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About Natstand Family Documents natstand: last updated 24/02/2018 URL: www.natstand.org.uk/pdf/MennellHT000.pdf Root person: Mennell, Henry Tuke (1835 - 1923) Description: Family document Creation date: 2018 January 26 Prepared by: Richard Middleton Notes: Press items reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) About Natstand family documents: A Natstand family document is intended to provide background information concerning the family of a deceased naturalist. It is hoped that such information will form a framework which will help interpret their surviving correspondence, specimens and records. In some cases it will also give an insight into the influences on their early lives and the family constraints within which they worked and collected. We have found that published family data concerning individuals rarely contain justification for dates and relationships and not infrequently contain errors which are then perpetuated. The emphasis in Natstand family documents will be on providing references to primary sources, whenever possible, which will be backed-up with transcriptions. Although a Natstand biography page will always carry a link to a family document, in many cases these documents will be presented without any further biographical material. We anticipate that this will occur if the person is particularly well known or is someone we are actively researching or have only a peripheral interest in. The following conventions are used: Any persons in the family tree with known natural history associations will be indicated in red type. Any relationships will be to the root naturalist unless otherwise stated. Dates are presented Year – Month – Day e.g. 1820 March 9 or 1820.3.9 1820 March or 1820.3 Dates will be shown in bold type if a reliable reference is presented in the document. In cases where an exact year cannot be given (e.g. it is derived from an age at death), the date will be presented in normal type and preceded with "c" – e.g. c1798. There are some cases where a date is available from a secondary source only (e.g. a published obituary), in these cases it will be presented in italics – e.g. 1823.7.21 Data sources: Census data have been used, whenever possible, to confirm relationships; they are not considered a reliable source of data concerning age. Contemporary newspaper family notices are considered as reliable sources of relationships and dates; reports and obituaries are treated more cautiously. Parish records generally provide a reliable source of data and digitised images have been used whenever possible. Any difficulties with transcription will be made clear. In some cases only transcripts have been available; errors here are usually confined to spelling. The most important source of this material is the International Genealogical Index compiled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah. National Civil Registration Indexes are considered reliable, as are probate records. Richard Middleton James Robert Middleton - 1 of 13 - natstand: last updated 24/02/2018 The Mennell family of Scarborough. All indicated relationships are relative to Henry Tuke Mennell (1835 – 1923) Isaac Mennell (1770.5.27 - 1829.1.7) Grandfather *** married Martha Dearman (1777.3.27 – 1860.9.7) on 1796.12.6 uncle Thomas Mennell (1800.9.21 – 1874.3.14) 1851 Stationmaster, Scarborough *** married Emma Tatham (1803.3.17 – 1862.12.26) on 1824.5.26 Issue aunt Mary Mennell (1802.5.3 - 1887) *** married Caleb Williams MD (1798.3.20 - 1871) on 1822.1.9 Issue aunt Eliza Mennell (1804.4.5 – 1881.11.9) *** married Joseph Stickney (1792.2.7 - 1866.6.30) on 1825.7.6 Issue aunt Dorothy Mennell (1806.7.23 – 1889.12.21) to Australia *** married Edward Tatham (1805.5.8 – 1879.1.1) on 1830.8.25 Issue uncle Isaac Dearman Mennell (1808.10.9 - ) George Mennell (1810.8.15 – 1892.4.4) Father *** married Hannah Tuke (1811.11.25 – 1869.3.19) on 1834.8.27 Henry Tuke Mennell (1835.6.19 - 1923.12.9) *** married Maria Bradley Newman (1842 – 1912.2.25) on 1868.5.14 son George Newman Mennell (1870) son Edward Newman Mennell (1871 – 1937.11.16) daughter Christabel Mennell (1872.7.15 – 1958.10.17) Unmarried son George Henry Mennell (1873 – 1944.2.12) son Brian Tuke Mennell (1877 – 1961.7.14) daughter Marion Margaret Mennell (1879 - 1956.8.6) Unmarried son Roger Dearman Mennell (1881 – 1943.7.13) son Robert Oscar Mennell (1883 – 1960.1.1) daughter Nora Beatrice Mennell (1884 – 1961.8.16) [1909: Mrs Hugh Gibbins] sister Priscilla Hannah Mennell (1837.1.16 – 1887.2.5) *** married Robert Calvert Clapham (c1824 – 1881.12.22) on 1862.6.5 No issue brother George Mennell (c1838 - 1894) York – to Australia brother Samuel Tuke Meynell (c1846 – 1919.10.10) *** married Ellen Elizabeth Newman (1844 - 1923.4.20) on 1873.5.17 nephew Piers Henry M Meynell (1874.7.17 - 1962) niece Hilda Mary Meynell (1876 – 1933.5.5) Unmarried nephew Gerard Tuke Meynell (1878 – 1943.9.12) - 2 of 13 - natstand: last updated 24/02/2018 sister Ellen Maria Mennell (c1847 – 1937.2.18) Unmarried