I am writing from Toowoomba, Australia. Being a descendent of the Whaling Enderbys and writing a book on them I soon found out the connection of Enderbys with Greenwich & Blackheath, also Paul’s Wharfe in London. My investigations lead me to beleive that the reason for colonising Australia was Whales, not to dispose of the convicts except to provide a safe port for whalers. Capt. Cook who was along the east coast of Australia in what is now whale watching months did not record seeing a whale at all. Cook may have been a distant relative of the Enderbys, through Daniel Enderby II marrying Mary Cook on 29th June 1708 and/or through the Gordons the most famous of which was General Gordon of Khartoum. What is not generally known is that Mary Enderby(8th. November 1757) married American Nathaniel Wheatley on the 10th November 1773 in St. Bennet’s church Pau’ls Wharfe which was the same day the brides fathers two ships sailed down the Thames to the Boston Tea Party. The newly weds catching the ship at Deal, passage down the Thames could be very slow.
Samuel is a family name so I have numbered them, the most important to History being Samuel II & III. Sam II lived in Hamilton House Greenwich/Blackheath, the position of which I can not find out. When his wife died Sam II went back to his favourite house in Earles St. near the Artillery Ground and the Nonconformist Cemetry the Enderbys up to 1800 were nonconformists within the Church of England, I think it is true to say they supported the church of Henry the eighth, whose four poster bed they had untill 1910, it was carved with the arms of Henry and Catherine of Aragon. editor i can supply more if you wish. Keith Dawson.
Hi Rob,
Did not see that you published my email until today the 11/08/09 when I was looking for information on Nathaniel Wheatley who married 16 year old Mary Enderby and honeymooned on Beavor to Boston and the Tea Party, The Beavor being quarantined for a nonexistent smallpox case which I contend was a ruse to keep Mary out of expected trouble, as the Tea Party was a put up job by the powers that were at the time. The Beavor was according to Gov. Hutchings 1829 book on Massachusetts 200 years[1629-1829] Hauled to the same wharf(Griffins) that the other two ships had been tied up to; after the tea was disposed of the ship was hauled to the Wharf where London Ships generally unloaded. Hutchins was the Governor at the time of the Tea Party. Nathaniel was to replace Francis Rotch as Enderby agent in America, Rotch was the owner of the third ship and the first into port, so very conveniently Rotch could speak for all three ships. There is a intercepted letter from Samuel II to Nathaniel dated December 1775, addressed to Providence Rhode Island, this letter is in the National Archives who can not find out where it was intercepted by the British Authorities due to the Freedom of Information Act– after234 years!; a copy of the letter is in the American Congress Library, making a lot of historians think it was intercepted by the US navy, All this makes me believe that I am on the right track,that there was a conspiracy and Sam II was in it along with the Earl of Sandwich,Lord Stanhope, Pitt The Younger, the Earl of St. Germains who may have been just Lord Elliot at the time. Sam II was in the business of land development at his death in 1797 with Lord Elliot, Sir John Boyd of Danton and the Duke of Dartmouth.Mary Wheatley nee Enderby arrived in London in 1781 with two daughters Mary and Elizabeth all three lived in a house not far from the Chocolate House patronised by King George III when he visited his daughter in Law Caroline Amelia Princess of Wales, wife of George IV, who lived in the Earl of Sandwich’s House(s) The last two daughters of Samuel were Caroline and Amelia.
The Scarf worn by Samuel Enderby IV when a 16 year old midi aboard HMS Defence at Trafalgar is exhibited in the Maritime Museum and by them on the net. Samuel Iv had been kicked out of the family home and firm and cut out of his fathers will of the time. One wonders what a 16 year old could do to deserve such treatment.
