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This page was last amended on 19th August 2010.

Records from 1837-1915

The registration of births, marriages and death was introduced in 1837.

Most of the following detail is taken from the census records transcribed on www.ancestry.co.uk. supplemented with additional information provided by correspondents who have carried out more detailed research. The www.ancestry.co.uk records were obviously transcribed from copies of original records in a hurry by people who had difficulty in reading old-fashioned cursive writing, resulting in some peculiar errors. The following is my transcription from theirs and while I have been able to make some corrections I may well have added some errors and omissions of my own!

It is soon clear that the records are incomplete, or at least as included in www.ancestry.co.uk. Family members whose births are registered not appearing in census returns (or death certificates); members whose death is recorded not appearing in previous census returns; entries in the New York arrival records not appearing in any previous UK census list; entries in the US Census recorded as being born in England not appearing in the birth records and many others. Correlation is difficult. These days, we take the marking of birthdays and the counting of the years of our ages for granted as a normal activity. The evidence appears to be that this was not the case for most families 150-odd years ago. Years of birth and ages were guessed and approximated, leading to differences of, sometimes, several years between different records, adding to the difficulties. In the 1841 census, recorders were instructed to round ages down to the nearest five years, although clearly not all did so.

Channel Islands - Cumbria - Devon - County Durham - Hampshire and the Isle of Wight -
Lincolnshire - Somerset - Staffordshire - Sussex - Yorkshire - Scotland - Wales - I've no idea from where

Detailed Records 1841 Census to 1901 Census

The Channel Islands

Unfortunately, no one has yet had the inspiration to put the old birth, marriage and death records on the Internet.

  • Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of Thomas Mordaunt from Devon married Stephen Male from Guernsey on 22nd June 1805. A tragically short marriage, she died and was buried in St. Peter Port on 23rd February 1806.

  • James Mordaunt (abt 1778 - 1847) and his wife Agnes (abt 1779 - before 1871). They are given in 'outline' only because they originated from Devon and more detail is given under Devon, below.
    • William Mordaunt (abt 1810 - 1879). His wife was Elizabeth Hill Dale (1808 - 1881). He became a butcher and the family business continued for some 60 years. (See Steve Foote's site on butchers of Guernsey)
      • William Adolphus Mordaunt (abt 1835 - 1877). He married St Peter Port girl Louisa Martha Dornaille. (abt 1834 - before 1891)
        • Emily L. A. Mordaunt (abt 1861 - ?).
        • Florence Mordaunt (25th March 1868 - ?).
        • Osmond Charles Mordaunt (28th September 1869 - ?).
      • James Cole Mordaunt (abt 1837 - 1837).
      • Adelaide Mordaunt (abt 1838 - ?).
      • Matilda Mordaunt (8th February 1841 - April 1845)
      • Edward James Mordaunt (9th May 1843 - ?) went to sea and married Wilhelmina in Scotland.
        • Edward Mordaunt (abt 1890 - ?).
      • Emily Mordaunt (29th August 1845 - 2nd May 1846)

  • Lily E Mordaunt (abt 1874 - ?), appears from nowhere in the 1901 census, a married woman born in St Peter Port, living on her own means and boarding with the Charles family at 25 Alley Street, St. Peter Port.
Passing through the Channel Islands in this period were:
  • Thomas Coale Mordaunt (1803 - 1877) who was also born in Devon and his wife Agnes (abt 1815 - 1874). They shortly moved on to the Isle of Wight. More information on this family too is given under Devon below.
    • Emma Mordaunt (1832 - 1855).
    • John Russell Mordaunt (1834 - 1879).

  • George Mordaunt (abt. 1755 - 1834), late of Lambeth, Surrey (now London), was buried in St. Peter Port on 16th January 1834

  • John Mordaunt (abt 1842 - ?). son of the silk weaver, Frederick (see the Mordaunts in London page) and his wife Louisa (abt 1842 - ?), seem to have been in Guernsey in the 1860s before returning to Islington. Of their several children, the eldest
    • Frederick G Mordaunt (abt 1867 - ?) was recorded as born in Guernsey. Is this coincidence or were they related to James and Thomas? They were all finally to emigrate to the USA.

Cumbria

John Mordaunt, son of Lt Gen. Harry Mordaunt, was MP for Cockermouth in Cumberland from 1741 but parish records show that Mordaunt families were already established in the area. I wonder if he ever met them. The Mordaunt name is rare so to have a tight cluster of families such as occured in (modern) Cumbria in the 18th Century suggests a fairly close relationship. Unfortunately, while 6 parish registers are on-line, several 'key' parishes have not been transcribed to the web.

The transcripts of the parish of Gilcrux record:

  • Joseph Mordaunt ( abt. 1687 - 1774 {Buried 26th November}) is recorded as a churchwarden in 1746/47. That same year,
  • Mary Mordaunt married Joseph Collin of Ellenborough on 11th June 1747, apparently the only event in the church that year!
  • A Thomas Mordaunt, age not recorded, was buried 10th January 1767.
  • Margret Mordaunt, a widow, was buried 2nd September 1769.
  • Margret Mordaunt, a spinster, was buried 20th May 1771.
  • Lucy Mordant (sic) aged 75, was buried 29th April 1797. The relationships of all these would be entirely speculative.

Meanwhile, the transcripts of the neighbouring parish of Dearham record:

  • Peter Mordaunt married Grace Harrison on 18th June 1738. She died and was buried 28th March 1747
    • William Mordaunt , son of Peter, now described as "of Ellenburgh" was baptized 11th February 1739 (1738 in the old calender when New Year was 25th March). He married Isabel/Isabella Armstrong (abt. 1732 - buried 13 May 1822) on 12th December 1762.
      • Peter Mordaunt was baptised on 9th March 1764. Sadly he died barely 2 years old and was buried 19th April 1766.
      • William Mordaunt was baptised on 27th February 1766 aged 2 months.
      • Grace Mordaunt was baptised on 6th May 1768 but died and was buried 25th April 1769. Now! Here is some confusion. A Grace Mordaunt married Nicholas Moore, a house carpenter of the parish on Distington on 26th August 1795!
      • Peter Mordaunt was baptised on 12th June 1773.
        • Eleanor Mordaunt (b. 12th April 1802) was baptised on 26th September 1802, the illegitimate daughter of a Peter Mordaunt (this one seems the most likely candidate) and Sarah Smith.
    • Ann Mordaunt was baptised on 12th July 1741
    • Mary Mordaunt was baptised on 21st August 1743
    • Peter Mordaunt was baptised on 12th February 1747. His mother died six weeks later and he too died and was buried on 16th June the same year
    Peter wasted no time and married Mary Crosby on 19th November 1747. He was buried 5th January 1757, described as "of Flimby."
    • Another Peter Mordaunt was baptised on 24th September 1749. They seemed determined to perpetuate the name Peter in the family!
    • John Mordaunt was baptised on 15th March 1752. This was the year that New Year was moved to 1st January. As a result, all the entries January - 25 March were copied out again in a new register.
    • James Mordaunt was baptised on 10th March 1754. It was possibly this James Mordaunt who married Mary Ostle (23 November 1757 - ?) in Crosscannonby Church on 28th February 1795. Ostle was a locally common surname. They had at least two sons who survived to be recorded by the official censuses from 1841:
      • Ostle Mordaunt (10th May 1796 - 21 September 1868) was born in Ribton, Cumberland. He farmed with his brother:
      • Richard Mordaunt (6th August 1798- 13th January 1874). Neither brother seems to have married. As well as the census, I am grateful to Ostle family research
    • Harry Mordaunt was baptized on 1st April 1756. He died young and was buried on 12 April 1759.

  • Joseph Mordaunt (abt. 1731 - 1809), described as a pauper aged 78, was buried at Dearham on 23rd July 1809. One cannot help but wonder where he 'suddenly' came from or where he had been for the previous 78 years and why he received a pauper's burial.

Lamenting earlier the lack of parish registers on-line, to the rescue comes Petra Mitchinson who has searched parish records in Workington

  • Isaac Mordaunt (now, I don't think the name Isaac fits comfortably with the name Mordaunt) is listed in the parish records of St. Michael's, Workington, marrying Mary Melvin on 2nd December 1751. Petra Mitchinson notes that an Isaac, a French Huguenot, was born 15th February 1728, baptised 15 February 1728 in Threadneedle Street, London, the son of Pierre & Marie Elizabeth Mordant. She speculates whether this is the same Isaac, which I agree is quite likely, there cannot have been that many Isaac Mordaunts about at the time, or any time come to that. This Isaac was described as a mariner which would explain how he would have gone to Workington, then a busy port. Isaac and Mary seem to have big gaps between their children but, either some are missing or he could have been away at sea for long periods.
    • Sarah Mordaunt was baptised 21st December 1752 in St. Michaels, Workington. The Scarrow Main family tree on the Public Family Tree page of www.ancestry.co.uk identifies her as a daughter of Isaac. She married Thomas Scarrow, a blacksmith of Cockermouth in Workington on 20th August 1777 according to Cumberland Parish Registers. Marriages, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and C.W. Ruston-Harrison (1910). The Scarrow Main family tree lists two sons and two daughters.
    • Elizabeth Mordaunt was baptised 26th November 1758. An Elizabeth Mordent (sic) (age given as 24 years) married John Allan (age 26 years) in Bridekirk on 19th April 1784.
    • Isaac Mordaunt was baptised 1st August 1765. The marriage of an Isaac Mordaunt to Frances Lowe is recorded at St. Michael's, Workington, on 13th December 1787. Then another apparent long wait for children!
      • Eldred Mordaunt (baptised 3rd April 1791, but birth given from 6 to 11 years later in 1841/51/61 census records - died 1863), presumably named after his uncle, born in Workington, is listed in the Cumberland Parish Registers as a master mariner, marrying Margaret Cannon (1805 - 1898) on 11th October 1828. They are listed in the 1841 census by which time he had become a shipowner.
        • Mary Frances Mordaunt (abt 1832 - ?). She married in Cockermouth in 1855.
        • Margaret C. Mordaunt (abt 1834 - ?). She married in Fylde in 1866.
        • Jane Lowe Mordaunt (abt 1836 - ?). She married in Liverpool in 1862.
        By the time of the 1861 census they had moved to 61 Bedford Road, Abercromby, Liverpool. Described as a "landed proprietor", Eldred and his wife Margaret (abt 1805 - 1898?) took with them two, then still unmarried, daughters, who both found husbands in Liverpool. After Eldred's death shortly after, Margaret continued to live in Liverpool in some comfort with two servants.
    • Eldred Mordaunt (the Cumbrian Mordaunts certainly chose for themselves esoteric names! Where did the name Eldred come from?) was baptised 3rd January 1769

  • Sarah Mordaunt (? - ?), titled Miss and therefore, presumably, unmarried, left £500 towards a "Good Templars' Hall" in Seaton built in 1884, according to this 1901 guide to Cumberland. 'The Good Templars' was a temperance movement.

