The Lloyd Family
Charles Lloyd
Thomas
Lloyd
Mary
(Shepherd) Lloyd
returning from India.
Charles is not mentioned in the will of his father, dated 20 November 1792,
held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/1249/161), and presumable had died
before the date of the will.
Charlotte (Lloyd) Evans
18 January 1746/7 (OS/NS)
3 February 1746/7 (OS/NS), in
Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
Charlotte is recorded as the daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Wrexham, mercer.
She was born on 18 January.
Thomas
Lloyd
Mary
(Shepherd) Lloyd
Maurice Evans on 2 November 1767, in Wrexham,
Denbighshire, Wales
Maurice Evans is recorded as a batchelor, of West Cheap, London. Charlotte
Lloyd is recorded as a spinster of the parish of Wrexham. The marriage, by
licence, was officiated by T. Edwards, vicar, and witnessed by Thos. Lloyd
and John Edwards.
Charlotte was almost a surrogate mother to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was
at school with her son Thomas and fell in love with her daughter Mary.
Coleridge, whose father had died, was not close to his mother who lived in
Devon, and he spent a lot of time at the Evans's home in Villiers Street,
London, close to the school, as well as when he moved on to Cambridge.
In Life of Coleridge p28 (1838), James Gillman
quotes Coleridge as saying that her "son, I, as upper boy, had protected,
and who therefore looked up to me, and taught me what it was to have a
mother. I loved her as such. She had three daughters, and of course I fell
in love with the eldest."
In a letter to his brother on 24 January 1792 (Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge vol 1 pp23-4
ed. Ernest Coleridge, 1895), Samuel writes that:
...my own corporealities are in a state of better health, than I ever
recollect them to be. This indeed I owe in great measure to the care of
Mrs. Evans, with whom I spent a fortnight at Christmas: the relaxation
from study coǒperating with the cheerfulness and attention, which I met
there proved very potently medicinal. I have indeed experienced from her a
tenderness scarcely inferior to the solicitude of maternal affection.
A number of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Charlotte while he
was at Cambridge have been preserved in Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ed.
Ernest Hartley Coleridge, 1895). The first contains a poem "To
Disappointment", written specially for Charlotte regarding her upcoming
visit to Wales:
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge vol 1
pp26-30:
February 13,
1792.
MY
VERY DEAR, - What word shall I add sufficiently
expressive of the warmth which I feel? You covet to be near my heart.
Believe me, that you and my sister have the very first row in the front
box of my heart's little theatre - and - God knows! you
are not crowded. There, my dear spectators! you shall see what
you shall see - Farce, Comedy, and Tragedy - my laughter, my cheerfulness,
and my melancholy. A thousand figures pass before you, shifting in
perpetual succession; these are my joys and my sorrows, my hopes and my
fears, my good tempers and my peevishness: you will, however, observe two
that remain unalterably fixed, and these are love and gratitude. In short,
my dear Mrs. Evans, my whole heart shall be laid open like any sheep's
heart; my virtues, if I have any, shall not be more exposed to your view
than my weaknesses. Indeed, I am of opinion that foibles are the cement of
affection, and that, however we may admire
a perfect character, we are seldom inclined to love and praise those whom
we cannot sometimes blame. Come, ladies! will you take your seats in this
play-house? Fool that I am! Are you not already there? Believe me, you
are!
I am extremely anxious to be informed concerning your health. Have
you not felt the kindly influence of this more than vernal weather, as
well as the good effects of your own recommenced regularity? I would I
could transmit you a little of my superfluous good health! I am indeed at
present most wonderfully well, and if I continue so, I may soon be
mistaken for one of your very
children: at least, in clearness of complexion and rosiness of cheek I am
no contemptible likeness of them, though that ugly arrangement of features
with which nature has distinguished me will, I fear, long stand in the way
of such honorable assimilation. You accuse me of evading the bet, and
imagine that my silence proceeded from a consciousness of the charge. But
you are mistaken. I not only read your
letter first, but, on my sincerity! I felt no inclination to do otherwise;
and I am confident, that if Mary had happened to have stood by me and had
seen me take up her letter in
preference to her mother's, with
all that ease and energy which she can so gracefully exert upon proper
occasions, she would have lifted up her beautiful little leg, and kicked
me round the room. Had Anne indeed favoured me with a few lines, I confess
I should have seized hold of them before either of your letters; but then
this would have arisen from my love of novelty,
and not from any deficiency in filial respect. So much for your bet!
You can scarcely conceive what uneasiness poor Tom's accident has
occasioned me; in everything that relates to him I feel solicitude truly
fraternal. Be particular concerning him in your next. I was going to write
him an half angry letter for the long intermission of his correspondence;
but I must change it to a consolatory one. You mention not a word of
Bessy. Think you I do not love her?
And so, my dear Mrs. Evans, you are to take your Welsh journey in
May? Now may the Goddess of Health, the rosy-cheeked goddess that blows
the breeze from the Cambrian mountains, renovate that dear old lady, and
make her young again! I always loved that old lady's looks. Yet do not
flatter yourselves, that you shall take this journey tête-à-tête.
You will have an unseen companion at your side, one who will attend you in
your jaunt, who will be present at your arrival; one whose heart will melt
with unutterable tenderness at your maternal transports, who will climb
the Welsh hills with you, who will feel himself happy in knowing you to be
so. In short, as St. Paul says, though absent in body, I shall be present
in mind. Disappointment? You must not, you shall not be disappointed; and
if a poetical invocation can help you to drive off that ugly foe to
happiness here it is for you.
TO DISAPPOINTMENT.
Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway,
Thou lov'st on withering blast to ride
O'er fond Illusion's air-built pride.
Sullen Spirit! Hence! Away!
Where Avarice lurks in sordid cell,
Or mad Ambition builds the dream,
Or Pleasure plots th' unholy scheme
There with Guilt and Folly dwell!
But oh! when Hope on Wisdom's wing
Prophetic whispers pure delight,
Be distant far thy cank'rous blight,
Demon of envenom'd sting.
Then haste thee, Nymph of balmy gales!
Thy poet's prayer, sweet May! attend!
Oh! place my parent and my friend
'Mid her lovely native vales.
Peace, that lists the woodlark's strains,
Health, that breathes divinest treasures,
Laughing Hours, and Social Pleasures
Wait my friend in Cambria's plains.
Affection there with mingled ray
Shall pour at once the raptures high
Of filial and maternal Joy;
Haste thee then, delightful May!
And oh! may Spring's fair flowerets fade,
May Summer cease her limbs to lave
In cooling stream, may Autumn grave
Yellow o'er the corn-cloath'd glade;
Ere, from sweet retirement torn,
She seek again the crowded mart:
Nor thou, my selfish selfish heart
Dare her slow return to mourn!
In what part of the country is my dear Anne to be? Mary must and
shall be with you. I want to know all your summer residences, that I may
be on that very spot with all of you. It is not improbable that I may
steal down from Cambridge about the beginning of April just to look at
you, that when I see you again in autumn I may know how many years younger
the Welsh air has made you. I shall go into Devonshire on the 21st of May,
unless my good fortune in a particular affair should detain me till the
4th of June.
I lately received the thanks of the College for a declamation I
spoke in public; indeed, I meet with the most pointed marks of respect,
which as I neither flatter nor fiddle, I suppose to be sincere. I write
these things not from vanity, but because I know they will please you.
I intend to leave off suppers, and two or three other little
unnecessaries, and in conjunction with Caldwell hire a garden for the
summer. It will be nice exercise - your advice. La! it will be so charming
to walk out in one's own garding,
and sit and drink tea in an arbour, and pick pretty nosegays. To plant and
transplant, and be dirty and amused! Then to look with contempt on your
Londoners with your mock gardens and your smoky windows, making a beggarly
show of withered flowers stuck in pint pots, and quart pots, menacing the
heads of the passengers below.
Now suppose I conclude something in the manner with which Mary
concludes all her letters to me, "Believe
me your sincere friend," and dutiful humble servant to command!
Now I do hate that way of concluding a letter. 'T is as dry as a
stick, as stiff as a poker, and as cold as a cucumber. It is not half so
good as my old
God bless you
and
Your affectionately grateful
S.T.
