Mary Cumberbatch

Notes:

Her age on 12 October 1715 was either 8yrs, 4yrs or 1 month. The 1715 census also lists Abraham and his wife as having 3 daughters (Barbados and America David L. Kent 1980).

Mary married John Sober 24 Aug 1731. John (son of John Sober and Rebecca Trent) was born 1715, The Castle, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies; died Mar 1763, Saint Michael, Barbados, West Indies; was buried , Saint Faith’s under Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London, London, England. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married Doctor William Sandiford 1772. William was born , of, Barbados, West Indies; died Bef 7 Feb 1782. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married John Frewen 7 Feb 1782, Saint Michael, Barbados, West Indies. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Born at Sober Castle

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1st Son and heir, of Sober Castle, born 1739; of Queens College Oxford("Q. Coll., Oxf.") matric(ulated) 8 April 1756; at 17; presented fontto St. Peter's in 1767; named in 1772 in the will of his brother Abr.;dead 1795; bur(ied) in St. Faith's under St. Paul's Cath(edral)(Brandow J.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families).

Eldest son (Brandow J.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families page 509)

John married Martha Bersheba. Martha died 1795, Margate, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

John married Penelope Blake 6 Nov 1760, , , England. Penelope (daughter of Major Martin Blake) was born , Sevenoaks, Kent, England; died 29 Jan 1774; was buried 2 Feb 1774, Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul "Bath Abbey", Bath, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried in a crypt

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Will (source: Ernest M. Wiltshire): Abraham Sober of Kensington Esq.Will dated 30 March 1772. My Mother-in-law Mrs. Mary Sober £300. Mysister Sarah Sandiford, wife of Dr. S. of B. £1000. All residue to mysister Mary Sober and my brothers John Sober and Cumberbatch Sober,Ex'ors.
Proved 1 June 1772 by Mary S., spr., power reserved to the others.

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Will dated 30 Mar. and proved 16 June 1772 (243, Taverner) (BrandowJ.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families)

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Buried in a crypt

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WILL (source: Ernest M. Wiltshire): Mary Sober. Will dated 28 July1792. To be buried under St. Pauls with my dear mother Mrs. Mary S. Tomy sister Mrs. Sarah Frewin £30. Mrs. Judith S. £30. Mary CumberbatchCumberbatch £25 a year. Sarah S. £500. Johannes S. £500. Elletson S.now in the E. I., £2000. Penelope Wentworth S. £3000, plate, linen,furniture. To John S., now in Scotland, £20 a year. Abr. CumberbatchS. £20 a year. All residue in money, land or negroes to my brotherCumberbatch S. and his son Sampsonn Wood S. equally and Ex'ors. On 5Sep 1793 appeared Daniel Coxe of John Str, St. George, Hanover Sq.Esq, Cumberbatch Sober of Welbeck Str. Esq, and Judith Sober his wife,and Penelope Wentwrth Sober of the same place, spr. P.W.S. swore heraunt died 24 of last month and sealed the will with her arms. Cumb. S.is the brother of decd. Testx of St. Mary le bone spr.
Proved 6 Sept 1793 by C.S. Esq, the brother; power reserved to S.W.SEsq.

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Will dated 28 July 1792 ; proved 6 Sept. 1793 (478, Dodwell) (BrandowJ.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families)

Notes:

Died at age 85 at Upper George Street, Portmann Square; Bryanston Square?

Cumberbatch married Judith Wood 17 Feb 1765, Saint Michael, Barbados, West Indies. Judith (daughter of Samson Wood, Junior and Judith Richards) was christened 25 Mar 1749, Saint Michael, Barbados, West Indies; died 30 Jan 1833, London, London, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

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Will (source Ernest M. Wiltshire): In the will of his step-motherMartha Bersheba Sober, dated 26 Apr 1795: "I have left my estate toHope Elletson Sober for his life only, as I believe his atachment tothe Indian is not legal and his ch are illegitimate in justice to therest of my husband's family. His handsome legacy from his grandmotherand aunt."
Perhaps the ancestor of the coloured SOBERS, or perhaps refers to the East Indies: In the will of his grandmother May Sober, dated 28 July1792: "Elletson S. now in the E.I., 2000lbs."

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Hope Elletson Sober, in the E.I. in 1789 ;? left natural children by Indian woman (Brandow J.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families)

John married Anna Ann Middleton. [Group Sheet]

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WILL (Source Ernest M. Wiltshire): Will proved 7 April 1814
"My wife Ann the dau of the late Tho. Kemp, M.P. for Lewes, Co.Sussex, all my estate and sole Ex'trix, she paying to each of my bros& sister 100 gns.

