ABBOTT FAMILY GENEALOGY
(version 2/6/12)
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1. Thomas Abbott, (d. 1652), was born sometime before 1600, and married a woman named Katherine, whose name sometimes appears as Sarah. He began in the early 1600s as a small farmer on the manor of Gretton in Northamptonshire, and over the years acquired several land leases that he was able to sell at a profit. Because he often represented others during land transfers, he is also described in some court documents of the time as an attorney. He said to have been quite prosperous at the time of his death. He was buried on Aug. 21, 1652 in Gretton, Northamptonshire, probably in the parish churchyard, and Katherine was buried there April 1, 1655. They had several children, including the two who follow.

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   Robert Abbott (1610-1658), who follows:

   Alice Abbott, who married John Clayton. Their son Robert Clayton (1629-1707) apprenticed as a scrivener (scribe and moneylender) under his uncle Robert, and ultimate became his uncle's successor in the business. Robert Clayton is often referred to as the father of the British banking system.

    

2. Robert Abbott (1610-1658), the second son of Thomas Abbott and Katherine, was born in 1610, probably in Gretton, Northamptonshire. He married in London in 1637 Bethia Chapman (b. 1620), the daughter of Jasper Chapman (c.1577-1653) of Rushbury, Shropshire and his wife Ann, and the grandaughter of one John Chapman, who had been buried in Rushbury on Feb. 21, 1598. Bethia's father Jasper was a wealthy grocer, who became a warden (guild officer) in 1651 with the 'Worshipful Company of Grocers. As he is also said to have had ties to the East India Company, Bethia probably brought a sizeable dowry to her marriage.

   Robert became a scrivener, which in those days was a scribe and money-lender. He was apprenticed in 1626 to the shop of Francis Webb, and admitted in 1635 to the 'Freedom of the Company of Scriveners', a trade guild. He opened a scriveners shop of his own in the parish of St. Michael's Cornhill, called the Flying Horse, which survived several years after his death, until a fire in 1666 burned the Flying Horse to the ground. He is listed in 1651 as an Assistant in the Scriveners Company, and he rose in 1658 to the office of Warden. Robert apparently also served as an Attorney of the Court of Common Pleas, which indicates he must have had some legal training as well.

   Robert was successful enough as a moneyer that, despite being a commoner and having suppported the losing royalist side in the English civil war, he was offically granted arms on Aug. 9, 1654 by Oliver Cromwell's herald (Garter King of Arms) Edward Bysshe. These arms, which are similar to those on the right, are described as an "ermin on a Pale Gules 3 Peares Or & for his Creast on a Helmett and Wreath . . a Unicorn". These arms resemble those (below left) of the Lord Mayor of London Sir Morris (Maurice) Abbot (1565-1642), which indicates there may be a connection between the two families. Robert's arms were later displayed by his great-grandson John Thomas Abbott, who registered a pedigree for 'Abbott of Constantinople from Abbott of London' on March 15, 1771 with the College of Heralds. John Thomas' nephew William Abbott, whom he raised as his own son, displayed these same arms as his bookplate.

   Another connection with Sir Morris, who was also the brother of George Abbot (1562-1633) the Archbishop of Canterbury, is indicated by the fact that Robert's descendants were connected with the Levant Company, in which Sir Morris had extensive trading interests. The Levant Company was an association of British merchant traders to whom the crown granted a trading monoploy in the Levant, which refers the maritime provinces of Turkey, Syria and Palestine in the Middle East. In addition, Robert aquired in 1646, as payment for a debt, an interest in six ships, at least two of which - the Angell (200 tonnes) and the Edward Bonaventure (160 tonnes) - were employed in the Levantine trade.

   One of Robert's apprentices was his nephew Robert Clayton (1629-1707), who is often referred to as the father of the British banking system. Clayton took over the Flying Horse when his uncle died, and he was knighted in 1671 after making a huge fortune. Although Robert Abbott specified in his will that his business be closed and his assets divided among his heirs, Robert Clayton nonetheless acquired the banking interests, which he and a partner used to form the Clayton and Morris Co. Bank. Robert Abbott, Clayton's mentor and benefactor, died of "fever" on June 3, 1658 in the City of London, and was buried six days later in a vault at St. Michael's Church in the Cornhill Parish. His wife Bethia survived him and was buried Aug. 8, 1666 in the same vault.

