NAME: THOMAS MARSHALL STURGE

SURNAME: Sturge GIVEN NAMES: Thomas Marshall * SEX M

BIRTH: 30 July 1791 , Elberton, Gloucestershire, England

DEATH: 25 JAN 1869 (77) Gloucester , England

• FATHER: Jospeh STURGE V (1752-1817) age:65
• MOTHER: Mary MARSHALL (1762 -1819) age:57

MARRIAGE :==Hannah ENOCH b: 1795 WARWICK, Warwickshire, England

MARRIED: 22 MAY 1815, Warwick , Warwickshire, England

CHILDREN

1. M Edwin STURGE b: 9 Mar 1816 in Olveston,,Gloucestershire,England

2. M Joseph STURGE b: 21 Aug 1818 in James Street,Weston Supermere,Somersetshire,England

3. M Thomas STURGE b: 15 Apr 1820 in Olveston,,Gloucestershire,England

4. M Alfred STURGE b: 19 Oct 1822 in Olveston,,Gloucestershire,England

5. M Frederick STURGE b: 11 Feb 1825 in Olveston,,Gloucestershire,England

6. F Emma STURGE b: 16 Apr 1827 in Olveston,,Gloucestershire,England

7. M John STURGE b: 11 Mar 1829 in Olveston,,Gloucestershire,England d: 1829 (9 months)

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• Thomas Marshall STURGE was born 1791 in Elberton,Gloucestershire,England, . He was the son of . Joseph STURGE and 3. Mary MARSHALL.
• He married Hannah ENOCK 1815, daughter of Joshua ENOCK and Sarah. She was born Abt 1795 in Warwick,Warwickshire,England,
• Together, they had 7 children born (6 sons & 1 dau.) between 1816-1829
• Firstborn was Edwin in 1816, followed by Edwin ; Joseph ; Thomas II; Alfred ; Frederick ; Emma and John
• John died as an infant in 1829 aged 9 months
• Thomas died 25 Jan 1869 in aged (77) Gloucester Gloucestershire,England
• Hannah died unkown
• He was A Quaker (known as The Society of Friends)
• He later became a Wool stapler in the nearby village of Olveston.
• Thomas Marshall Sturge was agent for his brother's firm o f J & C Sturge
• Made a will just over 1 year before his death....Read as follows:

"I give to my son JOSEPH STURGE (who has received from me in my lifetime or I have paid or have become responsible for on his account, a greater manount than my other children will respectively become entitled to under the Trusts of this my Will) the sum of 300 pounds (but no share in the residue of my estate.)"

The residue (total estate was under 4000 pounds) was divided into 3 equal parts; for his sons Edwin and Frederick - less any advance in their lifetime

-and the final third to be shared by his grand-children at age 21 or on marriage.....these being the children "of my deceased son Thomas...for their respective maintenance, education and advancement in the world"

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OCCUPATION: CORN MERCHANT

SOURCES

http://www.sturgefamily.com/

http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Sturge.pdf

http://www.quaker.org.uk/TemperanceJSturge

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kiwig&id=...

A website online...RE: Parish of Oveston, Sturge Family, Quaker Society

http://www.lhi.org.uk/projects_directory/projects_by_region/south_w...

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The Register; and Magazine of Biography, A Record of Births, Marriages ...

At Gloucester, aged 77 , Mr. Thomas Marshall Sturge, one of the leading merchants of that city, and a wellknown member of the Society of Friends.

He was the elder brother of Joseph and Charles Sturge, and possessed in a high degree those philanthropic feelings for which his family has been so distinguished.

Forty years ago, soon after Gloucester became by the opening of the ship-canal a port in the modern sense of the term, Mr. Sturge came to Gloucester from Bristol as the representative and manager of the eminent finn of T. and C. Sturge, corn-merchants.

He was buried in the cemetery near the Friends’ Meeting- house, Gloucester.

