My husband recalled being told tales of a highwayman in the family when he was a little boy but just assumed it was a made up bed time story. A little research however reveals that it was probably true!
Highwayman holds up a coach, by illustrator E. A. Holloway – Wikimedia Commons
In 1814 Thomas Lanyon, William Butler and John Rymell were convicted at Warwick Assizes of shooting at Mr J Stanley with intent to kill on the highway at Leek Wootton, just outside Warwick.
There is a short newspaper account in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette dated 25 April 1814.
The jury retired for a few minutes to consider their verdict, they found them guilty and asked for mercy but Lanyon and Rymell were hanged at Warwick for their crime.
Thomas Lanyon was buried on the 1st May at Banbury in Oxfordshire. He was just 27.
Having discovered Thomas I needed to work out where he fitted on the Lanyon tree. It didn’t take long to find his parents and siblings. He was the son of Thomas Lanyon and Priscilla Nicholls who were married at Banbury on 12 July 1785.
Their children were born shortly after:-
William Nicholls Lanyon 1786-
Thomas 1787-1814
Harriot 1788-
Charles 1790-
George 1792-
James 1796-
Sarah 1797
The parish record keeper has helpfully recorded the occupations of the men presenting their children for baptism so we know that Thomas was a hairdresser.
Banbury Parish Register – baptism of Harriot Lanyon
We don’t know if Thomas was a barber or a wigmaker, perhaps he was both.
In a crowded salon, a wigmaker fits wigs according to occupation; Coloured etching by J.E. Marcus after J. Smies, c. 1810.
Priscilla Lanyon was buried in February 1814 and her husband Thomas was buried on 11 Dec 1826 at Banbury.
There is a record of a Thomas and Mary Lanyon presenting a son John for baptism in 1803. This Thomas is also noted as being a hairdresser. It seems likely that this is the son Thomas who was executed, although he would be barely 16 years old.
Where did Thomas Lanyon senior come from? After quite a search there was just one Thomas who seemed to fit the bill. Thomas baptised 13 July 1760 at Madron, the son of Richard Lanyon and Margery Riccault.
Having worked out where they came from the family disappears and I cannot find where they went. Perhaps the stigma of an executed brother was too much for them to remain in Banbury? Perhaps they changed their names? Perhaps they emigrated?
On 3 Nov 1881 Temple Wilmot/Charles Howard was released from prison and then further jailed for a month for failure to report for police supervision.
On release he evidently went straight back to writing ‘letters’ and attempting to commit fraud. By 27 Mar 1882 he was on trial again for unlawfully attempting to obtain by false pretences, from the Duke of Montrose, the Duke of Sutherland, and others, certain moneys, with intent to cheat and defraud.
The Duke of Montrose testified “I received a letter which has since been destroyed; it was in the same handwriting as this one which I hold in my hand—I subsequently saw the prisoner, and he admitted to me that it was in his handwriting (This was a letter signed Hoovardo, dated London, January 19, 1882, referring to a previous letter asking for an advance of 100l., and stating that 50l. would be a material sum, but 100l. would help him to weather the storm till October)—in his former letter, which was destroyed, he stated that he was Count Monti, and had taken his second title of Hoovardo because he was in difficulties, that he was my father’s godson, and in consequence bore the name of Graham, and that he was in difficulties owing to his agent in Italy having disappeared with the rents…”
Charles may have been back in Jersey as the first letter was dated in Jersey. Henry Wright the Duke of Sutherland’s secretary testified that he had received letters “These were also signed “Hoovardo” dated 9th and 10th December, from St. Heliers, and stated that the writer was the son of the late Marquis de Monti, and was the godson of the Duke’s father, and bore the name of Gower, and requested the loan of a few pounds.”
Neither Duke sent any money and Charles Howard was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment without hard labour.
On the 8 May 1885 Charles’ daughter Rose Eleanor Vivian Stuart Howard got married. She has been working in Germany as a governess where she met Major Johann Georg Hermann Friedrich Quehl.
Rose & Johann
On her marriage certificate she used the surname Von Zobeltitz, the daughter of Stuart Vilmar Howard Von Zobeltitz and Ana Von Zobeltitz.
Baden & Hesse marriage register
Rose and Johann had a daughter, Anne Marie who died in 1943. During the war Rose returned to England and lived with her son. She lived to the age of 98 and died in 1961 in Germany. On her death certificate her maiden name is given as Wilmot.