Devon

    Trying to put together the various internet references to the Mordaunts in Devon that I have found or been referred to is like trying to fit together a jigsaw with too many pieces missing. The big problem is a multipicity of Osmonds and Thomases. In a list of thirteen baptisms from St. Clement, Townstall, Dartmouth, covering sixty five years, the parent listed in each case is a Thomas!
  • Osmond Mordaunt is recorded in the IGI Internet transcription as the father of a Mordaunt Mordaunt (sic) who married Mary Mrs Hyne, in Stoke Fleming on 4th December 1688. Clearly the volunteer transcriber had a blank moment! It must have been the groom who was
    • Osmond Mordaunt, because eighteen months later Osmond and Mary had a son
      • Thomas Mordaunt, son of Osmond Mordaunt and Mary, was baptised in Stoke Fleming on 24 May 1690. In turn, twenty eight years on, a Thomas Mordaunt married Mary Southcote in St Petrox Church in nearby Dartmouth on 9 August 1718. It was also, presumably, this Thomas Mordaunt of Stoke Fleming who is listed as taking the 1723 Loyalty Oath.
    There is a peculiar account in an 1857 volume published on Google Books that denounces the parish register entries relating to Osmond's marriage to Mary Hyne and the baptism of Thomas as forgeries connected to an attempt to make a false claim to the dormant title of Baron of Turvey. Given the continuing presence of these Mordaunts in the area, this accusation of forgery seems spurious. The book does not relate who was the intended beneficiary of the claim. The accusation of a later forgery in a City of London church perhaps has more merit but again the claiment or the intended beneficiary is not named. Neither the College of Heralds not the Privileges Committee of the House of Lords have any records of any claims.
    Records of the estate of Osmond Mordaunt of Stoke Fleming are held in Devon Archives, reference QS/76/51-55, dated 1717, and reference QS/76/180 dated 1739. I do not know if they are the same or father and son. There is also a report to the Government on the Property held by Papists in 1715 and 1718 in the South West in which his property seems to be valued at £45.
        Thirty one years after the baptism of Thomas Mordaunt, son of Osmond and Mary Hyne, a Thomas is the named father of
        • Thomas Mordaunt, son of Thomas, baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth, on 19th October, 1721. He presumably married someone somewhere because, predictably, twenty three years later
          • Thomas Mordaunt, son of Thomas, was baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth, on 29th August, 1744.
          • Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of Thomas, was baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth, on 20th May, 1746.
          Now it starts to get really confusing. Having had Thomas, son of Thomas, baptised just above in 1744,
          • Thomas Cole Mordaunt (1749 - 1803?), son of Thomas, was baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth, on 17th June, 1749. It is possible that the first Thomas died and the second son was named after him or he could be from an entirely different brach of the family. Whoever, he married Elizabeth Goodridge in Blackawton, Devon, in 1768. A Thomas Cole Mordaunt was also a beneficiary under the will of the widow Limbrey, who had made bequests to Amy and Frances Mordaunt above, in 1788. A Thomas Mordaunt was buried at Woodleigh on 1st April 1803. At least four of their children are easily identifiable
            • Susannah Goodrige Mordaunt was baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth, on 25th February, 1772.
            • James Cole Mordaunt was baptised in Stoke Fleming on 14th December 1777. Maybe he died soon after because it seems another James Cole was baptised in the same church the following year (below)
            • Osmond Mordaunt (1779 - 1852) was baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth, on 3rd August, 1779. An Osmond Mordaunt (abt 1781 - 1852), appears in the 1851 census, born in Townstall, Dartmouth, described as a landed proprietor in Thurlestone, married to Betsy (abt 1782 - 1865), born in Plymouth. He is presumably the Osmond Mordaunt whose correspondence about a property at 10 George Street, Plymouth, 1838 - 1844, is held in Plymouth and West Devon Record office. He is recorded as dying in Kingsbridge in 1852.
              • Osmond Mordaunt (abt 1811 - before 1901?), born in Plymouth, looked after his mother after his father's death. He married Jemima (abt 1825 - 1910) from Kingsbridge before the 1871 census. They had no children. It is, presumably, he, described as "of Buckland," who is listed in an 1870 Directory of Thurlestone among the Clergy and Nobility
            • William Goodrige Mordaunt was baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth, on 15th December, 1780.

            Another six children baptised from approximately the same generation, but to which Thomas is unclear, were:

