A letter addressed to Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King-of-Arms of All Ireland : with an appendix of documents and notes.

  • Thomas Wharton Jones
Date:
1867]
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Credit: A letter addressed to Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King-of-Arms of All Ireland : with an appendix of documents and notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    queutly receiving tlie style and title of “ Mistress ” before their Christian name. ]\[r. James Whatman himself, however, did not, like Hasted, ignore llichard Harris as his predecessor in the Mills, nor, like you, pass him over unnoticed as the previous husband of his Wife, for in his Will (Appendix VII.) he recites that he had married the Widow of liichard Harris, and had got with her the Ikxper IMills. In his Will again, Mr. liichard Harris, it will be observed, mentions an only child—a Daughter named Ann. Your article on the Whatman lineage is silent as to Miss Ann Harris, but not so the Will of her Stepfather, James What- man (Appendix VII.), nor the Will of her half-brother, James Whatman (Appendix VIII.), from the latter of which it appears that she had married a Mr. Lobb. This omission of all mention of the Harris family in your ‘ History of the Landed Gentry,’ is no doubt attributable to some such accidental circumstance as that the Karris notes had by oversight not been put into the packet along with the others supplied to you for the comi^ilation of the Article. To continue, James Whatman, who married Mrs. Ann Harris, the widow of Eichard Harris, mentions in his Will (Appendix VII.) a son James, and a daughter Susannah Elizabeth. The son James (grandfather of the present Mr. James Whatman, of Vinters, F.E.S., and M.P. for Maidstone) was baptized August 25,1741 (Appendix V.) The baptism of the daughter, Susannah Elizabeth, does not occur in the Parish Kegister of Boxley (Appendix IX.). In that Eegister there is, under the date of August 24, 1747, an ■ entry of the Baptism of Elizabeth Sarah D. of James What-