Thomas Pettman (1807-1884)

THOMAS PETTMAN (1807-1884) was born in Canterbury in 1807, the son of Canterbury Cathedral's chief carpenter, another Thomas Pettman, and his wife Jane, née Allen. He was baptized at St Mary Northgate, Canterbury, on 4 October 1807. As a boy, he was musical, and he was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral between 1816 and his father's death in 1823. (His younger brothers Henry and William were also choristers.)

He became a music teacher, and on 11 October 1832, he married Margaret Castell, also known as Margaret Baker. The marriage took place at St Mary's, Islington. The banns had been called on the three previous Sundays

. At the time Margaret was living with her aunt, Harriet Chard (née Woodcock) and uncle Edward Chard, who were witnesses of the marriage. Thomas and Margaret both described themselves as "of this parish."

Margaret had been baptized in Sandwich on 7 July 1813, the daughter of Margaret Castell, née Woodcock, who in 1822 had married a Sandwich Customs officer, Edward Baker. Edward had died in 1826.

Margaret would have been nineteen when she married, some six years younger than Thomas. She may well have been one of Thomas' pupils, for her mother's account of the debts due when Edward Baker died in 1826 show an amount of £2/2/- for a "Music Master" immediately after a debt of £3/3/- for "Schooling Miss Castell".

In 1832, the couple were living at 14 Hardres Street, in Ramsgate. (Pigot's Directory of 1840 gives their address as 22 Hardres Street.) In 1834, Thomas was described as a Professor of Music, and was also organist at Broadstairs (consecrated in 1830 and then called Bradstow Chapel), which had the status of chapel of ease to St Peter's, Thanet. (In 1835 he was described as a "gentleman".) He is said to have been a Professor of the Royal Academy of Music. (This is not borne out by the Royal Academy's archives, though the school, founded in 1823, had a precarious existence for many years. It may be that Thomas was a member of the Royal College of Organists, established in 1864.) It is also said that "Queen Victoria being in his neighbourhood submitted to him a composition of hers for correction. He was a good singer, could play any instrument and could sleep through any amount of playing by others, until a discord was struck, when he would wake with a snap." (George Henry Lang "An Ordered Life" (Paternoster Press 1959))

There were a number of small private schools established in Ramsgate in the early 19th century, and Thomas Pettman may have taught at one of these.

He composed several songs and pieces of music. Some of these were published in London: The Moonlight (1835, with words by T. Hayes Junr), Good Bye (1840), and The Missionary Hymn ("Hark the song of Jubilee") (1841 - a setting of James Montgomery's hymn of 1818).

Good Bye was written and sung at the leaving party for George William Lewis, curate of the chapel of ease, who left Ramsgate in 1839. Three years earlier, "Mr Pettman, Hardres Street, Ramsgate" had subscribed to a book containing 25 of Lewis' sermons (the Duchess of Kent had subscribed to ten copies).

Thomas was also organist of St George's Church, the parish church of Ramsgate, in 1844. Until then, however, his children were all baptized at St Peter's, Thanet. which suggests that he may have played there, despite living at the time only a matter of yards from St George's. The setting of the Missionary Hymn which he published in 1841 was for the benefit of "the organ fund". It is not clear which organ fund was involved, and the hymn was dedicated to 'the Reverends T. Fisher and Adams', of whom we know very little. (They may well have been Methodists.) However, thirteen years later, in 1854, St George's acquired a four-manual organ by William Hill, which survives today. (Montgomery's words were later set by Sir George Elvey to the tune St George's Windsor. This was also in 1854. (Elvey's tune was later set to Come, ye thankful people, come.))

Thomas' acquaintance with Queen Victoria presumably stemmed from his musical talents. As a princess, she and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, had several times visited Townley House in Ramsgate. Mary Townley (1753-1839) was a committed member of St George's Church, and may well have invited its organist to play.

Thomas played a major part in the musical life of Ramsgate, being active in the setting up of the Apollonian Glee Club at the end of 1846, as well as a member of the Catch Club. He also conducted and gave singing concerts, both locally and in neighbouring towns. The Dover Telegraph of 12 January 1850 records that:
The Canterbury Choral Society gave a concert this evening at the Guildhall Concert Rooms, on which occasion Handel's beautiful serenata 'Acis and Galatea' was performed. Mrs Pillow as Galatea, and Mr Pettman, of Ramsgate, were the chief vocalists.
(Mrs Pillow may have been related by marriage to Mr W Pillow, late lay clerk of the Cathedral.)

