Children of Thomas Mudge and Abigail Hopkins
3. Thomas Mudge
1. Sara 1757 m Peter Willmot
2. Charlotte 1759 - 1764
3. Thomas 1760 - 1843 m Elizabeth Kingdom
4. Rev. John Mudge 1763 - 1847 m Agnes Rosdew
3.3 THOMAS MUDGE, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Mudge, whose life we have just recorded, was born Bee. 6th, 1760.
He practised as a Barrister in London for some years.
As the advocate of his father s cause, with regard to the excellence of the Chronometers sent by the elder Mr. Mudge to the Observatory at Greenwich, he was engaged in a controversy, with Br. Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, and published two books on the subject, entitled "A narrative of facts, relative to the time-keepers constructed by Mr Thomas Mudge," and, "A reply to the answer of Dr. Maskelyne."
His advocacy, as we have seen, was successful in procuring for his father some public recognition of his labours, in the vote of the House of Commons.
As soon as the reward was voted, Mr. T. Mudge, junr. started a manufactory of the time-keepers on Mr. Mudge's plan. He accordingly employed two workmen, and was able to complete one instrument under the advice of his father, who lived just long enough to see it finished, ten months after the manufactory was opened. He applied to the Admiralty for a contract, and eventually supplied six
time-keepers for the use of the Navy. He sold also some chronometers to the Spanish and Danish Governments.
The cost however of the time-keepers was greater than he expected, as they took a longer time to construct than was anticipated; the consequence was, that Mr. T. Mudge in a few years determined lo abandon the scheme. He gives an account of this in a book he published in 1799. ''A description with plates of the time-keepers invented by the late Mr. Thomas Mudge, to which is prefixed a narrative
by Thomas Mudge, his son, of measures taken to give effect to the invention, since the Reward bestowed upon it by the House of Commons." To this is added Mr. Mudge's Tract, and a series of letters addressed to Count Bruhl between 1773 and 1787. After this Mr. Mudge seems to have gone
to Jersey, where he resided for many years. He returned to England in 1830, and resided at Chelcompton, near Bath, where he died Nov. 10th, 1843.
He married Elizabeth Kingdon, by whom he had several children.
There are two or three letters of Thomas Mudge extant, written from Battersea and addressed to James
Northcote, R. A. In one dated Dec. 17, 18 13, after alluding to the proposed sale of the portraits of John (Master) Mudge, and Tom Mudge, he concludes, " As you wished to have my lines written on the High Rocks, Tunbridge Wells, I send them to you.
"The works of man their feeble powers display,
Which mark their weakness and their quick decay ;
But this great work of Nature proudly shows
The Power supreme, whence all its greatness flows
Whose High Behest creation's wonders framed,
And thus in mighty deeds His Name proclaimed.
" For your amusement I add my Epigram on Brunei's Block Invention.
"A symbol oft a Block is made
To show an empty brainless head :
But here a block, with little pains
Displays a head that's full of brains."
In a letter dated Sep. 28, 1815, in which he regrets Northcote's inability to paint a portrait of his son, he adds some further verses. I send you at the foot of my letter, my lines on the death of poor Hodge, and as I last night made use of the blank part of your note, to scribble off a few more lines, that I mean to give my godmother on the 5th of next month, on her attaining her 84th birthday."
" On the death of Major Hodge of the 7th Hussars, one of the Waterloo Heroes.
In Natures bloom, in Natures pride
The Hero fought, the Hero 'died
Devoted to his Country's cause,
A grateful nation sighs applause,
While every friend, with tearful eyes
Droops o'er the mournful sacrifice."
" Lines on the birthday of Mrs. Spriggs, on attaining the age of 84.
" The Sands of life thus roll away,
And bring again that Natal day
On which we meet to celebrate
The entrance on this mortal state,
Of one, whose virtues all benign.
With bright unvarying lustre shine.
And give a fortaste here below,
Of joys which angels only know."
