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Rebecca
Drew
Born
Rebecca was baptized at St Austell
on the 4th February 1746.
Parents
Benjamin Dyer Drew
Born 29th November 1718 at St Miniver Died Cornwall 15th June 1769
Father was Roger Drew born in Exeter
Devon
Ann Halls
died 10th December 1766 Cornwall (1700-1766)
Siblings
Joseph
baptized 4th November 1732 at St Austell. His first marriage, to
Sussana Hooper took place at Holy Trinity St Austell, on the 29th May 1756.
Sadly Sussana died in 1758 and was buried on the 24th July, 1758 at Holy
Trinity. He then married Thomasin Osborn on 29th July, 1762 at St Austell.
They had the following children, all baptized at Holy Trinity, St Austell:
Jabes (male) baptized 29th May, 1763. Probably died in 1785.
Tamesin bap 30th July, 1769. She married James Kingdon abt
1795 in Tywardreath, Cornwall and they had 6 children.
Samuel baptized 24th March 1765
Samuel Drew, M.A., was the son of
Joseph Drew, by Thomasin, his second wife, and was born near S. Austell town,
March 3, 1765. At about eleven years of age, he was apprenticed to a
shoemaker: a trade however, in which he never excelled. For some time after
the expiration of his apprenticeship, he could scarcely read or write. He
joined the Methodists while yet a journeymen shoemaker, in 1785, at the age
of 20; and from this time his self-education may be said to have commenced.
In 1787 Samuel began business as a shoemaker on his own account and worked in
his trade until 1805 when he entered into an engagement with the Dr Thomas
Coke, a prominent Wesleyan official, which enabled him to devote himself
entirely to literature. In 1791 he married Honour Halls, with whom he had a
fortune of ten pounds at once, and three years after, fifty pounds more. At
this period he prosecuted his studies with untiring perseverance. In 1799 he
published his "Remarks on Paine’s Age of Reason," which he
reprinted three years later. In 1800, Mr Drew published an elegy on the death
of Mr. Patterson, a merchant of S. Austell, who was drowned at Wadebridge.
That same year he published "Observations on a pamphlet lately published
by the Rev. R. Polwhele." Entitled "Anecdotes of Methodism."
In 1802 he published his best known work, the "Essay on the
Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul;" the copyright of which he
sold to Mr. Edwards, of Bristol, for 20 pounds, and thirty copies of the new
edition. Twenty-eight years after the copyright again became his, when, after
a careful revision he sold it for 250 pounds. His treatise "On the
Identity and Resurrection of the Human Body," was published in 1809. In
1815 appeared the first portion of his most extensive work, the "History
of Cornwall;" the eighth part appeared in 1817, when the printing of the
residue was deferred for seven years, on account of the bank-ruptey of the
publisher. It finally appeared in two volumes, quarto. In 1817 he published
the life of Dr. Coke, written by him at the doctor’s own request. In 1820 he
published his competition essay on the "Being and Attributes of the
Deity." This was one of his most elaborate works. In 1819 he became
editor of the Imperial Magazine, about that time started in Liverpool, by Mr
Fisher. In May, 1824, the degree of M.A.. was conferred on Mr. Drew, by
Marischal College, Aberdeen. Mr D. Continued his literary labours almost to
the day of his death. He died at the house of his son-in-law, Mr. Read, at
Helston, and was interred in the church-yard of that town, by the side of his
wife. A tomb, bearing the following inscription marks their graves:--
- Beneath this stone repose the
mortal remains of Samuel Drew, A.M., of S Austell, (author of several
esteemed metaphysical treatises), who, undaunted by difficulties, persevered
in the pursuit of knowledge, and raised himself from an humble station to literary
eminence. Possossing, with lofty intellect, the feelings of a philanthropist,
and the mild graces of a Christian, he lived equally beloved and admired, and
, in steadfast hope of a blissful immortality, through the merits of his
Savior, he died in the town, deeply lamented, March 29th, 1833; aged 68
years. This stone also covers the relics of his beloved wife, Honour, who,
after a short illness, was removed to a happier world, Aug. 19, 1828; aged
57. "So glides the stream of human life away."
The Wesleyan Methodists have a large
and commodious chapel in the town of S. Austell. The principal front is built
of ashler-work, of Pentewan stone, sumounted with a pediment of Portland
stone, of which matrial the handsome portico is also constructed. There is
tasteful entrance through a well kept shrubbery. Marble tablets bear 4
epitaphs; one of which is dedicated to Samuel Drew. -
Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bodmin Road St
Austell
To the memory of Samuel Drew, a
native of this parish, whose talents as a metaphysical writer, unaided by
education, raised him from obscurity into honourable notice, and whose
virtues as a Christian won the esteem and affection of all who know him. he was
born March 3rd, 1765; lived in St Austell until January, 1819; and after an
absence of fourteen years, during which he conducted a Literacy Journal, he
returned to end his days in his native county, as he had long desired, and
died at Helston, March 29th, 1833. To record their sense of his literary
merit and moral worth, his fellow townsmen and parishioners have erected this
tablet.
