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MARY COVENTRY, born July 15, 1743, married, January 24, 1770 (Daubeney Family Bible), by the Rev. Dr. Ogilvie, of Trinity Church, New York, license dated December 23, 1769 (Mar. Licenses, Province New York), to Lloyd Dau- beney, of New York City, the son of Mr. Lloyd Daubeney and Dulcibella (Sax- bury) Daubeney, of Bristol, England. Mary Coventry, at the time of her mar- riage to Lloyd Daubeney, was the widow of James Calder, of New York, whom she had previously married April 7, 1763 (Trinity Church Records).
At the time of her husband's death, which was between 1783 and 1786 (see Daubeney), she was left with three children aged probably seven to twelve. With no relatives of her husband's in America, and her own father having died at St. Christopher in 1774, she was much thrown upon her own resources, being left entirely without male kin except her young son and her only surviving brother, Dr. John Hart Coventry (see above). That her efforts and success in caring for her family were not unobserved by others is manifest by a letter to her from Judge William Cooper ( father of J. Fenimore Cooper, and land agent for her family, see Daubeney), dated Cooperstown, New York, August 5, 1804, when he says :
"You will be rewarded with a Competence in this world and hapiness in the next for your industry and tenderness to your Children, and I am not Mistaken, when I say that either of them in their turn will treat you in your old age with as much affection as you did your aged Mother."
She died, New York City, 1813, at her residence in Wall street, and was buried in Trinity churchyard, October 8, 1813, where a recumbent stone bears this in- scription to the memory of three women, a mother, daughter, and granddaughter, who had died within a period of fifteen years (Trinity Church Records), namely :
"In memory of Mary Daubeney. Elizabeth Coventry, and Charlotte Daubeney."
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(Elizabeth (Hart) Coventry, who married William Coventry; Mary (Coven- try) Daubeney, who married Lloyd Daubeney ; and Charlotte Coventry Daubeney, daughter of the foregoing, who died unmarried).
Mary (Coventry) Daubeney and Lloyd Daubeney, of New York, had among others (see Daubeney), who all d. s. p .:
ELIZA MARTIN DAUBENEY, who married Captain Henry Waddell, of New York, and had issue (see Waddell) among others, who d. s. p .:
WILLIAM COVENTRY H. WADDELL, of New York City. For many years and until a few years before his death in 1884 he was in correspondence with George William Coventry, ninth Earl of Coventry, and others of the family, who in many ways, and the head of the family in particular, have formally acknowledged and recorded the kinship which exists. William Coventry H. Waddell married Julia Anna Cobb and had issue, among others,
S. ALICE WADDELL, who married George Washington Smith, of Morris county, New Jersey, and had issue (see Smith), of whom the eldest was :
PHILIP H. WADDELL SMITH, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who married Isabella Williamson MacLaren, and had :
Alice Waddell; Coventry Waddell.
Coventry Coat-of-Arms: Arms-Sable, a fess ermine, between three crescents, or. Crest-On a wreath, a garb, or, and thereon a cock perched, gules, comb, wattles and legs or. Motto-Candide et Constanter.
(THE DAUBENEY LINE).
