Exeter Besley

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Thomas m. Mary Hart Edmonds Robert m. Eliza Courtney

abt 1792 17 Dec 1814 abt 1791 abt 1797 abt 1797

Exeter St Mary Major Exeter Exeter St Pancras, MDX

d. 18 Dec d. 20 Sep

d. 3Q 1878 Exeter d. 2Q 1853 1876 1876

Lambeth Exeter Wimbledon Park

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Mary Edmonds Elizabeth Emily Edmond Jane Edmond Livia Edmond Harriet Jane Hart Edward

c. 30 Oct 1816 c. 10 Oct 1818 c. 3 Dec 1820 c. 19 Mar 1822 c. 19 Mar 1822 b. 7 Jul 1824 Thomas Edmond

St. Martins Exeter St. Martins Exeter All Hallows Goldsmith St. c. 21 Sept 1825 b. 11 Aug 1826

d. 4 Nov

d. 30 Oct 1895 4Q 1914 All Hallows Goldsmith St.

4Q Lambeth Wandsworth d. 25 Oct 1879 d. 18 Sep 1901

Clevedon, Som 3Q Camberwell

m. 4Q 1847

Exeter

Julia Hughes

abt 1835

Weymouth, Dor.

d. 26 Nov

4Q 1913

Camberwell

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Florence Mary Emily Amy Constance Lily Nora Lola Julia

4Q 1852 3Q 1858 3Q 1859 4Q 1860 1862 2Q 1869 3Q 1870

Exeter St Petrock Lambeth Lambeth Lambeth Lambeth Lambeth Lambeth

d. 2Q 1878 d. 19 Jan 1910

Camberwell Sydenham Hill

m. 4Q 1883 m. 3Q 1887 m. 15 Sep 1892 m. 25 Apr 1908

Dulwich, London St. Mgt., Westminster

Thomas Addenbrooke Thomas Addenbrooke

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Lilian Besley Guy Besley

18 Sep 1893 Oct 1898

NOTES:

AMY BESLEY 1859: 1861 - 1 yr, with parents. 1871 - 11 yrs, living with family. 1881 - 21 yrs, visitor at Thr Granges, Withycombe Rawleigh, Devon, in household of John Wood, 66 yrs, magistrate, b. London and wife Harriet S, 42 b. Exeter.

CONSTANCE BESLEY 1860: 1861 - 5 mths, with parents. 1871 - 10 yrs, living with family.

EDWARD THOMAS EDMONDS BESLEY 1826: 1841 - 14 yrs, living with parents and siblings. 1861 - 34 yrs, barrister in practice, living Lambeth ? with wife and 3 children, plus domestic servant and nursemaid. 1871 - 44 yrs, barrister in actual practice, dwelling 4 Belgrave Villas, with wife, 6 children 3 general servants and a nursemaid.1881 - 54 yrs, Barrister, dwelling Thomas's Hill Rose Mount, Camberwell, Surrey, with wife and 4 children, plus 3 servants. 1901 - 74 yrs, Barrister KC, dwelling 65 Sydenham Hill, with wife and 2 youngest daughters. Died aged 76 yrs.

Probate: Besley - Edward Thomas Edmonds of Rose Mount 65 Sydenham Hill, Kent, died 18 Sept 1901: Probate London 2 November to William Wallett West retired Lieutenant - colonel, the Rev. William Blackmore, clerk, Thomas Addenbrooke, banker's clerk, and Nora Besley, spinster. Effects £81,602 4s 2d.

Wife

Wife JULIA HUGHES abt 1835 Weymouth, Dorset. 1861 - 25 yrs. 1871 - 35 yrs. 1881 - 45 yrs. 1901 - 65 yrs. Died aged 78 yrs.

Probate: Besley - Julia of Rose Mount 65 Sydenham Hill, Kent, widow, died 26 December 1913. Administration London 10 February 1914 to Emily Passmore (wife of Leonard Nicholas Savery Passmore) Effects £13,298 0s 9d.

