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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests => Hampshire & Isle of Wight => England => Hampshire & IOW Completed Lookup Requests => Topic started by: SH100 on Sunday 03 January 10 07:43 GMT (UK)
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I would be very grateful if somebody could check for George Hundleby, who was possibly baptised 5 April 1789. I believe he was born in Crawley and that this is near Winchester. I would love to know his parents' names and anything else you can glean from the record.
Many thanks
Susan
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Hi Susan,
Its on Freereg;
George HUNDLEBY
Baptised, 05 April 1789, St Marys, Crawley, Hampshire
Parents;
Mother ,Hundleby
Father, Jenny Pitter Hundleby
WOW I dont know whats going on there :P
Trish :)
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I saw the Lincolnshire ref on your profile.
Is this Georges Marriage?
George HUNDLEBY
Elizabeth DICKENSON
04 May 1812, Great Steeping, Lincoln, England
This maybe related or not;
DEATH;
Burials in the County of Camberwell, Surrey
George HUNDLEBY, age 41, born 1789, Lambeth, 12 March 1830 at St Giles
Trish :)
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Duplicate post on Sussex board.
Andrea
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Thanks Andrea :)
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Thanks Trish - this is wonderful - I have got all excited and messed up the boards! :-[
You are now my heroine! ;D
... and you raise a very interesting question. I don't think this is George who married Elizabeth Dickenson. I am fairly certain that George was the legitimate son of Robert Hundleby.
You will have seen the other posting - I now want to know who his father was! I think this George married into the Curtis family - I found his will some years ago on TNA and to date I have not been able to connect him into the family. If you are interested you may like to Google "Louisa Frances Curtis" and see an example of her jewellery.
2010 is going to be a good year for Family History ;D
Regards
Susan
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Just want to put my bit in on this message board so I get alerted to updates on this line of enquiry. I am a CURTIS - a direct descendant of the father of Louisa Frances CURTIS who married a George HUNDLEBY who may well be the illegitimate son of Jenny HUNDLEBY, born in Crawley in 1789. This is the right date for my George - I had him admitted as a lawyer to Lincolns Inn on Nov 11 1828 at the age of 38 (i.e birth about 1790). If it is him, then he certainly is a very interesting chap to have achieved what he had. Now to confirm who the father was!
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I have a copy of The Courier, dated Thursday evening, September 3, 1818. This was given to me by my favourite aunt Sarah Hundleby, It says
MARRIED
On Tuesday last, at Camberwell, George Hundleby, of Great James-street, Bedford-row, Esq, solicitor to Louisa Frances, eldest daughter of John Curtis of Denmark-hill.
I often wondered about George and Louisa and why I happened to have this paper!
John
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Welcome John :)
Wow out of nowhere comes extra info. Hopefully Susan will see this soon.
Sorry Corinne somehow I wasnt notified of your posting to this thread and I agree he must have been a very interesting chap.
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just to keep a bit more information on this thread so we know who we are talking about, after Louisa Frances nee Curtis died, George HUNDLEBY married her sister Emily. George died soon after this second marriage, and Emily CURTIS then married Sir William TITE (the eminent architect). George HUNDLEBY is definitely a very interesting person, and his life is a bit of a mystery - marrying a sister of his wife should have been a prohibited degree of relationship, but somehow he got away with it, however one would have thought that Emily would then have remarried under her first married name, but the marriage to Sir William TITE gave his wife as emily CURTIS and no mention seems to have been made of her first marriage. Complex dealings around marriages between families for business or inheritance purposes were common in those days, but there doesn't seem to be any real evidence for this either at the moment (from George's will, and looking at business and legal partnerships). Still, I have been working on finding out about George for probably close on 20 years and a lot of this information has only just surfaced in the last 12 months or so, so there could be a lot more still out there.
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Hello John - it's good to hear from you. Do you have any ideas at all why your aunt had this newspaper cutting?
With help from Corinne and others we are collecting lots of information about George but his parents still remain a complete mystery. I can let you have more information if you send me an IM.
I am guessing that George's mother was the Hundleby and his biological father was very wealthy and supported George with his career without being able to marry his mother.
I have been searching the Pitter family name to try and find a likely candidate without success.
George names his "mother" in his will as Mrs Houghton. Corinne has identified a Henrietta Diddams who married Henry Houghton 11 Sept 1791 in Weeke near Winchester. I have confirmed the Henrietta connection on the subsequent census records and I am certain this is the correct marriage record. I have also traced all his half siblings on the census records but this still hasn't shed any light on who George's parents were. Henrietta was Henry's second wife according to the IGI. We haven't yet identified who Henry's first wife was - could she have been George's real mother (Jenny Hundleby)?
If anybody has access to the Hampshire records and is able to identify Henry's first wife it would be great to hear from you. I think Henry Houghton was born about 1766.
S
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Its good to keep checking in here - I hadn't caught up with the fact that Henrietta was Henry Houghtons second wife! Now to find the first. I agree, she could well be George Hundlebys mother. Henrietta was really just that little bit too young to be George's mother from memory.