In 1806 Henry entered the Navy as a midshipman, aged 14. After a brief but very active profession within the Navy he retired on half pay, with the rank of lieutenant, on thirtieth August 1815. His move to Cheltenham in 1817, as a instructor of drawing, and his marriage to Marianne Coldham in 1818, have been referred to earlier. Wright Coldham had been a Sheriff of Nottingham in 1798 and 1807, and Mayor in 1809. He was additionally an energetic member of the High Pavement Presbyterian Chapel. M Rivington told me she hoped Miss R would do Mary good, for before she knew her Miss Rolleston instructed her she had heard, she was getting acquainted with persons in Mr I’s congregation who are denominated high flyers, who differ as a lot from him as he does from the Archbishop of Canterbury. In April 1816 he notes, ‘On today I heard, by a letter from my cousin Charlotte, of the recent marriage of my nephew J. Williams to a younger Lady of the neighbourhood of Nottingham.’ The lady in query was Elizabeth Attenborough. They go to a day school & seem affectionate & attentive youngsters.
She has therefore taken lodgings there and without figuring out a single creature intends getting her dwelling there as a day Governess. Edmund Sydney’s account, states that the ‘early years of my father’s married life were spent in Beeston close to my grandfather Heath’s and there Cary and that i had been born.’ He goes on to say; ‘My grandfather had many intimate private mates within the mercantile world and Mr. Thompson Hankey, an eminent city service provider and i consider a banker, provided my grandmother to take my father into their house, in the primary occasion as a corresponding clerk, if he could make up his mind to go to Germany for a time to make himself acquainted with the German language in addition to French which he knew. The need to be more instantly inside reach of it, quickened by the trials which have been peculiar to me, and the infinite value of the truth there preached, made me want to quit the state of affairs I now hold.’ Mary Williams’s letter continues, After all Mrs Deacon perceived this and spoke to her. Homer’s hilariously unhealthy parenting agitates the scenario further, especially when he’s flickering the lights and yelling “FIGHT! He has a bad cough, has misplaced an excessive amount of flesh & he may be very weak.
The pal who had superior this cash, having since misplaced his father & become straightened in his circumstances, he had recently called within the £200 which my nephew not being able to raise, I was, as standard, utilized to for the purpose. In London again, in October, ‘I called on my nephew J. Williams at the Bank, who, earlier to his marriage in the spring, was accomodated by a buddy on the Bank with £200 which was lent for 2 years, at the tip of which time it was expected that his spouse wo’d come into possession of some property settled on her & her brothers. He recounts that on 27th April 1813 ‘On the comply with’g morning I referred to as at the Bank to inquire into the nature of & security required to be given for my nephew John Williams, who thro’ the interest of my Sister’s friend Mr Thompson, was appointed one of many clerks of the Bank, but co’d not start to act till safety for £1000 was given for his good behaviour, which I found is likely to be divided between three or four in separate bonds on which I wrote to my sister & offered to affix with 3 others, which contemplating how a lot I had recently smarted from giving safety, on behalf of my Sister & household, was as much as co’d be expected for me to do.
They were not nevertheless to be united till he had laid by a competency to begin housekeeping with.’ In due course this was happily achieved and Catherine married Edward Heathcote on ninth October 1827, in Southwell Minster, the officiating minister being her brother-in-law, Edward Garrard Marsh. Lydia’s marriage to Edward Garrard Marsh has been recorded earlier. Edward ultimately purchased it for £2,900. A brief biography of Edward in a e-book on the Grammar and Song Schools of Southwell, by W. A. James, notes that “When a widow, Catherine saved a faculty for women on Burgage Green”. In July 1826, Mary Williams took a holiday in Ramsgate, with Edward and Lydia Marsh. However, in a letter dated 16th September 1825, to William, in New Zealand, Mary Williams describes her concerns over Mary (Rebecca), who had written to say that she was leaving her publish with Mrs Deacon. However, the issues continued. You already know or will know from Edward, that she has left her situation at Mrs Deacons because she will hear no preacher with profit now however Mr Irons a dissenting minister at Camberwell, and is not going to again conform to the foundations and restraints of any family as a result of she is determined to go to the home of God at any time when she likes.