Hi Riwia,
Yesterday I found a reference to the English estates of American Settlers: American Wills and Administrations in the Preogative Court of Canterbury 1800-1858 by Peter Wilson Coldham.
It reads thus
Thomson, Ann, of New Jersey, widow, Administration to daughter Anna Maria, wife of Michael Honseal (sic) (Apr. 1801).
I'm reasonably sure it's Michael and Anna Maria Houseal that is referred to.
There was also a little reference in a book called Valentine's manula of Old New York
Mrs Jane Houseal, wife of Michael Houseal, Captain in his Britannic Majesty's service, died on Saturday last at Bedford LI (Long Island?) in the 24th year of her age. (poss January 1798?)
Actually I think Michael's children are
1. Bernard Houseal (mother Mary Shand Houseal) listed on the passenger list for the HMS Clinton and his christening recorded in New York on IGI. Possibly died young in Nova Scotia?
2. Edward William Wilbraham Griffith Houseal (possibly the child of second wife?). There is a marriage to Mary Christie in Paris at the British Embassy Chapel on IGI Subsequent marriage (2x) to Maria on Freebmd. He is the one that ran the school for protestant young men in Paris. Belle Thompson says that family history has it that Edward Lane went to school in Paris and I'm assuming that he went to the one run by his cousin?. This man is also one of the witnesses to George Dawkins Lane's second marriage to Jane Williams.
3. Sybilla Houseal - no record of birth but died of consumption at her brother EWWG Houseal's establishment in Paris according to the death notice in 1824 I think.
4. George Houseal was murdered in Rome 1837, definitely a brother of EWWG Houseal because he wrote an obituary.
I'm not sure about WJB Houseal and Michael Daniel except of course we know Michael Daniel existed.
There is also an interesting group of Honseals on New York censuses who were born in France. I'm sure they are connected but not sure how just yet. Maybe they are children of EWWG Houseal since one is Edward Honseal. Maybe I need to order EWWG Houseal's death certificate just to see if he had any children?
In a book called something like The Private Journal of Aaron Burr during his Four Years in Exile ?? there is a reference to a Michael Howseal German translator. At one stage he says "Home to receive Howseal, who was to call with some of his children. He came at four, and brought m'lle., who is very pretty and genteel and three boys. We had a little repast of peaches and grapes, bread, butter, cheese and wine, which cost three livres, and a nosegay for m'lle. Stayed till five".
I'm reasonably sure he is talking about Michael Houseal tho it is only a feeling.
Anyway, it's all just more needles in the haystack of Housealsbut it adds to the picture
Hilary
