53. Robert Trimmer (Robert Trimmer , Robert Trimmer , John , John ) was christened 1 on 10 Jul 1767 in Farnham, Surrey.
Common brewer who, with his brotherWilliam, leased the Star PH in Farnham, 1875-89.
Signatory to "Tables of Weights and Prices, On a New Plan .... Particularly Useful to Dealers in Hops", published by J. Elmer.
Robert married 1 Elizabeth Bradley on 1 Nov 1790 in Alton, Hampshire.
They had the following children:
96 M i Charles Trimmer was christened 1 on 1 Nov 1791 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. 97 M ii Edward Trimmer was christened 1 on 12 May 1795 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
56. George Trimmer (Robert Trimmer , Robert Trimmer , John , John ) was christened 1 on 17 Aug 1772 in Farnham, Surrey. He was buried 2 on 27 Dec 1833 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
Cheesemonger.
George married Anne Caesar daughter of Stephen Caesar and Martha Moth on 1 Jun 1821 in Farnham, Surrey. Anne was christened 1 on 4 Nov 1789 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. She was buried 2 on 4 May 1849 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
1841 census: 45; Independent; West Street, Farnham;
Will - Proved at London 24th September 1849 before the judge by the oath of George Trimmer the son the sole Executor . Ref. PROB 11/2100
They had the following children:
98 F i Anne Trimmer was christened on 23 Jan 1822 in Farnham, Surrey. + 99 M ii George Trimmer C.C. 100 M iii Robert Trimmer was born in May 1829. He was christened on 30 Sep 1829 in Farnham, Surrey. He was buried on 15 Oct 1829 in Farnham, Surrey.
57. James Trimmer (James Trimmer , Robert Trimmer , John , John ) was christened 1 on 25 Jul 1772 in Farnham, Surrey. He was buried 2 on 18 Aug 1854 in St Andrew's church, Farnham, Surrey.
1841 census: 60; Agricultural labourer; East Street, Farnham
1851 census: 68; Father-in-law/Widow (with dau, Ellen); Agricultural labourer; East Street, Farnham
James married 1 Mary Wooldridge on 30 Sep 1811 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. Mary was born in 1776. She was buried 2 on 24 Mar 1848 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
They had the following children:
+ 101 F i Jane Trimmer 102 M ii William Trimmer was christened 1 on 20 Feb 1814 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. He was buried 2 on 23 Oct 1814 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. 103 F iii Ann Trimmer was christened 1 on 20 Oct 1817 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. She was buried 2 on 18 Jun 1818 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. 104 F iv Martha Trimmer was christened 1 on 29 Mar 1820 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. + 105 M v James Trimmer 106 F vi Ellen Trimmer was christened 1 on 10 Sep 1826 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. Ellen married 1 Henry Gillett on 24 Dec 1848 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. 107 F vii Mary Trimmer was christened 1 on 6 Sep 1828 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
64. Elizabeth Trimmer (William Trimmer , Robert Trimmer , John , John ) was christened 1 on 29 Oct 1788 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. She was buried 2 on 15 Jun 1864 in St Peter's Church, Wrecclesham.
1841 census: Wrecclesham.
1851 census: House servant, Wrecclesham.
She had the following children:
+ 108 M i William Gardner Trimmer
65. Henry Trimmer (William Trimmer , Robert Trimmer , John , John ) was christened 1 on 21 Jul 1790 in Farnham, Surrey. He died in Abbey St., Farnham. He was buried 2 on 11 Jan 1838 in St Andrew's church, Farnham, Surrey.
Henry married 1 (1) Mary Naylor on 5 Dec 1820 in Froyle, Hampshire.
They had the following children:
109 M i Charles Trimmer was christened 1 on 19 Oct 1821 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. 110 F ii Mary Trimmer was christened 1 on 9 Jul 1823 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
Henry married 1 (2) Anne on 7 Mar 1825 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
They had the following children:
111 M iii Robert Trimmer was christened 1 on 12 Aug 1828 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
66. John Trimmer (William Trimmer , Robert Trimmer , John , John ) was christened 1 on 19 Aug 1791 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
John married 1 Mary Paine on 17 May 1819 in St Peter's Church, Ash, Surrey. Mary was buried 2 on 15 Mar 1823 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
They had the following children:
112 M i John Trimmer was christened 1 on 6 Sep 1820 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. 113 M ii Thomas Trimmer was christened 1 on 8 Apr 1822 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. Thomas married 1 Julia Mary Newman on 28 Aug 1845 in St Nicholas' Church, Guildford, Surrey. 114 F iii Sarah Trimmer was christened 1 on 1 Feb 1828 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
67. Frederick Trimmer (William Trimmer , Robert Trimmer , John , John ) was christened 1 on 27 Dec 1793 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. He was buried 2 on 28 Oct 1847 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
Pigot and Co.'s Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the County of Surrey 1839:
FARNHAM
Hop Planters.
