Jane Mercer (1836-1929)
Cadborough House, Rye
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Daughter of Robert Mercer (1802-1888)
Born: November 1836 in Frittenden, Kent Christened: 5 March 1837 in Frittenden, Kent Father: Robert Mercer (1802-1888) Mother: Mercy Sabina Carpenter (1811-1888) Married: 1858 in Cranbrook, Kent Spouse: William Wildish Esq. (1830-1922) Children: Mercer (1859), Frances Ellen (1861), Kate (1863), Sidney (1865), Robert (1868), Jane (1870), Frank (1870), Ranger (1872), Mabel Beatrice (1874), Jessie Maude (1879), William Leslie (1883) Died: 11 August 1929 in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex (aged 92) |
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Notes on Wildish family history
Research
The Wildish genealogy was extensively researched by William's great-niece Joan Harriett Wildish (1914-2008) and her husband Rev. Harry Christopher Hurford Veazey (1911-2003), who had access to many original Kentish church records.
Origins
In 1954, a Capt. Philip C. T. Wildash TD wrote to Country Life enquiring about the Wildish/Wildash genealogy. He stated that "in 1542 one William Weldishe, of Linton, Kent, was granted the arms, three running hound (talbots), on a chief a fox passant, and crest, a demifox (sometimes, however, given s a hound segant, or as a fox rampant). The arms are said by tradition to have been granted to perpetuate the memory of one of the family ancestors who was huntsman to William the Conqueror (Hasted's History of Kent, 1740). The name itself appears to be Kentish, and to mean "from the Weald"."
In Mercer Wildish's 1931 obituary in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer, it was stated that the family's butchery business "goes back to the sixteenth century, when the name of Wildish was well known in the butchery trade at Ulcombe, Kent."
Modern connections
Through his sister Emily, William is the 3 x great-uncle of world champion sport shooter George Digweed MBE, and DJ and producer John Digweed.
Extinction
This branch of the name 'Wildish', established in 1791 with the birth of William's father John, appears to be on track to extinction this century.
Of William's sons: Mercer had only daughters; Sidney had no issue; Robert had only daughters; Frank died in infancy; Ranger follows; and Leslie had no legitimate issue.
Ranger had two sons, Noel and Richard. Noel had one son, John, who died in 2021. John had one son, Antony. Richard had two daughters - one who married, but one who did not and has retained the surname (Geraldine), and two sons - Ranger and Adrian, neither of whom have issue.
Therefore William has only four living descendants who bear the Wildish surname, and no offspring in the subsequent generation(s).
Of William's three brothers, Ranger had no issue, George had no legitimate issue, and Walter had three sons.
John died as a young man; George had one son, who in turn only had daughters. Charles had two sons, Denis and Ian. Ian had no issue, but Denis had one son, Nigel. Nigel, a magistrate and retired commercial solicitor, has one son Edmund.
Nigel and Edmund thus join William's great-grandchildren Geraldine, Ranger, and Adrian, and great-great-grandson Antony, in representing the only living progeny bearing the Wildish name descended from John Wildish who married Frances Ranger in 1819 and had twelve children and at least 46 grandchildren.
Research
The Wildish genealogy was extensively researched by William's great-niece Joan Harriett Wildish (1914-2008) and her husband Rev. Harry Christopher Hurford Veazey (1911-2003), who had access to many original Kentish church records.
Origins
In 1954, a Capt. Philip C. T. Wildash TD wrote to Country Life enquiring about the Wildish/Wildash genealogy. He stated that "in 1542 one William Weldishe, of Linton, Kent, was granted the arms, three running hound (talbots), on a chief a fox passant, and crest, a demifox (sometimes, however, given s a hound segant, or as a fox rampant). The arms are said by tradition to have been granted to perpetuate the memory of one of the family ancestors who was huntsman to William the Conqueror (Hasted's History of Kent, 1740). The name itself appears to be Kentish, and to mean "from the Weald"."
In Mercer Wildish's 1931 obituary in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer, it was stated that the family's butchery business "goes back to the sixteenth century, when the name of Wildish was well known in the butchery trade at Ulcombe, Kent."
Modern connections
Through his sister Emily, William is the 3 x great-uncle of world champion sport shooter George Digweed MBE, and DJ and producer John Digweed.
Extinction
This branch of the name 'Wildish', established in 1791 with the birth of William's father John, appears to be on track to extinction this century.
Of William's sons: Mercer had only daughters; Sidney had no issue; Robert had only daughters; Frank died in infancy; Ranger follows; and Leslie had no legitimate issue.
Ranger had two sons, Noel and Richard. Noel had one son, John, who died in 2021. John had one son, Antony. Richard had two daughters - one who married, but one who did not and has retained the surname (Geraldine), and two sons - Ranger and Adrian, neither of whom have issue.
Therefore William has only four living descendants who bear the Wildish surname, and no offspring in the subsequent generation(s).
Of William's three brothers, Ranger had no issue, George had no legitimate issue, and Walter had three sons.
John died as a young man; George had one son, who in turn only had daughters. Charles had two sons, Denis and Ian. Ian had no issue, but Denis had one son, Nigel. Nigel, a magistrate and retired commercial solicitor, has one son Edmund.
Nigel and Edmund thus join William's great-grandchildren Geraldine, Ranger, and Adrian, and great-great-grandson Antony, in representing the only living progeny bearing the Wildish name descended from John Wildish who married Frances Ranger in 1819 and had twelve children and at least 46 grandchildren.
Last updated: 18 December 2024