150 The F other gill Family as Ornithologists. 
Messrs. Mullens and Kirke Swann, in their Bibliography 
of British Ornithology (1917), dealing with Charles Fother- 
gill (H), say : — ‘ we really know nothing of his life ’ : but 
in Mr. Thistlethwaite’s book very complete biographies both 
of him and his relations are given, and these show that Messrs. 
Mullens and Kirke Swann are wrong in such details as they 
give concerning Charles Fothergill’s genealogy. 
Charles Fothergill (H) was born at York, his father 
being John Fothergill (F), ‘ comb-maker ’ or ‘ ivory manu- 
facturer,’ of York, his mother Mary Ann Forbes, his grand- 
father Alexander Fothergill (C), lawyer and farmer of Carr 
End, County York, and his great-grandfather John Fothergill 
(B), the celebrated Quaker preacher and traveller, of Carr End. 
The third (not second) son of the last named was Dr. John 
Fothergill (D), the eminent botanist and physician, who had 
a botanic garden at Upton, West Ham, and who died un- 
married in London in 1780, and a sixth son was Samuel 
Fothergill (E) the ‘ travelling Quaker ’ : Charles Fothergill 
(H) was therefore grand-nephew (not nephew) of Dr. John (D) 
and of Samuel Fothergill (E), and great-grandson (not 
grandson, as suggested by Messrs. Mullens and Kirke Swann) 
of John Fothergill (B) of Carr End. 
John Fothergill (F) the father of Charles Fothergill (H) 
had an elder brother Alexander, who died at the age of twelve : 
a younger brother William (G), and another younger brother 
Thomas who died unmarried. Although William Fothergill 
(G) was the second surviving son he succeeded to Carr End, 
and he it was who carried on correspondence with his nephew 
(not cousin) Charles Fothergill (H). This William Fothergill 
(G) had a son John (I), whom I have every reason to believe 
was the * ingenious surgeon at Askrig.’ 
It will be of interest here to quote the biography of Charles 
Fothergill (H) as given by Mr. Bernard Thistlethwaite : — 
‘ Charles Fothergill was born on 23rd May, 1782, at 
York. He was married, firstly, somewhere in England, 
during the year 1811, to Charlotte Nevins. They were living 
at Lachfield [? Larchfield], near Leeds, in 1813, and in 1814 at 
Rockmont, Peel, in the Isle of Man. They emigrated [in 
July, 1816, in The William *] to Canada, and she died in 
Toronto, about 1820, being buried just north of St. James’ 
Cathedral, Toronto : by her he had issue, three sons. He 
married, secondly, Eliza Richardson, the eldest daughter of 
Joshua and Catherine Richardson. She was born at Mount 
Monerabe, five miles from Mount Rath, Queen’s County, in 
Ireland, on the 15th February, 1801, and was married to 
Charles Fothergill at the Parish Church, in Port Hope^ 
* Mr. Watson Fothergill : in litt. 4th May, 1921. 
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