Second Generation  

2. Mary JECKS [101587] (Isaac¹) was born on 10 Nov 1785 in Wisbech Cambridgeshie England, died on 4 Jun 1829 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England at age 43, and was buried on 9 Jun 1829 in Tydd St Mary Cemetery Lincolnshire England.

Mary married Charles HURSTHOUSE [97732], son of John HURSTHOUSE [101632] and Sarah [101633], on 15 Oct 1806 in Hemingford Grey Parish Church Huntingdonshire England. Charles was born on 5 Jan 1781 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England and died on 22 Jun 1854 in New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand at age 73.

General Notes: In an e-Mail from Ken Stanger, received in February 2014, he included:
Charles Hursthouse Sen. (1781-1854) owned land and had business as a timber merchant in Suffolk, England. He married 15 Oct 1806 at the Hemingford Grey Parish Church, Huntingdonshire to Mary Jecks. As she was just under 21 years of age, the consent of her father was needed and was married by special licence (she was born: 10 Nov 1785 in St Peters, Wisbech; her Father: Isaac Jecks, Mother: Mary Bloomar)
AND, in a subsequent e-Mail from Ken received later in Feb. 2014, he included, with a Picture of the Hursthouse Home in Tydd-St-Mary:
Here wife Mary died aged 43 years on 4th Jun 1829 and was buried at Tydd St Mary's cemetery on June 9th. She had been confined to her home for 7 months and to her bed for 11 weeks due to consumption
After Mary's death, Charles's finances were at their lowest ebb - the money he had made during the French Wars was lost in the depression that followed in the early 1920' s. In 1824 after borrowing £3,600 for the mortgage from his father-in-law Isaac Jenks, he was forced to sell part of his estate, Titney Hall for £9,999. Isaac Jecks's death in June 1841 and the distribution of his estate freed some of his grandchildren from the industrial and economic distress of Britain in the early 1840s.
In the same e-Mail, was:
The Hursthouses had already discussed emigration towards the end of the 1830s, and Charles Hursthouse junior had travelled to Canada, Australia and America to investigate prospects. He had reported unfavourably on all three countries. Eventually the family decided on New Zealand, settling in New Plymouth, Taranaki, on the North Island. The reasons for their choice of that country in preference to the older and more flourishing of Britain's colonies were explained in a letter from Charles Hursthouse: "We do not go to make a fortune but to found a home where we can have abundant employment and where we may all live at health and at ease."
AND, Ken goes on to say:
Hursthouse 1781 senior was educated at Mr Bricknells School, Ponders End, North London and farmed his father's estate at Tydd St Mary Lincs. Well educated and cultivated but was considered financially irresponsible (statement source - Jecks Family) He was a man fond of science, flowers and trees and in Tydd undertook an enormous amount of planting which earned him public tribute. He owned land and had a business as a timber merchant in Suffolk.

Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: at "Beccles", 7 Jan 1781, Lowestoft Suffolk England.

• Residence: a Merchant [widowed] living with 3 Daughters & 3 Servants, 1841, Lowestoft Suffolk England.

• Emigration: with his Daughter, Mary, on board the Vessel SS "Pekin", 6 Aug 1849, London England.

• Immigration: with his Daughter, Mary, on board the Vessel SS "Pekin", 5 Dec 1849, Port Chalmers Otago New Zealand.

• Residence at Death: "Okoare Pa", 15 Horne Street, Hurdon, 22 Jun 1854, New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 5 F    i. Sarah HURSTHOUSE [3395] was born on 17 Aug 1809 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 7 Dec 1819 in Cripplegate London England, and died on 4 May 1873 in Hunstanton Norfolk England at age 63.

   6 M    ii. John HURSTHOUSE [101624] was born in 1811 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England.

Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: with Wife Helen, 3 Children, Brother Charles and Cousin Thomas Newsham aboard the Vessel "Thomas Sparks", 1843, New Zealand.

+ 7 F    iii. Hannah HURSTHOUSE [101617] was born on 15 Nov 1813 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 7 Dec 1819 in Cripplegate London England, and died on 19 Jan 1900 in March Cambridgeshire England at age 86.

   8 M    iv. Charles HURSTHOUSE [101623] was born on 23 Sep 1815 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England and died before 1817.

Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: [registered], 20 Mar 1816, Wisbech Cambridgeshie England.

   9 M    v. Charles HURSTHOUSE [101608] was born on 7 Jan 1817 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 7 Dec 1819 in Cripplegate London England, and died in 1876 in Wellington Wellington New Zealand at age 59. Another name for Charles was Charles "Flinders" HURSTHOUSE.

Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism: at Dr. William's Library, Redcross Street, 7 Dec 1819, Cripplegate London England.

• Birth: [registered], 7 Dec 1819, Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England.

• Residence at Death: "Okoare Pa", 14 Horne Street, Hurdon, 1876, New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand.

   10 F    vi. Mary HURSTHOUSE [101616] was born on 24 Apr 1819 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England and died circa 1820 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England at age 1.

Noted events in her life were:

• Birth Registration: at the Unitarian Baptist Chapel, Church Lane by the Dissenting Minister, Thomas Morgan, 7 Dec 1819, Wisbech Cambridgeshie England.

   11 M    vii. William HURSTHOUSE [101625] was born on 8 May 1821 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England and died on 21 May 1849 in Cape Town Cape Colony at age 28. The cause of his death was Consumption.