The issue of the Musical Times for 1 March 1865 reported from Ramsgate that "the first concert of the Amateur Musical Society was given on Tuesday, the 14th ult., in aid of the Library Fund of the United Club. The vocal music was most ably sustained by Messrs Pettman, Powell, Kemp and Barnes, and Master Powell; and the instrumental by a band conducted by Mr. T. Pettman. The programme consisted of selections from Operas, Waltzes, Quadrilles, &c., and Songs, Choruses and Glees, with and without orchestral accompaniments."

By 1841 the growing family had moved to 90 High Street, Ramsgate, which was to be their home for over twenty years. (Thomas himself, however, was not at home on census night, 6 June. He was visiting his mother-in-law at St Bartholomew's Hospital, near Sandwich. However, there were two female servants, Ann Walraven and Margaret Jones living with the young family.) The house was in the middle of a modest terrace, and only a couple of minutes' walk from the church.

On Monday 11 April 1859, the body of a murdered Russian was found on the beach by the East Cliff. It seems that Thomas was walking on the beach a little later, and found a shirt collar and cotton handkerchief in the sand. These were produced at the inquest, which opened the next day.

Some time between 1862 and 1874, Thomas, Margaret and the younger members of the family moved from High Street to 10 West Cliff Road. (In 1865 and 1867,however. Thomas' address is given as 2 Wellington Place. Wellington Place was between Hertford Place and Zion Place.) The Thanet Advertiser of 9 May 1868 bears a "Notice of Removal" advising that

MR PETTMAN,
PROFESSOR OF MUSIC AND SINGING
Organist of Christ Church
HAS REMOVED from 2, Wellington Placw
ro 26, ROYAL ROAD, RAMSGATE.

Late in life, he may have been converted to the Exclusive Brethren movement. Margaret, certainly, was a more committed convert, and is said to have ensured that the children were all brought up as Plymouth Brethren.

The two youngest daughters, Elizabeth and Anna, who also taught music, were living at home in 1881, and a street directory of 1882 records Thomas as still working at the age of 75. He died on 18 April 1884, aged 75. Margaret survived him, dying at 10 Westcliff Road, Ramsgate on 18 June 1887, aged 74.

Thomas and Margaret Pettman are said to have had thirteen children (we know of twelve):

1 EMILY PETTMAN (1834-1899?), baptized at St Peter's Church, Thanet on 23 February 1834. She was a schoolteacher. She married Edward Wildish in the second quarter of 1860 in Camberwell. She was widowed before 1881. In 1881 she was staying with her sister Harriet in Bermondsey, with her two sons, Ted and Frederick. In 1891 she was a music teacher occupying four rooms at 29 St James' Road, Bermondsey. She probably died, aged 64, in the first quarter of 1899 in the Lewisham registration district.

1.1 EDWARD WILDISH (1862-1950), known as Ted. He was born in Camberwell on 11 November 1862. In 1881 he was living with his mother at his uncle's house, and working as a drapery clerk. He was still living at home in 1891.

In the second quarter of 1899, he married his first cousin, Edith Musgrove, daughter of Fanny Musgrove, and they had a son, Harold.

By 1901, he was a linen manufacturing manager, and living at Beddington, Surrey. In 1911 he was at 74 Quantock Road, Weston-super-Mare. He still held this position in 1929. In 1939, he and Edith were at 57 Beedall Avenue, Southend-on-Sea. He died in Southend at the beginning of 1950. Edith died the following year.

1.1.1 ERNEST WILDISH (1901-19?2) was born in the Wallington registration district and aged 9 in 1911.

1.1.2 HAROLD FREDERICK WILDISH (1903-1982) was born in the Croydon registration district in the second quarter of 1903.

"He had given his life to Christ but no clear-cut instructions came. Then in 1925 he received word to fill the place of a missionary who was returning sick from Latin America. He had only one pound. He went upstairs and spread the letter out before the Lord, saying, "You know what I need." In the next morning's post, he received a cheque for £25. "But I must have thirty-five," he prayed. The next day he received another letter from the same businessman. "I could not sleep last night thinking of you. I believe you must need the enclosed ten pounds." Thus, he sailed on the Amakura for South America."

He later wrote a book about his experiences, Among the Savage Redskins of the Amazon.

He married Marion Hilda Arrol on 27 July 1929 at the Gospel Hall, Coleman Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. His address was given as 50 Electric Ave, Westcliff-on-Sea.

Marion was 25 years old. She was living at 25 Dowsett Avenue, Southend-on-Sea. She was the fourth child of William Arrol, born on 24 December 1869 in Eddlestone, Peebles, who married Ruth Hannah Bragg in Fulham, London on 4 July 1895.

Harold later went to Jamaica and spent the rest of his life there as a missionary for the Brethren. He died in 1982.

