William Edward BRISTOW

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Jan 1845, St James Church of England, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Inquest.
Police Report, June 6th 1874, Warrnambool Police Station:
"Sergeant Archibald reports for the information of the Coroner that William Bristow, Huntsman of the Warrnambool Hunt Club, was killed this day at Wangoom, in leaping a fence during a hunt.
The body lies at the residence of the deceased's father, off the Allansford Road, awaiting Inquest."

Inquisition on 8th day of June 1874 at Wangoom before the Deputy Coroner and a jury of 12 men.
Their verdict was "that William Bristow came by his death at Wangoom on the 6th day of June, 1874, owing to having been thrown over the head of his horse, and the horse falling upon him, when urging his horse to leap a 3 rail fence and acting in the capacity of Huntsman to the Villiers Hunt Club. we believe his death to be purely accidental."

Deposition from John Henderson, horse trainer of Warrnambool:
"I was present at the hunt of the Villiers Hunt Club on Saturday last. First we threw off from Mr Tozer's paddock and had crossed several fences and one lane before arriving at Mr Carey's paddock, which was enclosed by a stiff 3 rail fence about the usual height.
The deceased was acting as Huntsman to the Club and riding a horse that he usually used in the hunts. He put his horse to the fence on two or three occasions, but his horse refused to jump the fence. At this time somebody present called out for us to come back as the hounds had thrown up their heads, or overrun the scent.
I turned back and when last observed deceased he was again running his mare at the fence. The mare in attempting to jump, struck the top rail with her knees, when deceased was thrown to the ground on his face and stomach, and the mare made a complete somersault and her hindquarters came across the head and shoulders of deceased.
Mr William Allan was the first to pick up deceased. I then arrived. Mr Allan and myself laid deceased on his back. He appeared quite insensible, breathing very heavily with a rattling sound from within his chest. The only bruises I saw were one over the left cheek and one on the temple.
We immediately sent for the Doctor, and another message to Mr Tozer to send a conveyance to take him home. On the road I found the blood choking him as he was lying on his back. I rose him and the blood then ran from his nostrils and by the time Doctor Bradford had arrived, who rode beside deceased in the trap - on our reaching his father's house deceased was dead.
All the horses which ran at the fence refused to take it except Mr ? who struck and broke the rail and so got through.
Deceased never spoke or regained consciousness after the fall. I was present at deceased's death which took place at his father's residence at 20 minutes to 4pm on the 6th June instant.
Deceased was perfectly sober."

Deposition of Arthur Bradford, duly qualified Medical Practitioner of Warrnambool:
"I was sent for the deceased William Bristow on Saturday last between 3 and 4 o'clock.
I found him in one of the byways of the Allansford Road. He was lying in a waggon in which he was being conveyed to his home. He was insensible whenI arrived and died in a few minutes.
I examined the deceased. I found extensive bruising on the face and head. I found fractures of 3 or 4 of the ribs on the left side and there was injury to the lung caused probably by the fractured ends of the ribs.
The cause of death was fracture of the ribs and rupture to the lungs."