            • Thomas Mordaunt (1769 - 1845), son of Thomas, baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth on 11th April 1769. This is presumably the Thomas Mordaunt who married Grace Jellard (abt. 1771 - 1848) in Woodleigh (var. Woodley) on 29th July 1795. They are the only Mordaunts listed in Devon in the 1841 census when they were living in Clarence Street, Totnes and he is described as an agricultural labourer. Devon Record Office 52M/L/24 has details of a 14 year lease to a Thomas Mordaunt, a yeoman (usually a small landholder), in 1810 on a messuage called Higher Hendham consisting of two cottages at Topsham Bridge and fields in Woodleigh parish. An "agricultural labourer" is certainly a step down from a yeoman. Are they the same person?
              • Thomas Mordaunt was baptised in Stoke Fleming on 30th July 1797. Presumably he died soon after as
              • Thomas Mordaunt was baptised in Stoke Fleming on 14th August 1798. Perhaps he did not survive either because 5 years later another Thomas was baptised.
              • John Mordaunt(?) was baptised in Woodleigh on 23rd September 1800 (This is guessed. The orginal is almost illegible)
              • Emma Mordaunt was baptised in Woodleigh on 25 February 1802
              • Thomas Cole/Coale Mordaunt (1803 - 1877) was baptised in Woodleigh on 27th June 1803. He married Agnes (abt 1815 - 1874), also from Woodleigh. For a while he followed his relatives (uncle?) to Guernsey, where his children were born, but in 1841 he is listed as a tobacconist (oddly, his name is spelt Coale in all census lists) in Newchurch, Hampshire, which I take to be in the Isle of Wight. By 1851 the family had moved to Portsmouth. In the 1861 census he was a coal dealer. Agnes's death was recorded in Christchurch, Hampshire.
                • Emma Mordaunt (23rd October 1832 - 1855), was born in Guernsey. She was baptised in St. Peter Port on 11th November 1832. Agnes and William Mordaunt were among the godparents. She married a Mr Sherlock in 1849 but was probably a widow and staying with her parents the day of the 1851 census.
                  • Thomas Sherlock (abt 1850 - ?). In the 1851 and 1861 censuses he was living with his grandparents. He had moved on by 1871.
                • John Russell Mordaunt (15th April 1834 - 1879) was born in Guernsey. He was baptised in St. Peter Port on 10th May 1834. In the 1861 census he was living at home with his parents working as a coal carrier. He did not long survive his parents.
            • Mary Mordaunt, daughter of Thomas, baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth on 31st May 1774
            • Elizabeth Mordaunt (1775 - 1806), daughter of Thomas, baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth on 7th March 1775. She married Stephen Male in Guernsey on 22nd Jund 1805 and died, tragically, soon after. She was buried in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, on 23rd February 1806.
            • Henrietta Mordaunt, daughter of Thomas, baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth on 8th October 1776
            • James Cole(?) Mordaunt, son of Thomas, baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth on 22nd September 1778. Maybe the first James Cole died and this was a replacement. (It is spelt "Calle" on the Internet but I am sure this must be a spelling or transcription error) or again, maybe, he was a different branch of the family. A James Cole Mordaunt (abt. 1781 - 22 August 1847) married Agnes Jellard (abt. 1779 - before 1871) on 25th August 1806 in Blackawton. They are found in the Guernsey census of 1841 running a lodging house in Guernsey. William died of "Hydropisie" in 1847 and by the 1851 census all his remaining family were living in the lodging house at 33 Glategny Esplanade, St Peter Port.
              • William Mordaunt (abt 1810 - 21st April 1879), born in Guernsey. He worked as a butcher in the 1841 census and the family business continued for some 60 years. (See Steve Foote's site on butchers of Guernsey). His wife, also born in Guernsey was Elizabeth Hill Dale (18th June 1808 - before 1881). He died of a kidney desease.
                • William Adolphus Mordaunt (abt 1835 - 4th October 1877) was born in Guernsey (although the 1871 census says England). He married St Peter Port girl Louisa M. (abt 1834 - before 1891) and they tried their luck in America, where, according to the 1860 US census, he was working as a cigar maker in Cincinnati. They returned to Guernsey before the birth of their second surviving child in 1868 and he became a butcher like his father. In 1871 he and his family were living in Rochford House, Ramée Road, next door to his parents and sister Adelaide. He died of a fracture of the spine in 1877 but his widow, Louisa, continued as a butcher.
                  • Emily L. A. Mordaunt (abt 1861 - ?) was born in the United States, probably Cincinnati. By 1881 she was a music teacher and she was still unmarried in 1891 but she is not mentioned in the 1901 census and may have married.
                  • Florence Mordaunt (abt 1868 - ?) was born in Guernsey. She is not mentioned after 1881 and may have married.
                  • Osmond C. Mordaunt (abt. 1870 - ?) was born in Guernsey. He followed in the family business as a butcher. He was unmarried in the 1901 census and was, with his aunt Adelaide and sister(?), one of the three surviving bearers of the name, Mordaunt. Steve Foote forwarded an entry dated January 1891 in the minutes of the States Market Committee, which was the government body responsible for the administration of the markets and had to license all butchers:-
                    "We the undersigned Butchers of the "Guernsey Meat Market" consider Osmond Mordaunt a fit and proper person to hold a shop in the said Meat Market. Signed William Goddard, Albert Best, James E Sherwill, William H Foote, George Hellier."
                    William Foote was Steve's grandfather.
                    Steve further wrote "The St Peter Port Markets (including the 1822 Meat Market and the earlier Leadenhall Market opposite) were the subject of a major redevelopment project in the early years of this century, and have recently reopened as a shopping mall - the meat market is now a "New Look" I think. Some photos of the interiors during the redevelopment can be found on the BBC Guernsey site. Both the Markets and Glategny Esplanade have changed little in their external appearance since the 19th Century."
                • James Cole Mordaunt (abt 1837 - 1837) was born in Guernsey. He was born and baptised on 17th April and buried on 21st April, 1837
                • Adelaide Mordaunt (30th April 1838 - ?) was born in Guernsey and baptised on 2nd June 1838. Adelaide was recorded in 1881 as a "butcheress", perhaps helping her widowed sister-in-law, Louisa. She had not married by 1901 where she is one of the three surviving bearers of the name, Mordaunt.
                • Matilda Mordaunt (8th February 1841 - April 1845) was born in Guernsey and baptised on 6th March 1841. She was buried 22nd April 1845.
                • Edward James Mordaunt (9th May 1843 - ?) was born in Guernsey. He is not mentioned after the 1861 census in Guernsey but reappears in Scotland a master mariner in the 1891 census. He married Williamina (sic) (abt 1855 - ?), born in Paisley. She is listed in 1881 Scottish census but he is not; perhaps he was at sea. In 1891 they were living in Glasgow. The marriage of a Williamina Mordaunt was recorded in the St. Olave, Bermondsey, district in 1912 to a Mr Ashman.
                  • Edward Mordaunt (abt 1890 - ?) was born in Glasgow. He married Blanche L. Jennings in Greenwich in 1920. She was to marry Ethelbert Rapkin in Staines in 1946
                    • Edward J. Mordaunt (1923 - 1975) was born in the St Olave district, Greater London. Again, guessing, I think it is likely it was he who married sometime and somewhere a ? Greenslade and had children
                      • Edward J. Mordaunt (b. 1950) was born in Westminster. He married Carol Swanwick in Horsham, Sussex, in 1973
                        • Marie Vanessa Mordaunt (b. 1976) was born in Crawley.
                        • Sharon Patricia Mordaunt (b. 1978) was born in Crawley.
                      • Anthony P. Mordaunt (b. 1951) was born in Westminster. He married 1. Gwendoline M. Rees in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 1971,
                        • Simon Anthony Mordaunt (b. 1972) was born in Haverfordwest.
                        • Anne Louise Mordaunt (b. 1972) was born in Haverfordwest.
                        He married 2. Angela Dent in Crawley, Sussex, in 1980
                        • Hannah Mordaunt (b. 1985) was born in Plymouth.
                      • Stephen P. Mordaunt (b. 1956) was born in Surrey. He married Carolyne M. Jewell in Crawley in 1977
                        • James Sareth Mordaunt (b. 1979) was born in crawley
                        • Adam Mark Mordaunt (b. 1982) was born in Crawley. Following family tradition he is following a career at sea. He was once quite prolific on the Internet
                      • Diana M. Mordaunt (b. 1962) was born in Horsam, Sussex. She married Keith Gosnell in Otober 1986 in Crawley
                        • Lance Edward Gosnell (b. 1987) was born in Crawley.
                      • Timothy Paul Mordaunt (b. 1968) was born in Horsam, Sussex. He married Nicola A. Youell in Crawley in September 2000
                        • Jordan James Mordaunt (b. 2002) was born in the East Surrey district.
                    • Leslie W. Mordaunt (1924 - 2003) was born in Greenwich. In 1954 he married Dorothy R.M. Payne in Lewisham
                      • Lindsay R. Mordaunt (b.1958) was born in Dartford, Kent. She married Alistair M. Tatton in Falmouth in 1993
                        • Callum James Tatton (b. 1996) was born in Truro
                        • Afton Merriel Tatton (b. 1998) was born in Truro
                    • Alfred C. Mordaunt (1928 - ?) was born in Lewisham. In 1954 he married Margaret A. Palmer in Dartford, Kent
                      • Christopher C. Mordaunt (b. 1961) was born in Tonbridge, Greater London. He married 1. Denise Miller in Honiton, Devon, in August 1991, and 2. Cheryl V. Ward in Westminster in July 2001
                        • Grace Margaret Mordaunt (b. 2002) was born in the Bath and North East Somerset district
                        • Wilfred Mordaunt (b. 2004) was born in the Bath and North East Somerset district.
                      • Alastair P. Mordaunt (b. 1965) was born in Tonbridge
                  • Emily Mordaunt (29th August 1845 - 2nd May 1846) was born in Guernsey and died at 8 months.
                • Agnes Gillard Mordaunt (1811 - ?), daughter of James and Agnes, was baptised in Woodleigh on 5th July 1812.
              • Frances Mordaunt, daughter of Thomas, baptised in St. Clement Church, Townstal, Dartmouth on 9th October 1786. A Frances Mordaunt probably married a Samuel Polybank. Thomas Mordaunt Polybank, son of Samuel and Frances, was baptised in Thurleston on 11th June 1820
              If these are all the children of Thomas Cole and Elizabeth, they were an extraordinarily fecund couple and she was extraordinarily fit!

              Roughly contemporary with older Thomas Cole Mordaunt, above, was

            • Osmond Mordaunt (? - before 1787) who appears between 1734 and 1758, described as a "gentleman, Papist" in a list of freeholders in Stoke Fleming on the south Devon coast close to Dartmouth. The word "gentleman" at that time tended to have a very specific meaning denoting connections to aristocracy, and he was identified in the list as a Catholic because, as such, he would have been forbidden to vote in elections. Maybe was a son or grandson of Osmond and Mary above. Either he, or yet another Osmond, had children
              • Frances Mordaunt (? - 1799), named as the daughters of an Osmond Mordaunt, were beneficiaries of the Will of Julian (sic) Limbrey, a widow of Little Dartmouth, Townstall, proven in 1788 (National Archives).
                The Will of a Frances Mordaunt of Dartmouth, dated 1798, proved in 1799, names a number of nephews and nieces Mordaunt and so, clearly, she had at least one brother
              • Amy Mordaunt (? - 1787/88). In a codicil to the widow Limbey's Will, it is clear that Amy had died before the will was proven. Her share was to go to Frances.
              • unknown male Mordaunt but in what order his children were born I do not know. The family were still Catholic and it seems it was this brother who took his family to Lisbon in Portugal. Whether that was for reasons of trade or religious freedom (or maybe a bit of both) I have not been able to find out.
                • Osmond Mordaunt (? - 1814). He moved on from Lisbon to the island of Tenerife and his will of 1813, proved in 1814, shows him to have been wealthy, disposing of in excess of £20,000. He was clearly paricularly attached to his sister Mary Barbara and noticabley favoured her and her family in his will.
                • Mary Barbara Mordaunt married a David Galloway who was named as one of the executors of her brother Osmond's Will. That Will refers to her son, John Galloway, and alludes to daughters unnamed
                • Mary Anne Mordaunt seems to have married a Portuguese, ? Puito(?) de Carvalho
                • Matilda Mordaunt. In the Will of her aunt Frances, she was noted as lodging in a convent. Her brother's will refers to some difficulties between them; he wrote that he forgave her and expressed his wish she should be able to live as comfortably as her sisters.
                • Juliana Mordaunt.
                • William Mordaunt. He was not mentioned in his aunt's Will which made bequests to his sisters and left any residue of her estate to Osmond. Osmond bequeathed William a fair share of his estate and refers to William's sons and daughters without making it clear if they had been born yet. The way he constantly emphasised "legitimate" leads one to wonder if William had scattered the odd illegitimate son around.

  • William Mordaunt (abt. 1631 - 1707) was a younger brother to Sir Charles Mordaunt, 3rd baronet, of Massingham Parva in Norfolk. He married Anne Butler from Pembrokeshire, Wales, and they lived on one of her family's estates. After her death he seems to have sold up and moved to an estate in Devon. Unfortunately I cannot now remember or find my source for this information. His four sons produced no granchildren and so, I presume, the estate was disposed of.

    Unconnected at present are:

    • Emma Mordaunt married Richard Adams in Woodleigh on 11th June 1820
    • Ann Mordaunt (abt 1848 - ?), born in Pool, Devon, (I have not been able to identify where that is), got a solitary mention in the 1871 census lodging in Chelsea,

    I am very grateful to Steve Foote who kindly wrote to me and shared some of the fruits of his research into butchers of Guernsey, in which he had come across the Mordaunts from Devon after they moved to Guernsey. With the help of Ray Osborn, who has done his own research into Devon records, he had details of the pre-census marriages and pointed me in the direction of further fruitful research. Then, on a visit to Guernsey he found time to look up more Mordaunt family details that I have been able to add into this page.

