{"id":123,"date":"2014-02-27T20:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atcherley.org.uk\/wp\/?p=123"},"modified":"2019-01-26T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:25:38","slug":"the-forgotten-brother-of-david-francis-atcherley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.atcherley.org.uk\/wp\/the-forgotten-brother-of-david-francis-atcherley\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten brother of David Francis Atcherley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long before I became interested in the family history of my Atcherley ancestors and kin, the genealogy of the branch of the family living at Marton in Shropshire was researched in some detail and published\u00a0 in Burke\u2019s \u201cGenealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry.\u201d I have found however that while the various versions of the genealogy published over the years were mostly accurate, they were not complete. As a result the Marton Atcherleys have managed to surprise me from time to time. Not least among those surprises was my discovery that David Francis Atcherley senior (1783\u20131845) was not the \u2018only child\u2019 he appeared to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Burke\u2019s genealogy (supplemented by parish records and other sources) tell us that David Francis Atcherley [<\/a>] began his life as David Francis Jones. He was named after his father, a Chester solicitor whose family seat was the Cymman (or Cymmau; nowadays Cymau<\/a>), which lies within the parish of Hope, near Wrexham. This David Francis Jones had married Jane, the second daughter of Richard and Jane Atcherley of Marton, at Loppington, Shropshire in 1782. No other children resulted from the couple\u2019s union, and Jane passed away in 1792 just two months before her 30th birthday – leaving her husband to bring up their 8 year old son alone. In 1834, six years after the death of David Francis Jones the elder, the younger David Francis (along with his wife and ten children) took the surname Atcherley under the terms of his maternal uncle Richard Atcherley\u2019s will. Thus the Atcherley name was perpetuated at Marton, as David inherited his uncle\u2019s estates (and also, by Royal Licence, not just the surname but the arms of this branch of the Atcherley family (see Richard Atcherley and his hopes for posterity<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What Burke does not tell us is that the widowed David Francis Jones [<\/a>] married again in 1795, when his son was aged 11. His bride was Anne Sandland [<\/a>] of Whitchurch, Shropshire, daughter of Joseph Sandland and his wife Anne (Watkins). The couple married at Whitchurch, and most likely lived at Chester for some years before taking up residence at Cymmau, where David died in 1828. Anne then returned to Whitchurch, where she died the following year, aged 63. Newspaper reports of Anne\u2019s death \u2013 the first evidence of David\u2019s second marriage to come to my notice \u2013 referred to her as \u201crelict of the late David Francis Jones Esq. of Cymmau\u201d.<\/p>\n

My initial searches for any offspring from this second marriage were fruitless. But then, while searching the British Newspaper Archive at Findmypast for articles mentioning David Francis Jones, I found a marriage notice from June 1826:<\/p>\n

\"\" On the 1st inst. at St. Chad\u2019s, Shrewsbury, the Rev. Thomas Henshaw Jones, B. A. Chaplain to H. R. H. The Duke of Cambridge, and second son of David Francis Jones, Esq. of Cymmow, to Elizabeth, only child of the late Rev. Joseph Langford, M. A. Rector of the first portion of Pontesbury, and one of his Majesty\u2019s Justices of the Peace for the county of Salop.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

(Further research using online parish records, and Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills at Ancestry, has shown that Thomas and Elizabeth were in fact first cousins. Elizabeth\u2019s mother was Thomas\u2019s aunt Beatrice Hannah Langford n\u00e9e Sandland.)<\/p>\n

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This discovery was pleasing in two ways. Firstly, I had found a hitherto unknown brother of David Francis Jones \/ Atcherley. Secondly, this brother had a distinctive middle name, which would make it so much easier to find more records and newspaper articles relating to him!<\/p>\n