ELIZABETH BESLEY 1818: 1841 - 20 yrs, living with parents and siblings.

EMILY EDMOND BESLEY 1820: 1841 - 20 yrs, living with parents and siblings.

EMILY BESLEY 1858: 1861 - 2 yrs, with parents. 1871 - 12 yrs, living with family. 1881 - 22 yrs, living with parents.

FLORENCE MARY BESLEY 1852: 1861 - 8 yrs, living in Yatton, Somerset with aunt Mary. 1871 - 19 yrs, living with family.

HARRIET JANE HART BESLEY 1824: 1841 - 15 yrs, living with parents and siblings. 1871 - 41 yrs, artist, lodger in household of John and Louise Harris, 16 Rodney Terrace, Cheltenham St Mary, Gloucester.

Probate: 18 Nov 1879. Effects under £1000. The Will of Harriette Jane Hart Besley, formerly of Cheltenham in the county of Gloucester, but late of Clevedon in the county of Somerset, spinster, who died 25 October 1879 at Clevedon, was proved at the Principal Registry by Edward Thomas Edmonds Besley of Rose Mount Sydenham Rise Lordship Lane, Dulwich in the county of Surrey, Esquire, Barister at Law, the brother, the sole Executor.

JANE EDMOND BESLEY 1822:

LILY BESLEY 1862: 1871 - 1871 - 1 1/2 yrs, living with family. 9 yrs, living with family. 1881 - 18 yrs, living with parents.

LIVIA EDMOND BESLEY 1822: 1841 - 20 yrs, living with parents and siblings. 1871 - 42 yrs, artist painter, dwelling Ivy Cottage, South End Row, Hampstead, St John, London - lodger. Died aged 92 yrs.

Probate: Besley - Livia Edmonds of 54 Holmewood Gardens, Brixton, Surrey, died 4 November 1914. Probate London 25 November to Alice Maud Linton, spinster. Effects £439 3s 10d.

LOLA JULIA BESLEY 1870: 1871 - 7 mths, living with family. 1881 - 10 yrs, living with parents. 1901 - 30 yrs, with parents. Marriage lic. 23 Mar 1908.

MARY EDMOND BESLEY 1816: 1861 - 39 yrs, Ladies School, dwelling Rock House, Yatton St, Yatton, Somerset with 8 yr old niece Florence in residence as well as pupils. Died aged 79 yrs.

Probate: Besley - Mary Edmonds of 40 Loughborough Park, Brixton, Surrey, died 30 Oct 1895: Probate London 8 November to Thomas Edmonds Besley QC. Effects £25 5s.

NORA BESLEY 1869: 1881 - 11 yrs, living with parents. 1901 - 31 yrs, with parents.

ROBERT BESLEY abt 1797: 1841 - 45 yrs, Type founder, dwelling St James, Clerkenwell with wife. 1851 - 56 yrs, Type founder, dwelling Jacksons Lane, Hornsey, with wife and three servants. 1861 - 60 yrs, Type founder, employing 150 men, dwelling The Priory, Jacksons Lane, Hornsey, MDX, with wife and three servants. 1871 - 74 yrs, retired Type founder, (Aldersman of London), dwelling Victoria Rd Wandsworth with wife and 4 servants.

Probate: 18 January 1877. Effects under £. The Will and codicil of Robert Besley, late of Victoria Rd, Wimbledon Park, in the county of Surrey, esquire, an alderman of the city of London, who died 18 December 1879 at Victoria Rd, was proved at the Principal Registry by Edward Thomas Edmonds Besley of 5 Brick Court Temple in the said city, Barister at Law, the nephew, Henry de Jersey of 13 A Gresham St West in the city, gentleman and Ellen Peacock (wife of Mark Beauchamp Peacock) of St Catherines near Guildford in the county of Surrey, the niece, the Executors.

