Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present dayLanaghan, Mrs.
History
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day
Lanaghan, Mrs.
Antigua -- Description and travel; Antigua -- History
By his second wife, Lydia, relict of Samuel Martin, he had three
sons and two daus.—viz.,
i. George, born at Antigua, 24 April, 1704, m. Henrietta-
Maria, dau. of Col. John Ffrys, of Antigua, and died 12 Nov.
1734, leaving issue two sons and four daus.—viz.,
1. George, of Apps Court, co. Surrey, m. Louisa, dau. of
Peter Bathurst, Esq., M.P., of Clarendon Park, co. Wilts,
and niece of Earl Bathurst, and was buried at St George’s,
Antigua, 7 Nov. 1779, had issue, 1. George Byam, died an
infant, in 1774; 2. Selina, m. Rev. William Hony, of
Liskeard, co. Cornwall, and has issue; 3. Elizabeth, m.
Mark Batt, of Lawell House, Co. Devon, and d. s. p.; 4 and
5. Louisa and Henrietta-Maria, both d. unm.
2. John, died at Antigua, 26 Oct. 1754, unm.
3. Mary, m. 1st, —— Lyons, of Antigua, and 2ndly, Daniel
Mathew, of Antigua, and Felix Hall, co. Essex, some time
high-sheriff for that county, had issue, 1. Daniel-Byam
Mathew, of Felix Hall, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward
Deering, Bart.; 2. George, who m. Euphemia Hamilton, and
had issue a son, the present George B. Mathew, capt. in
Coldstream Guards, and late M.P. for Shaftesbury, who m. at
St George’s, Hanover Square, April, 1835, the dau. and heir
of Henry Hoare, Esq., and granddau. of the celebrated
antiquary, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart.; 3. Elizabeth, who
m. Robert, fourth Viscount Galway; 4. Louisa, who m.
Admiral Lord Gambier; and 5. Jane, who m. Samuel Gambier,
commissioner of the navy.
4. Elizabeth, d. unm. in 1806.
5 and 6. Henrietta Maria and Lydia, both d. unm.
ii. William, of Byams, Antigua, and of Westbourn House, co.
Middlesex. He was a colonel in the army, and member of the
privy council, Antigua; born 3 July, 1706; admitted of
Christ’s Coll., Cambridge, 21 June, 1720, B.A. 1724, m. 1735,
Anne, dau. of Col. John Gunthorpe, member of council,
Antigua, and had issue,
1. Martin, member of the council, Antigua, born 29 Sept.
1742, admitted a fellow commoner of Sidney Coll.,
Cambridge, 30 April, 1761, m. in 1771, Elizabeth, dau. of
Stephen Blizard, judge of court of common pleas, Antigua,
and relict of William Warner, of Antigua. He died June,
1805, s. p., and was buried at Lyndhurst, Hants.
2. Edward, lieut. R.N., born 15 Sept. 1743, m. Anne, dau. of
William Gunthorpe, of Antigua, Esq. He was lost in the
“Ville de Paris,” after her capture, in 1782, leaving, by
Anne, his wife, a son and dau.,
1. William-Henry, capt. R.N., who m. his first cousin,
Alicia, dau. of Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died
26 Nov. 1838, s. p.
1. Louisa, only dau. of her father, Edward Byam, d. unm. at
Kensington, in 1835.
3. Anne, eldest dau., born 27 Sept. 1744, m. 13 Jan. 1763, to
Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died 18 June, 1814,
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