Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Spouses
Birth13 Aug 182535
Death22 Mar 1872, Littlehampton36
FatherJohn Graham (1794-1879)
MotherCaroline Eleanor Curteis (1797-1863)
ChildrenHenry John Herrick (1855-1858)
Katherine Laura (1856-1945)
Harold John (1858-1929)
Alice Georgina (1859-)
Charles Whitbread (1860-1921)
Frances Althea (1862-)
Notes for Henry Davenport (Spouse 1)
m. 1854 Anna Sophia, dau. of Rev. John S. Jenkinson, Vicar of Battersea. Oh dear, what a title. Apparently Anna Sophia’s mother was Harriet Caroline Augusta Grey, daughter of some viscount lot of Greys. Burke’s Peerage puts in all the details it can when a title appears on the horizon. Otherwise, the details are genteely ignored. Whole pile of issue here.
Henry Davenport wrote a rather well-known book “The Birds of Iona and Mull”35 which contains quite a lot of personal reminiscences, and is a rather interesting read, even for someone (like me) who has little interest in birds. When he was young, around five years old, in 1830, the whole family went for a tour of Europe, and then spent the next few years to and fro between Paris, Clapham, Eastbourne, with a visit to Edmond Castle thrown in for good measure. In 1839 he went into the navy, and most of the rest of the memoirs are to do with his navy days.
After his marriage they spent two years in Canada, doing who knows what. All his life he made sketches of birds and the local wildlife, and was an accomplished artist. In this he took after his father, who also loved to sketch things (as is apparent from the surviving Family Chronicle, and from his existing journals). After the Canadian excursion they returned to Scotland, to the coast near Argyllshire, where they lived for a few years, before returning to the south of England in 1866, for his children to go to school, and to be nearer to his parents35. Henry died very young, well before his parents died. I wonder why.
In 2013 I met (over email) a descendant of Henry, called Anne. She provided me with copies of pages from the family Bible, as well as many personal reminiscences that she had herself collected from her grandparents. She very kindly provided me with a great deal of information. Most of the details of the descendants of Henry Davenport come from Anne.
According to Anne:
“My g.g.grandfather was Henry Davenport Graham, that family lived in Lochgilphead on the west coast of Scotland. As a young married man he and his young wife emigrated to Canada to try and make his way. After a couple of years, they gave up and returned home.They had a little son, who they doted on, unfortunately aged 1-2 years he was taken ill in the morning, and by nightfall he was dead, presumably of diphtheria.”
Henry Davenport wrote a rather well-known book “The Birds of Iona and Mull”35 which contains quite a lot of personal reminiscences, and is a rather interesting read, even for someone (like me) who has little interest in birds. When he was young, around five years old, in 1830, the whole family went for a tour of Europe, and then spent the next few years to and fro between Paris, Clapham, Eastbourne, with a visit to Edmond Castle thrown in for good measure. In 1839 he went into the navy, and most of the rest of the memoirs are to do with his navy days.
After his marriage they spent two years in Canada, doing who knows what. All his life he made sketches of birds and the local wildlife, and was an accomplished artist. In this he took after his father, who also loved to sketch things (as is apparent from the surviving Family Chronicle, and from his existing journals). After the Canadian excursion they returned to Scotland, to the coast near Argyllshire, where they lived for a few years, before returning to the south of England in 1866, for his children to go to school, and to be nearer to his parents35. Henry died very young, well before his parents died. I wonder why.
In 2013 I met (over email) a descendant of Henry, called Anne. She provided me with copies of pages from the family Bible, as well as many personal reminiscences that she had herself collected from her grandparents. She very kindly provided me with a great deal of information. Most of the details of the descendants of Henry Davenport come from Anne.
According to Anne:
“My g.g.grandfather was Henry Davenport Graham, that family lived in Lochgilphead on the west coast of Scotland. As a young married man he and his young wife emigrated to Canada to try and make his way. After a couple of years, they gave up and returned home.They had a little son, who they doted on, unfortunately aged 1-2 years he was taken ill in the morning, and by nightfall he was dead, presumably of diphtheria.”