Ralph Randolph Wormeley (1785 - 1852)

Born 29 Oct 1785 in Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Caroline (Preble) Wormeley — married 3 Oct 1820 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Died 26 Jun 1852 at age 66 in Utica, Oneida County, New York, USA

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Biography

Adm Ralph Randolph Wormeley BIRTH 29 Oct 1785 Virginia, USA DEATH 26 Jun 1852 (aged 66) Utica, Oneida County, New York, BURIAL Island Cemetery Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA Find A Grave MEMORIAL ID 124398301 ·

Caroline Preble Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records Name Ralph R Worneley Gender Male Event Type Marriage Date 03 Oct 1820 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Spouse's Name Caroline Preble Spouse's Gender Female

TEXT: After the death of his mother, Ariana (Randolph) Wormeley in 1794, Ralph was taken to England by his father, James Wormeley.

Ralph Wormeley entered the British Navy while yet a boy, became a British subject, and worked his way up to the rank of rear-admiral.

Ralph, his wife, and their four children traveled from London to Paris, to Boston, to Newport, and to Virginia. In 1848, the family began an American stay that continued after the Admiral died. They divided their time between Boston and Newport.

Wormeley was the nephew of the first Attorney General of the United States, Edmund Randolph of Williamsburg, Virginia, although his father, James Wormeley, was a committed loyalist who served in the British Army during the American Revolution.

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Admiral Wormley’s literary interests show the influence of the classics on his tastes. As a midshipman, Wormeley studied with a schoolmaster and a French teacher on board ship where his reading was limited. His father supplied extra material—including a copy of the Rambler which a daughter blamed for his ponderous writing style. In later life, in enforced retirement, he read incessantly among all forms of non-fiction.

On Memoriam

According to Benjamin Ogle Tayloe in his book “On Memoriam” and in the recollections of Ralph Randolph Wormeley, Ariana Jennings Randolph died at the Rocks which was the family residence of Ariana Jennings Randolph and her husband James Wormeley. In late 1797 James Wormeley left the Rocks, having sold it to Ferdinand’s Fairfax, returning to England with his son Ralph Randolph Wormeley. ^[1]

Notables

Adm. Ralph Randolph Wormeley is the second great grandfather of Ralph Wormeley Jr., Governor of Virginia.

Sources

1. ↑ Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, In Memoriam, Sherman & Company, printers, 1872, 364 pages. This Memorial of the late Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, compiled from his papers, note-books and contributions to the press, is privately printed for the gratification of his family and friends. Publisher: ‎ Book on Demand Ltd. (February 6, 2014.

• Find A Grave MEMORIAL ID 124398301 ·

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