM2.htm
- [S385] England, Sussex, Parish Registers, 1538-1910, index, FamilySearch
- [S95] Leigh Rayment, Baronetage, Url: http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsM2.htm, gives date of death
- [S145] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 113, pp. 419-423, Baronets of Ireland, LDS film no. 0100187, gives place of death
- [S60] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 815, Miscellaneous search notes, Comments on "The Pedigree of the family of Meredith registered in Vol, XX pp64", copied from the original document
- [S146] Sylvanus Urban, The Gentleman's Magazine 1850, Url: http://www.google.co.uk/books, Edition: Vol XXXIV New Series Jul-Dec incl(London: 1850) p436
- [S147] Kilkenny Houses, Url: http://homepage.eircom.net/lawekk/HOUSESB.htm, viewed 2005 but no longer accessible, "Kilkenny Houses , 31.5.1786 House & demesne of Kilcullen 5 miles rom Kilkenny, 250a and good dwelling house, apply Joshua Meredyth, Dublin. [FLJ] 28.10.1786 To let, house & demesne of Killcollen, 5 mile of Kilkenny, 2 of Castlecomer,, 250
- [S148] 1841 England Census. Ancestry.com [database on-line]
John Eastwood Meredyth1,2
M, #255, b. 1775, d. 15 December 1814
Parents
Biography
John Eastwood Meredyth was born in 1775.
3 He and
Catherine Swan were married in Nov 1807 in Lincoln, England
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1,4 He died on 15 Dec 1814, at age ~39, in Tealby Grove, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England
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5,6 Connections
TIMELINE: Year Age
1775
1807~32
Nov 1807 | Lincoln, EnglandG 1813~38
1814~39
Death:
15 Dec 1814 | Tealby Grove, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, EnglandG
Citations
- [S145] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 113, pp. 419-423, Baronets of Ireland, LDS film no. 0100187
- [S150] Sylvanus Urban, The Gentleman's Magazine Vol LXXXIV Jul to Dec 1814, p. 677, gives middle name of Eastwood
- [S150] Sylvanus Urban, The Gentleman's Magazine Vol LXXXIV Jul to Dec 1814, died in 1814 aged 39
- [S170] The Athenaeum, Url: http://www.google.co.uk/books, Edition: Edition Unknown, "At Lincoln, John Eastwood Meredith, Esq. of Hebron, in Ireland, to Miss Catherine Swan"
- [S145] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 113, pp. 419-423, Baronets of Ireland, LDS film no. 0100187, this source gives date of death as 1810
- [S150] Sylvanus Urban, The Gentleman's Magazine Vol LXXXIV Jul to Dec 1814, p. 677,"after a long and painful illness, aged 39..... second son of the late Barry Colles Meredith"
Edward Newenham Meredyth1
M, #256, b. 1 May 1776, d. 23 March 1865
Parents
Biography
Edward Newenham Meredyth was born on 1 May 1776.
1 He and
Letitia Holmes were married on 29 Aug 1819.
2,3 He and
Elizabeth Creed were married on 11 Aug 1838 in St. Peter’s Church of Ireland, Dublin.
4 He died on 23 Mar 1865, at age 88, in 38 Baggot Street Upper, Dublin, Ireland
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5 Edward Newenham Meredyth assumed the title of 9th Baronet of Greenhills on the death of his brother Joshua Colles Meredyth in 1850. The family’s claim to the baronetcy was disallowed in 1904, having become extinct on the death of the 1st Baronet, William Meredith in 1664, who had no male heirs.
He was living at 2 Henrietta Street, Dublin, Ireland in 1844 and 1850.
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Family
Connections
TIMELINE: Year Age
1776
181337
181943
1827~51
182852
1837~61
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11 Aug 1838 | St. Peter’s Church of Ireland, Dublin
Age: ~44
Birth: ca. 1794
Death: 6 Jul 1868 | 22 Pembroke Road, Dublin, Ireland
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Death:
23 Mar 1865 | 38 Baggot Street Upper, Dublin, IrelandG 1868
His wife
Elizabeth Creed died on 6 Jul 1868 in 22 Pembroke Road, Dublin, Ireland
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Citations
- [S37] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 113, Baronets of Ireland, LDS film no. 0100187, p. 420
- [S129] Alexander Thom & Co, Appendix to the Twenty-Sixth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and Keeper of the State Papers of Ireland, Copies saved to disk, p.737, by licence. Wife's name given as Lucretia
- [S162] Private communication: Sandra Hossack emails May 2006
- [S296] Irish Genealogy online database http://www.irishgenealogy.ie
- [S151] Edward Newenham Meredyth, Name Of Person: Edward Newenham Meredyth, Registration District: Dublin South, Gro Index Ref: Vol7 p604, Cause of death: "Natural for years". Informant Margaret Carthy
- [S60] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 815, Miscellaneous search notes, Comments on "The Pedigree of the family of Meredith registered in Vol, XX pp64", copied from the original document
- [S88] Nick Reddan's Newspaper Extracts, Url: http://members.webone.com.au/~nickred/newspaper/index.html
- [S112] LibraryIreland, Henry Shaw's Dublin City Directory 1850, Url: http://www.libraryireland.com/DublinDirectory1850/
Charles Burton Newham Meredyth1,2
M, #257, b. about 1777, d. 4 August 1858
Parents
Biography
Charles Burton Newham Meredyth was born ca. 1777.