LLOYD DAUBENEY, of Bristol, England, and New York City ( 1746-178?), the eld- est son of Mr. Lloyd Daubeney and Dulcibella Saxbury, of the former place, was the first of the line in America ; he married Mary Coventry (q. v.), of New York City, and their daughter, Eliza Martin Daubeney (who married Henry Waddell), was the mother of William Coventry H. Waddell, of New York City (q. v.). The latter in the course of his continued correspondence with the Daubeney family in England, received in 1861 the following letter :
"The Rectory, Feb. 19th/61. Lydiard Tregoz Nr Swindon, Wilts England
"Sir: Owing to your letter being misdirected it has been some time reaching me. It will afford me much pleasure in giving you the information you require respecting Mr. Lloyd Daubeney and I believe you could not have applied to any person more able than myself in tracing out his genealogy having in my possession the Pedigree of the Family granted by the Herald's Office from the time of the Norman Conquest, the first of the name having been Standard Bearer to William the Conqueror * * *
"Lloyd Daubeney was the only surviving son in 1768 of Mr. Lloyd Daubeney of Bristol, 2nd son, baptised at St. Nicholas there 9th November 1718, buried at St. James in that city 22 December 1754 Admon, granted 16th Jan. 1755. He married Ducibella (Dulcibella) Sax- bury daughter of - Saxbury of Bristol at St. James Church 4th Feb. 1742. His father was George Daubeney eldest son, born Buckshaw Hill in the Parish of Holwell Somerset- shire, buried at St. James, Bristol 28 Feb. 1740. He married Jane Lloyd of Bristol * * *
"I have now given you the direct ancestry of Mr. Lloyd Daubeney who went to America, up to (the time of) William the Conqueror; the Mr. Lloyd Daubeney who was born 9th November 1718 was a brother to my grandfather, Mr. Andrew Daubeney of Kings Square Bristol, England, 3rd son, who was baptised March 1719 died 12th April 1807, consequently brothers children.
"I will only add that it has given me much pleasure to write you the particulars of one
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of the oldest, and formerly one of the most powerful and distinguished families in England. The family is still very large (numerous) wealthy, and holding high positions in the Church, Army and Law. That our two countries may always be united and prosperous is the fervent hope and desire of, "GILES DAUBENEY.
"P. S .- The original Pedigree drawn up at the Herold's Office cost upwards of seven hundred pounds. Mr. Burke affirmed it to be at that time the most perfect one of any com- moner in England. The original Peerage is still dormant and could be claimed."
The writer of the above, Rev. Giles Daubeney, of Lydiard Tregoz, Wiltshire, was born January 26, 1796, and was the son of Giles, of Circencester, born 1770, son of Andrew, of Bristol, baptized 1719, son of George, of Bristol, baptized 1687, &c. For himself and the line or family as a whole to which he refers, see Burke's "Commoners of Great Britain," London, 1838, also "Extinct and Dormant Peer- ages," also "Landed Gentry," 1906, in the latter of which in referring to "Dau- beney," Burke says :
"This ancient and historical family was founded in England by Robert de Todenei, who came from Normandy, with the Conquerors. The family is represented on the Rolls of Battle Abbey and Magna Charta, and is one of the few who can trace descent in the male line to the time of the Conquest. It possesses documents of great antiquity. The pedigree has been authentically deduced from the documents and archives in the College of Arms and is registered therefrom."
Fox-Davies, in his "Complete Guide to Heraldry," refers (p. 68) to these arms to illustrate one extreme of the possible differentiation between the great antiquity of some and the modern origin of other arms rightfully borne to-day. He also says (p. 147) :
"Fusils (an heraldic term) occur in the historic arms of Daubeney, from which family Daubeney of Cote, near Bristol is descended, being one of the few families who have an undoubted male descent from a companion of William the Conqueror."
A reproduction in colors of Daubeney arms, temp. Edward III., is given in Plate II. of a recent article on "Heraldry" (Encyc. Brit. 11th Ed.).
Referring to the stated authorities for the fuller record, and mentioning the following of the line, on account of their connection with its origin or this descent, it will be noted that the earliest lineal male ancestor in England of the Daubeney line was therefore:
ROBERT DE TODENEI, a Norman noble, standard bearer to William the Con- queror, and founder of Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire, now one of the seats of the family of Manners, and enjoyed in the person of the present Duke of Rut- land ; he died seized of eighty lordships in various counties as enumerated in the Domesday Book.
WILLIAM DE ALBINI, his son, assumed the name of "de Albini" (with the added designation "Brito," to commemorate his birth in Britain), which in his descend- ants about 1300 and thereafter took the present form of Daubeney.
