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This Lineage Last Reviewed
and Updated January 2021
Henry Sherdley of Chambery
France (Savoy), partner in the Compagnie Anglais, British diplomatic
envoy to Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia and Savoy.
married Maria De Vlieger
children:
1(ii). Bernard Shirley see
here
1(iii). Edward Shirley
1(iv). Edmund Shirley esq. he died of fever while crossing
the Atlantic in late 1792
5 Jan 1793 Royal Gazette Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
- DIED On his passage to England, in the Canteret Packet boat,
after ten days illness of a bilious fever, Edmund Shirley, Esq.
a most amiable and accomplished young gentleman.
1(iv). James Shirley - he died in British, East Florida
after some controvery
1(i). Henry Shirley, esq. of Hyde Hall christened 1745 in Chambery
Savoy (now France). Charges d' Affaire at the court of Catherine
the Great in Moscow Russia; Proprietor of Hyde Hall Jamaica;
He died 30 November 1812 at his residence at 1 Upper Wimpole
Street, London, England
More information about Hyde Hall
including Henry Shirley's list of slaves (c1817) after his
death.
married Hannah Spencer, daughter of John Spencer, esq,
proprietor of Petersfield estate, Jamaica WI. She married 1st
Thomas Rock.
1797, Sat., Dec. 9. Monday last died at. her lodgings in
Bath, Mrs. Shirley, wife of the Hon. Henry Shirley, one of the
Members of the Colonial Council in Jamaica.
illegitimate children (mother: Sally Skiers,
a free mullato woman of Petersfield estate, Jamaica
2(i). Mary Edmund Shirley born 14 November 1791. Baptised
25 June 1793 daughter of free mulatto Sally Skiers of Kingston
and Henry Shirley (likely of Hyde Hall, but not confirmed); She
died as an infant, buried at Kingston 2 July 1793 as Mary Edmund
Shirley (not Skiers), "a quadroon child" (Vol 2 pg
137).
2(ii). Edmund Skiers, Esq. M.D. Corrected
December 2020 baptized on October 15, 1794 in Kingston,
Jamaica, son of free mulatto Sally Skiers of Kingston and Henry
Shirley (later confirmed, of Hyde Hall). He was named in his
father's 1813 will as Edmund Skiers, not Edmund Shirley. At the
time Henry Shirley's will stated Edmund Skiers was apprenticed
to John Newby of Poland Street London, surgeon. Henry Shirley
provided an annuity for his son's maintenance and money for his
education. UK Death Duty records also named him Edmund Skiers,
age 18 and itemized the corpus of his inheritance as L1,630 (minus
death duty). Edmund Skiers MD died in Paris on 18 May 1860, age
66. His estate was probated in the UK (and with death duties)
Medical Directory for Scotland (1852) - Continental Medical
Directory, pg 76
SKIERS, Edmund, 2, Rue de Montaiigne, Champs Elysees -
M.D. Paris 1925; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1818; L.S.A. 1822; honoured by
the Royal Medal for Cholera in Paris, 1832; Mem. and Corr. of
various Med. Socs. Author of "A Thesis on Croup," 1825;
"A Sketch on a Novel Treatment for Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
English and Asiatic Cholera." 1848.
married Rosa Lloyd on 1 July 1829 at St Marylebone
Parish in London; She died in 1876 in Paris. Her estate was probated
in the UK
- 1813 Aug 25 (probate date) - Will of
Henry Shirley esq of Hyde Hall, Upper Wimpole Street London Prob\11\1543\
....To or for the benefit of Edmund Skiers an infant the natural
son of Sally Skiers of the parish of Kingston in the said Island
of Jamaica born 15 Oct. 1794 and now apprentice to Mr. John Newby
of Poland Street surgeon one clear annual sum of 100 pounds of
like lawful money and I do hereby direct that my said Trustee
or Trustees for the time being do and shall pay and apply the
last mentioned yearly sum of one hundred pounds or so must and
such part and parts thereof as to my said Trustees or Trustee
or their survivors or survivor of them or the Executors or adivsors
of such survivor shall from...shall meet in and for the maintenance
and education of the said Edmund Skiers until he shall attain
the age of twenty one years and shall ...lay out the surplus...
government securities to the intent that the same may accumulate
for the benefit of the said Edmund Skiers until as said age of
twenty one years and upon the attaining that age he and shall
transfer and pay the said stocks and funds and all accumulated
to him for his own use and in case the death of the said Edmund
Skiers under the age of twenty one years....then paid to the
said Sally Skiers mother of the said Edmund Skiers.