Just 10 days after Rose’s wedding Charles Howard was on trial again!
Charles Howard 58 (born about 1827) a retired Captain ‘with property In Italy’ conned several people into sending him money by postal orders telling them they were potential heirs to a deceased American millionaire and were in line to inherit £3000.’ (I think Charles would have loved the internet!)
We don’t know where he went after his release from prison but by 1893 he was again on remand.
On 2 Feb 1893 Catherine Bennett Wilmot petitioned the divorce court to protect her earnings and property earned by working as a professional nurse. She didn’t use the surname Gould or Howard and no mention is made of her second marriage.
The affidavit states that she was married in 1862 a year earlier than they actually married.
Charles Howard was on remand for obtaining money under false pretences and perhaps she was worried that her assets were at risk if he was found guilty.
On 17 Jun 1893 Charles Mowbray Fitzallen Howard married Florence Ethel Fulton. Their marriage announcement describes his father as “The Late Captain Charles Temple Howard of the Royal Horse Artillery” but that’s not true, he’s still very much alive and in Holloway prison!
Charles ‘junior’ was working as a journalist and sang in the church choir. By 1939 Charles was working as an actor which seems fitting. He and Florence had four children: Florence, Glory, Catherine and John (Jack). John Mowbray Temple Howard was killed on HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Charles died in 1943.
Charles’ brother Thomas David Kenneth Howard married Mary Julia Dennis on 22nd Sep 1900 at Lexden in Essex. His father is recorded as Captain Temple Howard on the entry in the register.
Thomas was a furniture store manager. He and Mary had three daughters: Mary Catherine, Marjorie and Joan. Thomas died in 1944.
And what of Catherine? She died on 24 Jan 1935 at Great Yarmouth. She had been living with her son Thomas. Her probate lists her as Catherine Bennett Gould and she left an estate worth £1100 to her son Thomas.
What happened to Temple Wilmot/Charles Howard?
On 25 Nov 1893 Charles Howard died of pneumonia and bronchitis whilst on remand in Holloway Prison. His death certificate states he was age 78 therefore born in 1818.
His newspaper death notice states that he was aged 70 (born about 1823). it also states that he was the son of wealthy parents and had received an excellent education but had squandered his money.
So who was Temple Wilmot aka Charles Howard?
Clearly Temple was an educated man who had sufficient skills to pass as a member of the gentry or aristocracy. Perhaps he was from a wealthy family. He claimed to have been a Captain in the army and a diplomat in the War Office and this was accepted. He seems to have been popular with ladies too! It’s not clear if he was married to them but so far I have found at least five relationships: Catherine Somerville, Louisa Heminger, Marian Davenport, Catherine Boase Bennett Bosustow and Ana Von Zobeltitz.
We don’t have any photos of Temple but the photos of his two sons hint at his appearance. We do however have a physical description from the UK Register of Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes.
The two entries describe his place of birth as Virginia America! Born about 1818 & 1828.
It describes his occupation as a labourer and gives the following physical description: Fair complexion, grey hair, blue eyes, 5ft 5 1/2”, proportionate build with a long face. Right shin was fractured, scars on forehead, over right eye, right groin and left arm. Lost left thumb and left fingers crippled, birthmark on left arm. (That’s a pretty distinctive appearance!)
I don’t think he was American, I think he was good with accents and I think he liked pretending to be someone he wasn’t.
Catherine’s affidavit of 1893 gives us some clues to pursue.
Catherine stated “The said Temple Bouverie Cleveland Wilmot informed me he was connected with the English family of Eardley Wilmot but he never introduced me to any member of his family. I have made several enquiries with the view of finding out who were his relations but have not been able to ascertain. Previous to his trial similar enquiries were made by the police but they were unable to find out to whom he was related.”
The family of Eardley Wilmot proved to be a very interesting line of enquiry.
Eardley Nicholas Wilmot (1752-1834) was the son of Sir Robert Eardley Wilmot, 2nd Baronet of Osmaston Hall in Derby. Sir Robert Wilmot was married to Mariana Howard, the heiress of Charles Howard of Stafford (1742-1791). The chance of a family having the names Wilmot, Charles and Howard seems to be too much of a coincidence.