COLERIDGE
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge vol 1
pp39-41:
February 22
[1792].
DEAR MADAM,
- The incongruity of the dates in these letters you will immediately
perceive. The truth is that I had written the foregoing heap of
nothingness six or seven days ago, but I was prevented from sending it by
a variety of disagreeable little impediments.
Mr Massy must be arrived in Cambridge by this time; but to call on
an utter stranger just arrived with so trivial a message as yours and his
uncle's love to him, when I myself had been in Cambridge five or six
weeks, would appear rather awkward, not to say ludicrous. If, however, I
meet him at any wine party (which is by no means improbable) I shall take
the opportunity of mentioning it en
passant. As to Mr. M.'s debts, the most intimate friends in
college are perfect strangers to each other's affairs; consequently it is
little likely that I should procure any information of this kind.
I hope and trust that neither yourself nor my sisters have
experienced any ill effects from this wonderful change of weather. A very
slight cold is the only favour with which it has honoured me.
I feel myself apprehensive for all of you, but more particularly for Anne,
whose frame I think most susceptible of cold.
Yesterday a Frenchman came dancing into my room, of which he made
but three steps, and presented me with a card. I had scarcely collected,
by glancing my eye over it, that he was a tooth-monger, before he seized
hold of my muzzle, and, baring my teeth (as they do a horse's, in order to
know his age), he exclaimed, as if in violent agitation: "Mon Dieu!
Monsieur, all your teeth will fall out in a day or two, unless you permit
me the honour of scaling them!"
This ineffable piece of assurance discovered such a genius for impudence,
that I could not suffer it to go unrewarded. So, after a hearty laugh, I
sat down, and let the rascal chouse
me out of half a guinea by scraping my grinders - the more readily,
indeed, as I recollected the great penchant which all your family have for
delicate teeth.
So (I hear) Allen will be most precipitately emancipated. Good luck
have thou of thy emancipation, Bobbee! Tell him from me that if he does
not kick Richards' fame out of doors by the superiority of his own, I will
never forgive him.
If you will send me a box of Mr Stringer's tooth powder, mamma! we
will accept of it.
And now, Right Reverend Mother in God, let me claim your permission
to subscribe myself with all observance and gratitude, your most obedient
humble servant, and lowly slave,
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE,
Reverend in the future tense, and scholar of Jesus
College in the present time.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge vol 1
pp45-47:
February 5, 1793.
MY DEAR MRS.
EVANS, - This is the third day of my resurrection from the
couch, or rather, the sofa of sickness. About a fortnight ago, a quantity
of matter took it into its head to form in my left gum, and was attended
with such violent pain, inflammation, and swelling, that it threw me into
a fever. However, God be praised, my gum has at last been opened, a
villainous tooth extracted, and all is well. I am still very weak, as well
I may, since for seven days together I was incapable of swallowing
anything but spoon meat, so that in point of spirits I am but the dregs of
my former self - a decaying flame agonizing in the snuff of a tallow
candle - a kind of hobgoblin, clouted and bagged up in the most
contemptible shreds, rags, and yellow relics of threadbare mortality. The
event of our examination was such as surpassed my expectations, and
perfectly accorded with my wishes. After a very severe trial of six days'
continuance, the number of the competitors was reduced from seventeen to
four, and after a further process of ordeal we, the survivors, were
declared equal each to the other, and the Scholarship, according to the
will of its founder, awarded to the youngest of us, who was found to be a
Mr. Butler of St John's College. I am just two months older than he is,
and though I would doubtless have rather had it myself, I am yet not at
all sorry at his success; for he is sensible and unassuming, and besides,
from his circumstances, such an accession to his annual income must have
been very acceptable to him. So much for myself.
I am greatly rejoiced at your brother's recovery; in proportion,
indeed, to the anxiety and fears I felt on your account during his
illness. I recollected, my most dear Mrs. Evans, that you are frequently
troubled with a strange forgetfulness of yourself, and too apt to go far
beyond your strength, if by any means you may alleviate the sufferings of
others. Ah! how different from the majority of others whom we courteously
dignify with the name of human - a vile herd, who sit still in the
severest distresses of their friends,
and cry out, There is a lion in the way! animals, who walk with leaden
sandals in the paths of charity, yet to gratify their own inclinations
will run a mile in a breath. Oh! I do know a set of little, dirty,
pimping, petty-fogging, ambidextrous fellows, who would set your house on
fire, though it were but to roast an egg for themselves! Yet surely,
considering it were a selfish view, the pleasures that arise from
whispering peace to those who are in trouble, and healing the broken in
heart, are far superior to all the unfeeling can enjoy.
I have inclosed a little work of that great and good man Archdeacon
Paley; it is entitled Motives of
Contentment, addressed to the poorer part of our fellow men. The
twelfth page I particularly admire, and the twentieth. The reasoning has
been of some service to me, who
am of the race of the Grumbletonians. My dear friend Allen has a resource
against most misfortunes in the natural gaiety of his temper, whereas my
hypochondriac, gloomy spirit amid
blessings too frequently warbles out the hoarse gruntings of
discontent! Nor have all the lectures that divines and philosophers have
given us for these three thousand years past, on the vanity of riches, and
the cares of greatness, etc., prevented me from sincerely regretting that
Nature had not put it into the head of some rich
man to beget me for his first-born,
whereas now I am likely to get bread just when I shall have no teeth left
to chew it. Cheer up, my little one (thus I answer I)! better
late than never. Hath literature been thy choice, and hast thou
food and raiment? Be thankful, be amazed
at thy good fortune! Art thou dissatisfied and desirous of other things?
Go, and make twelve votes at an election; it shall do thee more service
and procure thee greater preferment than to have made twelve commentaries
on the twelve prophets. My dear Mrs. Evans! excuse the wanderings of my
castle building imagination. I have not a thought which I conceal from
you. I write to others, but my
pen talks to you. Convey my softest affections to Betty, and believe me,
Your
grateful and affectionate boy,
S.T. COLERIDGE.
1792: York House, Villiers Street, London (Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
vol 1 1785-1800 p32)
Christopher Lloyd
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd
Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
(Burke, 1850) p207 notes that Christopher died young. He presumably
was born and died before the birth of his brother Christopher Alderson Lloyd
in 1790.
Christopher Alderson (Lloyd) Alderson
29 September 1790
14 May 1793, in St Stephen, Coleman
Street, London, England
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd
Fanny Greig
In the 1841 census, Christopher and Fanny's son, William,
is staying at Tulloch, Kilmonivaig, Inverness-shire, at the home of a
Robert Greig, farmer, aged 50. Quite possibly this Robert was Fanny's
father.
13 December 1845, in Brighton,
Sussex, England, aged 54
The Gentleman's Magazine vol 179 p109
(Sylvanus Urban, 1846)
OBITUARY
SUSSEX
Dec. 13. At Brighton, aged
54, Christopher Alderson Alderson, esq. of the Five Houses, Clapton.
Christopher entered the East India Company's Army in 1809 as an officer
cadet.
In accordance with the will of his great-uncle Christopher Alderson, who
died in 1810, Christopher Alderson Lloyd changed his name by Royal license,
11 June 1812, to Christopher Alderson Alderson.
Christopher's arms reflected a mixture of his Lloyd and Alderson ancestry:
(CHRISTOPHER ALDERSON ALDERSON, of Homerton, Middlesex, Esq., who, by sign
manual 1812, changed his patronymic LLOYD for the name of ALDERSON only).
ARMS:..Argent three saracens' heads affrontee couped at the shoulders
proper wreathed about the temples of the first and sable quartering azure
three boars' heads couped in pale or, for LLOYD.
CRESTS:..A dove, holding in the beak an olive branch proper, for ALDERSON;
and a boars' head couped or, for LLOYD.
1845: Five Houses, Clapton, Hackney, Middlesex (death
notice
of son Robert, see also British
History
online)
Elizabeth Lloyd
15 May 1745, in Wrexham,
Denbighshire, Wales
31 May 1745, in Wrexham,
Denbighshire, Wales
Elizabeth is recorded as the daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Wrexham. She was
born on 15 May.
Thomas
Lloyd
Mary
(Shepherd) Lloyd
Elizabeth is named as "Elizabeth
Lloyd" in the will of her father, dated 20 November 1792, so likely did not
marry.
