Fortescue Whittle (1776 - 1857)

Born 1776 in County Antrim, Ireland

Husband of Mary Ann (Davies) Whittle — married 8 Mar 1804 in Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Dec 1857 at about age 81 in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Fortescue was born in 1776. He was possibly the son of James Whittle II and Mary McNiece.He passed away in 1857.

Quoted as a "fellow-exile" of Emmett". That would be Thomas Addis Emmet of the Irish Rebellions^[1]

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Children

Children of Fortescue and Mary Ann Davies Whittle

Born in Norfolk, Virginia:

1.William Conway Whittle (1805-1878)

2.James Murray Whittle (1806-1891)

3.Fortescue Whittle, Jr. (1807-1861)

4.Conway Davies Whittle (1809-1891)

Born at “Millbank” in Mecklenburg County, VA

5.Littleton Tazewell Whittle (c1810-c1812)

6.John Samuel Whittle (c1811-1859)

7.Steven Decatur Whittle (1812-1869)

8.Stafford Whittle (c1815-c1815)

9.Lewis Neal Whittle (1818-1886)

10.Elizabeth Julia Whittle (1823-c1863)

11.Francis McNiece Whittle (1823- )

12.Mary Anne Whittle (1825-1862)

13.Jane Eliza Whittle (c1828-1840)

14.Powhatan Bolling Whittle (1829-1905)

Obituary
The Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, VA, Tuesday, 5 Jan 1858, p. 4: ^[3]
(from The Norfolk [VA] Herald)

Death of a Venerable Citizen. - Died, at his residence, "Millbank," in the county of Mecklenburg in this State, on the evening of Saturday, the 26th Dec., Fortescue Whittle, Esq., for many years a merchant of this city.
Mr. Whittle was a native of the County Antrim, in Ireland, and at an early age embraced the patriotic side of the political dissension which so long distracted that unhappy country. To avoid the persecution of the Government of that day, he came to this country, and settled in Norfolk where he married the only daughter of Colonel William Davies, of the army of the Revolution, the son of the Rev. Samuel Davies, President of Princeton College, in New Jersey. He here embarked in commercial pursuits in 1803, and was largely engaged in commerce during the trying times which subsequently visited our community.
Some years after the war of 1812 he retired to his plantation in Mecklenburg, where he continued to reside, for upwards of forty years, blessed in the society of the wife of his young, (his companion of half a century,) and of a family of nine sons and three daughters, who sprung up around them. Of his sons, one only preceded him to the tomb, dying the death of a hero in the naval service in which he was a Surgeon, giving himself & sacrifice to the cause of duty, of the consequences of which he was fully aware.
The subject of this notice died in the 82nd year of his age, a consistent member of the Episcopal Church, departing peacefully and resignedly, in the full possession of his mental faculties, leaving to his family and many friends no unpleasing recollection (though tinged with melancholy) of the genial warmth of his character, his cheerfulness in the hour of prosperity and his firmness and resolution under adverse circumstances.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Addis_Emmet
2. ↑ Pg. 40. Robertson, Wyndham, and R. A. Brock. Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants: at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, Gentleman: Including the Names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and Others: with Biographical Sketches. J.W. Randolph & English, 1887.
3. ↑ Obituary of Fortescue Whittle. The Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, VA, Tuesday, 5 Jan 1858, p. 4, col. 7. Digital image at Newspapers.com.

• "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR6N-C4M : accessed 13 December 2015), Fostescue Whittle and Mary Ann Davies, 08 Mar 1804; citing Norfolk City, Virginia, reference Bond No. 1 Pg 31; FHL microfilm 32,978.
• Whittle Family of Virginia The Lineage of the Fortescue Whittle family of Millbank Plantation and Whittle’s Mill in Northeastern Mecklenburg County, Virginia. By Max B. Crowder

2009.

• Slaughter, Rev. Philip. History of Bristol Parish, 2nd edn, p. 203.
• Fortescue Whittle. Husband of Mary Ann Davis.