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THE ANCESTRY OF NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

 

1  Arthur Neville Chamberlain

   b 18 Mar 1869, Edgbaston, Warwickshire

   d 9 Nov 1940, Heckfield House, Hampshire

 

Parents

 

2  Joseph Chamberlain, P.C., Secretary of State for the Colonies

   b 8 Jul 1836, London

   d 2 Jul 1914, London

   m 8 Jun 1868, Birmingham, Warwickshire

3  Florence Kenrick

   b 19 Aug 1847, Edgbaston

   d 14 Feb 1875, Southbourne, Edgbaston

 

Grandparents

 

4  Joseph Chamberlain of Moor Green Hall, Moseley, master of the Cordwainers’ Company

   b 10 Jul 1796, St Albans, Wood Street, London

   d 24 Jan 1874, Moseley

   m 26 Mar 1835, St Olave, Hart Street, London

5  Caroline Harben

   b 25 Jul 1808, Mile End, Middlesex

   d 20 Aug 1875, Moseley

6  Timothy Kenrick of Maple Bank, Edgbaston, magistrate

   b 26 Jun 1807, West Bromwich, Staffordshire

   d 23 Feb 1885, Edgbaston

   m 10 Feb 1837, Leicester

7  Maria Paget

   b 21 Feb 1808, Leicester

   d 5 May 1876, Edgbaston

 

Great-grandparents

 

