Sir
Joseph
Sawle
Graves-Sawle
Bt.
formerly Graves
Born in Penrice, Cornwall, England
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of John Graves
and Elizabeth (Sawle) Graves
Brother of
John Samuel Graves and Mary Sawle Graves
Husband of
Dorothea (Brune) Graves-Sawle
— married
7 Dec 1815 (to 11 Nov 1853) in Padstow, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Husband of
Eleanor Hoskens (Kempthorne) Graves
— married
7 Nov 1854 (to 18 Jan 1865) in South Hill Church, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Descendants 
Father of
Charles Brune Graves-Sawle MP JP, Mary Frances Elizabeth (Graves-Sawle) Hext and Thomas Graves-Sawle
Died
at age 71
in Honiton, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Feb 2020
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Biography
This profile is part of the Graves Name Study.
Joseph was born in 1793. He passed away in 1865. Buried in Combe Raleigh churchyard under the south wall of the church, adjacent to the memorial to his uncle Admiral Sir Thomas Graves that is attached on the inside elevation.
Joseph Graves was born 10 December 1793 The son of Admiral John Graves and Elizabeth Sawle
He married Dorothea Prideaux-Brune
He died 13 January 1865 aged 71
Sources
- Named Joseph Sawle Graves
- Assumed surname 7.4.1815 to Sawle only
- Assumed surname 13.11.1827 to Graves-Sawle
- Baronetcy created 22.3.1836
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7CEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=dorothea+prideaux-brune&source=bl&ots=rG8RnI0efo&sig=ACfU3U1vQuR4oRxSWqIBpppydjWzVnpOug&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJrZTblKrqAhUJT8AKHcsbD1o4ChDoATADegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=dorothea%20prideaux-brune&f=false Rank 1st Baronet on 22.3.1836
http://www.mccarthyindex.org/images/stories/index/1829_1_May_Cardinham_Glynn.pdf
Marriage details from Family Search
Newspaper London Gazette dated 30.11.1827 Adopted surname GRAVES-SAWLE details from The Genealogist Web site
Obituary British Newspaper Archive Name Joseph Sawley Graves Sawle Age 71 Date 20 January 1865 Place Exeter, Devon Death Date 13 Jan 2865 Newspaper Western Times Page No 5 https://familysearch.org./ark:/61903/1:1:"WPZQ-HZ4D Research Notes
The Graves-Sawle Baronetcy of Pemrice on Cornwall and of Barley in Devon was a title in the Barontage in the United Kingdom . It was created om 22 March 1836 for Joseph Graves-Sawle born Joseph Graves. he had assumed by Royal licence the surname of Sawle in 1815, but by 1827 he resumed by Royal Licence the surname of Graves in addition to that of Sawle. The 2nd Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Bodmin but the title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1932,
Cornish Archive and Studies Reference CF/2/238 Deed of appointment
Sir Joseph Sawle Graves-Sawle and Charles Brune Graves-Sawle both of Penrice
Recites: lease and release 19/2- and Apr,1845
Piece of land where two dwelling houses are now in the course of building part of fields called the Sedgemoors in St.Austell adj, on S/W. on turnpike road from St Austell to Bodmin to use of Charles Brune Graves-Sawle
Date 3 Aug. 1844
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Joseph had four siblings, all dying young and buried in the family vault of Richard Sawle Esq., in St.Thomas Church Exeter, viz:- John Samuel Graves; Carew Sawle Vyvyan Graves; a daughter unmamed and Mary Sawle Graves, a fine portrait of her by John Opie is at the Royal Cornwall Museum and another at Prideaux Place, Padstow.
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