Trentham, Wall, van Batenburg-Stafford and Strickland Families

 

John Michael, John E. and Peter van B. Stafford win the J-22 Governor's Cup in Scotch Bonnet.

Photo: P. Ann van B. Stafford, Grand Cayman, Oct. 2, 1994.

United Kingdom  Netherlands  Guyana (formerly British Guiana)  United States of America   Cayman Islands

Forefathers on three continents:
George Stafford, North America (USA)
A.C.J. Wall, Europe (UK)
S.L. van Batenburg-Stafford, South America (British Guiana / Guyana)
G. Colin Trentham, Europe (UK)












1639 Thomas TRENTHAM of Deddington, Oxforshire died on Oct. 1.

Generations of Trenthams 1648-1840 lived and died in Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, England, near the market town of Banbury, Oxfordshire, just across the county boundary and the River Cherwell. Trenthams can be traced, by the parish registers records of the 14th. Century All Saints church in this ancient village, for nearly 200 years after the Civil War, until "railway Mania" destroyed forever the old rural life.

  

 All Saints Church, built in 14th. Century, Middleton Cheney.















1642-1651 English Civil Wars 

King Charles I

1642 Battle of Edgehill
Battle of Edgehill, Warwickshire, 1642 

Interpretation of King Charles I holding a council of war prior th the Battle of Edgehill, 1642, the first battle of the English Civil War. Charles Landseer painting.

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) by Samuel Cooper

1648 English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas

1649 Charles I executed (reigned from 1625-1649)

1649 Cromwell invades Ireland

1653-1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, virtual Dictator

1655 English capture Jamaica

1660-1685 Charles II reign

1685-1688 James II reigned for 3 years, fled

1689-1702 William III and Mary II reign. Mary died in 1694 – no children

1702-1714 Anne reigned for 12 years, had 17 children, the last one died in 1701

1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland, thus forming Great Britain

1714-1727 George I reigned for 13 years

1727-1760 George II reigned for 33 years
1753 Abraham Jacob van Imbyze van Batenburg born in Breda, Netherlands 
1759 Susanna Wilhelmina Zurmegede born in Veere, Netherlands, on April 22, 1759.

1760-1820 George III reigned for 59 years (the last 9 years were spent in seclusion

1769 Napoleon Bonaparte born, died 1821

1773 Boston Tea Party Dec.16

Boston Tea Party Dec.16, 1773
Lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, 1846

1775-1783 American Revolution (American War of Independence) April 19, 1775 to Sept. 3, 1783

1782 Abraham Jacob van Imbyze van Batenburg married Susanna Wilhelmina Zurmegede

 Susanna Wilhelmina Zurmegede miniature with a lock of her hair.











1776 England's 13 North American colonies declare Independence on July 4. They achieved it at the Peace of Paris in 1783.

1789-1806 Abraham Jacob van Imbyze VAN BATENBURG was the last Dutch Governor and the first British Governor of Berbice and Essequibo, South America. These colonies combined with Demerara to become British Guiana, which in 1966 gained Independence and became Guyana.

(Alternative names are van Imbijze van Batenburg and Imbyse van Batenburg.
Abraham Jacob van Imbyze van Batenburg 

 van Batenburg shield - Sobre Vigilanter

1780-1799 French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille on July 14

1790 John TRENTHAM was born on Oct.31.

1794 Mary Flowers born to William Flowers and Mary

1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson defeats Napoleon Bonaparte
1806  Abraham Jacob van Imbyzevan Batenburg died

1811 Prince Regent (later George IV, eldest son of George II), king is all but name

1812-1814 Anglo American War

1815 Battle of Waterloo, Duke of Wellington defeats Napoleon Bonaparte

1820 John Trentham married Mary Flowers on Nov.13

1820-1830 George IV reigned for 9 years
1825 Henry Field de Rampling Strickland, son of Henry Strickland and Sarah Field de Rampling was born in 1825.

1827 JEREMIAH Trentham was born in Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire. Jeremiah broke the tradition of working on the land and became a employee of the contractors who were laying plate for one of the new RAILWAY companies, making the first move into contracting.

1828 Mary Ann White was born to Thomas White on March 12

1830-1837 William IV reigned
1832 William Coombs, son of William Coombs, was born on Dec. 28, 1832.

1837-1901 Victoria reigned

1852 William Coombs married Ann Atkins
Abt. 1855 GEORGE STAFFORD was born in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
1859 GEORGE Trentham was born to Jeremiah and Mary Ann Trentham on Dec.1, 1859.

1861-1865 American Civil War. George Stafford was orphaned during the American Civil War
1861 JOHN Edwin STRICKLAND, son of Henry Field de Rampling Strickland and Frances Batey Craig, was born on Sept.10, 1861 in South Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, Durham, England.

1867 Anne Maria Coombs, daughter of William Coombs and Ann Atkins was born on Feb. 4, 1867.
1870 Adriana Catherina VAN BATENBURG-GUNNING was born in British Guiana
 

 George Stafford, orphaned in the American Civil War, drove cattle from Texas.

Roping on the range, painting by Jason Rich

George Stafford in cattleman's garb














 1881 George Stafford's photo album, Glendale, Beaverhead County, Montana.

1885 Butte, Montana – looking down Main St 

Although gold drew the prospectors, it was silver discoveries beginning in 1875 that kept them here, and it was copper that ultimately made them rich.
Butte needed one more year: in 1876, the telephone was invented, followed in 1879 by the electric light. Western Union had established the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861, but the telephone and electric light were the real drivers behind copper consumption, beginning in the late 1870s. Such wonderful new devices demanded copper for transmission wires, and Butte was at the right place at the right time, holding more copper than anywhere known on earth. The boom was on.

Butte went from the handful of residents in 1874 to 3,363 in the 1880 census, about 23,000 by 1890, and on to a peak of close to 100,000 in 1917.

  Butte, Montana - the richest hill in the world










 Butte History
1895 SIDNEY Lyons VAN BATENBURG-STAFFORD born on Dec. 18, in British Guiana 

1901-1910 Edward VII reigned
1906 John E. Strickland married Annie Maria Coombs on Aug. 4, 1906 in St. Philip's Church, Georgetown, British Guiana.

 John E. Strickland and Annie Maria (nee Coombs)











1907 HUGH Ohle van Batenburg-Stafford was born in British Guiana 
1907 George Stafford died, lost at sea on his way to South Africa

1907 FRANCES Sarah STRICKLAND was born on July 22 in British Guiana
1910-1936 George V reigned

1936 Edward VIII ascended the throne on Jan.20 and abdicated on Dec.11. He was never crowned
1951

1936-1952 George VI reigned
1934 John E. Strickland died on March 18, 1834, in Georgetown Guyana.

1952 Elizabeth II ascended the throne
1966 GUYANA becomes Independent (formerly British Guiana) 


 
1969 Sidney Lyons van Batenburg-Stafford, QC, died on Dec.8, 1969 in Georgetown, Guyana. His funeral was at Brickdam Roman Catholic Cathedral and he was buried at Le Repentir Cemetery.