Thomas Marchant

  General Notes:

In18th C Medics at SocGen a Thomas is shown as apprenticed to (Surgeon) William Crockford at Lewes in 1802 at 17. William Crockford was himself apprentiice to John Turner in 1784 (John was also WILLIAM MARCHANT's Master and was based in Lewes 1728 - 1798)
Royal College of Surgeons, Members 1803-47, Thomas MARCHANT, membership 19 April 1805 practising in Hurstpierpoint, 1805-40, Royal Navy Calslock (sic), Cornwall. He registered as a surgeon with the RCS on 19 April 1805 and gave his domicile as Hurstpierpoint. He was Assistant Surgeon on HMS Sybille from 7 Sep 1805 to 31 May 1808. He was promoted to Surgeon on the Sybille on 16 Apr 1808 and served until 6 June 1812. On 24 Sep 1812 he joined HMS Zenobia as surgeon and served till the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814. Whilst in the Navy he gave his address as Knackersknowle. He stayed on half pay in Knackersknowle untill 1837 when he moved to Calstock, Cornwall, where he ran a small practice.
In 1804 he inherited £100 under his grandmother's will (Elizabeth Marchant nee Morton)
HMS Sybille 44 Gun 5th Rate. No 80 Thomas MARCHANT, Assistant Surgeon, Deptford per Warrant, entry 6 September 1805 (ADM 36 16920/ADM 37/ 1440), appearance 7 September 1805. Discharged 31 May 1808, Superseded.
HMS Sybille 44 Gun 5th Rate. No 410 Entry/Appearance 18 June 1808, Orders of Vice Admiral Whitehead, 17 June 1808. Thomas MARCHANT, Acting Surgeon. Surgeon per Warrant, 25 June 1808 from Transport Board. Discharged 6 June 1812.
HMS Zenobia, Brig Sloop 18 Guns. No 229. Entry 24 September 1812. Appearance 27 September 1812. Whence SL372 per Admiralty Order 24 September 1812, Thomas MARCHANT, Surgeon. Discharged 30 November 1814, invalided Gibraltar, on half-pay.
Thomas MARCHANT's career in the Royal Navy was at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Sybille was "La Sybille", a French Frigate built in Toulon, France, and was captured by HMS Romney, 50 Guns in the bay off Mykonos on 17 June 1794. She was superior to the British Frigates of the day, and was a much sought after command in the Royal Navy. In 1807 the Sybille was part of the British Fleet which lay siege to Copenhagen. HMS Zenobia was a "Cruizer Class" brig sloop built in 1807. For most of Thomas's career on her, she was based off Portugal and in the Mediterranean. It would appear from the ship's musters that they left Plymouth in September 1812, and Thomas did not return home until he was invalided on 30 November 1814. His son had been born just a few months before he embarked on the Zenobia. He left the Sybille on the 6th June 1812 and his son was born on the 28th June 1812. He stayed home for 3 months before departing to sea for an absence of over 2 years.
Thomas mentioned as member of Royal College of Surgeons in 1825, 1833, 1835 and 1840 - domicile Hurstpierpoint.
ADM 104 13 folio 254: Address on half-pay: Knockers, Knowle, near Devonport, January 1826 - July 1837. Calstock, Cornwall, October 1837 -. Remarks, 31 July 1834. Unfit. Deafness prevents him from attending to the little village practice where he resides. In 1831 reported himself unfit - Deafness and Rheumatism. 17 July 1839. Reported himself unfit and transmitted certificate of his being almost completely deaf. 19 July 1839 - To be considered unfit.
In 1839 Thomas was said to be living at Gellings Park Calstock, Cornwall (AMS 698). Confirmed in C1841
1842. Thomas only changed his address when the College sent out forms in 1841.
Will dated 5.7.1837 republished 23.1.1838 proved at London 14.7.1845 (Prob 11/ 2021 / 583 - 268 Will PCC 1845/583: Thomas Marchant of Knackersknowle, Surgeon in the Parish of Eggbuckland, Devon (a village 2 miles north of Plymouth). Was this another of his properties?
Mary Dorcas Marchant wife as Executor
Made 5 July 1837. Witness Wm Chapman of Devenport, attorney. John Adams of Knackersknowle, tailor. John Nesworthy saddler of Knackersknowle.
Republished 23 Jan 1838. Witnesses Wm Chapman of Devonport, attorney. JM Bard Jr. his clerk. John T Niall of Stoke Gentleman.
Declaration by William Chapman 10 July 1845
Proved 14 July 1845 by Mary Dorcas Marchant
IR 26 1714 Estate Duty. Estate under £12,000. Total duty £7-3-5. Thomas Marchant son aged 33 years, annuities and bequests totalling £717-7-0
According to his will he was expecting to receive a share of late cousin Robert Parker's property. Though he died just after the final settlement in June 1845 he does not appear to have received anything (Death duties of R. Parker)