County Durham/Tyne and Wear

  • Edward Mordaunt (abt 1846 - ?) was born in Sheffield but was living in Throston, Co. Durham, in the 1891 census. He was descibed as a retired musician in the 1911 census, living at 41 Gass Street, West Hartlepool. The only place he seems to fit in is as the youngest son of George and Hannah Maria of Sheffield (see Yorkshire below), especially as he called one of his daughters Hannah Maria but he is not mentioned in any previous census and besides, George and Hannah already had a son Edward. In 1873 an Edward Eustace Mordaunt married in Sunderland. His wife was Elizabeth (abt 1854 - 1914). They had children:
    • Hannah Maria Mordaunt (1874 - ?) was born in Sunderland. She married in Hartlepool district in 1894.
    • Mary Elizabeth L. Mordaunt (1878 - 1878), born in Sunderland
    • Priscilla Mordaunt (1879 - ?), born in Sunderland. She married in Hartlepool district in 1899
    • Joseph Stafford Mordaunt (1881 - 1881), born in Sunderland
    • Charles Osbert Bart. Mordaunt (1882 - ?), born in Sunderland. He married Elizabeth Jane Andrew in Hartlepool district in 1906. An Able Seaman Charles Osbert Mordaunt of the mercantile marine died 17th October 1917 and is named on the Tower Hill Memorial in London; his wife would have been pregnant with their second child.
      • Annie Elizabeth Mordaunt (1910 - ?), born in Hartlepool. She married Alexander Phillips in 1937.
      • Charles O. Mordaunt (1918 - ?), born in Hartlepool. He married Irene Wales in West Hartlepool in 1945.
        • David C. Mordaunt (b. 1947) was born in West Hartlepool. He married Enid Ingham in Hartlepool in 1969
        • Kathleen Mordaunt (b. 1948) was born in West Hartlepool
    • Sarah Regina Mordaunt (6th November, 1887 - ?), born in Sunderland and christened 10th June, 1888, when her father's name was given as Eustace. She was listed in the 1891 and 1901 censuses as Sarah and in the 1911 census as Regina when she was working as a live-in general servant for the Milner family at 7 Prospect Place, Harrogate. She married a Mr Beardmore in Hartlepool district in 1914.
    • Louis/Lewis James Mordaunt (1891 - ?), born in Hartlepool. In the 1911 census he was living with his parents working as a plasterer's helper. He married Catherine Coxon in Hartlepool in 1928
      • Elizabeth L. Mordaunt (b. 1929) was born in Hartlepool. She married Eric Pay in 1950 in Durham.
        • Janice Pay (b. 1955) was born in Durham
      • Hudson W. Mordaunt (b. 1931) was born in Hartlepool. He married Margaret Sheader in 1950
        • Dorothy L. Mordaunt (b. 1951) was born in Durham
        • Katherine E. Mordaunt (b. 1952) was born in Durham
        • Denise M. Mordaunt (b. 1955) was born in Durham. She married John Allen in Cleveland in 1976.
          • Jonathon Allen (b. 1979) was born in Hull
          • Samantha Allen (b. 1981) was born in Hull
        • Anthony L. Mordaunt (b. 1960) was born in West Hartlepool. He married Christine Silburn in Sutton, Surrey, in 1987.
        • David C. Mordaunt (b. 1964) was born in Durham
      • Jean Mordaunt (b. 1932) was born in Hartlepool. She married Joseph Brown in Durham in 1955
      • Maureen Mordaunt (b. 1936) was born in Hartlepool. She married James Bone in Durham in 1958

  • "Unattached" references in the Internet records are:
    • James Mordaunt on 30th June 1890 was sentenced to 2 months imprisonment for "obtaining money by false pretences" at the Durham Quarter Sessions
    • Priscilla Dawkins, mother's maiden name Mordaunt, born 1911 in Hartlepool.
    • Reuben E Marshall, mother's maiden name Mordaunt, born 1917 in Hartlepool

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

I describe as passing through Hampshire at this time Mordaunts whose origins are either London or Devon.

  • Mary Mordaunt (abt 1778 - ?) was born in Lambeth. A widow by the time of the 1841 census she was living with her son, John, listed in Southampton but possibly on the Isle of Wight. She and her family are described in greater detail on the Mordaunts in London page
    • Alfred Mordaunt (abt 1805 - ?) was born in Aldgate. He married Mary (abt 1801 - 1864). He was working as a chemist but I am not clear if, in 1841 they were living in Southampton or the Isle of Wight. By 1851 they were in All Saints, Southampton. For the 1861 census, Alfred was staying with his brother John in London while his wife, Mary, described as the wife of a retired chemist, was lodging with her daughter in Southampton. Alfred is not mentioned after 1861.
      • Mary Ann Mordaunt (1832 - ?)
      • George Frederick Mordaunt (abt 1835 - 1861)
      • William W. Mordaunt (abt 1835 - ?)
    • John Mordaunt (abt 1811 - 1879) was born in Bloomsbury. His wife was named Mary Ann who was from Southampton. In 1841 they seem to have been in Southampton. By the 1851 census they had moved to Reading, Berks, and she was listed as Georgina. In 1861, the family were in London and John was working as a Parliamentary agent.
      • Helen Mary Mordaunt (1839 - 1908)
      • Jessie/Georgina Mordaunt (abt 1841 - ?) was baptised at All Saints, Southampton, on 25th June, 1841

  • Thomas Coale Mordaunt (1803 - 1877) and his wife Agnes (abt 1815 - 1874) are listed in the 1841 census. They reached Hampshire and/or the Isle of Wight via the Channel Islands from Devon and are described in more detail under Devon above.
    • Emma Mordaunt (abt 1833 - 1855) married James Sherlock on 28th September 1849 at St. Mary's, Portsea, Portsmouth.
      • Thomas Sherlock (abt 1850 - ?).
    • John Russell Mordaunt (abt 1835 - 1879).

  • "Unattached" references in the Internet records are:
    • Charles Mordaunt married Elizabeth Dugnell at St. Mary's, Portsea Island on 17th July, 1820. Presumably they were the Charles and Elizabeth who had christened
      • Elizabeth Sarah Mordaunt (b. abt 1821) at St. Mary's, Portsea, on 2nd December 1821
    • Elizabeth Mordaunt married William Lloyd at Holy Trinity, Gosport, on 11th June, 1829
    • John Mordaunt married in Portsea Island in 1838
    • Francis Joseph Mordaunt married Sarah Ann Tice at St Mary's, Portsea on 28th March, 1870
    • Emma Mordaunt (abt. 1813 - 1874) died in Christchurch
    • Charles Mordaunt (abt. 1856 - ?), described as a grocer's assistant born in Birmingham, was serving time in Portsea Prison at the 1881 census. He had been sentenced to 5 years penal servitude at the Gloucester Quarter Sessions on 6th January 1880 for "Larceny after a previous conviction." Perhaps he was a career criminal; in 1888 a Charles Mordaunt, still in Hampshire and using an alias William Macdonald, was sentenced at Winchester Quarter Sessions on 2nd July for "Larceny two convictions before convicted of felony" to, surprisingly, only three months on each. Perhaps this was before computerised records!!!!

    Lincolnshire

    In this era, 1841 -1901, the story of the Lincolnshire Mordaunts begins in Liverpool. In the 1840s, Patrick Mordaunt (abt 1814 - ?), a widower and his young son Gerald (see the Lancashire Mordaunt page) moved from Dublin to Liverpool. Patrick remarried and had a son, born in the West Derby district, to whom he gave the unlikely name of Elijah (1852 - 1938). Elijah's mother died shortly afterwards. Patrick married again and, leaving Gerald behind in Liverpool, disappears from the records, probably returning to Ireland with his third wife and new son. Elijah eventually joined the Navy. He appears in the marriage list, marrying Elizabeth "Betsey" (1859 - 1946) in the Naval port town of Medway in 1876. He appears as a stoker on HMS Defence in the 1881 census. Thereafter, he succesfully evaded any official recorder until the 1911 census but his offspring appear in the birth lists and 1901 census in Caistor and Grimsby.
    For people interested in the descendants of Elijah Mordaunt, now living in different parts of England and Canada, I can do no better than to put you in touch with the partner of a descendent who has done a remarkable amount of research and has produced a family tree of colossal detail. In fact, if you are a descendant of Elijah, you probably already know everything already. If not, please e-mail me at henry@mordaunt.me.uk
    • Elijah Mordaunt married Elizabeth "Betsey" (1859 - 1946)
      • Joseph Robert Elijah Mordaunt (abt 1881 - 1943) is described in the 1911 census as a cashier, living at 203, Roberts Street, Grimsby. In keeping with the family tradition he seems to have dodged the official records when possible, leaving some gaps in his story It is clear that he married Jane Williams (1878 - 1977) in Grimsby in 1901 and that he had children
        • Joseph Samuel Elijah Mordaunt (1902 - ?). He married Caroline C. Nicholson in Liverpool in 1928
          • Kenneth Mordaunt (b. 1929) was born in Liverpool. His marriage to Catherine Banks is not to be found on the www.ancestry.com transcript but the births of his children are listed
            • Elaine Caroline Mordaunt (b. 1953) was born in Liverpool.
            • Georgina Mordaunt (b. 1957) was born in Liverpool. She married Anthony J. Paine in Southport in 1975
              • Jennifer Sarah Paine (b. 1976) was born in Southport
              • Richard Anthony Mordaunt Paine (b. 1978) was born in Southport.
              • Rebecca Louise Mordaunt Paine (b. 1981) was born in the Sefton North district
          • Donald K. Mordaunt (b. 1931) was born in Liverpool. He married Margaret Hampton in Liverpool in 1956
            • Alan Mordaunt (b. 1956) was born in Liverpool. He married Jill Osborne in 1985 in the Sefton South district
              • Louise Mordaunt (b. 1992)
            • Brian Mordaunt (b. 1964) was born in Liverpool. He married Catherine Cronin in Knowsley in 1990.
              • Michael Mordaunt (b. 1990) was born in Liverpool
              • Sally Mordaunt (b. 1992) was born in Liverpool
              • Rachel Mordaunt (b. 1996) was born in Liverpool
          • Joseph Robert Mordaunt (b. 1936) was born in Liverpool. He married Dorothy A. Morrow in Liverpool in 1958. Having wondered where the family disappeared to, I am grateful to Joseph and Dorothy's son Michael for contacting me and explaining that they emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1971. Their further details can be found on the Mordaunts in Australia andd New Zealand page
            • Michael J. Mordaunt (b. 1959) was born in Liverpool
            • Mark R. Mordaunt (b. 1961) was born in Liverpool. He returned to the UK to marry Alison Reid in Nottingham in 1994 and they both went back to Australia
            • Kimberley Mordaunt (b. 1962) was born in Liverpool
            • Anthony T. Mordaunt (b. 1964) was born in Liverpool
          • Doris Mordaunt (b. 1944) was born in Prescot. She married Francis Wood in Liverpool in 1964
        • Edna Grace Mordaunt (1903 - ?). She married Ernest Sellars in Grimsby in 1929
          • John E. Sellars (b. 1936) was born in Grimsby
          • Herbert M. Sellars (b. 1931) was born in Grimsby
        • Leonard Mordaunt (1906 - ?). He married Elizabeth Jordan in Liverpool in 1929
          • Leonard P. Mordaunt (b. 1930) was born in Liverpool
          • Colin W. Mordaunt (b. 1931) was born in Liverpool. He married Jean M. McLaren in Birkenhead in 1978. The birth of his children are not listed in the Birth Index for England and Wales transcript on www.ancestry.co.uk
        • Doris Mordaunt (1908 - ?). She married Rowland Parsons in Grimsby in 1929. There were a lot of family weddings in 1929!
          • Doreen Parsons (b. 1932) was born in Grimsby
          • Sheila Parsons (b. 1935) was born in Grimsby
          • Janet Parsons (b. 1938) was born in Cleethorpes
        • George Edward Mordaunt (1912 - 2001). He married Muriel Smith in Grimsby in 1936
          • George Robert Mordaunt (b. 1943) was born in Liverpool. He married Josephine M. E. (Elaine?) Dixon in Abingdon, Berkshire in 1967
            • Julia Elaine Mordaunt (b. 1969) was born in Windsor
            • Sarah Christine Mordaunt (b. 1971) was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire
            • Patricia Jane Mordaunt (b. 1976) was born in Windsor
          • Susan M. Mordaunt (b. 1945) was born in Liverpool. She married Gordon W. Morrey in Widnes, Lancashire, in 1969
            • Pauline Sandra Morrey (b. 1972) was born in Liverpool
            • Brian William G. Morrey (b. 1974) was born in Liverpool
        According to family records, he married 2. Frances Rehill (1905 - ?), although any marriage and subsequent birth of a son are not in the Marriage and Birth Indices as transcribed by www.ancestry.uk
        • Eugene (Gene) David Mordaunt (1929 - 2005). He married Doris Williams in Liverpool in 1950. In 1951 they emigrated to Australia from Glasgow but moved on to Toronto, Canada, where his children and grandchildren still live.
          • Gene Mordaunt (b. 1950) was born in Liverpool
        Again, according to family records he married 3. Bertha Elizabeth Rehill (1902 - 1994). This too is not recorded in the transcription of the Marriage Index but, on this occasion, the births of two children are recorded
        • Paul Mordaunt (b. 1940)
        • Maria Mordaunt (b. 1940)
      • George Edward Mordaunt (abt 1883 - ?). He married Jessie Robinson in Grimsby in 1907
      • Sarah Caroline (Carrie) Mordaunt (abt 1885 - 1978). She married Herbert Sellars in Grimsby in 1907.
      • William Mordaunt (abt 1887 - 1918). He did not marry
      • Charles Hammond Mordaunt (abt 1887 - 1968) was born in Lackeen Place, Co. Derry, in Northern Ireland. In the 1911 census he was a trawler fisherman. He married Evangeline Haldane
      • Elizabeth (Dolly) P. Mordaunt (abt 1889 - ?). She married William Stephenson in Grimsby in 1915
      • Rose Clara Mordaunt (abt 1892 - ?) was born in Mulbury, Donegal, in Ireland. She married Arthur Lord in Grimsby in 1915.
        • Kenneth Lord (1915 - ?)
        • Nora Lord who married a Ben Erhenfried
      • Daisy Emma Mordaunt (abt 1893 - ?) was born in Cleethorpes. In the 1911 census she was an apprentice dressmaker. She married Ernest Peterson in Grimsby in 1920
      • Lily Ellen Mordaunt (abt 1895 - ?). She married Edward Newby in Grimsby in 1917
      • Ernest Clemence Mordaunt (abt 1898 - ?). He is included on a list of absent voters in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, 1919, described as 352271 Private Mordaunt , 477 Agricultural Company, normally resident at 212 Durban Road. He married Grace G. (for Gertrude?) Rowe in 1936
      • Edna May Mordaunt (abt 1898 - 1898)