Wife ELIZA abt 1797: 1841 - 45 yrs. 1851 - 56 yrs. 1861 - 60 yrs. 1871 - 70 yrs.

Probate: 15 February 1877. Effects under £300. Administration (with Will) of Harriette Eliza Courtney, otherwise Eliza (wife of Robert Besley), formerly of 14 Newgate St. in the city of London, but late of Victoria Rd, Wimbledon in the county of Surrey, who died 20 September 1877 at Victoria Rd, Wimbledon, was grteded at the Principal Registry under certain limitations to Henry de Jersey of 13 A Gresham St West London, Esquire, one of the surviving Executors of the will of the said Robert Besley, the sole Executor and Principal Legatee.

THOMAS BESLEY abt 1792: 1841 - ? not with wife and family. 1851 - 59 yrs, newspaper proprietor, dwelling 99 North St., St. Thomas, with wife and daughter Emily, also grandson Edward 2 yrs.

Wife MARY HART EDMONDS abt 1791: 1841 - head, 45 yrs, newspaper editor, dwelling Exeter St Kerrians with 5 older children. 1851 - 60 yrs.

most likely son of John

Henry Besley m. Caroline m. Redelpha Sadd

abt 1799 abt 1813 1846 abt 1821

Exeter Cambridge Cambridge

d. 18 Jul (3Q) d. d. 1898

1886

Exeter

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Henry Lucy John Caroline Harriet Robert Robert Alice George George Charles Walter

John Ann Henry Henry Eliza Henry Henry Edward Henry Henry

8 Mar 1835 abt 1837 2Q 1838 2Q 1840 4Q 1841 3Q 1843 1848 1Q 1850 2Q 1852 1Q 1854 3Q 1856 1Q 1863

d. 6 Dec d.

d. 2Q 1841 d. 5 Mar d. 30 Nov d. 4Q 1843 d. 4Q 1843 1897 d. 1Q 1853

Exeter Dartmouth Exeter Exeter Exeter Exeter Exeter

1883 4Q 1843 m. 3Q 1872 m. 1868 m. 4Q 1889 m. 2Q 1878

Exeter Bedminster

Amy George Henry Ada Annie

Piper Horrell Cottrell

abt 1852 abt 1821 abt 1856

Exeter Frome, Som.

d. 3Q 1884 d. 3Q 1892

Exeter Southampton

m. 3Q 1885 m. 1Q 1895

Totnes Southampton

Emma Mordant Eliza Isabel

Ashford Esterford nee Golding

abt 1858

Dartmouth

d. 28 Nov

1924

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Edward Charles H William Henry Frederick Amy Mordaunt Marion

4Q 1873 1Q 1876 4Q 1882 3Q 1886 4Q 1887

Exeter Exeter Exeter Exeter Exeter

d. 4 Q 1886

Exeter

m. 3Q 1896 m. 1912

Croyden Lewisham, Kent

Douglas Robert Pinnock

TO USA

NOTES:

ALICE ELIZA BESLEY 1850: 1851 - 1 yr, with family.

AMY MORDAUNT BESLEY 1886: 1891 - 4 yrs, with family. 1901 - 14 yrs, with widowed mother and siblings. To USA 1920.

CAROLINE BESLEY 1840: 1841 - 1 yr, with family.

1843 BDM "West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser" 8 Dec - Died at Exeter on the 30th ?? , Caroline, second daughter of Mr. Henry Besley, printer, South St, aged 3 yrs.

CHARLES EDWARD H BESLEY 1856: 1881 - 24 yrs, Exeter, Stationers Accountant, dwelling 486 Caledonian Rd., London, Middlesex. 1901 - 44 years, pianoforte dealer, dwelling 34 Padwell Rd, Southampton with wife, her father, her two daughters and his brother Walter.

Wife ADA ANNIE COTTRELL abt 1856: 1881 - 25 yrs.

Wife ELIZA ISABEL GOLDING: Daughter of Bartholemew B Golding. 1901 - 50 yrs.