He married Elizabeth Kingdon and their children are:
1. Elizabeth Mudge 1787 - 1788
2. Sarah Mudge 1788 - 1859 m William Marchant
3. Thomas Mudge 1789 - 1839 m Anna Robson
4. Eliza Mudge 1791 - 1862
5. Robert Mudge 1792 - 1871 m Catherine Jell
6. Ann Mudge 1793 - 1812
7. William Mudge 1795 - 1795
8. William Mudge 1797 - 1797
9. Mary Sophia Mudge 1798 - 1798
10. Zachariah Mudge 1798 - 1832 m Sarah Rider
11. John Mudge 1801 - 1872
3.3.2 SARAH, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Mudge, b. 1788; d. 1859; married William Marchant, residing near Chippenham.
1. Emily Marchant 1823 - 1888
2. Robert Mudge Marchant
3.3.2.2 Robert Mudge Marchant 1820 - 1902 was a civil engineer who worked around the world. Worked with his cousin Isambard Kingdom Brunel on Mickleton Tunnell ended in a riot after which he was declared bankrupt. He later worked in Rio de Janeiro on changes to the rail near the Citadel.
3.3.3 THOMAS, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mudge, b. 1789 ; d. 1839. In the Navy Office, m. Anna Robson, d. 1857;
3.3.5. ROBERT, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mudge, b. September 14th, 1792; d. 1871 at Dover. Captain R.N. m. 1824 Catherine Husband Jell, daughter of Richard Jell, Esq., of Dover; b. 1788; d. 1872. Lieutenant of Deal Castle under Lord Maryborough
1. Elizabeth Mudge b. April 6th, 1825 ; d. February 14th, 1861.
2. Robert Elias Mudge b. September :22nd, 1826; d. October 26th, 1876.
3. Christian John Mudge b. May 5th, 1828; d. April, 1829.
4. William Henry Mudge b. May 17th, 1829; d. July 7th, 1856.
5. Maria Mudge b. April 15th, 1830.
He entered the Navy July 1806, as midshipman, on board the Phoenix, Captain Zachary Mudge, in which frigate (with the exception of 5 months, from October, 1808- to March, 1809, passed on board the Naiad), he served on the Channel and Cork Stations until May, 1812.
He then sailed in the Bucephalus for the East Indies, where he was, until the summer of 1814, employed in the Illustriousy Theban, and Procris,
After having served at Sheerness in the Namur and Queen Charlotte, he took up a Commission bearing the date February 21st, 1820. His appointments afterwards were to the Office of Agent of Transports Afloat, and to the continuous Command of the Beaver, Ariel, and Onyx steam packets on the Dover Station, where he remained until his death in 1871 .
3.3.5.1. ELIZABETH, daughter of Robert and Catherine H. Mudge, b. April 6th, 1825; d. February 14th, 1861 m. 1847, Rev. Peter Harnett Jennings, youngest son of Geo. Jennings Esq., of The Shubbery, Dover, b. October 1st, 1816.
1. Harnett Ellison Jennings b. 1848.
2. Katherine Bessie Jennings b. 1849,
3. Ellen Dumergue Jennings b. 1850.
4. Charles Pollexfen Jennings b. 1852; d. 1873
5. Ada Jennings b. 1854; d. 1879.
6. William Henry Mudge Jennings b. 1856; d. 1881.
7. Courtenay Balderston Jennings b. 1860.
4. JOHN, son of Thomas and Abigail Mudge, b. Jany. 1763 ; d. May 3rd, 1847. Vicar of Brampford Speke, and Rector of Lustleigh in the County of Devon, for 56 years, m. Agnes Rosdew (sister of Richard and William Rosdew, who both married daughters of Dr. John Mudge), b. 1766 ; d. 1844. He was a distributor of stamps.
