Letter from Privy Council 1561
Letter from the Privy Council to William More. The Council requests More to investigate and take action in the matter of the complaint of Robert Chete [Chitty?] of Godalming, clothier, against Richard Bydon, Gregory Parker his son and others, who are maliciously seeking to destroy his trade by occupying his property and consuming his stock. Damaged. [HMC p.616a] 6729/11/7/1 27 May 1561
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Henry (Hendry) Chitty (1577-1632)
(8th great grand-uncle of Clendon Bros)
Quitclaim 1) Henry Chitty, late of Oxford University, now of Godalming, gent 2) Sir Robert More son and heir of Sir George More. Manor of Westbury in Compton for £350 (apparently redemption of mortgage). LM/349/134 Aug 1620
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Sir Thomas Chitty (1696-1762)
Laying Foundation Stone of Old Blackfirars Bridge
http://chittyoflondon.awardspace.co.uk/
George Chitty Will, 1724
Elizabeth Chitty nee Jellicoe Will, 1792
“My children being all equally dear to me it would be my greatest happiness to leave them all the same as well as my blessing & thanks for their affectionate Behavior, but as my daughter Carter /?/ is amply provided for & my sons Samuel & Joseph Jellicoe have the most advantageous prospects before them, & my son Adam James Jellicoe is entirely destitute & has no friend to assist him, & I have also my children’s consent, it is my express wish & desire that my said son Adam James Jellicoe shall be paid directly one thousand pounds out of that part of my settlement I have a right to dispose of to purchase a place for his & his Families’ Benefit.
The clothouths Jewels Plate & Furniture .. [page torn] to my four Daughters who are justly entitled to the [page torn] their share in providing them & their straitened Circumstances.
It is also my request to remain ___?___ undisturbed for some day & not committed to the grave till certain signs of my Desolution. — This is my Last Will signed by me
Elizabeth Jellicoe
this third day of April 1792.
Witnesses: Eli’bth Jones, R __?__ Tyson
Richard Chitty Petition to join Bengal Regiment (1806-1871)
1st cousin 4x removed of Clendon Bros)
Home thoughts from Abroad:
Lt W.T. Chitty, in Baroda, India to his sister Miss Emma M. Chitty in Sussex, 1850
Camp ieart Baroda,
13th December 1850My Dear Emmy,
It will be a match against time and no mistake to get this finished respectably ere post time 4.30 pm, and it is the only letter I can send. However you will wonder why I have commenced so late but I have been busy till now and have scarcely allowed myself time to digest my breakfast and tiffin before parade till 1/2 past 7, then official letters & papers to be prepared ready for signature at 10, then a hasty breakfast and off to Orderly Room; thence over to the Brigade Major’s office, then back with the information I went for; to the Commanding Officer, then home again; issue of pay to some men and finally stamping and numbering upwards of 120 men’s jackets with signatures to hand – to say nothing of the numerous interruptions by notes from different parties – all these have left me constantly at work the entire forenoon.
I had intended writing last night but was too sleepy to do so and it being bitterly cold, I was only too glad to put myself under the blankets as soon as I could which was not till past 9 o’clock – early enough you will say, but then you don’t get up at 5 every morning I presume.
I think Emmy you almost deserve scolding for I have not heard from you now for nine months and your last was only a half sheet, but perhaps you have been employed – have you been out a good deal visiting. The last I heard of you, you were staying with Mrs Hardwicke, where you no doubt enjoyed yourself, as I hear you were much pleased by the account you sent home. However Emmy, you must allow you owe me a letter and I hope you will soon find time to send it.
I suppose you will say you waited for something to write about, but if you do, why I might wait for something till Doomsday in such a delectable hole as Baroda. You never saw such a place in your life – very pretty to look at but horrible to live in. Why I cannot tell but somehow everyone seems low-spirited and without the least life in them. Even now, that the weather is cool as a cucumber no one seems a lick the better for it, but all are complaining of something or another. Now you may imagine what kind of a Station I am on, but still I feel pretty well myself at present and hope I may get on as well till the time of relieving us comes round again, though that is a long time to look forward to; a good two years I imagine ere we get the route (?) again. Now you see I only wrote home on the 29th of last month so there has been no time for anything to communicate.
We have had some Races going on and some few strangers have come in for the sake of seeing them, which is more than I took the trouble to do, though as for sports, the fact is that I look upon racing especially in this country as anything but sport, and would not go ten yards to see a race myself. I saw nonetheless the first race as I went to hear the Band, and they were near the Stand.
