Sixth Generation  

12. Rev. Stephen Long JACOB ITIA [120856] (Edward FSA⁵, Edward⁴, Amos M.D.³, Richard M.D.², Amos of Eltham¹) was born on 7 Jul 1764, was baptised on 1 Aug 1764 in Faversham Kent England, and died on 11 Feb 1851 in Woolavington Somerset England at age 86.

Noted events in his life were:

• Education: Worcester College, Oxford Oxfordshire England.

• Ministry: Vicar, Woolavington Somerset England.

• Ministry: Vicar, Waldershare Kent England.

Stephen married Eliza Susanna BOND [120857], daughter of Rev. James BOND M.A. [121254] and Elizabeth ANDREW [121255], on 23 Dec 1797 in St Mary's Ashford Kent England. Eliza was born on 6 Sep 1775, died on 20 Aug 1832 at age 56, and was buried in Bramsgrove Worcestershire England.

Children from this marriage were:

   14 M    i. Edward Thomas JACOB [120963] was born on 29 Jan 1800 in Buckland Kent England, was baptised on 5 Mar 1800 in St Nicholas' Buckland Kent England, died on 11 Feb 1824 at age 24, and was buried in Woolavington Somerset England.

   15 F    ii. Mary JACOB [120970] was born on 15 Feb 1802 in Dover Kent England, was baptised on 23 Mar 1802 in St Mary the Virgin Dover Kent England, and died in Feb 1878 at age 76.

   16 M    iii. Phillip Wittington JACOB [120964] was born on 11 Jan 1804 in Faversham Kent England and was baptised on 10 Feb 1804 in St Mary of Charity Faversham Kent England.

Phillip married Sarah McLEAN [120965] on 11 Jan 1838 in Rochester Kent England.

Phillip next married Eliza HADDEN [120966].

+ 17 M    iv. Maj.Gen'l Herbert JACOB [120853] was born about 1806, was baptised on 30 May 1806 in Faversham Kent England, and died in 1890 aged about 84.

Herbert married Mary DUNSTAVILLE [120854] (b. Abt 1818) on 23 Jul 1840 in St Pancras Middlesex England.

+ 18 M    v. Rev. George Andrew JACOB M.A. [120967] was born on 16 Dec 1807, was baptised on 10 Jan 1808 in Bournemouth Dorset England, and died in May 1896 at age 88.

George married Susanna PIDSLEY [120968] (b. 26 Apr 1809, d. Apr 1892) on 17 Jul 1832 in Holy Cross Crediton Devon England.

   19 F    vi. Sophia JACOB [120971] was born on 2 Mar 1810 in Woolavington Somerset England, was baptised on 1 Apr 1810 in St Mary's Woolavington Somerset England, and died in Jun 1873 at age 63.

   20 M    vii. John JACOB C.B. [120969] was born about 1812 in Woolavington Somerset England, was baptised on 16 Feb 1812 in St Mary's Woolavington Somerset England, and died in Dec 1858 in Jacobabad Sinde India aged about 46.

+ 21 M    viii. William Stephen JACOB [120972] was born on 26 Dec 1813 in Woolavington Somerset England, was baptised on 26 Dec 1813 in St Mary's Woolavington Somerset England, and died in Aug 1862 at age 48.

William married Elizabeth COATES [120973] on 17 Sep 1844 in All Saints' Laughton en le Morthen Yorkshire England.

   22 M    ix. Charles James JACOB [120975] was born on 2 Aug 1815 in Woolavington Somerset England, was baptised on 3 Sep 1815 in St Mary's Woolavington Somerset England, died on 1 Jul 1825 in Woolavington Somerset England at age 9, and was buried in Jul 1825 in St Mary's Woolavington Somerset England. (Died young)

   23 M    x. Henry Long JACOB [120976] was born on 21 Nov 1817 in Woolavington Somerset England, was baptised on 30 Nov 1817 in St Mary's Woolavington Somerset England, and died in Jan 1892 at age 74.

Henry married Jane THOMPSON [120977].

13. John JACOB [120864] (Edward FSA⁵, Edward⁴, Amos M.D.³, Richard M.D.², Amos of Eltham¹) was born on 27 Dec 1765 in Faversham Kent England, was baptised on 22 Jan 1766 in St Mary of Charity Faversham Kent England, died on 21 Feb 1843 in Guernsey Channel Islands at age 77, and was buried in St Peters' Port Guernsey Channel Islands.