1797
Elizabeth Lloyd
7 May 1789
8 June 1789, in St Martin Ludgate,
London, England
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd Elizabeth is not mentioned in the will of her great-uncle
Christopher Alderson in 1810, although four of her siblings are named in the
will, and so it is likely that she died before 1810.
Emma (Lloyd) Plumbe
27 January 1798
26 February 1798, in St. Lawrence
Jewry and St Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, London, England
Emma is recorded as the daughter of William and Kitty Alderson, Lloyd, born
the 27th of January baptised the 26th of February 1798
William Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd
Samuel
Plumbe on 26 January 1824 in Old Church, St Pancras, London, England
Samuel Plumbe is recorded as a widower, of the parish of St George
Bloomsbury, Middlesex. Emma Lloyd is recorded as a spinster, of St Pancras.
The marriage, by license, was officiated by Henry Shepherd, minister, and
witnessed by Philip Charretie and ??? Perkins.
The New Monthly Magazine 1 April 1824 p183
Marriages.—
At St. Pancras, S. Plumbe, esq. of Russell-street, to Miss Emma Lloyd.
12 June 1832, in St John Hackney,
Middlesex, England, aged 32
Emma Plumbe is recorded as aged 34 years, resident at St George Bloomsbury
Kitty Alderson (Lloyd) Charretie
2 February 1793
14 May 1793, in St Stephen, Coleman
Street, London, England
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd
John Charretie on 1 June 1816, in
Hackney, Middlesex, England
At the time of their marriage, Kitty was of Upper Homerton, Middlesex, and
John was of Gt Coram St, Middlesex.
Bells Weekly Messenger (London, Middlesex) 9
June 1816
On Saturday, at Hackney, Capt. Charretie, second
son of Philip Charretie, of Brunswick-square, Esq. to Miss Lloyd, of Upper
Homerton.
John was born in 1787/8, the son of Philip Charretie. He was an officer in
the maritime service of the East India Company, reaching the rank of
commander but his career was marked by poor judgement and bad luck. In six
voyages as an officer in the H.E.I.C., John managed to be captured twice by
French warships, have a ship catch fire, burn and sink with substantial loss
of life, and be subject to a Court of Enquiry regarding his conduct to
marines on his ship and lose over £20,000 in investments. John was
eventually convicted of corruption and sent to prison in 1849.
John started the sea life with two voyages to the West Indies in ships
belonging to members of his family - his father owned property in the West
Indies. He joined the service of the East India company as fifth mate of the
Elphinstone on 18 January 1806,
being discharged 5 July 1807, then made a second voyage as fourth mate on
the Europe, starting on 20 January
1808.
The Europe departed the
Hooghly River in West Bengal on 2 May 1809, laden with hundreds of thousands
of pounds' worth of silk. Originally she was part of a larger convoy,
guarded by the HMS Victor and
consisting of five Indiamen and several smaller vessels. but on 24 May a
storm divided the convoy and three Indiamen, the Streatham,
Europe and Lord
Keith were left on their own. The Indiamen were not unprotected:
each one was large and powerfully built and carried a number of cannon. Streatham and Europe
weighed over 800 tons each and carried 30 cannon, whereas the
smaller Lord Keith was 600 tons and carried 12 guns. The three sails were
spotted by the French frigate, Caroline,
commanded by Jean-Baptiste-Henri
Féretier at 5:30 am on 31
May 1809. The British ships, under the loose command of John Dale in Streatham, originally mistook the
French frigate for the missing Victor and
it was not until another half hour had passed that Dale realised the danger
his ships were in. Ordering the Indiamen to form a line of battle, Dale
placed his ship in the centre, with the small Lord
Keith ahead and Europe behind.
However, the lack of naval experience on the British ships resulted in the
Indiamen sailing too far from one another in line, thus leaving them unable
to provide effective mutual support. Able to attack the HEIC ships
individually, Caroline pulled
alongside Europe at 06:30 and
began a heavy fire into the merchant ship, which intermittently replied with
her available guns. Within 30 minutes, Europe's
rigging was tattered, many of her guns dismounted and a number of her crew
wounded or killed. Moving past his now disabled opponent, Féretier next
attacked Streatham, which had
slowed in an unsuccessful attempt to support Europe.
Now alone against the frigate, Streatham
came under heavy fire at 07:00 and by 08:00 was badly damaged, with
casualties in her crew, her guns all dismounted and her lascars hiding below
decks. With further resistance hopeless, Dale hauled down the company flag
and surrendered. During the engagement between Streatham
and Caroline, Lord
Keith and Europe had
fired sporadically at the French ship with little effect. Pulling away from
his surrendered opponent, Féretier then fired on Lord
Keith, whose captain, Peter Campbell, realised that his ship stood
no chance against the frigate and turned eastward, running before the wind
to escape despite suffering severe damage to Lord
Keith's rigging as he did so. William Gelston, captain of Europe,
also attempted to flee, but his battered ship was in no condition to outrun
the virtually untouched frigate, and he surrendered at 10:00. Lord
Keith eventually arrived safely at Penang on 9 June. Casualties on
the British ships were six killed and at least four wounded, while the
French lost one killed and three wounded.
Féretier repaired his captures at sea and returned to Île
de France (Mauritius), arriving two months later on 22 July.
Discovering the presence of a blockading British squadron off Port Louis,
Féretier diverted to Saint Paul on Île
Bonaparte (Réunion). Among the goods removed from the ships were the
£500,000 worth of silk, which was stored in warehouses near the docks. The
crews of the Streatham and Europe, were held captive, but John,
along with other officers was sent to Bengal in a cartel,
a ship given neutrality for the purposes of prisoner exchanges. This is
described in a letter written by John on 29 June 1835:
Correspondence
between the Court of Directors and Capt. J. Charretie p12
I was sent in a
cartel with other Officers, for exchange, to Bengal; and when off the
Sand Heads, we fell in with Her Majesty's sloop of war Victor. The
Commander, Captain Stopford, wished to gain some information as to the
movements of the French ships of war, and sent his boat for an English
Officer, and I was selected. We parted Company during the night, and in
thirty hours, after a severe action, we were captured by the Bellonne
French frigate. After a variety of suffering, I at last arrived at
Bombay, and found my old ship there, having been re-taken at the capture
of the Isle of France. I was appointed Third Officer, and returned to
England.
The action in which Bellone captured
the Victor occurred on 2 November
1809. John is slightly mistaken about his old ship - the Europe
was actually re-taken at an action
at St Paul in Île Bonaparte in September 1809, in which the Caroline,
the Europe and the Streatham
were all re-captured by a naval squadron under Commodore Josias
Rowley, and the silk burnt in its warehouse.
On 18 February 1812, John embarked on the Bengal
as second mate, returning on 30 June 1813, and took a second voyage
on the Bengal, this time as chief mate, leaving England on 24 January 1814,
but disaster struck again and on 19 January 1815, the Bengal
caught fire in the roads of Point de Galle, near Colombo, Ceylon
and, in less than an hour, blew up and sank with the loss of twenty-three
lives..
The
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany Jan-July 1816 p88
Feb.
10. The ship Greyhound, from Madras, brings the distressing intelligence
of the total loss of the hon. company's late ship Bengal, by fire, in
the roads of Point de Galle, in the island of Ceylon.
23. The official report of the destruction of the hon. company's
ship Bengal by fire, has been published at this Presidency. The Bengal
had on board, in her magazine, at the time of the fire, forty barrels of
gunpower; and the flames spread with such rapidity, that she must have
inevitably blown up before the greater part of her crew were removed,
but for the fortunate circumstance of the powder being secured in patent
copper cases, owing to which the explosion did not take place until
after the ship had sunk.—There were many women and children, belonging
to the invalids from Madras, on board the Bengal; all of whom were sent
off before the people finally abandoned her.—Capt. Beatle of the Surrey,
was for some time in imminent danger, and had nearly shared the same
fate with Capt. Newell;—he was at last obliged to throw himself from one
of the anchors into the sea, but was fortunately picked up by a man of
war's boat. A gentleman who remained on board until after the females
and children had been removed, thus describes his escape:—
“I now prepared to leave the ship, and could not get away for a
long time, as no boat would come near us, the guns being shotted, and
the fire raging on the gun-deck. At length, with the loss of my shoes
and hat, I got into the Bengal's boat, and went under her quarter, to
try to scuttle her. There, however, we were even more uncomfortably
situated than on board, as a gun was just staring us in the face, at the
distance of about two yards, with the cabin about it, and the
gun-carriage itself, on fire. At length, our boat got so full of people,
that I jumped into another along-side, and thence into a country canoe,
which pushed off from the ship just as the stern exploded, from the
saltpetre catching fire in the hold. I had hardly got on board the
nearest ship (the Astell) when the masts, yards, sails, &c. of the
Bengal, in short the whole ship, was in a blaze; and very soon after she
sunk.”