General Notes: In an e-Mail received from Ken Stanger in February 2014, he attached the following Summary on the Life of William:
William Hursthouse, son of Charles and Mary (nee Jecks) Hursthouse, was born on 8th May 1821 in Tydd St Mary's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He was brother of Sarah Hursthouse who became the wife of Dr William Stanger <http://winsomegriffin.com/Newsham/WilliamStanger.html> (1811-1854), Natal's Surveyor-General who previously in the Cape Roads Department, had secured the Natal post through application. Although Natal had been proclaimed a British colony in May 1843, only in December 1845 was it annexed as a district of the Cape Colony, and a formal administration set up. Most of the senior officials, including the lieutenant-governor, arrived later in December and Natal became a colony in its own right in 1856.
William and his sister Anne, left England in June 1845 to join the Stangers, who themselves had come to Natal only in March of that year. With his education and connections Hursthouse obtained a government post. and from about July 1846 he became the clerk responsible for the minutes of the Executive Council, and in about March 1848 was appointed Chief Clerk in the Colonial Office. In July he was also given the post of Acting Clerk, and later Clerk to the newly-established Legislative Council. (This was not an elected body. Initially it consisted of the Secretary to Government, the Surveyor-General and the Public Prosecutor, and its brief was to draft ordinances and to ensure that the officer administering the Government was adhering to Her Majesty's instructions.
Hursthouse was on the committee of the Natal Reading Society <http://www.natalia.org.za/Files/4/Natalia%20v04%20article%20p55-60%20C.pdf> (until June 1846 known as the Pietermaritzburg Reading Room), the forerunner of the Natal Society, which was established in 1851. It appears that some time in 1847 Hursthouse became secretary, and was still in this position when he left Natal. At the 1849 AGM, held in September, tribute was paid to his contribution to the society - he had been "unwearied in his exertions for its welfare, and but for his zealous advocacy, it is possible that your Committee would have been induced, from the insufficient funds at their disposal, to resign their responsibilities and propose the dissolution of the Society. Mr Hursthouse, however, always pointed to the cheering side; and the institution still exists to lament the loss of one of its warmest and most efficient supporters".
It is possible Hursthouse came to Natal because of ill-health. Twice in letters he records short periods of illness. Reading between the lines, it would seem that he did not give himself time to recover fully, in order not to miss interesting expeditions. By February 1849 he was so unwell that he requested three months leave to visit Cape Town, and sailed three days later. He sadly died of consumption on 21st May 1849 at Cape Town.
The journal takes the form of a letter to his sister, and is obviously a synopsis of a fuller work. It has kindly been made available by Mr John Barrett of 11 Newgate Road, Southgate, London, a Stanger descendant. It is an important document because, as far as this editor knows, it is the earliest journal of daily life in Pietermaritzburg <http://natalia.org.za/Files/34/Natalia%2034%20pp2-16%20C.pdf> in existence.
Many years later, however, two of Hursthouse's friends, John Bird and J.W. Shepstone, left accounts of Pietermaritzburg in the second half of the 1840s.
From the letter one has an insight into the social life of Natal's official élite. With the exception of the Dunns and the Ottos, all the Stanger/Hursthouse associates were either government servants or officers of the garrison. However, at this time, there were few English people in Pietermaritzburg of similar social standing. Only in 1849, with the commencement of organised emigration from the United Kingdom, did the situation change. It appears that even their dining habits differed from the general pattern, which was then for the main meal to be taken in the middle of the day. In William and Anne's circle, 'dinner' was the evening meal, as opposed to 'early dinner', a rarely-taken midday repast. Also, 'tea' was normally an evening event, obviously much in favour at
the time. Frequently William and Anne and friends were 'taking tea' at one another's
houses, often with games and/or music as entertainment.
Unfortunately there are few references sent back home as to Hursthouse's work - possibly because he thought his family would not find this part of his life interesting

Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: with Sister Anne, 1845, Natal South Africa.

   12 F    viii. Mary HURSTHOUSE [101626] was born in 1822 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England and died in 1898 at age 76.

   13 F    ix. Ann HURSTHOUSE [101627] was born on 16 Oct 1824 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 21 Jan 1853 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, and died on 19 Jan 1900 in March Cambridgeshire England at age 75.

Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: Home with her Parents and Sister Mary, 1841, Lowestoft Suffolk England.

• Immigration: with Brother, William, Jun 1824, Natal South Africa.

• Travel: with Sister Sarah [following the Death of Sarah's Husband], btw 1857 & 1860, Framingham Pigot Norfolk England.

• Residence: Church Road with her Father and Sister Sarah, 1861, Framingham Pigot Norfolk England.

• Residence: Mill Road with Sisters Hannah and Mary, 1871, West Walton Norfolk England.

• Residence: West End with Neice Hannah Edith Stanger and her Husband, Joseph E J Smith, 1881, March Cambridgeshire England.

• Residence: West End with Neice Hannah Edith Stanger and her Husband, Joseph E J Smith, 1891, March Cambridgeshire England.

• Residence at Death: "Oak Tree House", 19 Jan 1900, March Cambridgeshire England.

4. Susannah JECKS [101618] (Isaac¹).

Susannah married Joseph NEWSHAM [101619].

Children from this marriage were:

   14 M    i. William NEWSHAM [101620] was born on 30 Jan 1815 in Wisbech Cambridgeshie England.

   15 F    ii. Eliza NEWSHAM [101621] was born on 8 Apr 1816 in Wisbech Cambridgeshie England.

   16 M    iii. Jecks NEWSHAM [101622] was born on 6 Aug 1817 in Wisbech Cambridgeshie England.