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Catholic-Protestant marriages in Ireland
Gunpowder Patent
London residence in summer, 1887
Nyleve
John Evelyn, 1743-1827, served 1770-1790 in the Honourable East India Company's Civil Service. Before he married he had a son in India whom he named George Nyleve, for whom he subsequently provided and who afterwards came to live in England. By his will John Evelyn left a small property in Sidmouth to this son, who died between 1840 and 1843.
(Facts taken from "History of the Evelyn Family" by Helen Evelyn)
Question: Are there any descendents of George Nyleve?
Potential candidate: Nyleve family
George Evelyn, of Kingston, Long Ditton, Godstone and Wotton, was granted, in 1565, by Queen Elizabeth, a monopoly for the manufacture of gunpowder. It is likely that this furnished the means by which he bought his large estates.
(Facts taken from "History of the Evelyn Family" by Helen Evelyn)
Question: How may one determine the amount he paid for the patent?
" ....she married a Roman Catholic, ... she was a ... Protestant ..... and as the custom then was, the sons followed the father and the daughter the mother."
(Passage taken from manuscript by C M Lenox-Conyngham, remembering the 1850's in Ireland)
Question: What was the incidence (relative to number of marriages, or to current incidence) of Catholic/Protestant marriages in Ireland in the 19th century?
Question: Was it really the custom at that time for the children to be brought up in different religious traditions?
Article from 1858 on lack of registration of Irish marriages
" .. Arthur was working ... [for] ... Arbuthnot, Latham & Co. in London (Great St Helens). He lived in lodgings in Albion Street (near Edgware Road) London ... In winter a cousin ... shared the lodgings, but in summer ... went home (to ... Sussex) ... Arthur moved down to lodgings at Hampton Court in summer..."
(Passage taken from manuscript by C M Lenox-Conyngham, remembering 1887 in London)
Question: Did single upper-middle class men often move out of London in the summer? If so, why? (pollution? desire for countryside?)
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