SEVENTH GENERATION

88. John OXENHAM ⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁷⁶⁾ was born about 1787 in Oakford.⁽²⁷⁷⁾ He died in 1859 in Taunton, Somerset, England.⁽²⁷⁸⁾ He was a Solicitor.⁽²⁷⁹⁾ John never seems to have made enough money to keep the family in any great style. In 1841, the 18 year old Emma Jane was keeping house for her father and five brothers with the help of only a 15 year old servant girl. Ten years later things were a little better: only one brother was at home and again they had one servant, an older woman. He was married to Jane GARLAND about 1819.⁽²⁸⁰⁾

89. Jane GARLAND⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁸¹⁾ died about 1835.⁽²⁸²⁾ Jane may have been John's first cousin, if she was the daughter of Richard Garland, a brushmaker in Taunton, who was married to John’s mother’s sister, Sarah Leworthy. Jane had wealthy connections. Her aunt, another Jane Garland, began life as one of nine children of an agricultural labourer from Tiverton, and became Mrs Moore, the wife of a common soldier serving in India, but she left her husband for Dr Thomas Philipps, who became Surgeon General of the East India Company and amassed a fortune.

On returning to England from India, Dr Philipps bought a fine old house and estate called Aberglasney near Llandilo in Carmarthenshire (during the 1990’s the gardens and the frontage of the house have been restored with lottery money). In 1813 Dr Philipps was a Sheriff of Carmarthen. He finally married Mrs Moore in 1823, just months before he died in 1824. Aberglasney then passed to his nephew, so Mrs Philipps moved to a smaller house called Pentre Parr, and John’s eldest daughter, Ann, worked for her there. When Mrs Philipps died in 1845 she left the bulk of her estate to John and Jane’s children, especially to the daughters. Children were:

i. Eliza OXENHAM⁽²⁸³⁾ was born about 1820.⁽²⁸⁴⁾ She died abt 1820 (3 months).⁽²⁸⁵⁾
44 ii. John OXENHAM.
iii. Emma OXENHAM⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁸⁶⁾ was born about 1822.⁽²⁸⁷⁾ She died in 1883 in Stepney, London.⁽²⁸⁸⁾ Emma Jane never married and was still at home with her father at the age of 28. She may have kept house for him into his old age. She had of course done very nicely out of great-aunt Jane’s will at the age of 23. She died aged 61 in Stepney, London, in 1883.
iv. William OXENHAM⁽²⁸⁹⁾. Marie Antoinette said that one of her husband’s brothers took up land on the west coast of New Zealand and this may have been William.
v. Thomas OXENHAM⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁹⁰⁾ was born about 1825.⁽²⁹¹⁾ He was a Grocer in 1848 in Taunton, Somerset, England.⁽²⁹²⁾ He was a Railway Clerk in 1856 in Tonbridge, England.⁽²⁹³⁾ He was a Stationmaster in 1859 in Llandebie, Llandilo Fawr.⁽²⁹⁴⁾ He died in 1888 in Llandebie, Llandilo Fawr.⁽²⁹⁵⁾
vi. Henry OXENHAM⁽²⁹⁶⁾ died age 15.⁽²⁹⁷⁾ Died of consumption.
vii. Richard Garland OXENHAM⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁹⁸⁾ was born about 1829.⁽²⁹⁹⁾ He was a Farmer in 1855 in Monkton, England.⁽³⁰⁰⁾ He was a Law clerk for his father in 1857 in Taunton, Somerset, England.⁽³⁰¹⁾ He was living in 1861 in Newington, London.⁽³⁰²⁾ He was a Farming the Luttrel farm in 1871 in Bampton Parish.⁽³⁰³⁾ Richard mentioned an interest in this farm in his will. He was a Bailiff in 1883 in Kentish Town, London.⁽³⁰⁴⁾ He died in 1883 in Kentish Town, London.⁽³⁰⁵⁾
viii. Edward OXENHAM⁽³⁰⁶⁾ died age 15.⁽³⁰⁷⁾ Died of dropsy.
ix. Arthur OXENHAM⁽⁴⁾⁽³⁰⁸⁾ was born about 1831.⁽³⁰⁹⁾ He was a Law clerk for his father in 1851.⁽³¹⁰⁾ He was a Clerk in the Royal Anglesey Militia in 1857 in Liverpool.⁽³¹¹⁾ He died in 1875 in Limehouse, London.⁽³¹²⁾ Arthur left an interest in Luttrel farm in Bampton.
x. Herbert OXENHAM⁽⁴⁾⁽³¹³⁾. Herbert is described as a gentleman. He is another possible candidate for the brother who emigrated to New Zealand.
xi. Mary Catherine (Kate) OXENHAM⁽⁴⁾⁽³¹⁴⁾ was born about 1835.⁽³¹⁵⁾ Mary Catherine was not living at home in the 1841 census, when she was six, nor in the 1851 census, when she was 16. It is possible that she was brought up by relatives elsewhere. Her mother had died when she was young and the house was full of young boys.

Possibly she was brought up in Tunbridge Wells because she married from an address there in 1856. Thomas and Emma were living in nearby Tonbridge at the time, but she was not living with them.

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