"Warrnambool Standard", Tuesday June 9, 1874:
A lamentable accident occurred at the meet of the Villiers Hunt Club on Saturday last, resulting in the death of the huntsman, Mr William Bristow, a fine young man, about 30 years of age.
The hounds threw off at Mr Francis Tozer's paddock, Wangoom, and the party had crossed several fences, and were approaching the farm of Mr Carew.Here Bristow attempted to take a three-rail fence, which his mare (a well-known piebald) refused. He strove several times to make the mare jump, and at last she struck the fence with her knees, throwing her rider, on whom she fell with her hind quarters.
Poor Bristow was picked up insensible and conveyed to his father's residence, before reaching which he expired.
An inquest was held yesterday before Mr J. H. Craig, the district coroner, at the residence of the deceased's father, Dry Lake, near Allansford, when a verdict of accidental death was returned.
John Henderson, horse trainer, sworn, deposed:
"I was present at the hunt of the Villiers Hunt Club on Saturday last, the 6th instant. We threw off at Mr Tozer's paddock, and had crossed several fences and a lane, when we arrived at Mr Carey's paddock, which was enclosed by a three-rail fence, about the usual height.
The deceased was acting as huntsman to the Club, and was riding a horse he usually rode at the hunts. He put the horse to Carew's fence two or three times, but the animal refused to jump. At this time some one called out for us to come back, as the hounds had thrown up their heads or overrun the scent.
I turned back, and when I next saw the deceased he was still trying to induce his mare to jump the fence. In a final attempt the mare struck the top rail with her knees, and turned a complete somersault, throwing deceased off on his face and stomach, and falling upon him with her hind quarters across his head and shoulders.
Mr William Allan was the first to go to deceased's assistance, and when I came up we laid deceased on his back. He appeared to be quite insensible and was breathing very heavily, with a rattling sound coming from his chest. The only bruises I saw upon him were one on the right cheek, and one on the temple.
We immediately sent for a doctor, and some one went to Mr Tozer's for a conveyance to take deceased home. Deceased was put into the conveyance, and whilst we were going along I found that the blood was choking him. I lifted him up when the blood gushed from his mouth and nostrils, and by this time Doctor Bradford arrived. By the time we reached deceased's father's residence deceased had expired.
All the horses which ran at the fence refused to take it except Mr St. Quintin's who struck and broke the rail, and so got through. Deceased never spoke, or seemed to regain consciousness after the fall.
Dr W. A. Bradford deposed having been called to attend the deceased whom he found being conveyed to his father's residence in a waggon, in a state of insensibility. On examination he found extensive bruises about the face and head, and fracture of three or four ribs of the left side, with injury to the lungs caused probably by the fractured ends of the ribs. These injuries were the cause of death.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased came by his death through injuries sustained from being thrown and his horse falling upon him, whilst endeavouring to leap a three-rail fence, acting in the capacity of huntsman to the Villiers Hunt Club. They were of the opinion that death was purely accidental.

Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918), Wednesday 10 June 1874, page 3
WARRNAMBOOL(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) June 7.
In to order to qualify their horses for the Villiers Hunt Club Cup, to be run at the Warrnambool Winter Steeplechase meeting on Thursday next, several members of the club named took the hounds out for a run on Saturday last, the throw-off taking place in one of Mr. Tozer's paddocks about 2 o'clock. Shortly after starting, the dogs ran across a lane, the whole field following over the double, a post-and-rail and a log fence. Some scrub was then entered, on emerging from which the hounds made across another lane, on gently ascending ground, where a stiff three-ruled fence presented itself. All the horses put at this baulked, but as the dogs threw up the scent at the other side of the lane, and retraced their steps, it became un necessary to surmount the obstacle. Mr. Wm. Bristow, the master, however, persevered, and again put the little piebald mare which he rode at the fence, but unavailingly. On being a third time run at the jump, the animal hesitated, rising when a considerable distance off and striking the top rail heavily with her knees. Bristow was thrown over her head on his face, while she came down with her quarters on his head and shoulders, and with such force as completely to crash in his ribs. The injured man was picked up, placed in a buggy, and driven towards home, a messenger being sent for Dr. Bradford, who met the vehicle, and at once pronounced poor Bristow's case to be hopeless. The opinion was but too correct, for about an hour after the accident, and within twenty minutes of being placed in the trap, the master of the Villiers hounds had departed to the happy hunting grounds of spirit land. Mr. Bristow — who was, I think, about thirty years of age— was well known as a bold steeplechase rider, and will particularly be remembered in connexion with a match between The Deer and Reindeer at Ballarat some years ago, in which he rode the former horse, the winner. He was, happily, unmarried. This sad occurrence will cast a damper on future meets of the Hunt Club, and will, no doubt, affect the races of Thursday next, in one event of which deceased had, I believe, arranged to ride. It was indeed a sad sight to see him a maimed and shattered corpse, with the life-blood oozing from his lips, carried home to his poor mother's house, which only that morning he had left as fine and manly a young fellow as could be found in the whole country side. He had, it seems, some presentiment of misfortune, for he observed to his sister, early on Saturday, that he hoped the hounds would not go out that day, as he felt low spirited. An inquest will be held to-morrow, at eleven a.m. It is noteworthy that on each of the last three Saturdays a violent death has taken place on or near the Allansford road – Thomas Nolan, Thomas Shehan, and William Bristow being successively thrown from their horses and killed. The accident to the latter is ascribed to his riding a mare not up to his weight. However, it is certain that, under any circumstances, hunting possesses an element of danger which lends to the sport many of its charms. As in the present case, the best rider's judgment sometimes errs, and overweening boldness leads him to the fate from which caution diverts his companion in the chase. It is a pastime in which Hercules and Lichas often unknowingly stand on equal terms, and in it "the greater throw may turn by fortune from the weaker hand."