Searching the main sources did indeed yield a number of results shedding light on the life of Thomas Henshaw Jones [<\/a>]. Born in Chester on 9 Dec 1796, he was educated first in that city, under Mr Ireland, before being admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1813 at the age of 16. He migrated to Peterhouse in 1820, was ordinated as Deacon in 1821 and as Priest in 1822, attained his BA in 1823 and his MA in 1827. His marriage to Elizabeth Langford was blessed with the birth of a son, named Thomas Langford Jones, but sadly young Thomas died, at his father\u2019s house in Cambridge, on 12 September 1827. He was six months old. Elizabeth must also have passed away around this time, as the registers of East Dereham in Norfolk shows the widowed Thomas Henshaw Jones marrying Alice, youngest daughter of the Rev William Deighton, in April 1829. Although he was Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Thomas was by this time living at Shandwick Place, Edinburgh. He resided there, with Alice, for the rest of his life. The 1851 census recorded the couple and their three servants at number 13, with Thomas shown as an Episcopalian Clergyman. He died in Edinburgh on 16 Sep 1860 and was buried in Warriston Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Although Thomas now takes his place in the Atcherley family tree as the brother of David Francis Atcherley senior, he was of course not an Atcherley himself either by blood or in name. However, his discovery is very relevant to the Atcherleys\u2019 family history. For one thing, in his will (which he made in Whitchurch, Shropshire on 29 Dec 1849) he devised to Elizabeth Hope Atcherley, his niece, property or shares of property in the Shropshire parishes of Moreton Say (a cottage and farmland at Longford), Stoke Upon Tern (farmland known as the Bendles) and Child\u2019s Ercall (farmland at Salters Hill). It appears that the lands at the Bendles and Salters Hill were bequeathed to Thomas by his Sandland and Langford relatives. Along with what became known as the Longford Hall estate, his interest in these lands were then bequeathed and inherited in turn by various representatives of his Atcherley kin. (Thomas was also named, and left \u00a31,000, in the will of his father David Francis Jones, which I only viewed after learning of Thomas\u2019s existence through the sources described above!)<\/p>\n

There is something else that Thomas may be able to reveal, regarding the Atcherley family. I have never seen a photograph of David Francis Atcherley senior, and it is possible that his image was never captured on camera. Thomas Henshaw Jones on the other hand is well known to students of early British photography. In 1843 his picture was taken by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, photographers of Edinburgh\u2019s clergymen, intellectuals, artists and celebrities, whose portraits were carefully composed in the style of the Scottish artist Henry Raeburn. Their portrait of the Reverend Jones has been hailed as an example of how quickly Hill and Adamson \u201cwere able to achieve outstanding results.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 1837, David Francis Atcherley was described by James Grant as follows: \u201cHe is still a good-looking man, though close upon his sixtieth year; if indeed he have not already reached it. His countenance partakes of elongation, but has a sufficiently pleasant expression. His complexion is sallow. He is of the middle size both in height and form.\u201d I find myself unable to conjure up a detailed mental image of David\u2019s physical appearance from this pen-picture. Instead I look at the photographs of Thomas Henshaw Jones, and cannot help but wonder whether David Francis Atcherley might have borne at least a passing resemblance to his long-forgotten brother.<\/p>\n

View the pages for David Francis Atcherley<\/a>, David Francis Jones<\/a>, Anne Sandland<\/a> and Thomas Henshaw Jones<\/a> at the Atcherley Family Tree<\/em><\/p>\n