The
Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 15 July 1815 p2
The Asiatic Mirror of Feb. 22, contains
a melancholy account of the loss by fire of the Honourable Company's
ship Bengal, Captain Nicholls, in the Roads of Point de Galle, on the
19th of February; in which a number of lives were lost ; among whom it
had been already ascertained were Lieut. Daniels, of His Majesty's ship
Malacca, and Mr. Loane, Master; Captain Newell, of the extra ship
Alexander, and several other officers of ships; 2 seamen, and 5
invalids; all of whom fell victims to their own humane exertions in
preserving the lives of those on board when the ship took fire. Capt.
Beadle, of the Surry, had a very narrow escape from the flames, which in
an hour penetrated to the powder magazine, which exploded, and the ship
sunk; —and no effort of generous intrepidity was ever more bravely or
happily exemplified than in the instance of Mr. Scott, the Provincial
Judge of Galle; who had remained on board exerting his influence to the
last, in directing the assistance of the shore boats. The boats had all
quitted the ship when he was discovered by one of the natives standing
to the fore chains, with a child in each arm, and which were preserved
by him from impending destruction at the imminent hazard of his own
safety.
John was appointed to remain on the scene to look after such property as
could be recovered and claimed in later depositions, that he recovered "a
sum not far short of £10,000", including masts, yards, spars and cargo. The
aftermath of the fire was described by a visiting clergyman:
A Narrative of the Establishment and Progress of the
Mission to Ceylon and India p232 (William Martin Harvard,
1823)
In the
way from Mr Clough's house to the Fort, our attention was arrested by
the great quantities of cloth, and other merchandize, together with
large pieces of half-consumed timber, masts and spars, which were
scattered along the beach. They formed part of the materials and cargo
of the Bengal Indiaman, of 1,200 tons burthen, which a short time before
our arrival, took fire when on the eve of sailing, and was, with a most
valuable cargo, totally destroyed. The ship was crowded with cabin and
steerage passengers: among the latter was a number of invalid soldiers;
several of whom met death in this most terrific form. Most of the
surviving passengers and officers afterwards embarked in the Arniston,
and perished with Lord and Lady Molesworth on the South African coast.
Following his salvage duty, John made a poor investment in a ship and
cargo which he sailed back to England, where he failed to sell the ship and
had to return to Bengal and buy a smaller ship to return to England. He
describes this in a letter written on 9 June 1834:
Correspondence
between the Court of Directors and Capt. J. Charretie pp5-6
I then
proceeded to Bengal, where, after a residence of a few months, my
friends considered it would be better for me to go home in command of a
ship, than as a passenger. Through the friendship of Messrs. Alexander
& Co., I was enabled to purchase a ship of 800 tons, and invested
considerable property in her for trade. I am grieved to say that my
speculations failed, and that I was a loser of near £10,000; to add to
my distress, ships were at a very low ebb in the market, and I was
driven to take her back to India, when she was sold, and I purchased a
small ship to come to England in, with the full intention of resuming my
rank in the Honourable Company's Service.
During my absence (in consequence of the deterioration of
West-India property), my father had lost nearly £1,500 per annum, so
that he was unable at that time to make me further advances. I was,
therefore, obliged to lay upon my oars until my father had sufficiently
recovered himself to make me a further advance. In 1825 I procured the
command of the Honourable Company's ship Bombay for as many regular
voyages as she might perform.
John was commander of the Bombay on
two voyages, the first departing on 26 April 1825 to China and discharging
on 11 July 1826, and the second command starting on 24 February 1827 and
sailing on 9 March for Madras and China. On this voyage John had a dispute
with some member of the military who were being transported on the Bombay.
The likely had something to do with a court
martial resulting from a complaint filed by Captain Charretie against
an ensign in the Royal Regiment of Foot for striking one of his cadets. The
ensign was found guilty but given a nominal sentence, apparently due to the
provocation he had received. In Madras, a Court of Enquiry was held
regarding Charretie's conduct toward the military on the voyage, but he was
honourably acquitted. The Bombay discharged
in England on 18 May 1828
Correspondence
between the Court of Directors and Capt. J. Charretie p16
The
Committee considered the conduct of Captain Charretie, Commander of the
“Bombay,” in deviating from
his orders and instructions during his late voyage.
The Committee being of opinion that some
of the complaints appeared to be of that serious nature as to
require a very attentive investigation,— Agreed, that the consideration
of the said Collection of Papers be postponed, and that Captain
Charretie's future eligibility stand over until after the result of the
Committee's investigation.
John's
eligibility was restored on 25 February 1829. Nonetheless, this was
his last command in the H.E.I.C., which was undergoing a period of
uncertainty due to changes to its Charter, and opportunities for ships were
dwindling. In 1833, the Government of India act divested the H.E.I.C. of all
its commercial functions. In winding these down, the H.E.I.C. established a
lifetime pension for eligible officers, but John missed out by a hair on the
eligibility requirements. In 1834, John began a long series of appeals to be
included in the pension which was finally turned down by the Court of
Directors in 1840. The correspondence was published in 1842 as Correspondence between the Court of Directors and
Captain John Charretie, on the subject of his claim for compensation as
a Commander in the Maritime service of the East India Company: and
between the Court of Directors and the Board of Commissioners for the
affairs of India upon the same subject, and gives us an
interesting picture of John's life in the service of the H.E.I.C.
In 1838, John's first wife, Kitty, died. Kitty had a £300 per annum annuity,
but on her death without issue this reverted, according to her marriage
settlement, to her sister, and John was left destitute, and renewing his
appeals for a pension. On 14 August 1841, John married Anna Maria Kennell in
Old Church, St Pancras, Middlesex. Anna
Maria was to
become a distinguished minature and oil painter, exhibiting at the
Royal Academy. On 23 March 1842, a
further appeal to the General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock
was supported by Sir David Solomons M.P. and was successful in procuring
John the lifetime pension of £200 per annum. In 1857, John presented
a portrait of David Solomons by Miss Pearson to "the Lady of David
Solomons, M.P., Esq., for the disinterested exertions in favour of Captain
Charretie's claim to maritime compensation".
In 1846 John became involved in another ill-judged scheme, this time joining
the Flores
expedition in which the former president of Ecuador was attempting to
overthrow the existing Ecuadorean government, with the encouragement of
Spain
. John was to "Admiral" of a fleet of three ships purchased by the
expedition, but the scheme was discovered by the British government and the
three ships were seized, including John's flag ship, the former Indiaman Glenelg. During the seizure hearings,
John claimed to have purchased the Glenelg
personally but it is unclear if this was true, or a front to try to prevent
the seizure.
South
Australian (Adelaide) 6 April 1847 p6
ENGLAND AND COLOMBIA.-THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT.
THE bold movement of General Flores, in December, and its
prompt suppression, so far as England is concerned, by the British
authorities, has so much in it of the romance of history, that we need
not apologise for devoting rather a large space to the details. The
Escuador, it will be remembered, occupies, the S. W. portion of
Colombia, and is a very large province, stretching from 4° N. to a
little below 6° S. It abuts easterly on the Brazils, and has from five
to six degrees of sea frontage to the Pacific. It boasts the chief range
of the Andes, with Chimbrazo for its centre, possesses the tale-honored
city of Quito, and the harbor of Guayaquil, than which none superior
could be desired by a great naval power. In the Escuador, also, are some
of the principal sources of the leviathan Amazon. We follow the London
papers of the latest date, and shall watch for such news as may be
brought us by other arrivals.
