Forwood Family of East Kent

99. Richard Thomas FORWOOD [36901] (Richard [18688]⁶⁷, Stephen [18682]⁴⁷, Edward [36807]³¹, John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was baptised on 3 Oct 1733 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England and died on 16 Jul 1790 at age 56.

Richard married Elizabeth HOILE [36987] on 17 Aug 1766 in Deal Kent England. Elizabeth died on 8 May 1781.

+ 177 M i. Thomas FORWOOD [36988] was baptised on 9 Oct 1768 in Deal Kent England and died in 1820 at age 52.

+ 178 M ii. Richard FORWOOD [36989] was baptised on 26 May 1770 in Deal Kent England and died on 19 Jan 1800 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England at age 29.

179 M iii. Edward FORWOOD [36990] was baptised on 18 Nov 1772 in Deal Kent England and died on 1 Mar 1774 in Deal Kent England at age 1.

180 M iv. John FORWOOD [36991] was baptised on 14 Apr 1774 in Deal Kent England and died on 7 May 1784 in Deal Kent England at age 10.

101. Stephen FORWOOD [36903] (Richard [18688]⁶⁷, Stephen [18682]⁴⁷, Edward [36807]³¹, John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was baptised on 6 Mar 1736 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England and died on 5 Feb 1804 at age 67.

Stephen married Elizabeth SMITH [36993] on 14 Jul 1764 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England.

181 M i. John FORWOOD [36994] was baptised on 1 Jan 1766 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England and died on 14 Dec 1769 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England at age 3.

182 M ii. Stephen FORWOOD [36995] was baptised on 8 May 1767 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England and died on 12 Jun 1768 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England at age 1.

183 M iii. Thomas FORWOOD [36996] was baptised on 8 Jun 1768 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England and died on 12 Jun 1768 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England.

184 M iv. Edward FORWOOD [36997] was baptised on 8 Jun 1768 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England and died on 12 Jun 1768 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England.

185 M v. John FORWOOD [36998] was baptised on 9 Sep 1770 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England and died on 28 Sep 1770 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England.

186 F vi. Anne FORWOOD [36999] was baptised on 25 Dec 1772 in St Peter in Thanet Kent England.

104. Lieut. Thomas FORWOOD Royal Marines [18678] (Christopher [18680]⁶⁸, Stephen [18682]⁴⁷, Edward [36807]³¹, John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 8 Dec 1734 in Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 22 Dec 1734 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, died on 11 May 1781 at age 46, and was buried in St Andrew's Plymouth Hampshire England.

Thomas married Faith FRIEND [18679], daughter of Daniel FRIEND [49216] and Ann MARSHALL [49217], on 11 Sep 1758 in Stoke Damerel [Plymouth] Devon England. Faith was born on 23 Sep 1739 in Stoke Damerel [Plymouth] Devon England, was baptised in Ebenezer Independent Ch. Ramsgate Kent England, and was buried on 26 Dec 1827 in St Andrew's Liverpool Lancashire England.

Sarah married Jenkyl Maydwell Joseph MAXWELL [37000] on 18 Jan 1815 in St Peter's Liverpool Lancashire England.

+ 189 M iii. Lieut. Thomas FORWOOD Royal Marines [18676] was born on 24 Aug 1763 in Plymouth Devon England, died in 1821 in Tiverton Devon England at age 58, and was buried in St George's Churchyard Tiverton Devon England.

+ 190 M iv. George FORWOOD [18696] was born on 9 Nov 1776 in Plymouth Devon England, was baptised on 19 Dec 1776 in St George in the East Stepney Middlesex England, and died on 21 Mar 1835 in Liverpool Lancashire England at age 58.

106. Edward FORWOOD [36907] (Christopher [18680]⁶⁸, Stephen [18682]⁴⁷, Edward [36807]³¹, John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born in Dec 1736 and was baptised on 1 Jan 1737 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

107. Gunner Stephen FORWOOD [18689] (Christopher [18680]⁶⁸, Stephen [18682]⁴⁷, Edward [36807]³¹, John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 17 Jul 1737 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and died on 31 Jan 1795 at sea aboard HMS Boulogne at age 57.

General Notes: Stephen was a Gunner on HM Bark Endeavour and sailed with Captain James Cook.

193 M i. John FORWOOD [42828] was born on 1 Jan 1766 and died on 14 Dec 1769 at age 3.

194 M ii. Edward FORWOOD [42829] was born on 8 Jan 1738 and died on 12 Jun 1768 at age 30. (Twin)

195 M iii. Thomas FORWOOD [42830] was born on 8 Jan 1768 and died on 12 Jun 1768. (Twin)

196 M iv. John FORWOOD [42831] was born on 9 Sep 1770 and died on 28 Sep 1770.

Stephen next married Mary BIGNALL [36906] in 1774 in St George's Hanover Square London England.

