57.11 Cartwright Summary Tree

Henry Cartwright (1728-1793) m Elizabeth Duddell (1731-1774)

> Henry Cartwright (1759-1798) m Penelope Bradney (1764-1849)

>> John Cartwright (1788) m Margaret (1783)
See Chapter 6 for their biographies, Chapter 35 for those of their children, and Chapter 50 for those of their grandchildren.

• Margaret Cartwright (1810-1894) m Edward Hodgkiss (1809-1891)
• Mary Hodgkiss (1837-1848)
• Benjamin Hodgkiss (1839-1916) m Jane Wilkes (1842)
• Edward Hodgkiss (1865-1907) m Sarah Ann Roberts (1863) in Wolverhampton in 1890. He was a bricklayer's labourer (perhaps also in an ironworks), and they lived in Tettenhall; later in Long Lake
• Margaret Hodgkiss (1891)
• Benjamin Hodgkiss (1892-1972)
• Lily Hodgkiss (1894)
• Mary Jane Hodgkiss (1867-1898). She was a housemaid for a coal merchant in Evesham in 1881. No later record found.

Royal Oak, Tettenhall Wood (Richard Law)

• William Hodgkiss (1869-1941) m Louisa Harper (1864-`947) in Cannock in 1894. He was a carpenter, like his father; they lived in Long Lake. Once widowed, he boarded in Lichfield, and worked as an ag lab.
• Ernest William Hodgkiss (1896-1952)
• Mabel Gladys Hodgkiss (1897-1898)
• Nellie Hodgkiss (1899-1933)
• George Hodgkiss (1871-1936) m Dorothy Ann Herbert (1878-1947) in Wolverhampton in 1899. He was a plumber, and they lived in Rayleigh Road, Wolverhampton.
• Margaret Jane Hodgkiss (1900-1962)
• Leonard James Hodgkiss (1902-1958)
• Jemima Hodgkiss (1911-1994)
• Ann Hodgkiss (1842-1917) m George Tonkinson (1837-1877)
• Edward John Tonkinson (1864-1945) m Agnes Davenport (1866-1900). He was a park gardener, later a domestic gardener, and they lived in Tettenhall.
• Frank Tonkinson (1893-1964)
• Ernest Humphrey Tonkinson (1896-1975)
• == m Sarah Elizabeth Bate (1872)
• George Tonkinson (1903-1970)

West Park, Wolverhampton (Trip Advisor)

• Lucy Margaret Tonkinson (1866-1955) m William Robert Morgan (1869-1950) at the Charles Street Methodist Church, Perth, Western Australia in 1892. She had arrived on the SS Wilcannia in 1890.
• Elizabeth (Bessie) May Morgan (1893-1976)
• Robert Morgan (1896-1982)
• Dorothy Morgan (1898-1901)
• (William) Arthur Morgan (1900-1978)
• Harold Morgan (1904-1976)
• Irene Morgan (1906-2000)

SS Wilcannia (State Library of Queensland)

• Ernest Tonkinson (1868). In 1891 he was the 'wife's son' in Tettenhall, a gardener/domestic servant (22). No later record found.
• Charlotte Tonkinson (1871-1937) m Samuel Collins Morris (1868-1929) in Wolverhampton in 1896. In 1901, she was visiting her uncle Benjamin in Wrottesley. In 1911, she was one of six domestic servants at the home of Charles Benjamin Mander, varnish manufacturer, at The Mount, Tettenhall Wood. (Sons C. Arthur and Gerald P. were home at the time.) 

To be fair, it takes twice the team to run the house now! The Mander family became distinguished for public service, art patronage and philanthropy. Charles Tertius Mander (1852–1929) was created the first baronet of The Mount in the baronetage of the United Kingdom in the Coronation honours of George V, on 8 July 1911. Under the chairmanship of the Radical Liberal M.P., Sir Geoffrey Mander, Mander Brothers led many progressive initiatives in the field of labour relations and employment welfare between the Wars. Mander Brothers was the first British company to introduce the 40-hour week through an historic agreement signed and mediated by Ernest Bevin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, in 1932. The Mander family and their company owned the Mander Centre at the heart of Wolverhampton retail, until 2014. They left varnish in the 1990s to focus on speciality inks and chemicals, eventually being sold to Flink Inc. in 1998.

• Margaret Morris (1900)

Tettenhall Mount (Trip Advisor)

Tettenhall Mount (Trip Advisor)

Tettenhall Mount: The Team (Trip Advisor)

• == m Edward Jones (1836-1929)
• Horace Jones (1879-1965) m Annie (1878-1931) in 1900 (or possibly Annie Jones in 1902). He was a brewer's clerk, and they lived in Wolverhampton. Possible WWI service from 1914.
• Alfred Jones (1882-1929) m Ethel May Milford (1887-1952) in Perth, Australia in 1918. In Britain, he had been a carpenter. In 1911, he was a boarder in Plymouth, a railway engine stoker (aka fireman). A short film of an LMS fireman is available here (Alfred would have been with the GWR, or Southern Railway).

Fireman/stoker (credit)

• Sarah Cartwright (1812-1901) m Jesse Lambert (1804-1875)
• See Lambert tree for their descendants.

> Sarah Cartwright (1757) m James Clayton (1767)

>> Sarah Clayton (1801-1887) m Richard Garbitt

• Sarah Cartwright Garbitt (1822-1877) m Matthew Webb (1813-1876)
• Matthew Webb (1848-1883) m Madelaine Kate Chaddock (1850). After Captain Webb's death, Madelaine opened a shop at Niagara in an effort to cash in on his name, to support her family. Eventually, she remarried and moved to South Africa. 
• Matthew Webb (1881-1918)

Matthew joined the 1st Regiment of the South African Infantry (which was from the Cape). By the end of his war, he was a 2nd Lieutenant. If he enlisted at the outset, he would have been stationed briefly at Bordon, Hampshire, then to Alexandria and Mex Camp in January 1916 and Marseilles in March, the Somme in July. Entire Brigade attacked at Longueval (Delville Wood) in afternoon of 14 July 1916. Fighting of the most severe kind in the wood, in which Private William Faulds of 1st Regiment won the Victoria Cross. Only some 750 of the 3153 officers and men that entered the wood mustered when the Brigade was finally relieved on 20 July. The casualties included every officer of 2nd and 3rd Regiments and of the Machine Gun Company attached to the brigade. (Long, Long Trail). The Pozières memorial reveals that Webb was amongst those wounded. 

On the 21st March 1918, the Germans launched an offensive with the aim to definitively win the War. After a terrible shelling, units of the South African Infantry Brigade sustained the first clash at Gauche Wood (between Péronne and Cambrai) and, outnumbered, collapsed after a heroic resistance. After three days of fights and withdrawals, the remains of the Brigade entrenched in Marrières Wood (between Péronne and Bapaume) with orders to stand at all cost. They were practically annihilated. Matthew was amongst those killed 22 March 1918. (delvillewood.com). Kathy Watson tells us that Captain Webb brought his son up to be brave. He would have been proud.

South African National War Memorial, Delville Wood (credit)

• Helen Webb (1882-1968). Remained in South Africa Swimming and dance teacher. Married, with at least one child. Died in Gordons Bay. Captain Webb's last living descendant, a grand-daughter of Helen, died childless in 2000.
• 10 siblings not traced

More on these families in Chapter 61.

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