Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Spouses
Marriage179429
ChildrenJohn Francis
Harriet Anne (-1796)
Harriet (-1866)
Lestock (-1821)
Sullivan (-1821)
Eliza (-1860)
Henry Samuel (-1851)
Frances (-1828)
Notes for Henrietta Boileau
From BBB:15
Henrietta ii was with her husband, Samuel Davis, District Judge at Benares when a rebellion broke out. Its leader, Vizier Ali, who had just killed three Europeans, was heading for the Davis's house with a band of rebels and they shot down a sentry just as Samuel was returning from a morning ride on an elephant. He saw there was no time to lose, and calling to Henrietta to take the two children, aged four and one, up to the flat roof of the house, he started to go into the house and fetch his firearms. But an armed rebel was already in the doorway and Samuel had to think again.
He remembered that he had a pike upstairs, such as was used by running footmen in India, made of iron and plated with silver to give a better grip, more than six feet long and with a big and very sharp triangular blade 20 inches in length. He reckoned that with this he could defend the narrow staircase going up to the roof, ran up the stairs and quickly saw that the height of the parapet around was very low and exposed them all to the expected enemy fire. He made Henrietta and the ayahs and the children crouch down in the middle of the roof, and posted himself with his pike by the hatchway at the top of the stairs. This stairway was of considerable height, and very narrow, permitting no more than one man at a time to come up, as it was spiral. He picked off two who came up, who withdrew wounded, while firing had started inside and outside the house. However, the delay caused by Samuel's one-man defensive effort was vital, and cavalry arrived in the nick of time from some miles away, forcing the rebels to retire, some two hundred in number. (What became of the elephant, one wonders. We shall never know).
Henrietta ii was with her husband, Samuel Davis, District Judge at Benares when a rebellion broke out. Its leader, Vizier Ali, who had just killed three Europeans, was heading for the Davis's house with a band of rebels and they shot down a sentry just as Samuel was returning from a morning ride on an elephant. He saw there was no time to lose, and calling to Henrietta to take the two children, aged four and one, up to the flat roof of the house, he started to go into the house and fetch his firearms. But an armed rebel was already in the doorway and Samuel had to think again.
He remembered that he had a pike upstairs, such as was used by running footmen in India, made of iron and plated with silver to give a better grip, more than six feet long and with a big and very sharp triangular blade 20 inches in length. He reckoned that with this he could defend the narrow staircase going up to the roof, ran up the stairs and quickly saw that the height of the parapet around was very low and exposed them all to the expected enemy fire. He made Henrietta and the ayahs and the children crouch down in the middle of the roof, and posted himself with his pike by the hatchway at the top of the stairs. This stairway was of considerable height, and very narrow, permitting no more than one man at a time to come up, as it was spiral. He picked off two who came up, who withdrew wounded, while firing had started inside and outside the house. However, the delay caused by Samuel's one-man defensive effort was vital, and cavalry arrived in the nick of time from some miles away, forcing the rebels to retire, some two hundred in number. (What became of the elephant, one wonders. We shall never know).
Notes for Samuel (Spouse 1)
District Judge at Benares.15
From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
Davis, Samuel (1760–1819), East India Company servant and orientalist, was born in the West Indies, the younger son of John Davis, who held the post there of commissary-general, and his Welsh wife (née Phillips). He went to England with his mother and two sisters after the death of his father. Despite the evident poverty of the family, Davis appears to have received a good education, although the details are lost.
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From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
Davis, Samuel (1760–1819), East India Company servant and orientalist, was born in the West Indies, the younger son of John Davis, who held the post there of commissary-general, and his Welsh wife (née Phillips). He went to England with his mother and two sisters after the death of his father. Despite the evident poverty of the family, Davis appears to have received a good education, although the details are lost.
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