His Highness the Guicowar1 with a numerous retinue were there and some thousands of natives, though from their constant stares at the ladies and gentlemen it appears they did not come to look at the races, but like ‘coolies’, because the people were collecting, and they always go wherever they see a crowd collecting.”
Since I last wrote bye the bye, our late commandant Lieut Colonel Shortt, has been transferred to the 8th Regiment now in Borubar and I heard from him the other evening in which he seems rather disgusted but he will be a little more so I expect ere long for I doubt if he will ever find a Regiment pull so quietly and give way to his whims so much as we did. I think we shall miss him though he was not over popular latterly. I fancy you don’t care much for Regimental news so I must touch on something else.
The next paragraph gives a great insight as to the way the accommodation was sorted out for the officers of the 13th Native Infantry.
I am now living in the late Colonel’s house, keeping possession for Captain Lavel now at Broach and I shall remain here till his arrival though I am paying house rent for my own mansion in which Cooper is living ‘solus’ at present, there being so few houses in Camp and a new Regiment coming here the good ones are being seized by our officers, the same as the officers of the Sixth N.I. did with us ! But as the Brigadier says he won’t allow any to be taken for absentees where personnel present want them, so I am forced to remain here to oblige Lavel, or he would lose the best house in Camp. Cooper and myself have called for a Committee of Officers to fix the rent of our next house, which is at present Rs 60 per each seems much too high as Government only allow Householders 15 per cent of the value of the house if taken for one year or 20 percent if taken by the month, the committee sits tomorrow and will I trust reduce it considerably for they are a sad set of rascals here screwing every rupee they can out of you; but if the Committee do reduce it, there will be a general rise through Camp and all the houses will be properly valued and their rents fixed.
The Express of the mail came in last night but I fear the regular post will not be in this afternoon in time for me to see if I have any letters from home. If not, two mails will have passed without my having any letters, but I don’t much expect any this mail being only a “barstilles” one and so if I get none, shall not be disappointed. I have been sorry to hear such a sad account of the state of home affairs as I have had the last two or three mails but I trust that though the trials and annoyances which you all have to undergo are great and many, that you all go on cheerfully for this will tend in a great measure to soften many a trouble. You must not think I am going to commence lecturing Emmy, I am not fond of that fun.
Now if you tell me much of home and how the place looks. I can imagine rather bare and untidy but how do the outbuildings look, the North and S Stables, the Granary, the Brewhouse, Washouse and laundry, all these are frequently thought of by me and I frequently wonder whether the wall round the oval pond is as it used to be, also the yew hedge whether it has been kept clipt, or is untidy, but you have no one to do these things now for Bill is busy farming and has no time for spending in the garden. I wish I could take a turn at it, I think I should enjoy just such employment now rather more than I did when I was at home. I was a bad idle dog then not knowing when I was well off, but so it is with us all.
Since I last wrote to you I have got a step up the ladder as being made Quarter Master and putting on the brass spurs, certainly it is more comfortable on a dewy morning riding than getting one’s feet wet, but I don’t find much other enjoyment at present, though drawing rather more than a Captain’s pay is very good. I must confess that were I clear of the world, I might put by a few rupees but at present I have not that satisfaction, but hope to, all in good time. One thing, I shall never return home a Nabob3 as you good folks in England think all Indians must, I could never stop long enough for that. For though many people praise up the country as being such a fine place, I must say I am of a very different opinion, from what little I have seen of it. But I was a more contented individual in the DECCAN4 Give me my friends and relations and I think then it would be all very proper.
I never saw such a country for the encouragement of laziness, nor ever heard of such. Why I do believe some men would allow their servants to feed them if they could — they come very near it now, poor helpless babies.
Bye the bye, have you, or any of you, thought of working me a pair of slippers for I am fast decaying in that Department.5 I like that plaid pattern or in fact any pattern any young lady pleases to choose for me – providing always it is not too remarkable a one.
Hello — put on the steam! It is just 4pm so I must heave ahead. Here’s the post in and nothing for me — so take my thanks for the same! When anyone is writing to Aunt E send my very best love and say I would have written but really had not time. I will see about doing so sharp. I see Horatio has moved upwards – the Honourable John! As to the active Service account query, what is he going to do?
Who lives at the lodge now — anyone I know – Does Bill sit in the same pew at Church — No.21 if I remember right.7 How goes on Mr Cartwright and is old Clark Knight still living.
