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Thurtell and Related Families
Notes for Alexander THURTELL
The family tree done by Harriet Thurtell about 1900 and the History of
the Thurtell Family done by Susan Persia Thurtell about 1968, both in the
possession of Susan Persia Thurtell Miller, listed Alexander Thurtell and
his wife and children. Much of the following information about Alexander
Thurtell was received from the Norwich Public Libraries.
According to this family history, Alexander was born at Bradwell,
Suffolk, about 1806. He was educated at the Yarmouth Academy by Mr.
Bowles (formerly of Norwich Theatre). He was admitted sizar and when 19
at Trinity. He went on to Caius College and returned Fourth Wrangler in
1829. He received his M. A. in 1832 and was a fellow of Caius from 1830
to 1849. He went to Oxford in 1842. He was ordained deacon in 1830 and
priest in 1837 and was a rector of Oxborough and Faulden from 1848 to
1884. In 1854 he married Mary Gordon Ellis (?) [Bartrum (?)], who died
January 30, 1857, and had two children. He died on October 21, 1884, at
79.
Information received from Peter Murray in 1997 shows that Alexander
Thurtell (Reverend) was born in 1805 in Bradwell, Suffolk, and died
October 21, 1884. He was Rector of Oxborough, Norfolk County, England.
He went to school at Yarmouth and Trinity College Cambridge and had a
distinguished academic record, being a scholar, senior fellow, Hebrew
lecturer, and Moderator. After entering Holy Orders, he was appointed
H.M.'s Inspector of Schools in 1847, and became Rector of Oxborough. He
is buried in Oxborough churchyard. His grandnephew, (Dr.) George
A.E.Murray, visited him in 1880 at Oxborough Rectory, Stoke Ferry,
Norfolk. (see Mrs.Shearing's "Family Book" pp.27-8 for more about him).
He married, in 1854 (not 1834), Mary Gordon Ellis, who died June 30,
1857, an author (see catalogue of the British Museum Library). The
Mickle Collection at the University of Guelph Library shows her name as
Mary Gordon Bartrum. They had two children.
He is listed in the 1851 British Census as Alexander Thurtell, age 45,
unmarried, Rector of Oxborough and Vicar of Fouldon, born in Bradwell,
Suffolk, and living at the Parsonage House, Swaffham, Norfolk, England.
Living with him is a pupil, Frederick Heathcote Sutton, age 18 and
unmarried, born in Lyndford, Norfolk. (PRO Reference HO/107/1831, Folio
174, Page 11, FHL Film 0207486).
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