Under the ministry of Dr. Adam Clarke, in
1785, Samuel Drew, A.M., joined the Methodist society at St. Austell. Endowed
with powerful intellect he maintained for more than forty years, both from
the pulpit and the press, the truth of vital religion; proved by his life its
hallowing influence, and died March 29th, 1833, in the full assurance of
faith. His father, Joseph Drew, died in 1814
Epheriam baptized 14th February 1768
Joseph was a poor farm labourer who
could not even send Samuel to school long enough to learn to read or write.
Tamesin was buried on 23rd December
1774. Joseph died, aged 82 years, on 26th April 1814 and was buried on 30th
April 1814 at St Austell.
Jane born 17th June
1738 at St Austell. She married Edward Osler (1732 -1786) in Falmouth on 19th
July, 1758. Edward may have been in Merchant Service or even a pirate
–little is known of him.
According to www.ascasonline.org/articoloMAGG81.html
The Oslers had
lived for long in Cornwall, a race of successful merchants and shipowners for
the most part, and the family was strong in traditions of the sea. In a
fragment of autobiography left by Featherstone Osler, he says: 'My
grandfather Osler died in the West Indies from the effects of a wound. One
uncle was killed in action with a French privateer. Another was drowned in
Swan Pool near Falmouth, and a cousin a lieutenant in the Royal Navy died of
yellow fever in the West Indies.’ The 'Grandfather Osler' here mentioned was
Edward, who had married Joan Drew, the sister of Samuel the Cornish
metaphysician; and it is not unlikely that from this source there came into
the Osler line a strain which modified the strongly developed family trait
which went to the making of hard-headed men of business and venturesome
merchants.
Edward and Jane had the following
children, all baptized in Falmouth:
John baptized 11th
October 1765. Died before 1767.
John baptized 25th
June 1767
Edward baptized
26th June 1768. Edward was a Ship Owner in Falmouth.
He married Mary Paddy (1772-1864) in
Falmouth on the 24th September 1796. They had the following children, all
baptized in Falmouth:
Edward. Born on 30th January 1798 and baptized in Falmouth on 26th
February 1798. He died on 7th March, 1863.
Born in Falmouth, Cornwall, , the
son of Eward Osler senior. He married Jennette Powell of Swansea who
died in March 1828 and had 2 children with her. .His second marriage, in
January 1838, was to Sarah Atkinson with whom he had 3 children. In 1850 he
married for a 3rd time (Charlotte Susanna Free).
He was apprenticed to a
surgeon at Falmouth, and later attended lectures at Joshua Brookes' Blenheim
St School of Anatomy, London and Guy's Hospital Medical School. He became
Resident Surgeon at Swansea Infirmary, Wales. He resigned from the infirmary,
returned to Falmouth where he wrote poetry, natural history, many hymns, and
theology.' Later he moved to Truro, where he was editor of the Royal
Cornwall Gazette. Osler died at Truro, Cornwall, 7th March 1863.
Publications: The Life of
Admiral Viscount Exmouth, Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1835; The
Church and Dissent, considered in their practical influence, (Smith,
Elder & Co.: London, 1836); Church and King. Comprising I. Church and
Dissent, considered in their practical influence ... II. The Church
established in the Bible ... III. The Catechism, explained and illustrated
... IV. Psalms and Hymns in the services and rites of the Church,
(Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1837); The Education of the People: the
Bible the foundation, and the Church the teacher. An ... address delivered in
the Lecture Room of the Bath General Instruction Society, etc., (Smith,
Elder & Co.: London, 1839); The Voyage: a poem: written at sea, and
in the West Indies, and illustrated by papers on natural history,
(Longman & Co.: London; Falmouth [printed], 1830); and numerous
hymns.
Pictured right
Samuel Born on 9th May 1800 and baptized on 6th June, 1800.
According to Michael Bliss in his book “William Osler: A Life in Medicine,
Samuel didn’t have much success as a Falmouth storekeeper and was regarded as
a black sheep of the family, a drinker and womanizer. He married Harriet Read
in the 1820s and had 3 children. By 1861 Samuel was married to Emma Maria, 30
years his junior, and in 1881 was described as a retired Commercial Traveller
living at 109Gordon Rd Camberwell, London. It was here that Samuel died in
the December qtr of 1889.
Mary born on 24th May 1802 and
baptized on 11th June 1802.
