Paternal Family Tree: Child
On or before 27th February 1631, the date he was baptised at St Bartholomew by the Exchange Church, Josiah Child was born to Richard Child and Elizabeth Roycroft.
Around 1656 [his daughter] Elizabeth Child was born to Josiah Child [aged 24]. She married before 1682 John Howland and had issue.
In 1659 Josiah Child [aged 27] was elected MP Petersfield during the Third Protectorate Parliament.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 30] summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston [aged 44] was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne [aged 56] was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet [aged 35] was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne [aged 30] was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton [aged 36] was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 32] was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge [aged 61] was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford [aged 28] was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont [aged 24] was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways [aged 75] was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways [aged 45] was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways [aged 24] was elected MP Bridport.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet [aged 29] was elected MP Taunton.
James Herbert [aged 38] was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington [aged 21] was elected MP Cambridge.
William Bowes of Streatlam [aged 4] was elected MP Durham.
Robert Brooke [aged 24] was elected MP Aldeburgh.
Josiah Child [aged 30] was elected MP Dartmouth.
Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [aged 73] was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew [aged 37] was elected MP Brackley.
Richard Jennings [aged 42] was elected MP St Albans.
Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet [aged 33] was elected MP Norfolk.
Edward Phelips [aged 48] was elected MP Somerset.
Robert Robartes [aged 27] was elected MP Bossiney.
Hender Robartes [aged 25] was elected MP Bodmin.
Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet [aged 48] was elected MP Coventry.
William Portman 6th Baronet [aged 17] was elected MP Taunton.
John Robinson 1st Baronet [aged 46] was elected MP Rye.
Around 1666 [his daughter] Rebecca Child Marchioness Worcester was born to Josiah Child [aged 34]. She married 6th June 1682 Charles Somerset Marquess Worcester, son of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort, and had issue.
In 1667 Francis Willoughby [aged 31] and [his future wife] Emma Barnard [aged 21] were married.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 24th August 1668. So to dinner, and then to the office again, where all the afternoon till night, we met to discourse upon the alterations which are propounded to be made in the draft of the victualler's contract which we did lately make, and then we being up comes Mr. Child [aged 37], Papillion [aged 44] and Littleton, his partners, to discourse upon the matter with me, which I did, and spent all the evening with them at the office, and so, they being gone, I to supper and talk with my wife, and so to bed.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 26th August 1668. Thence to White Hall, and it is strange to say with what speed the people employed do pull down Paul's steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it, and the choir are to be taken down this year, and another church begun in the room thereof, the next. At White Hall we met at the Treasury chamber, and there before the Lords did debate our draft of the victualling contract with the several bidders for it, which were Sir D. Gauden, Mr. Child [aged 37] and his fellows, and Mr. Dorrington and his, a poor variety in a business of this icon. There till after candle-lighting, and so home by coach with Sir D. Gauden, who, by the way, tells me how the City do go on in several things towards the building of the public places, which I am glad to hear; and gives hope that in a few years it will be a glorious place; but we met with several stops and new troubles in the way in the streets, so as makes it bad to travel in the dark now through the City. So I to Mr. Batelier's by appointment, where I find my wife, and Deb., and Mercer; Mrs. Pierce and her husband, son, and daughter; and Knepp and Harris [aged 34], and W. Batelier, and his sister Mary, and cozen Gumbleton, a good-humoured, fat young gentleman, son to the jeweller, that dances well; and here danced all night long, with a noble supper; and about two in the morning the table spread again for a noble breakfast beyond all moderation, that put me out of countenance, so much and so good. Mrs. Pierce and her people went home betimes, she being big with child; but Knepp and the rest staid till almost three in the morning, and then broke up.