Richard Wenman of Halifax Nova Scotia and some of his Descendants
Generation No. 1
@1. Richard1 Wenman1 was born
Abt. 1711 in England2, and died 28 September 1781 in Halifax,
Nova Scotia2. He
married (1) ---2.
He married (2) Ann Scroope3 27 July 1751 in
Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was born
Abt. 17314, and died 1792 in Halifax Nova Scotia4.
Notes for Richard
Wenman:
Richard Wenman arrived
in Halifax in 1749 aboard the Charlton with the first English
settlers. He was accompanied by his
son Amos and his wife, who apparently died soon after arriving. Richard
had been a quarter-gunner aboard the HMS Advice. After his
marriage to Ann Pike (Scroope), they established and managed the orphan house in
Halifax.
Wenman held many public
offices and launched several business ventures in his life. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in
1762, represented Halifax in the Assembly from 1765-1770, and was commissioned
Captain in the Nova Scotia Militia in 1770.
His commercial activities included a brewery, and a Ropewalk he
established in 1754. He contracted
for supplies to the jail and workhouse, and was involved in several real estate
ventures.
A man of considerable
property, Wenman was assessed one of the ten wealthiest property owners of
Halifax in 1776. He was one of the
original grantees of land in Lawrencetown in 1754. In 1764 he successfully petitioned for five hundred acres of
land near present day Sackville he later called Wenman Hall Farm.
There is some
controversy over his reasons for running the orphanage. In a land where labor was scarce, some
said it became a convenient source of labor for his brewery and ropewalk. It is more likely, however, that the
orphanage was established to house the illegitimate children of the British
military and naval establishments5.
Child of Richard Wenman
and --- is:
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Amos2 Wenman6. |
Children of Richard
Wenman and Ann Scroope are:
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Susanna2 Wenman,
born Abt. 1753 in Halifax Nova Scotia; died 12 April 1841 in Lawrencetown
Nova Scotia. |
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Elizabeth Wenman. She married Lieut. William Pringle. |
Generation No. 2
@3.
Susanna2 Wenman (Richard1)7 was born
Abt. 1753 in Halifax Nova Scotia, and died 12 April 1841 in Lawrencetown Nova
Scotia8. She
married Benjamin Green9 12 September 1769 in Halifax,
Nova Scotia10, son of Benjamin Green and Margaret Peirce. He was born 01 January 1738/39 in Boston
Massachusetts, and died 02 December 1793 in Halifax, Nova Scotia11.
More About
Benjamin Green:
Children of
Susanna Wenman and Benjamin
Green:
Wenman Family Endnotes
1. Harriss, Reginald V., The Church of
Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia 1749-1949, (Totonto, The Reyerson Press, 1949), P.
65.
2. Judith Fingard, Biography of Richard
Wenman, (Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, V4, pp 763-764, University of Toronto Press,), p763.
3. Harriss, Reginald V., The Church of
Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia 1749-1949, (Totonto, The Reyerson Press, 1949), P.
65.
4. Judith Fingard, Biography of Richard
Wenman, (Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, V4, pp 763-764, University of Toronto Press,), p764.
5. Judith Fingard, Biography of Richard
Wenman, (Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, V4, pp 763-764, University of Toronto Press,), pp763-764.
6. Judith Fingard, Biography of Richard
Wenman, (Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, V4, pp 763-764, University of Toronto Press,), p763.
7. Harriss, Reginald V., The Church of
Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia 1749-1949, (Totonto, The Reyerson Press, 1949), P.
66.
8. Jean Holder, Nova Scotia Vital
Statistics from Newspapers 1840-1843,
(Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, Publication Nr. 10).
9. Hewitt, H.W., "History of Eastern
Passage, Prominent Persons to Whom Land weas Granted Whose Names are Familiar to
All," Dartmouth, NS Patriot, 31 August 1901, Article no. 17(18).
10. Canadian Biographies, (University of Toronto Press,), Vol. IV,
pp.763-4, Richard Wenman.
11. Terrence M. Punch, Nova Scotia Vital
Statistics from Newspapers 1769-1812,
(Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, 1981).