CHURL(E)Y Family

[mike123]

Many thanks Dav that is very useful

Do you by any chance have any of the earlier Manleys or close relatives  marrying into any of the Siderfin, Hole, Pearse, Jeanes, Halliday Wellman or Wyatt familes  -  if you do that might just about complete a big missing piece of my jigsaw

Cheers
Mike

(Thomas Darch did in fact follow his wife and some of his children to Philadelphia where he died in 1799 - it looks as though he lost most of his immense wealth after the French War and sent them on ahead of him where his wife established quite a good business for her and the children - more details available should you want them - Joan died after him )

[susan202]

Hi - we're conducting a one-named-study into the Siderfin's and known that there was at least one marriage between the Siderfin and Darch family - it this your connection to them?
We can be contacted via this site or via www.siderfin.co.uk
Regards Mark Siderfin and Sue

[Dav]

Hi Mike
sorry in taking so long in getting back to you, I have not come across any of the names that your have mentioned except for Pearse, but they come in at a latter time, Edward Manley the son of Edward Manley and Joan Churley married a Ann Perry Pearse who was born about 1750 I think she was from Sidbury and that she was the dau of a John Pearse, after Edward died she remarried a Joseph Cook in 1786 at Honiton she died 20/06/1823.
The other Pearse was Sarah Pearse ( my 4 great Grandmother ) was from Sidbury and was b in 1779 she died at Sidbury and was buried there on the 15/02/1843 she was married to Robert Manley son of Henry Churley Manley.
As I said in my earlier reply Henry Manley who married Joan Gervis and the Edward Manley who married Joan Churley were brothers.
They were the sons of Robert Manley and Joan Churley this was a large family of 12 children  the family as far as I know looked something like this

Robert Manley of Hemyock married 16/08/1700 at Uffculme to Joan Churley
bap 18/03/1670/1 at Hemyock
bur 14/04/1747 at Hemyock                 bur 04/01/1759
occupation Yeoman and Gentleman of Windsor Farm
son of Robert Manley and Dorothy Manley

1.   Robert   bap 22/12/1701 bur 22/05/1741
2.   Henry                   bap 05/01/1704 bur 01/05/1775
3.   Nicholas   bap 12/06/1706 bur 21/05/1784
4.   Dorothy   bap 29/07/1708
5.   Elizabeth   bap 06/05/1711 d young
6.   William   bap 21/06/1712 bur 18/12/1740
7.   Elizabeth    bap 28/08/1714
8.   Joan      bap 28/08/1714 bur 03/09/1749 unmarried
9.   Patience   bap 16/10/1717 bur 30/11/1759
10. Edward   bap 09/09/1721 bur 11/03/1785
11. Eleanor   bap 04/08/1724
12. Mary                   bap 29/12/1727 bur 22/02/1794

Dorothy married 07/01/1744 to Thomas Osmund
Elizabeth married 14/02/1740 at St Mary Magdelene Taunton Somerset to Leonard Tratt or Trott
Patience married Jonathon Waldron
Eleanor married 01/09/1760 William Churchill

Henry and Edward were the only sons of this family to marry.
I must admit I was not aware of a Robert Manley being a Mayor of Taunton and I would be very interested knowing a bit more of what became of Thomas Darch and his family once they went to Philadelphia.
once again in taking so long to reply
regards
Dav

[mike123]

Hi Dav, thanks for all of that

you can check out quite a bit of detail on Darch in philadephia on google book link

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7TSs-hmJYYIC&pg=PA8&dq=bretton+darch+philadelphia&hl=en&ei=fR4XTs73BYeyhAeNlenMBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

My interest in the Halls starts with Richard Clarke of Bridwell in your area and after he died his wife Mary married Samuel Hall a non conformist minister  from Tiverton  whose son Jonathan Hall married  Mary Darch . A Hall friend in the USA is chasing down his family who arrived in Taunton in the late 1600's marrying into the Wyndham family and subsequently one of his sons, Benjamin Hall was mayor of Taunton in 1752 and one of his family Sarah married Robert Manley. With all the inter connections we are fairly sure that this Robert was mayor of Taunton in 1760 but cannot yet be certain its one and the same. We are also trying to chase down where John Hall, father of Benjamin came from before marrying Beata Wyndham. A Elizabeth Pearse was widow of Weeks Hole of Sidbury area .A Hole earlier had a grandson Phillip Darch and is linked in deeds at Woolavington - thats the one I myself am after! I havent yet worked out exactly who he married in the Darch clan to make him grandad!  Later one of the Pearse's married a Lethbridge and lots of the Darch lands went awol after Thomas fled to America.  Im awaiting copies of court records at Kew to see if they will throw any light on the rest of the family. These properties ended up with Richard Hall Clarke who eventually sold them to another Hole after they had been contested for several generations! That particular Darch line had many vicars and is now extinct in the UK through lack of male heirs - with a remote possibility of the family surviving in America through one of his sons.
If you can let me have an email address I can send you quite a file on the Philadelpia lot - too big to copy here
Thanks again

Mike