4th Great Grandparents; Colonel Paris William Bradshaw and Maria Hearsey

Lieutenant -Colonel Paris Bradshaw 1764-1821 and  Charlotte Maria Hearsey (1788-1848)

Colonel P. W. A Bradshawe 1807-1885

Thomas Christie Bradshaw 1838-1880

Ada Bradshaw 1874-1938

William Archibald Scott 1905-1979

Janice Adrienne Scott NaN-

Tania Lynne Jessep-Pond

Paris Bradshaw (1764-1821)

Paris Bradshaw was born in 1764 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He married Charlotte Maria Hearsey in 1804. They had five children in 27 years. He died on August 9, 1821, in Patna, Bihar, India, at the age of 57. It was believed at the time that Colonel Bradshaw was poisoned with diamond dust by a trusted servant who, found by him as an infant deserted by the roadside, had been brought up in his house. The murder was said to hav e been committed on the instigation of the King of Oudh, whose enmity Colonel Bradshaw had incurred when First Assistant to the then Resident, Colonel Collins, by the refusal, with considerable heat, of a large present offered him by the king. 

Paris had a very successful career. Between September 1797 AND 10 OCT 1798 he was Resident (acting) at the Court of Scindia. (Sindhya)  From about 1810 to about 1812 he acted as Secretary to the Residency at Lucknow. By 1816 he was Political Agent for the East India Company and Lieutenant Colonel H.E.I.C.S. Lucknow and Patna, India.  Paris was, on 2 DEC 1815 ,Signatory to the Treaty of Sugauli (On behalf of H.E.I.C.) 

We do have some clue about his personality. His brother-in-law, John Bennet Hearsey, visited him in and recorded some aspects of the visit in the book,  The Hearseys : five generations of an Anglo-Indian family  (by Pearce) He stated that Paris was " a gentleman of the old school; he must have been about fifteen or twenty years senior to my sister, and was exceedingly prosaic.

In those days he wore powder and a pigtail. He received me very affectionately, and a spare room in the house near the Residency gateway was allotted to me". (p. 58)

Below; Signing of the Treaty of Sagauli 1816 By Unknown - scan from a book, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17854778

Charlotte Maria Hearsey (1788-1848)

When Charlotte Maria Hearsey was born on May 23, 1788, in Walton on Thames, Surrey, England, her father, Andrew, was 36, and her mother, Charlotte, was 19. She married Paris Bradshaw in 1804. They had five children in 27 years. She died on August 30, 1848, in Folkestone, Kent, England, at the age of 60.

Note: The Will of Paris Bradshaw

Will of Paris Bradshaw, Lt Col in the Service of the East India Company (PROB 11/2086 f47) Will dated 5 Jun 1820, Admon with Will granted 16 Jan 1849 to Paris William Augustus Bradshawe, Charlotte Bradshawe spinster, Mary Ann Carr widow - admo n of goods of Charlotte Maria Bradshawe widow deceased, while living the relict and residuary legatee named in the said Will. The said Charlotte Maria Bradshawe, George Bradshawe Esq the brother, Charles Stuart and George Dick survived the said de ceased but died without having taken upon them the probate and execution thereof.

The Will itself allows for the support and maintenance of 'my beloved wife Charlotte Maria Bradshawe' maintenance support and education of my surviving children. His son George Paris Bradshawe, Capt in 77th Regt of Foot had already received his po rtion. Executors named were Charlotte Maria (residuary legatee) 'beloved brother' George Bradshawe, 'valued friends' Maj Gen Charles Stuart and Col George Dick.

Below; The Seal of Paris Bradshaw from the Khali collections