John married Anna Maria le GRAND [120865], daughter of George le GRAND of Canterbury [120866] and Anne HAYWARD [121247], on 4 Jun 1789 in St Margaret's Canterbury Kent England. Anna was born on 17 Feb 1768 in Canterbury Kent England, died on 31 Jan 1852 at age 83, and was buried in Faversham Kent England.

Children from this marriage were:

   24 F    i. Mary Ann JACOB [120946] was born on 16 Apr 1790 in Nackington Kent England and was baptised on 17 May 1790 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England.

Mary married Rev. Henry BOYCE [120947] on 3 Mar 1809 in St Michael and All Angels' Somerton Somerset England.

   25 F    ii. Caroline JACOB [120948] was born on 15 Jun 1791 in Nackington Kent England and was baptised on 19 Jul 1791 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England.

   26 F    iii. Jane JACOB [120949] was born on 8 Jun 1793 in Nackington Kent England and was baptised on 9 Jul 1793 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England.

   27 F    iv. Elizabeth JACOB [120950] was born on 5 Sep 1794 in Nackington Kent England and was baptised on 7 Oct 1794 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England.

   28 M    v. Edward JACOB [120939] was born on 14 Feb 1796 in Nackington Kent England and was baptised on 25 Feb 1796 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England.

Edward married Sarah le GRAND [120940] on 26 Aug 1826 in St John's Hatch Beauchamp Somerset England.

   29 M    vi. John JACOB [120941] was born on 3 Mar 1798 in Nackington Kent England, was baptised on 11 Apr 1798 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England, died in Jun 1799 in Nackington Kent England at age 1, and was buried in Jun 1799 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England.

   30 M    vii. John JACOB [120942] was born on 28 Mar 1799 in Nackington Kent England, was baptised on 7 May 1799 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England, and died on 24 Nov 1811 at Sea at age 12.

General Notes: John served as a Seaman aboard HMS Hero. Wikipedia says of "Hero"
HMS Hero was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 August 1803 at Blackwall Yard.[1]

She took part in Admiral Robert Calder's action at the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805.[2] Later in the same year Hero was a part of the squadron commanded by Captain Sir Richard Strachan that won the Battle of Cape Ortegal.[3]

On 25 December 1811 Hero, under captain James Newman-Newman, was wrecked on the Haak Sands at the mouth of the Texel during a gale, with the loss of all but 12 of her crew [including John Jacob]

+ 31 M    viii. Lieut. Col. William JACOB [120943] was born on 21 Sep 1800 in Nackington Kent England, was baptised on 21 Oct 1800 in St Mary's Nackington Kent England, and died on 6 Jun 1854 at age 53.

William married Jane SWINTON [120951] (b. 1810, d. 14 Mar 1853) on 14 Jan 1835 in Bombay Maharashtra India.

   32 M    ix. Archdeacon Phillip JACOB M.A. [120944] was born on 28 Oct 1803, was baptised on 14 Dec 1803, and died on 20 Dec 1884 in Winchester Hampshire England at age 81.

General Notes: The WebSite "myjacobfamily.com" states, amongst other Things, that,
A son of John Jacob of Guernsey, he was born on 28th October 1803, died on 20th December 1884 at the Close, Winchester. He was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, matriculating on 16th October 1821, aged 17; exhibitioner 1821-1825; BA 1825; MA 1828. He was canon residentiary of Winchester in 1834, Archdeacon in 1860 and rector of Crawley, Wiltshire, from 1831 until his death. He was appointed Archdeacon on 25th April 1860.

Phillip married Anna Sophia NOEL [120953], daughter of Hon. Rev. Gerard Thomas NOEL [120954], on 10 Oct 1832 in Richmond Surrey England. Anna was born on 2 Nov 1806.

   33 M    x. Sir George le Grand JACOB K.C.S.I. [120945] was born on 24 Apr 1805 in Cardiff Glamorganshire Wales and was baptised on 19 Sep 1805.

