Nieces and Nephews

Four months interlude, but picking up where I left us in August, and wishing all my readers a Happy Advent!

In this post I propose to examine the nieces and nephews named in the wills of William Dunrich (died 1794) and his widow, Elizabeth (nee Gaich or Geach, died 1802). Transcripts of each of these wills are in the previous post on Dunrich Babbage Connections. William and Elizabeth appear to have had no children of their own, but were generous to their nephews and nieces.

I have no information on siblings of Elizabeth Dundrich, and all those named by the Dundriches are children of William's siblings. The Buckland Monachorum baptisms reported in England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 have, in addition to William (1722), Robert (1725 died in infancy 1726), John (born 1727), and Elizabeth (born 1730).

Of the survivors, England, Marriages, 1538-1973 has:
       John Dundridge and Mary Blake 16 Apr 1755 Antony Cornwall

And as reported in the previous post, England, Select Plymouth and West Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 has:
       Elizabeth Dundridge and John Babidge 1757 in Devon

England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 have the following baptisms for children of John Dundridge and Mary in Antony, Cornwall:
       Mary Dundridge  16 Apr 1757
       William Dundridge  12 Sep 1760
       Elisabeth Dundridge 11 Dec 1762
       Ann Dundridge  30 Jan 1769

Of these, Mary Dundridge must have married Pascho Pollard, as we find the following baptisms indexed in England, Select births and Christenings, 1538-1975 of parents Pascho (or Pascoe) Pollard and Mary in Stoke Damerel, Devon:
       Thomas Pollard  5 Jan 1779
       Pascho Pollard   14 Jun 1780
       John Dundrich Pollard  16 May 1781
Mary and her husband are both mentioned in the wills.

I have no further record for William Dundridge. He is not mentioned in the wills, nor any children of his, and presumably he died childless before 1794.

Elisabeth Dundridge married Ebenezer Fisher. Pallot's Marriage Index for England, 1780-1837 records Esth Dunrick and Ebenezer Fisher Esq. married by license at St Pancras, Exeter in 1795, matching her maiden name in her uncle's will (made in 1792), and married name in her aunt's (1801). The corresponding index in England, Select Marriages, 1538-1975 has:
       Elizabeth Dunrich and Ebenezer Fisher St Pancras Exeter 10 Sep 1795.

Pallot's Index reports Fisher as "Lt His Maj R.N.", while Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815 (also from ancestry.com) have Ebenezer Fisher commissioned Lieutentant 13 Nov 1790.

Ann Dundridge was married to Abraham Roberts in 1792, but had died by 1801, leaving children. They were presumably in the care of her uncle and aunt, since, when the latter died, she passed on their care to Pascho and Mary Pollard. The most likely fate of the Robertses is picked up in this excellent website. Abraham and Ann moved to London, where his ropemaking business failed. Ann probably died in 1801 (there is a plausible burial 30 May 1801 at St John, Horsleydown), while at the time Elizabeth Dundrich was making her will, Abraham was a debtor in the King's Bench Prison. He was discharged in 1804, but likely died soon after, a plausible burial being 1 Feb 1806 at St. George the Martyr, Southwark.

The other survivor of the children of Robert and Margaret Dunrich, baptized in Buckland Monachorum, is Elizabeth Dunrich, who married John Babbage. As previously reported, I find baptisms in Chudleigh for John Babbage (1760) and Thomas (1763) Babbage, children of John and Elizabeth, but not William. However, both parents had likely died by 1768, in which year their (presumably their) John and William were sent by the parish of Chudleigh as apprentices to John and William Dunrich respectively.

William Dunrich in his will (1792) mentions his nephews Willm and John Bavage, while Elizabeth Dunrich mentions (1801) cousins Elizabeth and William Dundridge Babbage, children of William Babbage, Hatchelor, deceased and Rosamond Sampson. It seems likely that Willm Bavage is William Babbage, Hatchelor, and the refernce to cousins is intended loosely to mean relatives - they would in fact be second or grand nephew and niece. I have already described the above William Dundridge Babbage (my 4x great grandfather), and traced their marriage to the Peterkens.

Neither John Bavage (or Babbage) nor his family is not mentioned in Elizabeth's will. And I turn to these now to establish the connection between Babbage and Bavage. England, Select Marriages, 1538-1975 has:
       John Babbidge and Catherine Avery 5 Jun 1781 Stoke Damerel

They appear to have moved across Tor Point to Maker, Cornwall. Children of John Babbage/Babage and Catherine found in England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 are:
       John Babbage  9 Sep 1781  Stoke Damerel, Devon
       Willm Dundredge Babbage  21 May 1786  Maker, Cornwall
       Jenefer Babbage  21 May 1786  Maker, Cornwall  (twins or a deferred baptism?)
       Samuel Henry Avery Babage  15 Jan 1792  Maker, Cornwall
       George Lobb Babage  3 May 1795  Stoke Damerel, Devon
       Samuel Babbage  6 Jun 1797  Stoke, Damerel, Devon
       Mary Ann Babbage  21 Jan 1800  Stoke Damerel, Devon

Among these siblings, we find the spelling Bavage and Bavidge on later records. England Select Marriages, 1537-1970 has:
       Jenifer Bavage and William Goss  18 Nov 1802  Stoke Damerel, Devon

Thus among baptisms at the Morice Street Wesleyan Chapel in Stoke Damerel (England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970) are the following children of William and Mary Bavage/Bevdge/Bavege:
       Mary Dundridge Bavage born 26 Feb 1822  bapt. 1 Apr 1822
       Rosamond Caroline Bevdge  born 5 Jun 1824  bapt. 4 Oct 1824
       Jane Elizabeth Dundridge Bavege  born 17 May 1827  bapt. 11 Jun 1827

The treesandstars website has a marriage for William Dundridge Babbage and Mary Vorco.

Rosamond and Jane Bavage, aged 15 and 12 respectively, are found together in Barrack Street, Devonport in the 1841 England Census, each with the occupation "Plain Work Girl". Their mother had just died, the presumed FreeBMD Death Index being:
       Mary Bavage Jun1841 Stoke Damerel 9 261

Pallot's Marriage Index for England, 1780-1837 has:
       John Babage and Grace Rodda  1800  Paul, Cornwall

The following are from England, Births and Christenings, 1583-1975, baptized in Paul, Cornwall with parents John Bavage/Babage/Babbage and Grace:
       John Every Babage  23 Nov 1800
       James Avary Babbage  2 Dec 1810
       Samuel Avery Bavage  5 Mar 1817
Note the variant transcipts for Avery, their grandmother's maiden name.

Other children recorded to this couple, include: Mary (1803), Mary (1804), Henry Ralph (1808), William Avery (1814) and Grace (1820). They started out in Paul, Cornwall, and by the 1830s were in Northumberland where John and Grace both died, and many of their children raised their families.
       FreeBMD Death Index Grace Bavidge Sep1851 Tynemouth 25 311
       FreeBMD Death Index John Bavidge Dec1860 Tynemouth 10b 88

Here ends the two-part digression to document the nephews and nieces named in the Dunrich wills.