108. Sarah FORWOOD [18691] (Christopher [18680]⁶⁸, Stephen [18682]⁴⁷, Edward [36807]³¹, John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born in Sep 1738 and was baptised on 18 Sep 1739 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

Sarah married Thomas BRADFORD [18692] on 8 Jul 1760 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England. Thomas was born about 1735.

198 F i. Sarah BRADFORD [18693] was baptised on 19 Apr 1761 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and died before 1778.

199 F ii. Susanna BRADFORD [37004] was baptised on 30 Oct 1763 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

201 F iv. Mary Forward BRADFORD [37006] was baptised on 7 Jun 1767 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

202 M v. Thomas BRADFORD [37007] was baptised on 17 Dec 1769 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

203 M vi. William BRADFORD [37008] was baptised on 3 Jun 1772 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

113. Lydia FORWOOD [36917] (William [36862]⁷⁷, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 10 Jun 1758 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA and died on 16 Aug 1795 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA at age 37. The cause of her death was Birth of her 2nd Twin [who died the same Day].

Lydia married Elihu TALLEY [37012], son of William TALLEY [51427] and Rebecca [51428], on 15 Mar 1779 in New Castle County Delaware USA. Elihu was born on 25 Mar 1754 in Delaware USA and died on 22 Jan 1833 at age 78.

207 M i. Amor TALLEY [37013] was born on 9 Jan 1780 in Delaware Co. Pennsylvania USA and died in Ohio USA.

208 F ii. Sarah TALLEY [51429] was born on 18 Dec 1781 in Delaware Co. Pennsylvania USA.

209 M iii. John Forwood TALLEY [51430] was born on 1 Apr 1784 and died on 11 Dec 1851 at age 67.

210 F iv. Mary TALLEY [51431] was born on 10 Nov 1787 and died on 16 Feb 1869 at age 81.

213 M vii. Elihu TALLEY [51434] was born on 16 Aug 1795. (Twin [Infant Death])

115. John FORWOOD [36918] (William [36862]⁷⁷, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 1 Apr 1762 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA.

John married Hannah FORWOOD [36931], daughter of Samuel FORWOOD I [36864] and Mary Heig HAYES [36925], on 8 Mar 1785 in Harford Co. Maryland USA. Hannah was born on 6 Oct 1767 in Harford Co. Maryland USA.

116. Jehu FORWOOD [36919] (William [36862]⁷⁷, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 7 Jun 1764 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA and died on 21 Nov 1850 at age 86.

Jehu married Mary ROBINSON [51092], daughter of George ROBINSON [51093] and Elizabeth SALKELD [51094].

+ 218 M iv. Charles FORWOOD [51098] was born on 13 Jul 1797 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA and died in 1858 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA at age 61.

+ 221 M vii. Valentine FORWOOD [51101] was born on 9 Jun 1804 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA.

117. Robert FORWOOD [36920] (William [36862]⁷⁷, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 8 May 1767 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA and died on 30 May 1844 at age 77.

