Sunderland (Sun) Clay Fowke 1798 - 1873
Sunderland (Sun) Clay Fowke , of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, S. Wales, "Aide-de-Camp" present 1813 at the burning of The White House and The Capitol, Washington, U.S.A., educ. Ealing Great School. In 1850, 1851, resident of Cologne, Germany. He was teaching english there in 1848. His address was 30 Schnalben strasse. "He entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1812, with an allowance of £40 a year from his father (Francis junior, in the cavalry needed £200) In 1813 he joined the Menelaus in which Richard was serving, took part in unsuccessful hunting of American frigates in the Atlantic by a flying squadron, and then went ashore with the naval forces attacking Washington. As a very junior aide de camp he watched the burning of the White House and the Capitol. With no prospects of promotion after the end of the napoleonic and American Wars, he left the navy without taking his lieutenancy examination." Shortly before and after his brother Francis died in 1826, he was living at Llandevilog House, Brecons. with his mother. With his brother, Edward, he successfully and unsuccessfulluy negotiated the sales of the Fowke estate. and as the senior resident son at Boughrood Castle in the 1830s, he carried most of the family troubles on his shoulders. His relaxations were angling and netting in the Wye, the season at Tenby and yachting in the Bristol Channel. He left Tenby after 1841, lived at one time at Glanhenwy with his brother, Edward. Then at Cologne and in London and eventually at Gunfort Terr., Tenby next door to Philip's widow and her daughter Laura, a governess. Of St. Ishmael, Carmarthen (1834). Of 1 Gunfort Terr Tenby (1873).
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| Born: Hertford st, London, , , England 3rd May 1798 | Baptised: St George's Hanover Square, London, , , England 3rd May 1798
| | Died: Ellenglaze, Cubert, Cornwall, , England 1st Jul 1873 | Buried:
| | Family: Fowke formerly of Brewood |
Timeline
| 3rd May 1798 | Baptised (baptism) London, England | | 3rd May 1798 | Born (birth) London, England | | 2nd May 1826 | Became an heir of Francis Fowke
(Phillips ) 1789 - 1826 (will) | | 13th Nov 1834 | Married Ann Llewellin Price
(Fowke ) ante 1809 - 1837 (marriage) Tenby, Pembrokes., Wales | | 16th Oct 1837 | Executor of the will of Ann Llewellin Price
(Fowke ) ante 1809 - 1837 (will) | | 1841 | Head of household in 1841 census (census) Tenby, Pembrokes., Wales | | 1871 | Lodger in 1871 census (census) Tenby, Pembrokes., Wales | | 1st Jul 1873 | Died (death) Cubert, Cornwall, England | | 1873 | AACT/ROLE DEAD |
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