MMDF Chap Fourteen Appendix Two

About 1720-30, Hannah Barber or Barbour married . . . Fennell.  Hannah had three brothers, William, John, and Edward.  Edward Barber was a Captain in the navy (Post Captain, June, 1756); he died in the year 1762, when his will, now at Somerset House, was proved.  The will was made at Hornsey, in the year 1755, and in it he mentions his sister, Hannah Fennell, and her children, Samuel, John, William Barber, George, Ann, and Frances.  He has nieces, Carter and Curtis, and a cousin, Horabin.  His brothers, William and John, are his executors.  William Barber died at Exeter in the year 1777.  His will was proved January 27, 1777.  He desires that he may be buried in the grave of his brother John, in the churchyard of St David’s, Exeter.  His burial, January 5, 1777, is in the register of the church.  No monument to him can be found in the church or churchyard; but there is in the latter a large flat stone to the memory of a James Barber, who died at Bedminster, Bristol, in August, 1828, aged sixty-one.  William Barber’s will mentions his nephews, Samuel, John, George, William Barber, and nieces, Frances Barton, Penelope (who married (1) Thomas Redstone, died 1757, aet. forty; (2) . . . Garratt), and Elizabeth Curtis.  He leaves legacies to Anne (Redstone), wife of Captain Robert Linzie, R.N., and to her spinster sister, Elizabeth Bowles Redstone.  (Elizabeth subsequently married Jacob Warner, Esq., from whom Sir Joseph Warner descended, and had a large family.)

1 Samuel Fennell was born in the year 1722. He went into business as a goldsmith and jeweller, settled at Andover, where he became a J.P., and was once or twice mayor of the town. He married his cousin, Mabella Barber. Samuel Fennell died in the year 1802; his burial is in the Andover Church register. His will was proved in the year 1802, and is at Somerset House; in it he mentions his wife Mabella and their children. Samuel and Mary had issue:

2 William Barber Fennell.

2 George Fennell, second son of Samuel, married, on February 27, 1798, Elizabeth Robinson, born October 21, 1776, daughter of Martin Robinson and Mary Ellithorn. George Fennell, buried at Holy Trinity Church, Fareham, died May 1, 1839.  George and Elizabeth had issue:

3 George Fennell.

3 Samuel Fennell.

3 Frances Fennell, born March 17, 1802, married, on August 13, 1823, at Marylebone Parish Church, Daniel Macnamara, Surgeon, R.N. (Macnamara pedigree, registered at the College of Arms, of Dublin and of London), and had issue:

4 John Clavering Macnamara.

4 George Houseman Macnamara.

4 Eliza Macnamara.

4 Henry Macnamara.

4 Daniel Macnamara.

4 Francis Nottidge born at Uxbridge, April 11, 1831 married, at the Savoy Chapel, on May 3, 1852, Amy, third daughter of Frederick Dawes Danvers, Esq., son of John Danvers and Henrietta Fennell (refer Appendix One), and had issue:

5 Henry Danvers Macnamara, born Calcutta, 24 May 1854, M.A., Magdalen College, Oxford, Rector of St James’s, Garlichithe, and Honorary Minor Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral. Henry married, 9 January 1879, Alice Glanville (born 12 November 1851, the daughter of Charles Fanshaw Glanville) and had issue: 14.2.1

6 Robert Danvers Macnamara, born Great Berkhampstead, 9 September 1881.

6 Michael Francis Macnamara, born 27 August 1884.

6 Arthur Macnamara, born 18 September 1887.

6 Elsie Macnamara, born 20 Jun 1889.

5 Eric Danvers Macnamara, B.A., St Peter’s College, Cambridge.

4 Nottidge Charles Macnamara, born 1832, married, on 6 March 1865 at Fort William, Calcutta, Bengal, Mia Louisa Bayley (born 25 September 1845, daughter of Hon. Henry Vincent Bayley) and had issue:

5 Nora Macnamara.

5 Adeline Macnamara.

5 Oona Macnamara.

5 Charles Carroll Macnamara, born 23 May 1875, died 14 July 1916.

5 Sheila Macnamara.

5 Maive Macnamara

5 Dorothy Macnamara

5 Rear-Admiral Sir Patrick Macnamara, KBE, CB, died 1957, married Ellen Floyd Nickerson of Boston, Massachusetts.  Patrick and Ellen had issue:

6 Patrick Carroll Macnamara,14.2.2 born 28 February 1923, married, on 25 November 1950, Avril Thompson.  Carroll and Avril had issue:

7 Rory Patrick Macnamara, born 2 January 1955, married, on 8 April 1986, Mary Clare Asquith.

7 James Justin Macnamara, born 28 October 1956, married, on 6 July 1985, Marcelle von Schoenberg.

7 Frances Ellen Macnamara, born 27 June 1959.

6 Ellen Floyd Macnamara, born 1925.

6 Honora Mia Macnamara, born 1927.

4 Fanny Macnamara.

4 Nora Macnamara.

4 Carrol Macnamara.

4 James Macnamara.

4 Mary Emily Macnamara

4 Oona Macnamara.

3 Eliza Fennell.

3 John Robinson Fennell.

3 William Barber Fennell.

3 Mary, the third daughter, married Edward Fuller Danvers, Esq., son of John Danvers and Henrietta Fennell (refer Appendix One).  Mary and Edward had issue including:

4 Augustus, the eldest, born April 11, 1832, late Captain in the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal service, married, on August 3, 1864, at Trinity Church, Paddington, Margaret Elyetson Burra, and had issue:

5 Robert Danvers, married, July 12, 1893, Sylvia Bertha Ford, and had issue.

3 Alfred Fennell, the youngest son, born July 28, 1810, later the Rev. Alfred Fennell, (still alive in 1895) late Chaplain in the Honourable East India Company’s service, of Mercara, Madras Presidency.  Alfred had issue (not listed here).

3 Anna Maria Fennell.

2 John Fennell.

2 Frances Fennell.

2 Henrietta Fennell.

1 John Fennell, son of Hannah Fennell, was executor to his uncle, William Barber.  He was in the pay department of the navy, and in the year 1786 was chief clerk for the payment of wages at Chatham.  On August 22, 1762, he married Frances, one of the daughters of Samuel Brady, Esq., M.D., physician to the forces at Portsmouth, and his wife, Anne Colby, and by her had a large family.  Frances Fennell died July 18, 1793, aged fifty-two.  A tombstone in the central aisle of Gillingham Church, near Chatham, marks her grave.  Her husband died in the year 1811, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s, Rochester.

2 William Fennell, the eldest son, of John and Frances Fennell, was born June 18, 1763.

2 James Fennell, born December 11, 1766, wrote An Apology for the Life of James Fennell, published at Philadelphia, U.S.A., in the year 1814.  James was educated at Eton, and gives many curious reminiscences of his life in college.  He also mentions that, not long before his birth, his father returned from New York, where he had been in the suite of one of the governors, and that he became chief of the treasury of the Navy Pay Office.  He ranks amongst his kinswomen the wives of Admirals Hood, Boyer, Curtis and Linzie.  Four of his brothers were in the navy, and ‘fought and bled for their country.’

2 John Fennell.

2 George Fennell.

2 Thomas Fennell.

2 Edward Fennell.

2 Henrietta Fennell married John Danvers. Henrietta was born March 2, 1765; she married, at St Nicholas Church, Rochester, John Danvers, Esq., of Hornsey; died May 31, 1836, and was buried in her husband’s and his father’s grave at Hornsey. (Refer Appendix One.)

2 Mary Ann Fennell.

2 Frances Fennell.

2 Charlotte Fennell.

1 George Fennell.

1 William Barber Fennell.

1 Frances Fennell married ..... Barton.

1 Penelope Fennell married (1) Thomas Redstone, died 1757, and had issue:

2 Anne Redstone married Captain Robert Linzie, R.N.

2 Elizabeth Bowles Redstone, married Jacob Warner, Esq.

  Penelope Fennell married (2) . . . Garratt.

1 Elizabeth Fennell married ..... Curtis.

1 Anne Fennell.

NOTES TO CHAPTER FOURTEEN

14.2.1  Various details of the Macnamara family from Visitation of England and Wales (Vol. 3, p. 92) edited by Joseph Jackson Howard LLD, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, and Frederick Arthur Crisp (printed privately 1895).

14.2.2  The editors are indebted to Patrick Carroll Macnamara for his help in the search for the descendants of Francis Nottidge Macnamara.

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