General Notes: In 1791, a nearby Resident deeded Property to Robert and his Brother Jehu for the building of a School. Following is the Story of that School. ...
1799 Remember that plaque above the vestibule of Forwood School located on Silverside Road, and how you sometimes wondered about all the boys and girls who had played in the schoolyard below it over more than a hundred years, when that seemed forever, and you wondered too about the grownups that planned and built the school? For lots of us they were our own actual family, for some of us back to twice-great grandparents. For all of us they somehow tied us into exciting times before we were born.
Forwood School was to have an active life of 140 years, longer than any other public school building in Delaware has yet had. It"s a story that goes back to the very beginnings of real public education not only in this State but in the country.
The late 1700"s were years bubbling with new ideas in government, business, and general ways of living. In 1789 the Constitution of the United States had made a workable single country from the thirteen loosely allied States that had won the Revolution a few years before. Delaware was the first to join that union.
Delaware also drafted a new Constitution for itself in 1791/1792. One of its new ideas was an order to the Assembly to provide for education. This was one of the earliest State Constitutions to do so. There had, of course, been schools in Delaware back to Swedish times. Here, as elsewhere, schools had been of three kinds only : private ventures; church supported; and cooperatives where groups of neighbors hired a teacher for their own children. All types occasionally took in a bright child too poor to pay. Some apprentices were taught to read and write as part of their contracts. But there was nothing reliably available for the ordinary farmers" and craftmens" children.
At least some of the delegates to Delaware"s 1792 Constitutional Convention were thinking in terms of something different when they directed the Assembly to provide for education. One of them, a Wilmington schoolteacher and instrument-maker, had published a pamphlet on the subject a few months before the Convention met. In it he urged tax-supported schools in local districts to teach the basic skills to all the children, not as a private privilege but as the strongest defense a free government could have.
In 1796 the General Assembly founded a School Fund by investing the marriage and tavern license fees that had previously gone for general use. Incidentally, Delaware was possibly the first State to ear-mark for schools money that had been general revenue before. And the sum was not trivial : it had supplied about a fifth of the treasury"s income in the previous year.
So people were thinking and talking about schools all through the 1790"s. In Brandywine Hundred, by the end of the decade, they began doing something about it.
Early in 1799 plans that must have been going on for quite a while finally shaped up in one neighborhood. On June 19^th Richard Justison and his wife Ann deeded half an acre to Robert and Jehu Forwood and Thomas Bird, Jr., in trust for the erection of a school for the use of the families living nearby. The land was given for fifty cents and "the esteem which they bear to their neighbors (and) a regard for the due education of their children".
We come now to a part of the story told by Avery Bell, our longtime mailman, in a 1960 newspaper column. Part of the account reads as if it were based on actual account books : He reports that volunteers collected local field stone; had lumber processed at Sharpley"s sawmill at Foulk and Shipley Roads; and shingles cut at Webster"s Mill on the Shellpot. Robert Forwood is said to have been the principle builder. Mr. Bell adds that the entire project was completed in two months and ten days, ready for dedication on August 17, 1799.
The finished building was almost square, 20 feet by 22 feet. Mr. Bell says there was a huge oaken desk extending clear across one end. There is no tradition about the students" seats, but these were probably benches arranged around the walls or in a semicircle in front of the teacher"s desk. It may even have been like an old Kent County schoolhouse which had seats back to back, boys facing one way, girls the other. Unfortunately we know very little about that first generation of Forwood"s existence, 1799 \endash 1830. Tradition says the building was used every year. Each resident who sent children undoubtedly contributed to the salary of a teacher, hired by the quarter. We do not know if the building as originally finished had a fireplace, though we are sure the pot-bellied stoves of our own day were far in the future. Enrollment, too, can only be a guess. Quite likely, in the winter, when farm work was slow, there were mostly big boys with a man teacher; little folks most frequently came Spring and Fall to a woman; and the bigger girls whenever they could best be spared.
By 1829 the School Fund, accumulating since 1796, was producing an income large enough to distribute. Urged on by Willard Hall and others the Assembly passed a Free School Law. This set up school districts of walking-distance throughout the State, each to receive a generous subsidy if it gave instruction "free to all (its) white children", assumed a certain share of the cost, and taught reading, writing, arithmetic and grammar, plus whatever else the local people cared to add. The voters decided each year whether to open school at all and whether to raise the district"s money by tax or voluntary contribution. Odd as it may sound now this was a very progressive law for its time. Massachusetts was ahead of Delaware (by two years) in abolishing tuition. Very few other States did so for another thirty years or more.
By 1834 the public school program was operating. Forwood School had become Brandywine Hundred District No. 5. (I believe, but cannot document, that the Hundred already had a network of substantially housed subscription schools, founded around the same time as Forwood, that became its other seven public districts. One of them has long been within the limits of Wilmington.) State Auditor"s Reports for the next forty years contain data on School Fund disbursements that give bits of information about Forwood. In 1834 it raised $108.00 locally, received $59.00 from the Fund, paid out $28.00 for general expenses and $126.00 to its teacher. It was in operation for nine months and enrolled 58 students. Between 1834 and 1874 Forwood was always open from 6 ½ to 10 months a year, usually around 8 months. The lowest yearly attendance was 25, the highest 82: the most usual number was 40 to 50 or from 65 to 70. Both local and State support varied widely : $25.00 to $275.00 local; $59.00 to $176.00 for the State money. After 1855 both revenue sources increased steadily.
New Castle County Friends of public education met yearly from 1836 to 1855 to discuss the current situation of the schools and urge needed improvements. In several years Forwood sent one of more delegates and in two of them gave rather detailed reports.
In 1843 the district had 210 residents, including 45 children 5 to 15 years of age. Strangely enough, 40 boys and 28 girls attended school sometime during the year. The building was still 20" by 22", with rather inconvenient seating. A man teacher received $60.00 per quarter. The trustees reported that they still had some difficulty raising funds but that conditions were improving.
In 1855 enrollment was 57 boys and 50 girls. Most of them were only studying reading, writing and arithmetic, but several took geography, grammar, book-keeping, general science (the called "philosophy") and "mensuration" (possibly surveying). How did 107 people crowd into a twenty-foot square room? They did not try. That year the building was enlarged to its present 40 foot length and the trustees proudly reported desks and benches "according to modern improvements in design"; the desks 36 inches and the seats 18 inches from the floor. Also remember that daily attendance was always poor, and that the older and younger students usually came during different parts of the year. There was, in fact, a man teacher paid $23 1/3 per quarter and a woman receiving $16 2/3 per quarter.
