Benjamin Mousley (1778-1848) m Elizabeth Wright (1782-1856)
See
Chapter 11 for their biographies,
Chapter 38 for those of their children, and
Chapter 51 for those of their grandchildren.
- Samuel Wright Mousley (1805-1841)
- Mary Ann Mousley (1806-1892)
- Thomas Mousley (1808-1860) m Rebecca Knight (1818-1908)
- See Chapter 58.1e for first cousin biographies. See also Knight tree.
- William Thomas Mousley (1838-1919) m Sarah Anne Whittle (1845-1927)
- (William) Henry Mousley (1865-1949) m Alice Maude Mary Lake (1866-1938)
- Ethel Maude Mousley (1886-1887)
- Lilian Mousley (1887-1921)
- Gerald Mousley (1889-1952)
- Harry Mousley (1890-1890)
- Georgianna [Gina] Mousley (1891-1944)
- Dorothy Mousley (1893-1991)
- Ida Mousley (1894-1977)
- Dora Mousley (1895-2001)
- Vera Mary Mousley (1897-1986)
- Annie Gwendoline Mousley (1898-1997)
- Neville Mousley (1904-1971)
- Eric Mousley (1905-1905)
- Thomas Edwin Mousley (1866-1949) m Margaret Amy Horsfall (1862-1924)
- Gladys Hollis (1888-aft. 1946). Step-daughter.
- Betty Mousley (1904)
- Patty Mousley (1909-aft. 1927)
- Arthur Mousley (1868-1949) m Elizabeth Crouch (1863-1916)
- == m Violet Elizabeth Wilshin (1889-1977)
- Arthur Neville Mousley (1918-1992)
- Clara Mousley (1838-1925) m Joshua Ponton (1840)
- Joshua Hubert Ponton (1868-1929)
- Edith Mary Rebecca Ponton (1872-1954)
- William Warman Ponton (1873)
- (James) Alfred Ponton (1875-1936) m Elizabeth Douglas
- Henry Knight Mousley (1838-1910) m Alice Beaksall (1845)
- Marion Mousley (1838-1937) m Thomas Atkinson (1829-1884)
- Thomas Mousley Atkinson (1872-1950)
- John Henry Atkinson (1874-1938)
- Charles Inman Atkinson (1876-1943)
- Arthur William Atkinson (1876-1941) m Florence Arrowsmith (1878)
- Annie Atkinson (1898-1982)
- Marion Atkinson (1900-1954)
- Florence Atkinson (1904-1953)
- Arthur Mousley Atkinson (1908)
- Alice Marian Atkinson (1878-1969)
- Francis James Atkinson (1880) m Katherine Bateman Beesley (1881-1942)
- Arthur Mousley Atkinson (1908-1908)
- Elizabeth Marian Atkinson (1910)
- Catherine Frances Atkinson (1911-1987)
- Phyllis M Atkinson (1916-2002)
- Frances [Fanny] Mousley (1838-1922) m Henry Larard (1841-1873)
- James Alfred Mousley (1838-1937) m Ada Churton (1856-1931)
- John Harold Mousley (1885-1959) m Dorothy Laura Pease (1893-1971)
- Laura Frances Mousley (1929-2014)
- James Arthur Mousley (1931)
- Ethelwyn Ada Mousley (1933)
- Janet Elsie Mousley (1890-1891)
- Ada Kathleen Mousley (1896-1981) m Alfred H Stringer (1878-1953)
- Thomas Solomon Mousley (1838-1936) m Marguerite Mercier (1855)
- Harry Stanley Mousley (1876)
- Marion Louise Mousley (1879)
- Frederick William Mousley
- Charles Edward Mousley (1838-1937)
- George Mousley (1812-1869) m Catherine Swinnerton (1816-1885)
- Catherine Blanche Mousley (1842) m Henry Cox Bury (1830-1884)
- Arthur Cecil Howard Bury (1866)
- b. Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland. Presumed died in infancy.
- Arthur William Howard Bury (1868-1933)
- b. Atherstone. 1881: Student at Grove Park School for Boys, Wrexham. No later record found.
- Francis Charles Childers Bury (1868-1898)
- Edith Elizabeth Bury (1869-1931) m William Gayer Starbuck Mackay (1869-1920) at St Clement Danes, Strand, Westminster in 1907.
- In 1901, she is living under the stage name Edith Ostlere (with her sister Rose Bury) and describes herself as an actress and authoress.