Richard baptized on 29th March 1804. By 1841 he was married
to Anna C. and they had 6 children. The 1851 census revealed that
Richard was a Grocer. He died in the March Qtr of 1857 and his widow was
living in Helston in 1861, a grocer employing 6 men, 4 boys and 3 girls.
[CORNISH] West Briton,
Friday, March 12th, 1841.
FALMOUTH
UNION - We understand the election of Guardians for the town ofFalmouth, will
not be contested. The only persons nominated were Messrs. J. ELLIS, Richard
OSLER, W. J. CLARKE, and J. T. PASKE; the three former havingbeen in office
before, and the latter in the place of W. H. BOND, Esq., R.N.
Featherstone Lake born on 14th December 1805( named after
his Godfather, the Rev. Edward Lake). Featherstone
and Ellen Osler
According to the
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online links1891-1900
(Volume XII)
OSLER, FEATHERSTONE LAKE, Church of England clergyman; b. 14 Dec. 1805
in Falmouth, England, son of Edward Osler and Mary Paddy; m.
6 Feb. 1837 Ellen Free Pickton in Budock Water, England, and they
had six sons, including Britton Bath, Edmund Boyd, and William, and three
daughters; d. 16 Feb. 1895 in Toronto.
Of a
shipowning family, Featherstone Lake Osler spent most of his time from 1821
to 1832 at sea, first in merchantmen and then in the Royal Navy. His letters
of this period contain little about religion but much about naval etiquette
and Latin American beauties. Friends on whom he had counted to further his
naval career were out of official favour by 1832. They remained influential
in evangelical circles in the Church of England, however, and Osler was
persuaded to study at Cambridge for holy orders. Having graduated with a ba
in 1837, he was awarded an ma in 1843.
In
1834 some of Osler’s influential friends had taken the first steps towards
the organization of the Upper Canada Clergy Society, and Osler’s experience
marked him as a likely prospect for a pioneer mission in that province. His
first thought had been of a comfortable living in England, and it was with
some reluctance that he accepted appointment to Tecumseth and West
Gwillimbury townships. In 1837, after ordination successively as deacon and
priest, he took up his post. He more than justified the society’s
expectations. Besides securing the necessary facilities for his own parish,
Osler travelled widely through adjacent areas conducting services and
encouraging church building. By the end of his 20-year tenure he claimed to
have begun 28 congregations and as many Sunday schools. He also organized a
lending library, distributed religious tracts on every possible occasion, and
served as an inspector of schools. His most ambitious undertaking was an
informal school, located at Bond Head, for the preparation of “Bush
Clergymen” to relieve him of his outlying stations.
By the
mid 1840s, despite being generally admired for his achievements, Osler was
discouraged by what he regarded as a lack of support from Bishop John
Strachan of Toronto. He complained when Strachan diverted some of his
graduates to other parts of the diocese. He also resented Strachan’s
preference for the theological college opened by Alexander Neil Bethune at
Cobourg in 1842, especially since he regarded Bethune as tainted with “the
errors of the Oxford heresy” and Strachan as a “dry morality preacher.” On
several occasions he hinted at a possible return to England, but he relented
when relieved of West Gwillimbury in 1851. Concerned for his health and for
the education of his children, however, Osler applied for a less arduous
posting and in 1857 became rector of Ancaster and Dundas, replacing William
McMurray.Here he continued his aggressive policy of retiring debt and adding
to church facilities. Unfortunately his naval habit of assuming command
provoked resentment, especially at Ancaster where a dispute in 1868 over
arrangements for a new church building led to the virtual severance of his
connection with that part of the parish. In 1882 he retired to Toronto. Osler
had become rural dean of Simcoe in 1849, of Wellington (with Halton) in 1867,
and of North Wentworth and Halton in 1875. In 1883 he was named a canon of
Christ’s Church Cathedral, Hamilton.
In
Osler’s personality a self-assurance that occasionally bordered on arrogance
was tempered by a transparent desire for the welfare of others. If
evangelical convictions compelled him to deny the sacraments even to dying
parishioners who could not make a credible profession of faith in Christ, he
was a convivial host and agreeable companion. Throughout his career an
effective pastor and administrator, he is chiefly remembered as a heroic and
inventive pioneer missionary and, with Ellen, as the founder of a family of
unusual prominence.
John Webster Grant
This “souvenir” spoon was commissioned to
celebrate the 100th birthday of Ellen Free Picton Osler on the 14th December
1906, a rare occurrence in the very early 20th century.
Several
of their children went on to become very prominent citizens of Canada.
Britton
Bath Osler is recognized as one of Canada’s most distinguished trial
lawyers. As a prosecutor he was involved in numerous murder trials including
the conviction of Louis Riel, "the father of Manitoba", on charges
of treason following the North-West Rebellion of 1885. Riel was viewed
sympathetically in the French speaking regions of Canada, and his execution
had a lasting influence on relations between the province of Quebec and the
English speaking provinces of Canada.