Probate: Eliza Isabel Besley of Bevois Four Marks, Alton, Hampshire, (wife of Charles Edward Henry Besley) died 28 November 1924. Probate London 20 April to Isabel Hayden Heard (wife of Percy Albert Heard), and Marian Charlotte Howard (wife of Frank Howard). Effects £271 19s 1d.

EDWARD CHARLES BESLEY 1873: 1881 - 7 yrs, with parents in aunts household. 1891 - 17 yrs, chemists assistant, dwelling 241 High St., with Aunt Sophia Piper.

FREDERICK BESLEY 1882: 1891 - 8 yrs, with family. 1901 - 18 yrs, printers apprentice, living with stepmother and half sisters in Strand, Kenton.

GEORGE HENRY BESLEY 1852:

GEORGE HENRY BESLEY 1854: 1861 - 7 yrs, with family.

HARRIET BESLEY 1841:

HENRY JOHN BESLEY 1835:

HENRY BESLEY abt 1799: 1841 - 42 yrs, Printer, dwelling South St., St. Mary Major, with wife and 3 children. 1851 - 50 yrs, Printer and Publisher master employing 2 men and two apprentices, dwelling 76 South St., Exeter with wife, three children and 2 servants. 1861 - 61 yrs, publisher, boarder in a hotel in 60 Chapel St., Penzance, Cornwall. 1871 - 70 yrs, publisher, lodging Union Hotel, Chapel St., Penzance. 1881 - 81 yrs, retired printer and publisher, dwelling 89 South St., Exeter St. Mary Major, with wife, youngest son and 1 servant. Died aged 87 yrs.

Probate: 27 Aug 1886. Estate £1057 18s, 8d. The will of Henry Besley late of the City of Exeter, Printer who died 18 Jul 1886 at South St, in Exeter, was proved at Exeter by Redelpha Besley of South Street, widow, the relict (during widowhood) and Thomas Clement of High Street Exeter, Chemist, two of the executors.

Wife CAROLINE abt 1813: 1841 - 28 yrs.

Wife REDELPHA SADD abt 1821: 1851 - 30 yrs. 1861 - 40 yrs, dwelling South St., Exeter with 3 children. 1871 - 50 yrs, in household of daughter Alice and husband, dwelling 72 Barthoe St, Kentish Town, London. 1881 - 60 yrs.

JOHN BESLEY 1834: 1841 - 2 yrs, with family.

LUCY ANN BESLEY 1837: 1841 - 4 yrs, with family. 1851 - 14 yrs, with family.

Probate: 31 March 1883. Estate £512 0s, 9d. The will of Lucy Anne Besley late of 6 Carlton Terrace, Dartmouth in the county of Devon, spinster, who died 5 March 1883 at 6 Carlton Terrace, was proved at Exeter by Henry Besley of 89 South Street in the city of Exeter, painter, the sole executor.

MARION BESLEY 1887: 1891 - 3 yrs, with family. 1901 - Marienne, 13 yrs, with widowed mother and siblings.

ROBERT HENRY BESLEY 1843:

ROBERT HENRY BESLEY 1848: 1851 - 3 yrs, with family. 1861 - 13 yrs, with family. 1881 - 33 Exeter, Devon, England Litho & Letter Press Printer Employing 12 Men & 6 Boys, dwelling 241 High St Exeter St Stephen, with wife and 2 children in the home of his wife's sisters, Sophia PIPER 39 yrs, and Emma 38 yrs, unmarried Jewelers Employing Two Female Assists & Three Men. 1891 - 43 yrs, Master Printer, dwelling 27 the Strand, Kenton, Devon, with wife and 3 children.

Probate: Besley - Robert Henry of South Street, Exeter and of Starcross, Devon, printer and stationer, died 6 Dec 1897 at Starcross. Probate Exeter 4 February to Emma Mordaunt Besley, widow, and Thomas Clement Milton, chemist and druggist. Effects £4679 18s 5d.