Harold and Marion had three children:

1.1.2.1 DAVID MUSGROVE WILDISH (1932-2002), born in Kingston, Jamaica on 19 November 1932. He was educated at Monkton Combe School in England and at the University of the West Indies. Here he graduated in Medicine.

He was Medical Officer at the University Hospital of the West Indies from 1957 to 1959, and after a time at Kingston Public Hospital, became District Medical Officer between 1960 and 1968. From 1967 to 1974 he was Chief Medical Officer for Reynolds Jamaica Mines Limited. He subsequently became Managing Director of Jamaica Broilers Limited (founded by his father-in-law, Sidney Levy, and his brother Andrew) and director of a number of other companies in the poultry business.

He married Elizabeth Anne Levy on 7 December 1957. In 2000 they were living at "Ticketts", Claremont PO, St Ann, Jamaica. David Wildish died in 2002. His wife continued to run the family business.

David and Elizabeth Wildish had two sons and a daughter.

1.1.2.1.1 JOHN DAVID WILDISH (b.1964), born on 25 November 1964. He married Carol Anne Clarke and they have two daughters They live in Turks and Caicos Islands

1.1.2.1.1.1 ACHSAH BLESSINGS WILDISH (b.1997), born in November 1997.

1.1.2.1.1.2 ARAYIH TAMARA WILDISH (b.2000), born in February 2000.

1.1.2.1.2 MARY WILDISH (b.1966) She went to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to plant a church, and returned to plant a church in Montego Bay, "The Meeting Place", which now has subsidiary churches around Jamaica. She married John Reece on 11 November 2007.

1.1.2.1.3 ANDREW SYDNEY HAROLD WILDISH (b.1967), born on 8 December 1967. He married Tanya Isabel Jane Clarke on 21 November 1992. They live in Jamaica and have three children:

1.1.2.1.3.1 ANDREW ROBERT DAVID WILDISH (b.1994), known as Drew, born on 19 April 1994.

1.1.2.1.3.2 SHELBY BILLIE ELIZABETH WILDISH (b.1996), born on 9 February 1996.

1.1.2.1.3.3 WILLIAM BRYAN MUSGROVE WILDISH (b.2002), born on 7 November 2002.

1.1.2.2 ANDREW WILDISH (b.1934), born in Jamaica. He married Shirley Allen. He trained as an agriculturalist, and was invited back to Jamaica by Sidney Levy, father of Betty Levy (David Wildish's wife), with whom he co-founded Jamaica Broilers, managing its subsidiary, Best Dressed Chicken, until his retirement, when he and Shirley moved to England. They had three children:

1.1.2.2.1 CLAIRE WILDISH (b.1960). She married Roger Turner. They live at Tulloch Estates in Bog Walk, Jamaica, owned by the Turner family since 1846. Claire and Roger have three children.

1.1.2.2.1.1 RACHEL KATHERINE NEVILLE TURNER (b.1985), born on 5 August 1985.

1.1.2.2.1.2 FIONA HELEN NEVILLE TURNER (b.1987) born on 15 May 1987.

1.1.2.2.1.3 MICHAEL EDWARD NEVILLE TURNER (b.1989) born on 25 June 1989.

1.1.2.2.2 DEBORAH WILDISH (b.1961). She married Mark Nish in England, and lives in Bath. They have two children.

1.1.2.2.2.1 JAMES NISH (b.1988).

1.1.2.2.2.2 THOMAS NISH (b.1991).

1.1.2.2.3 MARK WILDISH (b.19??). He married a Norwegian, Sigrid ??, and lives in Trondheim, Norway. They have two children.

1.1.2.2.3.1 SOFIA WILDISH (b.1995).

1.1.2.2.3.2 MARCUS WILDISH (b.1997).

1.1.2.3 JOY WILDISH (19??-199?), born in Jamaica. Joy became an airline stewardess and married John Cook. John Cook was a Concorde Pilot for British Airways. They lived in Church Crookham near Fleet, Hampshire.

1.1.2.3.1 RICHARD COOK (1964-1994), known as Rick. He joined the R.A.F., and rose to the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He was one of the two pilots of a Chinook helicopter which crashed into Beinn na Lice on the Mull of Kintyre on 2 June 1994, killing the four crew and a group of 25 counter-terrorism specialists.

Rick and Ellen Cook had a daughter:

1.1.2.3.1.1 ELEANOR COOK (b.199?).

1.1.2.3.2 CHRISTOPHER COOK (b.19??). His wife's name was Sara, and they have a son, Richard.

1.2 FREDERICK PETTMAN WILDISH (1864-1934?), born in Ramsgate at the end of 1864, and a clerk in 1891. In 1911 he was a packer at a book publisher's, and lodging at 57 Nelson Square, Southwark. He probably died in Battersea at the beginning of 1934.