Britten Bath Osler
Featherstone
Osler (Jr.) was called to the bar in 1860 and made a Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in 1879 and a Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1883. In
1880, he had refused an appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada because he
didn't speak French. He retired from the bench in 1910 and became president
of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation. 
Edmund
Boyd Osler started his career as a clerk at the Bank of Upper
Canada, where he stayed until 1867, when the bank failed, and then as an
independent financier and stockbroker with different partners. He was
involved with many railroad projects and became president of the Ontario and
Quebéc Railway and later also director of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He
was also director of the Toronto General Trusts Company and the Canada
North-West Land Company, and president of the Dominion Bank. From 1896 until 1917,
Edmund Osler was continuously re- elected to the House of Commons as a
Conservative from West Toronto.
Sir Edmund Boyd Osler
William Osler, one of Featherstone’s sons, became a world famous
Physician.  Sir
William Osler
William
became one of the most famous doctors of all time. "John S. Billings
recruited William Osler in 1888 to be physician-in-chief of the soon-to-open
Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of medicine at the planned school of
medicine. Osler was the second appointed member of the original four medical
faculty, following William H. Welch and preceding Howard A. Kelly and William
S. Halsted. He revolutionized the medical curriculum of the United States and
Canada, synthesizing the best of the English and German systems.
Osler
adapted the English system to egalitarian American principles by teaching all
medical students at the bedside. He believed that students learned best by
doing and clinical instruction should therefore begin with the patient and
end with the patient. Books and lectures were supportive tools to this end.
The same principles applied to the laboratory, and all students were expected
to do some work in the bacteriology laboratory. Osler introduced the German
postgraduate training system, instituting one year of general internship
followed by several years of residency with increasing clinical
responsibilities.
William
Osler’s book, The Principles and Practice of Medicine, first published in
1892, supported his imaginative new curriculum. It was based upon the
advances in medical science of the previous fifty years and remained the
standard text on clinical medicine for the next forty years. In 1905 he
accepted the Regius Professorship of Medicine at Oxford University, at the
time the most prestigious medical appointment in the English-speaking world.
He left Maryland with warm feelings for Hopkins knowing that his sixteen
years spent had laid a solid foundation for the future of Hopkins medical
education."
The Osler
Library for the History of Medicine, based at McGill University, Montreal,
claims to be "Canada's foremost scholarly resource in the history of
medicine, and one of the most important libraries of its type in North
America." The Library has at its core a collection of 8000 works
relating to the history of medicine donated by William Osler.
William Osler
Quote
from Osler:
The value of
experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
Sir
William Osler The Story of Sir William Osler (Mcgill Osler
Society).
A brief biography of Sir William Osler
The Eponymous Osler
b. 12 July 1849, Bond
Head, Canada
d. 29 Dec 1919, Oxford, England
Physician
Professor of Medicine at McGill University,
Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University
Sir William Osler was, without doubt, the most famous physician in the
English-speaking world at the turn of the century, and is among the greatest
doctors who ever lived. He trained in medicine at the University of Toronto
and McGill (M.D., C.M., 1872), where he began his teaching career.
In 1889 he became the first professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins
University. He was particularly expert in diagnosis of diseases of the heart,
lungs and blood, and his textbook, The Principles and Practice of
Medicine (published 1982), was considered authoritative for more than 30
years. He helped create the system of postgraduate training for physicians
that is followed today.
Sir Osler's descriptions of the inadequacy of treatment methods for many
disorders was a major factor leading to the creation of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research in New York City. He moved to England in 1905
on being appointed Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, and was created a
baronet in 1911.
His ashes rest in the Osler Library, Montreal.
This
caricature of William Osler elevates him to holy status as he sweeps away
disease with cyclonic force. The title, The Saint -- Johns Hopkins
Hospital, is a play upon Osler’s frequent reference to the hospital as ‘the
St. Johns’. The caricature, done in 1896, is by Max Broedel, the
renowned medical illustrator.
When Osler
was made a Baronet in 1911, a coat-of-arms had to be designed. He chose the
beaver and the fleur-de-lys for Canada, and his own motto
"Æquanimitas". The fish are Cornish pilchards: Osler's ancestors
were seafaring folk from Falmouth. The "red hand of Ulster"
immediately above the central fish is the sign of the baronet.
As with
all great founding-fathers, Osler's influence will exist as long as there
Western medicine survives, whether we recognize it or not. To recognize that
influence, to reflect upon our direction, to be able to step outside our
world and viewed it as Osler must have once done, as an object in progress
and in need of continual perfection, is one of the greatest services a doctor
can do for medicine.