Trimmer Frederick, Downing St.
Linen &c. Drapers.
Trimmer Frederick (& undertaker), Downing St.
Frederick married 1 Anne Baker daughter of William Baker and Mary on 16 Dec 1817 in Farnham, Surrey. Anne was christened 2 on 13 Mar 1797 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey.
They had the following children:
115 F i Mary Trimmer was christened 1 on 6 Dec 1818 in Farnham, Surrey. Mary married Unknown. 116 M ii William Trimmer was christened 1 on 21 Apr 1820 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. He was buried 2 on 21 Dec 1821 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Surrey. 117 F iii Anne Trimmer was christened 1 on 26 May 1824 in Farnham, Surrey. 118 F iv Elizabeth Trimmer was christened 1 on 26 May 1824 in Farnham, Surrey. + 119 M v Frederick Trimmer 120 M vi Charles Keen Trimmer was christened 1 on 26 Oct 1832 in Farnham, Surrey.
68. Charlotte Anne Trimmer (James Trimmer , James Trimmer , John , John ) was born 1 on 27 Aug 1763 in Ealing, Middlesex. She was christened 2 on 21 Sep 1763 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. She died in 1836.
Charlotte married Richard Moore on 18 Aug 1792.
widower when he married Charlotte Trimmer
Richard and Charlotte had the following children:
121 F i Charlotte Selina Moore was born in Jul 1793. She died on 12 Jan 1867.
71. Joshua Kirby Trimmer (James Trimmer , James Trimmer , John , John ) was born 1 on 18 Aug 1767 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 16 Sep 1767 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. He died in Sep 1829 in Strand-on-the-Green. Joshua signed a will on 26 Sep 1829 in Strand-on-the-Green.
1782: apprenticed to The Clothworkers' Company
1 July 1789: free by Patrimony, when a brickmaker at Brentford. D.E.Wickham, Achivist, The Clothworkers' Company, 28 July 19944 May 1815. Brentford Butts. Sir, Intending to go to Ireland next week, I take the liberty of previously enquiring whether Govt have come to any determination respecting the Wicklow gold district. I have the honour etc..... Jos. K.Trimmer.
5 May 1815. Reply of annotated to rear indicating no decision taken
Letter to Sir R. Peel 1815. BLAdd.MS 40245 f. 10922 May 1818 petitioning for info behind decision (Dec 1817) not to grant right to work the slate on Llanlechyd Common.
Letter to the 2nd Earl of Liverpool. BL Add.MS 38271 f .450No 45 Strand-on-the-Green, PICTON HOUSE. .Mary Buffar (daughter of John Trimmer) acquired No 45, and half of No 49 in about 1790. Mary was the aunt of James Trimmer the younger, whose wife was the famous Sarah. Ann Trimmer inherited the property in 1819 and bequeathed it to her nephew, Joshua Kirby Trimmer, in 1825.
The SAUNDERS family. John Saunders, maltster of Strand on the Green, took on No 45 after Joshua Kirby Trimmer's death. Charles Saunders, a coal merchant, and William Jupp, his son-in- law, succeeded John as owners, followed by Charles' son, J H Saunders, in 1886; he also acquired No 44 in 1889.
http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conhistory02.htm26 Sept 1829: sons Joshua and John were executors. Witnesses included sister Juliana Lydia & brother James Rustal. All estate to his wife 'well knowing her tender even and truly parental effection for each of her children fully confiding that she will do what is right by each'. Signed with a mark. PROB 11/1769, q.217, p.143
29 March 1830 Will proved of Joshua Kirby Trimmer , Slate Miner of Chiswick , Middlesex
Portrait by Henry Howard is in Ipswich Museum to which it was donated by the Revd Kirby Trimmer
Joshua married Eliza Willett Thompson on 19 Jul 1794 in Chiswick. Eliza was born about 1775. She died about Aug 1868 in Regd at Norwich.