WILLIAM DE ALBINI, grandson of the above, was one of the twenty-five Barons, sureties for the observance of the Magna Charta (see any standard history of England, also "Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants," Phila- delphia, 1898, which shows lineal descent, though not in direct male line, from fourteen of the twenty-five sureties, including de Albini).
ELIAS DE ALBINI, or DAUBENEY, fifth in lineal male line, received a writ of summons to Parliament as a Baron, November 2, 1295, the descent of which title and honor being to heirs general, instead of to heirs male (the latter as in the case of letters patent).
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Giles, sixth Baron Daubeney (tenth in lineal male descent), was member of the Council of Henry VII., Master of the Mint, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, Governor of Calais, etc., created Lord Daubeney, March 12, 1545-6. Buried Westminster Abbey, the recumbent effigies of himself and wife on their tomb near the center of St. Paul's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, being one of the finest examples of the style of mortuary decoration of the period. His son,
Henry Lord Daubeney, eleventh in lineal male descent, was created Earl of Bridgewater, July 19, 1538, but, leaving no sons at his death, his honors became extinct, except the Barony by writ of summons, to Elias, which fell into abey- ance in the line of his daughters, Cecile, Countess of Bath, and Anne, who married Alexander Buller, and is now dormant in the line of heirs general of Elias first Baron (see Burke's "Extinct and Dormant Peerage") namely:
JAMES DAUBENEY, through whom the present line descends (the second son of William, fifth Baron, and brother of Giles, sixth Baron, tenth in lineal male line from the standard bearer; he died October 1, 1528 (Ex. 20 Henry VIII., No. 158) ; for his royal descents see pedigree of Philip H. Waddell Smith, in Brown- ing's "Americans of Royal Descent," fourth and later editions; for his descent from fourteen of the Magna Charta Barons, see pedigree of P. H. W. S. in "Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants"). The record is more fully set forth with great perfectness of genealogical detail, in direct unbroken male line from Robert de Todenei, the standard bearer, to (and beyond, to date) :
GEORGE DAUBENEY, eldest son, eighteenth in direct male line from standard bearer, born Buckshaw Hill; parish of Holwell, Somersetshire, baptized July 5, 1687. His will is dated February 27, 1730, proven May 23, 1741, and mentions his wife, Jane (Somerset House, London, P. C. C. Spurway, 121). He was buried at St. James Church, Bristol, February 28, 1740. He married, April 3, 1712, Jane, daughter of John Lloyd, of Bristol; she was baptized December 26, 1689, at St. James Church, Bristol (Parish Record) ; buried at St. James Church, Bristol, September 15, 1761 ; her will is dated December 11, 1760, and proven August 9, 1761 (Bristol P. C.) ; they had issue seven sons and four daughters of whom was :
LLOYD DAUBENEY, of Bristol, second son, baptized November 9, 1718, at St. Nicholas Church, Bristol (Parish Record) ; married at St. James Church, Bristol, February 4, 1742-3 (Parish Record), to Dulcibella Saxbury, of Bristol (daughter of - Saxbury and Dulcibella, daughter of John Lloyd preceding), who was born 1722. She is mentioned in the will of Jane Daubeney above as "Dulcibella, widow of my son Lloyd." He was buried at St. James, Bristol, December 22, 1754, and letters of administration were granted to his wife Dulcibella (Saxbury) Daubeney, January 16, 1755 (Somerset House, London Adm. Bk. A. A. 1755). Their only surviving son in 1768 (see letter from Rev. Giles Daubeney, February 19, 1861, quoted herein ; see also "Landed Gentry," 1906 ed., which latter states that he "left issue"), was :
LLOYD DAUBENEY (second of the name), of New York City, baptized Bristol, England, December 27, 1748 (the first of the name baptized July 6, 1747, and buried October 12, 1747) (Parish Record, St. James Church, Bristol), who came to America (see letter Rev. Giles Daubeney) not later than 1769, December 23 of which year he took out a marriage license (Mar. Licenses, Province New York), and was married in New York City, January 24, 1770, by Rev. Dr. Ogilvie, to Mary (Coventry) Calder, daughter of William Coventry and Elizabeth (Hart) Coven- try, and (see Coventry Family herein) widow of James Calder, of that place, she having married the latter in 1763 (Mar. Licenses, Province New York). Among
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the Waddell MSS. (q. v.) is a copy from a certified record made from the Dau- beney Bible in New York, April, 1817, by "Daniel McCormick, of the City of New York, Gentleman," who therein declares himself to have attended the wedding of Lloyd Daubeney and Mary Calder, and familiar with all material facts relating to the family during the preceding fifty-four years prior to the year 1817. From the same record is taken most of the following dates of births, baptisms and deaths in Lloyd Daubeney's family not otherwise credited.
