Matthew Jenour, 1759

Name
Matthew /Jenour/
Given names
Matthew
Surname
Jenour
Birth
Source: IGI
Citation details: Batch C00042, 9
Christening
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Citation details: Batch C00042, 9
Birth of a sister
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Citation details: Batch C00042, 9
Christening of a sister
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Citation details: Batch C00042, 9
British King
Birth of a sister
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Christening of a sister
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Prime Minister of Great Britain
Thomas Pelham-Holles
from 29 June 1757 to 26 May 1762
Prime Minister of Great Britain
John Stuart
from 26 May 1762 to 26 May 1762
Birth of a sister
Prime Minister of Great Britain
George Grenville
from 26 May 1762 to 13 July 1765
Birth of a sister
Christening of a sister
Source: IGI
Citation details: C04861, 1
Death of a mother
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Charles Watson-Wentworth
from 13 July 1765 to 30 July 1766
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Augustus FitzRoy
from 14 October 1768 to 28 January 1770
Marriage of a parent
Death of a sister
Death of a father
Citation details: A Biographical Database of Members of the London Book Trade 1701-1800
Burial of a father
Citation details: Greater London Burial Index
Death of a sister
Burial of a sister
Citation details: St Lawrence, Little Stanmore, image via Ancestry.co.uk
British King
George III
from 25 October 1760 to 29 January 1820
Prime Minister of Great Britain
William Pitt
from 30 July 1766 to 14 October 1768
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Frederick North
from 28 January 1770 to 27 March 1782
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Charles Watson-Wentworth
from 27 March 1782 to 4 July 1782
Prime Minister of Great Britain
William Petty
from 4 July 1782 to 2 April 1783
Prime Minister of Great Britain
William Cavendish-Bentinck
from 2 April 1783 to 19 December 1783
Death of a maternal grandmother
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger
from 19 December 1783 to 17 March 1801
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Henry Addington
from 17 March 1801 to 10 May 1804
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger
from 10 May 1804 to 11 February 1806
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Grenville
from 11 February 1806 to 31 March 1807
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Cavendish-Bentinck
from 31 March 1807 to 4 October 1809
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval
from 4 October 1809 to 8 June 1812
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson
from 8 June 1812 to 12 April 1827
Battle of Waterloo
The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte, ending the Napoleonic wars.
18 June 1815
Waterloo, Belgium
Peterloo Massacre
Cavalry was used to disperse a large crowd who were demanding electoral reform. 15 were killed and hundreds injured.
16 August 1819
Manchester, England
British King
George IV
from 29 January 1820 to 26 June 1830
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
George Canning
from 12 April 1827 to 31 August 1827
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Frederick John Robinson
from 31 August 1827 to 22 January 1828
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
from 22 January 1828 to 22 November 1830
British King
William IV
from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Charles Grey
from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Lamb
from 16 July 1834 to 17 November 1834
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
from 17 November 1834 to 10 December 1834
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Peel
from 10 December 1834 to 18 April 1835
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Lamb
from 18 April 1835 to 30 August 1841
Death of a brother
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Citation details: Q1 1853 Gravesend 2a 175
British Queen
Victoria
from 20 June 1837 to 22 January 1901
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Peel
from 30 August 1841 to 30 June 1846
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
John Russell
from 30 June 1846 to 20 February 1852
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley
from 20 February 1852 to 19 December 1852
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon
from 19 December 1852 to 6 February 1855
The Crimean War
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Henry John Temple
from 6 February 1855 to 20 February 1858
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley
from 20 February 1858 to 12 June 1859
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Henry John Temple
from 12 June 1859 to 29 October 1865
Death
yes
Family with parents
father
17151774
Birth: 4 December 1715 37 33 Middlesex, England
Death: 5 July 1774
mother
17231766
Birth: 1723 23 Edgware, London
Death: 14 February 1766
Marriage Marriage17 April 1750Saint Marylebone, London, England
4 years
elder sister
1753
Birth: 27 December 1753 38 30 London
Death:
19 months
elder brother
17551853
Birth: 31 July 1755 39 32 Fleet Street, London, England
Death: 23 January 185335 Darnley Avenue, Gravesend
2 years
elder sister
17571780
Birth: 27 December 1757 42 34 London
Death: about 1780
16 months
himself
1759
Birth: 18 April 1759 43 36 London
Death:
17 months
younger sister
17601774
Birth: 15 September 1760 44 37 London
Death: before 1774
18 months
younger sister
1762
Birth: 20 March 1762 46 39 London
Death:
22 months
younger sister
3 years
younger sister
1765
Birth: September 1765 49 42 London
Death:
Father’s family with Eleanor
father
17151774
Birth: 4 December 1715 37 33 Middlesex, England
Death: 5 July 1774
stepmother
Marriage Marriage2 July 1772St Martin’s Ludgate
Birth
Source: IGI
Citation details: Batch C00042, 9
Christening
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Citation details: Batch C00042, 9
Shared note

Matthew took his claim for an absolute interest in a bequest under his uncle Matthew’s will to court when his brother Joshua (trustee and executor) argued his entitlement was only as a life tenant. Both Matthew and Joshua were major beneficiaries under their uncle Matthew’s will.

A Captain Matthew Jenour on the half pay of His Majesty in HM 11th Regiment of Foot wrote the Route to India which was referenced in 1791 in The Monthly Review. The review says the overland route was described from his own experience and should therefore be useful. It is likely he made the journey in 1785 (if this is him he would have been about 26 years old)

In 1815 a Captain Matthew Jenour is listed as active during the Napoleonic Wars in the Europe campaign and was awared several honours. Would he have been active at over 50 years old as a Captain, is it more likely that this was his nephew? .

Were either or both these this Matthew? The older one perhaps.

A letter written by Joshua Jenour b 1783, (son of Joshua b 1855, brother of Matthew) to appeal a conviction on vagrancy charges cites his uncle Matthew as a lieut. colonol. So he must have been promoted since his overland trip in 1785.