I suspect that by 1851 Temple had already tired of his real name, perhaps he already had a criminal record and a change of name was necessary to find work. Perhaps a newspaper article about the Wilmot family (who had a protracted legal case) inspired his choice of name or perhaps Temple looked through John Debrett’s ‘The Baronetage of England’ and spotted some names he liked. There is no record of a Temple Wilmot on the 1841 census. In fact in 1841 there are only 29 people called Temple in the whole of the country and some of them are women.
In August 1853 the ‘Journals of the House of Commons’ reported the following and that may have given Temple an idea for some new middle names! Voila, Temple Bouverie Cleveland Wilmot was ‘born’!
Journals of the House of Commons Vol 108 (1853)
In 1855 Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset died. No doubt this was listed in the journals of the day and that may have given Temple the inspiration for his ‘father’s name’ ‘Somerset St Maur Wilmot’!
Temple even featured in a book: ‘Mysteries of Police & Crime’ by Arthur Griffiths.
“BURTON, ALIAS THE COUNT VON HAVARD.
Compared with these top-sawyers and high-flyers in crime we have little to show on this side of the Atlantic; but I may mention one or two notorious swindlers of these latter days, remarkable in their way for the dexterity and the pertinacity with which they pursue their nefarious trade. Every now and again the police lay their hands on some fine gentleman who is well received in society, like Benson, bearing some borrowed aristocratic name, but who is really an ex-convict repeating the game that originally got him into trouble. There was the man Burton, as he was generally called, who rejoiced in many aliases, such as Temple, Bouverie, Wilmot, St. Maur, Erskine, and many more, and whose career was summarily ended in 1876, when, as Count von Havard, he was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for obtaining money by fraud. This man’s character may be gathered from the police description of him when he was once more at large. He was described as a native of Virginia, in the United States; was supposed to be a gentleman by birth and education, and spoke English with a slightly foreign accent. The police notice went on to say that he was “an accomplished swindler, an adept in every description of subterfuge and artifice; he tells lies with such a specious resemblance to truth that numerous persons have been deceived by him to their cost. He is highly educated, an excellent linguist, and also skilled in the dead languages, and his good address has obtained him an entrance into the very highest society abroad. By the adroit use of secret information of which he has become possessed he has extorted large sums as blackmail. One of his devices is to enter into a correspondence with relatives of deceased persons, leading them to suppose they are bénéficiaires under wills, and thus obtain money to carry on preliminary inquiries. He frequently makes his claim through a respectable solicitor, whom he first dupes with an account of his brilliant connections and prospects. He represents himself as the son of a foreign nobleman, De Somerset St. Maur Wilmot, and claims relationship with several distinguished persons.”
He was in reality a very old offender, who had done more than one sentence in this country, and had probably known the interior of many foreign prisons. His operations extended throughout Europe, and he had visited the principal health resorts and holiday places of the Continent, such as Biarritz, Homburg, Ostend; and this constant movement to and fro no doubt helped him to elude the police.”
In conclusion
Ultimately we’ll never really know who he was, we don’t know when or where he was born it could have been as early as 1818 making him 45 at the time of his marriage to 16 year old Catherine! We don’t know his real name and with so many aliases we often lose sight of him in the records. Perhaps even his own family never actually knew who he really was.
On 16 Sep 1862, at Chelsea in London, Temple Wilmot (junior) was born. He was the son of Temple Wilmot, Captain Horse Artillery and Marian Wilmot née Davenport. The couple were living at 1 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London. Temple has gone up in the world!
Birth registration of Temple Wilmot junior
I could not trace a marriage between Temple and Marian Davenport but they may have married using different names.
Sadly there is no further trace of Temple junior or his mother Marian. Did they die? Were they abandoned and changed their names?
By early 1863 Temple is in Jersey grooming Catherine Bosustow!
I searched the 1861 census for any sign of Temple and eventually found the following entry at Kingston Upon Thames.
He’s listed as Cleaveland Wilmot age 32 (born about 1829) living at The Grey Towers Kingston Upon Thames. Born St James Middlesex and employing two servants. His occupation was listed as Retired Captain from Horse Artillery and ‘foreign’(?) Diplomatic service and HM War Office. (It appears as though he has been promoted!!)
As we saw in ‘part 1’ he married Catherine in Jun 1863 at St Saviour’s church in Jersey and his daughter Rose was born six months later at Ennis, Clare in Ireland.
