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Reeve, Samuel (c1786 SFK - 1830 SFK)

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Reeve, Samuel, Rev.


Summary

Father: Rev. Thomas Reeve
Mother: Sophia Uvedale

Birth: c1786, Bungay, Suffolk
Birth Source: Biography

Death: 27 Sep 1830, Walton, Suffolk
Death Source: Memorial plaque

Spouse1: Eliza Gratiana Webber, m. 12 Apr 1810

Narrative

Children of Samuel Reeve and Eliza Gratiana Webber:
  1. John Colpoys Reeve, b. 9 Sep 1813
  2. Samuel Reeve, b. 8 Jan 1815
  3. Ambrose Richard Reeve, b. 18 Mar 1816
  4. Charles Reeve, b. 31 May 1817
  5. Eliza Gratiana Uvedale Reeve, b. 4 Nov 1818


From the Milverton, Somerset Parish Register:
  • Samuel Reeve Clerk of the Parish of Horseford in the County of Norfolk & Eliza Gratiana Webber sojourner were married in this church by licence this twelfth day of April in the Year One Thousand eight hundred and ten By me Thomas Paddew minister; In presence of Ellizab Darch Jane Webber Sarah Darch

In his will, written in 1824, Samuel describes himself as of Harwich, Essex, which is the north-eastern most part of Essex, below Suffolk. He mentions that under the will of his uncle Admiral Reeve, his father Thomas Reeve was to receive all of his (Admiral Reeve's) estate which included the Rectory of Brockdish in Norfolk. His father Thomas having died, all of this fell to Samuel. He named "my Brother in Law Alexander Webber of Ceril Street Westminster wine merchant and William Redwell (?Rodwell) of Ipswich in the county of Suffolk Gentleman Executors and my dear wife Eliza Cratiana" as executors/executrix to the will. He also mentions:
  • my late Aunt Luira Tozer
  • son Samuel Reeve
  • my children

The Alumni cantabrigienses contains the following on him:
REEVE, SAMUEL. Adm. pens, (age 17) at Caius, Jan. 6, 1803. [Only] s. of the Rev. Thomas (1763), R. of Brockley, Suffolk (and Sophia, only dau. of the Rev. Ambrose Uvedale). B. at Bungay. Schools, Bungay (his father) and Dedham, Essex. Matric. Michs. 1804; B.A. 1809. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Dec. 21, 1809; priest, Dec. 23, 1810. Married Miss Gratiana Webber, and had issue. Author of a short biographical sketch of Mr William Gooch, of Brockdish, Norfolk, in the Christian Remembrancer, 1. 19, etc. Died Sept. 28, 1830, aged 43, at his residence in Walton, Suffolk.


Samuel is buried with his uncle Samuel Reeve at Saint Mary At Elms, Ipswich. The plaque reads:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SAMUEL REEVE, ESQ,
VICE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE,
WHO DIED MAY V MDCCCIII AGED LXX YEARS.
HE WAS EXEMPLARY IN THE DUTIES
OF HIS PROFESSION.
A MAN OF STRICT PROBITY,
AND A VALUABLE FRIEND;
A BROTHER JUSTLY BELOVED
AND MOST GRATEFULLY REMEMBERED.

ALSO OF
SAMUEL REEVE, Clk. B.A.
HIS NEPHEW,
WHO DIED SEP. XXVII. MDCCCXXX.
AGED XLIV YEARS.


Research Notes


Sources

Marriage1:  Milverton, Somerset Parish Register 1792-1812. D\P\milv/2/1/11
Burial:       Findagrave - Saint Mary At Elms, Ipswich, Ipswich Borough, Suffolk

1824 Will - Rev. Samuel Reeve - Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Piece 1778 (Beard), folio 171 reverse
Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954. Vol. 5, pt. 2, p269