   The portrait of Robert Abbott, Sr. above left was painted around 1640-1650 and hung in Hambledon Manor when Robert's son Robert, Jr. owned the manor house. When the younger Robert died this painting passed to his cousin William Clayton, who was Sir Robert Clayton's nephew, and it stayed in the Clayton family until acquired in 1952 by the author of Abbott (1950, 1952 & 1956).

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   Sarah Abbott married Nicholas Charleton on Dec. 17, 1654 at St. Michaels Church in the Cornhill Parish of the City of London.

   Bethia (Sarah) Abbott, was born in London, and baptized Nov. 20, 1642 at St. Michaels Church in the Cornhill Parish of the City of London. She died as a child and was buried in 1648 at the same church as her baptism.

   Rebecca Abbott was probably born sometime after 1642, died as an infant or a child, and was buried Dec. 9, 1645 at St. Michaels Church in the Cornhill Parish of the City of London.

   Robert Abbott, was born in London, England, and baptized Oct. 29, 1646 at St. Michaels Church in the Cornhill Parish of the City of London. He married Susannah Morris, whlo was the niece of one of his fathers scrivener apprentices. He died April 6, 1684 at the age of 38 at Hambledon Manor, of which he was lord, in Buckinghamshire. He is buried in the parish church there beneath a stone that displays the coat of arms of his father, despite the fact that these arms, together with all arms issued by Oliver Cromwell's herald Edward Bysshe, were declared void by a Sept. 4, 1660 decree from King Charles II.

   Catherine Abbott married William Lightfoote and died 1n 1677.

   Elizabeth Abbott married John Normansel.

   Eliab Abbott, was baptized on Aug. 4, 1652 at St. Michaels Church in the Cornhill Parish of the City of London, and buried there on Dec. 11, 1652.

   Eliab Abbott, was born in London, and was baptized Sept. 13, 1653 at St. Michaels Church in the Cornhill Parish of the City of London. Nothing further is known of him.

   Jasper Abbott (1655-1700), who follows:

   Susanna Abbott, was born in London, England, and baptized Aug. 15, 1658 after the death of her father at St. Michaels Church in the Cornhill Parish of the City of London.

    

3. Jasper Abbott (1655-c.1700). The son of Robert Abbott and Bethia Chapman, was born Dec. 22, 1655 in London, and baptized 5 days later on Dec. 27 at St. Michael Church in the Cornhill Parish in the City of London. First he was a merchant of London, then in Galata (Constantinople), Turkey, where his son Peter was born in 1696. It seems likely that he was associated in some way with the Levant Company, as they had a trade monopoly in Turkey and Syria, and his father had an interest in at least two ships that sailed for the Company. Another indication that he was with the Company is the fact that most of his male descendants for the next hundred years were Levantine traders. Jasper died in Constantinople sometime after 1700. We know nothing about his wife, except that he married her in Constantinople (Abbott, 1956, p. 38), which indicates she was probably Greek. He had at least one daughter we are told, in addition to the son listed below, but there may have been other children as well.

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   Peter Abbott (1696-1768), who follows:

    

4. Peter Abbott (1696-1768), the son of Jasper Abbott, was born in 1696 in Ankara, Turkey (some sources list Constantinople). He served as treasurer for the Levant Company at Constantinople, and died in 1768, probably in Constantinople, but some sources list Ankara for both his birth and death. He is said to have married the daughter of a Greek lady, but her name is not given. Because there was a scarcity of British women in the Levant, and because of the stigma attached to marrying a moslem woman, most of the Levantive traders tended to take Greek wives.

