25. Henry Martin⁶ Creswicke (Henry⁵, Joseph⁴, Henry³, Samuel², Francis¹) was born in London 3/11/1757. Henry died October 1781 at 24 years of age.

He married Eugenia Collins in Falmouth, Cornwall, 3/06/1776. Eugenia was born c1759. Eugenia died 8 February 1831 in Brook Lodge, Wrington, at 71 years of age. Her body was interred 15 February 1831 in Weston Subedge, Gloucestershire. She resides in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire February 1778. She resides in Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, London December 1784.

He was baptized in St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, 6/11/1757. Timeline: 3 Nov 1757 Born 6 Nov 1757 Baptised, son of Henry & Catharine Criswicke, St. Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex 21 June 1762 His mother marries James Goldfrap 7 May 1766 Scholar at Mr. Disling's Boarding School 11 July 1772 Death of his grandfather Joseph Creswicke in Boswell Court, London bef 28 Nov 1772 Scholar at Reeve's Academy, Bishopsgate Street Dec 1772 Appointed a Writer for the Civil Service, Bengal 7 April 1773 Appointment recorded in India records. ??Did he ever go to Bengal?? 17 Oct 1773 His father, Henry of the Custom House, buried in Moreton in Marsh. 1775 His father's will proved. 5 April 1776 His daughter Anna Eugenia born, don't know where. 3 June 1776 Married in Falmouth, Cornwall to Eugenia Collins of Portugal. 3 Oct 1777 Son Henry Lebzeltern baptised, maybe in Moreton in Marsh. 6 May 1779 Daughter Catharina Amelia baptised, Moreton in Marsh 13 July 1779 Burial of daughter Catharina Amelia, Moreton in Marsh. 1780 Settlement of his father Henry's will in Chancery Court when he became 21. 8 May 1780 Daughter Lydia baptised, Moreton in Marsh parish records. 17 May 1780 Burial of daughter Lydia, Moreton in Marsh parish records. 4 Dec 1780 Will makes son Henry Lebzeltern heir to his real estate, and his wife Eugenia heir to his personal estate, Executrix, and Henry Lebzeltern's Guardian until he becomes 21. 5 July 1781 Daughter Eliza Eudocia Albinia baptised, Moreton in Marsh. Sept 1781 Dies Nov 1781 Will proven, PCC.

From Memories of Moreton: Henry Creswick, who was also in the Customs service, inherited the Moreton property. He was not, however, to enjoy his inheritance for long, because he died in September 1773, unmarried and without legitimate issue...Henry Creswick had made a will which had the effect of seriously embarrassing the estate. Although he had left his estate in Moreton to Henry Martin Creswick, who was then only 14 and who may have been his illegitimate son, in trust with limitation to the latter's first and other sons, he had made this subject to an annuity of £150 to a Mrs. Catherine Goldfrap, of St. Martins in the Fields, London. The nature of Henry Creswick's connection with Catherine Goldfrap is not clear, but it is apparent that she had had greater expectations than the annuity, because the executor had to go to Chancery in 1775 to get the will proved. When Henry Martin Creswick became 21 in early 1780, the parties went back to the Chancery Court and agreed that Catherine Goldfrap should receive a lump sum of £2000 in lieu of annuity. This was however nearly a third of Henry Creswick's personal estate of £6264 in 3% Bank stock and £188 in cash. -- From Guy Stapleton: MISS M SHEPARD 22 December 1993 Extract from Jackson's Oxford Journal. 22 January 1780 1780 Notice of sale of the furniture of Henry Creswick of Moreton in Marsh. ... The family suffered a further blow when Henry Martin Creswick died aged only 22 late in 1781. It may be that this bare statement conceals some tragedy, because in 1892 two stories of Creswick ghosts were related which, although they were then attached to what is now the Manor House Hotel, bear upon about this time. One was that the last male Creswick kept solemn vigil along the wall bounding the Creswicks' orchard, which would have been in East Street, and the other that 'Dame Creswick' came to an unhappy end and that on certain nights of the year strange shadows could be seen through the cracks in one of the doors re-enacting the terrible scene which led to her untimelyend. These tales may belong to the Manor House and not to the Creswicks but it is also possible that they reflect some folk memory of an unhappy end to the Creswicks' reign in Moreton. Henry Martin Creswick had married young, and left a widow, Eugenia, and a 4 year old son, Henry Lebzelton Creswick. Their estate was still the largest in Moreton, being assessed at £7-16-0d for Land Tax In 1775 while Henry Martin Creswick was still alive, but when the June 1783 assessment was made at £12-9-0d, incidentally, nearly three times as large as any other, the house was owned by Mrs. Eugenia Creswick, while the land, which was centred on what was later known as Dunstall Farm, was let to Edward Bliss.