daughter of John Thompson, owner of Chiswick Brewery & brother of Douglas Thompson, whose son Douglas sailed to Western Australia with William Kirby's 3 sons in 1829
suggested dates from records in Ipswich Museum, which has her portrait, by Howard
Death JAS 1868 Eliza Willett Trimmer, aged 93, Norwich 4b.92
(no will registered at PRFD between 1868 and 1873)
Joshua and Eliza had the following children:
122 M i Joshua Trimmer was born on 11 Jul 1795 in North Cray, Kent. He was christened 1 on 1 Aug 1795 in North Cray, Kent. He died on 16 Sep 1857 in London.
Trimmer (Joshua) . Correspondence with Archdeacon Dr. S. Butler of Shrewsbury 1835. BL Add . MS 34589 f. 283:
25 Jul 1835 from Baladeulyn nr. Caernarvon about creating Nat. Hist. Soc. Shropshire offering advice from experience with his Soc for Anglesey, Caernarvon & Merioneth
ff 300, 334 ditto subject
TRIMMER, JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua Kirkby Trimmer). b. NorthCray,Kent 11 July 1795, managed a copper-mine in North Wales 1814, managed a farm in Middlesex; overseer of some slate quarries near Bangor and Carnarvon 1825 to about 1840; made important advances in classification of superficial deposits of the earth's crust; F.G.S.1832 ; author of Practical geology and mineralogy 1841; and of 24 papers. d. London 16 Sept.1857. Quarterly journal of Geol. So c .xiv 32-6 (1858).
Modern English Biography
"Joshua, son of Joshua Kirby, and Eliza Willett Trimmer, born July 11th 1795 was baptized at home August the first by Revd Matthew Holworthy of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire, & received into the Church at North Cray Sept 20 "
North Cray Parish Register
NRA - Holworthy family of Elsworth
17th cent-19th cent : misc Elsworth (Herts) and Kersey (Suffolk) deeds and papers 17th-19th cent, with Hackney (London) rental 1719 and Sporle (Norfolk) survey and valuation 1781 Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Cambridge Reference : 279, NRA 8790 Holworthy
1837: Charles Desborough Holworthy of Deptford, Kent, Esq.
The committee of Ballyjamesduff Relief District thankfully acknowledge the following contributions to the District Fund received by their treasurer: --
Joshua TRIMMER, esq.
The Anglo-Celt, Cavan, county Cavan, February 26 1847
English geologist, was born at North Cray in Kent, on the 11th of July 1795. He was son of Joshua Kirby Trimmer of Brentford, and grandson of Mrs Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), authoress of the Story of the Robins (1786). At the age of nineteen he was sent to North Wales to manage a copper-mine for his father; subsequently he was placed in charge of a farm in Middlesex, where lie acquired a knowledge of and an interest in soils; in 1825 he became manager (for his father) of slate quarries near Bangor and Carnarvon, and in this district he remained for many years. He discovered the marine shells in the drift of Moel Tryfaen. During the years 1850-1854 he was engaged on the Geological Survey, and surveyed parts of the New Forest in Hampshire. He died in London on the 16th of September 857.
He published memoirs on the Origin of the Soils which cover the Chalk of Kent; On the Geology of Norfolk, as Illustrating the Laws of the Distribution of Soils (1847); and Proposals for a Geological Survey, specially directed to Agricultural Objects (1850); in this respect he was a pioneer in agricultural geology. He was author also of a useful work Practical Geology and Mineralogy (1841). Obituary by J. E. Portlock, in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. (1858).+ 123 M ii John Trimmer + 124 M iii Henry Trimmer 125 M iv Frederick Trimmer was born in 1801. 126 M v Charles Trimmer was born in 1803. He died in 1875.
from 1978 notebook (copied from Doris Yarde's research?). =Revd Kirby Trimmer?127 M vi Kirby Trimmer was born 1 on 19 Dec 1804 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 4 Jul 1806 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. He died on 9 Oct 1887 in Cathedral Close, Norwich. Kirby signed a will on 29 Jan 1887 in Norwich.
Born Dec 1804 & said to be 4th son of William Trimmer (Modern English Biog.) but most likely son of Joshua KirbyTrimmer instead -eldest son of Sarah. Rev. Kirby Trimmer gave portraits of Joshua Kirby Trimmer & Eliza Willett Thompson to Ipswich Museum. Eliza died in Norwich in 1868.