Further collateral evidence of the descent from Lloyd Daubeney, of Bristol, England, who was baptized there November 9, 1718, may be found in the given names used in the former's family. In the first place, Lloyd Daubeney, of New York, has the same name as his father, Lloyd Daubeney, of Bristol, whose given name is apparently derived from the family name of the latter's mother, Jane Lloyd. Secondly, the eldest and only son of Lloyd Daubeney, of New York, has both Lloyd and Saxbury as his given names, which were respectively the surnames of his great-grandmother, Jane (Lloyd) Daubeney, and his grandmother, Dulci- bella (Saxbury) Daubeney, wives of George Daubeney and Lloyd Daubeney re- spectively, both of Bristol. Thirdly, the names, both Lloyd and Saxbury, are given by Eliza Martin (Daubeney) Waddell, the daughter of Lloyd Daubeney, of New York, to one of her sons namely, Lloyd Saxbury Waddell. All of these names were given principally by as well as within the lifetime of those who must have been familiar with the facts as to the relationships in question. But the available evidence does not rest here, for in volume four of the transcripts of "American Loyalist MSS." in the Lenox Library, New York (copies from the London Audit Office records) there is an abstract record on pages 610-II, setting forth the following facts with reference to "Mr. Lloyd Daubeney, of New York," as of date May 22, 1783:
That he lived at New York at the time of the Rebellion, having gone then first to settle in 1770 (sic) ; carrying out with him a capital of about £2500; that in 1770 he married a lady in New York; that his capital when the Rebellion broke out was about £3000; that he was obliged to leave New York in 1776, and left all his property there; that he removed to Brunswick, where he met with further losses upon the evacuation of that place, after which he removed to Philadelphia, and finally back to New York ; that he thinks he recovered at different times £500, so that his loss was £2000 (sic) ; that upon his coming over to England in May 1783 he left his wife and three children in New York; that he is not in business here (England) ; that he is first cousin to Mr. Daubeney, Member for Bistol ; that there are no certificates as to the property loss, but that there is a certificate to Mr. Dau- beney's loyalty ; that he was in no business in England before he went into Amer- ica, as he was too young for it being under twenty-one ("American Loyalist," MSS., vol. 4, p. 610, Lenox Lib., New York).
(The date of coming to America is evidently placed one year too early, for he took out a marriage license December 23, 1769. By "Brunswick" it is evident that New Brunswick, New Jersey, is meant, where one of his children was probably baptized. The relationship referred to is evidently to George Daubeney, Esq., M. P., of Redland ("Landed Gentry," 7th edition), son of George of Bristol, who married, August 30, 1741, the son of George, baptized July 5, 1687, the grand- father of Lloyd, of New York. The decision rendered by the Commissioners is recorded in the following words:
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"Decision £50 p Ann. It appeared to us that this Gentleman's Losses were not very considerable and that he went out from this Country not long before the troubles and that he is likewise a single man (sic) all which circumstances gives him no right to expect a larger allowance, however, as he says he is in want of present Support We think in propor- tion to other cases, it would be reasonable to allow him 50£ a year" ("Am. Loyalist MSS." Vol. 4, p. 611).