We have found no statistics for later years, but the School obviously continued to serve its children increasingly well. When the hundredth anniversary arrived in 1899 there was a gala celebration with an estimated four hundred present. The original deed was exhibited. The first speaker outlined the history of the School, ending with an original poem about its founding. A second speaker deplored at great length, that public schools were still largely supported by liquor taxes. A third talked of prominent people among former students, among them many Civil War veterans with outstanding records. Most unfortunately the reporters quoted the temperance speech at the greatest length and gave few specific details of the historical account or the notable alumni. The two of the latter mentioned by name were the then-current U.S. Surgeon General, William A. Forwood, and another prominent physician, J. Larkin Forwood. There was music by Thomas Bird"s orchestra, both alone and accompanying soloists and audience. At the end of the afternoon long tables were set up with ice cream, cake, watermelon, and other delicacies to serve everyone present.
In the 1910 decade and into the 1920"s at least the School was flourishing. Although we have no figures, enrollment must have averaged 45 to 60 in most years. We had good standard textbooks, reasonably up to date. Most of the teachers ranged from good to excellent : Miss Carpenter, Miss Moss, Miss Ely, Miss Weist, Miss Wheatley, Miss Prettyman, all fell into that class. Most of us who went on to high schools in Wilmington or occasionally Philadelphia almost always did well. Quite a few went on to professions, the highly skilled trades or responsible positions in business. So in the time of most of us here today, Forwood School was not just a relic of the very beginnings of public education in America : it was a very good school, frequently called the best in the vicinity in spite of somewhat primitive equipment. Some out-of district families paid tuition to send their children here.
I cannot recall that we had a formal PTA when I went (1914 \endash 1919) but we did have gatherings of parents at the School for entertainments, sociability, and discussion of school affairs, I believe several times a year. New bracket kerosene lamps were mounted in time for an evening Christmas program about 1914 or 1915. There were notable closing-day picnics, too.
An existing PTA minute book begins in October 1927, obviously not the start of the organization for it already had officers and outstanding bills. Members could join at age 12; dues were 5 cents a month. Meetings were fairly regular through September 1934, when the book was filled. The PTA supplied many small items like new window shades,
Door knobs and locks; repaired the clock; obtained new kerosine lamps and a stepladder. There were also more ambitious projects : a long-drawn-out effort to replace the halyard of the flagpole; getting considerable playground and sports equipment; getting a new piano and rhythm band instruments; arranging for electric lights and paying the monthly bills for them; underwriting trips to the County (or State) Field and Track Meet at Newark on at least two occasions; obtaining additional blackboards from a closed district; and lobbying successfully to see that children forced to transfer after the 6^th grade actually got their promised transportation. (it was about 1931 that the State closed the 7^th and 8^th grades in local schools.) The PTA also repaired the roof and replaced the pump in this 1927 \endash 1934 period. There were several adult education classes held in the building under State auspices but recruited by the PTA.
The teachers of those years were Mrs. Hickman who resigned in 1927; her replacement was Mrs. Duffield who came in January 1928 and stayed through the Spring of 1934; and Miss Berman from Fall 1934, until the school closed.
From the mid-twenties on, a combination of increasing auto traffic and changing educational theory began leeching the enrollment from single districts into the larger consolidations. Some, like Forwood and Arden, fought back bitterly. In Forwood there was a successful referendum to raise the local share for an additional building but an emergency elsewhere claimed the promised State funds. These were never made available though the district repeatedly asked for them instead of consolidation with Alfred I. duPont. In the face of contrary referendums in both districts in the preceeding several years, the State finally forced the merger which neither district wanted. On March 17, 1939 Forwood School was ordered to close at the end of the term in June. It was 140 years from the time the ground was deeded.
Ordinarily a school no longer needed by the State is sold to the highest bidder, but there was strong support in the newspapers and elsewhere for keeping Forwood School in public service of some sort. The Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, founded by Mrs. Henry B. Thompson, became interested; early in 1940 it received a deed to the property. The plan was to renovate the building and grounds as a community center available for meetings, picnicking and general recreation, and possibly for vocational education and a library. The major program was to be under Society sponsorship with a local responsibility for maintenance. Unfortunately there was a delay in getting the needed repairs under way. By the next Spring the threat of our involvement in World War II and actual hostilities after November 1941 interrupted all projects like this one. Before fairly normal conditions returned the Society itself had virtually ceased to exist. The old Forwood property was sold to Mrs. W.P. Forwood in 1947 for conversion to a house. It is still the property of one of her descendants.
In the closing years of Forwood School"s active life a group known as "Forwood Schoolmates" formed. It was composed of former students at Forwood, mostly middle-aged and elderly women the age of our parents and grandparents. Beginning in 1934 it met quite informally in homes. In 1939, shortly after the closing, approximately seventy of the "Schoolmates" met on the grounds for a picnic and reminiscences. Those present came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington D.C. as well as from nearby. One of the highlights was a photocopy of the original deed. The "Schoolmates" continued until 1942 when general war conditions made it hard to meet; there was no revival later.
Nevertheless, there were many who still remembered and loved old Forwood. When the Alfred I. DuPont District was erecting a new junior high school a few blocks from it, one of the administrative committees met to choose a name. In November 1960 it selected Forwood. For approximately twenty years the new Forwood Junior High served the seventh, eighth and ninth grades of the vicinity as efficiently as the old school had their parents, grandparents and uncles and aunts. An elementary school adjacent still preserves the name as it starts the education of the area"s younger children.
Today there are nearly a hundred of us gathered for another reunion of schoolfellows, families and friends. Besides those physically in the room there are probably that many more thinking of us and we of them. Though the old Forwood School has been closed for almost fifty years now, what each of us has got is still very much a part of us, with one or another little piece of that legacy handed on into all the lives we have touched since our school days. In that sense old Forwood will survive for a long, long time.