Wife AMY PIPER abt 1852: 1881 - 29 yrs.

Wife EMMA MORDANT abt 1858: 1891 - 33 yrs. 1901 - 44 yrs, widow, living on own means, dwelling Harpridge, Strand, Kenton with 3 children.

WILLIAM HENRY BESLEY 1876: 1881 - 5 yrs, with parents in aunt's household. Died aged 10 yrs.

WALTER HENRY BESLEY 1863: 1881 - 18 yrs, artist painter, living with parents. 1901 - 57 yrs, ?actor, dwelling Southampton with brother Charles.

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Charlottte William Henry m. ? Frances Ball (previously married or had base born daughter)

abt 1820 abt 1806 7 Aug 1823 abt 1800

Cerne, Dorset Tiverton Exeter St David Silverton

d. 1Q 1872 d. 4Q 1871

Tiverton Tiverton

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Frances Caroline Sarah Eliza Mary Anne Amelia Fanny Henrietta Charlotte Joanna William Blundell

21 Apr 1835 14 Jun 1837 3Q 1838 4Q 1841 2Q 1843 4Q 1844

d. 26 May d. 12 Mar d. 16 Jan d. 21 Aug d. 27 Jun d. 7 Mar

1901 1911 1888 1891 1892

Italy Bournmouth Bournmouth 1Q 1891

Torrington

m. 3Q 1882 m. 2Q 1875

South Molton Barnstaple

Willian David Finch Hatton Margaret Chichester

abt 1846

Bishops Tawton

all b. Marland

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William Hugh B Frances Margaret T Barton Hope Gertrude Theodora

2Q 1876 3Q 1877 2Q 1879 4Q 1880

Torrington Torrington Torrington Torrington

d. 25 Oct

1814

Givauchy, France

NOTES:

AMELIA BESLY abt 1839: 1841 - 3 yrs, with parents. 1851 - 12 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 22 yrs. 1871 - 27 yrs, with parents. 1881 - 42 yrs, with three other spinster sisters, dwelling Eltham, Tormoham, Devon.

Probate: £5472 11s. 16 February 1888. The will of Amelia Besly, late of Torre in the Parish of Tormoham in the County of Devon, spinster, who died 16 January 1888 at Bournemouth in the County of Southampton, was proved at Exeter by Eliza Mary Ann Besly of Torre, spinster, the sister, the sole Executrix.

BARTON HOPE BESLY 1879: 1881 - 2 yrs, living with parents.

Probate: Besley - Barton Hope of Ivedone, Honiton, Devon, died 25 October 1914 at Givauchy, France on active service. Probate London 2 January to Charles Whitton Crowdy, solicitor. Effects £27975 15s 7d.

CHARLOTTE BESLEY abt 1820: 1881 - 61 yrs, landed Proprietor, dwelling Sidbrook House, West Monkton, Somerset with 3 servants and a cook. Niece Frances Caroline also in residence as well as visitor E E Lloyd Jones.

CHARLOTTE JOANNA BESLY 1843: 1851 - 3/8 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 18 yrs, with parents. 1871 - 24 yrs, with parents. 1881 - 38 yrs, with three other spinster sisters, dwelling Eltham, Tormoham, Devon.

Probate: Besley - Charlotte Joanna of "Dunmore", Owls Rd, Boscombe, Bournemouth, spinster, died 27 Jun 1892. Probate London 26 July to Eliza Mary Ann Besly, spinster. Effects £3022 13s 3d.

ELIZA MARY ANNE BESLEY 1837: 1841 - 4 yrs, with parents. 1851 - 13 yrs, with parents. 1861 - visitor and niece in the home of Ann Lewis 63 yrs, widow, proprietor of land and stock b. Silverton, dwelling 7 Higher Summerlands. 1871 - 29 yrs, with parents. 1881 - 43 yrs, head of household with three spinster sisters, dwelling Eltham, Tormoham, Devon - three servants (a lady's maid, a cook and a parlourmaid).

