[Blaquiere Talbot]

I want to thank everyone who helped me track down the mystery of my 3rd great-grandmother Seraphina Donclere and her daughter Charlotte Hunter. I still have two remaining mysteries which have eluded me for over 50 years!

1: Frederica Webb (nee Lumley) is my 2nd great-grandmother. She was born in Meerut, Bengal, India in 1814 to Godlip Lumley and Elizabeth Kempson. She married George Augustus Webb 1st March 1834 in Delhi, India. George Augustus served with the EIC Commissariat, built “The Mussoorie Club Hotel” in Mussoorie (now “The Himalaya Club”) and became a “Zamindar” on “The Manor” estate near Baraut (near Meerut). He was murdered by revolting Jats at “The Manor” on 10th June 1857 during the Bengal Army Mutiny. Frederica and her three youngest children were rescued by loyal servants and escaped by being painted in walnut juice and wearing Indian clothes. After the Mutiny their eldest son Augustus Philip Webb(e) took over the estate and when he died in 1919 it passed it onto his son Isambard Webb(e) who died there in 1963. His widow sold the estate to, incongruously, a Jat family and retired to England. The mystery is where did Frederica and her three youngest children go after the murder of her husband and what happened to her. I did find a death for a Frederica Webb in Newington, London in December 1859 which I doubt is her as her children all remained in India. Her Webb family tree can be found on Ancestry at “Talbot of Stone Castle”

2: Robert Talbot, Tailor, of East Greenwich, Kent. Robert is my 6th great-grandfather. He was born around 1670 but I can find no records. He married Marie (Mary?) Jones on the 18th April 1693 at St Alfege, East Greenwich. Both are “of this parish”. Their son Robert was born 11th August 1695 and christened at St Alfege. His father is listed as “Taylor”. His father died 22 March 1704 and was buried at St Alfege where he is described as “Taylor of East Lands”. He is not to be confused with Robert Talbott a tailor who also died in Greenwich but in 1744! I have a lot of information on Robert & Marie’s son Robert who attended Cambridge, became a Anglican priest and lived at Stratham House, Surrey and, later, Stone Castle, Kent. His Talbot family tree can be found on Ancestry at “Talbot of Stone Castle”