FATHER OF THOMAS MARSHALL STURGE

Joseph the Fifth 1752 - 1817

Joseph V lived in the parish of Olveston, farming at Elberton and at Sheepcombe. His first wife was Sarah Sargent, and he wrote that in the four years before she died they “lived together in much love, never having, I believe, evil thought or word against each other.”

In 1787, six years after her death, he married Mary, the only child of Thomas Marshall of Kingley - which was a substantial farmhouse on the Earl of Hertford’s estate. Mary was short and slender and undoubtedly attractive; those of us who have seen her beautiful wedding- dress can picture her as a bride. She had had many admirers, some of whom were mentioned in a long poem written to celebrate - or lament - her marriage. She was “a bright, capable woman, a devoted wife, fond of all outdoor pursuits - she taught her son Charles to swim - and was the “stay” of the family; to her the children looked for guidance and from her they derived their philanthropic qualities and literary taste.” Like other women in the family Mary did much to help poorer Friends.

Joseph in his turn was “a very kind husband: nothing was too good for his wife. New Leaze was a costly house and nothing was too good for it either.” This was the new home to which he retired with Mary towards the end of his life. They had had twelve children but our only glimpse of him as a father is that “he used to call his sons at four o’clock, and if on returning at six he found them still in bed he would say, “Thomas and Joseph, are you going to lie in bed all day long?””

As a farmer, we know that “he rode each Spring into Merionethshire to buy black cattle and into Dorsetshire to purchase sheep. These were fattened in the rich meadows round Olveston and sold off; those being kept through the winter were fed only on hay, roots being then not much grown for cattle. The Merionethshire cattle were very wild, and on their arrival had brass knobs screwed on the tips of their long horns to prevent their goring.”

All but one of the twelve children grew up, their combined lifespans totally 675 years. The eldest, Rebecca, never married; Mary married “a bad man” but had fifteen children. Next came Thomas Marshall, a respected wool-stapler in Olveston who later joined his brothers’ firm of corn merchants, working for them in Gloucester. He was “a large, powerfully-made man, full of information and generally popular, though having strong prejudices.” He married Hannah Enoch, and it was one of their sons, another Joseph, who emigrated and established the New Zealand Sturges with his own eight children.

Joseph VI and Charles are described later. Sophia kept house for Joseph except during his marriage; she was perhaps rather strict, as there is mention of her insisting on Greek lessons for visiting nephews supposed to be on holiday. Priscilla married Sam Southall and Lucretia became Mrs James Cadbury.

John was a chemical manufacturer in Bewdley, after an apprenticeship in London, and moved to Edgbaston to start with Edmund the firm of J. & E. Sturge. His children were Lewis and Lucy who married Colin Scott Moncrieff. John died suddenly whilst away from home and was refused Christian burial as being unbaptised. Henry was in business in Bewdley; his brother Charles bought and enlarged the Summer House for him but Henry died when only forty. His daughter married Georges Appia, a well-known French Protestant pastor. Then by his second marriage to his cousin Lydia, Henry became the grandfather of Sturge Moore the poet and George E. Moore O.M., the Cambridge philosopher.

Anna died as a baby, but the youngest, Edmund, who married Lydia Albright and became “Gentleman Sturge” of Charlbury, lived to be nearly eighty-five. His daughter Margaret married her cousin Lewis Sturge, then later the widower of her cousin Lucy, Colin Scott Moncrieff (see above.) Edmund’s son John Edmund married Jane Richardson of Newcastle-on-Tyne; their daughters Hilda, Olga (Ball) and Elfrida (Cameron) were all born in Montserrat and later lived and died in Cambridge.

http://www.sturgefamily.com/Discover/THE%20STURGES%20OF%20BIRMINGHA...

Thomas Marshall Sturge came to Gloucester c1830 to manage the corn merchants business of his younger brothers Joseph & Charles Sturge who were based in Birmingham. For 30 years, the firm was the principal corn importer in Gloucester with five big warehouses, two of which survive. For background information on the docks and warehouses at Gloucester, you might like to look at my website www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk.