Lawrence Pearse wrote: > > I am looking for help to further my research on a group of families (partly in my tree) who were related > through marriage and property. > > > > The common point for them all is ELIZABETH ISHERWOOD, who married WILLIAM BLOXAM on 16 Sep 1788 in St > Brides, Fleet Street. They had a large family, including JANE BLOXAM, born about 1796 who died a spinster > in 1876. > > > > The will of Elizabeth Bloxam (d 1826) shows her to have had a brother ROBERT ISHERWOOD. Their father was > HENRY ISHERWOOD, whose wife probably had the maiden name BROMWICH. How sure are you of the 1826 death ? Is that perhaps the date of her will ? Burial Elizabeth Bloxam 11 Dec 1827 St Michael, Highgate Camden age 58 years > > > > Robert Isherwood died on 14 July 1837, but not before he and his (unknown to me) wife had produced a > daughter ANNA MARIA ISHERWOOD, born in Highgate 1814-1815. > Anna Maria Isherwood Baptism 2 Sep 1815 Robert Isherwood,Proctor & Anne Maria Isherwood St Michael, Highgate Camden by Revd. J Prowes as by certificate Anna Maria Isherwood Baptism 2 Sep 1815 Robert Isherwood,Proctor & Anna Maria Isherwood Highgate Chapel, Hornsey Camden by Revd.J Prowes as by certificate Two separate registers - this entry is in among the 1816 entries, so it must have been a private baptism How odd that both father Henry and son Richard married an Anne/a Maria > Anna Maria married HARRY CHESTER (born 1806-7 in Ipswich) in September q 1837 and had at least 5 children > by him. Harry's occupation is described in the 1841 census as "Privy Council Office Justice of the Peace > for Middlesex". 2 Sep 1837 St Michael, Highgate Anne Maria Isherwood spinster Highgate father Robert Isherwood Esquire Harry Chester bachelor Highgate Esquire father Sir Robert Chester, Knight witnesses J M Prowes Louise Ets...wall Charles D Ford Eliza Chester Emily B ?? R Chester > The Isherwoods/Bloxams/Chesters all lived at one time or another in a large house in Highgate that was > probably built in the 1600s - the details about the property and its owners are described in the following > link http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65013. The house may still exist but I wasn't > sure from looking on the street view in Googlemaps. > > > > I have some factual details about this cast of characters, but what I would especially welcome is help in > finding the following: > > > > the wife and parents of Henry Isherwood, and Henry's date of birth and death Anna Maria Bromwich 30 Jun 1766 Henry Isherwood St Bride Fleet Street married by licence by W Chamnes Curate Witnesses Thos Bromwich Edward James > > > > the date of birth of Elizabeth Isherwood (I do not believe her to be the Elizabeth Isherwood recorded in > the IGI as born in 1769) > LMA births only indexed to 1813 at the moment, burials the same > > the marriage of Robert Isherwood > possibly took place outside London ? > > help in finding out more about Harry Chester in his role as Justice of the Peace for Middlesex; he died in > 1868. See if you can get access to the Times Digital Archive through a public library - he was a fairly prolific writer of letters to the Editor. There's a fairly detailed obituary, which I'll send you a copy of anyway. > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Lawrence > Anne South Australia