    Somerset

    Sir Charles Mordaunt, the 6th Baronet of Walton Hall, Warwickshire, had two sons, John Mordaunt, who became the 7th Baronet, and Charles who, in the tradition of younger sons of those times, took Holy Orders and a living in the gift of his father, that of the old family home of Massingham Parva in Norfolk. In 1774 he married Charlotte Musgrove and they had a son, Charles, who also took Holy Orders and moved a long way from home, across the country, to become Rector of Badgworth, in Somerset, now part of Bristol, another living in the gift of the baronet his uncle. It is as if the intrusion of the early census recorders did not disturb the sleepy hamlets of Somerset. The family escaped detection until they were found in the 1861 census:
    • Revd. Charles Mordaunt (? - ?) had married a local girl, Frances Harriet, youngest daughter of James Sparrrow of Flax Bourton, Somerset. Already a widow when discovered by the 1861 census takers, aged 75, she was lodging in Clifton, Bristol, with Laetitia Sparrow, aged 65. Both are described as "Landowners." Just down the road was:
      • Charles Mordaunt (abt 1814 - 1861), born in Blackwell, Somerset. In 1861 he was already a widower and had also been granted the living of Badgworth. He died without children.
      • John Mordaunt (abt 1815 - 15th November 1881 ), born in Blackwell, Somerset, was caught for the 1851 census. He was described as was a widower, a "Fundholder," living in Long Ashton, Somerset, with his children and a household of 6 servants. He had served in the 17th Lancers and married firstly Harriet Maria Cumberlege (? - 1849)
        • James Sparrow Mordaunt (1843 - 1927) born in Long Ashton. He skips the 1861 census but by 1871 was a Lieutenant stationed at Fulwood Barracks, Preston in Lancashire, but he eventually rose to Lt Colonel of the Leinster regiment. He married Harriet Theresa Gibbs (abt. 1844 - 21st July 1925) in 1872. By the 1911 census he was described as a retired colonel then at Goddards Green, Cranbrook, Kent
          • John Francis Cumberlege Mordaunt (abt. 1881 - ?). Born in Guildford, Surrey, he was described in the 1911 census as a captain in the Army special reserve.
          • Charles Stanley Mordaunt (1886 - 1946) was in the Royal Artillery T.A. He was described as an architect in the 1911 census. He married Edith Violet Wood in 1915. They had no children.
          • Harriet Emily Mordaunt (abt. 1875 - 1956) did not marry.
          • Mildred Dorothea Mordaunt (abt. 1876 - 1949) married in 1915 Captain Robert Bland (? - 18th July 1942) of the 18th Royal Irish Rifles. They had no children.
          • Helen Mary Mordaunt (abt 1879 - 1958) died unmarried
        • Francis Lionel Mordaunt (abt 1845 - ), born in Long Ashton. In 1861, with his brother, John, he was living with his aunt, his mother's sister, and her husband, the Rev. Joshua Cautley, incumbent of Thorney, Cambridgeshire, and her own three daughters. He joined the Army, 23rd Regiment, Royal Welch Fusiliers. He went to the US on 14 March 1876 on the SS Denmark. He met and married Sara Elliott Marshall (abt. 1867 - ?), of Natchez, Mississippi in Pelham, New York on December 11, 1891. They evaded the 1900 census but were found in 1910 in Ontario, Wayne, NY where he was a manager with a ?? mine. He died May 10, 1918 and his wife,Sarah, too, disappears from the census lists. He died 10th May, 1918.
          • Elizabeth Morris Mordaunt (1891 - ?) married D Drayton Burrill in 1918. They had two children neither of whom had further children.
          • Mildred Cumberlege Mordaunt (1893 - ?) married David Ogden Rogers of Hyde Park, NY in 1916. He died of malaria contracted from service in Cuba under Theo. Roosevelt in 1916. They had two children, Francis Lional Mordaunt Rogers and Nathalie Penddleton Rogers, who married Joseph James Spurr III.
            I am grateful to Mildred's grandson, Jay (Joseph James) Spurr IV, of Alexandria, VA. for contacting me about his family. More details of his family can seen in my Guest Book, 2010-06-03.
            Mildred later married Arthur Spencer Kittle, a stock broker from New York.
        • Mildred Mordaunt (1846 - - ), born in Long Ashton. She married in 1868 the Revd. George Henry Gibbs, rector of Hutton, Somerset. They had eight childen, including
          • Joseph Gibbs whose granddaughter, Alexandra Gibbs, kindly provided me with details of Mildred's husband and corrected some earlier errors concerning Mildred's brothers and sisters.
        • John Mordaunt (abt 1848 - ), born in Long Ashton. In 1861, with his brother, Francis, he was living with his aunt, his mother's sister, and her husband, the Rev. Joshua Cautley, incumbent of Thorney, Cambridgeshire, and her own three daughters.
        In 1852, in Woburn, Bedfordshire, John married Isabel/Isabella Balmain (abt 1819 - ), born in India, and they had children
        • Harry Mordaunt (abt 1854 - ), born in Long Ashton. On 28th August 1875 he married Annie Cautley in Thorney, Cambridge.
          • Osbert Cautley Mordaunt (1876 - 1949). He joined the Somerset Light Infantry and rose at least to the rank of Colonel and was awarded the DSO as well as being mentioned in despatches. He was living at Buxted, near Uckfield, Sussex, when he died. I have found no reference to a marriage.
          • Christopher John Mordaunt (1880 - ?) who in the 1911 census was described as being in the merchant marine. On 24th October, 1907, in Nottingham, he became the second husband of Helena Charlotte Young (1879 - 1956), born in Hendon, Middx.
            I am very grateful to Nicholas Collins, her great grandson from a later marriage, for contacting me with additional information. National Archives Divorce Court File J77/892 names Christopher John as correspondent in the divorce petition raised by her first husband. A newspaper report 'Flirtation at Sea' tells that they met on a P and O steamer sailing to India where the correspondent was a junior officer, that they met on several later occasions and that 'since the service of the citation the co-respondent had gone to the China station.' Perhaps his long absences at sea provided her with too much temptation because, in 1910, he too sued for divorce on grounds of her adultery (National Archives Divorce Court File 975). In the 1911 census he was with his son at his parent's house in Taunton while Helena was with a Palmer family in Camberley, Surrey.
            • Richard John Mordaunt (1908 - 1998) was born in East Preston, Sussex. In 1930 he married Gertrude A. K. Toler in Congleton, Cheshire
              • Thomas C. J. Mordaunt (b. 1934) was born in Congleton, Cheshire.
            Christopher married again in 1916 in London, to Mary Patricia Cautley. It seems reasonable to guess she was a cousin.
            • Guy Michael Mordaunt (1917 - 1945) was born in St. Alban's, Herts. He died in WWII, a sergeant of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 23rd January 1945, and is buried in North Lopham Cemetery
            • Katherine P. Mordaunt (b. 1917) was born in Eastry. She married David Isard in Chelsea in 1950
            • Barry S. C. Mordaunt (b. 1925) was born in Thetford, Norfolk. He married Joan Poppleton in Bathavon, Somerset, in 1950
              • Guy R. Mordaunt (b. 1952) was born in Bath. He married Deborah A. Norton in Bath in 1980
                • Sally Jane Mordaunt (b. 1986) was born in Bath
                • Simon Richard S. Mordaunt (b. 1988) was born in Bath
                • Elizabeth Muriel Mordaunt (b. 1990) was born in Bath
              • Ann P. Mordaunt (b. 1956) was born in Bath
        • Charles Mordaunt (abt 1855 - ), born in Long Ashton. He married Mary Ann (born 1851 according to the 1901 census and about 1846 according to the 1911 census) around 1900. In the 1911 census he was described as a former estate agent and they were living in Wotton-under-Edge, now in South Gloucestershire.
        • Philip Mordaunt (abt 1858 - ), born in Long Ashton. In the 1881 census he was lodging in Barnstable, in 1891 he was in Weston-super-Mare and in 1901 was with a cousin in Preston, Brighton. He was cited as co-respondent in the divorce of Margaret Alice Glover in 1897 (National Archives Divorce Court File 18462) and they married in Steyning, Sussex, in 1902. In the 1911 census he was living as one of five(!) secretaries to Frederick Kerchival Hole at 14 Newbold Terrace, Leamington. His wife does not appear to be listed in the 1911 census.
        • Katherine Mordaunt (abt 1863 - ), born in Long Ashton
      • James Mordaunt (? - ?) died unmarried
      • Henry Mordaunt (? - 1852 ), a Lt in 46th Foot, died unmarried.
      • Charlotte Laetitia Mordaunt (? - ?) married Revd. John Matthew, Rector of Chelvey, in 1839.