- In 1911, he is an actor and author; she is an actress and authoress (in her married name); they keep a servant. Research reveals that she has a fourth name: the nome-de-plume 'Robert Ord'. There are positive reviews of her melodramatic acting, and negative ones of a melodramatic novel. She was in a comic opera "Half a King" at the Knickerbocker Theatre (named after a term for Manhattan's aristocracy) in New York in 1897. The 1917 incarnation of the theatre was the scene of a disaster in 1922, when the roof collapsed under the weight of snow, killing 98 (great story in The Washington Post). She was also in "The Thief" at the Lyceum, New York in 1907.
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| Edith in "One of the Best" (Illustrated London News) |
- The couple co-wrote the play "Dr Wake's Patient" which debuted at the Garrick Theatre, Broadway in 1907. They were both in the cast.
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| Miss Edith Ostlere and Mr Gayer Mackay (my collection) |
- Una O'Connor starred at the Strand Theatre in the play, "Paddy and the Next Best Thing", which they co-wrote in 1920. This was repeated at the Savoy Theatre in 1923. The Strand Theatre was demolished in 1905 to make way for the Aldwych tube station. The Savoy was rebuilt in 1929, and again (to the 1929 design) when fire gutted the building in 1990.
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| Savoy Theatre, original interior (credit) |
- There is a record of W. Gayer travelling to New York on the SS St Louis with other actors in 1896 (with a handwritten manifest summary in the corner, including 2 stowaways)
- I found his acting reviewed as "uncannily fascinating" as a gaunt, mysterious villain in the first act of the play "Victory" but more comic than dramatic in the last act. Also of the Washington Post being very rude about him in the comedy "Toddles" on Broadway in 1908: "superlative of a mollycoddle" and a "man, by courtesy only"!
- His mother was Alice Vaughan Starbuck, and her father Gayer Starbuck. He died in Milford Haven, Wales. As a harbour, Milford was the base for Henry II's invasion of Ireland, and Henry VII's invasion of England. As a town, it was founded in 1792. Seven Quaker families from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard were invited to settle in the new town and develop a whaling fleet. Amongst these was the Starbuck family. Gayer and his father, Daniel, were both born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. There are records of the women of the family finding Milford desolate and lonely.
The
Starbuck family were a group of whalers based in Nantucket. Some members of the family became well-known due to their discovery of various islands in the
Pacific Ocean. The family, originally from Derbyshire, emigrated to Dover in the North American colony of New Hampshire in about 1635. Nathaniel Starbuck and associates bought Nantucket island from its Indian owners. During the Revolutionary War, whaleships are targeted by the British Navy, and the fleet was sharply reduced. Britain was fostering its own whaling industry, and imposed a duty on imports of whale oil.
The Starbuck family, including Daniel and Gayer, is believed to have sailed to Milford Haven on the whaler Aurora in 1792. W. Gayer's mother was Ellen Penrose, possibly a cousin of the Waterford Quaker merchant family. Coincidentally, one of his wife Edith's biggest roles on stage had been that of Mary Penrose in "One of the Best".)
These days, whaling inspires revulsion. But whale oil and
sperm oil was widely used in oil lamps and to make soap. It is very likely that the family used it every day. In the early C20, it was made into margarine. Sperm oil was a popular lubricant in sewing machines and watches, locomotives and steam-powered looms because it can withstand high temperatures. In the US, until 1972, 14 kilotonnes of sperm whale oil was used annually in lubricants, including in auto transmissions (and transmission failures rose eightfold after it was banned). Because of its very low freezing point, sperm oil saw widespread use in the aerospace industry; and it was used to protect guns and other metal goods from rust.
The
Starbucks coffee chain is well-known to have been named after first mate on the
Pequod, Captain Ahab's ship in
Moby Dick. The book was semi-autobiographical, and Starbuck is explicitly from the Nantucket Quaker family.
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| Moby Dick |
One of the islands that the Starbuck family discovered is
Starbuck Island, now part of
Kiribati. Allegedly, the island is associated with the myth of twin-tailed mermaid siren, luring sailors on to the rocks. This inspired the alluring logo for the coffee company in 1971.
Moby Dick was probably named after Mocha Dick, a barnacled albino male sperm whale, famous among Nantucket whalers, and whose story was reported in
The Knickerbocker magazine, New York, in 1839. He was first encountered around 1810 off
Mocha Island, Chile. (
Mocha coffee
, incidentally, is named after Al Mikha in Yemen.) Mocha Dick was quite docile, sometimes swimming alongside a ship, but once attacked he retaliated with ferocity and cunning, and was widely feared by harpooners. He survived many (perhaps over a hundred) skirmishes with whalers. He was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers.
- Catherine Maude Bury (1872-1939). b. Haputale, Sri Lanka. 1891, a governess in Hill, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. 1911: 2 Fortfield Place, Sidmouth - private means.
- George Wyman Bury (1874-1920) m Florence Ann Marshall.