1820 March 30: "this drawing by Gainsborough of her Great-grandfather and Great-grandmother Joshua and Sarah Kirby (the father and mother of Mrs. Trimmer the authoress) is given this 30th day of March 1820 to his sister Julia by her brother Kirby Trimmer"
quoted by John Hayes "Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonne", Master Drawings Vol XXI No. 4, (1983), p.379. Kirby was aged 16, Julia was aged 10.
1828: St. Albans Hall, Ox. B.A.
1842: V of St. Geo. Tombland, City & Dio Nor (Crockford 1886)
1851 census: aged 45, born Poplar, Perpetual Curate of St. George Southland, Norwich. Living Church St, Norwich
1868: lent Gainsborough portrait of Kirbys to exhibition
1881: aged 75, vicar St. George, Norwich. Born Poplar, Middx(1804/(5))
1887 Jan 29: made last will. Quotes deceased brothers John (father of niece Edith Lancastini) & Henry (father of nieces Mary Allen and Emmeline Trimmer). Emmeline Trimmer and William Forster appointed excutors.
1887 Nov 22: will proved at Norwich by William Forster of Blickling, Norfolk Gentleman one of the executors. Personal Estate£824 0s. 9d. Aged 83.
1888 May 12: Christies sale
sisters -
Julia Trimmer 71 in 1881, b. Norwood, Middx,
Eliza 73 in 1881, b. Norwood. Eliza living with Kirby in Norwich in 1851, aged 43
wrote:
Conversations on the 39 articles of the Church of England,Cambridge1837 BL 692.a.40, 2 n d e dn 1863
The Curates Register of the sick, Norwich printed, Lon1854BL4498.b.55
Flora of Norfolk London/Norwich 1866 BL 7032.aaa.45
Notes upon Crystal: or obsolete words of128 F vii Elizabeth Trimmer was born about 1808. She died on 13 May 1885 in Norwich.
1851 census, aged 43, b. Norwood, living with brother Kirby at Church St, Norwich
1881, aged 73, b. Norwood, Middx, which would make her birth date about 1808 rather than 1815
Personal Estate £846129 F viii Julia Trimmer was born about 1810 in Norwood. She died on 1 Nov 1885 in Norwich.
1881: aged 71 in , b. Norwood
Rev Kirby Trimmer = brother
Personal Estate £525 8s 2d130 M ix Percival Trimmer was born in 1810. He died in 1829.
not sure on the date of death
according to a note from Henry Scott Trimmer, Percival is buried with his father Joshua in the Thompson family vault in Chiswick churchyard131 M x Herbert Trimmer was born in 1811. 132 M xi David Trimmer was born in 1813. 133 F xii Mary Trimmer was born 1 on 5 Jan 1800 in Ealing, Middlesex. She was christened 2 on 30 Jan 1800 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. 134 M xiii Frederick Trimmer was born 1 on 4 Jun 1801 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 14 Jul 1801 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. 135 M xiv Charles Trimmer was born 1 on 19 Apr 1803 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 2 Nov 1803 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex.
73. Wiliam Kirby Trimmer (James Trimmer , James Trimmer , John , John ) was born 1 on 20 Jun 1770 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 20 Jun 1770 in Ealing, Middlesex. He died on 11 Feb 1811. He was buried 3 on 18 Feb 1811 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex.
17 Aug 1782: letter from Sarah indicates he was a sailor on the Ganges,Capt. Fielding, who took him to dine with Lady Charlotte Finch. Mrs.Trimmer, Life and Writings 1814 Vol 2: p.220-1
Apprenticed to The Clothworkers' Company probably July 1784, as 'free by patrimony' on 6 July 1791, by when he was a brickmaker at Brentford. D.E.Wickham, Achivist, The Clothworkers' Company, 28 July 1994
7 Sept 1810: "My son William is still in Scotland on a visit to a relation of Mrs. W. Trimmers, Mr. Cheyne, a medical gentleman at Leith - We have had only general accounts of his health since he left us; from which I gather that he has made some little progress to his recovery, but is not considerably better than when he set off. But we have great cause to be thankful that he is as well as he is considering the severity of the attack; and upon the divine mercy we rely for the completion of his cure, if it seemeth good to almighty goodness to offer it." Sarah Trimmer to Margaret Simpson
27 Dec 1810: made his will. James Rustal and Rev. Henry Plimley of New Windsor to be trustees to administer his estate on behalf of his family
22 June 1812: Will proved of William Kirby Trimmer , Brick and Tile Maker of Brentford , Middlesex. PROB 11/1534
1813: his paper was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London on fossilised remains found in the Brentford brickfields
Since her death a son (leaving 7 children) & a daughter (leaving 5)have died (William, & Lucy Harris)
Mrs. Trimmer, Life and Writings 1814 Vol 1: p.16
Wiliam married Jane Bayne in Dec 1794. Jane was born in Earls Court House, Kensington. She died about 1845.