    Staffordshire

      Some of the records St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, have been transribed on to the Internet by P. Galloway. They appear to show that around 1774 a
    • John Mordaunt was living in the area, written as Mordrunt but I am assuming that is a transcription error. His wife was Martha
      • Martha Mordaunt (abt 1774 - 1777), daughter of John and Martha Mordaunt was baptised at St. Peter's Church, Wolverhampton, on 2nd May, 1774. She was buried in St. Peter's Church on 20th December 1777
      A number of other names appear in the St Peter's records which appear to be the same generation as Martha and who could possibly be her brothers and sisters:-
      • Charlotte Mordaunt, who married William Spencer in St. Peter's on 18th May 1785
      • Hiram Mordaunt (whoever invented the name Hiram?)(? - 1800) who married Mary Harrison on 1st September 1793. Hiram's burial is recorded in St. Peter's on 6th April 1800, only 4 weeks after the christening of his daughter Mary Ann. His widow, Mary, remarried in the church on 7th March 1802, to a bachelor, William Moseley.
        • Martha Ann Mordaunt (abt. 1794 - 1807), identified as the daughter of Aaron (which I assume is another transcription error) and Mary, was baptised in St. Peter's on 25th January 1795. The burial of a Martha Ann Mordaunt was recorded on 3rd November 1807.
        • John Mordaunt (abt. 1796 - 1839), identified as the son on Hiram and Mary, was baptised in St. Peter's on 15 May 1796. Presumably it is his marriage that is recorded at the church on 1st October 1827 to Ann Jones. John's death was registered in 1839. The 1841 census lists his widow Ann still in Wolverhampton with three surviving children. Shortly after the census return in 1841, Ann is listed is the marriage record as remarrying.
          • Hannah Mordaunt (abt. 1831 - ?) was baptised on 28th June 1830 in St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton. A Hannah Mordaunt married in Aston, Warwickshire in 1854
          • Mary Mordaunt (abt. 1833 - ?) was also recorded as born in Wolverhampton. A Mary Ann Mordaunt died in Wolverhampton in 1844.
          • Sarah Mordaunt (abt. 1835- ?) was also recorded as born in Wolverhampton. She married Thomas Mason at Collgate (Collegiate?) Church, in Wolverhampton in 1855.
            • Emily Jane Mason (b. abt. 1857)
            • Thomas E. Mason (b. June 1859)
            • Mary Ann Eleanor Mason (1st April 1861 - ?), who went to Australia and married John Frame McDougall. She was the 2 x great grandmother of Tony Gall, who I was able to contact after her appeal for information on the ancestry.ca website message board. What took a young woman to Australia on her own in the 1880s/1890s? I should be interested to learn.
          • Paul Mordaunt (1837 - 1838) is listed in the birth and death registers.
        • Charlotte Mordaunt (abt. 1798 - ?), identified as the son on Hiram and Mary, was baptised in St. Peter's on 4th March 1798. A Charlotte Mordaunt married John Orme in St. Peter's Church on 1st August 1825.
        • Mary Ann Mordaunt (abt 1800 - 1844?) was baptised in St. Peter's Church on 10 March 1800. A Mary Ann died in Wolverhampton in 1844.
      • William Mordaunt and his wife Rebecca are shown in the St. Peter's record as the parents of
        • Sarah Mordaunt who was baptised on 14th October 1804.
      • Mary Mordaunt, who married Thomas Mosely 7th March 1802 at St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton.

      No male Mordaunt seems to have survived in Wolverhampton beyond the 1840s and surviving females married so it is perhaps unsurprising that the name does not occur in any census after 1841, although one isolated entry stands out in the death register, an Ellen Mordant (sic) was born and died in Wolverhampton in 1872.

    Sussex

    • John Mordaunt married Mary Chatfield in Steyning, Sussex, on 15th December 1685 according to the parish records
      • John Mordaunt was christened in Steyning on 23rd May 1687 according to an entry by an LDS Church member.
      • Elizabeth Mordaunt was christened in Steyning on 17th March 1689 according to the parish records
      • Mary Mordaunt was christened in Steyning on 19th January 1692 according to the records

    • John Mordaunt and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of
      • Elizabeth Mordaunt who was christened in Thakeham, on 10th May 1732 according to the parish records
      An Elizabeth Mordaunt married Joseph Standen in Itchingfield, near Horsham, on 24th July 1739. Perhaps she was John's widow.

      Out of Internet nowhere comes:

    • Edward J. Mordaunt , who married Gladys M. Boxall in East Preston, Sussex in 1917
      • William G. Mordaunt (1919 - ?) was born in Horsham, Sussex. He married Doris Barnard in Horsham in 1952.
        • Julie Mordaunt (b. 1954) was born Horsham.
        • Colin J. Mordaunt (b. 1956) was born Horsham. He married 1. Tracy D. Knight in Horsham in 1984 and 2. Sandra A. Parker in Horsham in 1984
          • Carlette Marie Mordaunt (b. May 1991) was born in Crawley.
          • Sandieann Dorothy Mordaunt (b. May 1991) was born in Crawley.
        • Linda R. Mordaunt (b. 1958) was born Horsham. She married Kevin R. Butler in Horsham in 1977.
          • Darrren Glen Butler (b. 1980) was born in Crawley.
          • Kyleigh Lanette Butler (b. 1982) was born in Crawley.
        • Joan E. Mordaunt (b. 1960) was born in Horsham.
        • Elaine J. Mordaunt (b. 1967) was born in Winchester. She married Dave P. Miles in Horsham in 1977.
      • Joan M. Mordaunt (1921 - ?) was born in Horsham, Sussex. She married Frederick C. Haffenden in Horshham in 1941.
        • Maureen Haffenden (b. 1956) was born Surrey.
        • Sheila Haffenden (b. 1948) was born Worthing
      • Mary Mordaunt (1923 - ?) was born in Horsham, Sussex.
      • Edward G. Mordaunt (1925 - ?) was born in Horsham, Sussex.
      • Peter M . Mordaunt (1927 - ?) was born in Horsham, Sussex. He married Beryl D. Cosens in Horsham in 1948
      • Anthony Mordaunt (1928 - ?) was born in Horsham, Sussex.
      • Marie Mordaunt (1923 - ?) was born in Horsham, Sussex. She married John C. Watkins in Horsham in 1955
        • Theresa D. Watkins (b. 1956) was born Horsham.
        • Carole J. Watkins (b. 1958) was born in Horsham.
        • Robert John Watkins (b. 1967) was born in Winchester.

      Descendents of another

    • Edward J. Mordaunt, who married Blanche Jennings in Greenwich in 1920, and now also live in the Crawley area descend further back from the family that, in the late 1600s, was in Devon, above

    Yorkshire

    • Franncis Mordent baptised two children according to the records of the parish of Stonegrave, Yorkshire
      • Franncis Mordent on 18th January 1589
      • Elizabeth Mordent on 20th March 1591

    • Sarah Mordaunt was baptised in the Pontefract district of West Yorkshire in 1733 according to a transcribed record in www.findmypast.com

    • Matthew Mordant was the father of
      • Matthew Mordaunt, baptised at St. Denis, York, on 25th February 1690. Perhaps he did not survive because two years later. an innkeeper, obviously himself a Freeman of the City of York, is listed as the father of
      • Matthew Mordaunt, baptised at St. Denis, York, on 19th June 1692. He seems to have become a successful innkeeper whose children included
        • Elizabeth Mordant baptised at St. Margaret's, York, 2nd June 1719. She was admitted as a Freeman of the City of York sometime 1750/52. It is very noteworthy for a woman to be admitted as a Freeman. Even in 2010 some old cities, my own Gloucester is an example, do not admit women as Freemen. I think she was the only one in the list in British History Online.
        • Dorothy Mordant, baptised at St. Margaret's, York, 12th January 1721
        • Mary Mordant, baptised at St. Margaret's, York, 29th March 1723. A Mary Mordaunt married Charles Emmerson at St. Margaret's, York, on 1st January, 1750.
        • Matthew Mordant, baptised at St. Margaret's, York, 12th January 1725
        • Ann Mordant, baptised at St. Margaret's, York, 17th May 1730
        • Margrett Mordant, baptised at St. Margaret's, York, 26th February 1732

    • John Mordant was the father of
      • Sarah Mordaunt, baptised in Pontefract, Yorkshire, 8th July 1733.