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   • John Thomas Abbott (1733-1783) was born June 3, 1733 in Ankara, Turkey. He became a factor (merchant) for the Levant Company, and served from 1770-1783 as the British Consul in Aleppo. He married Marianna Goy (1750-1816) of Switzerland, and raised his nephew William Abbott (1766-1852), as well as four sons of his own - Robert, Peter, George and John. John Abbott and his wife Marianna registered a pedigree titled 'Abbott of Constantinople descended from Abbott of London' on March 15, 1771 with the College of Heralds in London to document his right to bear the arms of his great-grandfather Robert Abbott. This pedigree is the primary source for the early lineage of the family. Interestingly though, the wax seal on the pedigree shows not the arms of Robert Abbott, but those of George Abbot (1562-1633), the Archbishop of Canterbury. When John, Sr. died in 1783, the Company decided that the small amount of business in Aleppo did not justify the appointment of another consul there, so John's nephew William brought Marianna with John's sons, who were just 4 to 10 years old, to England.

     • Richard Robert Abbott was born April 24, 1772 in Aleppo and privately baptized there on Jan. 20, 1773, before being publically baptized on Feb. 13, 1774 with four of his siblings. He apparently remained in London when his family moved there in 1783 or 1784, whereas his brothers Peter and John went to India.

     • Peter Abbott was born Jan. 17, 1774 in Aleppo and baptized there on Feb. 13, 1774. He became a sailor and was lost at sea when he fell overboard. He is often confused with his cousin of the same name who lived a long life and served with the British Foreign Office.

     • George Edward Abbott (1875-1822) was born Jan. 15, 1775 at Aleppo and baptized there July 7, 1775. He became the Head Assistant to the Postmaster General in Calcutta. He was the father of Major General Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott (b. 1814), and the father of Marianne Sarah Hadow, whose son was Major General Frederick Edward Haddow (1836-1915).

     • John Abbott (1776-1810) was born Dec. 17, 1776 in Aleppo, Syria. He traveled overland to India, and become the head clerk of an agency in Calcutta, India. He married Adela de Fleury, and had a son Edward Benjamin Abbott, who was born in Calcutta in 1806, and died in Valparaiso, Chile about 1876. He may have also been the father of the Richard B. Abbott shown below, but this is far from certain.

     • Richard B. (Benjamin?) Abbott (c.1803-1858) may be connected with the family of John Thomas Abbott, and it is possible that he is either John's grandson, or perhaps the son of John's nephew William Abbott. There seems to be no documentation either way. When Richard married Helen Margaret Maltass (1807-1890) on Sept. 5, 1825 in Smyrna, he is listed as a bachelor of Smyrna. Either he or his son Ernest Frederick Abbott (b. Nov. 8, 1843) acquired from the Greeks an emery mine concession that Ernest ran for many years under the firm of Abbott Family Mines. These mines, of which at one time there were three, are located near the city of Aziziye (now Emirdağ) close to the Gemus Dagh (Silver Mountain) in the Emir (Emirdağ) Mountains of Turkey. Richard died Sept, 15, 1858 in Smyrna at the age of 55, and his son Ernest died 1916-1920, probably in Izmir, Turkey.

     • Elizabeth Margaret Abbott was born Jan. 18, 1780 in Aleppo, and baptized and died the next day on Jan. 19.

     • Three other children - Charlotte, Henry and Emelila - who were publically baptized with their siblings Richard Robert and Peter on Feb. 13, 1774 in Aleppo. Nothing further is known about them. Perhaps they died before the family removed in 1783 or 1784 to London.

   • George Abbott was born at Ankara and became a merchant in Constantinople, which was where he raised his nephew Peter when his brother Jasper died. George married a Venetian lady named Anna Marecellini in Constantinople and they had at least tow children, John who died young and Mary Elizabeth. He died in 1798, and although his death place is not given, it was probably in Constantinople.

   • Robert Page Abbott of Aleppo raised his nephew Henry Alexius Abbott in Aleppo, and died there in 1799.