Cooms Hill was a place of 18th. Century intrigue. More in a while. Keith Dawson
I am writing from Toowoomba, Australia. Being a descendent of the Whaling Enderbys and writing a book on them I soon found out the connection of Enderbys with Greenwich & Blackheath, also Paul’s Wharfe in London. My investigations lead me to beleive that the reason for colonising Australia was Whales, not to dispose of the convicts except to provide a safe port for whalers. Capt. Cook who was along the east coast of Australia in what is now whale watching months did not record seeing a whale at all. Cook may have been a distant relative of the Enderbys, through Daniel Enderby II marrying Mary Cook on 29th June 1708 and/or through the Gordons the most famous of which was General Gordon of Khartoum. What is not generally known is that Mary Enderby(8th. November 1757) married American Nathaniel Wheatley on the 10th November 1773 in St. Bennet’s church Pau’ls Wharfe which was the same day the brides fathers two ships sailed down the Thames to the Boston Tea Party. The newly weds catching the ship at Deal, passage down the Thames could be very slow.
Samuel is a family name so I have numbered them, the most important to History being Samuel II & III. Sam II lived in Hamilton House Greenwich/Blackheath, the position of which I can not find out. When his wife died Sam II went back to his favourite house in Earles St. near the Artillery Ground and the Nonconformist Cemetry the Enderbys up to 1800 were nonconformists within the Church of England, I think it is true to say they supported the church of Henry the eighth, whose four poster bed they had untill 1910, it was carved with the arms of Henry and Catherine of Aragon. editor i can supply more if you wish. Keith Dawson.
Thank you for sharing that Keith. I emailed you to see if you wanted to expand on it but your mailbox is full.
Hi Rob,
Did not see that you published my email until today the 11/08/09 when I was looking for information on Nathaniel Wheatley who married 16 year old Mary Enderby and honeymooned on Beavor to Boston and the Tea Party, The Beavor being quarantined for a nonexistent smallpox case which I contend was a ruse to keep Mary out of expected trouble, as the Tea Party was a put up job by the powers that were at the time. The Beavor was according to Gov. Hutchings 1829 book on Massachusetts 200 years[1629-1829] Hauled to the same wharf(Griffins) that the other two ships had been tied up to; after the tea was disposed of the ship was hauled to the Wharf where London Ships generally unloaded. Hutchins was the Governor at the time of the Tea Party. Nathaniel was to replace Francis Rotch as Enderby agent in America, Rotch was the owner of the third ship and the first into port, so very conveniently Rotch could speak for all three ships. There is a intercepted letter from Samuel II to Nathaniel dated December 1775, addressed to Providence Rhode Island, this letter is in the National Archives who can not find out where it was intercepted by the British Authorities due to the Freedom of Information Act– after234 years!; a copy of the letter is in the American Congress Library, making a lot of historians think it was intercepted by the US navy, All this makes me believe that I am on the right track,that there was a conspiracy and Sam II was in it along with the Earl of Sandwich,Lord Stanhope, Pitt The Younger, the Earl of St. Germains who may have been just Lord Elliot at the time. Sam II was in the business of land development at his death in 1797 with Lord Elliot, Sir John Boyd of Danton and the Duke of Dartmouth.Mary Wheatley nee Enderby arrived in London in 1781 with two daughters Mary and Elizabeth all three lived in a house not far from the Chocolate House patronised by King George III when he visited his daughter in Law Caroline Amelia Princess of Wales, wife of George IV, who lived in the Earl of Sandwich’s House(s) The last two daughters of Samuel were Caroline and Amelia.
The Scarf worn by Samuel Enderby IV when a 16 year old midi aboard HMS Defence at Trafalgar is exhibited in the Maritime Museum and by them on the net. Samuel Iv had been kicked out of the family home and firm and cut out of his fathers will of the time. One wonders what a 16 year old could do to deserve such treatment.
Cooms Hill was a place of 18th. Century intrigue. More in a while. Keith Dawson
It is one year since I emailed you last in regard to the Enderby’s. during that year I have had published my book
http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/CarolinePrincessOfWales&OtherForgottenPeople.html
Which you may find interesting.Can be ordered through Amazon.