1816: moved -with her 7 children- from Green Dragon Lane to Mercury House, Windmill Lane, Brentford, the home of James Rustal Trimmer, who had recently lost his only son.
1838: sailed from Gravesend to care for her son Spencer in Bunby, Western Australia, returning after his death in 1845 to Mercury House in Brentford
1908: her portrait, as an aged lady, hung in Rushbrooke Park,together with that (by Howard ) of her children Arthur and Sarah as children
Revd Edmund Farrar, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, p. 304
Wiliam and Jane had the following children:
136 M i William Trimmer was born 1 on 9 Sep 1795 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 9 Oct 1795 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. He died in 1836 in Western Australia. + 137 M ii John Alfred Trimmer + 138 M iii Edward Trimmer 139 M iv Francis Trimmer was born 1 on 4 Dec 1801 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 3 Feb 1802 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. He died in 1875 in Ventnor sanatorium. He was buried in 1875 in Bonchurch.
British Library, India Office Records: Military Department Records [IOR/L/MIL/09/125 - IOR/L/MIL/09/149]
Entry to the military, medical and nursing services of the East India Company's Army (1753-1861) and the Indian Army (1861-1940); Cadet Papers (1789-1860) and Cadet Registers (1775-1860) FILE - Cadet Papers - ref. IOR/L/MIL/9/144 - date: 1820-1821 item: Trimmer, Francis - ref. IOR/L/MIL/9/144/573-76 [n.d.]
Bengal Service Army Lists FILE - Bengal Service Army List - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/25 - date: c.1770-1843 item: Trimmer, Francis 50th NI, dec - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/25/169 [n.d.]
FILE - Bengal Service Army List - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/36 - date: 1844 item: Trimmer, Francis 50th NI, dec - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/36/166 [n.d.]
FILE - Bengal Service Army List - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/46 - date: 1849 item: Trimmer, Francis 50th NI, dec - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/46/166 [n.d.] FILE - Bengal Service Army List - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/49 - date: 1850 item: Trimmer, Francis 50th NI, dec - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/49/166 [n.d.] FILE - Bengal Service Army List - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/66 - date: 1858 item: Trimmer, Francis 50th NI, dec - ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/66/166 [n.d.] (latest mention)Francis married Laura-Isabella Thompson on 18 May 1843.
3rd dau of Henry Thompson esq, formerly of Chiswick140 M v Spencer Trimmer was born 1 on 22 Dec 1803 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 14 May 1804 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. He died about 1844 in Bunbury, Western Australia.
The 341 ton Atwick was under the command of Captain Hugh McKay when she left London with passengers and general cargo bound for Western Australia. She carried two guns and had a crew of 20 men. She arrived in the Swan River Colony on October 19, 1829. The Swan River Harbour Master's report said she carried 17 cabin passengers and another 79 in steerage. Another list attached to the Lands and Surveys Department's files shed more light on the identity of the passengers while the Swan River Settlement's colonial returns for February 28 and March 30, 1831 almost completed the picture.
Passengers included:
TRIMMER Spencer 25 cabin born at Ealing, agriculturalist Douglas THOMPSON's cousin & partner; had 10 servants. Douglas Thompson was aged 31.