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Death, 6 Jul 1845.

• Baptism, 10 Aug 1785, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire England.

• connection. The connection between Jessica Woodhouse & myself is as follows:

Jessica Woodhouse . . .
Is linked in some way to . . .
Florian Woodhouse (1922)
His father was Charles Woodhouse (c1900) who married Florence Marchant (1900)
Her father was Charles Marchant (1862)
His father was Thomas Marchant (1812)
His father was Thomas Marchant (1785)
His father was William Marchant (1759)
His father was Thomas Marchant (1731)
His father was William Marchant (1701)
His father was Thomas Marchant (1676)
His father was William Marchant (1648)
His father was Thoms Marchant (1615)
His father was Richard Marchant (1584)
His father was Miles Marchant (1545) & he also had William Marchant (1592)
He had William Marchant (1633)
He had William Marchant (1668)
He had Elizabeth Marchant (1706) who married Robert Saxby (c1704)
They had Robert Saxby (1732)
He had Richard Saxby (1770)
He had Isabella Saxby (1795) who married George Wilson (c1802)
They had Sarah Wilson (c1825) who married Henry Bird
They had George Wilson Bird (1858) who married Monaro Garrett (1862)
Her father was Thomas Garrett (1830)
His father was John Garrett (1805) & he also had Eleanor Garrett (1836) who married John Stafford (1834)
His father was William Stafford (1811) who married Elizabeth Goodall (1814) & they also had William Stafford (1842)
He had Eva Stafford (1874) who married Arthur Clinton (1868)
They had James Clinton (1895) who married Martha Walker (1901)
Her father was Thomas Walker (1854)
His father was William Walker (1820) & he also had Martha Walker (1865) who married John Sutherland (1861)
His father was John Sutherland (1829) who married Margaret Elliot (1835)
They had Elizabeth Sutherland (1863) who married John Nicol (1844)
They had Margaret Nicol (1889) who married G. A. Davies (1994)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Thomas married Ann Dempster Kirk on 21 Jul 1810 in Stoke Damerel, Plymouth, Devon England. (Ann Dempster Kirk was born circa 1790.)

  Marriage Notes:

Year 1810, Page 296, No 1181, Thomas MARCHANT Esq., Surgeon of His Majestys Ship Sybille, Bachelor & Ann Dempster KIRK of this Parish, Spinster were Married in the Church by License this twenty first day of July in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and ten.
The Naval Chronicle of 1810 states: "Thomas MARCHANT married Anne, eldest daughter of the late William Mortimer Esq., of Carickfergus, Ireland"

Thomas next married Mary Dorcas Barrie on 25 Aug 1822 in Stoke Damerel, Plymouth, Devon England. (Mary Dorcas Barrie was born in 1791 and died on 29 Mar 1855 in St Stephens, Stoke Damerel, Devon England.)

  Marriage Notes:

C1841 HO /107 / 133 ~71 p 29 Gellings Park, Calstock, Cornwall
Thomas Marchant 55 Surgeon Not born in Cornwall
Mary Marchant 50 Born Cornwall
Louisa ?? 15 Not born in Cornwall