Henry Tupper

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Henry TUPPER (AFN: 14L9-5WT) Pedigree

Sex:  M  Family  

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Event(s)

Birth:   1809     , Guernsey, Channel Isles   

Death: 1875
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Parents

Father:  John Elisha TUPPER (AFN: 14L9-5S7)  Family  

Mother: Elizabeth BROCK (AFN: 14L9-61M)
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Name: Henry Bingham Tupper

Sex: M

Birth: 22 DEC 1809 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Death: 1875 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, England

Note:

Henry Bingham Tupper inherited the portrait of Isaac Brock from his Uncle Irving. Henry married and had a son who also married and had a son who died while young.

Thirteenth child of (G20 017) Elizabeth Brock Tupper, he was born on 22 Dec. 1809. On 23 Aug. 1832, Henry married Mary Ann Collings (b. 18??), dau. of Thomas G. Collings. The Tuppers lived at Les Cotels.

In 1847, Henry was jurat. Between 1860 and 1868, he was president of the Guernsey Agricultural & Horticultural Society. He initiated telegraph service between the Les Hanois lighthouse and deep water harbou

It is believed that it was to Henry that his uncle, (G20 021) Irving Brock, left a portrait of (G20 018) Sir Isaac Brock. (Is this the pastel profile, which, in the early 1980s, was in the possession of Captian M.H.T. Mellish of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who had inherited it from a Miss Edith Tupper? This portrait is also said to be apparently the only authentic portrait of Sir Isaac and, while attributed to James Sharples, "seems almost certain to be the work of William Berczy.")

While the date of Henry’s death is not presently known, Mary Ann is believed to have died in 1882.

(Ron Dobrée to Dan Brock, e-mail Jan. 2000, based on BLG AND LJMarr, "Guernsey People")

Four known children:

G22 067 i De Vic Tupper, b. 13 Nov. 1833

G22 068 ii Marian Tupper, b. 29 July 1835

G22 069 iii Amelia Brock Tupper, b.c. 1840

G22 070 iv Osmond Potenger Tupper, b. 5 Nov. 1845

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1851 Channel Islands Census

about Henry Tupper

Name: Henry Tupper

Age: 41

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1810

Relation: Head

Spouse's Name: Maryanne

Gender: Male

Where born: Guern, St Peter Port

Civil Parish or Township: St Peter Port

Town: St Peter Port

County/Island: Guernsey

Country: Channel Islands

Street address:

Condition as to marriage:

Occupation:

Disability:

Registration district: Guernsey

ED, institution, or vessel: 6a

Household schedule number: 73

Household Members: Name Age

Sophie Du Froig 31

Elizabeth Nicolle 22

Harriet Ozanne 21

Betsey Tostevin 30

Allaire J Tupper 7

Amelia B Tupper 10

Bertha H Tupper 8

Henry Tupper 41

Henry D Tupper 3

Marian Tupper 15

Maryanne Tupper 40

Osmond P Tupper 5

Victoria M Tupper 12

Father: John Elisha Tupper b: 4 JUN 1764 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Mother: Elizabeth Brock b: 2 JAN 1767 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Marriage 1 Mary Ann Collings b: ABT 1809 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Married: 23 AUG 1832 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, England

Children

De Vic Tupper b: 13 NOV 1833 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Marian Tupper b: 29 JUL 1835 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Victoria M. Tupper b: 1839 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Amelia Brock Tupper b: 1841 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Bertha H. Tupper b: 1843 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Allaire J. Tupper b: 1844 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Osmond Potenger Tupper b: 1845 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Henry De Lisle Tupper b: 1847 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Ethel C. Tupper b: 1857 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
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From: Michael & Tori Snell <mivictom@rad.net.id>

Subject: RE: Tupper/Brock

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 21:36:15 +0700

The Tupper family originally came from Hesse in Germany. They were Calvanists

and were fleeing religious persecution. Nevertheless they brought a fair

amount of their wealth with them and quickly integrated into Guernsey society,

marrying into most of the leading families, including the Brocks.

John Elisha Tupper (1764-1845) was the son of Jurat Elisha Tupper and

Margaret Tupper (they were first cousins). John Elisha married Elizabeth

Brock, the daughter of John Brock (1729-1777) and Elizabeth de Lisle. In

addition to Elizabeth John Brock had three other children:

Daniel De Lisle Brock (1762-1842) became Bailiff

of Guernsey in 1821. He was a successful champion of the Island's rights and

privileges and hugely popular.

Maj. Gen Sir Isaac Brock was one of the few

British heroes of the War of 1812. As Governor of Upper Canada he captured

Detroit from a superior American force under Gen. Hull and fell at the Battle

of Queenston Heights near Niagara Falls repelling the last serious American

attempt to drive the British from Canada. If you haven't seen it there is an

impressive monument topped by his statue near the place where he fell.

Lt. Col John Brock, another member of the family

killed in battle (1792).

John Elisha and Elizabeth had several children of their own:

John Elisha was drowned in the Mediterranean

around 1812

Charles James was drowned off Spithead in 1815

William Elisha was killed by pirates off Crete in

1826

William De Vic was killed in Chile by Indians

in1830

Henrietta

Ferdinand Brock Tupper (1795-1874) and

Jurat Henry Tupper (1809-1875)

Ferdinand married Mary Herbert and they had a daughter Henrietta. I have no

record of Henry having married. Henry was instrumental in launching a number

of projects that still exist in Guernsey today, including the New Harbour (the

Island's first deepwater port) and Les Hanois Lighthouse off the SW tip of the

Island. A model of the lighthouse was presented to the family to commemorate

the event. Henry lived at Les Cotils, a house he rebuilt overlooking St Peter

Port Harbour. In 1904 it passed into the ownership of an Order of Nuns: Les

Soeurs de la Presentation, who ran it as a nursing home for the elderly. (My

own Grand Mother died in their care at the house). Given the Tupper's

religious origins they eventually became more catholic than the Pope, becoming

members of the congregation of St Stephen's Church; Guernsey's High Church

Anglican congregation. I too attended there and can remember some of the last

of the Tuppers. (I think, but am not absolutely certain, that the male line

eventually ran out. Certainly the then family home was bequeathed to St

Stephen's, which suggests there were no close heirs.

I can produce a fair bit more on both the Tuppers and the Brocks if you wish

(together with details of some of the other families into whom they married.

Regards

Michael G Snell

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/CHANNEL-ISLANDS/1997-12/08...