Capt. Dragoon Guards ; died in L (London) 7 Dec. 1813; at 42. (248,Bridport) (Brandow J.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families)

1st King's Dragoon Guards. 1804
On the 12th November 1804 a General Court Martial commenced for the trial of Lt Colonel John Elliott, on three charges preffered against him by Captain Abraham Cumberbatch Sober, also of the King's Dragoon Guards. The trial continued by adjournements until the 21st November by virtue of a special warrant signed by the King. George III, directed by the Judge Advocate General, the Rt Hon Sir Charles Morgan Bart. It was held at the Castle Tavern, Brightelmstone (Now Brighton) with Major General Lennox as President, 14 Officers as members, and Deputy Judge Advocate James Charles Michell.
The three charges brought against Elliott by Sobers were as follows:
1st: For disobedience of General Orders concerning the sale of Cast (no longer fit for service) horses, dated January 7th 1802 in not causing such horses to be sold by Public Auction in several instances.
viz: At Bristol on the 12th March 1803: At Exeter 4th November 1803: At Chichester June 20th 1804: which last is in disobedience of Brigade Orders issued by Major General Hugonin dated June 13th 1804.
2nd: For carrying on an improper Traffic with the Bat (Baggage) and Cast horses between the dates of November 4th 1803 and 9th September 1804, highly disgraceful to the situation he holds in the regiment and thereby defrauding the Government.
3rd: For making requisitions and receiving Coals and Candles as a Barrack allowance, during the period the King's Dragoon Guards were quartered in Arundel Barracks whilst he lodged in the town of Arundel and not in the Barracks between the 1st April 1804 and September 6th 1804: Contrary to an express order on tha head.
On the morning of Wednesday 21st November the Opinion and Sentence of the Court was read out:
1st Charge: Not guilty of causing horses to be sold by public auction at Bristol. Guilty of causing two Cast horses to be sold at Exeter: Guilty of not causing seven Cast horses to be sold at Chichester which was also in disobedience of Brigade Orders
2nd Charge: Guilty
3rd Charge: Guilty but the court was acknowledged that Elliott was unaware of the order until it was transmitted to him and that he had volunarily refunded the Coals and Candles previous to the knowledge that the charge was to be brought against him.
''Although deeply impressed with the many honourable Testimonies and to the good Character of the said Lt Colonel John Elliott and the length of his military service, yet, regarding the charges of which they have found him Guilty, as a breach of the Articles of War, do with great regret, feel it is their duty to adjudge and do hereby adjudge the said Lt Colonel John Elliott to be dismissed form His Majesty's Service''.
The King subsequently approved the opinion of the Court Martial and confirmed the sentence

Abraham married Ann Kemp. Ann (daughter of Thomas Kemp) died 1855. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

middle name Cumberbatch?

Christened Mary Sober by R. S.

Mary married The Honourable Abraham Cumberbatch, Esquire 17 Feb 1784, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies. Abraham (son of Abraham Carleton Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Trent) was born 1754, , Barbados, West Indies; died 16 Jun 1796, Taunton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom; was buried 21 Jun 1796, Bristol Cathedral, Bristol, Gloucester, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

Mary married William Smith Forth, Esquire 20 Nov 1797, Church of England, Saint Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom. William was born Cal 1772; was buried 2 Oct 1831, Brighthelmston, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

given name also spelled Sampson

Died at Upper George Street, Portman Square

WILL (source Ernest M. Wiltshire) : Sampson Wood Sober of the Parishof St. Peter and Island of B'o. Will dated 18 Apr 1799.
My wife Jennett S. 1000lbs and plate. My dau Judith S. at 18 3000lbs.My dau Eliz. Jennett S. 3000lbs at 18. To my son Harrison Walke S. mysugar work plantation in St. Peter with the slaves, and all residueremr to my 2 daus. My wife, my father Cumberbatch S. Esq, my wife'suncle Tho. Walke Esq., Ex'ors and G.
In the presence of Jno Howell, P. W. Sandiford, Wm Cadogan.
Proved 22 April 1811 by Jennett S. wid., and C. S., Esq, the father.

Will dated 18 April 1799 ; proved 22 April 1811 (198, Crickitt)(Brandow J.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families page 511)

Samson married Jennett Walke 15 Oct 1792, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies. Jennett (daughter of John W. Walke and Mary Harrison) was born Cal 1773, , Barbados, West Indies; died 1 Dec 1815, Southampton, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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Monumental Inscription: St. Peter's Font, Barbados (Brandow J.C.Genealogies of Barbados Families page 511)

Sarah married Samson Tickel Wood, Junior 8 Apr 1795, Shoreditch, London, England. Samson (son of Samson Wood, Junior and Judith Richards) was christened 15 Dec 1750, Saint Michael, Barbados, West Indies. [Group Sheet]

Ann married John Cummins Goding 8 May 1821, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies. John was born 5 Mar 1796, Saint James, Barbados, West Indies. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"the younger, 1791"

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Died at age 18

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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 31 Oct 1805, Saint George's, Hanover Square Church of England, Westminster, Middlesex, England. 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]

Abraham married Caroline Chaloner 13 Apr 1819, Tonbridge, Kent, England. Caroline (daughter of William Chaloner and 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]

Notes:

verify birth date in censuses?

Judith married Francis Onslow Trent 18 Feb 1818, Saint George's, Hanover Square, Middlesex, England. Francis was born , Saint George's, Hanover Square, Middlesex, England; died 10 Apr 1846. [Group Sheet]

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Died at age 18 months and 19 days

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"heir 1800 to his great-uncle Tho. Walke, then under 16..."

Heir to his great-uncle Tho. Walke, then under 16 ; at Eton 1811 ; of14th Hussars died shortly before 1863 (Brandow J.C. Genealogies ofBarbados Families page 511)