Among
Osler's greatest traits is a transcendental nobility that is seldomly seen
today, and rare, certainly, even in his own day. How many doctors or mentors
can utter: "It has
been said that "in patience ye shall win your souls," and what is
this patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the
trials of life? Sowing as you shall do beside all waters, I can but wish that
you may reap the promised blessing of quietness and of assurance forever,
until: Within this life, Though lifted o'er its strife, you may, in the
growing winters, glean a little of that wisdom which is pure, peaceable,
gentle, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without
hypocrisy." I, for one,
truly admire his wisdom, humanity, and knowledge. The key, I think, is to
never think of these traits as separate things, but as one thing, as the
self-expression of a compassionate human being challenged by a passionless
universe.
"The Open Arms"
Students and residents were
frequent guests at Osler's Baltimore home on the corner of Franklin and
Charles Streets.This is one of the keys that Osler provided students for
access to the library at his home.
Dinner
program in honour of William Osler
The William Osler family in their Oxford garden circa 1906.
The
Eponymous Osler:
A collection of all known medical entities that bear the name and legacy of
Sir William Osler (from Whonamedit.com)
 Osler-Libman-Sacks syndrome
Final stage of systemic lupus erythematodes. An atypical,
verrucous, nonbacterial, valvular and mural endocarditis. A visceral
manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus disseminatus, characterized by
the presence of systolic and diastolic apical murmurs and/or chordae tendinea
of sterile, verrucous lesions composed of fibrin strands. Polymorphonuclear
leukocytes, lymphocytes, and histiocytes infiltrate the affected structures.
The syndrome is seldom autonomous but is part of a more widespread systemic collagen
disorder.
 Osler's filaria
Osler described a previously unknown parasitic nematode among
the pups at the kennels of the Montreal Hunt Club. This organism, Strongylus
canis bronchialis, was renamed Filaria osleri by Thomas Spencer Cobbold in
1879, and in 1921, Oslerus osleri by Maurice Hall.
 Osler's manoeuvre
In pseudohypertension, the blood pressure as measured by the
sphygmomanometer is artificially high because of arterial wall calcification.
Osler's manoeuvre can detect this condition. It is an attempt to compress the
radial artery sufficiently to prevent palpation of the radial pulse past the
point of compression. If this pulse is still palpable, then the artery is
sclerosed. This could lead to the diagnosis of hypertension when, in fact,
the blood pressure could be normal.
 Osler's Nodules
Painful indurated areas on the pads of the fingers and toes, the
thenar and hypothenar eminences, seen in bacterial endocarditis, often
preceded by an aura of burning, throbbing pruritus, or tingling. In acute
bacterial endocarditis, they are associated with minute infective emboli; in
subacute bacterial endocarditis, they are associated with immune complexes
and small-vessel arteritis of skin. The causative organism is Staphylococcus
aureus.
 Osler's Syndrome (Ball-Valve gallstone)
A syndrome of recurrent episodes of colic pain, with typical
radiation to back, cold shiverings and fever; and possibly jaundice. Due to
the presence in Vater’s diverticulum of a free-moving gallstone which is
larger than the orifice, periodically obstructing the bile outflow in a
manner similar to that of a ball-valve.
 Sphryanura osleri
While Lecturer of Institutes of Medicine at Montreal in 1874,
Osler found a trematode worm in the gills of a newt, which was subsequently
named Sphryanura Osleri by Robert Ramsay Wright (1852-1933), professor of
Biology at Toronto.
 Vaques-Osler arythremia
A relatively rare chronic disease of the blood in which the red
cells are increased in number. The spleen becomes enlarged, and the face is a
deep red rather than truly cyanotic. Occasionally reported in childhood, it
occurs mostly in middle-aged males, in which increased erythrocyte count
(reaching sometimes 10.000.000 per cmm), blood volume, erythroblastic
activity, and blood viscosity is associated with cyanosis and splenomegaly.
Headache, gas pain, and belching are the typical presenting symptoms. Long list
of other symptoms. Etiology unknown. Belongs to the group of
myeloproliferative syndromes. When associated with liver cirrhosis, this
disorder is known as the Mosse syndrome. It is more frequently observed in
people of Jewish extraction.
Osler-Weber-Rendu
Disease (or hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia)
In 1901 Sir
William Osler reported on a family with skin and mucous membrane
telangiectases and recurrent epistaxis. Despite the thoroughness of this
paper, pulmonary lesions were apparently still unrecognized. HHt is an
autosomal dominany disorder manifested by telangiectases of the skin and
mucous membranes associated with bleeding tendency. Larger lesions may affect
the nasopharynx, CNS, lung, liver and spleen, as well as the urinary and GI
tracts. Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) may be present and are a source of
significant morbidity and mortality.