1. Charlotte Mudge b. 1790; d. 1836.
2. John Mudge b. 1792; d. 1872.
3. Richard Rosdew Mudge b. 1794.
4. Maria Janetta Mudge b. 1801.
4.1 CHARLOTTE, daughter of John and Agnes Mudge, b. 1790; d. 1836; m. William Butterfield Colton ; b. 1787; d. 1868. William was the son of Rev William Colton and brother of Sarah Jessica Colton who married John Mudge son of Rev John Mudge, brother of Charlotte. William Butterfield Colton was a wine and spirit broker
1. William Butterfield Colton b. 1815 ; d. 1819.
2. Agnes Charlotte Colton b. 1816.
3. Anna Caroline Colton b. 1817; d. 1840.
4. John Casper Colton b. 1819 ; d. 1874.
5. William Coupland Colton b. 1820.
6. Jessie Eleanor Colton b. 1821.
7. Richard Rosdew Colton b. 1823 ; d. 1869.
8. Mary Jane Colton b. 1825; d. 1861.
9. Edward Butterfield Colton b. 1827.
10. Thomas Mudge Colton b. 1829; d. 1867.
11. Emily Colton b. 1832; d. 1832.
4.1.2 AGNES CHARLOTTE, dau. of Charlotte and William B. Colton, b. 1816; m. J. G. Howard, d. 1865. ; m. Eddowes J.Wilson, d. 1864.
4.1.3 JOHN CASPER, son of Charlotte and William Colton, b. 1819; d. 1874; m. Mary Ingham.
1. Edward Gardner Colton b. 1856.
2. William Butterfield Colton b. 1859.
3. Charles Herbert Colton b. 1862.
4. Edith Mary Colton b. 1864; d. 1866.
5. Henrietta Louise Colton b. 1870.
4.1.5 WILLIAM COUPLAND, son of Charlotte and William B. Colton, b. 1820; m. Louise Santierson.
1. Charlotte Coupland b. 1852 m J.McHardy
2. Fanny Louise Coupland b. 1853.
4.1.7 RICHARD ROSDEW, son of Charlotte and William B. Colton, b. 1823; d. 1869; m. Sarah Hodgson. 12 children, 7 dead.
4.1.8 MARY JANE, daughter of Charlotte and William B. Colton, b. 1825; d. 1861; m. Peter Conrad Petrie. d 1834 Capt of the Baque Camilla
1. Charlotte Anne Mary Petrie b. 1851; d. 1869
2. Jessie Maria Butterfield Petrie b. 1858.
3. Christian Agnes Petrie b. 1860; d. 1861.
4.1.10 THOMAS MUDGE, son of Charlotte and William B. Colton, b. 1829; d. 1867; m. Anne Hughes.
1. William Mudge b. 1855.
2. Charlotte Mudge b. 1857; d. 1874.
3. Eleanor Mudge b. 1862.
4.2. JOHN, son of John and Agnes Mudge, b. 1792; d. 1872; married ist, Sarah Jessie Henrietta Colton b. 1796; d. 1818. m. 2nd, Julia Vallance b. 1831, (widow of Thomas Little, Capt. Hussars, whose grandmother Mrs. Holberton, was a sister of Richard Rosdew). Retired Clerk of Chequer HM Ordinance Civil Service He married Sarah Colton in Nova Scotia in 1816, they had their son, and then she died.
4.2.1 John William Mudge 1817
Married 2nd, Jane Elizabeth Noyce b. 1804.
1. Frederick Spicer Mudge b. 1827; d. 1857.
2. Richard Rosdew Mudge b. 1828 ; d. 1870.
3. Henry Colton Mudge b. 1829; d. 1873.
4. Jessie Mudge b. 1831. d 1906
5. Charles Mudge b. 1833 ; d. 1858.
6. Ellen Mudge b. 1835. d 1906
7. Charlotte Mudge b. 1837.
4.2.1 Dr JOHN WILLIAM, son of John and Sarah Jessie Henrietta Mudge, b. 1817; m. ist, Emma Christian Daniell (widow of E. C. Johnstone, Esq.), b. 1826 ; d. 1858. Married and died Bombay Blandford Dorset Esq a Maj Gen in HM Army the executors personal estate 759p 13s 9d. Worked in South Maratha County 1844 - 1845Burma 1852 - 1854 Surgeon Major
Occupation - Dept Inspector General of Hospitals (India)
1. Jessie Frances b. 1856.
2. Alice Mary Emma*b. 1857. born India
4.2.1.2 RICHARD ROSDEW, son of John and Jane Elizabeth Mudge, b. 1828; d. 1870; m. Ellen Eldridge.
Rosie b. 1862.