General Notes: In the Wikisource Dictionary of National Biography, it says of Sir George,
JACOB, Sir GEORGE Le GRAND (1805\endash 1881), major-general in the Indian army, the fifth son and youngest child of John Jacob [see Jacob, Edward, 1710?\endash 1788, ad fin.], by his wife Anna Maria Le Grand, was born at his father's residence, Roath Court, near Cardiff, 24 April 1805. His family in 1815 removed to Guernsey. Jacob was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and under private tutors in France and England, and when about fifteen was sent to London to learn oriental languages under Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist [q. v.] He obtained an Indian infantry cadetship in 1820, and on the voyage out to Bombay contracted a close friendship with Alexander Burnes [q. v.] He was posted to the 2nd or grenadier regiment Bombay native infantry (now Prince of Wales's own) as ensign 9 June 1821, in which corps he obtained all his regimental steps except the last. His subsequent commissions were: lieutenant 10 Dec. 1823, captain 6 June 1836, major 1 May 1848, lieutenant-colonel in the (late) 31st Bombay native infantry 15 Nov. 1853, brevet-colonel 6 Dec. 1856, brigadier-general 21 July 1858, major-general on retirement 31 Dec. 1861.

Jacob passed for interpreter in Hindustâni so speedily after arrival in India, that he was complimented in presidency general orders. He afterwards passed in Persian and Marâthi. He saw some harassing service with his regiment against the Bheels in the pestiferous Nerbudda jungles, and was subsequently with it in Cutch and at Ukulkote. He took his furlough home in 1831, and in January 1833 was appointed orderly officer in the East India Military Seminary, Addiscombe. While there, at the request of the Oriental Translation Fund, he undertook the translation of the 'Ajaib-al-Tabakat' (Wonder of the Universe), a manuscript purchased by Alexander Burnes in the bazaar at Bokhara. Jacob considered the work not worth printing, and his manuscript translation is now in the library of the Asiatic Society, London. On 18 June 1835 he married Emily, daughter of Colonel Utterton of Heath Lodge, Croydon, and soon afterwards sailed for India. His wife died at sea, and Jacob landed at Bombay in very broken health. He recovered under the care of a brother, William Jacob, then an officer in the Bombay artillery, and in 1836 was appointed second political assistant in Kattywar, where he was in political charge in 1839\endash 43. His ability in dealing with the disputed Limree succession was noticed by the government; the curious details are given in his book (Le Grand Jacob, Western India, pp. 22\endash 55). He was also thanked for his report on the Babriawar tribes (1843) and other reports on Kattywar. Early in 1845 he served as extra aide-de-camp to Major-general Delamotte during the disturbances in the South Mahratta country, and was wounded in the head and arm by a falling rock when in command of the storming party in the assault on the hill-fort of Munsuntosh. In April 1845 Jacob was appointed political agent in Sawunt Warree. The little state was bankrupt, with its gaols overflowing; but Jacob's judicious measures during a period of six years restored order, retrieved the finances, and reformed abuses. On 8 Jan. 1851 Jacob was made political agent in Cutch, and was sent into Sind as a special commissioner to inquire into the case of the unfortunate Mir Ali Morad, khan of Khypore, the papers relating to which were printed among 'Sessional Papers' of 1858 and the following years. He also sat on an inquiry into departmental abuses at Bombay. An account of his travels in Cutch appeared in the 'Proceedings' for 1862 of the Bombay Geographical Society, since merged in the Asiatic Society of Bombay. His health needing change, he obtained leave, and visited China, Java, Sarawak, and Australia, 'keeping his eyes and ears ever on the alert, always reading, writing, or inquiring\emdash mostly smoking\emdash winning men by his geniality and women by his courteous bearing' (Overland Mail, 6 May 1881). On his return he was shipwrecked on a coral reef in Torres Straits, and saved from cannibal natives by a Dutch vessel. He quitted Cutch for Bombay in December 1856, at first purposing to retire; but he served under Outram in the Persian expedition. In Persia he was in command of the native light battalion in the division under Henry Havelock, whom Jacob appears to have regarded as too much of a martinet. He returned with the expeditionary force to Bombay in May 1857.