   • Jasper (Joseph) Abbott (1731-1774), who follows:

   • Bartholomew Edward Abbott (c.1739-1817) became a merchant trader in Salonica, Greece. He was admitted as a freeman in the Levant Company, forming business partnerships with his own son George Frederick Abbott (1770-1852), and his stepson Peter Chausseud (who also married Bartholomew's niece Maria Abbott). Bartholomew is referred to by one of his contemporaries as the "Father of the Levant Company in Salonica", even though the company since 1715 had been trading there. Bartholomew served at times as the company's interim consul, but despite his influence, timing and politics prevented him from becoming the official consul. He died on March 18, 1817, and his son George continued the family business interests. George married a Greek lady named Sarah, whose first husband Gabriel Chausseaud was the father of George's stepbrother and partner Peter Chausseaud.

   • There were other children, including two daughters who died young, two sons, and a daughter Dorothy Clara Abbott, who married a Russian named Froding.

   

    

5. Jasper (Joseph) Abbott, the son of Peter Abbott, was born in 1731 in Ankara, Turkey. He established a merchantile business in Ankara, and married a Greek lady named Kyriaky Athanasius, whose father Rev. Athanasius had a Greek Church in the city. Jasper's son Henry Alexius in his jourmal describes Jasper as a religious man and a classical scholar, who died of dysentery in the summer of 1774 when he was still in his early thirties. He passed away at his country home at a place called Efset on outskirts of the city, leaving behind his wife and several small children. His four sons were subsequently raised by his surviving older brothers.

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   • Henry Alexius Abbott, was born in 1764 in Pera, one of the suburbs of Constantinople (Istanbul) Turkey, said to be that part of the city where all the Europeans lived. His father died when he was only ten-years old, and he was subsequently raised by his uncle Robert. He traveled widely in his lifetime, establishing business interests in Turkey and India, before retiring about 1803 to England. He died in 1819 in London, leaving behind a diary and pedigree chart, written in 1804, that is a source of much information on the family.

     Henry was married in 1794 to Margaret Welch (1774-1853), with whom he had several sons and daughters. Four of their six sons - Augustus Abbott (1804-1867), Sir Frederick Abbott (1805-1892), Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), and Saunders Alexius Abbott - were generals, three of them major generals. Another son, Keith Edmund Abbott (1814-1873), was Consul General of Tabriz, Persia, and later the Consul General in Odessa overseeing Russian ports on the Black Sea. The city of Abbottabad in Pakistan, where Osama Bin Laden was killed, is named for Henry's son Sir James Abbott.

   • William Abbott (1766-1852), who follows:

   • Peter Abbott was born Feb. 5, 1767 in Istanbul, Turkey, and raised by his uncle George. He was sent during the Napoleonic Wars by the Levant Company on a mission to the United States to convince the Secretary of State to develop trade in Turkey, but was captured at sea by the French. Many years later he was the British Consul in Beirut, Lebannon, serving first until with the Company until it was dissolved in 1825, then afterwards with the British Foreign Office. Some genealogies identify him with a sailor who fell overboard and was lost at sea as a young man, but this is confusion with a different Peter, who is actually his cousin (the son of John Thomas Abbott).

   • John Abbott was born in Turkey and died an infant.

   • Elizabeth Abbott was born in Ankara, Turkey, and remained with her mother after her father's death. She married a man named Gluebeck.

   • Maria (Mary) Abbott was born in 1770 in Ankara, Turkey, and like her sister she remained with her mother in Turkey after her father died. She married her cousin Peter Chausseaud (1756-1844), and died in 1844. The Chausseaud branch of the family descends from her.

    

6. William Abbott (1766-1852), the son of Jasper Abbott and Kyriaky Athansius, was born April 14, 1766 in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. Given that his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather probably all married Greek women, William's ancestry was 7/8 Greek and 1/8 British. When his father died, William was only 12-years old, and he was taken in by his uncle John Abbott, who was a factor (i.e., a merchant) for the British Levant Company, as well as the British Consul in Aleppo, Syria. Whereas William's brothers remained in the Levant, one in Aleppo and one in Constantinople, William was dispatched on the ship Royal George and sent to study at an academy in England.

