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Family of Henry Ley Bennett and Martha Ratcliffe

Husband: Henry Ley Bennett

  • Name:

  • Henry Ley Bennett

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • John Bennett (1729-1810)

  • Mother:

  • Eleanor Ley ( - )

  • Birth:

  • 1775

  • Chester, Cheshire

  • Baptism:

  • 21 Mar 1775 (age 0)

  • Holy Trinity, Chester, Cheshire

  • Occupation (1):

  • 30 Nov 1804 (age 28-29)

  • Merchant, Fir Grove, Liverpool (daughter Matilda's baptism)

  • Occupation (2):

  •  

  • Tobacco and snuff manufacturer & merchant

  • Death:

  • 9 Dec 1823 (age 47-48)

  • Gujarat, India

Wife: Martha Ratcliffe

  • Name:

  • Martha Ratcliffe

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1772

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Death:

  • 26 Aug 1835 (age 62-63)

  • Isle of Man

Child 1: Eleanor Bennett

Child 2: Elizabeth Bennett

  • Name:

  • Elizabeth Bennett

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Humphrey Lyons (1802-1873)

  • Birth:

  • 29 Oct 1798

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Baptism:

  • 30 Dec 1798 (age 0)

  • St Stephen, Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Death:

  • 17 Mar 1859 (age 60)

  • Bombay, India

Child 3: Thomas Ratcliffe Bennett

  • Name:

  • Thomas Ratcliffe Bennett

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 24 Dec 1799

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Baptism:

  • 21 Sep 1800 (age 0)

  • St Stephen, Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Death:

  • 26 May 1801 (age 1)

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Burial:

  • 29 May 1801

  • Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire (aged 1 yr 5 mo)

Child 4: Henry Bennett

  • Name:

  • Henry Bennett

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 21 Jun 1803

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Baptism:

  • 14 Jul 1803 (age 0)

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

Child 5: Matilda Bennett

  • Name:

  • Matilda Bennett

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • John Septimus Roe (1797-1878)

  • Children:

  • Sophia Roe (1829-1902)

  •  

  • Matilda Elizabeth Roe (1831-1862)

  •  

  • James Broun Roe (1833-1907)

  •  

  • Eliza Naylor Roe (1834-1925)

  •  

  • John Henry Hayden Roe (1836-1877)

  •  

  • Emma Lucille Frances Roe (1837-1876)

  •  

  • Ellen Elizabeth Roe (1840-1887)

  •  

  • William Henry Lyons Roe (1842-1895)

  •  

  • Frederick Mackie Roe (1843-1877)

  •  

  • Alice Maude Roe (1845-1925)

  •  

  • George Harriott Roe (1848-1924)

  •  

  • Augustus Sanford Keats Roe (1852-1921)

  •  

  • Jessie Roe (1859-1859)

  • Note:

  • Mrs. Roe, wife of John Septimus Roe, R.N., first Surveyor-General of Western Australia, was Miss Matilda Bennett, daughter of George Bennett (sic), Cheshire, England, and married her husband on January 8, 1829. After coming to this country she brought into the world 13 children. Her life was naturally very circumscribed, but she was a brave, uncomplaining, charitable woman. She used to tell her grandchildren how the natives came to the huts of Lady Stirling and herself, and would take up their babies, examine their feet and clothes, about which they were very curious, gently putting them back on receipt of beads, jewellery and sugar. Mrs. Roe has left a goodly number of descendants, her children and grandchildren intermarrying with the Stone, Phillips, Burges, Hassell, Cooke, Ferguson, and other families.

    Source: "Pioneer Women" by Edith D Cowan, Western Mail, Perth WA, 4 Jul 1929

    http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/38887676

  • Birth:

  • 27 Sep 1804

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Baptism:

  • 30 Nov 1804 (age 0)

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Death:

  • 22 Jul 1870 (age 65)

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Child 6: John George Bennett

  • Name:

  • John George Bennett

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Sarah Anne Woodward (1814-1886)

  • Children:

  • Anne Eliza Bennett (1840- )

  •  

  • Sarah Georgina Bennett (1842-1913)

  •  

  • Eleanor Matilda Bennett (1844-1892)

  • Note 1:

  • John George Bennett (1809-1880) son of Henry Ley Bennett (tobacco and snuff manufacturer/merchant) & Martha Ratcliffe who moved to Island after death of Henry c. 1823 - m.1839 Sarah Anne Woodward (1814-1886) Liverpool. The family resided at Ballacosnahan, Patrick, c. 1842-47 then built substantial house called Willaston (The Old Hall, Willaston, Wirral, was the'ancestral' home of the Bennett family) in Onchan.

    http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxsoc/memlist.htm

  • Note 2:

  • BENNETT John George Esq., 30 September 1880. The Will with two Codicils of John George Bennett late of Willaston in the Parish of Onchan in the Isle of Man Esquire who died 28 July 1890 at Willaston was proved at the Principal Registry by Sarah Anne Bennett of Willaston Widow the Relict and David Fenwick Steavenson of Cross House Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of Northumberland Esquire two of the Executors. Personal Estate under £1,500.

  • Birth:

  • 19 Apr 1809

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Death:

  • 28 Jul 1880 (age 71)

  • Willaston, Onchan, Isle of Man

Note on Child 5: Matilda Bennett

Mrs. Roe, wife of John Septimus Roe, R.N., first Surveyor-General of Western Australia, was Miss Matilda Bennett, daughter of George Bennett (sic), Cheshire, England, and married her husband on January 8, 1829. After coming to this country she brought into the world 13 children. Her life was naturally very circumscribed, but she was a brave, uncomplaining, charitable woman. She used to tell her grandchildren how the natives came to the huts of Lady Stirling and herself, and would take up their babies, examine their feet and clothes, about which they were very curious, gently putting them back on receipt of beads, jewellery and sugar. Mrs. Roe has left a goodly number of descendants, her children and grandchildren intermarrying with the Stone, Phillips, Burges, Hassell, Cooke, Ferguson, and other families.

Source: "Pioneer Women" by Edith D Cowan, Western Mail, Perth WA, 4 Jul 1929

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/38887676

 

Note on Child 6: John George Bennett (1)

John George Bennett (1809-1880) son of Henry Ley Bennett (tobacco and snuff manufacturer/merchant) & Martha Ratcliffe who moved to Island after death of Henry c. 1823 - m.1839 Sarah Anne Woodward (1814-1886) Liverpool. The family resided at Ballacosnahan, Patrick, c. 1842-47 then built substantial house called Willaston (The Old Hall, Willaston, Wirral, was the'ancestral' home of the Bennett family) in Onchan.

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxsoc/memlist.htm

Note on Child 6: John George Bennett (2)

BENNETT John George Esq., 30 September 1880. The Will with two Codicils of John George Bennett late of Willaston in the Parish of Onchan in the Isle of Man Esquire who died 28 July 1890 at Willaston was proved at the Principal Registry by Sarah Anne Bennett of Willaston Widow the Relict and David Fenwick Steavenson of Cross House Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of Northumberland Esquire two of the Executors. Personal Estate under £1,500.