Editor: Edmund was approximately 16-18
years old at the time Henry wrote his will and at that age used
the surname SKIERS not surname SHIRLEY. By contrast other relatives
of illigitimate birth were differentiated and mentioned in the
Will as to whether they used the surname Shirley, or not.
- 1818 - Royal College of Surgeons (UK):
Edmund Skiers, Residence: France, Date of Appointment: 1 May
1818
- 1819 - Licentiate Practitioner of Midwifery,
Edinburgh, 1819; Medical Times, Vol 12, pg 45 [signatory w
credentials on a petition]
- 1825 - [Google
Books] New York Academy of Medicine
Collection of International Medical Theses, housed at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Health Sciences Library
Dissertation sur Le Croup; These; Presentee et soutenue a
la Faculte de medecine de Paris le 9 Mai 1825, pour obtenir le
grade de Docteur en medecine; par Edmund
Skiers de la Jamaique; Licencie
praticien de medicine et Chirurgien; Membre du College Royal
de chirurgie de Londres etc etc
Henry Shirley esq (Hyde Hall
jamaique)
Temoignage d'amitie, d'estime et de reconnaissance.
(Translation: Testimony of friendship, esteem and recognition.)
Jost-Louis Mahler esq (Bruchmatt,
Lucerne)
Gage de 'lamitie la plus sincere, failble tribut de ma gratitude
pour la bienveillance extreme qu'il in' a temoignee, et 'linteret
particulier qu'il a pris aux succes de mes etudes.
(Translation: Token of the
most sincere friendship, low tribute of my gratitude for the
extreme benevolence can testify, and the particular interest
he has taken in the success of my studies.
- E Skiers
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- 1829 - The Morning Post (London) 2
July 1829 pg 4 - On Wednesday the 1st instant, at All Souls
Church, St Marylebone, Edmund Skiers, Esq M.D. to Rosa third
daughter of the late MrEdmund Lloyd of Harley Street
Editor: Harley Street was famous for
doctor's offices in London, and was 1 street from Wimpole Street
where Henry Shirley esq of Hyde Hall died in 1812. The church
at St Marylebone was where several family members of Henry Shirley
of Hyde Hall were married.
- 1830 - UK Home Office 52/10 (letter
of 19 November 1830). a letter to the Home Office from Dr. Edmund
Skiers, Member of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and Fellow
of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, who claimed that
a mixture of phosphorus, sulphur and i ron filings would, in
contact with water, "cause sudden ignition" by a process
of spontaneous combustion.
- 1849 - The Athenaeum 30 Dec 1848, pg
1342 [advertisement] A Sketch of a popular and novel Treatment
for Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and English and Asiatic Cholera ; with
illustrative Cases of the Diseases. By Edmund Skiers, M. D. (Honoured
by the Royal Medal for Cholera in Paris, 1832.) London: Highly,
1849. Pamphlet. 8vo. pp.91.
- 1860 - The Morning Chronicle (London)
23 May 1860 pg 7 - Skiers - On the 18th inst., at his residence,
28 Rue d'Angouleme-St-Honore Paris. Edmund Skiers, Esq M.D. aged
66
Editor: In other words, Edmund Skiers,
surgeon of London and Paris was born about 1794, same as Edmund
Skiers, son of Sally Skiers of Kingston Jamaica
- 18 August 1860 - Effects under L450
- Letters of Administration of the personal esate and effects
of Edmund Skiers late of 23 Rue D'Angouleme in the City of Paris
in France surgeon deceased who died 18 May 1860 at Rue D'Angouleme
aforesaid were granted at the Principal Registry to Rosa Skiers
of 23 Rue D'Angouleme aforesaid Widow the relect of the said
Deceased she having been first sworn
- 10 August 1876 - Effects under L20
- The Will with two Codicils of Rosa Skiers late of 103 Rue de
Morny Paris in France Widow who died 4 July 1876 at 103 Rue de
Morny was proved at the Principal Registry by Walpole Eyre Greenwell
of 30 Blandford-square in the County of Middlesex Gentleman the
Nephew the sole Executor
Note: the nephew Walpole Eyre Greenwell
is via the maternal line, Bridget Lloyd married James Hugo Greenwell,
not a relative via her husband Edmund Skiers
Edmund Skiers MD is clearly the son
of Henry Shirley esq of Hyde Hall, rather than Edmund Shirley
who married Mary Ivy Mann in Jamaica, long been presented on
this website
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Henry Shirley, esq