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Picture credits:<\/strong> <\/em>Detail from family tree diagram showing Atcherley and Jones family members: Diagram by the author; full tree available in PDF format<\/a>. <\/em>Thomas Henshaw Jones: \u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London, <\/em>Thomas Henshaw Jones<\/a> by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson, calotype, 1843-1848. 8 1\/8 in. x 6 in. (207 mm x 153 mm), given by an anonymous donor, 1973; primary collection, NPG P6(73) \u2013 used under a\u00a0<\/em>Creative Commons licence<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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References<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]<\/strong> John Burke, John Bernard Burke (1847), A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland; Volume I, pages 31-32, includes genealogy of \u201cAtcherley of Marton\u201d. Copy viewed at Google Books<\/a>.
\n[2]<\/strong> Loppington marriage register shows: \u201cBanns of Marriage between David Francis Jones and Jane Atcherley were published on the 16th and 23d and 30th of June 1782. The Sd. David Francis Jones of the Parish of Holy Trinity in the County and City of Chester and Jane Atcherley of this Parish Spinster were Married in this Church by Banns.\u201d Both signed. Witnesses Elizath. Atcherley, John Jones. Copy viewed at Shropshire Archives.
\n[3]<\/strong> St Cynfarch, Hope, Flintshire burial register covering 1792 shows (date of death | date of burial | details): May 3rd | May 8th | Mrs Jones Wife of Mr David Francis Jones Atty at Law Chester. Copy viewed at Find My Past.
\n[4]<\/strong> Chester Chronicle, 12 Dec 1828, page 2 shows: \u201cDEATHS. \u2026 Yesterday morning, at his mansion at Cymmau, Flintshire, at an advanced age, David Francis Jones, Esq. formerly and for many years a respectable solicitor, of this city. Upon this most deserving gentleman eulogy would be worse than useless; his uprightness and integrity of character can only be estimated by those who were personally acquainted with his sterling virtues. Mr. Jones was the father of Mr. Seargeant Jones, a barrister of pre-eminent distinction.\u201d
\n[5]<\/strong> St Cynfarch, Hope, Flintshire burial register shows burial on 19 Dec 1828 of (name| abode | age): David Francis Jones Esqr | Cymme | 70. Copy viewed at Find My Past.
\n[6]<\/strong> London Gazette, issue 19138, 21 Mar 1834, page 510 reports the King\u2019s grant of a royal licence to David Francis Jones \u201cthat he and his issue may, in compliance with the last will and testament of his late maternal uncle, Richard Atcherley, of Marton aforesaid, Esq. deceased, henceforth take and use the surname of Atcherley, in lieu of that of Jones, and also bear the arms of Atcherley only\u201d. Copy viewed at London Gazette website<\/a>.
\n[7]<\/strong> Shropshire Parish Register Society (1908), The Register of Wem, Part II. Baptism on 3 Apr 1767 transcribed as: \u201cAnne, d. of Joseph Sandland, of this town, & Anne\u201d. Copy of transcript available at Mel Lockie\u2019s website<\/a>.
\n[8]<\/strong> Same source shows marriage of Anne\u2019s Sandland\u2019s parents at Wem on 31 Dec 1762, entry transcribed as: \u201cJoseph Sandland, yeoman, & Anne Watkins, sp., lic. Wit: Margaret Pidgeon & Timothy Parker.\u201d Copy of transcript available at Mel Lockie\u2019s website<\/a>.
\n[9]<\/strong> Transcript of St Alkmund, Whitchurch, Shropshire marriage register shows, on 15 Jan 1795: \u201cDavid Francis Jones of St John Baptist, Chester and Anne Sandland\u201d. Viewed at Shropshire Archives.
\n[10]<\/strong> Chester Chronicle, 9 Jun 1826, page 2 includes marriage notice for the Rev. Thomas Henshaw Jones and Elizabeth Langford. Copy viewed at Find My Past.
