The Rev Henry Willis, b 1738, Rector of Little Sodbury 1788 and Vicar of Wapley, 1792, married Jane Lubbock (b February 17, 1743) September 1, 1765 at Redlingfield, Suffolk

I received a whole bundle of Henry Willis's papers from the Gloucester Records Office earlier this week and have updated my note, new version attached. It seems that Henry, father of the two girls Temperance Jane and Ann Packer, may have had an exciting career - he served on HMS Richmond in 1762, and that vessel was at the siege and capture of Havana in that year. But he would have been 22 or less at the time, so he was probably too junior to be mentioned in the records. At any rate, he isn't in The siege and capture of Havana 1762, David Syrett (ed), Navy Records Society, London 1970. I'm getting a researcher to see if there is anything about him in the Public Records Office.

The point about this research is to see if he had connections with Augusta or Beaufort in his lifetime (he died in 1794), that would have persuaded his daughters to emigrate there after his death. I'm also keen to establish the relationship between Henry's wife Jane Lubbock, and Richard Lubbock who emigrated to Augusta in or around 1790.

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The Rev Henry Willis, b 1738, Rector of Little Sodbury 1788 and Vicar of Wapley, 1792, married Jane Lubbock (b February 17, 1743) September 1, 1765 at Redlingfield, Suffolk

 Please contact Eric Avebury with information on these records in North America.

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