   William is said in some articles to have been the consul for the Levant Company in Aleppo. However, it seems more likely that he returned to Aleppo from England in the 1770s to apprentice under his uncle, and that there were times in later years that he served as acting consul when his uncle was unavailable. After John died in 1783, the Company decided not to retain a consul in Aleppo, there not being enough trade there to justify the expense, so William brought his Uncle John's widow Marianna and John's four young sons to London. Though it is sometimes said that William returned to England with his mother, it was with his adpted mother Marianna.

   Next we find William in Madras (modern Chennai), India, where one article describes him as a wheeler-dealer involved in many enterprises. Arriving sometime in the 1780s, he was manager (agent) in 1785 for the Madras Courier (a newspaper), before becoming an agent in 1788 for Paul Benfield (c.1742-1810), a former engineer for the East India Company who had left the company to become a construction contractor. Benfield also made loans and had banking interests in India.

   Through connections made under Benfield's employ, William became secretary (agent) in 1792 for Mohamed Ali Khan Wallaja, the Nawab of the Carnatic (Arcot), who was the Muslim ruler of most of the Tamil Nadu province. He also had dealings with Amir Singh, the Maharaja of Tanjore, who was the Hindu ruler of a rival principality within Tamil Nadu. To facilitate these business interests, William became a partner in 1792 in the firm of Roebuck & Abbott, and then set up in 1799 the firm of Abbott & Maitland, his partner in the latter being the brother of Sir Thomas Maitland, the Governor of Ceylon. William and his associates became wealthy making huge loans to the Nawab that were secured by mortgages on future tax revenues from the Carnatic. Similar loans were made to the Maharaja. When the Nawab could not pay his debts, the East India Company, backed by Britain, settled them in return for concessions from the Nawab that strengthened England's hold on southern India and laid the foundations for the British Empire.

   In addition to William's dealings with the Nawab and Maharaja, he also served as deputy master of the port of Madras in the 1790s, where he supplied water to incoming ships. Next he served as one of nine aldermen for the city from 1793-97, and finally he was Mayor of Madras from 1797-98. Interestingly, even though he was British by birth, he was appointed on Nov. 24, 1794 as the consular agent in Madras for Benjamin Joy, the American Consul to India, and continued in that function for a nearly a decade, long after Joy resigned and returned to the States. Although William's duty as consular agent was to promote U.S. trade in Madras, the majority of his time was spent furthering his own business interests.

   William married a woman named Elizabeth, who McGuigan's Abbott Pedigree identifies as the daughter of Richard Lee. If correct, then Elizabeth's father is probably the same Richard Lee of Smyrna who ran the firm of Lee and Maltass, and was the father of the well-known John Lee (c.1769-1841) of Smyrna, and Peter Lee (d. 1824), the consul of Alexandria. A Richard Lee who appears in an 1812 court procedings as the lawyer for William's firm of Abbott and Maitland would likely be either the same man or his son. Most likely, the marriage took place in in India, but we do not know this sure. In any event, William and Elizabeth had at least one son, who was born in Madras. The family remained in India until 1812 when they permanenly moved to England. Despite the fact that William's ancestor Jasper Abbott originally left England over 150 years earlier, they were still British citizens.

   William's bookplate on the right shows arms that were granted in 1656 to his ancestor Robert Abbott, and confirmed in 1771 for William's uncle John Thomas Abbott, with the submission by John of a pedigree of descent to the College of Heralds. Because arms in Britain are granted to individuals, and not to families, it is curious that William displayed these arms after the 1783 death of his uncle, instead of the arms being confirmed to one of John's own sons. However, William was at least 12 or 13 years older than John's first-born son, so he may have felt that he was John's legal heir.