    • George Mordaunt (abt 1800 - 1875) is described in the 1851 census as being born in Gorey, Co Wexford but in the 1861 census as being born in Sheffield. If he was indeed born in Gorey that fits him somewhere in my own family tree. He married Hannah(Anna) Maria Travis (1809 - ?) in 1824 in Preston, Lancashire. He clearly flourished in Yorkshire. In 1851 he was described as a picture dealer, which became "dealer in fine arts" by the 1861 census. If he was born in Gorey he soon established a sense of the Englishness of his name and gave his children names borrowed from the Baronet of Massingham branch of the family. In their first mention in the 1851 census, only the youngest children are named. A Charles Mordaunt (b. abt. 1838), possibly their son, was at Sedgely Park School, a well known Catholic School of the time, in Wolverhampton. Perhaps the other children were away at school also which shows George was doing very well in his business. The Catholic connection supports the idea that George was from Gorey, in which case, he did pretty well for himself for a Gorey-boy!
      • John Travis Mordaunt (2nd April 1829 - ?) was baptised on 5th April 1829 at Norfolk Row Catholic Church, Sheffield. He does not appear in later records and the haste of his baptism suggests he did not long survive.
      • Sarah Mordaunt (abt 1830 - ?). A Sarah Mordaunt married in neighbouring Rotherham in 1850.
      • Martha Mordaunt (2nd July 1831 - ?) was baptised on 21st August 1831 at Norfolk Row Catholic Church, Sheffield. A Martha Augusta Mordaunt married in Hull in 1853.
      • Osbert Mordaunt (abt 1834 - ?) became a dentist. In the 1861 census he was lodging alone in Sheffield but married Helen Wing, an ironmaster's daughter (it was Sheffield after all!), in 1862. In the 1911 census they were living at 97 Meersbrook Park Road, Sheffield. They had children
        • Amina (or Anna in the 1891 census) Mordaunt (abt 1862 - ?). She disappears from the records until the 1891 and 1901 censuses when she is found as a nun, teaching painting and drawing at the Convent of Mercy School in Abingdon, Berkshire. Known as Minnie, or Aunt Minnie to her family, she rose to being Mother Superior
        • Edward Andrew. Mordaunt (1864 - ?). In the 1891 and 1901 censuses he had moved to London where he was working as a "commercial clerk".
        • Francis George Mordaunt (1865 - ?) became a dentist like his father and married Constance Marion (b. abt 1875) in 1899. In 1911 they were living at 49 Clarkegrove Road, Sheffield with two live-in servants.
          • Helen Marion Mordaunt (abt 1900 - ?). At the time of the 1911 census, with her two sisters she was a boarder the Convent of Mercy School at Oxford Road, Abingdon, Berks, where her aunt "Minnie" was a teacher. She married Frederick H. Myers in Sheffield in 1927
            • Joseph Myers (b. 1928)
            • Mary Myers (b. 1929)
          • Constance Agnes Mordaunt (abt 1902 - ?). At the time of the 1911 census, with her two sisters she was a boarder the Convent of Mercy School at Oxford Road, Abingdon, Berks, where her aunt "Minnie" was a teacher.
          • Mary (Molly) Mordaunt (abt 1904 - ?). At the time of the 1911 census, with her two sisters she was a boarder the Convent of Mercy School at Oxford Road, Abingdon, Berks, where her aunt "Minnie" was a teacher.
          • George Mordaunt (abt 1908 - ?). Went to sea and became a Captain in the merchant marine. His great niece Charmaine has a newspaper cutting of him being awarded the OBE for bravery in World War II, especially in taking his supply ships on the dangerous run from Mersa Mutruh to Tobruck. She also told me the romantic tale of his picking up a supply ship at Istanbul, finding it full of refugees. Among the refugees was Anna Gatkin(?) a 22 year old Polish biology student. The ship proceeded to Egypt where the refugees disembarked but Anna was not permitted to do so as she did not have sufficient documentation. However, she fortuitiously contacted appendicitis and was permitted to go to hospital. George sailed away on his next supply run and returned safely went to look up Anna. They eventually married.
          • Oswald Francis Mordaunt (b. 1909) was born in Sheffield. In 1936 he married Violet C. Hunter in Barton, Greater Manchester.
            • Ella/Ellen M. C. Mordaunt (b. 1937) was born in Chapel-en-le-Frith. There, in 1965 she married Michael Bennett.
              • David Michael Bennett (b. 1967) was born in Devizes
              • Paul John Bennett (b. 1969) was born in Devizes
            • John Forsyth Mordaunt (1938 - 2000) was born in Chapel-en-le-Frith
            • Felicity Mordaunt (b. 1942) was born in Chapel-en-le-Frith
            • another son
        • William Travis Mordaunt (abt 1867 - 1874)
        • Osbert Mordaunt (1869 - ?) also became a dentist like his father. He married Grace Evelyn Sayer (abt. 1890 - ?) , twenty years his junior, in Stamford in 1909. At the 1911 census they were living at The Square, Retford, Notts.
          • Clive Osbert Mordaunt (1912 - 1983). Clive married Sylvia Lund (née Poucher) (? - 1959) in 1937
            • (Diana Evelyn Sylvia) Charmaine Mordaunt (b. 1937) was born in Basford, Notts. She married Hugh Jeffrey in Maldon, Essex, in 1967
              • Emma Jane Jeffrey (b. 1968) was born in Maldon
              • Sara Charmaine Jeffrey (b. 1969) was born in Maldon
              Charmaine contacted me and I am very grateful to her for sharing her knowledge of her family with me, filling in gaps and providing new information
            • Thea (Alethea) J. Mordaunt (b. 1940) was born in Grantham. She married Victor Evans in Nottingham in 1962.
              • Louise Elaine Evans (b. 1968) was born in Newark, Notts.
            • Georgina T. Mordaunt (b. 1945) was born in Grantham. She married Peter Stevenson in Basford, Notts., in 1966, after which they seemed to have gone on a tour of the country
              • Cheryl Dawn Stevenson (b. 1967) was born in Swansea
              • Fiona Nicole Stevenson (b. 1971) was born in Ormskirk, close to another branch of the Mordaunt family
              • Adam Peter C. Stevenson (b. 1974) was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria
            • Osbert N. J. Mordaunt (b. 1952) was born in Nottingham. He married 1. Mary Warner
              • Susanna Mordaunt (b. 1979) in Nottingham
              • Louisa Marianne Mordaunt (b. 1981) in Nottingham
              • Edward James O. Mordaunt (b. 1982) in Nottingham
              He married 2. Susan Cupit in Newark, Notts., in 1993
          • Peter J. Mordaunt (1914 - late 1980s) was born in East Retford. A Peter J. Mordaunt married Joan Puckering in Westminster in 1950
        • Ellen Mordaunt (1871 - 1880) was baptised at St Marie's, Sheffield, (since 1980 the cathedral church of the Hallam diocese) on 18th October 1871
        • Thomas Mordaunt (abt 1874 - ?). In the 1891 census he was living at home, described as a dental assistant. He was not listed in the 1901 census.
      • Charles Osmund Mordaunt (17th April 1836 - 1860s) was baptised at Norfolk Row Catholic Church, Sheffield, on 12th June 1836. He was possibly a pupil at Sedgley Park School in Wolverhampton, a well known Catholic School of the period. He was described in the 1861 census as a wine merchant, still living at his parents' house. He married Annie in Sheffield in 1862. He does not appear after the 1871 census but there is the curious mention of a Chas Mordaunt, born 1837, a commercial travellor staying on the night of the census at the Brighton Hotel in Halifax. Could this be Charles? Annie at the same time was visiting her daughter Florence in Peterborough, perhaps preparing for her first grandchild. The 1901 reference to Annie "living on her own means" suggets she was certainly a widow by this time. An otherwise, at the moment, unidentified Charles died in Prestwich, Lancs, in 1899.
        • William Charles Mordaunt (1863 - 1874)
        • Florence Annie T. Mordaunt (1865 - ?) was recorded in the 1881 census as being a boarder at a school in Askern, Yorks. She married in John Burrows in Sheffield in 1890 and at the time of the 1891 census was in Peterborough where her mother was visiting her.
      • Eustace Mordaunt (abt 1839 - ?) His only mentions are in the 1841 (misspelt Mordant) and the 1851 census lists.
      • George Louis/Lewis Mordaunt (1844 - 1905) appears irregularly in the records. Recorded as Louis, he appears in the 1871 census (although they are missing from the www.ancestry.co.uk typesripts) living with his parents in Eccleshall Bierlow, Nether Hallam. In 1901, as Lewis Mordaunt, he was lodging in Sheffied, living "on his own means".
      • Edward Mordaunt (abt 1846 - ?) was born in Sheffield but was living in Throston, Co. Durham, in the 1891 census and in Hartlepool in 1911 (see Co. Durham above). The only place he seems to fit is as George and Hannah Maria's son, especially as he called one of his daughters Hannah Maria, but he is not previously mentioned in the census. There is a possiblity that his birthdate given in 1891 and 1901 is wrong and that he was the same person as Eustace, as the marriage list has an Edward Eustace Mordaunt marrying in Co. Durham in 1873.