Among the
few facets of William Osler's life to escape extensive scrutiny has been his
connection with the sea. Osler came from a long line of seafarers from the
Cornish coast of England. His great-grandfather Edward may have been a
merchant seaman-or even a pirate. One of his grandfathers, another Edward,
was a Falmouth shipowner. A third Edward, Osler's uncle, joined the navy as a
medical officer and wrote The Voyage, an epic poem that, along with
his Life of Lord Exmouth, a biography of a Cornish admiral, was
avidly read in the Osler home in Bond Head, Ont. Osler's father,
Featherstone, spent 10 years at sea in the Royal Navy, endured several
maritime near-disasters and was nearly ship-wrecked on the voyage that
brought him and his new bride to Canada. Such associations may have prompted
William Osler, when made a baronet in 1911, to choose waves for the field on
his coat of arms.
After his
death, however, Osler came to have yet another connection with the sea, as
described in a brief notice appearing one Saturday in March 1943 in the Baltimore
American, under the headline "Liberty ship named for Dr.
Osler".11
The
Liberty ships formed the backbone of a supply line that enabled the Allies to
wage war against the Axis Powers during World War II. The SS William
Osler, one of 63 Liberty ships named for physicians, was built in a mere
28 days.
Like all
of the Liberty ships, the William Osler was fitted with gun
platforms and anti-aircraft guns and carried a naval gun crew as well as a
regular crew. She was assigned the radio call and signal letters 343605 KKNN,
was initially valued at US$1.75 million and was registered in Baltimore.
Converted
to an Army Hospital ship, the William Osler was renamed the USHS Wisteria
Jane
baptized 30th June 1771. She
married Featherstone Richards in Falmouth on 30th October, 1793. They had the
following children: Edward born 25th June,1795 in Falmouth, William born 9th
October 1796 in Falmouth, Jane born 12th July 1797 in Falmouth, Featherstone
born 15th March 1802 in Falmouth, Julia bap.11th May,1808 at All Hallows the
Less, London, Elizabeth bap.11th May,1808 at All Hallows the Less, and Henry
bap.19th August,1810 at All Hallows the Less,
Richard
baptized 9th June 1773. He was
buried on 4th February 1784.
Benjamin
born on 12th February 1775 and
baptized on 29th March 1775. He married Jane Saul (Sawle)in Falmouth on
9th April 1797. They had the following children: Susanna, Joseph (1798-1816),
Benjamin (1801-1864), Jane (1802-1848), Stephen Sawle (1804-1867), Mary Anne
(1806-1855), Amelia (1807), Elizabeth(1810-1844), Sarah (1815) and Philippa
(1818-1879).
According to THE SETTLER
HANDBOOK by MD Nash , Benjamin went to The Cape.
No. 47
on the Colonial Department list, led by Benjamin Osler, a merchant of
Falmouth, Cornwall, who had spent seven years in Cadiz and Gibraltar and
travelled to the West Indies, Portugal, Spain and Italy on business. His
application was forwarded by the Mayor of Falmouth, Andrew Young, who
recommended him as a man of good character.
This
was a joint-stock party, recruited in and about Falmouth (William Mallett was
from Penryn), each man paying his own deposit except for Osler's servant John
Bridgeman. The party of 11 men and their families left Portsmouth on 7
January 1820 in HM Store Ship Weymouth, reaching Table Bay on 26 April and Algoa Bay on 15 May.
The party was located on the left bank of the Mansfield River and named the
location Pendennis. (Pendennis Head and Pendennis Castle are landmarks
overlooking Falmouth Bay.) Benjamin Osler died in 1821.
LIST OF OSLER'S PARTY
BALL, James 44. Schoolmaster. w Ann 45. c James
6.
BLEE,
Richard 22. Ironmonger. w Jenopha 19.
BRIDGEMAN,
John 19. Husbandman.
DALE, John
24. Boot-and-shoemaker. w Mary 17.
EVA,
Richard (or James) 24. Baker. w Elizabeth 22.
GOODMAN,
Henry 23. Currier. w Elizabeth 20.
MALLETT,
William 45. Mason. w Elizabeth 46.
OSLER,
Benjamin 44. Merchant. w Jane 45. c Stephen 13, Mary Ann 12, Amelia 10,
Elizabeth 6.
PEARSE,
Charles Blight 35. Merchant. w Ann 32. c Eldred 11, Charles 8, Horatio 6.
RICHARDS,
Joseph 25. Boot-and-shoemaker. w Sally 21. c Sally 3, Phillis 1.
WEEKS,
James 29. Baker and confectioner. w Grace 25. c Elizabeth 2 (died at sea).
*CARPENTER, John.
*OSLER,
Susannah 20 (daughter of Benjamin Osler).
*WILTON,
Richard.
