Fourth Generation  

11. Harriet STANGER [3834] (Rebecca YORKE¹⁰, George², George¹) was born in Fleet Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 17 Sep 1810 in Fleet Baptist Chapel Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire England, and died 4 Qtr 1899 in Nottinghamshire England at age 88.

Harriet married Thomas OVERBURY [3835] [MRIN: 2419], son of Unknown and Unknown, on 17 Oct 1838 in Fleet Baptist Chapel Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire England. Thomas was born about 1803 in Bristol Gloucestershire England and died 2 Qtr 1879 in Nottinghamshire England aged about 76.

General Notes: Thomas was an Accountant, who became Corporation and Borough Accountant of
Nottingham. When Thomas died, his House was occupied by Henry Yorke STANGER,
following Harriet moving elsewhere. H.U.SMITH, from a letter from "Betty"
SPENDER dated July 7, 1988. ...

Children from this marriage were:

   22 M    i. Thomas William OVERBURY [4361] was born 3 Qtr 1839 in London England and died 3 Qtr 1874 in Nottinghamshire England at age 35.

   23 F    ii. Mary Stanger OVERBURY [4362] was born 2 Qtr 1842 in London England and died 2 Qtr 1901 in Lancashire England at age 59.

   24 M    iii. Henry Leonard OVERBURY [4363] was born 2 Qtr 1844 in London England and died 2 Qtr 1911 in Lancashire England at age 67.

Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: a Baptist Minister and Insurance Agent.

Henry married Jane Geary SIMMONS [92095] [MRIN: 30697], daughter of William R SIMMONS [92115] and Jane [92116], 4 Qtr 1876 in Cheshire England. Jane was born 2 Qtr 1854 in Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire England and died on 14 Aug 1912 in Manchester Lancashire England at age 58.

Noted events in her life were:

• Residence at Death: Nelson Street, 14 Aug 1912, Manchester Lancashire England.

   25 M    iv. John Foster OVERBURY [4364] was born 2 Qtr 1845 in London England and died on 26 Dec 1930 in Brailsford Derbyshire England at age 85.

Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: a Journalist.

John married Annie MILNER [92096] [MRIN: 30698] 2 Qtr 1870 in Nottinghamshire England. Annie was born about 1842 in Nottinghamshire England and died 2 Qtr 1902 in Yorkshire England aged about 60.

John next married Marian HANCOCK [92097] [MRIN: 30699] 3 Qtr 1804. Marian was born in 1861 and died in 1945 at age 84.

   26 M    v. Robert O. OVERBURY [4365] was born 4 Qtr 1850 in London England and died on 14 Sep 1937 in Kingston-upon-Thames Hospital Surrey England at age 87.

Robert married Emma BRADSHAW [92098] [MRIN: 30700] 4 Qtr 1885 in Nottinghamshire England. Emma was born about 1857 in Nottingham Nottinghamshire England.

   27 M    vi. Frank O. OVERBURY [4366] was born 4 Qtr 1850 in London England.

Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: 1880, New York New York USA.

   28 M    vii. Alfred Hawkins OVERBURY [4367] was born 3 Qtr 1852 in Chipping Norton Oxfordshire England and died in 1922 in Cheshire England at age 70.

Alfred married Margaret SLEIGHTHOLM [92099] [MRIN: 30701], daughter of William SLEIGHTHOLM [92117] and Margaret [92118], 3 Qtr 1876 in Yorkshire England. Margaret was born about 1847 in Belfast Co. Antrim Northern Ireland and died 2 Qtr 1884 in Yorkshire England aged about 37.

14. Dr. George Eaton STANGER MRCSE LSA [3832] (Rebecca YORKE¹⁰, George², George¹) was born in 1816 in Fleet Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 15 Apr 1816 in Fleet Baptist Chapel Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire England, and died on 6 May 1892 in Wakefield Yorkshire England at age 76.

General Notes: George was, for many years, Head Surgeon at the Nottingham Dispensary. He apparently had a fine House with three Servants.
H.U.SMITH, from "Betty" SPENDER's letter of July 7, 1988. ...
When he died, George lived at 82 Brooke Green Hammersmith; and left 4853 pounds, 6 shillings & 8 pence in his will.