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Inquest
Police Report, June 6th 1874, Warrnambool Police Station:
"Sergeant Archibald reports for the information of the Coroner that William Bristow, Huntsman of the Warrnambool Hunt Club, was killed this day atWangoom, in leaping a fence during a hunt.
The body lies at the residence of the deceased's father, off the Allansford Road, awaiting Inquest."

Inquisition on 8th day of June 1874 at Wangoom before the Deputy Coroner and a jury of 12 men.
Their verdict was "that William Bristow came by his death at Wangoom on the 6th day of June, 1874, owing to having been thrown over the head ofhishorse, and the horse falling upon him, when urging his horse to leap a 3 rail fence and acting in the capacity of Huntsman to the VilliersHuntClub. we believe his death to be purely accidental."

Deposition from John Henderson, horse trainer of Warrnambool:
"I was present at the hunt of the Villiers Hunt Club on Saturday last. First we threw off from Mr Tozer's paddock and had crossed several fences andone lane before arriving at Mr Carey's paddock, which was enclosed by a stiff 3 rail fence about the usual height.
The deceased was acting as Huntsman to the Club and riding a horse that he usually used in the hunts. He put his horse to the fence on two orthreeoccasions, but his horse refused to jump the fence. At this time somebody present called out for us to come back as the hounds had thrown uptheirheads, or overrun the scent.
I turned back and when last observed deceased he was again running his mare at the fence. The mare in attempting to jump, struck the top railwithher knees, when deceased was thrown to the ground on his face and stomach, and the mare made a complete somersault and her hindquarters cameacrossthe head and shoulders of deceased.
Mr William Allan was the first to pick up deceased. I then arrived. Mr Allan and myself laid deceased on his back. He appeared quiteinsensible,breathing very heavily with a rattling sound from within his chest. The only bruises I saw were one over the left cheek and one on thetemple.
We immediately sent for the Doctor, and another message to Mr Tozer to send a conveyance to take him home. On the road I found the blood chokinghimas he was lying on his back. I rose him and the blood then ran from his nostrils and by the time Doctor Bradford had arrived, who rodebesidedeceased in the trap - on our reaching his father's house deceased was dead.
All the horses which ran at the fence refused to take it except Mr ? who struck and broke the rail and so got through.
Deceased never spoke or regained consciousness after the fall. I was present at deceased's death which took place at his father's residence at20minutes to 4pm on the 6th June instant.
Deceased was perfectly sober."

Deposition of Arthur Bradford, duly qualified Medical Practitioner of Warrnambool:
"I was sent for the deceased William Bristow on Saturday last between 3 and 4 o'clock.
I found him in one of the byways of the Allansford Road. He was lying in a waggon in which he was being conveyed to his home. He was insensiblewhenI arrived and died in a few minutes.
I examined the deceased. I found extensive bruising on the face and head. I found fractures of 3 or 4 of the ribs on the left side and therewasinjury to the lung caused probably by the fractured ends of the ribs.
The cause of death was fracture of the ribs and rupture to the lungs."

