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TOLME Tales What’s in a Name? Jonathan Robert Tolmé Davidson © 2019 Jonathan Davidson. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author, Jonathan Davidson, at [email protected] This publication is not an article of trade. Present text with images constitutes a personal manuscript reproduced non-commercially by the author. Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, it is almost certain that new facts will be uncovered that might necessitate amendment or further elaboration. Any inaccuracies are likely to be the result of faulty source information or due to errors on the part of the author, for which he takes responsibility. Website links in this book were current at the time of writing; some may not now be functional. ISBN 978-1-68454-949-8 Photo editing, cover design, layout and production: Words & Design, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Printed in New Zealand by Your Books ii This book is dedicated to my parents: Joseph Robert (né Blunschi) Davidson (1901-1946) and Mary Kathleen Tolmé (neé Overmann) Davidson (1906-1987), and my sister, Naomi Davidson (1936-2017). iii Front and Back Cover Images The front cover shows seven generations of the Tolmé line, in sequence as follows: David Tolmé (1753-1825), son Charles David Tolmé (1792-1872), grand- daughter Emily Tolmé (1841-1893), great-grandson Charles Tolmé Overmann (1869-1961), great-great-grand-daughter Mary Kathleen Tolmé Davidson (1906-1987), great-great-great-grandson Jonathan Robert Tolmé Davidson (born 1943), great-great-great-great-grandaughter Rebecca Tolmé Williams (born 1972). The back cover shows 21 St. Georges Square, Pimlico, London. This was the home of Charles David Tolmé from the 1860s to his death in 1872. The square was (and still is) in a fashionable area bordering on the River Thames. It is likely that Tolmé was the first resident of this home, which was designed and built by Thomas Cubitt in the 1850s. As far as can be ascertained, it is still intact as a single residence, and has not been divided up into separate apartments. In 1866, Emily Tolmé and FT Overmann’s wedding reception was held in this residence. Picture on back cover by permission of Google Maps under their Terms of Service Agreement. Accessed at www.google.com/maps iv Contents Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................. ix Introduction ................................................................................................................................... x PART 1 The Tolme Name .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Thirteen Tolme Generations: From John Tolmach to Present Times ..................................................................... 16 PART 2 Ancestors of Charles David Tolmé (CDT) John Tolmach (Rory MacLeod) .....................................................................................18 James Tolme .................................................................................................................................................18 John Tolme .....................................................................................................................................................18 William Tolme of Fortrose (c.1664 – c.1727) ...........................................18 David Tolme (1690-1761): Mariner, West Indies Fleet ..................................................................................................................................19 John Tolme (c.1720-1766): Mariner, East India Company ....................................................................................................................22 David Tolmé (1753-1825): Mariner, East India Company ......................................................................................................................24 Charles David Tolmé: Consul in Cuba and Sugar Trader .............................................................................................................................. 30 PART 3 Descendants of Charles David Tolmé Thomas Hurry (1825-1877): Sugar with Scharfenberg ....................37 Fanny Schwartz (1826-1910): A Cornucopia of Talented Children, Grandchildren and on Down the Line .....................................37 Mary Hurry (1828-1885): A Castle in Germany and the Whisky-Vodka Agreement ................................................................................50 Charles Hancock (1830-?) ......................................................................................................53 Francis Carbutt (1831-1871) ..............................................................................................53 Louise Garrique (1833-1875): Scottish Settler ............................................53 Julian Horn (1836-1878): Acclaimed Civil Engineer ..........................54 Eliza Schenley (1838-1912): Lawyers in the Family ..........................54 Emily (1841-1893): Five Children and Many Descendants ... 55 v PART 4 Emily and FT Overmann’s Many Descendants and This Author’s Line ..........................................................................................................57 Conclusions ..........................................................................................................................................................67 AppENDICES Appendix 1 ............................................................................................................................................................69 Appendix 2 ............................................................................................................................................................71 Appendix 3 ............................................................................................................................................................73 vi List of Figures 1. Traditional but unofficial Tolme crest 2. Letter to HM Navy Commissioners by David Tolme (c. 1690- 1761) and Others 1742 3. Announcement of arrival from West Indies and solicitation for more business on the Abigail Transport by David Tolme, 1742 4. David Tolme’s Will, 1755 5. John Tolme Map of Seooban Bay, Island of Good Fortune, noting the location of rocks, safe anchorage and availability of food and natural resources 6. Map of Se Labba Bay with John Tolme’s signature 7. Entry Wednesday Sept 3rd, 1783 noting death of Captain Thomas Poynting and appointment of David Tolmé 8. Signature of David Tolmé at entry of diary, voyage of Resolution, June 10, 1782 to 27 August, 1783 9 Signature and final entries to log for Resolution, July 1783. 10. Portrait of David Tolmé 1753-1825 11. Mary Susannah Hurry Tolmé (1765-1834), wife of David Tolmé 12. Will of Mary Susannah Tolmé 1825 13. Charles David Tolmé 14. Charles David Tolmé in later life 15. Maria Eliza Peneke Tolmé, wife of CD Tolmé 16. Inquest into accidental death of Charles David Tolmé: Reading Mercury, March 30, 1872 17. Tolmé family grave in Highgate Cemetery as of 2018 18. Fanny Tolmé Runge, oldest daughter of CD Tolmé 19. Fanny Tolmé Runge in older age 20. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing (The Lord Orr-Ewing, O.B.E.) 21. Carl David Tolmé Runge, astronomer and mathematician 22. Fanny Runge, daughter-in-law Aimée (née du Bois Reymond) and grandchildren Aimée Louise, Bernhard and Wilhelm, in Bremen, 1905 23. Erich Trefftz, mathematician vii 24. Members of the Scharfenberg Family in 2005 at 60th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1945 Whiskey- Vodka Agreement, which was signed in their home, Kalkhof, Wanfried, Germany 25. Emily Tolmé Overmann, youngest daughter of CD Tolmé 26. Christmas Collage of Overmann home at 34 Palatine Road, Withington, Manchester, made by FT Overmann, and picture of Emily Tolmé Overmann seated 27. FT and Emily Tolmé Overmann and six of their seven children, Manchester, c. 1890 28. Book cover of A Family Plantation by Charles Theodore Overman. Painting of Susan Morse by her father Samuel Finley Breeze Morse 29. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) visiting Colt Miner’s Cottage at an Exhibition, London, 1920s 30. Announcement of Colt Clavier Auction 31. Kathleen Tolmé Davidson, Teodoro Behrens and a piano from the Colt Clavier Collection, Bethersden, Kent, c.1952 32. Naomi Davidson playing a Haschka piano, Colt Collection, 1984 33. Teatime at the Colt Collection, Mick Colt and Meg Davidson 34. Further Royal Patronage by Queen Elizabeth II. Mick Colt standing with the author beneath a Royal Warrant sign, Bethersden, Kent, 1984 viii Acknowledgements Christian Trefftz, Georg Trefftz, Louisa Tolmé Stewart, Juliet Guillon, Pat Ellacott, Ania Elstner, Axel Horns, Nina Courant, Paul Courant, Carol and Jimi McKay, Gordon Macgregor all provided helpful responses to my inquiries, as well as requested documentary material. Staff at the British Library and Highgate Cemetery were most responsive in providing archival material. Others who offered helpful information and/or obligingly responded to my various emails include Paul Tolme, Marie Françoise Tolmé Schwartz, Denise Guepy, Kevin Tolmie and Naomi Davidson. The extensive Overmann family history in my possession, compiled by my late great uncle Florentine Theodore Overmann
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