Graves Family of Peel

John Graves is supposed to have come from Yorkshire c.1740 — he would appear to have initially settled in Douglas (as children baptised Kk Braddan) before moving to Peel and setting up business in a small shop adjacent to St Peter's churchyard. The shop was willed to his wife Jane Wattleworth (and then to his son Henry) by his father-in-law Henry Wattleworth — described as the House at the Cross it stood at the entrance to St Peter's churchyard. Henry was the eldest son of Archdeacon Samuel Wattleworth.

Twice married Margaret Maddrell (als Smith als Wattleworth, bp 1711), died a widow, in Peel in 1784 and a memorial was erected in St German's Cathedral by her executors Henry Graves and John Christian of London. Her will left considerable legacies to both Henry and William Graves.

    Henry Wattleworth = Jane Hargreaves
           d.1749/50  |
                      |
                      +------------------------------+----
           (2) 1783   |  (1)                         |
 Peter Sorenson  =  Jane = John Graves             Margaret
                   b.1709 |  b. c.1717 d.1775       b 1711
                   d.1791 |
       +------------------+---------+------------+-----------+----------------+
       | (1) 1775 Malew             |            |           |                |
    Henry = Elizabeth Madrell     William       Roger     William        Thomas_Joshua
  b.   |   |   b.1750                b.1747     b.1749     b.1753           b.1756
c.1744 |   |   d.1792                d.1751     d.1783     d.1803           d.1816
d.1797 |   |                                                                  
       |   +----+-----------+---------+------------+----------+ (+ 6 died   
       |        |           |         |            |          |   in infancy)    
       |     Margaret  John_Thomas   Henry   Thomas_Joshua  George            
       |      b.1780      b.1781     b.1783     b.1786        b.1787          
       |      d.1826      d.1833     d.1833     d.1846                        
       |                    |                      |
       |                    +--------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+                          
       |                                           |                                                                                           |
       |                                           |                                                                                           |                          
       |  (2) 1793       (2) 1804                  |                                                                                           |                          
       +-- = Judith Quane = Joseph Salmon          |                                                                                           |                          
           |                                       |  1809                                                                                    1817                 
           +---+------+--------+                   +-- = -- Elizabeth Cottier                                                                  = Margaret Lord
               |      |        |                       | b.1788 d.1833                                                                         |
           Charles   Ann     Jane     +-------+-------++------+-------+-------+------+------+-------+------+-------+---------+                ++-------+-----------+----------+--------+
            b.1794   b.1795  b.1797   |       |       |       |       |       |      |      |       |      |       |         |                |        |           |          |        |
            d.1808   d.1866  d.1820   |       |       |       |       |       |      |      |       |      |       |         |             Margaret  Henry M.    Robert   Elizabeth   Jane
                                      |    Thomas  Thomas           John    Mary     |      |       |      |       |       Samuel           b.1817   b.1820      b.1824    b.1824     b.1827
                                   Henry   Joshua  Joshua  William  James   Ann   George  James  Edward Charles Christian  Francis            |        |         d.1891    d.1931     m. Daniel McIntosh 1852
                                   b.1809  b.1812  b.1813  b.1814   b.1816 b.1818 b.1819  b.1821 b.1823  b.1825  b.1827    b.1830             |        |       (Australia)
                                   d.1864  d.1813  d.1877  d.1848   d.1864 d.1818 d.1832         d.1907  d.1906                               |        |           +------------------------                                           
                                     |                                |                                                                       |       1845                                1850 
                               1836  |                                |                                                                       |        = Margaret Wattleworth              = Elizabeth Kelly
               Catherine Clucas = ---+                                +----- = ----------- married 1st cousin ? ------------------------------+        |                                   |  b.1826
                b.1809 d.1900   |                                            |                                                                         |                                   |
       +------------+-----------++------------+--------------+           +---+-----+---------+--------+--------+--------+            +--------+--+-----+---------+-------+           +-----------+
       |            |            |            |              |           |         |         |        |        |        |            |        |        |         |       |           |           |
  Elizabeth       Henry        Thomas      Catherine     Christian    Rebecca  Elizabeth  Cottier  Walter   John H. William T     John James Alfred  George W  Alice I. Alice I.    Edward F.  Georgina
    Jane          Thomas       Joshua         |             Ann          |         |         |        |        |        |            |        |        |         |       |           |           |
    b.1843       b.1845       b.1846       b.1846        b.1850       b.1844   b.1846     b.1848    b.1850   b.1860   b.1861      b.1846    b.1848   b.1850    b.1860  b.1862      b.1850      b.1852
    d.1931       d.1900       d.1912       d.1932        d.1916                           d.1929                                            d.1868             d.1860  d.1880                  d.1865
                                       m.1873 Dr T.A.Wood     




Property

Henry Graves' (1) will detailed the split of property between the children — the figure shows the houses in central Peel

Henry Grave's propert in Central Peel
Map is 1868 O/S plan of Peel (composite from 2 sheets)

The family home and the shop still stand today (for those with CD version look at Peel interactive map) — the home is the distinctive house with the one time classic Manx outside staircase, the shop stands next to the entrance to the churchyard; a house 'newly erected in the grounds' in 1797 was left in the possession of daughter Ann and is most likely that shown.

His brother William was a butcher whose shop (possibly part of family business ?) was on nearby Douglas Street (site now British Legion club) — Henry's home from 1783 was adjacent and was a long low building (now demolished) known as Nicholson's house. Henry also owned property in Castle Street , Market street Boilley Spital and at Castletown.

Henry was also a churchwarden of St Peter's - his second wife was heiress of Ballaquane, Dalby.

TBC ...

References

Fred Palmer Peel Two: Creg Mallin [Peel: Author's imprint]nd [c1955]

Ruth Serjeant The Graves Family of Peel Proc IoMNH&ASoc VI #4 pp509/524 1964

Family papers were deposited in Manx Museum [MM MD148] at death of Miss P.D.Wood


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