The "Colonial Gazette'" of December 5th, says :—
Crowds were attracted on Saturday to Blackwall, by the
arrival of the ''Glenelg," the flag ship of General Flores, having on
board his staff of commissioned officers for his intended invasion of
the Escuador, which, with two war steamers, was seized by Mr Forsayth,
the principal officer of the customs, by order of the Lords of the
Treasury, under the Equipment and Enlistment Art, on the ground that
they were fitted for the purposes of hostilities against a foreign
power. The "Glenelg" was towed up by two steam tugs, and is moored at
the buoys off Blackwall Pier. The steamers are lyiug in the East India
Dock, all under the surveillance of Mr Forsayth and his staff of Custom
house officers. They excited considerable curiosity from their peculiar
equipment and waslike appearance. There are on board the flag ship about
250 emigrants, or enlisted soldiers, many of whom have been most
severely ill-treated and imprisoned in the vessel. Amongst the
commissioned officers on board, we may mention, were—Sir James Bay, Sir
G. Ogilvie, Captain Harvey Tucket (late of the Thirteenth Hussars),
Colonel Wright, Captain Beggs, Capt. Sley, Mr M'Lean (Major), and Capt.
Hay.
The rumors in the Spanish papers, relative to the desertion
and mutiny amongst the followers of General Flores appears to be
incorrect. The General had arrived with a large force at Santander, and
was only waiting the arrival of the ships from England to embark for
South America.
The Lords of the Treasury condemned the "Glenelg" and the two
steamers ("Monarch and "Neptune"). The following extracts will bring up
information to its latest point, and we shall, no doubt, have more of
this rather mysterious matter before long. It is worthy notice, that the
Spanish Sovereign—for she and her Government stand by no means clear of
the imputation—may contemplate, under circumstances rather similar to
those of the Braganza dynasty, an occupation of a distant portion of the
empire to secure an asylum in case of need for herself. To proceed,
however, to our extracts :
The Lords of the Treasury having now directed the legal
condemnation of the "Glenelg", (Indiaman), and "Monarch" and "Neptune"
(steam ships), which were intended to take part in the proposed
expedition of General Flores to the Ecuador, the following particulars
relating to the contemplated invasion have been obtained:
In the early part of June, the Directors of the General
Steam Navigation Company were applied to for the sale of two of their
powerful steamers, and eventually two were disposed of to the parties
applying, viz., the "Monarch" steam ship, which had been running between
Leith and London, and the "Neptune" trading between Hamburgh and the
Thames. At about the same time, application was made from the same
quarter to Mr Green, the owner of the "Glenelg," which was then lying up
in the East India Docks, for its purchase, which was also effected. The
purchase money was promptly paid, and they were consigned to a Capt.
Charretie, who formerly was a marine captain in the East India Company's
service. Their complete repair was immediately proceeded with, the
utmost expedition being observed in getting them ready for sea. They
were represented to be for foreign service, and it was stated that the
"Glenelg" would be used as an emigrant ship. The unusual description of
work for the merchant service mentioned in the shipwright's contract
excited for some time much attention; but similar work having been done
to other vessels in the dock, which were really for foreign powers, and
sanctioned by the English Government, the suspicions created by the
fittings of the ''Glenelg" and the steamers passed away. In a short
time, however—about the beginning of September—the fact of a Colonel
being in London, who had served under General Flores in Colombia, and
authorised, it was said, to engage men, more particularly in Ireland, to
help the Spaniards in a certain expedition, and also to grant
commissions to officers with the same view, caused a revival of the
suspicions as to the purpose for which the vessels were intended. By the
following month, facts had transpired which greatly tended to confirm
previous suppositions, and on the 20th of that month Lord Palmerston,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, received a protest in respect to the
proposed expedition, signed by Baring. Brothers, & Co., and the
principal firms in the city, and calling upon the noble lord to put in
force the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act.
A second protest was subsequently forwarded from the President of
the Manchester Commercial Association, which embodied the same
representations.
The government immediately adopted measures to ascertain
the accuracy of the charges contained in these protests, and several of
the most active officers connected with the London Detective Police
Force were employed in the proceeding. A few days' exertion sufficed to
warrant the interference of Government. The principals were watched from
place to place, and equipments of a most warlike character were proved
to have been the object of their visits.
The fitting out of the vessels in the East India Docks
proceeded with much activity, and they were appointed to leave last
Thursday. From some unexplained circumstance, the steamer did not leave
on that day—the "Glenelg," however, did, and, after proceeding down the
river, took up the usual moorings off Gravesend. At this juncture, it
appears the Government had directed the detention of the vessel, and in
the course of the evening Mr Forsayth, the principal Jerquer of the
Customs, accompanied by a staff of his ofhcers, boarded and seized her
under the Equipment and Enlistment Act, 59th Geo. III, c. 69, for being
unlawfully equipped, without the sanction of her Majesty, for the
purpose of commencing hostilities against a foreign power. There were on
board, beside the ship's company, 250 young men, who seemed to have been
recently in the most destitute condition. The officers who had charge of
the vessel frankly admitted that those on board had enlisted to become
either soldiers or marines, and that she was to touch at Corunna. To a
casual observer, the vessel appeared to be fitted out as an ordinary
emigrant ship, but showed that the arrangements were very rudely put
together. She is a very large vessel, being 1200 tons burden. She has
three decks, and certainly, in her present state, may be more properly
called a transport ship than one in the emigrant trade. She is said to
contain a cargo of 700 tons of coals, and consequently draws
considerable water. No ammunition was found by the Government officers,
but of course it is difficult to state what she may really hold until
her large cargo is cleared out. Since her seizure, the Lords of tbe
Treasury have ordered her return to Blackwall for that purpose. As has
previously been announced, the steamers on Friday morning were seized on
behalf of the Crown by Mr Forsayth and, on inspecting them, there can be
no doubt of the purposes for which they were intended. They have been
entirely newly rigged, and evidently calculated to carry guns of large
calibre. Their exterior would cause no suspicion, but on mounting their
decks the bulwarks can be easily laid level for working guns of any
description.
Since the detention of the three ships, the Lords of the Treasury
have received a petition from Captain Charretie (who was eventually to
be appointed Admiral of the fleet), soliciting their restitution,
asserting that they were his own property, that he had fitted them out
as a matter of speculation, that he intended to take them to the coast
of Spain, and there to dispose of them to the best advantage to himself.
The result of the application has not transpired.
The
Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (New South
Wales) 19 May 1847 p1
THE
ECUADOR EXPEDITION.
[From the Britannia, Jan. 10.]
At the Thames Police Court, on Tuesday, Colonel Richard Wright,
consul-general of the state of Ecuador, in South America, and
aid-de-camp to General Flores, surrendered before Mr. Yardley, to his
bail, to answer a charge of misdemeanour, in violating the provisions
of the Foreign Equipment and Enlistment Act.
Mr. Harvey Tuckett, the informer in this case, and principal
witness for the crown, gave further evidence respecting the equipment
of the expedition. He stated that he went on board the Neptune and
Monarch steamers, with Colonel Wright, and looked at the fittings and
accommodation intended for General Flores and Captain Charitie. The
latter was to be the commodore of the expedition. He remarked to
Colonel Wright that the accommodations of the Monarch were very
defective. The Colonel himself appeared very much annoyed, and said
the accommodations were not sufficient for the men, but that,
notwithstanding, he would have 100 well-disciplined Spanish soldiers
on board from Corunna, as he would not entrust General Flores and
himself with Captain Charitie and an English crew in such a vessel. He
afterwards visited the Neptune. Both vessels were fitted up as
war-steamers, the Neptune in particular. Captain Sleigh accompanied
them on their visits of inspection, and he particularly remarked on
the strength of the iron knees on board of the two steamers, and said
they were strong enough to bear the heavy guns both vessels had to
carry. It must have been about the 2nd or 3rd of November when the war
steamers were visited by himself, Colonel Wright, and Captain Sleigh;
at a rough guess, he should say three weeks previous to embarkation on
board the Glenelg. He expressed his own conviction that the Monarch
and Neptune were capable of carrying heavy guns.