2 MARGARETTE ELIZABETH PETTMAN (1835-1838), baptized at St Peter's Church, Thanet on 12 July 1835. She died before her third birthday on 7 February 1838, and was buried six days later at St George's, Ramsgate.

3 A SON (1836-1836), whose infant death on 10 November 1836 was reported in the Kentish Gazette.

4 FANNY PETTMAN (1837-1920), baptized at St Peter's Church, Thanet on 31 December 1837. She married an insurance clerk, Edward Musgrove of Goodwin Villa, Brixton, in Lambeth on 6 August 1867. He had been born in Hackney, probably early in 1842. His father had been an auctioneer. In 1881 they were at 3 Whitehouse Villas, Charlton, Woolwich, Kent (though on Census Night, Fanny was staying with her parents in Ramsgate). In 1891 they were at "The Hollies", Main Road, Foots Cray, Kent. In 1901, they were in Croydon, but by 1911 they had moved to 61 Beach Road, Weston-super-Mare, where their son Edward was. They later moved to Sidcup, near the Langs. Fanny died in the first quarter of 1920, in the Rochford registration district of Essex.

4.1 EDWARD MUSGROVE (1870-1950), born at 4 Godwin Villas, Mostyn Road, Lambeth on 26 July 1870. He excelled in Greek and German at college, and was a good swimmer, photographer and electrician. In 1891 he was at home, working as a Bank of England clerk. In 1901 he was boarding in Graham Road, Weston-super-Mare, still a Bank of England clerk. He married Jean Maria Frances Bridge (known as Fanny) at Richmond, Surrey, in the second quarter of 1913.

Jean had been born in New Zealand on 4 December 1875, and had been living in Weston-super-Mare between 1898 and 1900, when her sister, Sydney, married future Nobel laureate Arthur Harden.

In 1938, the couple were at "Cromdale", Totnes, Devon. Edward described himself as "Gentleman, incapacitated." The family were still alive in 1949 but Edward died in the summer of 1950 at Totnes. They had a daughter:

4.1.1 JEAN MARGARET MUSGROVE (1914-2006), born in the second quarter of 1914 in the Axbridge registration district. She was an administration assistant, and lived at Lilacs Cottage, Highbridge, Somerset. She died, unmarried, on 5 January 2006.

4.2 HOWARD MUSGROVE (1871-19??), born in Brixton on 15 July 1871. In 1891 he was at home, working as an insurance clerk. He married Lilla Browning at Epsom in the final quarter of 1896. In 1901 he was an insurance clerk living in Croydon. In 1911, the family were at The Nest, Kensington Road, Southchurch, Sussex. Subsquently, Howard married Elsie M Hands, born on 15 April 1875, in the Hailsham registration district at the end of 1937. In 1937, he and Elsie were at 7 Cleveland Road, Paignton, Devon. Howard and Lilla had issue, including:

4.2.1 JOHN HOWARD MUSGROVE (1897-19??), born in Anerley on 26 October 1897, and aged thirteen in 1911. In 1939 he was an unqualified articled clerk to a chartered accountant.

4.2.2 IVY MARGUERITE MUSGROVE (1898-19??), born in Anerley in the last quarter of 1898 and aged 12 in 1911.

4.2.3 MARGERY FANNY MUSGROVE (1900-19??), born in Anerley and aged 10 in 1911.

4.2.4 KENNETH OLIVER MUSGROVE (1902-19??). He was born on 18 February 1902 at 2 St Leonard's Road, Croydon. He married Honoria Green, perhaps in New Zealand.

4.2.5 HERBERT EDWARD MUSGROVE (1905-19??), born in Croydon and aged 5 in 1911.

4.3 EDITH HARRIET MUSGROVE (1873-1951). She was born in Lambeth on 14 January 1873. She married her first cousin, Edward Wildish in Croydon in the second quarter of 1899. He was a linen manufacturer's agent. In 1939, the couple were at 57 Beedell Avenue, Southend-on-Sea.

4.4 ALICE MAUD MUSGROVE (1874-?), born in Herne Bay on 6 September 1874- She married James Ernest Falkus at Croydon in the second quarter of 1899 in a double marriage ceremony with her sister, Edith. He was a bank clerk. In 1901, they were living in Beddington, Surrey, and in 1939 at Flat 2, Cliff Park House, Paignton, Devon, with their daughter:

4.4.1 ELSIE FALKUS (1901-?), born on 12 January 1901.

4.5 MARGARET ELLEN MUSGROVE (1876-1893), born in Lewisham. She died in Bromley at the age of seventeen.

4.6 ROBERT WILBERFORCE MUSGROVE (1878-19??), born in Charlton on 20 November 1878. In 1901 he was a bank clerk living in Croydon with his parents. In 1939, he was at South View, Matlock, Derbyshire with his wife, Dorothy.

