THE MANNING BRANCH

Capt. MANNING

Catherine Steward⁽⁵⁰²⁾, an aunt of my great-grandmother Alice Sophia Briggs, (6), was probably born in the 1790's, as her father died in 1799. Acording to Alice Sophia, Catherine married a Capt. MANNING⁽⁵⁰⁴⁾. There is an IGI entry, based on parish records for St. Dunstan, Stepney, of a marriage between a Catherine Steward and a William Manning on 13 Jun 1818. This is the right sort of place for a Steward marriage, and the year is reasonable, so I think it is probably them. They had no children, and Alice Sophia Briggs has the following to say in her diary:

Aunt Manning was married to a captain in the old E. India Company. She lived in London, and at my mother's death promised to think of me as her own child, having no children of her own. This promise she kept in good earnest, doing much for me in every way, and never forgetting me till her death, when, though I was well married, she made me (besides leaving me the same legacy as my sisters) residuary legatee.

So the Manning branch did not really get off the ground.

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