Don Thompson's letter from Gloucester Archivist: Will in Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, index 1750-1800 Henry Martin Creswicke of Middlesex, November 1781 (520). I HENRY MARTIN CRESWICKE of Morton in Marsh in the County of Gloucester being sound in mind and healthy in body do make my last will and testament as follows: Viz. Imprimus? I give and devize all my real estates of what kindsoever to my Son HENRY LEBZELTERN CRESWICKE. Item I give and devize to my wife EUGENIA CRESWICKE all my personal estate of which I now am or may be possessed of entitled unto or may anyways be interested in and do hereby appoint her my Sole Executrix and Guardian to ?? son HENRY LEBZELTERN CRESWICKE until he shall attain the age of twenty-one years and I do hereby revoke all wills by me heretofore made and do declare this to be my last will and testament. As witness my hand and seal this the fourth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty. -- H. M. CRESWICKE. Witness: JOHN KAY. KIZEA TAVERN.

This will was proved at London the ?? day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one before the Worshipful John ?? Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper or ?? of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Eugenia Creswicke widow, the wife of the deceased and Sole Executrix in the said will to whom administration was granted of in and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to administer. == http://www.ans.com.au/~rampais/troops59/brinds.htm #C Index to personel records, India, at O.I.O.C. CREWICKE, Henry Martin, Bengal C.S. "The Personal Records and the Index are under reference O/6/1-20 at the O.I.O.Collection at the British Library in London and cover the period c.1794 - c.1841. The series consists of memoranda prepared at East India House, and cover a range of miscellaneous subjects including the services and character of individuals, memorials, complaints, claims, petitions, suggestions on administrative changes and expeditions." Alongside each entry there are the relevant Volume numbers ( which the transscriber did not have time to note ). There are a number of ship's names included. If there is an entry of interest you will have to view the relevent fische at your local LDS Family History Centre to obtain the Volume and folio numbers. with this information you can view the relevent document at the O.I.O.C in London, or get a researcher to view it for you. == http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/docframe.asp?styletype=x sl&i=1&filename=xslA2A_ com.xsl&com=1 British Library, India Office Records: Records of East India College [IOR/J/1 - IOR/J/19] Records of the East India College, Haileybury East India Company: writers' petitions, and Haileybury petitions, certificates, and papers concerning students East India Company Writers' Petitions and Committee of College References FILE - Writers' petitions - ref. IOR/J/1/8 - date: 1770-1774 item: CRESWICKE Henry Martin - ref. IOR/J/1/8/419-21 - date: 1772 item: CRESWICKE Henry Martin - ref. IOR/J/1/8/428 - date: 1772 item: CRESWICKE Henry Martin - ref. IOR/J/1/8/430 - date: 1772

Henry Martin Creswicke and Eugenia Collins had the following children:

27 i. Anna Eugenia⁷ Creswicke was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire 5 April 1776. Anna died in Bristol. She married Richard Smith. Richard was born 1772. Richard died 1843 in Bristol, at 71 years of age. He resides in Park-street, Bristol 8 February 1831. i0

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Library/medlib/speccol .htm Special collections of rare books in the Medical Library The library was founded in 1893 as the joint library of the Medical School (founded in 1833) and the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society (founded in 1874; library founded 1890). Incorporated are collections originally forming the libraries of the Bristol Royal Infirmary (founded 1735; library, acquired 1894, established 1826 with gifts of books from Richard Smith (1772-1843), and Richard Lowe (died 1850), the Bristol General Hospital (founded 1831, library acquired 1894), the Bristol Medical Library, later the Bristol Museum and Library (founded in 1832), and the Royal United Hospital, Bath.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/library/homlib/HOMlib COLspeICOpntFTL.html (dates and father's name) Bristol, Gloucestershire Pigot's Directory for 1830 SMITH Richard Surgeon 38 Park Street, Bristol John HAZLITT [Marshfield, Glos., 1767 - Stockport 1832] Richard Smith junior (1772-1843) surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1796-1843 oil on canvas 76.5 x 63.5 cm. inscribed on paper stuck to back of stretcher and dated 8 June 1824 no. CC 499

http://www.epost.co.uk/bristoltimes/18_01_00/fact. html Grisly viewing Were postmortems in Bristol really once open to the general public? Dissections were an eagerly attended public spectacle in the 18th and early 19th century. In 1802, two women were hanged on St Michael’s Hill for infanticide and their bodies were carried to the Infirmary in an open cart, followed by a huge crowd of the curious. They were then cut open and examined in full view of as many who could cram into the room. The following day, the brain of one of them was cut out to be shown to the mayor and aldermen. The surgeon involved was Richard Smith, infamous for tanning the skin of hanged murderer John Horwood and binding a still surviving book with it.

