1. Homepage
2. Life of Henry Cort
3. Cort's processes in iron manufacture
4. Cort's patents
5. Refutation of allegations of conspiracies against Cort
6. Adam Jellicoe's death
7. Henry Cort's birth
8. A navy agent's business
9. Early life of John Becher
10. Attwick & Burges families
11. "Cortship" of second wife
12. Thomas Morgan
13. Henry Cort's hoops contract
14. 1856 Accolade
15. Generosity of friends 1789-94
16. James Watson
17. Illness of Cort's son
18. Main sources of information
19. Contemporary sources
20. Navy sources
21. Chancery files
22. Publications about Cort
23. Assessment of Cort's character
24. Images of Henry Cort

25. Impeach-tranferred to 05

26. Parliamentary inquiry 1811-2
27. The furore of the 1850s
28. Society of Arts
29. Cort's first marriage
30. Henry Cort's children
31. Cort family pensions
32. Henry Cort's Hertfordshire property
33. 1791 signatories
34. Guiana and the Cort-Gladstone connection
35. Cort's twilight years
36. Memorials to Henry Cort


37. Smelting of iron
38. Fining before Cort
39. Shropshire & Staffordshire ironmasters
40. Cumbrians: Wilkinson etc
41. Early works at Merthyr Tydfil
42. The Crowley business
43. London ironmongers
44. Scottish iron
45. Cort's promotion efforts 1783-6
46. Later Merthyr connections
47. Puddling after Henry Cort


48. Gosport in Cort's day
49. Gosport administration
50. Gosport worthies
51. The Amherst-Porter network
52. James Hackman, murderer
53. Samuel Marshall
54. Samuel Jellicoe's legacy
55. Links with Titchfield
56. Links with Fareham


57. Fact, error and conjecture
58. 18th century politics
59. Law in the 18th century
60. 18th century finance
61. Religion and sexual mores
62. Calendar change of 1752
63. Shelburne, Parry and associates
64. John Becher's family
65. The Becher-Thackeray lineage
66. Thomas Lyttelton: a fantastic narrative
67. Eighteenth-century London
68. Abolition and the Corts
69. The Burges will tangle


70. Navy connections
71. Navy agent's business
72. Cort's clients
73. Ships' pursers
74. History of Adam Jellicoe
75. Dundas & Trotter
76. Cort's navy office associates
77. Toulmin & other agents
78. Sandwich & Middleton
79. The Arethusa
80. John Becher's war
81. Thomas Morgan's war
82. The 1782 Jamaica convoy
83. Sinking of the Royal George

84. Rickman & Scott: two contrasting naval careers-Missing



85. Visitors 2006-2009
86. Developement of the site 2006-2009

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87. Daniel Guion and family
88. Extremely bad academic work and extremely bad journalism

Attwick and Burges Families

Attwick family origins

Ironmonger John Attwick arrives in Gosport from Portsmouth, early in the eighteenth century.

In 1722 he wins a contract to supply the Royal Naval Dockyard at Portsmouth. This contract will remain with the business under its various owners into the nineteenth century.

Items supplied include bolts, nails, staples, hooks. rings, hinges, locks and tools of many types. Mooring chains, anchors, even coal, also feature in the business.

Some of these items are made at a forge in Gosport, but most are bought elsewhere, notably the West Midlands.

Attwick family details

John is married twice, fathering twelve children in all.

Of these, four are named John, showing that three have died in infancy. The youngest John survives his father by less than a year.

Only two other sons survive their father.

Jeremiah, the elder, is cut out of John's will, which leaves the business to William when he reaches the age of 21 in 1751.

John's daughter Ann marries lawyer Thomas Haysham. They have six children, but only Ann the eldest and Elizabeth the youngest make it through to posterity.

Ann marries John Becher in 1761. Elizabeth becomes Henry Cort's second wife in 1768.

John's daughter Susanna marries ship's surgeon William Wood. They have one child. Her second marriage is to George Hamilton, her third to Henry March.

Burges family fortunes

John Attwick's daughter Joanna marries Thomas Burges (described later as a watchmaker in the will of John's widow Mary) in 1745. Three children are baptised in Gosport between 1751 and 1755.

The family have close links with the Ives and Missings of Titchfield. When daughter Joanna marries James Watson there in August 1777, Edward Ives and John Missing sign as witnesses. (It is probably a different, but closely related, John Missing who will join the service of the East India army, arriving in Bengal in September 1782.)

By 1797, when Thomas makes his will, he is in India. It is clear from this document, however, that he is well ensconced there by the time his daughter arrives with her husband James Watson in 1796. Among Burges associates are surgeon Michael Cheese and East India army officer Thomas Dowell, both of whom are witnesses to Edward Burges's will in 1800.

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Eric passed away abt 2012
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