George Eaton Stanger was born in Fleet Lincolnshire and baptised at the Fleet Baptist Chapel NC on the 15th of April 1916. He had five sisters and four brothers His parents were William and Rebecca Stanger.
He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and became a "Member of the Royal College of Surgeons" and held the "Licence of the Society of Apothecaries" in 1840 and by 1844 he is living in Carlton Street Nottingham and he was mentioned in the Nottingham Date book Aug.8th 1844 and is on the list of members of the Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1846
It was probably around 1844 that he married Mary Hurst the eldest daughter of Nathan and Sarah Hurst a very prominent family in Nottingham. His Father-in Law was a Hosier and Baptist preacher. Her brothers Nathan and John were also hosiers and Aldermen, John was on the Board of Guardians and on the Racecourse Committee. In 1845/6 Nathan was one of the Sheriffs of Nottingham. Mary was one of nine children who nearly all married influential people in public life.
In the 1851 census the Stanger family was living in St. James Street or Place there were three sons, William aged 5, George Hurst aged 3, Henry York aged 1. There was also a dispenser and three female servants.
By 1861 they were living in North Circus Street and there were six children, only William was still at home, the other five children were Margaret Ann aged 9, Mary Elizabeth aged 8, Charles Edward aged 5, Walter aged 4 and Harriet aged 2.
North Circus Street was still the family home in 1871,however on census night Mary was away and the only children there were Harriet who was now 12 years old and Henry Yorke who was 21 and an undergraduate of Oxford University. He must have been home on holiday. There was also a nephew living with them, John Heard Manlove the son of Mary's sister Elizabeth who was married to the lace manufacturer Thomas Manlove.

George Eaton was elected president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society twice. 1870-1 and 1876-8 and in 1881 he was vice president and treasurer. He had been treasurer before 1880 and continued until January 25th 1888 when he resigned on his retirement. He had been Consulting Surgeon to the Nottingham Dispensary and formerly Surgeon to the Nottingham Union Hospital.
At this time the surgery of Stanger and Son was 67 Gregory Boulevard. The son was Charles Edward living at 139 Willoughby St. New Lenton.
George and Mary then seem to have moved to London as the address in George's will was 82 Brook Green Hammersmith London on the 7th November 1889.One of the witnesses was Hannah Simons another of Mary's sisters..
He died in 1892 in Wakefield in Yorkshire. He had possibly been visiting his son William, who was a MRCS, FRCS, and LSA. He had studied at Guys Hospital and then after being House Surgeon at the Nottingham Dispensary he moved on to become Surgeon to the Hospital and Dispensary at Clayton Yorkshire. So two of George Eaton's sons followed in his footsteps. He wasn't to know that one of his Grandsons, Harry, would also follow in his footsteps.
All his estate was left to his wife Mary for her lifetime and after her death the income from trust funds to Margaret Ann and Harriett as long as they were not married.

From the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society 150th Anniversary Year Book.

Page 16 On list of members of the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society 1846
Page 24 An account of an attendance at a "truly horrible obstetric emergency" in 1854
Page 25 Mentioned last recorded attendance as Treasurer to the society on 3rd Feb.1888
Page 30 Reference to speech made in 1886 on the use of Antiseptics in operations.
Page 75 President of the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society 1870-1 and 1876-8.

