Descendants of INMAN family of Hampstead

[Witsend]

I would like to find descendants of the INMAN family of Hampstead

My husband’s 2nd gt grandmother was Mary Ann (nee Reid) b. c 1820 St Geo. Hanover Sq.  who married Thomas WOOLLAMS in London 1842.

Mary Ann’s younger sister was:
Janet Susannah (nee Reid) INMAN  b.c  1825 at St Geo. Hanover Square, London.  Janet married  Richard Kesterton INMAN ……… who was joint owner of the clothing company ‘Beale and Inman' in London.

Their children::
Richard James INMAN b. 1849 d. 1890 (m Annie Letitia STRUGNELL 1872)
George Talfourd INMAN b. 1851 d. 1930 ? (m Emily Hope SIMS 1875) 
Marshall Nisbet INMAN b. 1853 d. 1921  (m Emily Jane STRUGNELL 1877)
Henry Beale INMAN b. 1855 d. 1943 (m Sarah Martha CRISP 1880)
Elizabeth Mary INMAN b 1859


In 1849 Mary Ann WOOLLAMS died leaving four young sons. Three of these sons emigrated to New Zealand in the 1850s.  One of them Thomas WOOLLAMS died in NZ in 1880 aged 35 leaving a pregnant wife and four other children.  Thomas’s wife Mary  wrote to England to the Aunt Janet INMAN to tell of her plight and received generous funds to help.  In gratitude Thomas & Mary Woollam’s grandson was given INMAN as a middle name.  In turn  two of Thomas & Mary’s gt  grandsons were given the name INMAN and now there is a  gt gt grandson b. 2008  with INMAN as a middle name.

I have done some research and discovered Janet Susannah INMAN was indeed a generous benefactoress .  There was an obituary for her in The Times on Aug 20th 1920,  some 20 years after her death which read:  INMAN in grateful memory of Janet Susannah Inman who died 1899, a generous benefactress by Will of the National Hospitial for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square. .

I would very much like to make contact with any descendants in the hope of finding someone who may have a photograph of  Janet .  We have a small bible given to one of her nephews inscribed by Janet with a verse .  It would be nice for her New Zealand gt gt nephews and gt gt gt nephew who carry her name to know more about her.

I would be grateful to hear from anyone who knows of this family.
Many thanks
Judy

[fafner]

I have been researching the history of the area where I live.
Around 1875 Marshall Nisbet Inman, architect, of 7 Bedford Row, London, drew a master plan for the ‘Belmont Estate’ in Sutton, Surrey. In 1882 he took out a lease of the estate.

A small part was developed at that time, but the rest held fire until 1898 when the lease was converted into a freehold in the names of Marshall Nisbet Inman, Henry Beale Inman of Rickford Lodge, Hampstead, and Annie Letitia Inman, widow, of Carlingford, Worsley Road, Hampstead. In November 1901 Henry Beale Inman changed his middle name to Reid by deed poll.

In 1921 Ronald Kesterton Inman, surveyor, of 6 Dorset Square, London, and Edith Inman, spinster, of 71 London Road, Tunbridge Wells acquired an interest in the estate in consideration of loans made to H R Inman.

Development of the estate was virtually completed by the mid 1920s, with individual householders acquiring their freeholds from H R Inman, at which stage the family connection appears to have ended.

Hope this is of interest.

[Witsend]

Thanks for that information.  Very interesting.
I had wondered about the change of Henry's name from Beale to Reid.  I'm still working on tracking down living relatives.