Welsh Journals

26. Mr. Arthur C. Wardle, Secretary of the Liverpool Nautical Research Society. Letter n June 1943. The Liverpool Mercury for 7 September 1827 reported Murray, J. Houston, from Jamaica, with 183h. 55tc., 1 brl. sugar, 55 pch, I h rum, 6 ck ginger, 14 t logwood, i bx pepper, C. Lawrence and Son. 118 h, I tc sugar, 9 pch rum, 200 lancewood spars, J. Birch and Co. 15 pch rum, i pel tortoise shell, i bl Tanneric, i ck coffee, E. Rea 5 pch rum, A. Cliffe Q. DK In our Liverpool Bill of Entry for 1827, August 31, I find that the arrival of the "Murray" is recorded. She is shown as being of Liverpool, Master J. Houston, from Jamaica, 305 tons, agents C. Lawrence & Sons, berthed in Queens Dock. Apart from the normal cargo of W. Indian produce, I notice that she was carrying 3 boxes presents (sic), i consigned to W. Appleton, i to Rev. J. Piggott, i to Mrs. Jenkins.' Letter from Mr. E. A. Carson, Librarian, H.M. Customs and Excise, King's Beam House, Mark Lane, London E.C.3, 21 Oct. 1966. 27. A certificate attached to the Passing Certificate shows that Samuel Cornish Stiles was born on 19 December 1792 and baptized on 24 June 1794 at Christ- church, Bahamas. His parents' names are given as Copeland Stiles Esq. and Margaret Stiles (Adm. 107/44 No. 12).' He received his commission on 7 Feb. 1812. Communication from the Public Record Office, dated 1 September 1966. Copeland Stiles (son of Daniel and Mary-née Durham-grand-daughter of Richard and Frances Hurst) was born in Bermuda in 1728. Controller and Magistrate 1767. Elsewhere he is designated the Honourable which indicates that he was a member of the Council of Assembly. He died on Turks Island, but a tombstone in Port Royal Cemetery bears an inscription to his memory. His sister Deborah married Captain John Gambier, R.N., Lieut-Governor of the Bahamas, who died on 5 April 1782, and was buried in St. Mary-le-Bow, London. Their son was Admiral James Gambier, created a peer in 1807. Some of these details are drawn from notes in the possession of Mr. Wm. E. S. Zuill, Orange Grove, Smith's Parade, Bermuda, 14 January 1944, for whose help, generously and kindly given, I am most grateful. The Congress Library, Washington, contains a copy of The Stiles Family in America, by William Read Stiles, M.D. (Doan and Pilson, 54 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, U.S.A., 1895). Another kinsman of Mrs. Jenkins was Captain John William Stiles of the 30th Bengal Native Infantry, born in the West Indies on 25 October 1800, died in Almora, U.P., India 4 October 1832. In Paris, on 8 December 1830, he married Olive Ann, eldest daughter of Captain John Makeson of Bath and of Blue Mountain Plant- ation, Jamaica. She died in Spanish Town, Jamaica, on 21 July 1840. 28 To her I am also indebted for a pair of silver vegetable spoons engraved with the initials H.M.J. (Henry and Margaret Jenkins) which belonged to Miss Catherine Jenkins's parents. 29. She was the last Jenkins of Dyffryn Bern. A miniature of her is in a private collection. 30. He was the prototype of Aaron Bang in Tom Cringle's Log, by Michael Scott. 31. Harriet Maria, fourth daughter of William and Amy Jenkins, died at Castle Tullock, Jamaica, on 30 April 1862, aged 26. Commemorated on a tombstone in Penbryn churchyard. 32. Married C. F. Morris, in the banking business in Canton. She died on 4 March 1893. No children.