Catherine Augusta Paynter (née Coleman)
1811 - 1880
Catherine was born in the village of Church Stretton in Shropshire
(10 miles south of Shrewsbury), where her father was rector until his death
in 1818. Somehow she met and married Francis
Paynter from Cornwall, a man much older than herself who had been married
previously. It seems she spent her married life living at Clarence House, in
Penzance, where she was still living with her three of her sons (Francis E,
30, John de C, 26, and Frederic O, 17) at the time of the 1871
census (seven years after Francis's death). Five years later, she married
Edwin Newman and lived at his home in Yeovil
until her own death in 1880.
See Ian Caldwell's "Story
of Frank Paynter" for further information about Catherine's background.
Notes: (from
Ian Caldwell) "Mary Anne Coleman
married John Wood of Martock Ashfield, Somerset in 1832. Their son, William Cole
Wood, born 1841 inherited Pendarves and changed his name to Pendarves. Their second
son, Augustus Wood,(1842-1918), inherited Acton Scott (Shropshire, no more than
a few miles from Church Stretton) and changed his name to Augustus Wood Acton.
He married Laura Surtees and their daughter, Joyce Stackhouse Wood Acton married
Richard Charles Fullerton-Smith (1882-1970), who took the name of Acton in 1941.
Their son, Thomas Stackhouse Acton, born 1926, married Lucy Stavely in 1966. They
live at Acton Scott Hall, a lovely Elizabethan mansion, and have two sons, Francis
Stackhouse Acton (b.1967), married to Alison Ruth Beck; and Rupert Stavely Acton
(b.1970). Acton Scott Farm is now run as a Historic Working Farm, open to the
public, and still run by the family for the local authority.
(also from Ian Caldwell)
Harriette Emma Coleman
married the Rev John Norgrave Baker, whose daughter Harriet Emma Baker (Fanny)
married her first cousin Rev Beville
Paynter (brother of Henry Augustus
Paynter)
(from Helen Proctor, 12th Dec 2002):
"Edward
Bernard Coleman was my gt. grandfather. He married Louisa Elizabeth
Jane Proctor, dau. of Lieut. .Gen.. Henry Adolphus Proctor of Aberhafesp Hall,
Montgomeryshire. They had one son, Edward Bernard Coleman who in accordance
with his grandfather's will had to change his name to Proctor when he inheritrd
Aberhafesp. His first wife died and in 1891 he married my grandmother, Helen
Mary Elizabeth Dixon, dau. of the rector. My father, Cecil Waring Proctor, was
the second of their five children and was the last Proctor to be born at the
Hall before it was sold. He was married in Georgia (then U.S.S.R.) to my mother,
Olga Mikhailovna Chipadze in 1921. He brought her home to Wales and I, Helen
Tamara, am the eldest of their three children. I have a sister, Margaret, and
a brother, James. We are in touch with the Acton Scott branch of the family."
Page updated 5 Aug 2013: Deletion
of statement suggesting that the Francis Paynter was once Edwin Newman's partner..
Page updated 1 May 2008: Date of death of William Rouse Paynter
changed from 1866 to 1860
Page updated 22nd Feb 2005 - info from 1871 census
added