5 STANLEY HODGES PETTMAN (1839-1907), born in Ramsgate in the second quarter of 1839 and baptized at St Peter's, Thanet, on 14 July. He is said to have been a disappointment to his father in that, unlike Thomas' other twelve children, he was entirely unmusical. With his borther Thomas, he was an active member of the Abbott's Hill assembly. He became a coal merchant.

He married Frances Andrews in the first quarter of 1881. His wife was some eight years older than him. On Census Day in 1881 he was living at 49 Queen Street, Ramsgate.

Frances had been born in Ipswich. She ran a Shetland wool depot.

The couple had no issue. In 1891 they were staying with Maria Roalfe, a retired lodging house keeper at Marlborough Villa, Crescent Road, in Ramsgate. Frances died in the third quarter of 1896, and in the second quarter of 1899, Stanley remarried in Greenwich. His wife was Mary Cunningham, a widow some nineteen years younger than him with four young sons. (She had been widowed in 1893.) In 1901, they were in Clapham, and Stanley was the foreman in a drapery warehouse. Stanley died in the Wandsworth registration district in the third quarter of 1907.

6 THOMAS EDWARD PETTMAN (1841-1910), born on 10 May 1841, of whom more anon.

7 HARRIET PETTMAN (1843-1926?), born in Ramsgate in the first quarter of 1843. She married George Thomas Lang, a widower from Devonshire with two children, on 13 April 1876. He was some four years older than her. It is said that they first met at Harriet's eldest sister, Emily's, wedding. Some of her descendants live in Australia. Their married life began in Brockley, Kent, but by 1880 they had moved to 11 St James' Road, Bermondsey. (The 1881 census lists them at 11 Blue Anchor Lane - was this the same road?) In 1882, they moved to "Priestland", Station Road, Siducp, Kent, which Thomas renamed "Prestlands".

Thomas was a commercial clerk at a wholesale draper's, and an active member of the Exclusive Brethren. While in Sidcup, the family attended the Exclusive meeting at Chislehurst. At the end of the 1880's, the family moved to Handen Road, Lee.

On Census Day 1911, Harriet was staying with her sister-in-law, Kate Eliza Pettman, at 3 Elms Park Terrace, Ramsgate. The rest of the family were at home at 171 Belmont Road, Tottenham.

In addition to the two stepchildren (Helen Amelia (Ella) (born on 21 April 1873) and George Henry (born on 20 November 1874, dying in 1959, and famous as an author of religious books, including his autobiography, An Ordered Life, quoted above)), five further children were born:

7.1 EMILY ELIZABETH LANG (1878-19??), born in Deptford. She was living at home in 1901, and in 1911 was assistant in a blouse factory.

7.2 SAMUEL LANG (1880-1949), born in Camberwell on 26 May 1880. His wife's name was Alice, and in 1939 he was manager of Martin's Bank in Orpington, living on the premises at 84 High Street. He died in the third quarter of 1949.

7.3 SELINA LANG (1881-19??), born in Bermondsey in the fourth quarter of 1881. In 1911 she was an art teacher.

7.4 MARGARET SOPHIA LANG (1885-1975), known as Daisy, born on 19 June 1885. She was living at home in 1901 and 1911, working as a clerk. She married Ted John Clarke Venn Skinner in Edmonton at the end of 1913. Ted worked for the Post Office as a clerical officer. In 1929 they were living at 54 Mount Pleasant Road, Lewisham, and in 1939 at 10 Martin Dene, Bexley. Ted died at the beginning of 1974, and Margaret a year later. Margaret and Ted had two children:

7.4.1 JOHN STUART SKINNER (1914-??), born in Lewisham on 9 September 1914. In 1939 he was a clerk. He married Eveline A Bowen in the spring of 1940.

7.4.2 MARGARET EVELYN SKINNER (1929-??), born at home on 5 May 1929. She married Samuel Charles Dunham.

7.5 ELSIE HARRIET LANG (1885-1949), born in Bromley at the end of 1885. She was living at home in 1901 and 1911.

8 ELLEN PETTMAN (1844-1890), born at Ramsgate on 8 October 1844 and baptized at St George's, Ramsgate on 5 November 1844. She married a widower, Charles James Smyth on 11 September 1871. He was a widowed linen manufacturer, born in Belfast (though the 1881 and 1891 census suggest he was from the Old Kent Road, Surrey, and the 1901 census suggests Londonderry), and was some eight years older than she was. (He had lived in Belfast, working as a partner in the firm of Richardson Sons and Owden, of which his uncle, John Owden, was a director.) He had been a Quaker, but had joined the Plymouth Brethen after the split in the Quaker movement in the 1870's between the social activists and the Evangelicals. His first wife had been Eliza Mary Baker, and he had a daughter, Sarah Smyth, born around 1866 in Ireland, and a son, Samuel Baker Smyth, born in Belfast on 22 February 1865, who was the informant of his father's death in 1908. Eliza had died in Belfast on 1 December 1866. She was a well-known Quaker, and her death was recorded in the Monitor.

