Looking for Barker Joseph BENSON, born Whitby 1815?

[mumagill]

hi all, went to whitby fri till sun, went to cook museum and whitby museum, couple churches saw lots graves although lots where sadly very worn. We cheekely went door knocking!!!!! to the addresses in census records and personal diaries of James Hugh Benson ( Hamish ). grandson of General Robson Benson & son of percy Hugh Benson & Mary Eden Walker. Saw Bensons House, now b&b :O( opposite Walker street lol. great fun wkend. want to go back and stay there!
                Gill x

[carna]

Hi Gill,
Great to hear that you had a great time in Whitby.
More info!!! 
Like how did you go in the door knock? Anyone helpful?
Is Bensons House called that, or is it just where they lived?
And I assume Walker St was named after a relative?

Thanks for the family tree. I have only gone from us backwards to Barker Joseph, so this is all new to me.
Greatly appreciated,
Karen

[carna]

Hi all,

Hopefully these pics come through.
I believe they are the photos of portraits of Hannah Emily and Barker Joseph.

All credit for these is thanks to Kim.

Thanks heaps Kim. (It has taken me until now to work out how to post them.)

Thank again,
Karen

[mumagill]

Hi all i cant quite get grips with this site and how it works lol. tried posting pictures and posts but seems hit and miss?? would love to share pictures with you will try again.
                                   Gill x

[Barkrelsatthepoint]

Wow!!!!!

Apologies for being offline. We have just returned from a trip up to Cape York and back. So....

It now seems like we have the relatives of three brother's as in Barker Joseph, Willis Allatson, and General Robson on this site. Good to meet you Gill.

What an amazing sight to finally see Barker and Hannah Emily 'face to face' so to speak - thanks so much Karen.

We have always been fascinated with General Robson's story and it would be easy to divert from our quest to stick to our central line which for the most part is the same for all of us until we separate down the respective brother's lines. Interestingly for us we are the carrier's of the 'name' and it still has a possibility of going on with our grandson Liam (in about 20-30 years -he's only 2 at the moment).

I'm presuming we all have the copy of the will of Thomas Benson of Esdaileside who ensured that William 1657 inherited the family fortunes at that time? 

I have the wills (courtesy of Whitby Museum) of Ann (Robson-Benson-Willis) and Thomas Willis her second husband and I find it fascinating that he leaves her Ruswarp in his will as technically it was the house she would have brought to the marriage.  Thomas Willis owned much property and left it all to his stepson's William (1775) and Thomas Benson(1779) which is why the family got such a good start after their sad struggles with the men dying young. Young William Willis his own son must have been pretty peeved when he was described as imprudent.

We visited Lansdowne Cemetery, Bath, Gill, where General Robson is buried but did not find his grave. Fascinating place though with all the military people and their exploits recorded on their tombstones.

I was also fascinated recently by a piece in a 'Google online book' when I put General Robson and 'Rattlesnake' (the ship) into the search engine.  He sure was a celebrated man and you can rightly be proud of your heritage.  He is written about in a few online books. Have you got his write-up from the newspapers of the time? Interestingly it appears after a piece on Afghanistan (which shows nothing much has changed). 

It's a shame we can't get more on William Benson c.1629 as he is the top of the tree for us. The will of Thomas I mentioned earlier has been our starting point in writing (actually that's trying to write) up the family history for our children and grandchildren.

The stuff the Museum has from the Lillian Clarke Chronicles is fascinating as has been the help of the Walker and Clemesha websites. 

Like you we have several hundred people on our family tree and it's going to get even bigger when we add in the info you've shared Gill.

Cheers to everyone, glad this site is still going and we will keep on looking for what we can to help.

As for the Aussie connection we're still up for a get- together if we can find a common time. Oddly my cousin 'Gill' from another branch of our family is coming to Oz in October. We will be away again sometime in October showing her the sights.

Cheers again Angela and Richard   

[Barkrelsatthepoint]

Whoops given credit to wrong person for uploading the photos - so thanks Kim.

Gill will try again on attaching a file which has General Benson's death notice from the Somerset News in it.

Cheers A &R

[Barkrelsatthepoint]

Hi again all,

While I'm on a roll, do you have photos of William and Ida, and/or Eric and Margaret Pauline - Kim?

We have a quirky thing in our family called the 'Benson' nose (Ha-Ha). All the kids and grandkids have it. Trouble is now we've seen Barker it's not a trait of his - seems like it may be Hannah's family coming through. Can't help wondering 'Does William feature his father or Eric his grandfather?' I may have mentioned before Dad (William) had no photos of his mother Margaret Pauline Mitchell so any help in this regard would be amazing. 

Cheers again and it's time to go to bed. A &R

[majm]

Hi there,

RE PHOTOS... 

I recall mentioning on one of the several threads about Barker Joseph BENSON to which I have contributed, that there are photos in a published book that may be of interest.

One photo is captioned :
"The Benson Family, Gottenham Street, 1908.  At fifteen years of age Bill Benson (sitting third from left) became the bread winner after the death of his father"
Edit to Add There are six children in the photo, and one of these children is seated on their mother's lap.

Another photo is captioned :
"The Rebels 1917 - Glebe District Rubby League Club, First Grade Team .... Front Row .... W Benson...."     

This book also mentions Barker Benson and William Anderson (I gently remind you that they began the first medical practice in Glebe). 

The book's around 300 pages, with a good index, and detailed references.  It is my view that the author (Max Solling) has a deep understanding of the history of Glebe and may well have further family history information on Barker Benson and other Benson family members.

So here are that book's details again :

Grandeur & Grit :  a history of Glebe.  Max Solling.
ISBN 978192083187 (HARDBACK)
Published by Halstead Press, 66/89 Jones St Ultimo NSW 2007.

This suburb of Glebe is an inner west suburb of Sydney NSW Australia.


Cheers,  JM

[Barkrelsatthepoint]

Hi there JM,

Thanks for the info again. Will certainly purchase the book when we get to writing up Barker's story and so on. Just still very much preoccupied with the first generations in Whitby at the moment and getting them written up. 

Cheers barkrels