Robert married Margaret BISHOP [51105]. Margaret was born on 16 Dec 1762 and died on 4 Feb 1815 at age 52.

+ 225 M i. Robert FORWOOD [51106] was born on 30 May 1805 and died on 1 Apr 1883 at age 77.

122. Samuel FORWOOD II [36927] (Samuel I [36864]⁷⁹, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born about 1756.

124. Jacob FORWOOD [36929] (Samuel I [36864]⁷⁹, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 30 Sep 1761 and died in 1840 at age 79.

Jacob married Martha Elizabeth WARNER [37017] in 1781. Martha was born in 1761.

125. John FORWOOD Sr. [36930] (Samuel I [36864]⁷⁹, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born in 1762 in Harford Co. Maryland USA and died before 1798.

John married Elizabeth DEANE [36935] in 1778. Elizabeth died in 1809 in Harford Co. Maryland USA.

+ 228 M i. John FORWOOD Jr. [87416] was born on 11 Jul 1789 in Harford Co. Maryland USA and died in 1842 in Harford Co. Maryland USA at age 53.

126. Hannah FORWOOD [36931] (Samuel I [36864]⁷⁹, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 6 Oct 1767 in Harford Co. Maryland USA.

Hannah married John FORWOOD [36918], son of William FORWOOD [36862] and Sarah CLARK [36915], on 8 Mar 1785 in Harford Co. Maryland USA. John was born on 1 Apr 1762 in Brandywine Hundred New Castle Delaware USA.

127. Elizabeth FORWOOD [36932] (Samuel I [36864]⁷⁹, William [36837]⁵², George [36825]³², John [36809]¹⁵, John [36811]⁷, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born in 1769 and died in 1857 at age 88.

Elizabeth married Benjamin Bennemond RIGDON [37019] in 1788. Benjamin was born in 1753 and died in 1828 at age 75.

136. John Spenser FORWOOD [36949] (George [36873]⁸⁵, George [36843]⁵⁶, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 3 Oct 1775 and was baptised on 15 Oct 1775 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

John married Jane ANDERSON [37021] on 9 Feb 1796 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England. Jane died before 1841.

+ 230 F i. Ann Hooper FORWOOD [37022] was baptised on 18 Sep 1796 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

+ 231 M ii. George Spenser FORWOOD [37023] was born in 1798 in Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 28 Sep 1798 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died after 1851.

+ 232 M iii. John FORWOOD [37024] was born about 1800 in Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 1 Jan 1801 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died about 1891 aged about 91.

+ 233 F iv. Jane Elizabeth FORWOOD [37025] was baptised on 17 Apr 1803 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and died about 1877 aged about 74.

234 F v. Harriet FORWOOD [37026] was baptised on 9 Feb 1806 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

235 M vi. William Keble FORWOOD [37027] was born on 13 Mar 1809 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 23 Sep 1809 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died about 1884 in Isle of Thanet Kent England aged about 75.

236 F vii. Martha FORWOOD [37028] was baptised about 1811 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

237 M viii. Stephen Anderson FORWOOD [37029] was born in 1813, was baptised on 14 Nov 1813 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died about 1815 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England aged about 2.

238 M ix. Spencer White FORWOOD [37030] was born about 1816 in Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 23 Sep 1816 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died in Sep 1895 in Isle of Thanet Kent England aged about 79.

Spencer married Charlotte Elizabeth COLTHUM [37034], daughter of Stephen COLTHUM [49218], on 2 May 1841 in St George's Ramsgate Kent England. Charlotte died in 1881.

239 F x. Elizabeth White FORWOOD [37031] was baptised on 9 Apr 1820 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

137. Mary FORWOOD [36950] (George [36873]⁸⁵, George [36843]⁵⁶, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 2 Oct 1777 and was baptised on 2 Nov 1777 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

Mary married George LONG [49219] on 6 Oct 1798 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

241 F ii. Jane Evers LONG [49221] was born on 24 Jun 1812 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

140. Catherine FORWOOD [36953] (George [36873]⁸⁵, George [36843]⁵⁶, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 16 Aug 1786 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 20 Sep 1786 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died after 1812.

144. William Spenser FORWOOD [36957] (George [36873]⁸⁵, George [36843]⁵⁶, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 1 Jan 1797 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and was baptised on 2 Feb 1797 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

244 F i. Eliza Ann FORWOOD [37036] was born in Jun 1847 in Isle of Thanet Kent England, was baptised on 30 May 1847, and died after 1857.

Eliza married Richard William SOAL [37038] in 1868 in Isle of Thanet Kent England.

245 F ii. Mary Selina FORWOOD [37037] was born in Mar 1850 in Isle of Thanet Kent England and was baptised on 6 Jan 1850 in Ramsgate Kent England.