Acting under the orders of Lord Elphinstone, the governor of Bombay, Jacob arrived at Kolapore on 14 Aug., a fortnight after the 27th Bombay native infantry had broken into mutiny there. Four days later he, with a mere handful of troops, quietly disarmed the regiment, and brought the ringleaders of the outbreak to justice (sc|Jacob,, Western India, pp. 144\endash 77). On 4 Dec. following, when the city closed its gates against Jacob's small force which was encamped in their lines outside, Jacob promptly blew open one of the gates, put the rebels to flight, tried by drumhead court-martial and executed on the spot thirty-six who were caught red-handed, and held the city until the mischief was past (ib. pp. 182\endash 208). His vigour, no doubt, prevented the wave of rebellion from sweeping over the whole southern Mahratta country and overflowing into the nizam's dominions (Holmes, Indian Mutiny, p. 455; Report on Administration of Public Affairs in Bombay, pp. 18\endash 19). Jacob was specially thanked in presidency general orders 8 Jan. 1858 for 'the promptitude and decision shown by you on the occasion of the recent insurrection at Kolapore,' and 'for the manner in which you upheld the honour of this army, proving to all around you what a British officer can effect by gallantry and prudence in the face of the greatest difficulties' (ib. p. 264). Jacob's powers, at first limited to Kolapore, Sawunt Warree, and Rutnagerry, were in May 1858 extended to the whole South Mahratta country, of which he was appointed special commissioner, the command of the troops with the rank of brigadier-general being subsequently added. After dealing successfully with various local outbreaks (ib. pp. 210\endash 32), Jacob was sent to Goa to confer with the Portuguese authorities respecting the Sawunt rebels on the frontier (ib. pp. 232\endash 6). This service successfully accomplished, he resigned his command. He remained nominally political agent in Cutch up to the date of his leaving India in 1859. James Outram appears to have desired that Jacob should succeed him as member of the council at Calcutta, but he retired with the rank of major-general from 31 Dec. 1861. He was made C.B. in 1859, and K.C.S.I. in 1869.

Jacob has been likened in character to his cousin, General John Jacob [q. v.] He had the same fearlessness, the same hatred of redtape and jobbery, and the same genius for understanding and conciliating Asiatics. His outspoken advocacy of native rights not unfrequently gave offence to the officials with whom he came in contact. Throughout his life he was a zealous student of the literature of India, and whenever opportunity offered did his best to promote research in the history and antiquities of the land. He was one of the earliest copiers of the Asoka inscriptions (250 B.C.) at Girnar, Kattywar; and in Cunningham's 'Corpus Inscriptionum,' Calcutta, 1877, are many inscriptions transcribed by him in Western India. A list of papers bearing on the history, archæology, topography, geology, and metallurgy of Western India, contributed by Jacob at different times to various publications, is given in the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society,' London, new ser. xiii. pp. vii. and viii. Some are included in the 'Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers;' but neither list appears complete. In his prime he was an ardent sportsman. Seven lions fell to his rifle in one day in Kattywar, and his prowess as a shikarry is perpetuated in native verse. The last twenty years of Jacob's life were spent at home under much suffering\emdash a constant struggle with asthma, bronchitis, and growing blindness. His mental vigour remained unimpaired. With the assistance of his niece and adopted daughter, Miss Gertrude Le Grand Jacob, he wrote his 'Western India before and during the Mutiny,' which was published in 1871, and was highly commended by the historian Kaye; and shortly before his death he paid 20l. for a translation from the Dutch of some papers of interest on the island of Bali (east of Java), subsequently printed in the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society,' London, viii. 115, ix. 59, x. 49. Jacob died in London on 27 Jan. 1881, and was buried in Brookwood cemetery, near Woking, Surrey.
[East India Registers and Army Lists; Kaye's Hist. Indian Mutiny, ed. Malleson, cabinet edition, vol. v. book xiii. chap. i. book xiv. chap. iv.; T. R. E. Holmes's Indian Mutiny, 3rd ed. pp. 446\endash 457; Report on Administration of Public Affairs in Bombay in 1857\endash 8; Goldsmid's James Outram, a biography, London, 1888, i. 341\endash 80; Overland Mail, 6 May 1881; Journal of the Asiatic Soc. London, May 1881, new ser. vol. xiii.; Jacob's Western India.]

George married Emily UTTERTON [120955] on 18 Jun 1835 in Heath Lodge Croydon Surrey England. Emily was born in Heath Lodge Croydon Surrey England, died about Oct 1835 at Sea, and was buried on 23 Nov 1835 in Cape Town Cape Colony.