   William in London became involved in a number of business ventures. One early enterprise was a firm on Bermondsey Street in the Southwark Bourough of London that made and sold luxury leather shoes, but it went bankrupt in 1821. He then founded the firm of William Abbott & Son, also on Bermondsey Street, that made and sold felt, but it too went bankrupt in 1849. He also became embroiled in lawsuits involving his business dealings in Madras with the Nawab of the Carnatic, and the Raja of Tanjore. He moved after his 1849 bankruptcy to Bath St. James in Somerset, about 50 miles east of London, possibly to put some distance between him and creditors, but he may have also wanted to spent his final years near the coast. He was living in Bath with his son's family during the 1851 Census, in which he gives occupation as annuitant (retired). He died at Bath on Feb. 5, 1852, a few months after the census.

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   • William Abbott (1805-1881), who follows:

   • Richard B. (Benjamin?) Abbott is shown in McGuigan's Abbott Pedgree as a son of William Abbott. However, Richard may also be one of the grandsons of William's uncle John Thomas Abbott, and either relationship is possible. Richard's son Ernest Abbott in the early 1900s ran the Abbott Family Mines in the Emir Mountains of Turkey.

    

7. William Abbott (1805-1881), the son of William Abbott and Elizabeth Lee, was born on May 13, 1805 at Fort George, which the city Madras had grown around in southern India. He came to England with his parents in 1813 while still a child, and married Louisa Sophia Brietzcke on Aug. 28, 1832 at Christ Church in the St. Marylebone parish of Westminster, London. Louisa Sophia was probably somehow related to the Brietzcke family in Madras who were associated with the Bengal Lancers. William and Louisa lived in London at 11 Wyndham Place, an affluent neighborhood in the St. Marylebone district, just north of Bryanston Square and close to the northeast corner of Hyde Park.

   The younger William about 1822 became a partner with his father in the firm of William Abbott & Son, which made a very fine-textured felt fabric from beaver pelts that was probably used for top hats and fine clothes. The company was located on Bermondsey Street, possibly in the same location where William, Sr. had previously made shoes, which was on the other side of the Thames River and east of the family home at Wyndham Place. The firm in 1829 bought the rights to a patented process for making their fine-textured felt, and they then had to defend those patent rights in the mid-1830s in court. William, Jr. then either obtained in 1839 a new patent, or filed modifications to the old one. The firm continued until 1849, when it went bankrupt, afterwhich William moved his family and his aging father to Bath St. James in Somerset.

   The last mention of William that we have is the 1851 U.K. census that lists him and his father in Bath. We have not found an 1861 Census return for the family, and Sophia is listed as a widow at St. George Hanover Square in London in the 1871 Census. Thus, William had died by the time of that census, so it is possible that he is to be identified with a William Abbott who died at Bath Somerset in 1862. Sophia lived at St. George Hanover Square for many more years and died there in 1891.

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   • William George Abbott (1832-1917) was born Jan. 3, 1832 in London, England, and baptized June 3, 1836 at St. Mary's Church in St. Marylebone, London. He followed a career in the British Foreign Office, starting in the early 1850s in the consular office in the Dardanalles of Turkey. Encouraged by his cousin Keith Edmund Abbott, he then became the acting consul in 1863 at Tabriz in Persia, before receiving an appointment in 1865 as the permanent consul at Rasht, Persia. Returning to London for a spell, he married marry Fanny ( Frances) Sims (c.1847-1935) on Oct. 7, 1867 at St. Mary Abbott's in Kensington, before returning to his post at Rasht. He was then promoted in 1875 to the Consul General at Tabriz, where he served until 1875. When his abilities in the foreign service were questioned by his superiors, he was sent as Consul General to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to finish out his career. He eventually retired to England and died on June 12, 1917 at the age of eighty at Chepstow Place in Bayswater, London after having spent 40 years in the foreign office. William and Fanny may not have had any children, as when Fanny died May 29, 1935 in London, their estate went in probate to the Royal Bank of Scotland.

   • Maria Elizabeth Abbott (1833-1917), who follows:

   • Elizabeth Margaretta Abbott (1835-1914) was born Jan. 8, 1835 and baptized April 8, 1835 at St. Mary's Church in St. Marylebone, London. She died a spinster on Dec. 14, 1914 in Hastings, Sussex. Her bother Alfred handled the probate for her estate.