In 1881, the Smyths were living at Southwood Villa, St Lawrence, Thanet. Ellen died in the third quarter of 1890. Charles later moved to Essex. He and some of the family were in High Street, Halstead, in 1901. Charles died at 409 London Road, Lowestoft on 28 February 1908. He was buried at Kirkley Cemetery, Ipswich.

The couple had issue 'all over the world'. These included a daughter in New York, a son in Sydney, a son in Northern Ireland, and a daughter in England.

8.1 EMILY SMYTH (1874-19??), born at 2 Clarendon Villas, Ramsgate on 27 February 1874. In 1901 she was a nurse. She married Percy Cecil Hayward, an outfitter, at Halstead on 20 May 1902. The couple lived at Hill House, Mile End Road, Colchester. They had a daughter:

7.1.1 RUBY SMYTH HAYWARD (1908-1975), born on 13 August 1908. She married a second cousin, Douglas Olby at Halstead Register Office, Essex, on 30 May 1931.

8.2 CHARLES STANLEY SMYTH (1876-??), born in Ramsgate in the fourth quarter of 1876. He may have married in Lewisham at the end of 1898.

8.3 JOHN CHARLES SMYTH (1878-1956), born in St Lawrence in the first quarter of 1878. In 1901 he was in Halstead, carrying on the trade of cycle maker. He rode in the first TT race on the Isle of Man, in 1907, coming in sixth. He married Elsie Blache Muckley in Warwickshire in 1910.

He was a keen motorcylist, and has his own garage. He died on 23 February 1956 at 1 Melbreak Place, Whitehaven, Cumberland.

His children included:

8.3.1 CHARLES SMYTH (1913-1993), born in Birkenhead on 20 August 1913. He died in March 1993. His son, Malcolm, had a daughter, Donna Louise Smyth, who married a Watch in 2005 in Kent.

8.4 ELLEN LOUISA SMYTH (1879-1880), born in the last quarter of 1879 in St Lawrence. She died some six months later.

8.5 FREDERICK WILLIAM SMYTH (1881-??), born in St Lawrence in March 1881.

8.6 MARY LOUISE SMYTH (1882-19??), known as MAY, born in Ramsgate in the third quarter of 1882 and aged 18 in 1901, when she was living in Halstead with her brother John and half-sister Sarah. She married Edgar Llewellyn Scillitoe at Halstead in the third quarter of 1903. They moved to New York. Edgar later remarried on 12 February 1929 to Margaret May Filer from New Jersey.

Mary, née Smyth, and Edgar had five children:

8.6.1 HAROLD SCILLITOE (19??-19??).

8.6.2 THEODORE SCILLITOE (19??-19??).

8.6.3 ELEANOR SCILLITOE (19??-19??).

8.6.4 RAYMOND SCILLITOE (1910-1987), born on 5 October 1910. He died on 17 October 1987.

8.6.5 OWEN CHARLES SCILLITOE (19??-1987). He married Barbara Edith Turner, and they had two children:

8.6.5.1 ROBERT OWEN SCILLITOE (1960-), born in Havensack, N.J. on 27 March 1960. He married Regina Ann Zoppo on 16 July 1982 in Mie.chen, N.J. He currently works as an electrical engineer, residing in New Milton, Connecticut. Robert and Regina have two children:

8.6.5.1.1 ANNA VICTORIA SCILLITOE (1993-).

8.6.5.1.2 CHRISTIAN ROBERT SCILLITOE (1997-).

8.6.5.2 JOANNE LEE SCILLITOE (1962-).

9 WILLIAM CHARD PETTMAN (1846-1919), born at Ramsgate on 29 December 1846, known as Willie. He was baptized at Ramsgate on 25 April 1847. (The name Chard probably came from his mother's uncle, Edward Chard.) He entered the insurance business, and rose to be superintendent of an insurance company. In 1871 he was living with his sister and brother-in-law, the Musgroves, at 4 Godwin Villas, Mostyn Road, Lambeth. On 15 July 1879, he married Mary Jane Tompsett, daughter of William Tompsett of Yalding. She was some fifteen years younger than him. In 1881, they were living at 203 Malpas Road in Deptford (close to Brockley, in fact). In 1901 they were in Penge, and in 1911 at 122 Croydon Road, Anerley.