"Warrnambool Standard", Tuesday June 9, 1874:
A lamentable accident occurred at the meet of the Villiers Hunt Club on Saturday last, resulting in the death of the huntsman, Mr William Bristow,afine young man, about 30 years of age.
The hounds threw off at Mr Francis Tozer's paddock, Wangoom, and the party had crossed several fences, and were approaching the farm of MrCarew.Here Bristow attempted to take a three-rail fence, which his mare (a well-known piebald) refused. He strove several times to make the marejump, andat last she struck the fence with her knees, throwing her rider, on whom she fell with her hind quarters.
Poor Bristow was picked up insensible and conveyed to his father's residence, before reaching which he expired.
An inquest was held yesterday before Mr J. H. Craig, the district coroner, at the residence of the deceased's father, Dry Lake, near Allansford,whena verdict of accidental death was returned.
John Henderson, horse trainer, sworn, deposed:
"I was present at the hunt of the Villiers Hunt Club on Saturday last, the 6th instant. We threw off at Mr Tozer's paddock, and had crossedseveralfences and a lane, when we arrived at Mr Carey's paddock, which was enclosed by a three-rail fence, about the usual height.
The deceased was acting as huntsman to the Club, and was riding a horse he usually rode at the hunts. He put the horse to Carew's fence two orthreetimes, but the animal refused to jump. At this time some one called out for us to come back, as the hounds had thrown up their heads or overrunthescent.
I turned back, and when I next saw the deceased he was still trying to induce his mare to jump the fence. In a final attempt the mare struck thetoprail with her knees, and turned a complete somersault, throwing deceased off on his face and stomach, and falling upon him with her hindquartersacross his head and shoulders.
Mr William Allan was the first to go to deceased's assistance, and when I came up we laid deceased on his back. He appeared to be quiteinsensibleand was breathing very heavily, with a rattling sound coming from his chest. The only bruises I saw upon him were one on the right cheek,and one onthe temple.
We immediately sent for a doctor, and some one went to Mr Tozer's for a conveyance to take deceased home. Deceased was put into the conveyance,andwhilst we were going along I found that the blood was choking him. I lifted him up when the blood gushed from his mouth and nostrils, and bythistime Doctor Bradford arrived. By the time we reached deceased's father's residence deceased had expired.
All the horses which ran at the fence refused to take it except Mr St. Quintin's who struck and broke the rail, and so got through. Deceasedneverspoke, or seemed to regain consciousness after the fall.
Dr W. A. Bradford deposed having been called to attend the deceased whom he found being conveyed to his father's residence in a waggon, in a stateofinsensibity. On examination he found extensive bruises about the face and head, and fracture of three or four ribs of the left side, with injurytothe lungs caused probably by the fractured ends of the ribs. These injuries were the cause of death.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased came by his death through injuries sustained from being thrown and his horse fallinguponhim, whilst endeavouring to leap a three-rail fence, acting in the capacity of huntsman to the Villiers Hunt Club. They were of the opinionthatdeath was purely accidental.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Mar 1819, Eastrington, Yorkshire, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Gilberdike, Yorkshire, England
• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1847, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 30 Mar 1850, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 11 Dec 1850, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, Banyan St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 16 Aug 1851, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 25 Nov 1854, Villiers County, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 13 Nov 1855, Villiers County, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Wangoom, Allansford, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 9 May 1856, Wangoom, Allansford, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 25 Sep 1863, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

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The family story is that Edward and Mary were well-to-do (even when they arrived in Australia), were very charitable, entertained a lot and spent alot and used up all their money.
Edward owned property in Collingwood between 1845 and 1848.
He is listed in the Rate Books in 1845 as the owner of two properties in Close No. 3, one the 4th house in the Close, a wooden house with 2 roomsand the other was the 8th house in the Close, a wattle and clay house with 2 rooms. He is listed as the ratepayer and occupier of both but in theValuations for 1845, the wattle and clay house (valued at 4 pounds) is occupied by him and the other occupied by William Stephens (valued at twopounds). His occupation is given as shoemaker.
In the Rate Books for 1848 and the Valuations for 1847/48, Edward is living in the wooden house but it is now owned by John Devereux and Edward ownsanother house that is unoccupied, three doors away. The Rate Books and the Valuations do not quite correspond in their listing of the houses andtheir owners and occupiers in the Close for those years.
He is not listed again after those years.
Port Phillip Government Gazette, No 47, November 22 1848 published a list of purchasers of land in Warrnambool at a land auction that took place inMelbourne on 27th September 1848. Among the purchasers was Edward Bristow, who paid £23.0.0 for Lot 13 Banyan Street with a deposit of 2 pounds 6shillings. He was resident in Melbourne at the time.
The Crown Grant of the land was granted on 24th November 1848 to Edward Bristow, being two roods in the Town of Warrnambool, Allotment 13, Section9, facing Banyan Street.
Edward sold the land and house for fifty pounds to Thomas Hughes
Warrnambool Examiner:
"The Warrnambool Road Committee has accepted the tender of Mr E. Bristow for clearing the road from Warrnambool to Allansford."
17th December 1853:
"Notice - we the undersigned, having the contract for clearing the road from the Town Boundary to the Bridge at Allansford, do hereby caution allparties against cutting and removing timber on this line of road - Edward Bristow, H. Freeman.
Warrnambool Examiner:
"Villiers and Heytesbury Agricultural Association Show prizes - for the best sample of spring wheat - First Prize £5.00 Mr E. Bristow."
Warrnambool Examiner, 19th June 1855 & 4th September 1855:
"Patriotic Fund for the District of Warrnambool - E. Bristow - £1.10.0 [he was the thirteenth listed of sixteen, starting at the top with £5.00]
Warrnambool Examiner:
"Immense turnip - we saw yesterday at the stores of Messrs Rutledge, Macgregor & Co., a swede turnip weighing 30 pounds and measuring three feet twoinches in circumference. This immense vegetable which is perfectly sound was grown on the farm of Mr Bristow, Allansford Road."
Warrnambool Examiner:
Villiers & Heytesbury Agricultural Association - entries received for Best 10 Acres of Wheat - E. Bristow."
Edwin [sic] Bristow, farmer, Church of England, was proposed a patron of the local Allansford National School.
Warrnambool Examiner, August 26, 1862:
"Tallangatta Farmers Common. A very numerously attended meeting of farmers was held at Allansford Hotel, Allansford, yesterday, for the purposes ofappointing managers of the Tallangatta Farmers Common. The following managers were elected - G. Goldstraw, N McDonald and E. Bristow."
Warrnambool Examiner, June 7, 1864:
A notice signed by Edward Bristow and the other 2 managers of the Tallangatta Farmers Common re arrears to be paid. It refers to "Edward Bristow,Treasurer, Dry Lake".
Ratepayers Books 1874-1880
Bristow, Edward, farmer, freehold, 80 acres, Wangoom
Bristow, Edward, farmer, owned by Coulstock, Jas., house & 60 acres
Rates were £3 for both properties.