This will reach you after New Years Day, but look for it being a happy one to you all. I should not be surprised if this reached you on Mama’s birthday, wish both Mama and Sue many happy returns for me and you may imagine me drinking healths on the several days without number, but now I must send best love to all and subscribe myself – at haste
Your very affectionate Brother
W.T. ChittyObituary Persis Rebecca Chitty
metamora Herald 4 April 1924
“BODY OF MRS. STOWELL BROUGHT FOR BURIAL – Was Daughter of Charles M. Chitty, Early Metamora Citizen and Attorney –
Passed Away Monday at Home of Her Daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Farar in Missouri – Body shipped to Metamora
Following announcement of the serious illness of Mrs. Willard Stowell, a former well known Metamora lady, news of her death was received by friends Monday. She passed away that day at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Farar at Bonne Terre, Mo.
Mrs. Stowell was the daughter of Hon. Charles H. Chitty, one of the early settlers of Woodford County, who located in Metamora in 1818. He taught school until 1851 when he was elected county surveyor. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1860, and was elected county judge in 1860. The maiden name of his wife was Rebecca Lemon, a daughter of Dr. George Lemon, one of the early settlers. To Mr. and Mrs. Chitty several children were born, but only two survived their parents, Persis (Puss, as known to her many friends here) and William L. Chitty, her brother, now a practicing attorney of Los Angeles, Cal.
After the marriage of Mr. Stowell and Miss Chitty they resided here until some time in the 80’s when they took up residence in a suburb of Boston, where they abided until the death of Mr. Stowell, when Mrs. Stowell removed to Bonne Terre, Mo., where she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Stowell Farrar, known to the people of this vicinity as Fey Stowell.
Mrs. Stowell was finely educated and a thorough musician. For several years she was the chief dependence at St.Mary’s Catholic church here and was ever in demand as an instrumental and vocal entertainer in all social events. Refined, cultured and attractive, she was respected and loved by all who knew her.
The remains were to leave her home for Metamora, where she will be interred with those of her father and mother and other members of the family.”
Canon Chitty Death
AYSGARTH EX-HEAD DEAD
Canon W. H. Chitty, formerly headmaster of Aysgarth School, has died at Mount Pleasant, Compton. Canon Cliilty, was 72. was educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge, and was ordained about 1894. He was sixth form master of Cigglesworth for six years and. in 1908. headmaster of Aysgarth School. Bedale. In 1919, owing to ill-health, he resigned and went to live in the South of England. On recovering from illness he was appointed Vicar of Hartley Wintney and subsequently Vicar of Highfield, Southampton, and Rural Dean of Southampton.
https://victorianweb.org/history/letters/chitty.html
He was installed an honorary canon of Winchester Cathedral about 1928. His vigorous personality and strength of character made Canon Chitty an outstanding schoolmaster. In all his work he was greatly helped by his wife. A memorial service will be held in the Aysgarth School Chapel on Sunday at 11.15. 1940.
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September 19, 1940
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper
North Eastern Gazette from Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England • Page 3
A tragic love story
Old Toodyay
Herbert James Chitty wedding
Posted 06 Jul 2023 by Allan Sargison
Buttercup for
‘Maids
“PRETTY frocking was a feature of the wedding at Wesley Church, Fremantle, at 5.30 yesterday afternoon, when Miss Jean Edgar, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Edgar, of East-street, Fremantle, was married to Mr. Herbert (Bert) Chitty, eldest son of Mrs. M. Chitty and the late Mr. Chitty, of Toodyay. Rev. Freeman officiated, and the bride was given away by her father.
She wore a dainty frock of embossed cloque, with panelled skirt, forming a long train, uplift bodice, with heart-shaped neckline, and
sleeves shirred to the elbow and fit- ting to the wrist. A three-tier veil, edged with lace, was held with a top- knot of waterlilies, and she carried a sheaf of waterlilies and stephanotis.
Misses Bonnie Harris and Joy Edgar were bridesmaids, frocked alike in broderie Anglaise organza in buttercup shade with a touch of deeper gold. The picture frocks were finish- ed with double bandings of orange velvet ribbon at the waist and bows at the bodice front. Picture hats were encircled round the crown with daisies and had ends of ribbon in gold shade to match. They carried buttercup water lilies with trailers. The floral work was by Miss L. Mcphee. Fremantle.
The bridegroom was attended by Messrs. David Edgar and Phil Chitty, and during the signing of the register, Miss Ella Williams sang “Salaam.”
Sunday 3 December 1939
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 – 1954); Page 20 of 30