possibly? http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/taun11 nz.txt 1811 29Aug Smith Richard - 'Pranketts' Wincanton land sale From Don Thompson: The book is entitled MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY CRESWICKE RAWLINSON written by Canon Rawlinson (his brother GEORGE RAWLINSON) and published in 1898 by LONGMANS & CO. I have a book from the library on loan which is written by GEORGE RAWLINSON the brother of HENRY CRESWICKE RAWLINSON. GEORGE was Canon of Canterbury Cathedral when he wrote it in 1898. On page 4 of this book he states in a footnote when speaking of ABRAHAM TYZACK RAWLINSON who married ELIZABETHA EUDOCIA ALBINIA CRESWICKE that she was the daughter of HENRY MARTIN CRESWICK Esq, of Moreton in Marsh whose son HENRY (LEBZELTERN) died unmarried. (correct, his so called wife was LEAH whose children he fathered) Then the footnote goes on to say that ELIZABETH EUDOCIA ALBINIA and her elder sister ANNA EUGENIA (afterwards Mrs. Richard Smith) became co-heiresses of their brother HENRY (LEBZELTERN) and brought their respective husbands the sum of £20,000 pounds each. Richard Smith was an eminent Bristol surgeon.

1848, her sister's will: To my dear Sister ANNA EUGENIA SMITH Paxton's Magazine of Botany complete from the commencement.

28 ii. Henry Lebzeltern Creswicke was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire c 3/10/1777. Henry died 1800 at 23 years of age. From "Memories of Moreton":

The family suffered a further blow when Henry Martin Creswick died aged only 22 late in 1781. It may be that this bare statement conceals some tragedy, because in 1892 two stories of Creswick ghosts were related which, although they were then attached to what is now the Manor House Hotel, bear upon about this time. One was that the last male Creswick kept solemn vigil along the wall bounding the Creswicks' orchard, which would have been in East Street, and the other that 'Dame Creswick' came to an unhappy end and that on certain nights of the year strange shadows could be seen through the cracks in one of the doors re-enacting the terrible scene which led to her untimely end. These tales may belong to the Manor House and not to the Creswicks but it is also possible that they reflect some folk memory of an unhappy end to the Creswicks' reign in Moreton. Henry Martin Creswick had married young, and left a widow, Eugenia, and a 4 year old son, Henry Lebzelton Creswick. Their estate was still the largest in Moreton, being assessed at £7-16-0d for Land Tax in 1775 while Henry Martin Creswick was still alive, but when the June 1783 assessment was made at £12-9-0d, incidentally, nearly three times as large as any other, the house was owned by Mrs. Eugenia Creswick, while the land, which was centred on what was later known as Dunstall Farm, was let to Edward Bliss. Henry Lebzelton Creswick appears to have died shortly after matriculating from Christ Church, Oxford, on 20 October 1794, aged 17. After his death there were no direct male heirs and rights in the property were shared by several women members of the family. Not surprisingly, this led to the house being let.

29 iii. Catharina Amelia Creswicke was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire May 1779. Catharina died 13 July 1779 in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, at less than one year of age. She was baptized in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, 6 May 1779. Religion: religion unknown. Moreton in Marsh christening record: Catharina Amelia Daug'r of Henry Martin Creswicke by Eugenia his Wife baptized May 6th 1779.

30 iv. Lydia Creswicke was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire May 1780. Lydia died May 1780 in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, at less than one year of age. Her body was interred 17/05/1780 in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. She was baptized in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, 8/05/1780. Religion: religion unknown. Moreton in Marsh christening records: Lydia Daug'r of Henry Martin Creswicke Esq & Jane his Wife May 8 1780 Moreton in Marsh burial records: Lydia Daug'r of Henry Martin Creswicke Esq by Jane his Wife May 17 1780

31 v. Eliza Eudocia Albinia Creswicke was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire July 1781. Eliza died 20 June 1863 in Hillside, Henbury, near Bristol, at 81 years of age. Her body was interred June 1863 in Chadlington, Oxfordshire. She married Abram Tyzack Rawlinson in St Georges, Hanover Square, London, 18 August 1800. Abram was born in Liverpool, Lancashire 13 July 1777. Abram was the son of Henry Rawlinson. Abram died c16/12/1848 at 70 years of age. His body was interred December 1848 in Chadlington, Oxfordshire. He was listed as head of household in the 1841 census in Chadlington East, Oxfordshire. (See Abram Tyzack Rawlinson for the continuation of this line.)

She was baptized in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, 5 July 1781. Religion: religion unknown. She was listed as a resident in the census report in Chadlington East, Oxfordshire, 1841. She resides in Hillside, Henbury, near Bristol 16 December 1848. She was listed as head of household in the 1851 census in Bowdens Field, Henbury, Gloucestershire. She was listed as head of household in the 1861 census in Hillside House, Henbury, Gloucestershire. Codicil to her grandmother's will, 31 Mar 1860: And I hereby also bequeath the following legacies that is to say to each of my grandchildren following namely Mary Louisa, Margaret Jane, Eleanor Katharine, Ethel Elizabeth Amy and Edward Creswicke Scott Rawlinson (children of my Son George) one hundred pounds.

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