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Isabella Stewart |
| Death |
29 Jul 1817, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa |
| Ref Number |
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| Marriage |
19 Apr 1802, St George, Hanover Sq, London, England |
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| Notes for Isabella Stewart |
| Loyalist in American Revolutionary War. Met Jahleel Brenton when he was a midshipman on the Nova Scotia station in 1787. Met at Halifax, they were however separated and did not see each other for 11 years. They met again in England and married in 1802. |
| Notes for Jahleel (Spouse 1) |
Sir Jahleel Brenton, KCB and Knight of St Ferdinand of the two Sicilies. Vice Admiral of the White. Midshipman 1781 and first served on the HMS Queen, captained by his father. At Naval School Chelsea for 2 years following the ending of the American Revolutionary War.
1787-1789 Officer on board HMS Dido with Captain Sandys surveying coast of
Nova Scotia. Commisioner of Cape of Good Hope Dockyard 1815-1821. Returned
to England 1822. Vice Admiral and Lieu Gov. Greenwich Hospital in 1830s.
Retired 1840. Baronet 24 Dec 1812.
Sir Jahleel, Baronet. Rear Admiral of the Blue, K.C.B. and K.S.F.(*Recipient of the Lloyd's 100 Guinea Patriotic Fund Sword*) was bom in Rhode Island in 1770, Entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1781, and served first in the Queen, commanded by his father. At the peace he was placed in the Naval School, Chelsea, where he remained for two years. From 1787 to 1789 he was an officer of the Dido under Captain Sandys, employed in surveying the coast of Nova Scotia. Until the Peace of Ameins in 1802, he was constantly afloat, and performed much hard duty. The captains under whom he served during this period commended his conduct. Among the distinguished naval officers who were his warm friends in later life, were Saunares, St. Vincent, Collingwood and Nelson. After several years service in the renewed warfare against Napoleon, and in 1812, he was appointed to the command of the Stirling Castle 74, but resigned that ship the same year, was created a baronet and commissioned Resident Commissioner of the Balearic Islands. In 1815 he was transferred to the Cape of Good Hope, as Commissioner of the Dockyard and remained in office untih 1821. He returned to England in 1822 and the year after was appointed a Colonel of Marines. In 1829 he was in command of the ship Donegal at Sheemese. Subsequently he was created Vice-Admiral and Lieutenant Governor of Greenwich Hospital. He retired from duty in 1840, and received the pension "dropped" by the decease of his old companion Sir Sydney Smith. He established his residence in Westmoreland, thence removed to a cottage in Staffordshire. He died at Elford, April 1844 in his seventy fourth year.
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