- 1911: With his sister in Sidmouth, an explorer! George (or more usually G. Wyman) is another Bury with an alternative identity, in his case Abdullah Mansur. He wrote three important books, the first published this year.
- It turns out that , in 1894 he received a commission in the 3rd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. In 1895 Bury joined one of the rebel tribes in southern Morocco (as you do). And he met Florence in 1911 when he was a tuberculosis patient in Westminster Hospital and she was his nurse.
- 1913: He married in Hodeida [El Hudaydah], Yemen in 1913. Situated on the Red Sea, El Hudaydah is an important port, exporting coffee (yes, including for Starbucks, and mocha beans), cotton, dates and hides. It was developed as a seaport in the mid-19th century by the Ottoman Turks. As of June 2018, three quarters of humanitarian and commercial cargo entering Yemen arrived via the port of Hudaydah. It serves as the entry point for Yemen's humanitarian aid and around 70% of commercial imports.
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| G Wyman Bury |
The Land of Uz (Macmillan 1911, Garnet 1998); and Arabia Infelix or The Turks in Yemen (Macmillan 1915, Garnet 1998)"These two books are autobiographical and consecutive although written about the two parts of Yemen then under separate influences (one hesitates to call them administrations). Despite their common earlier traditions and a vast amount of propaganda about what a good thing it would be if they were united, this has so far been difficult to accomplish to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Rather like the single European currency, many consider it most desirable so long as they themselves run it and not someone else, Very little has been published on either part of the territory during the period covered — the start of the 20th Century.
"The British had been in Aden for 60 years but the Government of Bombay its titular rulers, looked upon Aden as an important coaling station on the line of communication to more important parts of the British Empire — but very little else! They had no wish to get involved in administering the tribal areas which surrounded it, restricting themselves to occasional intervention when the perpetually warring factions got completely out of hand. The Turks, on the other hand, tried to run their part of Yemen as a self-supporting (at least) constituent of the Ottoman Empire. Neither were completely successful and Wyman Bury’s remarkably clear description of his adventures goes a long way to explaining why.
"In turn, Clive Smith’s introductions explain how Wyman Bury came to be there. Wyman Bury was a scientist and explorer who managed to find his way around what became the Western Aden Protectorate in a manner which earlier (and later) European travellers were unable to emulate. His looks, build and command of colloquial Arabic were such that he was able in some situations to pass as a local inhabitant and, more often, be accepted as ‘one of the chaps’. He was handy when the Turks and British found it in their interests to try to settle the border between their spheres of influence and he was appointed Extra Assistant Resident in political charge of the escort of the British part of the Boundary Commission in the Dhala area. This seems to have later affected his scientific position and may have eventually caused his loss of favour in Aden, although one suspects that differences of attitude to his activities between Residents of the period, Generals Maitland and Mason, may also have had something to do with his expulsion. One can well imagine the kind of feelings he could have provoked among some of the more staid members of the Aden Garrison.
"However, Wyman Bury was ‘hooked’ on Yemen. Not wanted in Aden, he succeeded in persuading the Ottoman authorities to allow him to continue scientific studies in their part of Yemen. Indeed, he carried out a great deal of valuable work there, particularly in ornithology, and many of his specimens and descriptions are still held by the British Museum. But Wyman Bury was a keen observer of all things around him and his detailed descriptions of the way of life of those whom he met and lived with in the days when the matchlock and spear were still weapons of ‘real men’ in southern Yemen and the motor vehicle had yet to arrive, are what will fascinate many of his readers. Such items as the description of the matchlock in action (Land of Uz, p.127) and its varying specifications (p.298) are possibly unique. Arabia Infelix is a more continuous tale and might have filming possibilities, with the court scenes (p.19) and the spectacular mountains around Manakha among the highlights. The rusting remains of the railway engine (p. 128), still lying in the Hodaida dock area, are more likely to provide inspiration than a photo-opportunity.
"Bury’s forecasts of the future, if not so accurate, are also most interesting and betray a better insight into the affairs of the area just before the outbreak of World War I than had most of those in official charge in either part of Yemen." Jim Ellis on The British-Yemeni Society website
- Rose Aimee Bury (1874). 1891: A pupil of Howell's Orphan School in Denbigh, Wales (which closed in 2013). Nerys Hughes went there. 1901: With her sister Edith in Paddington, a typist and commercial clerk. 1911: Staying, as a member, at the Twentieth Century Club, 24-29 Stanley Gardens, [Notting Hill] Kensington - a secretary. This was a residential club for ladies ("working gentlewomen") only, which was started by philanthropist George Herring, and closed in the 1930s.
- Henry John Bury (1883-1905). Died at 22 is Haslingden.
- George William Mousley (1844-1869).
- Elizabeth Mousley (1822-1893)
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