      Out of nowhere, with no previous mention in any English record, in the Marriage Index arrives

          • Frederick W Mordaunt (dates unknown), who married Lean Elliott in Sheffield in 1935
            • Barbara Mordaunt (b. 1935) was born in Sheffield. She married David A. Clarke in Sheffield in 1955
              • Steven Clarke (b. 1956) born in Sheffield
              • Paul R. Clarke (b. 1960) born in Sheffield
              • Andrew Clarke (b. 1961) born in Rotheram
              • Christine Clarke (b. 1963) born in Sheffield
              • Debbie Clarke (b. 1964) born in Sheffield
            • Jeanette Mordaunt (b. 1937) was born in Sheffield. She married Derek M. Shaw in Sheffield in 1958
              • Gail Shaw (b. 1960) born in Sheffield
              • Glenn F. Shaw (b. 1960) born in Sheffield
              • Garry Dean Shaw (b. 1961) born in Rotherham
            • Doris Mordaunt (b. 1939) was born in Sheffield.
            • Roy F. Mordaunt (b. 1941) was born in Sheffield. He married Jean Wilkinson in Sheffield in 1964
              • David John Mordaunt (b. 1966) born in Sheffield. He married Maxine P. Fenton in Sheffield in 1987
                • Samantha Aistling Mordaunt (b. 1989) born in Sheffield.
                • Kellie Louise Mordaunt (b. 1991) born in Sheffield.
                • Ben Lewis Mordaunt (b. 1994) born in Barnsley.
              • Diane Michelle Mordaunt (b. 1969) born in Sheffield

      Also out of nowhere, with as yet no clue I have found as to who was the father, but whose mother's maiden name was Dignam, arrives

          • Ursula Mordaunt (b.1916) born in Eccleshall. An Ursula Mordaunt married Ralph W. Brett in Acle, Norfolk in 1947
            • Jonathan D. Brett (b. 1952) was born in the Yarmouth district
            • Frances J. Brett (b. 1952) was born in Acle
          • David Mordaunt (b.1919) born in Eccleshall. He too married a Dignam, Mary P. H. Dignam, in Abergavenny, then Monmouthshire in England and now Gwent in Wales, in 1957.
            • Caroline M. Mordaunt (b. 1958) was born in the Forest of Dene, Gloucesterrshire
            • Anne F. D. Mordaunt (b. 1960) was born in Birmingham. She married Thomas D. Forrester in Cirencester in 1983.
              • Jennifer Claire Forrester (b. 1993) was born in Gloucester
              • Christopher James Forrester (b. 1996) was born in Gloucester
            • William Mordaunt (b. 1964) was born in North Walsham. He married Jane E. Brown in Birmingham in 1994
              • Lucy Mary Mordaunt (b. 1997) was born in Lambeth, London
              • James Richard Mordaunt (b. 2000) was born in Lambeth, London
            • Sarah Elizabeth Mordaunt (b. 1967) was born in North Walsham. A Sarah E. Mordaunt is shown in the Marriage Index as marrying Paul J. Hancock in Cirencester in 2002
              • George Alexander Hancock (b. 2003) was born in Worcester
              • Martha Rose Hancock (b. 2004) was born in Stroud
            • Edward James Mordaunt (b. 1972) was born in Taunton, Somerset

  • "Unattached" references in the Internet records are:
    • Chas Mordaunt (abt1 1837 - ?) apparently born in Bradford! makes a solitary appearance boarding at a hotel in Halifax, working as a commercial traveller. He could have been Charles above and the mention of Bradford a mistake by the hotelier.

    Scotland

    • Henrietta Mordaunt (1681/2 - 1760), daughter of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, married in February 1707 Alexander Gordon, later Duke of Gordon. She was active in Scottish affairs and an account of her life is given in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

    • Charles Mordaunt, a wigmaker, is recorded in the Midlothian: Edinburgh Register of Marriages as marrying Ann, daughter to Alexander Borthwick, carter, both in Tron, 22nd February 1761.
      • Elizabeth Mordaunt was baptised in St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, on 9th April 1767. Her mother's name was transcribed as Agnes Borthwick
      He seems to be the right generation to qualify as a possible father for a
    • Charles Henry Mordaunt who, with Mary Brebner, had baby Rosana Mordaunt baptised on 20th July 1790 in St Nicholas Church in Aberdeen. However, there is no evidence supporting this and another "suspect" of mine is the 5th Earl of Peterborough, whose sister Harriet had married into the Bisset family of Lessendrum in Aberdeenshire, although that was 40 miles odd away.

    • Ann Mordaunt (1761(?) - ?), daughter of James Mordaunt, was baptised in Dumfries on 10th January 1762 according to local records copied for the LDS IGI list.

    • Elizabeth Mordaunt (? - ?), daughter of George Mordaunt, married David Stiven at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, on 19th October 1769.

    • Susannah Mordaunt (? - ?) is recorded in the Midlothian: Edinburgh Register of Marriages as marrying James Gray on 21st March 1830
    • Caroline Mordaunt (abt 1798 - 1831) must be somehow connected. "The affectionate and beloved wife of John Gray, projector of the North British Advertiser," died on Sunday, 30th January 1831 aged 33 years according to a monumental inscription in St Cuthbert's chuchyard, Edinburgh.
    • Dorothy Mordaunt (abt 1786 -?) is listed in the 1841 census in a large household of Grays, including a 7 year-old Mordaunt Gray. It is likely therefore she was an elder sister to Caroline.

    • In the 1841 census William Mordaunt, an English East India merchant, his wife, Lucy and their children Mary, William, George and Alfred, were in Magdalene Green, Dundee. They returned to London shortly after and their details are given on the Mordaunt Family in London page

    • Henry G. Mordaunt (abt 1851 - ?) is listed in the 1881 census as born in Edinburgh and working as a "labourer (floorcloth)", whatever that may be and boarding with the Smart family in St Clair Street, Dysart. In the 1891 census he has married Ann H. (abt 1852 - ?) from Fifeshire, still working as a floorcloth labourer and living in Dysart. In 1901 he had progressd to being linoleum labourer. They seem to have had no children.

    • Edward Mordaunt (abt 1844 - ?), a master mariner, born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey (see Channel islands above) was perhaps at sea for the 1881 census but his wife, Wilhemina (abt 1855 - ?) from Paisley, is recorded in the parish of St. Nicholas, Aberdeenshire, working as a provision dealer. However, they were together for the 1891 census in Govan, Glasgow. None of the family are recorded in Scotland in the 1901 census.
      • Edward Mordaunt (abt 1890 - ?) was born in Glasgow.

    • Francis J. Mordaunt (abt 1859 - ?) was is recorded in the 1891 census as born in the Isle of Man. He was working as a bill poster and living in a house of refuge for the destitute in Canongate, Edinburgh. However, by 1901 he was a sewing machine salesman, married to Alison N. (abt 1870 - ?) from Crossgates, Fifeshire.
      • John F. N. Mordaunt (abt 1897 - ?) was born in Arbroath
      • Margaret C. M. Mordaunt (abt 1900 - ?) was born in Montrose

    Wales

    • William Mordaunt (abt 1631 - 1707), youngest son of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 2nd Baronet, married Anne Butler of Scovis Town (var. Scovistown, Scavington, Scovaston and Scoveston), Pembrokshire, on 22nd July 1656 at St Benet's, Paul's Wharf. In 1661 they were enjoying the Butler estate at Hilton before moving to the main Butler residence, Scoveston. Among anything else, he achieved office in Wales in the "Court of the Marches of Wales" and as "officer of receiving answers, replications, rejoiners etc." whatever they may have been; perhaps they were the same appointment (Calender of State Papers Domestic, Charles II, December 1662). Before his death he left Wales for an estate in Devon.

    • A Juliette Mordaunt (abt 1863 - ?), born in Limeray, France, is recorded as a general servant to James Buckley, brewer, in Llanelly, in the 1881 census

    • On the date of the 1891 census, Adela, Irene, Cicely, Osbert and Lilian Mordaunt, the children from baronet's family at Walton Hall, were holidaying(?), perhaps under the supervision of the two nurses also boarding, in Llandundno

    • Thomas Mordaunt (abt 1856 - ?), an able seaman born in Woolwich was living in St. Mary, Glamorgan (now called Powys) with his wife Mary, (abt 1866 - ?) from Ilfracombe, Devon.
      • Albert E. Mordaunt (abt. 1904 - ?) born in Cardiff. He married Olive Mayled in Cardiff in 1926.

    I've no idea from where

    The following could come from a family already listed elsewhere in this website or may be a completely "new" family. That is the point. I do not know! The East India Company was a handy repository for illegitimate sons and it could be the case that some of those following taken from the records of the East India Company may have been such "embarrassing" offspring

    • Lewis Mordaunt (abt. 1759 - 1781), Lieutenant. The records of the East India Company held at the National Library, records:
      "In Memory of Lieut. Lewis Mordauntt, who departed this life 19th September 1781, In the 22nd year of his age, South Park St. Burial Bengal Ground Calcutta

    • John Mordaunt, Captain, Artillery, had three illegitimate children baptised in Calcutta, Bengal, on 1st April 1790, according to East India Company records held at the National Library. Although there are some differences over his status and rank, it is a posssibility that these are the children of John Mordaunt, illegitimate son of Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough, or maybe not.
      • Sophia Mordaunt (abt. December 1785 - ?), recorded as aged 4 years 4 months
      • Lewis Mordaunt (abt. February 1788 - ?), recorded as aged 1 years 11 months
      • Gertrude Christina Mordaunt (abt. June 1789 - ?), recorded as aged 9 months

    • William Osbert Mordaunt, according to East India Company records held at the National Library, married Francisco Rebeiro in Calcutta on 31st July, 1805. Either the East India Company was two hundred years ahead of its time in toleration or this must be a mistranscription. I prefer to think she may have been Francesca Rebeiro, which I believe to have been a Spanish name

    • Martin O. Mordaunt, according to East India Company records held at the National Library, died in Bengal on 5th April, 1818.

    • William Mordaunt, according to East India Company records held at the National Library, was buried 6th January, 1826. at Ft William. I presume this refers to Fort William in Calcutta, rather than the better known one in Scotland. He was listed as a pensioner supported on the Charitable Fund.

    • William Mordaunt, according to East India Company records held at the National Library, was a writer who married Ann Rechay (not a surname I have found anywhere else - is this another mistranscription?) in Berhampore, in the Bengal presidency, on 17th June, 1828.

    • Richard Lovall Mordaunt (1834? - 1840), according to East India Company records held at the National Library, was buried on 19th December, 1840, in Bengal. The National Library index seems to me to suggest he was 6 years old, a ward at the "Free School."

      References:

      1841 Census Records - 1851 Census Records - 1861 Census Records - 1871 Census Records
      1881 Census Records - 1891 Census Records - 1901 Census Records
      Birth Index 1837 - 1915 - Marriage Index 1837 - 1915 - Death Index 1837 - 1915

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