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www.apperleys.co.uk/wynneapperleys.htm (Part of www.wells-genealogy.org.uk) If you have anything to add to this page, please e-mail: Rosie Updated 17 November 2008
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The Wynne Apperleys Jackie Rainbow nee Apperley has in her possession The History of the Apperleys by Mary Apperley nee Hutchinson. The book contains several family trees that are faded and difficult to read. In time, she hopes to rewrite it. In the meantime, she has been most generous in allowing us to post on the website a letter written by Mary Apperley on completion of the book, a transcript of which is shown below. The problems identified in its content will no doubt be familiar to many researchers! The book's Prologue is dated 1913, and the book was printed in 1916.
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| My dear Herbert
Mary Apperley. January, 1913 |
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APPERLEY LINEAGE Look HERE for the Coat of Arms It is intended that the this Apperley page will contain a summary of the history of the Herefordshire Apperley family up to and before 'Wynne' became an oft-used additional forename for descendants. At present it concentrates on the descendants of Thomas APPERLEY b1730. Any additions / amendments would be very welcome. Please contact me. Rosie Basic line of descent pre 1730 (indicated on birth pages by green infill) Thomas APPERLEY of Foy, b 3 Oct 1545 Fownhope, Fownhope 2 Aug 1568=Ann b15 Mar 1549
He moved to Plas Gronow in 1774 and remained there until the early 1800s when he moved to Wotton in Gloucestershire. According to Surtees, Thomas 'was anything but wealthy, an annuity he enjoyed for his services to Sir Watkin WYNN forming no inconsiderable part of his income.' Although Surtees asserted that Thomas ' buoyed himself up with the expectation of a reversionary interest he had in a small estate called Rudhall in Herefordshire' and that 'when it did fall in after Mr Apperley senior's death, Nimrod's elder brother was found to have sold the reversion', E. D. Cuming, in Nimrod's My Life and Times, said that Thomas had arranged the reversion of Rudhall so that his younger children could be provided for. Since he only possessed an esxtate worth under £800 at his death, it is believed that, during his lifetime, his signed over to his sons the money raised by reversion. ........................... Known children of Thomas APPERLEY b1730 d 1811=Ann WYNNE d1818:
Charles James APPERLEY was the second son, and fourth of eight children, of Thomas APPERLEY b 1730 Herefordshire, d 1814, (tutor to Sir Watkin Williams WYNNE) 1778 Plasgronow, =Ann WYNNE b1731, d1818 intestate, daughter of Welsh poet Rev William WYNNE of Llangynhafel near Ruthin. Charles James APPERLEY (Major) aka sports writer 'Nimrod', b 22 July 1778 Plas Gronow Denbighshire. He was educated at Rugby School (boarder) from 1789 to 1798. He entered commercial life briefly, assisted by the husband of his mother's friend, Mr FRYER of Taplow Lodge, Gloucestershire, a go-between for the foreign wool suppliers whose raw materials were made into cloth. After an unsuccessful spell at Fryer's business in Aldermanbury, Fryer found Charles a position with a well-known clothier in Chalford, Stroud, but that too was rejected. Eventually Charles received a commission in Sir Watkin Wynne's Fencible Cavalry Regt called the Ancient British Light Dragoons. He was gazetted as youngest cornet 1 April 1798, serving in Ireland during the suppression of the rebellion that year. He became a Lieutenant 18 months later on the 23 February 1799 and also acted as Paymaster. In April 1800 the regiment was disbanded and he was discharged, drawing six months' pay up to 3 April. He met his first wife in Bath where she was wintering with her widowed mother. His first marriage: 25 August 1801 Llanegryn, Merioneth=Elizabeth WYNNE b 4 Jul 1777 Merioneth d 4 Jun 1834, daughter of William WYNNE of Wern, High Sheriff of Merionethshire (1772) and Montgomeryshire (1773) b1745 d 20 Jul 1796?, Dec 1771=Jane WILLIAMS of Peniarth. Elizabeth was also a cousin of Sir Watkin Williams WYNNE, Bart, of Wynnstay, Denbighshire. After marriage, they spent about a year with Charles's father at Wotton House. Eventually, they rented a house in Hinckley Leicestershire. In 1804, Charles Apperley moved to Bilton Hall, near Rugby, where he hunted with the Quorn, the Pytchley, and the Warwickshire hounds. In 1809 they moved to Bitterley Court, Ludlow, in Shropshire. Between 1805 - 7, Charles enlisted in the Shropshire yeomanry. 21 May 1810 he joined the Nottinghamshire militia (known as the Sherwood Foresters) as Captain. Later he moved to Brewood in Staffordshire, and then to Beaurepaire House in Hampshire, the ancient home of the Brocas family, where he lost considerable amounts of money in ill-founded farming experiments. He served in Plymouth before resigning his commission 21 February 1812. During their marriage, they lived in a number of places in Wales and the Midlands, and when experiencing financial difficulties, Elizabeth's family helped them. After her husband resigned his commission, he joined his family in Peniarth. In 1813, Charles and Elizabeth moved with their children to Tygwyn, Llanbelig on the outskirts of Caernarvon, a house of an estate owned by William Wynne. Charles and Elizabeth had seven children, three sons (one dying in infancy) and four daughters. In 1819, Charles moved to Brewood Hall, near Stafford, and also near Chiilington often visited by his intimate friend John Mytton. After various difficulties, in 1820, Elizabeth left Charles and took her children to Hampton, Middlesex where she died 4 May 1834. In 1821, Charles moved to lodgings in Blackfriars Road, London, remaining there until summer 1822 when he moved to Beaurepaire near Basingstoke. That house remained his home until November 1831. He created the role of gentleman hunting correspondent and wrote under a number of pseudonyms such as Acastus, Eques, 'A'. He wrote his first article for Sporting Magazine as Nimrod in January 1822. He was an expert on hunting, horse-riding and horse management, and he often indulged his other passion for coach driving, of the Holyhead mail and other North Wales coaches. He made money by buying and selling horses and by horse racing, sometimes choosing to ride himself. He was a member of the Kingscote Club. From 1824 until 1828, he worked as the magazine representative, Nimrod, earning £1,500 p.a. (including travel costs and the stabling of his hunters). In his heyday, he was known for his authority, skills and charm, but his secure reign ended with the death of magazine proprietor, Mr. Pittman, in 1827. The new owners were unwilling to raise their writer's salary despite his protests, and so, by 1829, he no longer contributed to the magazine. Previous private loans and insurance premiums led to disputes between Nimrod and his former employers, and eventually, in 1830 -1, he fled to Calais to avoid imprisonment for debt. There he began writing for Sporting Review.