brother Philip (Dearman) Mennell (1851 – 1905.10.19) legal training, journalist Australia, returned to Britain *** married Ellen Elizabeth O’Meara (c1857 - 1937.8.22) on 1879.3.7 nephew Frederick Philip Mennell (1880.2.18 - ) Australia nephew Edward D’Arcy Mennell (1882 – 1955) Australia niece Mary Sybil D Mennell (1885 –) Camberwell niece Audrey Ellen E Mennell (1888 - before 1937?) St Albans brother Wilfrid John Isaac Meynell CBE (c1853 – 1948.10.20) *** married Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson (1847 – 1922) on 1877.4.16 nephew Sebastian Henry Tuke Meynell (1879 - 1961) niece Monica Mary E Meynell (1880 - 1929) [1903: Mrs iC. W. Saleeby] nephew Everard Henry Edward Manning Meynell (1882 – 1926.1.7) niece Madeline Mary Eve Meynell (1884 - 1975) [1907: Mrs P. D. Lucas] niece Gertrude Viola Mary Meynell (1886 – 1956.10.27) [1922: Mrs J W Dallyn] niece Olivia Katherine Mary Meynell (1890 – 1975.1.5) [1913: Mrs T M Sowerby] nephew Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891 – 1975.7.10) sister Edith Mennell (1854 – 1931.6.4) Unmarried aunt Ann Mennell (1812.6.26 – 1830.5.12) Unmarried uncle Joseph Mennell (1815.1.9 – ) aunt Hannah Garbutt Mennell (1817.2.27 - 1846.12.7) *** married Edward Capper Robson (1812.9.12 – 1893.5.10) on 1842.3.23 Issue aunt Martha Jane Mennell (c1820 – 1835.4.4) Unmarried - 3 of 13 - natstand: last updated 24/02/2018 Sources: 1770 May 27: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of Malton. Birth of Isaac Mennell, son of Thomas Mennell, mercer of New Malton, and Dorothy his wife. 1777 March 27: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of Balby. Birth of Martha Dearman, Dearman, daughter of Nathan Dearman, shopkeeper of Thorn, and Mary his wife. 1792 February 6: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of Hull. Birth of Joseph Stickney at Ridgemont, Burstwick, son of Joseph Stickney, husbandman of Ridgemont and Esther his wife. 1796 December 6: Quaker Marriage Records, Quarterly Meeting of Yorkshire. Marriage of Isaac Mennell draper of Scarborough, son of Thomas and Dorothy Mennell draper of New Malton, and Martha Dearman, daughter of Nathan Dearman of Pinderoaks near Barnsley, Linen[?] manufacturer at Ackworth, York. 1798 March 20: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of Westminster. Birth of Caleb Williams at Crown Court, son of Richard and Mercy Williams, fruiterer of Crown street, Pall Mall. 1800 September 21: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Birth of Thomas, son of Isaac and Martha Mennell, Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1802 May 3: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Birth of Mary, daughter of Isaac and Martha Mennell, Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1803 March 17: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of Brighouse. Birth of Emma Tatham in Leeds, daughter of Thomas Tatham, mercer of Leeds, and Ann. 1804 April 5: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Birth of Eliza, daughter of Isaac and Martha Mennell, Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1805 May 8: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of Brighouse. Birth of Edward Tatham in Leeds, son of Thomas Tatham, mercer of Leeds, and Ann. 1806 July 23: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Birth of Dorothy, daughter of Isaac and Martha Mennell, Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1808 October 9: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Birth of Isaac Dearman, son of Isaac and Martha Mennell, Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1810 August 15: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of Pickering. Birth of George, son of Isaac and Martha Mennell, draper, Scarborough. 1811 November 25: Quaker Birth Records, Monthly Meeting of York. Birth of Hannah Tuke at Castlegate, York, daughter of Samuel and Priscilla Tuke, tea dealer of York. 1812 June 26: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Birth of Ann, daughter of Isaac and Martha Mennell, Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1812 September 12: Quaker Birth Records, Quarterly Meeting of Durham Birth of Edward Capper Robson at Sunderland, son of Thomas Robson, draper, and Anne his wife. 1815 January 9: Quaker Birth Records, Quarterly Meeting of Yorkshire. Birth of Joseph Mennell, son of Isaac Mennell, draper of Scarborough, and Martha his wife. - 4 of 13 - natstand: last updated 24/02/2018 1817 February 27: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Birth of Hannah Garbutt, daughter of Isaac and Martha Mennell, Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1822 January 9: Quaker Marriage Records, Quarterly Meeting of Yorkshire. Marriage of Caleb Williams, surgeon of Scarborough, son of Richard Williams of Prospect House, Scalby, farmer and Mercy his wife, and Mary Mennell, daughter of Isaac Mennell, draper of Scarborough and Martha his wife. 1824 May 26: Quaker Marriage Records, Quarterly Meeting of Yorkshire.
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