In March, 2011, Ken Stanger [no relation], provided the following Information:
Dr George Eaton Stanger (1816-1892). "surgeon" (ship's doctor)
Dr George Stanger kept a journal during his time at sea on an Australian whaler. He arrived in Australia on the ss. Sarah and Elizabeth .
The Sarah and Elizabeth was one of five large vessels purchased by the South Australian Company in 1836 and 1837 to engage in whaling from their base at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island. (Kostoglou & McCarthy, Whaling and Sealing Sites in South Australia (1991) p. 65). The vessel had previously been a whaler in the South Seas and also in the northern or Arctic whale fishery and was purchased at a northern port in Britain by an agent for the South Australian Company in August 1836. She was an old vessel, having been built in the American state of Maryland in 1775. The recent failure of the northern fishery may have meant there were a number of whalers like her on the market.
She departed Hull in October 1836 under the command of Captain James Wakeling. Captain Wakeling was an experienced mariner who had previously commanded the British whalers Prudent and the Pandora (1831-1835). She seems to have been fully equipped and manned for whaling from the start. Among her crew was the "surgeon" (ship's doctor) Dr George Eaton Stanger (1816-1892). The vessel took fourteen tons of sperm whale oil on the way to South Australia where she arrived 23 April 1837. The sixty-two year old vessel arrived in poor condition and there were instances of desertion and drunkenness among the crew that caused problems for the company. (AGE Jones, Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade, 1775-1861, (1986) Index p.101; Keith Travers Borrow, Whaling at Encounter Bay (1947) pp.3-5)
She departed Nepean Bay 8 May 1837, apparently on a bay whaling cruise, and returned 4 September and underwent repairs (R.T Sexton, Shipping Arrivals and Departures in South Australia, 1627-1850, (1990) p.34).
She next left Nepean Bay on January 10 January 1838 for Encounter Bay to take aboard the oil and "bone" (baleen) and provisions from the Solway that had been wrecked there in December 1837. (Sexton, p.42). She returned to Kingscote 3 February 1838 but ran aground at low water. She was refloated and departed for Hobart on 16 February where she arrived 5 March. (Ian Nicholson, Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania, 1834-1842, (1985) p.106).
The vessel remained in Hobart for some months repairing and fitting out for a pelagic or deep-sea whaling voyage. She seems to have departed Hobart for the South Seas around July 1839. The cruise lasted for twelve-months and ended on 3 July 1840 in Sydney where she arrived with just thirty tons of sperm whale oil aboard. (Ian Nicholson, Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 1826-1840, (1981) p.244)
She departed Sydney for the whaling grounds on 29 September 1840. This voyage ended when she returned to South Australia on 1 February 1842 again with only 30 tons of oil aboard (Sexton, p.86). Dr Stanger seems to have left the ship at around this time as Sarah and Elizabeth had a different surgeon on board when she sailed from South Australia for London on 19 January 1843.
Another crewman who left the vessel around this time was seaman E. Binyon who wrote home to his father in England, "The Sarah and Elizabeth is now fitting out for home and I should have gone in her if I had been treated as I ought to have been. I have had no encouragement from the company at all. I arrived here about ten months ago after a cruise of sixteen months. We made as usual, a very bad voyage …" (Borrow, p.14)
The above is a bare outline of the movements of the vessel on which Dr Stanger served. A more detailed description is available in a journal he kept while on board. It is now in the keeping of the Gloucestershire Archives in the UK where it is listed as "Surgeons log book 1836-41" in record series D543. The journal seems to have been microfilmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) back in the 1980s and it may be possible to obtain a copy from the National Library in Canberra or from the State Library of South Australia. Whaling surgeons had a lot of time on their hands at sea and sometimes their journals contain very detailed accounts of events aboard in their hazardous trade.
Sarah and Elizabeth may have resumed her whaling career from Britain. An English whaler of that name was on the north coast of Timor late in 1843 with most of her crew ashore wooding and watering when the ship was attacked and seized by Malay pirates and burnt. Most of the crew escaped in her boats to other vessels whaling in the area. (The Despatch (A Sydney newspaper) 4 November 1843, p.3).

George married Mary HURST [3836] [MRIN: 2417], daughter of Nathan HURST [4309] and Sarah BEECROFT [16608], 2 Qtr 1844 in Nottingham Nottinghamshire England. Mary was born on 9 Dec 1819 in St Mary Nottingham Nottinghamshire England and died on 10 Jul 1894 in Thornton Heath Surrey England at age 74.

General Notes: In an eMail, dated September 17, 2006, Maureen Hurst sent the following:

The following was in The Times newspaper of Friday July 13th 1894 page 1 column A.

STANGER- on the 10th inst. at Thornton-Heath Mary widow of G E Stanger Surgeon late of Nottingham age 74 years. Australian papers please copy.