146. John FORWOOD [36960] (John [36874]⁸⁶, George [36843]⁵⁶, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 1 Nov 1778 in Ramsgate Kent England and was baptised on 13 Dec 1778 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

John married Elizabeth MOCKETT [37039], daughter of Richard MOCKETT [49231], on 4 Jul 1800 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England. Elizabeth was born about 1780.

+ 246 M i. George FORWOOD [37042] was born on 15 Sep 1800 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 14 Oct 1802 in St George's Ramsgate Kent England, and died in Sep 1888 in Isle of Thanet Kent England at age 88.

+ 247 M ii. John FORWOOD [37040] was born on 26 Nov 1801 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 1 Jan 1802 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died in Jun 1881 in Isle of Thanet Kent England at age 79.

248 F iii. Mary FORWOOD [37041] was born on 17 Mar 1803 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and died about 1888 aged about 85.

Mary married James SAXBY [49232] on 24 Dec 1840 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

249 M iv. Stephen FORWOOD [37043] was born on 30 Jul 1806 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 7 Sep 1806 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died in Oct 1808 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England at age 2.

250 M v. Richard FORWOOD [37044] was born on 24 Jun 1808 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 18 Sep 1808, and died in Jun 1876 in Isle of Thanet Kent England at age 68.

251 M vi. William FORWOOD [37045] was born on 28 Oct 1810 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 28 Apr 1811 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died in Dec 1884 in Isle of Thanet Kent England at age 74.

252 F vii. Elizabeth FORWOOD [37046] was born in 1814 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and was baptised on 31 Jul 1814 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

253 M viii. Jonathan Mockett FORWOOD [49233] was baptised on 29 Apr 1821 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

147. George FORWOOD [36961] (John [36874]⁸⁶, George [36843]⁵⁶, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 31 May 1781 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 11 Jul 1781 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died on 9 Sep 1842 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England at age 61.

George married Eliza Ann HILLS [82425]. Eliza was born in 1826 in Broadstairs Isle of Thanet Kent England.

George next married Sarah BAKER [37047] on 18 Jul 1814 in Ramsgate Kent England. Sarah was born on 5 Oct 1800 in Wallasey Cheshire England.

+ 254 M i. George Baker FORWOOD [37048] was born on 1 Jan 1815 in Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 15 Jan 1815 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died on 5 May 1863 in Ramsgate Kent England at age 48.

255 F ii. Sarah Evers FORWOOD [37049] was born in Sep 1816 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and was baptised on 22 Sep 1816 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

256 F iii. Mary Ann FORWOOD [37050] was born about 1819 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and was baptised on 7 Feb 1819 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

257 F iv. Elizabeth Spencer FORWOOD [37051] was born on 7 Oct 1821 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and was baptised on 9 Oct 1821 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England. (Twin)

Elizabeth married Thomas GIFFORD [49229] on 12 May 1845 in St George's Ramsgate Kent England.

+ 258 M v. William Baker FORWOOD [37052] was born on 7 Oct 1821 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 9 Oct 1821 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died in May 1867 at age 45. (Twin)

259 M vi. Stephen FORWOOD [49230] was born on 15 Apr 1823 in Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 15 Apr 1823 in Ramsgate Kent England, and died on 15 Apr 1823 in Ramsgate Kent England.

260 M vii. Stephen FORWOOD [82436] was born on 30 Aug 1829 in Ramsgate Kent England.

151. Mary FORWOOD [36965] (John [36874]⁸⁶, George [36843]⁵⁶, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 15 Aug 1789 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and was baptised on 16 Sep 1789.

261 M i. William MILLER [82427] was born about 1812 in Ramsgate Kent England.

159. John FORWOOD [36974] (John [36880]⁹¹, John [36846]⁵⁹, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 31 Jan 1802 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

263 F i. Louisa Mary FORWOOD [37054] was baptised on 15 Mar 1835 in Ramsgate Kent England.

264 F ii. Jane Susannah FORWOOD [37055] was baptised on 5 Feb 1837 in Ramsgate Kent England.

265 F iii. Emily Sarah FORWOOD [37056] was baptised on 24 Jun 1838 in Ramsgate Kent England.

266 F iv. Adelaide Elizabeth FORWOOD [37057] was baptised on 26 Jul 1840 in Ramsgate Kent England.

161. Edward Freeman FORWOOD [36986] (Edward [36884]⁹⁴, Edward [36848]⁶¹, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born on 8 Dec 1796 in Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 7 Jan 1797 in St Laurence-in-Thanet St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died in Dec 1870 at age 74.

Edward married Pleasant Mutton MERTON [37058] on 8 Aug 1819 in St Laurence-in-Thanet St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England.

267 M i. Wealthy Frank FORWOOD [92234] died circa 1885 in Ramsgate Kent England.

+ 268 M ii. Edward Freeman FORWOOD [37059] was born about 1821 in St Laurence-in-Thanet St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, was baptised on 10 Jun 1821 in St Laurence-in-Thanet St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England, and died in Dec 1902 in Bridge Kent England aged about 81.