The servants were:
DODD William 25 steerage Ealing labourer aka [DOD]; DOHERTY Thomas 16 steerage Ealing labourer aka [James]; GREGG Richard 25 steerage Ealing blacksmith ;GREGG Richard 25 steerage Ealing blacksmith ;MUSTYN William Pitt 18 cabin Ealing seaman ;MUSTYN William Pitt 18 cabin Ealing seaman; POLLOCK James 30 steerage Ealing carpenter; TOMSON John Robert 25 steerage Ealing carpenter; WHITE John 26 steerage Ealing shepherd; WYATT John 40 steerage Ealing bailiff
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/wa-0013.htm141 M vi Arthur Trimmer was born 1 on 22 Dec 1805 in Ealing, Middlesex. He was christened 2 on 22 Jan 1806 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. He died in 1877 in Albany, W. Australia. Arthur married Mary Ann Spencer in 1836. Mary died in 1886. 142 F vii Sarah Trimmer was born 1 on 27 Feb 1808 in Ealing, Middlesex. She was christened 2 on 25 Mar 1808 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. She died on 26 May 1855 in 18 St. Michaels Place, Brompton.
spinster, lived in Ealing
described in 1978 notes as 'first heiress to Brentford estate'. Under the will of James Rustal Trimmer she inherited Mercury House at Windmill Lane, following the death of her mother Jane, who had the right to live there during her life.
10 July 1855: Will proved of Sarah Trimmer , Spinster of Brompton , Middlesex PROB 11/2217
21 Jan 1886: administration (with the will) granted to Eliz. Henrietta Trimmer (5 Queen Pl., Southsea), spinster, niece & one of the residuary legatees, as the will had been left unadministered by Algernon Arthur Trimmer, executor, nephew.
Personal Estate £832/1/6
74. Lucy Trimmer (James Trimmer , James Trimmer , John , John ) was born 1 on 1 Feb 1772 in Ealing, Middlesex. She was christened 2 on 28 Feb 1772 in St Mary's church, Ealing, Middlesex. She died on 14 Aug 1813 in Wittersham. She was buried in Wittersham.
Since her death a son (leaving 7 children) & a daughter (leaving 5)have died p.16 =Willia m & Lucy
Mrs. Trimmer, Life and Writings 1814 Vol 1: p.16Outside altar rails south side a flat stone to Lucy, wife of James Harris, Esq., of this Place. Youngest daughter of James Trimmer, Esq., late of Ealing, Middx., and Sarah his wife of blessed memory died 14.8.1813 in her 40th year.
The Monumental Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard Wittersham In the Isle of Oxney Kent Noted July 1923 Leland L. Duncan (manuscript notebook
Lucy married James Harris on 5 Dec 1799 in St. Marys Church Ealing. James died in 1830.
from a family of wine merchants and importers, owning vineyards in Southern France
James and Lucy had the following children:
143 M i Henry Kirby Harris was born in 1809 in Wittersham. He died in 1809 in Wittersham. + 144 M ii Captain Robert Harris 145 F iii Lucy Harris was born in 1802 in Brunswick Square, London. She died in Apr 1879 in Brading, Isle of Wight.
lived in Southsea with brother Robert until he died in 1865, thenmoved to Brading146 M iv Quarles Harris was born in 1804 in Brunswick Square, London. He died in 1816 in Wittersham. 147 M v William Cornwallis Harris was born in 1807 in Wittersham. He died on 9 Oct 1848 in Poona, India.
knighted by Queen Victoria May 14 1844148 M vi John Harris was born in 1808 in Wittersham. He died in Dec 1829 in Mauritius.
75. James Rustal Trimmer (James Trimmer , James Trimmer , John , John ) was born on 31 Jul 1773. He died in 1843 in Brandenburg House, Hammersmith.
brickmaker, print ink manufacturer
1 April 1818: free by Patrimony from The Clothworkers' Company, when a brickmaker at Brentford.May 21 1838: Letter from James R. Trimmer to the Royal Geographical Society: Correspondence Collection , RGS/CB2/531
7 Dec 1838 : made will. Most property to Sarah Trimmer, only daughter of late brother William Kirby Trimmer. She and her brother Revd Edward Trimmer to be executors. Jane Trimmer (widow of William) to live in Mercury House for rest of her life21 December 1843: Will proved of James Rustat Trimmer of Ealing , Middlesex PROB 11/1990
James married Sarah Cornwallis daughter of Living and Living in 1802 in Wittersham. Sarah died on 9 Apr 1803.
On Sunday last, at Brentford, Mrs. Trimmer, Wife of Mr. James TRimmer, and daughter of the Rev. Wm. Cornwallis, of Wittersham, Kent. The Times, 7 April 1803, p.3
James and Sarah had the following children:
149 M i James Cornwallis Trimmer was born on 2 Mar 1803 in Brentford. He died in Apr 1816.