MELHUISH family of Broadclyst

[Sandymc47]

Hi Tracy

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[mellish]

Thanks for that.  Am also researching the Lewis, Lucas, Mellish, Dick families mainly of New Zealand.

[ndeboos]

Graham, I am married to one of Harriet Melhuish's descendants....I have a few issues, I have finally found a baptism for a Harriet Meade, 24th April 1799, Somerset, with parents William and Joanna.....have you found potential parents?
Also, do you have any photos of Mary Hannah Garnsey Meade, I have a photo I am trying to identify? Regards, Narelle DeBoos

[GrahamSimons]

Sadly I don't have a specific portrait of MHGM. What I do have is a posed family group portrait. I notice you've just joined RootsChat - welcome - you need to make a couple more posts before you can use the personal message system; once you've cleared that step, I'll send you an image of it.

The Meade family you mention doesn't match any I've got recorded but that doesn't mean that they aren't related.....

Graham

[ndeboos]

Hi, sorry I wrote Meade instead of Melhuish, it was the Melhuish family that I was trying to find.  Found that bit of info and wondered if it could fit with Harriet Melhuish, first wife of Robert Meade.
Mary Harriet Meade is her granddaughter, daughter of Elizabeth Penelope Meade and her cousin Robert Garnsey Meade, who settled in Euroa, Australia. She is my husband's great grandmother.
I have two photographs....one says, Dr Robert Meade, grandmother Meade's, (Elizabeth Penelope) brother.
The other says, Miss Meade sister of Uncle Robert.
The writing appears to be that of my husband's grandfather.
Uncle Robert could be his Grandmother's half brother Robert, his sister should be Grandmothers sister too shouldn't she??
You seem such a guru, thought you might have some hint! Thanks for the reply, sorry for the confusion, Narelle

[GrahamSimons]

No, I don't know for sure on the Melhuish front -I have only one Melhuish pinned down and that is Harriet who d April 1835 in North Curry; there's a MI in the Lady Chapel there which states she was 45 which gives a d of b of about 1790. This would fit with your info: do you know anything more on that one?

Dr Robert Meade was Elizabeth Penelope's half-brother though I wouldn't have expected someone to caption a photo like that. As far as I can tell the family is like this:

Robert Meade, surgeon b 1792 Bishops Lydeard d Uffculme 1863 m Elizabeth Melhuish (date and place unknown)
children
Robert Axford Meade 1820-1825 [I wonder if his middle name holds a clue]
Elizabeth Penelope Meade 1821-69, d Longwood, Victoria
Charles Melhuish Meade 1823-25
Richard Crudge Meade 1825-61 d Longwood [again there might be a clue]. I know he married and had at least one daughter, would like to know more

Elizabeth Melhuish died 1835 and Robert Meade m Elizabeth Garnsey 1836. Elizabeth had previously been married to Richard Manning in 1826 but he died 1831 and I think the marriage was childless.
children
Robert 1838-75 studied at the Inner Temple but was never Called to the Bar; I think unmarried
Mary Hannah Garnsey Meade 1839-88 married William Parish Barrett, 10 children including my grandmother Nora Penelope Barrett
Frances Hurley White Meade 1842-5 [there is a Hurley connection in the Garnsey ancestry]

By elimination the only Miss Meades possible are MHGM and EPM; and the context eliminates EPM. Now MHGM married in 1861 in North Curry - so the photo needs to pre-date 1861 if this is the right piece of the jigsaw. The next step there is to date the photo: over to you!

[ndeboos]

Golly Graham, I missed this note....now I have to concentrate, I found the mention of Harriet in Ancestry.....Somerset Extracted Parish records.....24 Apr  1799 24 Jan 1799 Harriet d, of Wm & Joanna Melhuish
Baptisms 1770-1812
Collection Bruton- Parish Registers, 1681-1812

Now Baptisms can be at any age can't they?

Now Richard Crudge Meade - married Sarah Matthews Drew.
I picked up his will a couple of weeks ago, he only had one living daughter but I found birth records for a few more children....Susan Henrietta Meade 1856-1859, Frederick William Meade 1858-1859 then the surviving child, Constance Matthews Drew Meade born 1861, found her living in England with Mary Theodore Brown, (boarder) in 1911,  at age 50, she passed away in 1935 3 rd June , she left her £1121 .11 s to Mary!

Now you have thrilled me with dates for Robert Axford,....I have him on the tree but have found no record of him anywhere, so dates are thrilling, and him having died early makes more reason to have a second Robert.
Charles too...I had no dates for him either, where did you find those dates?

I knew Elizabeth was Joanna's second cousin...(Thomas and Elizabeth Hannah Hurley Meade).but again have a birth date  1803 but no marriage date or death.

Big mystery...I have no Frances Hurley White Meade....okay found his birth , saved it to my shoebox and it was already there, probably the Hurley triggered my interest! Doesn't mention parents.
Notice he died at 3!

See I think Mary Hannah  Garnsey Meade is the only possible one too, but my friend Kate who is a descendent of Susan Meade ( daughter of Henry White Meade) wanted it to be her!

I will change computers and can send the photos to you, regards Narelle

[ndeboos]

Graham, I am having a blonde moment....I cannot find the forum, we are communicating on, through my iPad, where I can easily find the send photos button......on my main computer, which holds the photos, you have not turned up as a person who has contacted me, it says Baby Boomer is my only contact, so I will persist but it may need you to contact me however it works so I can just respond....sorry, I am way too new at this!!
If I can work out how to send photos I will do it,  Narelle

[ndeboos]

okay, I've worked it out, so the first photo is Dr Robert Meade, I originally assumed his middle name was Garnsey, so it is incorrecty labelled.

The second photo is the Miss Meade one.....I will send the backs next...I'm on a roll now, Nrel