3 He and
Anna were married bef. 1814. He and
Moriah (Maria) Jarvis were married on 1 Oct 1822 in S Mary's, Lambeth, London, England.
2 He died on 4 Aug 1858, at age ~81, in Gardiner St, Dublin, Ireland
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4 Charles Burton Meredyth was a a Major in the Royal Marines. He married his second wife Moriah when he was aged about 42 and she was about 17. His children were born in London, but it appears that the 3 boys were brought up in Ireland, to where Charles returned, while Moriah stayed in London with their daughter Juliet.
There appears to be some uncertainty regarding the nature of the relationship between Charles Burton Meredyth and his second wife Moriah Jarvis, and her relationship with her second husband Joseph Dunning. The facts, in chronological order, appear to be as follows:
(1) Charles married Moriah in 1822 with the consent of her father when she was a minor. He is described as Charles Burton Newham Meredyth, a Bachelor, on the certificate, although Moriah is described as his second wife in some much later newspaper reports. They were married in Lambeth, and were living in Pimlico at the time of the baptism of their first child Juliet Almira in 1827, her father being described as Charles Newman Meredyth, a Major in the Army, and mother as Maria Meredyth There appears to be no London record of the baptism of their next child, Alexander Barry, ca. 1828, but Elbert [sic] Charles was baptised in Parish of St Mary, Osterley, Middlesex in 1830, his father being described as Charles Burton Newman Meredyth, a Major in the Army, and mother as Moriah Meredyth. Their youngest child was baptised as George Augustus Jarvis at St. Dunstan Stepney in 1832, his father being described as Charles Burton Newnham Meredyth of Mile End Old Town, a Major in the Royal Marines, and mother Moriah Meredyth.
(2) There seems to be no record of Charles Burton Meredyth or of his 3 sons in the 1841 England & Wales census; they may have returned to Ireland, and indeed his son George Augustus Jarvis recalled much later that he went to school in Ireland. However Charles’s wife Moriah was recorded in the census at St. John’s Street, Westminster, and described as Maria Meredith aged 25, along with her daughter Juliet Meredith aged 13. Note that ages above 15 were rounded down to the nearest 5 years in this census. Juliet’s age is consistent with her baptism record, while Moriah’s indicates a year of birth between 1812 and 1816, consistent with her marriage as a minor in 1822.
(3) In 1837 Juliet Almira Meredyth was recorded as marrying Alexander Cowie at St. John the Evangelist, Lambeth, London. Her father was described on the certificate as Charles Meredyth, Major in the Army.
(4) There seems to be no record of Charles Burton Meredyth or of his 3 sons in any of the England censuses. However, Moriah was enumerated in the 1851 census in Lambeth, London, and described as Maria Dunning, aged 36, wife of Joseph Dunning. Juliet Cowie was in the same household and her relationship to the head of household Joseph Dunning was described Wife’s daughter.
(5) Several newspapers record the death in 1858 in Dublin of Major Charles Burton Meredyth, late of Athy, brother of Sir Edward Newenham Meredyth, Bart. In the 1861 census Moriah was enumerated in the same house as Joseph Dunning in Barkham Terrace, Southwark, but this time he was described as a lodger, and she as Maria Meredith, aged 47, officer’s widow pensioned. Her grandsons George and Burton Cowie were enumerated in the same household.
(6) A Hobart newspaper announced the marriage of Joseph Dunning to Moriah in 1863, describing her as the widow of Major Meredyth, brother of Sir Edward Meredyth Bart. They were enumerated in the 1871 census at Barkham Terrace, Southwark, and she was described as Maria Dunning aged 56.
(7) The ages recorded for Moriah in the various censuses are consistent, and point to a marriage to Charles Burton Meredyth when she was aged about 17 and he was about aged 45. It seems that she was estranged from her Charles and living with her future second husband from at least 1851, and probably earlier.
Families
Child with Anna d. bef. 1822
Connections
TIMELINE: Year Age
1777
1813~36
1814
1814~37
1822
His wife
Anna died bef. 1822.
1822~45
1 Oct 1822 | S Mary's, Lambeth, London, England
Birth: aft. 1801 | Norfolk, England
GDeath: 1873
Charles Burton Newham Meredyth and
Moriah (Maria) Jarvis were married on 1 Oct 1822 in S Mary's, Lambeth, London, England.
1827~50
1828~51
1830~53
1832~55
1847~70
1858~81
Death:
4 Aug 1858 | Gardiner St, Dublin, IrelandG 1873
Citations
- [S37] Genealogical Office Manuscript no. 113, Baronets of Ireland, LDS film no. 0100187, p. 421
- [S152] London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 . Ancestry.com [database on-line].
- [S153] EdEdmund Burke, The Annual Register or a View of the History of Politics of the Year 1858, Url: http://www.google.co.uk/books, Edition: London, 1859, p. 422, he died aged 81
- [S153] EdEdmund Burke, The Annual Register or a View of the History of Politics of the Year 1858, Url: http://www.google.co.uk/books, Edition: London, 1859, p. 422