Weekly Times article on the history of Warrnambool, 31st August 1929:
"In the seventies - Mrs Simpson bought Bristow's farm, Wangoom, at £4/10 an acre, and 49 acres, part of the Dry Lake, at £12 an acre.

Warrnambool Land Purchases to 1856:
Bristow, E. Section 9, Lot 13, Banyan St [see map]

Index to Warrnambool Ratepayers Books
Name Residence Land owned Year
Bristow, E.-Allotment 13 Section 91858
-"1859
-"1860
W. Lock"1862
Robert Mason"1862
F.P. Stevens"1862
Dry Lake*"1863
*Dry Lake is close to Allansford

Edward married Mary Strange MOUNSTEVEN about 1847 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mary (daughter of William MOUNSTEVEN and Fanny Hicks SMITH) was born on 11 Oct 1804 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; died on 11 Oct 1885 in Rosevale, Allansford, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 13 Oct 1885 in Warrnambool Cemetery, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Jun 1805, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 9 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Immigration.
They came to Australia in 1842 on board the "Samuel Boddington". Mary must have been pregnant, as her baby, Charles Boddington was born on the 5th January, 7 days before their landing in Melbourne. The baby's middle name was taken from the name of the ship - Charles Boddington Paynter. He was christened 3 days later, but there is no record of him after that.

Edward Bristow was also on board the same boat, so Mary would have met him then. He was 15 years younger than her. They claimed to have married in1843 or 1847 and Mary's 2 children - William and Eliza- were born in 1843 and 1847 in Collingwood (where Edward was also living). They were baptised as Paynters with Thomas named as their father, but were later known as Bristow, so perhaps they were Edward's children after all.

They moved to Warrnambool in 1848/49 and had another child, John, in 1850, born there. Mary took William and Eliza to Warrnambool with her and Edward, but all her other children, (James, Henry, John and Francis) who were the only ones still alive, went with Thomas to Carngham. Another daughter Mary must have stayed in Melbourne as she married Francis Ford there in 1853, but then they also moved to Warrnambool.
Thomas claimed in his will that he had not seen his wife for 20 years, so they must have still been legally married.