Probate: Besley - Eliza Mary Ann of "Dunmore", Owls Rd, Boscombe, Bournemouth, spinster, died 12 March 1911. Probate London 8 April to Margaret Besly, widow. Effects £8143 6s 5d. Resworn £8213 14s 1d.

FANNY HENRIETTA BESLY abt 1841: 1841 - 1` yr, with parents. 1851 - 10 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 20 yrs, with parents. 1871 - 26 yrs, with parents. 1881 - 40 yrs, with three other spinster sisters, dwelling Eltham, Tormoham, Devon.

Probate: £2264 13s 4d. 9 October 1891. The will of Fanny Henrietta Besly, formerly of Kelston but late of "Dunmore", Owls Rd, Boscombe, Bournemouth in the county of Southampton, spinster, who died 21 August 1891 at Dunmore was proved at the Principal Registry by Charlotte Joanna Besly and Eliza Mary Ann Besly, spinsters, the sisters, the Executrixes.

FRANCES CAROLINE SARAH BESLY 1835: 1841 - 6 yrs, with parents. 1861 - 26 yrs, with parents. 1871 - 36 yrs, niece of Ann Lewis (73 yr old officer's widow b. Silverton), dwelling Exeter St Sidwell. 1881 - 38 yrs??? niece of Charlotte Besley (61 yrs, b. Cerne, Dorset), dwelling Sidbrook House, West Monkton, Somerset (3 servants plus a cook).

Probate: Besley - Frances Caroline Sarah of "Gotten House" near Taunton (wife of William David Finch Hatton - Besly), died 26 May 1901 at Salsomaggiore, Italy. Probate London 19 July to Fanny Eliza Cox (wife of the Rev. Walter Eustace Cox), Sarah Emily Connop, spinster, and Sir Edward Henry Busk, knight. Effects £17,985 3s.

FRANCES MARGARET T BESLY 1877: 1881 - 3 yrs, living with parents.

GERTRUDE THEODORA BESLY 1880: 1881 - 2 wks, living with parents.

WILLIAM HENRY BESLEY abt 1806: 1841 - 30 yrs, surgeon, dwelling Prospect Place, Littleham, with wife and 4 children. 1851 - 43 yrs, surgeon (not practicing), Dwelling Dunsmore House, Bradninch, Exeter, with wife, 5 children, a governess and 3 servants - also wives daughter Ann Ball aged 22 yrs. 1861 - 53 yrs, Mayor of Bradninch, dwelling Dunsmore House, West St., with wife and 4 adult daughters. Also visiting is John Besly DCL, widower, Vicar of Long Barton, Northumberland plus 4 servants. 1871 - 63 yrs, Magistrate, retired Doctor, dwelling Dunmore (West End Town), Bradninch, with wife, 4 adult daughters and 4 servants (cook, page, housemaid and nurse). Died aged 64 yrs.

Wife FRANCES BALL abt 1800: 1841 - 35 yrs. 1851 - 51 yrs. 1861 - 57 yrs. 1871 - 67 yrs. Died aged 72 yrs.

WILLIAM BLUNDELL BESLEY 1844: 1851 - 6 yrs, with parents. 1881 - 36 yrs, vicar, dwelling Marland Peters, Devon, with wife, 4 children, a nurse, an under nurse, a cook, a kitchen maid and a housemaid. Died aged 46 yrs.

Probate: £2880 1s 3d. 30 May 1891. The will of the Rev. William Blundell Besly, late of Peters Marland in the county of Devon, clerk, who died 7 March 1891 at the Vicarage Peters Marland, was proved at Exeter by Margaret Besly of the Vicarage Peters Marland, widow, the relict, the sole Executrix.

Wife MARGARET: 1881 - 35 yrs.

WILLIAM HUGH B BESLY 1876: 1881 - 5 yrs, living with parents.