Henry Baynham
According to Elizabeth’s marriage certificate he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. No military record has been located (I looked up The Army List.) Private communication gives his birth date as 1 December 1801 – this could have been in India/Ceylon. Private communication gives his death as 20th December 1833, at Plymouth.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,354087.0/prev_next,prev.html has death date as 19th Dec 1833.
Henry's parents were George Baynham, a captain in the 4th Regiment of Foot and Caroline nee Pridham,second daughter of John Pridham, a Spirit Merchant in Plymouth, Devon. They married in 1801, in Plymouth. Following their marriage, the couple moved to the East Indies. In 1803, Captain Baynham was in the Ceylon Regiment of Foot. Allegedly he died in 1803, but this is to be confirmed. His wife definitely died 1st May1804 in Calcutta. [
http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/FullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=014-000028012 “Under this stone lie the remains of Caroline, the wife of Captain George Baynham, of H. M. Ceylon Regt. of Infantry, (the best of wives and the best of mothers) she died on the 1st May 1804, aged 22 years.; South Park St. Burial Ground, Calcutta”]
Loose end:
A Henry Baynham Scott Brooking was born 28Feb1834. He entered King William’s College , Isle of Man, in August 1846, leaving in Midsummer 1849.
Elizabeth Mary Drake Baynham
Born in Plymouth about 1832 (1851 Census), the daughter of Henry Baynham (#46) and Hannah Brooking (#47). In 1851 she was living with her mother and sister Constance Brooking Baynham at Marsh Cottage, Egg Buckland, Plymouth. At her marriage to Frederick Paull (#22) she was living at 44 Tavistock Place in the parish of Charles, Plymouth. She and Frederick were married in the parish church 1 August 1857, and the wedding was witnessed by her sister. Maybe her parents were overseas at this time?
The Drake portion of her surname is from her great grandmother, Elizabeth Drake.
Her children included Maria Prideaux Paull (#11) and reputedly Henry Baynham Paull, a person who certainly existed. I have not yet been able to find any census record.
Frederick Paull was a surgeon in the Bishop’s Wearmouth district of Durham, where Maria Prideaux Paull was born in 1863.
Date, place and cause of death are unknown.
James Foster Brooking (
Born in Newton Ferrers, he was the younger brother of Rear Admiral Samuel Brooking (1754-1834), and was the Lord of the Manor(tbc). He married Anna Bickell (#95), daughter of George and Anne Bickell 1n Tavistock , 5th July 1802, their children being Ann (31 March 1803), Samuel (3 March 1805) and Hannah (#47) (31 December 1807). Place, cause and date of death are unknown.
5.3 Hannah Brooking
Born in Newton Ferrers 31 December 1807, the third child.
Born in Newton Ferrers in 1807, she married Henry Baynham (#46) 29November 1826 at Charles The Martyr, Plymouth, Devon. According to the 1851 census they had at least two daughters, Constance Brooking Baynham (1829) and Elizabeth Mary Drake Baynham (#23) (1831), both born in Plymouth. These births are not recorded in parish registers.
In 1851 Hannah was a widow, living with these two daughters as a “Landed Lady” in Marsh Cottage, Egg Buckland. There were no servants in this establishment. Her whereabouts in 1841 and1861 are unknown, but she allegedly died in Bath, Somerset in 1870.