On Mary's death certificate her children are listed as:
1st marriage
Thomas William (dec.)
James Camborne 59
Mary (dec.)
Henry Mounsteven (dec.)
John Edward 62
George (dec.)
Francis (dec.)
2nd marriage
William (dec.)
Eliza (dec.)
John 35

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Gilberdike, Yorkshire, England

David married Ann BOTTERILL on 9 Sep 1801 in Eastrington, Yorkshire, England. Ann died before 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Dec 1773, Little Petherick, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 3 Apr 1824, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

On 10th November 1810, their three children - Eliza, John and Hender - were baptised at the same time at St Just in Roseland. The parish register entry gives their dates of birth also - Eliza was nearly 5, John was 3 and Hender almost 6 months of age. They may have still been living in St Columb Major as the parish register entry reads "William Mounsteven of St Columb, Surgeon and Frances his wife."

Will, 30 October 1800:
I Hender Mounsteven of the Parish of Little Petherick, in the County of Cornwall, Clerk, being weak in body but sound of mind and memory and understanding do make and ordain this my Will and Testament in form and manner following. Viz. I resign my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it me hoping to be saved thro’ the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ and I desire that my Body may be Buried in a decent but private manner. As to my worldly goods I dispose of them in the following manner.
Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my eldest son William the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give to my second son John the sum of fifty pounds.
Item. I give to my youngest son Hender the sum of fifty pounds to be paid him annually in such parts as my Executrix hereafter mentioned shall think proper.
Item. I give and bequeath to my eldest daughter Elizabeth the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Mounsteven the interest arising from the sum and sums of money which I die possessed of now laid out in mortgages, bonds and other securities, during the term of her natural life for the maintenance of herself and my four younger children hereinafter mentioned, and I do will and ordain that the said sum and sums of money which I die possessed of (shall after the death of my said wife) be equally divided share and share alike between my four younger children Viz. Hender my youngest son and Mary, Catherine and Ann my youngest daughters. Nevertheless if any or either of my younger children should marry during the life time of my wife, I do ordain that he or she shall receive one hundred pounds at the time of his or her marriage in part of their portion which they are entitles to after the decease of their mother.
I do likewise give and bequeath to my said younger daughters Viz. Mary, Catherine and Ann the plate which i had given me by my sister Saumarez, Viz. two silver candle sticks, two silver salvers and one dozen of silver table spoons to be equally divided between them share and share alike.
And I do constitute and appoint my aforesaid wife Mary Mounsteven the sole Executrix of this my Will and Testament hereby charging her with the payment of all my just debts and dues and the legacy heretofore mentioned.
And I do likewise appoint the Revd. Charles Prideaux Brune, the Revd. William Sanders and Thomas Rawlings Esq. as Trustees over my said younger children.
I declare this to be my last Will and Testament whereunto I now set my hand and seal the 30th day of October 1800.
Signed Hender Mounsteven L. L.

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 2 August 1817
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS The Prince of Wales, REGENT Of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland. We, the undersigned NOBLEMEN, GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, and other INHABITANTS of the COUNTY of CORNWALL, feel it to be our Duty to repeat to your ROYAL HIGHNESS the assurances of our loyal and unalterable Attachment; and to express our Indignation at, and Abhorrence of, the late treasonable Attack upon the Sacred Person of your Royal Highness. As faithful Subjects, strongly attached to our PRINCE ; as Englishmen, proud in the possession of a glorious CONSTITUTION: we are as eager to shield the one from Insult and Violence, as we are to protect the other from Innovation or Subversion. At the present momentous Crisis of Public Affairs, we feel ourselves imperiously railed upon by what we owe to our Country, and our Prince, to enter a solemn Protest against the whole Tenor and Substance of an address purporting to be an Address of the “Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall," which appears by the Public Prints to have been resolved upon at a Meeting held at Bodmin, on the eleventh day of March last, by the Individuals then and there assembled. We are anxious to repel from ourselves the charge of Discontent and Insubordination, to which the spirit of its language must necessarily expose us; and to condemn as groundless and absurd, and to disavow with warmth, that wild and feverish sentiment which declares the temporary and short Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, to be "a part of a Systematic Conspiracy to overthrow the existing Laws and Constitution, and to establish in their stead, and on their ruins, a despotic and military Government." We have witnessed with sorrow, and contemplated with alarm, a spirit of Disaffection and Treason, pervading many parts of the British Empire, owing its birth to the temporary difficulties and distresses which have oppressed the Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Kingdom, and its growth and dissemination, to the artful efforts of designing Traitors, deluded Patriots, and mistaken Reformers. We regard the unanimous Testimony of the Committees of the Lords and Commons as to the existence of these traitorous Conspiracies, as affording to us more than an adequate Proof of their reality, which has been but too well con- firmed by the rash attempts of the Conspirators themselves. Relying, as we do, on the Wisdom and Integrity of the Parliament of this happily united Kingdom, we can neither question the policy, or doubt the necessity, of those measures, which in full and solemn Council, it has thought expedient to adopt ; and which, by a temporary suspension of a part, is intended to ensure the permanent Security of the whole of that fundamental System of Laws, which has so long blessed this happy Land with prosperity, its Government with stability, and its Individuals with a full measure of rational liberty.
Names and Residence.
Francis Paynter, St Columb Major
John P. Paynter, R.N., St Columb Major
Charles H. Paynter, St Columb Major
William Mounsteven, Surgeon, St Columb Major