   • John Abbott (b. 1838) was born Feb. 1, 1838 and baptized May 4, 1838 at St. Mary's Church in St. Marylebone, London. Nothing more is known about him.

   • Alfred Keith Abbott (c.1842-1925) was born about 1842 at Sydenham, Kent. He married Fanny Du Tertre in 1896 at Turnbridge Wells, Kent when he was in his 50s and had one daughter Marguerite Laura Abbott born the following year. It would appear that by the 1901 census he was raising Marguerite alone, as was the case during the 1911 census as well. When he died April 28, 1925 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, there is no mention of Marguerite or Fanny in the probate record for his estate.

    

8. Maria Elizabeth Abbott, the daughter of William Abbott and Sophia Louisa Brietzcke, was born Oct. 23, 1833 in London, England, and baptized Nov. 13, 1833 at St. Mary's Church in St. Marylebone, London. She married a well-to-do lawyer Theophilus Wathen Thompson on Oct 21, 1857 at Bath, Somerset, which was her home at the time, and was also where Theophilus had gone to school as a boy. She outlived Theophilus by 12 years and died in 1917 in Hammersmith, London. Please see the Thompson Genealogy for the children of Maria and Theophilus

    

    

REFERENCES:

• Abbott, Henry, 1804, Memoirs and diary of Henry Abbott (1764-1819), 2 volumes; 2 folios; genealogy chart (The British Library - India Office Select Materials - Mss Eur B412). The original is in the British Library, but a transcript is also available at the LDS Library in Salt Lake City (942.1/L1 U3a 2 vol.) The transcript here is from the Levantine Heritage website.

• Abbott, Jasper Andrew, 1952, Abbott Family Pedigree. Including an addition from Abbott, Jasper, 1950, Notes and Queries, 29 April 1950, cxcv: p. 196.

• Abbott, Jasper Andrew, 1956, Robert Abbott, City Money Srivener, and his Account Book 1646-1652: Guildhall Miscellany, v. 1, p. 30-39.

• Abbott, John Thomas, 1771, Abbott of Constantinople descended from Abbott of London. This document, dated March 15, 1771, is the source for Jasper Andrew's (1952) early lineage of the family, and it resides in the College of Heralds in London.

• Aggeler, Brian C., 1994, The Consul was a Nabob, Madras Musings, v. III, No. 19 (January 16-31, 1994), p. 4.

• Giraud, Nadia Searching for Distant Relations, the Abbotts of Salonica on the Levantine Heritage website.

• Giunti, Matteo, Abbott Family Geneaolgy on the Leghorn Merchant Networks Project website. This site used to have a nice pedigree on the family, but access is now restricted. Fortunately, virtually all of the data on the Abbott family is easily available elsewhere, in many cases from the original sources.

• Mason, Chris, 2011, personal communication. Chris has been kind of enough to share some information he has learned on the Abbott family while working on a PhD thesis on General Sir James Abbott.

• McGuigan, Nicholas, undated, Abbott Pedigree, a large chart compiled by McGuigan’s grandfather and great uncle in Melbourne, Australia. The McGuigan family are descendants of Thomas Abbott (1610-1658), who begins the pedigree.

• Melton, Frank T., 1986, Sir Robert Clayton and the Origins of English Deposit Banking, 1658-1685, Cambridge Univeristy Press, New York, p. 42-58.

• Muthiah, Subbiah, 2008, Madras Miscellany - 100 Years of U.S. Representation, The Hindu Online Edition, Monday, Sep 22, 2008. This online article appears to be based in large part on an earlier article that is anonynmous, but is probably the work of Mr. Muthiah as well. The earlier article is An Abbott of Teynampet, The Hindu Online Edition, Monday, Apr 30, 2007.

• UK Census Records, 1841-1901, Parish Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records, and Death and Marriage Records from various sources: online databases available on Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org, and Find My Past.

• Vlami, Despina (2009), Entrepreneurship and Relational Capital in a Levantine Context: The Abbotts of Salonica (18th-19th Century): Article #004 of Entrepreneurial Discussion Papers.

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