Abraham Parry CUMBERBATCH, Esquire

Notes:

Died at Calverley Hotel (now Hotel du Vin)

Also of Tubney Lodge, Berkshire and then The Broad, Hellingly, Sussex (Marshall G.W. - Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach)

Died aged 56 (Marshall G.W. - Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach).

BARBADOS_SLAVES: In 1829 he was the owner of The Clelands Plantation, St. Andrew which then had 113 Male and 116 Female Slaves totalling 229 slaves in all - more details in Folio 313 Volume 4th (T71/546 Colonial Slave Registry 17 Date 1829). In 1829, he also owned The Farm Plantation, St. Peter which then had 22 Male and 28 Female Slaves totalling 50 slaves in all - more details in Folio 227 Volume 5th (T71/546 Colonial Slave Registry 17 Date 1829). In 1832, he was still the owner of The Clelands Plantation, St. Andrew which then had 107 Male and 115 Female Slaves totalling 222 slaves in all - more details in Folio 315 Volume 4th (T71/552 Colonial Slave Registry 17 Date 1832). In 1832, he still owned The Farm Plantation, St. Peter which then owned 21 Male and 27 Female Slaves totalling 48 slaves in all - more details in Folio 218 Volume 5th (T71/552 Colonial Slave Registry 17 Date 1832). In 1834, he still owned The Farm Plantation, St. Peter which then had 20 Male and 27 Female Slaves totalling 47 slaves in all - more details in Folio 227 Volume 5th (T71/565 Colonial Slave Registry 17 Date 1834).

SLAVE COMPENSATION - Name of Estate or Domicile of Slaves The Farm BARBADOES RETURN of the Number of Slaves and Estimated Value thereof, in each Class, in possession of Abraham P. Cumberbatch deceased Estate on the 1st day of August, 1834. No. 4948:
TOTAL NUMBER of SLAVES Fourty Seven.
PRAEDIAL ATTACHED (field) - 5 Head People (male) £500; 21 Field Labourers (8 male) & (13 female) = 21 total £1,575; 11 Inferior Field Labourers (5 male) & (6 female) = 11 total £440.
Children under Six Years of Age on the 1st August, 1834 10 (2 male) & (8 female) £100.
Total 47 slaves £2,615.
We, the undersigned, being two of the Valuers appointed to Classify and Value the Slaves in the above named Colony, do on our Oaths declare, after due examination and enquiry, that the above Return is a just true, and accurate Classification and Valuation of the Slaves therein mentioned, on the 1st day of August, 1834, according to the best of our knowledge, information, and belief. Dated this 17th day of November 1834. Sworn this 1st day of January 1835 (T71/802/4948).

CREST - An eagle's head erased
ARMS - Argent, an eagle displayed between three trefoils Or, impaling Quarterly 1 and 4, Argent, a lion rampant ; 2 and 3, Argent, in chief three leaves, in base a bugle-horn.
MOTTO - Ne Tentes Aut Perfice

Monumental Inscription to Charlotte Cumberbatch nee Burnet Jones in St. Mary, Paddington (In the Church, on north wall of north gallery, on a sculptured white marble tablet; above is a broken pediment, with a kneeling figure, angel's head, and child below:-

Sacred to the Memory of CHARLOTTE CUMBERBATCH, daughter of the late Robert Burnet Jones, Esqre and of Elizabeth Susanna his wife. Born October 5th 1786; Married A.P. Cumberbatch ESQre October 31st 1805. Died January 15th 1818. Her afflicted Husband has caused this monument to be erected. She lies entombed with her father Rt Burnet Jones ESQre and her youngest brother Joseph Jones, ESQre in the North Ground of this church. Benjamin William Robert Cumberbatch, her second son died at Bifrons, near Canterbury, May 7th 1820, in the 8th year of his age.
Crest - An eagle's head erased
Arms - Argent, an eagle displyed between three trefoils, impaling Quarterly 1 and 4, Argent, a lion rampant; 2 and 3, Argent, in chief three leaves, in base a bugle-horn.
Motto - NE TENTES AUT PERFICE.

Her husband Abraham Parry Cumberbatch was of Barbadoes, later of Tubney Lodge, co. Berks, then of The Broad, Hellingly, co. Sussex, and died at Tunbridge Wells October 1840, aged 56. She was his first wife. The had issue an only surviving son, Abraham Carlton Cumberbatch, Consul at Constantinople, and a daughter Eliza*.

The arms should be : Gules, an eagle displayed between three trfoils Or. See G.W. Marshall's "Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach," p. 38. A pedigree of Jones is in Burke's "Landed Gentry".

*Eliza Cumberbatch married Revd Henry Chichely Michell, Vicar of Lymington, Co. Hants.

(source: Caribbeana Vol. I p.228)

Abraham married Charlotte JONES. Charlotte (daughter of Robert Burnett JONES and Elizabeth Susannah ESTWICKE) was born 5 Oct 1786; died 15 Jan 1818, Hastings, Sussex. England; was buried 24 Jan 1818, Paddington, London, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Abraham Carlton CUMBERBATCH was born Cal 1808; died 24 Oct 1875, Richmond, Surrey, England.
2. Benjamin William Robert CUMBERBATCH was born 29 May 1812, , , England; was christened 2 Dec 1812, Westerham, Kent, England; died 7 May 1820, Bifrons, near Canterbury, Kent, England; was buried 13 May 1820, North Ground, Saint Mary's, Paddington, London, England.
3. Charlotte Leila Louisa CUMBERBATCH
4. Albert CUMBERBATCH was born 12 Apr 1814; died 7 Oct 1814.
5. Eliza CUMBERBATCH was born , Mickleham, Surrey, England; was christened 1 Mar 1809, Mickleham, Surrey, England; died 3 May 1873, Shinfield, Berkshire, England; was buried 10 May 1873, Lymington, Hampshire, England.

Abraham married Caroline CHALONER. Caroline (daughter of Emma HARVEY) was born 2 Oct 1788, Guisborough, York, England; was christened 25 Nov 1788, Guisborough, York, England; died 15 Oct 1842, Brompton, Middlesex, England; was buried 21 Oct 1842, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Emma CUMBERBATCH was born , Canterbury, Kent, England; was christened 30 Jan 1820, Saint Mary's Church of England, Patrixbourne, Kent, England; died Apr 1905, Five Ash Down, Sussex, England.
2. Caroline Maria CUMBERBATCH was born 16 Aug 1823, Tunbridge-Wells, Kent, England; was christened 22 Sep 1823, Tunbridge-Wells, Kent, England; died Jan 1891, Westhampnett, Sussex, England.
3. Laurence Henry CUMBERBATCH was born 18 May 1827, Lyndhurst, Sussex, England; was christened 7 Jul 1827, Hellingly, Sussex, England; died 30 Nov 1885, New Forest, Hampshire, England.
4. Robert William CUMBERBATCH was born 1821, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England; was christened 9 Feb 1822, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England; died 29 Mar 1876, Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey; was buried 30 Mar 1876, British Cemetery, Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey.

Notes:

middle name Cumberbatch?

Christened Mary Sober by R. S.