8  Joseph Chamberlain of Milk Street, London, cordwainer

   b 18 Dec 1752

   d 15 Nov 1837, Camberwell

   m Apr 1792, Edinburgh

9  Martha Statham Strutt

   b 1762

   bur 5 Jan 1825, Bunhill Fields, London

10 Henry Harben of Church Fields, Hackney, Middlesex, cheesemonger

   b 13 Jan 1770

   d 11 Oct 1831, Hackney

   m 28 Nov 1791, St Anne, Lewes

11 Mary Woodgate

   b 19 Nov 1773

   d 30 Aug 1844, Camberwell

12 Archibald Kenrick of West Bromwich, plater

   bap 12 Nov 1760, Chester Street Presbyterian Chapel, Wrexham, Denbighshire

   d 26 Oct 1835, West Bromwich

   m 14 Dec 1790, Yardley, Worcestershire

13 Rebecca Smith

   bap 6 Sep 1770, Unitarian Church, Birmingham

   d 4 Jan 1809, West Bromwich

14 Thomas Paget of Leicester, surgeon

   b 25 May 1768

   d 5 Feb 1841, Leicester

   m 7 Jul 1807, St Martin, Leicester

15 Elizabeth Byng

   b 7 Mar 1774

   d 6 Apr 1829

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

16 William Chamberlain of Milk Street, London, shoemaker

   b 1713

   d 19 Sep 1788, London

   m 5 Nov 1740, St Gregory by St Paul, London

17 Elizabeth Dismoor

   b 1716

   bur 6 Mar 1795, Bunhill Fields, London

18 Joseph Strutt of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

   b 1724

   d 26 Dec 1794

   m 2 Oct 1755, St Mary, Whitechapel

19 Elizabeth Scott

   b 1726

   d

20 Thomas Harben of Lewes, Sussex, banker and ironmonger

   b 1736

   bur 9 Jan 1803, Isleworth, Middlesex

   m 22 Jul 1766, Jevington

21 Elizabeth Playstead

   b 1746

   bur 3 Apr 1805, Seaford

22 Thomas Woodgate of Lewes, draper

   b 1743

   bur 5 Jan 1777, St Thomas-in-the-Cliffe, Lewes

   m 5 Feb 1773, St Anne, Lewes

23 Mary Austen

   bap 9 Feb 1752, St Anne, Lewes

   d 15 Jan 1843, Camberwell

24 John Kenrick of Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire

   b 31 Aug 1725, Wrexham

   d 15 Jul 1803, Wynn Hall

   m 18 Dec 1750, Llanfyllin

25 Mary Quarrell

   b ca 1718, Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire

   d 10 Oct 1801, Wynn Hall

26 Joseph Smith of Hay Hall, Yardley

   b

   d ca 1797

   m 4 Nov 1767, St Philip, Birmingham

27 Rebecca Bakewell

   b

   bur 1 Mar 1783, St Martin, Birmingham

28 Joseph Paget of Loughborough, Leicestershire

   b 20 Sep 1738

   d 2 Apr 1825, Loughborough

   m 11 Apr 1763, Tamworth

29 Mary Harding

   bap 21 Jun 1741, Tamworth

   d 11 Oct 1809

30 John Byng of Tamworth, Unitarian minister

   b ca 1747

   d 3 Sep 1827, Tamworth

   m 29 Nov 1770, Tamworth

31 Charlotte Harding

   bap 13 Jun 1743, Tamworth

   bur 17 Feb 1781, Tamworth

 

 

Sources

 

J.A. Chamberlain, Notes on the Families of Chamberlain and Harben (1915)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

J.L. Garvin and J. Amery, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain (1932-69), vol. 1

Mrs W.B. Kenrick, Chronicles of a Nonconformist Family (1932)

A.R. Wagner, “The Royal Descent of Mr. Neville Chamberlain”, The Genealogists’ Magazine, Dec 1938

J.I. Coddington, “The Quarrell Family in Wales and the Welsh Border Counties of England”, The American Genealogist, 24(1948):215-22

W.F. Carter, “Notes on Kenrick Families”, The Genealogist, n.s. 25(1909)

J.J. Howard and F.A. Crisp, eds., Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 21

F. Boase, Modern English Biography

Burke’s Landed Gentry (18th edition)

A.R. Wagner, Pedigree and Progress (1975)

Registers of the Unitarian Church, Birmingham (National Archives, RG 4/3633)

Bunhill Fields, London, registers (National Archives, RG 4/3988, RG 4/3996)

St Philip, Birmingham, parish registers

St Gregory by St Paul, London, parish registers

St Mary, Whitechapel, parish registers

1851 census returns, Edgbaston (National Archives, HO 107/2049, fol. 254)

1861 census returns, Islington (National Archives, RG 9/139, fol. 21)

1881 census returns, Edgbaston (National Archives, RG 11/2954, fol. 77)

Death duty registers, Mary (Woodgate) Harben (National Archives, IR 26/1678, fol. 676)

Death duty registers, Joseph Chamberlain (National Archives, IR 26/1447, fol. 905)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1791, 1794, 1809 and 1844

The Times, 13 Oct 1831, 27 Mar 1835, 17 Nov 1837, 10 Jun 1868, 27 Jan 1874, 18 Feb 1875, 9 May 1876, 4 Jul 1914 and 11 Nov 1940

Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 10 Sep 1827

Isleworth parish register transcript

St Anne, Lewes, parish register abstract (Society of Genealogists, SX/R95)

Sussex Genealogies Compiled by the late John Comber: Lewes Centre (1933)

Will of Joseph Smith (National Archives, PROB 11/1288/42)

The Northampton Mercury, 11 Jul 1807

The Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury, 17 Feb 1837

The Staffordshire Advertiser, 14 Jan 1809

Leicester, Great Meeting Presbyterian burial register (National Archives, RG 4/1299)

St Martin, Leicester, parish registers

Yardley parish registers

Tamworth parish registers

Tamworth Presbyterian registers (National Archives, RG 4/2979)

The Public Ledger, 4 Apr 1805

Leicester Chronicle, 9 Apr 1825

The Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury, 12 Feb 1841

St Martin, Birmingham, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Jevington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Seaford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

St Thomas-in-the-Cliffe, Lewes, parish registers (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-62RQ-PF3)

St Thomas-in-the-Cliffe, Lewes, parish registers (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-62RQ-RXZ)

St Thomas-in-the-Cliffe, Lewes, parish registers (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-62RQ-5JH)

St Anne, Lewes, parish registers (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DT37-NP3)