On October 5, 1772, Lloyd Daubeney and Mary, his wife, petitioned the Prov- ince of New York, on behalf of William Coventry Calder, infant son of said Mary, by her first husband, for a grant in trust of 3000 acres of land in the county of Charlotte, Province of New York, adjoining to the north bound of the township of Fincastle (Calendar Land Papers by XXXII). The reference here mispells the name as "Danberry," but the necessary correction will be apparent from an exam- ination of the original record at Albany or of the printed record of "Marriage Licenses issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York previous to 1784," wherein is recorded the fact that a license was issued December 23, 1769, to "Lloyd Daubeney and Mary Caulder."
That Lloyd Daubeney was a Loyalist in his sentiments was perhaps not unnat- ural from his short residence in America prior to the outbreak of the war. It is interesting to note that the dates and places of baptism of his children (as below) agrees with the direct record of his absence from New York City, during the occu- pation of the Continental troops, and the return thereto on the coming of the British. The infrequent records made in those troublous times fail to record either whether he returned to America or as to the date of his death, but in a New York directory for 1786 we find No. 15 Wall street recorded as the home of his widow, which indicates that he had died at least before that time. Further- more, his widow is recorded as the head of the family, in the United States Census return for 1790.
The Calendar of Land Papers of the Province of New York, later records (Vol. XXXVIII, May 9, 1785) that " the claims of Mary Danberry (Daubeney) for 3000 acres of land was advised to be granted her for services rendered by her late husband, James Calder," indicating that by this time her son, William Coventry Calder, was no longer living, and probably also evidencing, as may be inferred from other sources, that her second husband, Lloyd Daubeney, had also died, since the grant would hardly have been allowed with the latter living and the son, by the former marriage, dead.
Her interest in New York State lands at various points later became so consid- erable as to require the services of a land agent or administrator, a position filled by Judge William Cooper, father of J. Fenimore Cooper, and the extant corre- spondence (Waddell MSS.) of the former of whom indicates that the relations between the families were far from being commercial ones only, but were intimate and friendly.
In 1793 the Daubeney residence was still at No. 15 Wall street, but by 1809 the widow Daubeney was resident at 53 Wall street, which for many years had also been the residence of her son (see below) and son-in-law (Captain Henry Wad- dell), both shipmasters and owners, and both frequently out of port for long intervals accompanying their vessels.
Lloyd Daubeney and Mary (Coventry) Daubeney had children :
Capt. Lloyd Saxbury Daubeney, b. Aug. 12, 1771; bapt. Aug. 21, 1771. A mariner or ship-master during early and middle life, and admitted, Nov. 9, 1795, to membership
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No. 1338 of the Marine Society of New York, a certification of his active service as a mariner. His vessel, the "Melpomene," was one of the famous crafts of her day, and an extant letter from Judge William Cooper to Mary Coventry Daubeney inti- mates that some action of his mother had provided him with the vessel. Appointed Sept. 19, 1798, lieutenant U. S. N., and served on U. S. S. "Connecticut," Nov. 26, 1800, until discharged June 8, 1801, under provisions of "Peace Establishment Act" (Navy Dept. Record). New York Directories from 1809 to 1818 record Capt. Dau- beney as "Lloyd Daubeney, No. 53 Wall Street, Ship-master." He married a Miss Titsford, a niece of Gov. John Jay, and removed to New Rochelle, N. Y. Capt. Dau- beney had no children ;
Elizabeth Ann Daubeney, b. Feb. 2, 1774, bapt. May 10, 1774, and d. May 22, 1774; Charlotte Coventry Daubeney, b. Nov. 25, 1776, bapt. Dec. 15, 1776, by Rev. Mr. Beach, of New Brunswick, d., unm., New York City, and bur. Trinity churchyard, Jan. I, 1818, west end of south side, where a horizontal stone marks her grave;
ELIZA MARTIN DAUBENEY, b. Oct. 25, 1779; of whom later.