Main sources for party
list
List of settlers under the direction of Benjamin Osler (Cape Archives CO
6138/2,31); Muster-roll and Log of HM Store Ship Weymouth
(Public Record Office, London); Special Commissioner William Hayward's notes
(Cape Archives CO 8543). Richard Eva in the sailing list is referred to as
James Eva in Special Commissioner Hayward's notes.
*Osler
had a large family of 10 children, and informed the Colonial Department that
he planned to 'leave three or four of the youngest with their friends at
home' until he had established himself at the Cape. Only four children were
entered on the official list, but it appears that at least three others did
in fact emigrate with their parents. Susannah Osler, aged 20, is known to
have married John Colman of Cock's party a month after the Weymouth
reached Algoa Bay, and when Benjamin Osler died in 1821 his widow was left on
the location with six dependent children - a son of 15 and five daughters
between 4 and 14. Joseph Richards, who according to the sailing list
emigrated with a wife and two children, described himself in 1822 as an
unmarried man; it is conceivable that 'Sally Richards' on the sailing list
was actually Susannah Osler, and 'Sally' and 'Phillis', aged 3 and 1, her two
youngest sisters. (It was not uncommon for single women among the emigrants
to be listed as the 'wives' of unmarried men in order to avoid paying
separate deposits.) Another man of the party, John Dale, claimed in 1822 that
he had left his wife and family in England; his 17-year-old 'wife' Mary, as
she was entered in the sailing list, may have been another of the Osler
daughters.
*John
Carpenter's name does not appear on the sailing list or in the Muster-roll of
the Weymouth, but he sailed with Osler's party and was allowed to
land at Cape Town for health reasons. He rejoined the party on its location
three months later (Cape Archives CO 178,50). Richard Wilton, another
unlisted settler, was engaged as a servant by Osler and Carpenter in England
(Cape Archives 1/AY 13/1). No mention has been found in colonial records of
the presence of John Bridgeman or Henry Goodman at the Cape, and either or
both of them may have been replaced at the last minute without the change
being reflected in the sailing list.
OSLER, Benjamin
[First letter filed under C in
CO48/42]
202 Copy
To Andrew YOUNG Esq
Mayor of Falmouth
Falmouth, 25 July 1819
Sir,
I beg
leave to inform you I am desirous of availing myself of the late liberal
arrangement of government in assisting those who may be disposed to emigrate
to the Cape and most respectfully solicit your immediate application on my
behalf. I consider you Sir (chief magistrate of the town) the proper channel
through which I should apply.
My
family consists of a wife and ten children, my own age 44, my wife 45, two
children above 18, two between 18 and 14 and the remaining six below that
age, all healthy and capable of work. Three or four of the youngest I would leave
with their friends at home until I was established, the others would
accompany me, for whose passage I would advance the amount required by
government agreeably to the regulation and in addition take with me one able
husbandman and in like manner advance for him. My means I am concerned to
state to your worship allow me to go no further. Our habits are those of
industry, sobriety and economy and from the experience I have had in general
concerns flatter myself I should be found a useful settler in the new colony,
the temperature of which is such as I have been accustomed to. In the event
of obtaining permission will be anxious to embrace the first opportunity of
embarking. I am most respectfully Sir
Your obedient humble servant
Benjamin OSLER
963
Falmouth, August 19th 1819
Sir,
I beg to
acknowledge rec’t of your esteemed favor through A. YOUNG Esq the worshipful
Mayor of this town, with printed circular, relative to the terms on which
indulgence will be granted to those desirous of settling at the Cape. In
conformity thereto I engage to take with me ten able healthy individuals
above the age of eighteen, a proportion of whom shall be husbandmen
possessing a general knowledge of agriculture; also two children between the
ages of fourteen and eighteen and four below the age of fourteen for the
whole of whom I will advance agreeably to the stipulations contained in the
said circular.
I beg
leave to observe I have been a resident at Cadiz and Gibraltar nearly seven
years, have made voyages to Surinam, Trinidad, Marranham, Para [Transcriber’s note: the last two are
in Brazil] & different ports in Portugal, Spain and Italy in
commercial pursuits, am consequently familiar with foreign habits &
customs & flatter myself will be found a desirable settler in the
new colony. Most respectfully soliciting an early consideration and reply
I am Sir your most obed’t serv’t
Benj’n OSLER
[on reverse]
I hereby certify that Benjamin
OSLER, the person writing the foregoing proposal to emigrate to the
Cape of Good Hope, is a native of Falmouth and has always borne a good
character. Witness my hand this 20 August 1819
Andrew YOUNG
Mayor of Falmouth
969
Falmouth, August 30th 1819
Sir,
I beg to
acknowledge rec’t of your favor of the 23rd & to say my party will be
compleat in the course of the present week when I will send you the numbers,
names age and profession of the whole, together with the declaration required.