William Leith Butts deposed that he had been engaged by Colonel
Wright as senior captain of the regiment, with fifty dollars a month
for pay. He was informed by the colonel that the expedition was to go
to the Ecuador to replace General Flores in the office of president of
the republic, from which he had been ejected by an usurper named Roca.
Gabriel James Maturin, lately a superintendent of police at
Birmingham, and formerly a captain of lancers, gave similar evidence.
He understood he was engaged to fight for the reinstatement of General
Flores, as president of Ecuador.
Sir W. Ogilvie, Bart., of Strathearn-cottage, Brompton, deposed that
he had been engaged as aide-de-camp to General Flores, and had gone to
Limerick under the direction of Colonel Wright, to engage emigrants,
who were each promised twenty-five acres of land, a milch cow, and a
cottage free for ever. He had procured a large number of artisans,
mechanics, carpenters, smiths, labourers, "and others of that sort."
After some unimportant discussion the depositions were
completed, and Col. Wright was liberated on giving bail, himself in
£400, and two sureties in £200 each, to answer a charge of
misdemeanour at the next session of the Central Criminal Court.
Shortly after this, John was in further trouble arising from an
investigation into the sale of a cadetship to the East India Company that
had happened a number of years previously, in 1844, but the circumstances of
which had only recently come to light in 1846. He was found guilty and
sentenced to a fine of £800 and a year in prison.
The
Sydney Morning Herald (New South Wales) 14 April 1848 p4
SALE OF
A CADETSHIP.—THE QUEEN v. SIR W. YOUNG, CAPTAIN CHARRETIE, AND
OTHERS.—The facts of this important case are briefly these:—A gentleman
named Wotherspoon, a writer to the signet in Scotland, was desirous of
obtaining for his son a cadetship in the East India Company's Service,
and becoming acquainted with a lady of the name of Stewart, one of the
defendants in the action, in 1842 or 1843, he consigned to her care the
sum of £1080, through an order upon Jones Loyd and Co. By the aid of
this money, through the intervention of two persons named Rallett and
Trotter, she obtained an introduction to Captain Charretie, who was at
that time secretary of the Asturias Mining Company, of Sir W. Young, who
has been for a number of years a director in the East India Company, was
chairman. The cadetship was ultimately given by that gentleman, in 1844,
to young Wotherspoon. Now, by the Act 49 Geo. III., c. 126, it is
declared that the being in any way concerned in obtaining a cadetship by
the payment of money is a fraud and misdemeanor, and of course liable to
serious punishment; and in the course of granting the appointment
several certificates have to be filled up, and signed by the several
parties connected with the transaction. All this was done in the
appointment of young Wotherspoon. Things remained perfectly quiet as to
this transaction for a long time. But in 1846, there being some
proceedings against Rallett, in respect of other transactions, inquiries
were made, and then it was believed that the suspicions of the directors
were not confined to this single case, but that investigations had taken
place, with regard to other transactions and other persons, and that
discoveries had been made likely to affect the safety of the parties
concerned. Up to that moment Wotherspoon had known nothing of Charretie.
The only person he had known in the transaction was Mrs. Stewart. In the
month of July, 1846, he was surprised by a visit from Charretie, who
introduced himself as a person through whom his son's appointment had
been obtained. Charretie told him that he (Charretie) was the person
through whom his son had been appointed; that some enquiries were going
on in relation to that appointment, and who requested that Wotherspoon
would write and ante-date a letter to Sir W. Young for the purpose of
representing that an acquaintance had long before existed between them
on a matter of business, respecting a person named Gordon, pretended to
have run away deeply in debt to Sir W. Young. Wotherspoon refused to do
this, and Charretie left him, but soon after a correspondence began
between them. The affair came under the notice of the directors, and Sir
W. Young was examined before the Secret Committee, and appears by the
evidence to have prevaricated, and at length the prosecution ensued. The
money was traced, and the shares of the several parties in the
transaction were developed on the trial. The result, as our readers
know, was a conviction of Captain Charretie on the first and seventh
counts, or charges, as they ought rather to be called, and of Sir W.
Young on the seventh only; the first charge alleges the corrupt receipt
of money to procure a cadetship, and the seventh alleges conspiracy for
fraudulently giving or obtaining the appointment.
The
Courier (Hobart, Tasmania) 26 April 1848 p4
The
Court of Queen's Bench, sitting at Guildhall, had been occupied with the
trial of Captain Charretie, Sir William Young, late a Director of the
East India Company, Mrs. Anna Stewart, and a person named Rallett, for
having fraudulently obtained and sold for money a cadetship in the East
India Company's service. The only two defendants who appeared, Sir
William Young and Captain Charretie, pleaded "Not guilty." The other
defendants were out of the jurisdiction of the Court, and had not
pleaded. The facts of the case are shortly these. In the year 1842, a
writer to the signet named Wotherspoon, residing at Edinburgh, being
desirous of procuring a military appointment for his eldest son, became
acquainted with Mrs. Stewart, from whom he sought information as to the
best mode of carrying out his wishes. Mrs. Stewart appears to have told
Wotherspoon that a commission could be obtained by means of a
considerable outlay, and in that way only. Mrs. Stewart having left
Edinburgh for London, Mr. Wotherspoon shortly afterwards sent her 1,100l., to be applied in obtaining a
commission. Mrs. Stewart's first efforts were unsuccessful; and after
some delay she returned to Mr. Wotherspoon l,080l.
In 1844, however, the negotiation was reopened, and the money was again
remitted from Edinburgh. The defendant Rallett was now called in to aid
the plan. Through a Mr. Trotter, he obtained an introduction to Captain
Charretie, Secre- tary to the Asturias Mining Company; and through him
to Sir William Young, a Director both of that Company and of the East
India Company. Trotter received 50l.
for his aid; and the larger portion of Wotherspoon's remittance was paid
to Charretie. On parting with his money on the second occasion,
Wotherspoon required from Mrs. Stewart some security that the
negotiation should proceed. She accordingly sent him a letter addressed
by Sir William Young to Captain Charretie, stating that he would have
much pleasure in giving an appointment to young Wotherspoon in November.
Accordingly, in that month the appointment was made; and the young man
went out to Madras as a cadet in the December following. Everything
remained quiet until 1846; but in the course of some proceedings then
taken against Rallett by the East India Company in respect of other
transactions, the suspicions of the Directors became roused, and a
secret enquiry brought to light the sale of the cadetship to young
Wotherspoon. On these facts the present proceedings were founded. For
the defence, it was admitted on behalf of Captain Charretie, that he had
introduced Mr. Wotherspoon to Sir William Young; but it was contended
that no proof had been adduced of any connexion between Captain
Charretie and Mrs. Stewart, or that Captain Charretie had received any
portion of the mony. No doubt, he had done wrong in asking for the
appointment without sufficient inquiry, and had most improperly
endeavoured to conceal the affair. For this he must suffer in the
opinion of the jury; but this error, grievous as it was, did not make
out the charge now preferred. The defence raised for Sir William Young
was to the same effect. Against Captain Charretie the jury found a
general verdict of "Guilty;" but against Sir William Young the verdict
was "Guilty on the second count of the indictment," which charged a
conspiracy to obtain the appointment by sale.
New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian
31 October 1849 p3
In the
Court of Queen's Bench, sentence had been passed on Captain Charretie,
for the offence of which he was lately convicted — that of selling an
East Indian cadetship. He was found guilty on two counts. On the first
he was sentenced to be imprisoned one year in the Queen's Prison, and on
the second count to be imprisoned for the same year ; and in addition he
is to pay £800 to the Queen, and be imprisoned so long as he does not
pay it. He is to be placed among misdemeanants of the first class.
Further details of the trial and legal issues arising from it can be found
in The English Reports vol 116 pp1333-1340 and
The Law Reporter March 1848 pp481-488.
After this judgement, John declared bankruptcy:
Allen's
Indian Mail 1849 p371
Court of Bankruptcy, June 13.
In the Bankruptcy of ——
Charretie.— The bankrupt, who applied for his certificate is
under sentence of imprisonment pronounced by the Court of Queen's Bench
for the sale of a cadetship in the East India Company's service. The
private debts are not large but the liabilities are enormous. The
following are the main items of the balance-sheet. Creditors holding
security, 1,991l.; ditto
unsecured, 200l.; liabilities,
80,090l.; pension received from
the East-India Company, 300l.;
legacy, 100l.; profits, 1,585l.; capital, 8,502l.