+ 270 M iv. Stephen William FORWOOD [92174] was born about 1829 in Ramsgate Kent England and died about 1878 in Canterbury Kent England aged about 49.

176. Stephen FORWOOD [49247] (William [36888]⁹⁸, Edward [36848]⁶¹, John [36829]⁴⁶, John [36822]²⁷, Edward [36817]¹¹, Thomas [36813]², Unknown [49201]¹) was born about 1829 in St Lawrence Ramsgate Kent England and died on 13 Jan 1866 in Maidstone Gaol Kent England aged about 37. Another name for Stephen was Ernest Walter SOUTHEY.

General Notes: Stephen's bigamous Relationship with his "other" Wife, ??? White was in his assumed Name of Ernest Walter Southey.

Stephen was hung for Murder -- See http://kentishpeople.com/article.php?id=17

On another WebPage at http://gerald-massey.org.uk/holyoake/c_life_6.htm can be found:

VISITS FROM A MURDERER.
(1865.)

WHEN I had chambers in Cockspur Street, London, a man called upon me several times who stated himself to be "Ernest W. Southey." His real name was Stephen Forward. I suppose, from what I afterwards knew of his character, that he had taken the name of "Southey" as more imposing, and as suggesting that he was a possible relative of the poet; but his proper name, Forward, much better suited his disposition. He was a somewhat handsome man, with a glistening, feverish eye. He had a grievance which he represented was against Lord Dudley. So far as my visitor was known to have an occupation, it was that of a billiard-marker at some hotel in Brighton. His story was that Lord Dudley, being there, had sometimes played with him (which he might have done for practice when he found no one else at hand, Forward being an intelligent person). His account was that Lord Dudley played him a match for £1,000 and of course lost it. He refused to pay it. If Forward had lost, it is quite clear he could never have paid it; and it is not supposable that his lordship would play a match for such a sum with a billiard-marker who had no money. His primary grievance was the claim for this debt of honour. Afterwards he went down to Witley Court, Worcestershire, Lord Dudley's country seat, with a person professing to be his wife, and demanded of Lord Dudley the billiard money. In the end, a charge was brought against Lord Dudley of accosting the woman in the Court grounds and making some improper overtures to her. The case was heard at the local police court, and, being without any foundation, was dismissed. As "Southey" pressed his tale of distress upon me, I procured him some aid from friends, and sometimes met him in the lobby of the House of Commons. He had written to Mr. Gladstone and Lord Russell, representing he was in distress and should commit some dreadful crime unless he had assistance. Earl Russell gave him five pounds. One day, after a protracted visit, he told me that, since he could not get his £1,000 from Lord Dudley, he should murder his wife and children. I told him that "it was very absurd to kill them because of the fault of another. The logical thing was to go and kill Lord Dudley!" My impression was that a man who talked of killing people was not at all likely to do it. Great was my astonishment when, a few days later, I found from the newspapers that he had killed seven persons\emdash his wife and six children. Five children of his by another person he took to a coffee-house off Holborn, and poisoned the whole of them in one night. Then he went down to Ramsgate, and killed his wife, who resided there, and one of two children whom she provided for. The other child fortunately escaped.

His object was to make a great sensation by a great crime. Tropmann in France had obtained notoriety even in the English press in this way. "Southey" coveted this sort of attention. He knew that any one who perpetrated a murderous atrocity could depend upon having his statements and remarks published in the newspapers. He knew that ladies, who forgot that their sympathies were due to the unhappy victims or their unhappy relatives, sent delicacies to the cells of famous murderers. Clergymen were assiduous in their attentions to them, and promised them certain and early admission to Paradise. This notoriety and distinguished attention induced Forward to qualify himself for them. I thought it impossible, until I knew him, that any man would sacrifice his life for this brief and perilous applause. I remembered afterwards that he had said that he thought it would be "a fine thing to call attention to the injustice of society," which neglected persons in his condition\emdash meaning the hard-heartedness of gentlemen who would not give money to an intelligent man who was not willing to work. I understood too late that killing his wife and children was the "fine thing" he had in his mind.

After he had committed the crime, he wrote to me from Sandwich Gaol inviting me, as "a leader of enlightened opinion, and connected with the press," to come down and see him early, as I might thereby "serve my own interests by striking a blow at the hypocrisies and superstitions of the country." He informed me that "he was aiding, as far as he could, in the work in which I was engaged"\emdash that was, any one would think, murdering innocent persons wholesale! His desire was, he said, "to obtain respect for the class of opinions we mutually hold." This monstrous letter I knew would be read by the governor of the gaol before he despatched it to me. I read it with indignation, as the governor must have regarded me as a confederate abroad, engaged in the atrocious propagation of opinion by blood. The following are copies of his letter, and the reply which I returned to it:

"PRISON HOUSE, SANDWICH,
"Sunday, August 13, 1865.
"SIR, As a leader of enlightened opinions, as an advocate of the abolition of capital punishment, as a man connected with the press and publishing houses, if you would run down here and see me at an early opportunity, I assure you you might find such an opportunity of serving your own interests, as well as an opportunity of striking a great blow against the hypocrisies, superstitions, and ignorance of the country, such as you could not estimate. I ask you to send me a line, for I am aiding so far as I can in the work you are also engaged in, and with help I may be enabled to assist in obtaining respect for that class of opinion we mutually hold, and which I should be sorry to be the means of bringing into disrepute. I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
ERNEST W. SOUTHEY."