During
his life, Charles sat for his portrait with two artists: Edward Francis
Finden (1791-1857) and Daniel Maclise (1806-1870), history and portrait
painter. Tenant of Bilton Hall, between Dunchurch & Rugby (former home of Edward de Vere and Joseph Addison); brief lodger at Thayer St, Manchester Sq, London; Bitterley Court, SAL; Wotton House, Gloucester; Beaurepaire Manor, Bramley, Hampshire, where he wrote many of his sporting stories. Known children of Charles James APPERLEY:
Known children of Colonel
William Wynne APPERLEY
b 22 March, bap 24 Mar 1807
Bitterley Court
SAL, d reg B1870 Machynlleth (Morben Lodge
where Lt Col Wallace, 53rd Regiment was living in 1816) (Will 25 Apr 1870),
educated Shrewsbury; Cadet Papers 1823-4, British Library: IOR/L/MIL/9/151/269-74 [n.d.] 4th
Bengal Light Lancers;in 1856 he inherited Morben Lodge from his aunts, the Misses WILLIAMS,
the 'ladies of Morben':1 May 1837 St James' Kurnaul, Punjab, India =Catherine
Esther WALLACE b 31 Aug 1815 Java, d14 Mar 1887 Mill Court, Alton,
Southampton, late of Nursling, bur St Mary of the Assumption, Froyle,
17 Mar 1887, ref 6/7w, of Mill Court Binstead,
eldest daughter of Lt Col Newton WALLACE, 53rd Regt Bengal Army, b
24 During their two years' stay in Australia (1845 - 1847), William Wynne (who was there to buy horses for the Indian army) and Catherine leased Bungarribee. They were popular members of Sydney society and, as a result, their images were cast in wax before leaving Australia. He retired in 1861 and received a pension from the Indian Government. He died at Morne Lodge in 1870 and was buried at St Peters, Machynlleth. See John Moore's Apperley images on the Apperley Researchers' page
-------------------------------------- Known children of Herbert Wynne born 22 May 1842 Poosah / Tirhoot / Patna, West Bengal, INDIA; Cadet papers (BL) IOR/L/MIL/9/162/37-40 1951890; 1882 Umbullah, INDIA=Constance Mary LYONS-MONTGOMERY bc 1852-4 Ireland; Alverstoke; Lymington, Southampton
------------------------------------- Known children of William Wynne APPERLEY b16 April 1844 Poosah / Tirhoot, INDIA, d 'of Holybourne' 6 Sep 1891 Alton, d reg C1891 Alton, bur 10 Sep 1891 Froyle, as a result of a hunting accident; B 1882 Westminster/Poosah=Margaret TREMENHEERE bc1844 (or 1861) Punjab, India (2nd marriage of Margaret); 15 Chapel St, Park Lane, Middlesex; The Lawn, Holybourne, Southampton.
2nd marriage, Tangier=Enriqueta Contreras Carretero> sons Eduardo and Henrico Alton, HANTS; Torquay; West Hampstead London -------------------------- Known children of Newton Wynne APPERLEY born 29 Jul 1846 Bungarribee and bap 26 Sep 1846 St Bart's C of E Prospect, NSW, Australia, d 21 Jan1925, A1880 Durham= Mary HUTCHINSON b c1853 Bilton, Northumberland, who wrote the history of Elvet Hill, Durham. (See the Apperley publications on the Apperley References page for details of The History of South End). Newton Wynne was Capt, JP and Private Secretary to several Marquesses of Londonderry. (In 1885 Newton Wynne was left £1,000 in the will of a Marquess "as a mark of friendship and gratitude".), Chairman of St Oswald's Parish Ch, sportsman. He was a notable sportsman, hunting with 66 packs of hounds during his lifetime. After living in NSW, Australia, he travelled on the Royal Saxon to Calcutta 1847. Newton Wynne took over Morben Lodge Montgomery from his father; as part of his duties, moved to County Durham; on to Ireland in 1886 when the Marquess became Viceroy. During the 1890s and early 1900s, lived at South End House, (formerly the Shepherd Inn), St Oswald's, Durham. He named his house Newton Wynne. Now it houses Durham Uni. Sports Dept. Newton Wynne APPERLEY published North country hunting half a century ago, in 1924, and A Hunting Diary, in 1926.
------------------------------------------------ Known children of "Jack" Henry Wynne APPERLEY, born 28 Feb 1851 Poosah, India, d1918, (Morben Lodge Montgomery; Bitterley Court, SAL. Henry was educated at Shrewsbury School. In 1873 he went out to India and took charge of an Indigo plantation and factory in Chumparun, Hehar. He was well known as a polo player; he won many races under the name of "Mr Apples"); 10 March 1885 Mozufferpore, Bengal INDIA =Marion Edith KINSEY, daughter of General Henry Cullen WYNTLE, Bengal Army.
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