ELIZA MARTIN DAUBENEY, born October 25, 1779, and baptized November IO, 1779, by Rev. Mr. Inglis, rector of Trinity Church. From at least as early as 1786 until 1819 she resided in Wall street. During and following the period when New York City was the capital, in Washington's first administration, that street was the height of fashion as a place of residence ("New York City in 1789," Smith), and Eliza Martin Daubeney and her sister, Charlotte Coventry Daubeney were reputed- ly beautiful and charming, and the recipients of much attention on the part of many of the distinguished men of those and later times (Parton's "Jackson," vol. III., Chap. XIX, also Barrett's "Old Merchants of New York"). After her mar- riage to Henry Waddell, on November 8, 1800, and in view of the latter's frequent enforced absence at sea, she continued to live at her mother's residence, No. 53 Wall street, not only until after her mother's death in 1813, but until Captain Waddell's death in 1819, after which she removed to No. 50 Walker street, and later to reside with her son, William Coventry H. Waddell, at No. 145 Wooster street, and finally about 1830 with the latter to No. 27 Bond street, which at that time had become a most desirable residential center.
She was a most devoted member of Trinity Church during her life, pew No. 19 of which had long belonged to her family. She inherited an interest in lands in DeKalb, St. Lawrence county, also lands in Otsego county, New York, from her parents' estate, the mineral reservations of the former of which are still vested in her descendants. Eliza Martin (Daubeney) Waddell, died New York City, 1835, and was buried in the Waddell vault, Trinity churchyard. Letters of administra- tion on her estate were taken out by her son, William Coventry H. Waddell, June 9, 1835.
Captain Henry Waddell, of New York City, and Eliza Martin (Daubeney) Waddell had issue, of whom the eldest was:
WILLIAM COVENTRY H. WADDELL, of New York City, who married (first) Julia Anna Cobb, and had issue among others :
S. ALICE WADDELL, of New York City, who married George Washington Smith, and had issue, of whom the eldest was:
PHILIP H. WADDELL SMITH, who married Isabella Williamson MacLaren and had issue :
Alice Waddell; Coventry Waddell.
Daubeney Coat-of-Arms: Arms-Gules, four losenges conjoined in fess, argent. Crest-Two dragons wings displayed, argent. Motto-Ad finem fideles.
MAJOR GEORGE McCULLY LAUGHLIN
The late Major George McCully Laughlin, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, traced his Revolutionary descent to two patriot officers, Captain Nathaniel Irish and Major George McCully.
The ancestors of the Irish family of Pittsburgh, settled on the Island of Mont- serrat, one of the Leeward Islands of the West Indies before Nathaniel Irish emigrated to Pennsylvania. When Nathaniel Irish the elder came to Penn- sylvania early in the eighteenth century, he left behind him, on the island of Montserrat, a sister, Elizabeth Lee, who was the mother of three daughters,- Sarah, Elizabeth and Ann. He also mentioned in his will a nephew William Irish and a niece Sarah Irish. Nathaniel Irish, the ancestor of the Irish family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, settled as a young man in Bucks, (now Northamp- ton) county, where he acquired a plantation on Saucon creek at its confluence with the Delaware river. Nathaniel Irish was born on the Island of Montserrat in the West Indies and died at Union Furnace, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1748. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1741. In 1743, he hired an African slave known as Joseph alias Bos- ton, who was brought from Montserrat to Durham Furnace, in what is now Northampton county, Pennsylvania, by his owner, after 1732. Nathaniel Irish married and had a son Nathaniel and a daughter Ann. Ann Irish inherited, un- der her father's will, a plantation called "Private Neck" on the west branch of the Delaware river, being part of his original survey at the mouth of the Saucon creek, which he reserved when he sold his plantation to George Crookshank. He also gave her five hundred pounds in money to be put out at interest until she was twenty years of age, also a negro woman called Martilla and her daughter, a girl called Betty. William Allen, chief justice of Pennsylvania, was her guar- dian.
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