Abraham Parry CUMBERBATCH, Esquire

Male 1784 - 1840  (~ 55 years)


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  • Name Abraham Parry CUMBERBATCH 
    Suffix Esquire 
    Christened 29 Nov 1784  Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 10 Oct 1840  Tunbridge-Wells, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I10456  Patterson & Markham Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2019 

    Mother Mary Cumberbatch SOBER,   c. 29 Nov 1765, Saint Michael, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1792  (Age ~ 28 years) 
    Family ID F6876  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Charlotte JONES,   b. 5 Oct 1786,   d. 15 Jan 1818, Hastings, Sussex. England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 31 years) 
    Children 
     1. Abraham Carlton CUMBERBATCH,   b. Cal 1808,   d. 24 Oct 1875, Richmond, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years)
     2. Benjamin William Robert CUMBERBATCH,   b. 29 May 1812, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 May 1820, Bifrons, near Canterbury, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 7 years)
     3. Charlotte Leila Louisa CUMBERBATCH
     4. Albert CUMBERBATCH,   b. 12 Apr 1814,   d. 7 Oct 1814  (Age 0 years)
     5. Eliza CUMBERBATCH,   c. 1 Mar 1809, Mickleham, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 May 1873, Shinfield, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years)
    Family ID F3760  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Caroline CHALONER,   b. 2 Oct 1788, Guisborough, York, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Oct 1842, Brompton, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Children 
     1. Emma CUMBERBATCH,   c. 30 Jan 1820, Saint Mary's Church of England, Patrixbourne, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 1905, Five Ash Down, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 85 years)
     2. Caroline Maria CUMBERBATCH,   b. 16 Aug 1823, Tunbridge-Wells, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1891, Westhampnett, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     3. Laurence Henry CUMBERBATCH,   b. 18 May 1827, Lyndhurst, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Nov 1885, New Forest, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     4. Robert William CUMBERBATCH,   b. 1821, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Mar 1876, Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
    Family ID F6872  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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)

  • Sources 
    1. [S287] Page 431 (Page 23, RL1/39, 1784).