"Bennets of Tresillian"
Mr Mounsteven is mentioned several times in 1819 in St Columb connected with Francis Paynter, solicitor.
Also in 1822 as a doctor attending a sick newly-born baby belonging to Elizabeth Paynter (Bennet) and Francis Camborne Paynter.

William married Fanny Hicks SMITH on 10 Oct 1799 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. Fanny (daughter of William SMITH and Frances UNKNOWN) was born about 1769 in Flushing, Cornwall, England; died on 23 Mar 1852 in Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England; was buried on 27 Mar 1852 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Jul 1769, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Newquay, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Village, Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Abt 14 Oct 1728, Bodmin, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Alumni Cantabrigiensis:
Admitted pensioner at Pembroke, Oct 7, 1747. Son of Hender, of Bodmin, Cornwall, Esq. Matriculated 1748; B.A. 1752. Incorporated at Oxford,1752;M.A. (Oxford) 1755; B.D. 1766. Fellow of Exeter College, 1752-76. Admitted to practice medicine, 1792. Rector of Little Petherick, Cornwall,1782. Died 1812.

Alumni Oxonienses:
Hender, of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge (B.A. 1752), fourth son of Hender M., of Bodmin, Cornwall, gent. Incorporated from Exeter College 30 June (or11July) 1752, aged 22; fellow 1752-76, M.A. 18 April 1755, B.D. 9 July 1766, admitted to practice medicine 11 July 1792, rector of Little Petherick (St Petrock Minor), Cornwall, 1782, died in 1812. See Boase 105.

Register of Exeter College:
Hender Mounsteven (4 son of Hender, d. 1774), b. Bodmin, bap. 1729, M. 30 June 1752, Corn. 1752, vacated by marriage 1776; incorp. as B.A.fromPembroke Hall, Camb. 11 July 1752; M.A. 18 April 1755; B.D. 9 July 1766; adm. to practise medicine 11 July 1792; elected Curate of Merton, Oxon 5Oct 1754 for the next year; Rector of Little Petherick, Cornwall in 1782, d. 1812; Collecteana. Cornubiensis 599.

Moyle's Biographical Notes:
(Fourth son of Hender Mounsteven of Bodmin who died in 1774). Died Bodmin. Baptised 1729; Matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford 30 June 1752, age22; Cornish Fellow of Exeter College 30 June 1752, vacated by marriage 1776; incorporated as B.A. from Pembroke Hall, Cambridge 11 July 1752;M.A.18 April 1755; B.D. 9 July 1766; admitted to practice in medicine 11 July 1792; Curate of Merton, Oxford, 5 October 1754 for the next year; Rectorof Little Petherick or St Petroc Minor 1782. Died 1812.

