Descendants of Charles Middleton de Quetteville
This tree was added in 2020 by Guy Dixon. Charles Middleton, at the top of the tree, claimed that his father was the merchant Philippe de Quetteville, who was Centenier and then Constable of St Helier, where Charles said he was born
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- 1 Charles Middleton, otherwise known as Charles Middleton de Quetteville (1825-1903) [1] m (1855, St B) Mary Ann La Font (1825- ) daughter of Pierre and Susanne, nee Leigh (St B)
- 2 Charles John de Quetteville (1857-1930) (St B) living 1911 [2]
- 2 Laura Jane de Quetteville (1862-1935) (St B) m Edouard de Caen
- 2 Philip Winter de Quetteville (1867-1928) [3] m (1890, St O) Mary Hacquoil Le Boutillier (St O) daughter of Edouard
- 3 Laura Mary de Quetteville (1890-by 1971) (St O) [4] m (1920, St H) Arthur Clarence Gosling [5]
- 3 Philip Charles de Quetteville (1892- ) (St O) living 1903
- 3 Daisy Marie de Quetteville (1893-1980) (St O) m Frank Mark Winter Journeaux
- 3 Philip Sydney de Quetteville (1894-1971) (St O) [6] m (Aus) Eileen Smethurst [7]
Notes and references
- ↑ Charles` birth and parentage is currently an enigma. Church of England registers do not feature his baptism and a partage, or property division on death, has not been found for him, but rather for his widow, in 1903. Such records often mention the deceased`s father or inherited property. His name has not been found in any one else`s partage. There is no evidence yet that he was a Methodist or member of any other non-conformist church.
However, there was a baptism in St Mary on 7 June 1827, of a Charles Middleton. No parents were given. His sponsors were Charles Fixott (a doctor, who may have given him his forename) and Marie Hubert, his wife. Significantly, they were required to be the baby`s sureties 'that he would not become a burden to the parish'. The baby appears to have been a foundling or one given up by his mother to Dr Fixott. The surname Middleton does not provide any clear leads but may have indicated his birth in the middle of the town of St Helier.
In the 1841 Census he was living in Bulwark Street (sic), St Aubin, in the house of John Leigh, named Charles Middleton, aged 15 and carpenter`s apprentice. Many St Aubin carpenters were ships` carpenters, which would appear to have been applicable in his case. His marriage in St Brelade, in 1855, was to a relative of John Leigh. She was Marie Ann La Font, daughter of Pierre (of Harbour View, St Aubin), grocer and Susanna. It was witnessed by Thomas Leigh Bartlett, the Beaumont ship-builder. He married as Charles Middleton de Quetteville, naming, for the first time, his father as Philippe de Quetteville, merchant.
The first child of this marriage was Charles John de Quetteville, born in 1857. The 1901 Census of St John showed Charles John as a waiter at the Great Eastern Hotel and as nephew of the licensee, Edward Williams. Living with them, and other members of the Williams family, was St Helier-born Charles de Quetteville, aged 75, retired shipwright. He was described as Edward Williams` "step-brother". This term is now, and was then, frequently confused with that of half-brother.
Williams was born in St Helier in 1836, the son of Dorset-born Joseph Williams, store keeper and Mary Anne Caillet, whom he had married in 1829. This might provide a clue to de Quetteville's mother. He claimed as father, merchant Philippe de Quetteville, who lived in St Helier and had become its Constable in the year of Charles`s baptism. Philippe de Quetteville had lost his wife in 1821 and had not yet remarried. Perhaps Mary Anne Caillet had been, at this stage, in domestic service, employed by de Quetteville.
The Ecclesiastical Court records may contain further information. A similar situation existed in the case of Lieut.-Colonel Matthieu Le Geyt. Charles' occupation, on marriage, was commis, or agent. He had been for some years an agent in the Newfoundland fisheries at Burgeo, having gone there, no doubt, as a shipwright. As an agent, he worked initially for the Nicolles, and afterwards for de Gruchy, Renouf and Clement. Marion Turk records that de Quetteville, agent for Clement, the surviving partner of de Gruchy, Renouf and Clement in Newfoundland, was afraid of ghosts. "He slept in a huge wooden box lined with sailcloth, and pulled the lid over him. He made the cook go all through the agent`s house and basement with a lantern before he got into the box": Turk, Marion, in The Quiet Adventurers in Canada, 215 - ↑ Charles John de Quetteville was by 1891 and still in 1901 a Waiter at the inns run by his uncle, Edward Williams, at L`Etacq and St John. By 1911 he was described in the census as a "clerk, wine merchant." He, his two younger siblings and brother-in-law Edouard de Caen, are all mentioned in a partage [RP 339/26 (1903)] regarding the La Font inheritance. Mary Ann La Font`s parents are named
- ↑ Born in Burgeo, Newfoundland and baptised there as Philip Winter Middleton or de Quetteville, he was the licensee of the Red Lion, Halkett Place, St Helier
- ↑ On marriage, eating house keeper [perhaps at the Red Lion]
- ↑ Undertaker`s assistant
- ↑ Engineer`s apprentice, 1911; he settled in Australia, where he married and was a storeman, living at 16 Littlewood Street, Hampton, Victoria
- ↑ The Age, Wednesday 19 May 1971, in which no children are mentioned in the death notice but his late parents, wife, late sister Laura and sister Daisy Marie, are included
