Peerage Record – 53489

     Jacob Sopwith was born on 24 July 1829 at Loaning House, Alston, Cumberland, England.¹ He was the son of Thomas Sopwith and Mary Dickinson.¹

     Ursula Sopwith was born in 1832 at Northumberland, England.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Sopwith and Jane Scott.¹

     Mary Jane Sopwith was born in 1834 at Northumberland, England.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Sopwith and Jane Scott.¹ She died on 24 January 1842 at St. Marys Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England.²

     Isabella Sopwith was born on 3 October 1836 at Northumberland, England.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Sopwith and Jane Scott.¹ She was baptised on 9 November 1936 at All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England.¹

     Anna Sopwith was born on 24 April 1840 at St. Marys Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England.² She was the daughter of Thomas Sopwith and Jane Scott.¹ She married Sir William Shelford, son of Reverend William Heard Shelford and Emily Frost Snape, on 10 February 1863 at Kensington, London, England.¹ She died on 23 August 1921 at age 81 at London, England.¹
     From 10 February 1863, her married name became Shelford.¹

     Emily Elizabeth Wetherall Low was born in 1863 at Bayswater, London, England.² She was the daughter of Charles Rathbone Low and Catherine Charlotte Boileau.² She married Charles Gray Walford, son of James Hare Walford and Georgiana Frances Freeland, on 9 August 1897 at St. Mary, West Kensington, London, England.¹ She died in 1924 at Kensington, London, England.²
     From 9 August 1897, her married name became Walford.¹

     Alice Mary Sopwith was born on 19 November 1848 at Allenheads, Northumberland, England.^1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Sopwith and Jane Scott.¹

     Henry Messiter was born in 1804 at Somerset, England.¹ He married Susan Ellen Coulson in 1836 at Clifton, Bristol, England.¹ He died in 1879 at Wincanton, Somerset, England.¹

     Susan Ellen Coulson was born in 1818 at Gloucestershire, England.¹ She married Henry Messiter in 1836 at Clifton, Bristol, England.¹ She died in 1900 at Kensington, London, England.¹
     From 1836, her married name became Messiter.¹

     Violet Sopwith was born in 1867 at Wincanton, Somerset, England.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Sopwith and Lydia Gertrude Messiter.¹