Descendants of Henry Showell

Descendants of Henry Showell

Joshua Showell at generation 2 had a chequered history. He was a fisherman and on 11 March 1857 he was sentenced to eight days in prison with hard labour for boarding the Minerva in Guernsey with intent to steal. In April 1859, convicted by Jersey's Royal Court of burglary and theft of pewter pots and copper kettles, still aged just 17, and said to have no trade, he was sentenced to seven years transportation.

However, after three years in Dartmoor Prison, he was released in 1862. He was lucky to escape further serious punishment after attacking a policeman on his return to Jersey and by 1871 he was a cabinet maker, still living with his parents.

By 1874 he was married to Ann Neill and their first child was born that year. The couple had two more children before Joshua returned to work as a cod fisher on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. But this was not successful and in 1884 he sailed to Australia with seven other Jersey fisherman looking for a new life pearling. He was drowned after falling overboard three years later, in 1887 at the age of 45.

His son Richard Henry Joshua served in the Boer War from 1899 to 1902 and as a gunner with the Royal Horse Artillery he won the Queen's and King's Medals, the Queen's with six clasps. When he returned to Jersey he worked on the docks as a labourer.

He served in the Royal Garrison Artillery in Jersey during the Great War and his younger brothers Archibald and Seth served in the Machine Gun Corps and Royal Field Artillery, respectively.

One day a day-labourer named Allo took Richard Henry's son Louis to the docks and asked if anyone would look after him. Richard and Adelaide took him in but never formally adopted him. By the time he died they owned their own house in Sand Street, St Helier

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• 1 Henry Showell (1793-1857) (Worcester to Jersey) m 1, Elizabeth (1800-1836)
  • 2 John Showell (1820-1841) (Birmingham)
  • 2 Elizabeth Showell (1831-1851) (Jer)
  • 2 Hannah Showell (1832-1841) (Jer)
• 2nd wife of Henry Showell (1836) Mary Beckford (1798-1881)
  • 2 Seth James Showell (1837- ) (St H)
  • 2 William John Showell (1839-1841)
  • 2 Joshua Showell (1841-1887) (St H) m (1874, St H) Ann Dora Neill (1854-1936)
    • 3 Annie Louise Showell (1874-1921) (St H) m (1892, St Andrew) Alfred Shales
    • 3 Richard Henry Joshua Showell (1877-1946) (St H) m (1906) Adelaide Maud Bates (1899- )
      • 4 Sydney Showell (adopted, formerly Louis Marie Allo Bedford) (1908- )
    • 3 William George James Showell (1880-1959) (St H)
    • 3 William James Joshua Showell (1881- ) (St H)
    • 3 Seth Reuben James Showell (1882-1970) (St H) m 1 (1912, Farnham, Surrey) Elsie Ellen Croucher (1890-1925)
      • 4 Ruby Elsie Showell (1912- )
    • 2nd wife of Seth Reuben James Showell (1926, Jer) Lucy Katherine Mary Hameury (1901- )
      • 4 Reuben Archibald Showell (1927-1994) m (NZ) Sylvie Albertine Marie Le Bon (1930- )
        • 5 Wendy Anne Showell (1958- )
        • 5 Faye Joan Showell (1960- )
    • 3 Archibald Neil Showell (1884- ) (St H)
  • 2 William George Showell (1843- ) (St H) m 1 (1860, St B) Martha Jane Devlin (1840- ) daughter of Henry; (1884, St Andrew) Charlotte Willcox (1815- ) daughter of Henry
  • 2 David Showell (1846- ) (Methodist)