I wonder which members of the family were in Oz in 1894 ? of course it may have been friends.

Noted events in her life were:

• Residence at Death: Woodville Road, 10 Jul 1894, Thornton Heath Surrey England.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 29 M    i. William STANGER [4310] was born 2 Qtr 1845 in Nottinghamshire England and died on 17 Apr 1928 in Ruardean Gloucestershire England at age 83.

+ 30 M    ii. George Hurst STANGER [16601] was born 3 Qtr 1847 in Nottinghamshire England and died on 15 Jan 1905 in Wolverhampton Staffordshire England at age 57.

+ 31 M    iii. Henry Yorke STANGER [4316] was born 4 Qtr 1849 in Nottingham Nottinghamshire England, died on 19 Apr 1929 in Chelmsford Essex England at age 80, and was buried on 24 Apr 1929 in Boreham Essex England.

   32 F    iv. Margaret Anne STANGER [4317] was born 3 Qtr 1851 in Nottinghamshire England.

+ 33 F    v. Mary Elizabeth STANGER [4318] was born in Jun 1853 in Nottingham Nottinghamshire England and died on 17 Nov 1922 in Royston Hertfordshire England at age 69.

+ 34 M    vi. Charles Edward STANGER [4319] was born 3 Qtr 1855 in Nottinghamshire England and died on 6 Mar 1917 in Tottenham Middlesex England at age 62.

   35 M    vii. Walter STANGER [4320] was born 1 Qtr 1857 in Nottinghamshire England.

General Notes: Walter was shown in the 1881 Census as a Tea Traveller

   36 F    viii. Harriette STANGER [4321] was born 3 Qtr 1858 in Nottinghamshire England.

16. William STANGER [3833] (Rebecca YORKE¹⁰, George², George¹) was born in Fleet Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 1 Oct 1818 in Fleet Baptist Chapel Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire England, and died in Fleet Lincolnshire England.

William married Francis Boulding METHERINGHAM [3837] [MRIN: 2418], daughter of John Isaac METHERINGHAM [92101] and Frances Reckerby BOULDING [92102]. Francis was born on 13 Jul 1828 in Holbeach Lincolnshire England and died on 25 Aug 1891 in Nottingham Nottinghamshire England at age 63.

Children from this marriage were:

   37 F    i. Elizabeth Annie STANGER [92103] was born in 1861 in an "Australan" Colony.

   38 M    ii. George Frederick STANGER [92104] was born in 1863 in an "Australan" Colony.

   39 F    iii. Frances Boulding STANGER [92105] was born in 1866 in an "Australan" Colony.

   40 M    iv. John Harris Boulding STANGER [92106] was born about 1872 in Nottinghamshire England.

17. Frederick STANGER [16720] (Rebecca YORKE¹⁰, George², George¹) was baptised on 25 Dec 1819 in Fleet Baptist Chapel Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire England and died on 4 Feb 1862 in Nottingham Nottinghamshire England at age 42.

Noted events in his life were:

• Residence at Death: Bilbie Street, 4 Feb 1862, Nottingham Nottinghamshire England.

Frederick married Mary Ann KIRK [92092] [MRIN: 30694] 1 Qtr 1854 in Nottingham Nottinghamshire England. Mary was born about 1831 in Arnold Lincolnshire England and died on 27 Feb 1878 in Buxton Derbyshire England aged about 47.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 41 F    i. Sarah Ellen STANGER [92107] was born 2 Qtr 1857 in Arnold Lincolnshire England and died 2 Qtr 1899 in Lancashire England at age 42.

   42 F    ii. Annie Isabella STANGER [92108] was born 3 Qtr 1858 in Arnold Lincolnshire England and died 3 Qtr 1878 in Derbyshire England at age 20.

   43 M    iii. William Henry STANGER [92109] was born 4 Qtr 1859 in Arnold Lincolnshire England.

   44 F    iv. Mary Anne STANGER [92110] was born 3 Qtr 1861 in Arnold Lincolnshire England.

Mary married William Edmund JAMES [92112] [MRIN: 30704] 1 Qtr 1885 in Derby Derbyshire England.