The assets consist of property, 321l.;
ditto in the hands of creditors, 400l.;
debts, 2,000l. The losses are
set down at 9,617l.; and the
expenses at 40½l.
Mr. Lawrance appeared
for the assignees, and, on their behalf, declined to accept of any
portion of the bankrupt's pension, a proposal which had been suggested
at a previous meeting. The learned gentleman offered no opposition.
Certificate granted.
After his maritime career, John was also involved in mining ventures.
Reports from his cadetship trial show him as secretary of the Asturias
Mining Company in 1842 and a bankruptcy proceeding in 1849 states his
occupation as a steel and iron manufacturer in the Nister Dale Iron Company,
and formerly a coal merchant and brick and tile manufacturer for the Trimdon
colliery (London Gazette 30 March 1849 p1058). In
1853 he is recorded forming
a copromoter of mpany to work the Cwmheisian mine in Wales. Another
bankruptcy proceeding in 1859 states John to be a general agent and the
Northfleet Docks and London Quays company (London Gazette 30 August 1859 p3265).
John died on 18 November 1868, in Kensington, Middlesex, aged 80.
The
Register; and Magazine of Biography vol 1 p68 (1869)
Deaths
Nov. 18. At Kensington, aged 81,
Capt. John Charretie, late of Hon. E.I.C.'s service.
Census & Addresses:
1834: Axminster, Devon (Correspondence between the Court of Directors and
Capt. J. Charretie p5)
1834: 3 Burton Crescent, Tavistock Square, London (Correspondence between the Court of Directors and
Capt. J. Charretie p7)
1837: Axminster, Devon (Correspondence between the Court of Directors and
Capt. J. Charretie p29)
1838: Five Houses, Clapton, Middlesex (Correspondence between the Court of Directors and
Capt. J. Charretie p32)
1849: 15 Trinity Square, Southwark, Surrey (London Gazette 30 March 1849 p1058)
1859: Hornton Cottage, Hornton Street, Kensington, Middlesex (London
Gazette 30 August 1859 p3265)
14 September 1838, in Brighton
district, Sussex, England, after a lingering and painful illness of
twelve months.
The will of Kitty
Alderson Charretie, wife of Farzebrook House near Axminster, Devon was
proved on 8 October 1838 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Margaret (Lloyd, Wood) Shepherd
29 December 1796
9 February 1797, in St Lawrence
Jewry & St Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, London, England
Margaret is recorded as the daughter of William and Kitty Alderson, Lloyd,
born the 29th of December and baptised the 9th of
February 1797
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd
Richard Wood on 27 December
1817, in St John Hackney, Middlesex, England
Richard Wood is recorded as a bachelor of St Martins in the Fields,
Middlesex. Margaret Lloyd is recorded as a spinster, of St John Hackney. She
is a minor, married by license with consent of her guardians. The marriage
was witnessed by James Stow and Kit Stow, guardians of Margaret, Emma Lloyd,
Edna Wood and T. A. Alderson.
Henry Shepherd on 2 February
1824, St Pancras, Middlesex, England
The Rev. Henry Shepherd is recorded as a widower, of St Pancras. He is a
clerk. Margaret Wood is recorded as a widower, of St Pancras. The marriage,
by licence, was officiated by James Wood, vicar, and witnessed by Philip
Charretie, K. A. Stow and Ralph Watin.
1838: Wellingham Lodge, Brighton, Sussex (Correspondence between the Court of Directors and
Capt. J. Charretie p31)
Mary Lloyd
17 May 1788
12 June 1788, in St Martin Ludgate,
London, England
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd Mary is not mentioned in the will of her great-uncle
Christopher Alderson in 1810, although four of her siblings are named in the
will, and so it is likely that she died before 1810.
Mary Ann Frances Lloyd
2 March 1795
4 August 1795, in St Lawrence Jewry
& St Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, London, England
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd Mary Ann is not mentioned in the will of her great-uncle
Christopher Alderson in 1810, although four of her siblings are named in the
will, and so it is likely that Mary Ann died before 1810.
Thomas Lloyd
Robert Lloyd
Alice (Salisbury) Lloyd
Elizabeth Myddleton
Elizabeth was the daughter of John Myddleton
Clergyman and attorney at law
In the burial record Thomas is referred to
as "Thomas Loyd, Gentl & Atuney att Law"
Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
(Burke, 1850) p207 states that Thomas was "of Plas Power, and of
Wrexham". The baptism record of his son, also Thomas, in the parish church
of Chirk, Denbighshire, states that Thomas and Elizabeth are "of Gwern
Ospin".
23 January 1685(6) in Wrexham,
Denbighshire, Wales
Thomas Loyd, Gentl & Atuney att Law buried the 23 day of January 1685
The will of Thomas Lloyd, Gentleman of
Wrexham, Denbighshire, dated 19 January 1685(6) and proved 24 March 1686 is held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/382/377).
In the name of
God Amen I Thomas LLoyd of Wrexham of the Diocese of St.
Asaph and County of Denbigh Gent being weake in body but of perfect sense
and memory praised be God for the same doe make and declare this my last
Will and Testament in manner and forme following ffirst and principally I
comit my body and soule to the hands of Almighty God stedfastly believing
the salvation thereof through the merits of Jesus Christ And my body to be
buryed in Christian buryall as becomes the discretion of my friends I give
and bequeath towards the reparation of the church of Wrexham the summe of
Tenne shillings Item I give and bequeath to the poore of the said Parish
the summe of five pounds to be distributed amongst them by the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the poore of the said Parish soone after my
decease I doe give devise and bequeath all my Messuages Lands and
Tenements in the parish of Llanarmon in Yale And alsoe all that Messuage
and Tenement in Dyffin-Clwyd in the said County of Denbigh to my
wellbeloved wife Elizabeth for and during the terme of her life for and in
the name of her joynture Item I give bequeath and devise all my Messuages
Lands and Tenements in Bodvarey in the County of Flint to my second sonne
John LLoyd and his heires and Assignes forever To have and to hold the
said Messuages Lands and Tenements in Bodvarey aforesaid unto the said
John LLoyd his heires and Assignes forever and to noe other use intent or
purpose whatsoever Item I doe give devise and bequeath unto my Daughter
Elizabeth the summe of three hundred and fifty pounds and the interest
thereof of which I have in a mortgage of certain Lands in Nantglyn in the
County of Denbigh from John Middleton of Gwaynenog in the said County of
Denbigh Esqr to her and her heires forever subject to the provisoe of the
condition of redemption in the said Mortgage mentioned and expressed I
give devise and bequeath unto my Daughter Anne LLoyd the summe of nine
score pounds which I have in mortgage of the late Lands of Robert Williams
of Biston and now the Lands of David Eddowes in the said County of Denbigh
To have and to hold te said Lands in mortgage from the said Robert
Williams of Biston aforesaid unto the said Anne LLoyd her heires and
Assignes forever And as to the rest and residue of all and singular my
Messuages Lands and Tenements rents reversions and heriditaments in Barrog
Botruel(?) Denbigh LLeweny Minera and Bosham and Wrexham in the said
County of Denbigh together with the Lands limitted for my Wifes joynture
after her decease to the use and behoofe of my eldest sonne Thomas LLoyd
his heires and Assignes forever subject and lyable nevertheless unto the
annuity or rent charge of twenty pounds p. Anno payable unto my sonne
Roger at Lady Day and Michaelmas yearly which shall first happen after my
decease by even and equall portions And I doe hereby constitute and
appoint my loving Wife Elizabeth LLoyd my Daughters Elizabeth LLoyd and
Anne LLoyd to be joynt Executors of this my last Will and Testament And I
doe desire my good cozen Ellis Meredith Esqr and Roger Middleton of
Denbigh Gent to be Overseers of this my last Will and Testament In
witnesse whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seale the nineteenth Day
of January Anno Dmi One thousand six hundred eighty five Tho LLoyd Signed
sealed and published in the presence of Peter Wynne Clerk Ellis Meredith
Roger Middleton Arthur Hammer Griffith Edwards
Thomas Lloyd
1670/1
Thomas Lloyd
Elizabeth (Myddleton) Lloyd
Elizabeth
Leche on 18 January 1686
Clergyman
In the baptism record of his son, also Thomas, Thomas is referred to as
"Thomas Loyd, clerc"
Thomas is named as the eldest son in his father's will, dated 19 January
1685(6), held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/1249/161), in which he inherits
substantial lands.