I presume a man and wife (altho accommodated with their passage & 100
acres of land for the advance of ten pounds) are in point of number
considered as two individuals. If I am wrong in this point be so
obliging as to correct me, referring you to my next
I am respectfully Sir
Your most obed’t serv’t
Benj’n OSLER
978
Falmouth, September 21st 1819
Sir,
I was
unable to forward you a compleat statement of my part earlier as some persons
who had engaged to join me either from real or imaginary difficulties
afterwards declined it.
I now
beg leave to subjoin an account of the party I propose taking under my
direction to the Cape of Good Hope, to which I solicit an early consideration
& reply, assuring you they are all able healthy persons such as will ultimately
benefit themselves & the colony. I shall anxiously await your further
instructions respecting them.
The four
young men whose names are below the certificate are very desirous of going
but have not the means of advancing the sum required, but in lieu thereof
have proposed to work for Government two years in such way as would be directed
to them, either as labourers or to their profession, claiming only a ration
of provisions & an occasional supply of clothing during that time, at the
expiation of which if they give satisfaction [hole in paper] to be entitled
to the same grant as the others. I trust [hole in paper] Government where
they witness in a party every disposition to ind..[hole in paper] & to be
beneficial to the colony will be disposed to encourage them on credit until
the first harvest for a proportion of the implements and necessaries that
will be required, & I presume wood will be immediately to be had for the
erection of temporary dwellings & that Government will cause us to be
landed on the spot we are to be located on. I beg to inquire about what time
in the month of November the sailing is proposed & whether some of the
transports will call at this port. Finally I respectfully solicit we may be
accommodated on shipboard with as suitable and convenient indulgences as the
nature of the service will admit, more particularly for the females &
children, who have all been respectably brought up and educated & I trust
a favorable portion of land will be assigned to us that we may early profit
by the fruits of our industry. Most respectfully soliciting your
consideration & good offices, I am Sir
Your most obed’t humble serv’t
Benj’n OSLER
Name and Description of the
Person taking out the Settlers
Benjamin OSLER, General Trader with knowledge
of Agriculture
A native of Falmouth
Married, aged 44
Have more than twenty years been engaged in commercial pursuits,
have resided at Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar and occasionally been at different
ports in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, Brazil &c
980
Falmouth Nov 7 1819
Sir,
You
favor of the 21st ult with instructions where to send the amount of deposit
for my party duly reaching me, in consequence of the capricious underhand
disposition of several who had given the most positive assurance of joining
me & who at this critical moment have withdrawn themselves, I am obliged
to solicit another sett of returns to make the alterations that have thus
arisen. The names of those defaulters I transmit to you with my affidavit in
confirmation. In the interim of receiving the returns no doubt I shall be
provided with others whom I have invited in lieu. I by this post sending Wm.
HILL Esq £52:10:0 on acct & will continue the remittance for others as
they deposit. In this emergency having arranged for departure a
disappointment will be attended with grievous consequences. I will be happy
to be attached to any respectable party to whose salutary regulations I will
readily conform myself. I earnestly supplicate the vessel appointed to take
us may be diverted to call at this Port.
I am respectfully, Sir
Your most obed’t humble serv’t
Benj’n OSLER
I, Benjamin
OSLER, make oath that the undermentioned persons voluntarily offered
to accompany me to the new settlement of the Cape of Good Hope without any
solicitation on my part & requested their names to be transmitted to
Government accordingly, & now without cause refuse to fulfil their
engagement.
George TRENWICK
Henry PRISK
John PENROSE
Henry HOSKING
Gilbert HEAMS
John PASCOE
John DALE
Sworn before me at Falmouth the
30th day of October 1819
Andrew YOUNG
Mayor
Benjamin
died in 1820 aged 45 years. His wife Jane died in May,1842 and her death was
reported as follows:
MAY 1842, Friday
On Friday last, in
Castle-street, Truro, Mrs. OSLER, relict of the late Mr. Benjamin OSLER, of
Falmouth, aged 69 years.
Samuel
born on 12th July, 1776 and
baptized on 16th August 1776.
Jane died
in 1827.
Ann
Mary born on 30th August 1735. She
married John Bayley on 22nd July 1757. They had the following children, all
baptized at St Austell:
Richard bap.16th July, 1758. Died
9th February 1762 of Small Pox. Buried at Holy Trinity.
Mary bap.24th February,1760
Richard bap.7th June,1762
Philippa bap 13th May 1764.
Dorothy
Phillipa
Ann
Marriage
John
Julyan on 11th August 1770 at Holy Trinity Church St Austell
Died
26/5/1837
At St.
Austell, on Wednesday last, at the advanced age of 94 years, Mrs. Julyan,
relict of the late Mr. John Julyan, many years clerk of that parish.
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