George Hundleby born 1789 Crawley

[corinne]

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. 

[SH100]

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
 

[corinne]

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.