... And as to the rest and residue of all and
singular my Messuages Lands and Tenements rents reversions and
heriditaments in Barrog Botruel(?) Denbigh LLeweny Minera and Bosham and
Wrexham in the said County of Denbigh together with the Lands limitted for
my Wifes joynture after her decease to the use and behoofe of my eldest
sonne Thomas LLoyd his heires and Assignes forever subject and lyable
nevertheless unto the annuity or rent charge of twenty pounds p. Anno
payable unto my sonne Roger at Lady Day and Michaelmas yearly which shall
first happen after my decease by even and equall portions
Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
(Burke, 1850) p207 states that Thomas was "of Plas Power, and of
Wrexham". The baptism record of his son, also Thomas, in the parish church
of Chirk, Denbighshire, states that Thomas and Elizabeth are "of Gwern
Ospin".
19 October 1734, aged 63
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Headstone of Thomas Lloyd and Elizabeth
(Leche) Lloyd in St Giles churchyard, Wrexham, Denbighshire
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22 October 1734 in St Giles
churchyard Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
The burial register reads:
22 Mr Tho Lloyd of Place Power buried
The gravestone reads:
In memory
of The Reverd Mr THOMAS LLOYD
of Plas Power in this Parish
Who dyed the 19th day of October
1734 Aged 63
And
of ELIZABETH his wife
Daughter of John Leche Esqr
of Cawarden in Cheshire
She dyed December the 23d 1746
Aged 70
Thomas Lloyd
of Plas Madoc and Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
25 August 1711
28 August 1711, in Chirk,
Denbighshire, Wales
Thomas is recorded as the son of Thomas Loyd, clerc, and Elizabeth his wife,
of Gwern Ospin. He was born on 25th of August 1711 and baptized
28th of Aug. 1711
Thomas Lloyd
Elizabeth
(Leche) Lloyd
Mary
Shepherd on 18 December 1740 in St Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Thomas Lloyd is recorded as being of Wrexham. Mary Shepherd is recorded as
being of Birmingham. They were married by licence.
The marriage license, issued in the parish of St Philip, Birmingham,
Warwickshire, records Thomas Lloyd as being aged 28, of Wrexham, Denbigh,
and Mary Shephard as being single, aged 22, resident in the parish of St
Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Mercer
(a merchant, usually dealing in textiles and fabrics).
In 1731, Thomas bought an inn, The Mitre
at 30 High Street, Wrexham, on the death of its proprietor, Mr. John
Stephenson, and converted the building into a mercer's shop. He remained
here until 1756, when he moved to a new shop higher up the street at 38
& 39 High Street which he occupied until his death in 1793.
24 April 1793
1 May 1793, in Wrexham,
Denbighshire, Wales
Tho. Lloyd is recorded as a mercer, aged 83.
The will of Thomas Lloyd, Gentleman of
Wrexham, Denbighshire, dated 20 November 1792 and proved 8 September 1794 is held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/1249/161).
This is
the last will and Testament of me Thomas Lloyd of Wrexham in the
County of Denbigh Gentleman first I will and direct that all my just Debts
funeral expenses and Costs of proving this my will shall be fully paid and
satisfied I give and devise all that my Messuage or Dwelling house with
the shop Buildings yards hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto
belonging situate lying and being in the Town of Wrexham in the County of
Denbigh unto and to the use of my Dear wife Mary Lloyd and my son John
Lloyd and their heirs and assigns for ever upon Trust and to the Intent
and purpose that they the said Mary Lloyd and John Lloyd or the Survivor
of them of the heirs or assigns of such Survivor do and shall with all
convenient speed after my decease sell and dispose of the said premises
and the money arising therefrom I do hereby direct shall be considered as
part of my personal Estate I give and bequeath all and singular my
household Goods plate Linen and China together with the Interest use and
produce arising from from all and singular my ready money personal Estate
and Effects whatsoever unto my said Dear wife for and during the term of
her natural life also I give and bequeath unto my said Son John Lloyd and
my daughters Charlotte Evans Ann Lloyd and Elizabeth Lloyd the sum of two
thousand pounds a piece and I do hereby direct that the said Legacies
shall be paid to my said Son and Daughters or their respective
Representatives within six months next after the decease of my said wife
with Interest at four pounds per Centum from the Day of her Death to my
sons William Lloyd and Richard Lloyd I have already given two thousand
pounds a piece and as to all the Rest and Residue of my personal Estate
and Effects whatsoever if any such then shall happen to be after the
decease of my said Dear wife and payment of my said Legacies I give and
bequeath the same to my said Sons William John and Richard and my said
Daughters Charlotte Ann and Elizabeth to be equally divided between them
share and share alike and for the promoting and facilitating the Sale of
my said Real Estate it is my will and I do hereby direct that the Receipt
or Receipts of my said Trustees or either of them or of the Survivor of
them or the heirs of such Survivor shall be good and effectual discharges
in the law to the purchasor or purchasors of my said Messuage Dwelliong
house heriditaments and premises for such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be
therein specified or Expressed and that such purchasor or puchasors shall
not be answerable or accountable for the loss during application or non
application of such purchase Money nor shall my said Trustees or either of
them be answerable for the acts or receipts of the other or for any loss
which may happen in the said Trust And Law then I do hereby revoke all
former will or wills by me at any time heretofore made and do nominate and
appoint my said Dear Wife Mary Lloyd and Sons John Lloyd and Richard Lloyd
Executrix and Executors of this my will In witness whereof I the said
Testator Thomas Lloyd have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twentieth
day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
ninety two Thos Lloyd signed sealed published and declared by the
said Testator Thomas Lloyd as and for his last will and Testament in the
presence of us who have subscribed our Names as witnesses thereto in his
presence and in the presence of each other Chas Poyser Jane Poyzer
Thos Bennion
This Will was proved at London the eighth day of September in
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety four before the
Right Honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by
the Oaths of Mary Lloyd Widow the Relict and Richard Lloyd and John Lloyd
the Sons of the deceased and the Executors named in the said Will to whom
administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and
Credits of the said deceased they having been first sworn to wit the said
Mary Lloyd and Richard Lloyd by Commission and the said John Lloyd before
the worshipful James Henry Arnold Doctor of Laws and Surrogate duly to
administer
William Lloyd
21 October 1742, in Wrexham,
Denbighshire, Wales
9 November 1742, in Minera,
Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
William is recorded as the son of Mr Thomas Lloyd, mercer. He was
born on October 21.
Thomas Lloyd
Mary
(Shepherd) Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson Lever on 24 April 1785, in St George Hanover Square,
Middlesex, England
William Lloyd and Kitty Lever are both of St George Hanover Square. The
marriage, by banns, was officiated by J. Downes and witnessed by Peter Tyson
and Ann Elliot
William is named in the will of his
father, dated 20 November 1792, held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/1249/161).
... I give and bequeath unto my said Son John
Lloyd and my daughters Charlotte Evans Ann Lloyd and Elizabeth Lloyd the
sum of two thousand pounds a piece and I do hereby direct that the said
Legacies shall be paid to my said Son and Daughters or their respective
Representatives within six months next after the decease of my said wife
with Interest at four pounds per Centum from the Day of her Death to my
sons William Lloyd and Richard Lloyd I have already given two thousand
pounds a piece and as to all the Rest and Residue of my personal Estate
and Effects whatsoever if any such then shall happen to be after the
decease of my said Dear wife and payment of my said Legacies I give and
bequeath the same to my said Sons William John and Richard and my said
Daughters Charlotte Ann and Elizabeth to be equally divided between them
share and share alike
20 June 1797
William Lloyd
5 December 1791
30 January 1792, in St Stephen,
Coleman Street, London, England
William
Lloyd
Kitty
Alderson (Lever) Lloyd
Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
(Burke, 1850) p207 notes that William died young.
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