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John Bristow (c1750-1802) of Calcutta

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Re: John Bristow (c1750-1802) of Calcutta

Posted: 5 Sep 2011 2:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 5 Sep 2011 3:03PM GMT
There is a distant connection between this John Bristow (c1750-1802) and Gloucester County, Virginia.

John's grandfather was Robert Bristow, born in Virginia in December 1662. This Robert was son of another Robert Bristow, probably born at Binsted in Hampshire (England) about 1634, who emigrated to Virginia in 1660, marrying there sometime during the following year or two. His (first) wife was Averilla Curtis of Ware in Gloucester County, Virginia. Bristow became a successful merchant and grocer in Stafford County, Virginia, but ended up in prison having favoured Governor Berkeley during Bacon's rebellion. Following this setback, in the summer of 1676 he returned to England, his first wife Averilla may have died by this time. Robert had a successful career as a merchant in London, becoming an alderman in 1687. He died in 1707 and was buried in Tabernacle Alley.

There were two children of this first marriage, namely Robert and Averilla, both probably born in Virginia. They very likely sailed to England with their father in 1676, ending this familys direct connection with the U.S.A.

Bristows first wife, Averilla, was certainly dead by November 1680, at which time he married Susanna Madgwick, whose family were also merchants in London.

Averilla, the daughter, married firstly William Wagstaff, a merchant taylor of London. He died in 1684 and the following year at Mortlake in Surrey (England) she married Arthur Bailey. She had at least one daughter from each of her marriages, her daughter Averilla Wagstaff also marrying into the Madgwick family.

The son, Robert Bristow (1662-1706), was not only a merchant like his father, but served as Member of Parliament for Winchelsea and became a Director of the Bank of England. He purchased, with his fathers assistance, the manor of Micheldever in Hampshire. This Robert married in London in 1685 Katherine daughter of Robert Woolley, a London vintner and merchant whose wife had connections to the famous Samuel Pepys. One of their younger sons, John Bristow (1701-1768), purchased Quidenham Hall in Norfolk (England) as mentioned above in an earlier post.

Averilla Curtis of Ware in Gloucester County, Virginia, was a daughter of the Thomas Curtis who was granted the land at Ware in 1642. He may be the same Thomas Curtis who sailed to America on the Flyinge Harte in 1621, aged 24, as a servant to Daniel Gookin, one of the co-founders of Newport News in Virginia.
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