"20, COCKSPUR STREET, LONDON, S.W.,
"August 14, 1865.
"Mr. STEPHEN FORWARD.
"SIR, I am reluctant to kick a man when he is down, even though he be a murderer; but the letter you send me strongly inclines me to do it. I am sorry to give you pain, unless I could increase the deep remorse which I trust you are beginning to feel for the frightful guilt you have incurred. I can have no 'interest' to serve by seeing you. Were you innocent, I would not try to make anything out of your misfortunes, and I scorn to do it out of your crimes. I know not what you mean by 'opinions' we mutually hold. I knew you had a grievance, and I was sorry to hear you say your family were suffering. You came to me a stranger. I never saw you but four times. I treated you kindly, because I thought your mind unhinged. When I last saw you at the House of Commons I counselled you to dismiss the idea of suicide from your mind, and with your busy intelligence not to be afraid of honest work to extricate yourself. Don't write to me any more. Your prate about justice must end, now you have imbrued your hands in blood. I can only feel sorrow for you if you show contrition.
G. J. HOLYOAKE."

The vain scoundrel did not attempt to kill the mother of the five children whom he put to death, probably because she was inaccessible, being out at work earning means to feed the poor things. The wife who was keeping, by her own industry, her two deserted children he did kill, and one of the little ones. The knave had religious belief, and carried a Bible in his pocket. It may be that he pretended to be a Christian, as he pretended to be of my opinions, with a view to obtain money and notice.

Afterwards I reflected that, had he acted on my preferential suggestion, and killed Lord Dudley, and said that I had advised it, it had been unpleasant for me. He murdered for publicity. It was a frightful taste, but it was his. Madame Tussaud put the scoundrel in her Chamber of Horrors. It was his grim ambition to figure there.

On the last Sunday before his execution, he arose in the chapel, and addressed his fellow-criminals there assembled. No murderer before had thought of this expedient for obtaining notice in the press. There is no doubt "Southey" would make a speech in the infernal regions if they would condescend to hear him there, and he thought the Satanic reporters would publish it. When on the scaffold he had the impudence to stop the chaplain in the prayer he was reading, and request him to say only what he would dictate, which the compliant chaplain did. It was imprudent in the chaplain to consent, for "Southey" might have said something which it would be unbecoming in a clergyman to repeat, and an altercation with a man with a noose round his neck would not have been edifying. He had the effrontery to make the chaplain "commend him, his brother, to God who had redeemed him." Not even the gallows could repress his lust of notoriety.

Wherever I could I called attention in the press to the evil effects of publicity at that time accorded to murderers; as I had previously written against hanging in sight of a crowd of ruffians, who were afforded the gratification of "assisting" at murder without responsibility. Forward's trial was but briefly mentioned in the newspapers, and less distinction has since been accorded to murderers.

A writer, signing himself "H. B. Dudley," wrote to the Newcastle Chronicle, apparently with authority, to explain that the gentleman who played with "Southey" was a "relative" of Lord Dudley, whom Southey understood to be Lord Dudley. I wrote to "H. B. Dudley," who professed to have written "without consulting any member of the late lord's family," for such authentication as would warrant me in making corrections. due to the late lord. But no answer came. Nor did Lord Dudley himself question my statement, which I sent to him at the time.

Stephen married Mary Ann Jemima UNKNOWN [49786]. Mary died on 10 Aug 1865 in Ramsgate Kent England. The cause of her death was wounds in the Neck from Bullets discharged from a Pistol fired by her Husband, Stephen Forwood.

271 F i. Emily Sarah Frances FORWOOD [49787] died on 10 Aug 1865 in Ramsgate Kent England. The cause of her death was wounds to the Skull caused by Bullets discharged from a Pisol fired by her Father, Stephen Forwood.

Stephen had a relationship with WHITE [49788]. Marriage status: unmarried. WHITE [49788] died in Aug 1865 in Holborn London England.

272 U i. WHITE [49789] died in Aug 1865 in Holborn London England. The cause of her death was murdered by his/her Common Law Father. Poisoned in a Coffee House in Holborn.

273 U ii. WHITE [49790] died in Aug 1865 in Holborn London England. The cause of her death was murdered by his/her Common Law Father. Poisoned in a Coffee House in Holborn.

274 U iii. WHITE [49791] died in Aug 1865 in Holborn London England. The cause of her death was murdered by his/her Common Law Father. Poisoned in a Coffee House in Holborn.

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