Yesterday and today's addictions were to link in Henry Young, and then William Henry Soltau. 

In 1814, St Mary’s Church, Lewisham, Harriet Jenner (1791-1848) married John Henry Eccles (1784-1841).  Their eldest daughter Catherine Anne Eccles (1815-75) married (in 1838) Henry Young (1803-81), the third son of Sir Samuel Young (1776-1826) and his wife Emily (née Baring).  Their daughter Emily Baring Young (1842-1914) was born in Plymouth before her parents emigrated to New Zealand where (in 1865) she (Emily) married John Feild Deck (1835-1929).  A younger sister of Catherine Young was Theresa Eccles (1819-?) who married George McAdam (1810-78), a dentist in Hereford.  She was thus a sister-in-law of Christopher McAdam (1807-?).  The McAdam brothers were grandsons of John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), the inventor of the roadmaking process McAdamization which has given us the word tarmac.  Christopher McAdam’s wife was Eleanor Trelawny (1798-1852) whose father died when she was a girl and who lived in the Newton household for some years before her marriage in 1837. A younger brother of Catherine Young was John Henry Eccles [II](1817-1902) who married Millicent [Millie] Elizabeth Mary Soltau (1818-c.1881), a younger sister of Henry William Soltau (1805-75).

Much of the Henry and Catherine Young story has been chronicled by Stuart Braga in All His Benefits: The Young and Deck Families in Australia (Australia: Privately printed 2013) a copy of which I passed on to the CBA in Manchester a few years ago.  For Catherine’s mother who ran a school in Plymouth where Leonard Strong’s daughters were pupils while he was in British Guyana, see my Elusive Quest p.194 and David Rawson, ‘Barton Hall, Hereford: A History’ in Brethren Historical Journal vii (2011) pp.54-55.

Timothy Stunt