4.2.1.3 HENRY COLTON, son of John and Jane Elizabeth Mudge, b. 1829 ; d. 1873 ; m. Frances Anne Denison. Captain in Royal Marines
4.2.1.4 JESSIE, dau. of John and Jane Elizabeth Mudge, b. 1831; m. James Pearson, b. 1820.
4.2.1.6 ELLEN, dau. of John and Jane Elizabeth Mudge, b. 1835 ; m. Charles Denison, d. 1874.
Jessie Mary Denison b. 1871.
4.4. MARIA JANETTA, dau of John and Agnes Mudge, b. 1801; m. Sir John Mouatt, Bart., R.N.
4.4 Maria Janetta Mudge m Lieut John Alexander Mouat RN
MOUAT. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 20; h-p., 23.)
JOHN ALEXANDER MOUAT, born about 1793, is son of Commander Alexander Mouat, R.N., who was a Midshipman with Capt. Cook during his voyages, and died from fever while in command of the RATTLESNAKE sloop, in the West Indies, in 1793; and grandson of Capt. Patrick Mouat, R.N., who commanded the TAMER on a voyage of discovery with Admiral Byron. One of his uncles died in the ASSISTANCE while in command of the North American station; and two others were killed in action in the LONDON, off St. Domingo.
This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the ZEBRA bomb, Capt. Wm. Standway Parkinson, with whom he continued to serve, as Midshipman, in the MERLIN, WASP, and FAVORITE sloops, on the Home and West India stations, until 1808 – assisting, when in the FAVORITE at the capture of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Ste. Croix. He then returned home in the THAIS 20, Capt. Wm. Ferris; and in Dec. 1808 after having served for seven months in the ISIS 50, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Vice-Admiral John Holloway, he joined the AFRICAINE 38, Capt. Rich. Raggett, under whom we find him employed in escorting Lord Hill’s brigade from Cork to Lisbon, the Duke of Orleans from Portsmouth to Malta, Mr. Jackson, the British Ambassador, to the United States, and the Hon. Mr. Erskine thence to England.
With the exception of an interval passed in the summer of 1810 on board the SALVADOR DEL MUNDO, flag-ship at Plymouth of Admiral Young, he continued under Capt. Raggett in the AFRICAINE and DEFIANCE 74, latterly in the North Sea, until Jan. 1813. He was then sent out to India on promotion in the DAEDALUS 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell; and on that frigate being wrecked off Ceylon in the following July, he was received on board the MINDEN 74, of which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant 23 Sept. in the same year.
In the early part of 1814 he successively removed, in the latter capacity, to the HECATE and SPHYNX sloops, Capts. John Hill and Hon. Arthur Turnour. He was confirmed to the SPHYNX 11 Feb. 1815, and, being paid off in the ensuing Dec, was afterwards appointed – in Nov. 1818, to the NEWCASTLE 60, bearing the flag of the late Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys at Halifax, whence he returned in 1821 – 6 Nov. 1828, as First-Lieutenant (a rank he had held the last 12 months on board the NEWCASTLE), to the CHALLENGER 28, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, under whom, after taking possession of the colony at Swan River, he proceeded to the East Indies, whence his health obliged him to invalid in Oct. 1829 – and, 7 Oct. 1833, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained until superseded, at his own request, in the autumn of 1838. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, in 1828, Maria Janetta, daughter of the Rev. John Mudge, Vicar of Brampfordspeke, and Rector of Lustleigh, co. Devon.
His father was Alexander Mouat RN, who was a member of the crew of Captain Cook's voyage on the Discovery. He attempted to desert on Raiatea in 1777.