Later they moved to Bognor. They were members of the Taylorite Plymouth Brethren, a "very strict" sect. The couple were living in retirement at St Helier's, Annandale Avenue, Bognor when William Pettman died on 7 November 1919. William's widow lived on in Bognor for fifteen years more, dying on 9 February 1935 at 3 Queen's Square. William and Mary Pettman had nine children:

9.1 MAUDE PETTMAN (1880-1976), born at Deptford on 24 April 1880. She married Augustus George Olby, an oil and colour merchant of Manor Road, Beckenham, Kent, who had been born at Denver, Norfolk on 24 March 1878 (though his father was from Paddington, Middlesex). The marriage took place on 5 July 1902 at Croydon Register Office. The family lived at Manor Road, Beckenham. Augustus was chairman of A. Olby and Son Ltd. In 1906 and 1911, he was a builder's merchant at 16 Laurel Grove, Penge. In 1939, the couple were living at 29 George V Avenue, Worthing.

Augustus died in Worthing on 15 February 1952. Maud died in Worthing on 23 October 1976. They had six children:

9.1.1 CECIL AUGUSTUS OLBY (1903-1985), born in Penge in the second quarter of 1903. He married Nesta Paul from Bradford Abbas, Dorset in the third quarter of 1928. He died at Worthing in 1985.

9.1.2 GLADYS GRACE OLBY (1904-19??), born in Penge in the second quarter of 1904. She probably married Philip V Pocock in Kent in 1930.

9.1.3 EDWARD OLBY (1905-1905), born in Penge at the end of 1905, who died in infancy.

9.1.4 DOUGLAS ERIC OLBY (1906-1995), born in Penge on 6 December 1906. He married his second cousin, Ruby Hayward at Halstead, Essex, on 30 May 1931. He was a builders' merchant, and was managing director, and later chairman, of the Olby Holdings Group. The family lived at "Marlee", Victoria Drive, Bognor Regis, Sussex, and at The Thatched House, Aldwick. They had three children:

9.1.4.1 ANGELA BERYL OLBY (b 1934), born in Westhampnett, Sussex.

9.1.4.2 BRYAN D OLBY (b 1936), born in Worthing, Sussex.

9.1.4.3 DAVID SMYTH OLBY (b 1937), one of the researchers of the present notes. He was born in Worthing on 24 November 1937. He married Dineen Mary Simmons at Bournemouth in 1964. She was born on 26 April 1940 at 103 Corhampton Road, Bournemouth. They lived in Sussex. Dineen worked for the Chichester Counselling Service until her retirement. They have three children.

9.1.5 LESLIE MORTON OLBY (1908-1988), born in Croydon on 30 May 1908. He married Sybil Paul from Bradford Abbas, Dorset, whose sister Nesta married Leslie's brother Cecil. In 1939 he was a builder's merchant at 11 Devonshire Road, Beckenham. He died at Beckenham, Kent, in 1988. They had two children:

9.1.5.1 TERENCE OLBY (b. 1936?).

9.1.5.2 BRUCE GRAHAM OLBY (b. 1945).

9.1.6 GRAHAM RONALD OLBY (1919-1999), born on 18 March 1919. He was an articled clerk to an incorporated accountant in 1939, living at home in Worthing with his parents.

9.2 WILLIAM CHARD PETTMAN (1882-19??), born in Deptford in the first quarter of 1882. In 1901 and 1911 he was an insurance clerk, aged 19, living at home. He married Catherine B Oliphant at Birkenhead in the third quarter of 1914. In 1939, he and Catherine were at 34 Longland Road, Wallasey, Cheshire.

9.3 MARY PETTMAN (1884-1978), born at 23 Blythe Vale, Lewisham on 9 August 1884. She married another member of the Exclusive Brethren, William Joseph Evershed, chairman of Eversheds Printers, at Croydon Register Office on 4 October 1906. She was living at 122 Croydon Road, Anerley. The printing firm was in Muswell Hill at the time.

In 1916 the firm moved to Bow, and after the works were destroyed by bombing in September 1940, they moved to St Albans. William and Mary were living at "Magnolia", Lansdowne Road, Worthing at the time of National Registration in 1939. William retired around 1945, and died on 9 August 1950. Mary died on 7 September 1978. William and Mary Evershed had six children:

9.3.1 IRENE MARY EVERSHED (1907-1998), born in Bromley on 19 August 1907. Se was a chartered masseuse, and was at the Quarries Hotel in Coombe Road, Croydon in 1939. She died in Croydon on 22 December 1998.