\n[11]<\/strong> W W Rouse Ball, J A Venn (eds.) (1911), Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge; Volume IV, 1801 to 1850; page 99 includes entry for Thomas Henshaw Jones. Copy viewed at Google Books (via proxy server).
\n[12]<\/strong> Heinrich Schwarz (1931), David Octavius Hill: Master of Photography; page 56 includes notes on Thomas Henshaw Jones. Snippet and OCR text viewed at Google Books.
\n[13]<\/strong> Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 14 Sep 1827, page 3 (copy viewed at Find My Past) includes death notice for Thomas Langford Jones.
\n[14]<\/strong> East Dereham marriage register shows, on 23 Apr 1829: \u201cThomas Henshaw Jones, Widower of Shandwick Place in the City of Edinburgh and Alice Deighton, Spinster of this Parish were married in this Church by Licence this twenty third Day of April in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty Nine By me John Nelson, Minister\u201d Both signed. Witnesses W: Deighton, Jane Anne [Jones?], Emily Nelson, Olivia Mathias. Copy viewed at FamilySearch<\/a>.
\n[15]<\/strong> Norfolk Chronicle, 25 Apr 1829, page 2 includes marriage notice for wedding of the Rev. T. Henshaw Jones and Alice, youngest daughter of the Rev. Wm. Deighton, rector of Whinburgh and Westfield, and vicar of Carbrooke. Copy viewed at Find My Past.
\n[16]<\/strong> 1851 census of Scotland. Parish Edinburgh St Cuthberts. Piece 685, folio 44, page 12. Transcript viewed at Find My Past.
\n[17]<\/strong> National Probate Calendar (1863) shows: JONES The Reverend Thomas Henshaw. 17 January. The Confirmation under Seal of the Commissariot of Edinburgh dated 9 August 1861 of John Lee of Whitechurch [= Whitchurch] Shropshire Solicitor as Executor Nominate of the late Reverend Thomas Henshaw Jones of 13 Shandwick-place Edinburgh who died at Edinburgh 16 September 1860 was sealed at the Principal Registry London. Copy viewed at Ancestry.
\n[18]<\/strong> The Photographic Journal, volume 104, 1964, page 64 includes notes on Rev. Thomas Henshaw-Jones. \u201cIn his later years he resided in Edinburgh and when he died he was buried in Warriston Cemetery.\u201d Snippet viewed at Google Books.
\n[19]<\/strong> GROS ref 685\/01 0825, will of Thomas Henshaw Jones, St George, Edinburgh City, Midlothian, 1860. Copy viewed at Scotland\u2019s People.
\n[20]<\/strong> TNA items ref PROB 11\/1505\/196: Will of Reverend Joseph Langford, Clerk of Pontesbury , Shropshire. Copy viewed at Ancestry. Also available from The National Archives website<\/a>.
\n[21]<\/strong> TNA item ref PROB 11\/1705\/134: Will of Mary Sandland, Spinster of Whitchurch , Shropshire. Proved 7 Nov 1825. Copy viewed at Ancestry. Also available from The National Archives website<\/a>.
\n[22]<\/strong> TNA item ref PROB 11\/1950\/193: Will of Beatrice Hannah Langford, Widow of Shrewsbury , Shropshire. Proved 21 Aug 1841. Copy viewed at Ancestry. Also available from The National Archives website<\/a>.
\n[23]<\/strong> Rhyl Journal, 6 May 1899, page 2 shows: \u201cThe personal estate under the will of Miss Lucy Catherine Atcherley, of 2, Crescent-terrace, Cheltenham, who died on February 27, has been valued at \u00a38,923, and the gross value at \u00a310,126. Miss Atcherley \u2026 devised her interest in the Longford Hall estate to her nephew, Llewellyn William Atcherley \u2026\u201d Copy viewed at Welsh Newspapers Online<\/a>.
\n[24]<\/strong> TNA item ref PROB 11\/1750\/251: Will of David Francis Jones, Gentleman of Chester, Cheshire. Proved 27 Jan 1829. Copy viewed at Ancestry. Also available from The National Archives website<\/a>.
\n[25]<\/strong> Roddy Simpson (2012), The Photography of Victorian Scotland, page number unknown. Preview copy viewed at Google Books<\/a>.
\n[26]<\/strong> James Grant (1837), The Bench and the Bar; Volume II, pages 177-180: Mr. Serjeant Atcherley. Copy viewed at Google Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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