Mouat and Thomas Shaw attempted to desert on Raiatea on 23 November 1777 by taking a canoe and paddling north to Taha'a. Cook gave chase but the absconders had moved on via Bora Bora to Tupai where locals caught them and returned them to the ship. William Bayly wrote:
...put them both in irons both legs where they are to remain during our stay among the islands...Mouat is to do duty before the mast during the remainder of the [voyage].
His Majesty's sloop Rattlesnake, capt Alexander Mouat, has taken and carried into St. Kitt's La Jenny from Pont a Petrie, Guadaloupe, to Bayonne, laden with sugar, coffee, cotton and elephant's teeth, valued at fifteen thousand pounds. La Jenny is a letter of marque, of ten guns, and had captured a Spanish ship on the 28th August and had her ransom on board for twenty thousand pieces of eight. The Rattlesnake, in lat. 19 north, long 63.23 west, fell in with the Venus, an american ship; and was going in chase of twenty ships that had run out of Martinque.
MOUATT, Patrick,- was a gentleman of Scotch extraction, and was not originally intended by his friends for the sea service, having been bound apprentice to a ship-builder. In this occupation, however, he acquired no inconsiderable store of useful knowledge, knowledge which afterwards became of great use to him in his new profession of a seaman, and not only acquired him the favour and patronage of many distinguished characters, but also caused his employment on all such particular Services as appeared peculiarly to demand that useful kind of information he possessed.
Almost immediately on his entering into the navy, he became acquainted with captain, afterwards admiral Byron, an intimacy which continued to subsist during their lives. Mr. Mouatt- served under that gentleman, first as a midshipman, and afterwards, for a very considerable part of that period, during which he continued in the more advanced, but still subordinate station of lieutenant. To the rank last-mentioned he was promoted, on the 20th of January, 1745-6, and after some time spent as a junior lieutenant, was advanced, a short time before the recommencement of war in 1756,, to be first of the Vanguard, as he afterwards was of the America, both commanded by Mr. Byron.
He was, from the station last-mentioned, promoted, on the 22nd of May, 1758, to be commander of a sloop of war ; after continuing in which, some short time, he removed into the Cormorant fire ship. He remained in this vessel till 1762, after which time we are unacquainted with any commission held by him till 1764, when he was appointed to the Tamar sloop of war, a vessel which was then fitting for a voyage of discovery in the South Seas, as consort to the Dolphin, of twenty-four guns, commanded by commodore Byron. They sailed together the beginning of July, and it is needless to enter into any detail of the particulars which took place during that voyage, they having been already given in our account of Mr. Byron.
Captain Mouatt was advanced by the commodore, he being authorized, by particular instructions for that purpose, to the rank of post-captain, and appointed to his own ship, the Dolphin, by commission bearing date April the 28th; 1765. He returned to England in the month of May, 1766, and this command, with the rank of post-captain, as it was the first, so was it the last we know him to have held ; nor have we, exclusive of the loss of his son, a lieutenant in the marine corps, who died at Antigua in the month of October 1786; been able to collect any farther particulars concerning him, except- that he died in Smith-street, Westminster; on the 5th of May; 1790; 'having then reached his 78th year.
The third son, Patrick Mouat, worked as a shipwright before joining the Royal Navy. He became a lieutenant in 1746 and a commander in 1758. In this rank he was commanding HMS Gramont when she was captured by the French in 1762 in St. John’s Harbour, Newfoundland. He then accompanied Byron on their voyage to the Pacific, during which Byron promoted him to captain, in 1765. Murdoch McKenzie’s nephew, Murdoch junior, sailed with Mouat in Tamar, highlighting the close relationship between the families. Patrick Mouat died on 5 May 1790, aged 78.
Patrick Mouat married and had five sons: Stephen Peter, James, Frederick, Charles and Alexander. Stephen Peter, born about 1751, became a commander in the Royal Navy in 1787. He married Frances Metcalfe in 1775 and they were stationed at Gibraltar for several years. Three of their many children died in infancy and were buried there. Stephen died in 1834. Three of his daughters married and an extensive set of grandchildren resulted.
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What an amazing family story.
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3. Ellen Dumergue Jennings b. 1850.
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