9.3.2 NORMAN WILLIAM EVERSHED (1910-1983), born at 22 Queens Road, Bromley on 4 March 1910. He married Jocelyn Slade Lyons at Worthing on 18 May 1935. At the time of National Registration in 1939, he was with his cousin Leslie Olby in Beckenham. He took over the printing business after his father's retirement. In 1961, he left the Exclusive Brethren. Later in life, he became involved in the Gideon Trust, and was the first non-American to be elected an International Director. He died in London on 12 April 1983, and was buried in Harpenden. Norman and Jocelyn had children:

9.3.2.1 MARK DUNCAN EVERSHED (b.1938), born at 13 Forest Ridge, Beckenham on 7 July 1938. He married Elizabeth Ann Scambler on 25 July 1964 at Holy Trinity Church, Elsworth, Cambs. They have four children.

9.3.2.2 JENNIFER LOIS EVERSHED (b.1940), born in Bromley on 19 July 1940.

9.3.2.3 RALPH JOCELYN EVERSHED (b.1944), born in St. Albans on 16 November 1944. He married Carol Ann Cullum in Glasgow on 6 September 1968. They have five children.

9.3.2.4 VIVIENNE RACHEL EVERSHED (b.1947), born at London Road, St. Albans on 2 March 1947. She married John Barry Dollimore at Watford on 8 June 1968.

9.3.3 JOYCE WINIFRED EVERSHED (1914-), born in Bromley on 18 February 1914. She married Arthur St John Gates in Bromley in spring 1936.

9.3.4 DAPHNE JOAN EVERSHED (1918-1920), born in Romford on 5 June 1918. She died on 12 May 1920.

9.3.5 AUDREY HELEN EVERSHED (1924-), born in Bromley on 13 March 1924.

9.3.6 DENNIS JOSEPH EVERSHED (1926-1998), born in Bromley on 23 May 1926. He married Patricia Rosalie Langdale, née Haskins in the Yeovil registration district on 7 September 1960. He died in the Lymington district on 13 April 1998.

9.4 SAMUEL EDWARD PETTMAN (1888-1930), born in Sydenham in the fourth quarter of 1888, and living at home in 1901 and 1911. He also became an insurance clerk. He married Wynnie Harris at Cambridge in the third quarter of 1925. He died in the third quarter of 1930 in the Westhampnett registration district of Sussex.

9.5 ANNIE PETTMAN (1889-19??), born in Sydenham in the last quarter of 1889 and aged 11 in 1901. She was still studying part time in 1911.

9.6 GERTRUDE PETTMAN (1891-19??), born in Sydenham in the last quarter of 1891 and aged 19 in 1911, who married Ernest Fisk at Westhampnett in the first quarter of 1921.

9.7 MILLICENT EMILY PETTMAN (1893-19??), born in Sydenham in the first quarter of 1893, and aged 18 in 1911. She married Aubrey Gardiner in Croydon in the third quarter of 1930.

9.8 DOROTHY PETTMAN (1895-19??), born in Sydenham in the second quarter of 1895, and aged 16 in 1911.

9.9 WALTER JOHN PETTMAN (1897-19??), born in Sydenham in the second quarter of 1897, and aged 3 in 1901. He probably died before 1911.

10 AMY PETTMAN (1849-1852), born in Ramsgate early in 1849, and baptized at St George's, Ramsgate, on 1 April 1849. She died in the first quarter of 1852.

11 EDWARD BAKER PETTMAN (1852-1853), baptized at Ramsgate on 13 June 1852. He died in the last quarter of 1853.

12 ELIZABETH PETTMAN (1853-1924?), born at 90 High Street, Ramsgate on 11 May 1853 and baptized at St George's on 21 September. She was known as Bessie. She was a music teacher like her father, and was living at home in 1881. In 1891 she was still unmarried, and living at 1 St Alban's Villas, The Elms, in Ramsgate. She may be the Elizabeth Ann Pettman recorded at St Mary Northgate in Canterbury in 1901. In 1911, however, she was staying at Ramsgate with her sister-in-law, Kate Eliza Pettman. She may well be the Elizabeth R Pettman whose death was registered in Thanet in the first quarter of 1924.

13 ANNA BELINDA PETTMAN (1855-1922?), baptized at Ramsgate on 25 April 1855. She was also teaching music in 1881.

On 5 March 1884 she married Rev. George Goodchild at Cavendish Baptist Chapel, Ramsgate. (The minister at the time was Rev. Robert Wood.) (It is also interesting that Anna's niece, Grace Pettman, wrote a history of the Cavendish Chapel for its centenary in 1933.) George was a Baptist minister from Preston. Anna gave her age as 31. In 1901, she and George were in Skegness, but George died, probably at Spilsby in Lincolnshire in 1905. Anna was staying with her sister-in-law Kate Pettman in Ramsgate in 1911.