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    1. [WSX] Westmorland & Melville -- Kinsey & Huck -- Saunders 18C
    2. Marilyn Kan
    3. Seeking any data on life and children of the Countess of Westmorland and Viscountess Melville daughters of the following Saunders. Particularly children included Philip, and Ann b. 1798 in Devon: Admiral Sir Charles Saunders 1713?-7 Dec 1775 - Entered navy 1727: with Anson 1739 (voyage around the world); MP Plymouth 1750, Heydon 1754-75; at Newfoundland station 1752; in the St Lawrence 1759; admiral 1770 (1). - interred in Westminster Abbey "close to the monument.... victory of Quebec" ... and his father Lieutenant-General Edward Wolfe, and mother - died without issue... legacies to Lord Keppel, Sir Hugh Palliser.... (and) his niece Miss Kinsey ... who after married Dr Huck... both assumed name of Saunders. (Their issue was ) 2 daughters, Countess of Westmorland and Viscountess Melville (2) - Grant of land, Lot 29 in PEI, from George III, after 1775 was new proprietor was Charles Saunders, a (great) nephew . Thanks Marilyn in Jasper Canada Email: mkan@incentre.net RESEARCHING SURNAMES: 18C & 19C: - Leslie (m. Knowles/Knolls, Lyall, Stephen) in Old Machar & Monymusk, Aberdeenshire (fishing & Perthshire Light Infantry); to PEI, Canada abt 1820-30. - Crouch (m. Goddard / Broadwater) , Chennells (m. Reeve) all farm managers e.g. in Amersham, Quarendon, Aylesbury Bucks; Clophill Bedfordshire; Passenham, Naseby Northants; Clophill Bedfordshire; Littlehampton, Yapton & Walberton in WSussex ; to Canada abt 1890. - Fairchild (m. Sanders/Saunders), Perkins (m. Bowen) from Devon (possibly with Bible Christians &/or Cambridge Shipbuilderrs) to PEI abt 1830. 19C & 20C: -- Fairchild (m. Sensabaugh), Leslie (m. Perkins) & Large (m. Stephen) in PEI (mariners and ship builders). - Chennells in England & Canada. Gen-Les/Sanders Feb01.wpd

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