Will, 30 October 1800:
I Hender Mounsteven of the Parish of Little Petherick, in the County of Cornwall, Clerk, being weak in body but sound of mind and memory and understanding do make and ordain this my Will and Testament in form and manner following. Viz. I resign my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it me hoping to be saved thro’ the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ and I desire that my Body may be Buried in a decent but private manner. As to my worldly goods I dispose of them in the following manner.
Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my eldest son William the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give to my second son John the sum of fifty pounds.
Item. I give to my youngest son Hender the sum of fifty pounds to be paid him annually in such parts as my Executrix hereafter mentioned shall think proper.
Item. I give and bequeath to my eldest daughter Elizabeth the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Mounsteven the interest arising from the sum and sums of money which I die possessed of now laid out in mortgages, bonds and other securities, during the term of her natural life for the maintenance of herself and my four younger children hereinafter mentioned, and I do will and ordain that the said sum and sums of money which I die possessed of (shall after the death of my said wife) be equally divided share and share alike between my four younger children Viz. Hender my youngest son and Mary, Catherine and Ann my youngest daughters. Nevertheless if any or either of my younger children should marry during the life time of my wife, I do ordain that he or she shall receive one hundred pounds at the time of his or her marriage in part of their portion which they are entitles to after the decease of their mother.
I do likewise give and bequeath to my said younger daughters Viz. Mary, Catherine and Ann the plate which i had given me by my sister Saumarez, Viz. two silver candle sticks, two silver salvers and one dozen of silver table spoons to be equally divided between them share and share alike.
And I do constitute and appoint my aforesaid wife Mary Mounsteven the sole Executrix of this my Will and Testament hereby charging her with the payment of all my just debts and dues and the legacy heretofore mentioned.
And I do likewise appoint the Revd. Charles Prideaux Brune, the Revd. William Sanders and Thomas Rawlings Esq. as Trustees over my said younger children.
I declare this to be my last Will and Testament whereunto I now set my hand and seal the 30th day of October 1800.
Signed Hender Mounsteven L. L.

Hender married Mary HOSKIN about 1773. Mary (daughter of Unknown HOSKIN and Unknown UNKNOWN) was born about 1745; died on 30 Aug 1831 in Trencreek, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England; was buried on 3 Sep 1831 in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Will, 30 October 1800:
I Hender Mounsteven of the Parish of Little Petherick, in the County of Cornwall, Clerk, being weak in body but sound of mind and memory and understanding do make and ordain this my Will and Testament in form and manner following. Viz. I resign my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it me hoping to be saved thro’ the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ and I desire that my Body may be Buried in a decent but private manner. As to my worldly goods I dispose of them in the following manner.
Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my eldest son William the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give to my second son John the sum of fifty pounds.
Item. I give to my youngest son Hender the sum of fifty pounds to be paid him annually in such parts as my Executrix hereafter mentioned shall think proper.
Item. I give and bequeath to my eldest daughter Elizabeth the sum of five pounds.
Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Mounsteven the interest arising from the sum and sums of money which I die possessed of now laid out in mortgages, bonds and other securities, during the term of her natural life for the maintenance of herself and my four younger children hereinafter mentioned, and I do will and ordain that the said sum and sums of money which I die possessed of (shall after the death of my said wife) be equally divided share and share alike between my four younger children Viz. Hender my youngest son and Mary, Catherine and Ann my youngest daughters. Nevertheless if any or either of my younger children should marry during the life time of my wife, I do ordain that he or she shall receive one hundred pounds at the time of his or her marriage in part of their portion which they are entitles to after the decease of their mother.
I do likewise give and bequeath to my said younger daughters Viz. Mary, Catherine and Ann the plate which i had given me by my sister Saumarez, Viz. two silver candle sticks, two silver salvers and one dozen of silver table spoons to be equally divided between them share and share alike.
And I do constitute and appoint my aforesaid wife Mary Mounsteven the sole Executrix of this my Will and Testament hereby charging her with the payment of all my just debts and dues and the legacy heretofore mentioned.
And I do likewise appoint the Revd. Charles Prideaux Brune, the Revd. William Sanders and Thomas Rawlings Esq. as Trustees over my said younger children.
I declare this to be my last Will and Testament whereunto I now set my hand and seal the 30th day of October 1800.
Signed Hender Mounsteven L. L.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Abt 12 Mar 1741, Mylor, Cornwall, England

Notes:

The Baptism Register for Mylor has entries for the baptisms of their children in 1766, 1768 and 1769 that say "of Mr William and Mrs FrancesSmith",the only entries on the pages to refer to the parents as Mr and Mrs (were they "above" the other couples?) William was referred to as agentleman inhis marriage entry, so perhaps he owned land.

William married Frances UNKNOWN on 11 Apr 1765 in Mylor, Cornwall, England. Frances was born about 1728; died in Oct 1788 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; was buried on 12 Oct 1788 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Frances & Thomas had 3 children but between the second child, Thomas being baptised in November 1762, and the third child, George Strangebeingbaptised in January 1764, Thomas had died, as he is not given as the father of George, just Mrs Frances Nankivell.