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 25th September 1668. Up, and Sir D. Gauden with me betimes to confer again about this business, and he gone I all the morning finishing our answer, which I did by noon, and so to dinner, and W. Batelier with me, who is lately come from Impington, beyond which I perceive he went not, whatever his pretence at first was; and so he tells me how well and merry all are there, and how nobly used by my cozen. He gone, after dinner I to work again, and Gibson having wrote our answer fair and got Brouncker [aged 48] and the rest to sign it, I by coach to White Hall to the Committee of the Council, which met late, and Brouncker and J. Minnes [aged 69] with me, and there the Duke of York [aged 34] present (but not W. Coventry [aged 40], who I perceive do wholly avoid to have to do publickly in this business, being shy of appearing in any Navy business, which I telling him the other day that I thought the King [aged 38] might suffer by it, he told me that the occasion is now so small that it cannot be fatal to the service, and for the present it is better for him not to appear, saying that it may fare the worse for his appearing in it as things are now governed), where our answer was read and debated, and some hot words between the Duke of York and Sir T. Clifford, the first for and the latter against Gawden, but the whole put off to to-morrow's Council, for till the King goes out of town the next week the Council sits every day. So with the Duke of York and some others to his closet, and Alderman Backewell [aged 50] about a Committee of Tangier, and there did agree upon a price for pieces of eight at 4s. 6d. Present the Duke of York, Arlington [aged 50], Berkeley, Sir J. Minnes, and myself. They gone, the Duke of York did tell me how hot Clifford is for Child [aged 37], and for removing of old Officers, he saying plainly to-night, that though Prince was a man that had done the best service that he believed any man, or any ten men, could have done, yet that it was for the King's interest not to let it lie too long in one hand, lest nobody should be able to serve him but one. But the Duke of York did openly tell him that he was not for removing of old servants that have done well, neither in this place, nor in any other place, which is very nobly said. It being 7 or 8 at night, I home with Backewell by coach, and so walked to D. Gawden's, but he not at home, and so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me, and so to supper and to bed.
In 1673 Josiah Child [aged 41] purchased Wanstead Manor, Essex from the executors of Robert Brooke.
On 8th August 1676 Josiah Child [aged 45] and Emma Barnard [aged 30] were married.
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On or before 5th February 1680 [his son] Richard Child aka Tylney 1st Earl Tylney was born to Josiah Child [aged 48] and [his wife] Emma Barnard [aged 34]. He was baptised on 5th February 1680 at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead. He married 1703 Dorothy Glynne Countess Castlemaine and had issue.
Before 1682 [his son-in-law] John Howland [aged 32] and [his daughter] Elizabeth Child [aged 25] were married.
On 6th June 1682 [his son-in-law] Charles Somerset Marquess Worcester [aged 21] and [his daughter] Rebecca Child Marchioness Worcester [aged 16] were married. He the son of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort [aged 53] and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort [aged 51].
John Evelyn's Diary. 16th March 1683. I went to see Sir Josiah Child's [aged 52] prodigious cost in planting walnut trees about his seat, and making fish ponds, many miles in circuit, in Epping Forest, in a barren spot, as oftentimes these suddenly monied men for the most part seat themselves. He from a merchant's apprentice, and management of the East India Company's stock, being arrived to an estate (it is said) of £200,000; and lately married his daughter [aged 17] to the eldest son [aged 22] of the Duke of Beaufort, late Marquis of Worcester, with £50,000 portional present, and various expectations.
John Evelyn's Diary. 16th March 1683. I dined at Mr. Houblon's [aged 53], a rich and gentle French merchant, who was building a house in the Forest, near Sir J. Child's [aged 52], in a place where the late Earl of Norwich dwelt some time, and which came from his lady, the widow of Mr. Baker. It will be a pretty villa, about five miles from Whitechapel.
In 1685 [his step-son] Francis Willoughby 1st Baronet [aged 17] took hjis step-father Josiah Child [aged 53] to court accusing him of squandering his money.
In 1688 [his step-son] Francis Willoughby 1st Baronet [aged 20] died unmarried. His brother Thomas [aged 15] succeeded 2nd Baronet Willoughby of Wollaton.
Before 1691. John Riley [aged 44]. Portrait of Josiah Child [aged 59].
On 9th April 1691 [his step-son] Thomas Willoughby 1st Baron Middleton [aged 19] and Elizabeth Rothwell Baroness Willoughby and Middleton were married. She by marriage Baroness Willoughby Broke.
On 22nd June 1699 Josiah Child [aged 68] died.
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On 16th October 1725 [his former wife] Emma Barnard [aged 79] died.
[his father] Richard Child and [his mother] Elizabeth Roycroft were married.