On 27 Feb 1864 Campbell Bouverie Cleveland Wilmot was indicted for fraud and sentenced to 12 months in prison. I don’t know what happened after he was released from prison but in 1870 when his son was born he was using the name Charles Howard.
Birth cert of Charles Mowbray Fitzallen Howard
Charles Mowbray Fitzallen Howard was born on 17 Oct 1870 at Corfe Castle, Dorset. This is the second time Temple has been associated with Dorset, his first son and daughter were also baptised at Dorchester in Dorset. The birth is registered by Catherine ‘Howard’ and father’s profession is listed as ‘gentleman’.
By the time of the 1871 census Charles Howard was not living with his family. Catherine, Rose and Charles Junior were living in Southampton. There is no trace of Temple/Charles on the 1871 census so he must be abroad, or using another alias or in prison under a different name.
At his 1876 trial a letter from his wife was mentioned, letter dated Southampton, 23 April, 1874, addressed to ‘Captain Howard, Passas, Bavaria,’ signed ‘your affectionate wife, C. H.‘ (Catherine must have just realised she was pregnant and was perhaps writing to inform him.) On 20 December 1874 Thomas David Kenneth Howard was born in Stoke Damerel, Plymouth. Temple/Charles was using the alias Temple Howard.
By this time Temple Wilmot aka Capt Charles Wilmot had deserted the family and was residing with another woman, as his wife, ‘in a very expensive style’ at the Hotel Rautenkranz Eisenach in Germany.
Hotel Rautenkranz by Uwe Aranas
Temple was now using the name Von Zobeltitz and his wife was Ana Von Zobeltitz! They arrived with 16 portmanteaus and rented 3 rooms. Temple then began to write letters to fraudulently obtain money.
Charles Howard alias FC Judford (47) was charged with unlawfully obtaining 380l. of Richard Harvey, by false pretences. Chief Inspector George Clarke found 82 names of people that he had corresponded with and stated “and there might be more.”
At the trial Richard Harvey described the letter he received “Strictly private and confidential. Mr. F. C. Judford presents his compliments to Mr. John Harvey. In 1870 a man of wealth died leaving a last will signed in compos mentis bequeathing property to the amount of forty thousand pounds to John Harvey, son of William James Harvey, of Carnousie, in the county of Banff, Esq., and of Mrs. Isabella Harvey, his wife.” The will had been deposited with some bankers and that 380l. would be required to release it. Mr Harvey duly sent the money! How many others fell for the con?
At the trial Matthew Wyatt Gunning gave evidence which filled in a few more gaps in the life of Temple Wilmot:
“I am a clerk in the Financial Department of the War Office, Pall Mall—the prisoner was a temporary clerk there, he came l think in 1855, and remained till 1858—I think his name is Talbot Bouverie Cleveland Wilmot—I heard that in 1858, before he left he met with an accident to his thumb, but I was in China at the time—I saw him in Ireland in 1864, but did notice his thumb—I know his writing, I had to examine all queries in his accounts; I believe these letters to be his writing; I have no doubt about it. The last time I saw him write was in 1856, I believe—I gave evidence on the trial in Ireland in 1864…”
The prisoner was further charged with having been previously convicted in February, 1864, in the name of Campbell Bouverie Cleveland Wilmot, of obtaining a book by false pretences, when he was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. To this he PLEADED GUILTY. Inspector Clarke stated that the prisoner “had been pursuing this course for the last ten years, and obtaining from various persons large sums of money.”
On 21 Oct 1876 Charles Howard alias F.C. Judford was sentenced to 5 years penal servitude and 5 years police supervision for fraud and obtaining property by false pretences.
On 31 Jan 1879 Catherine remarried in Brentford Middlesex to Sergeant Joseph Lionel Gould, it’s not clear if she was actually divorced at the time! The marriage certificate describes her as a widow!
Marriage certificate of Catherine and Joseph 1879
On 31 Jul 1882 their son, Francis Joseph Lionel Gould was born at Thanet in Kent.
Joseph Gould’s first wife was Ann Boice/Beice and they married in 1861. She died in 1868 in Wells Somerset. Joseph died in 1886 when his son was aged six.
In 1891 Catherine had reverted to her maiden name of Bosustow and appeared on the census living with her mother at Ramsgate in Kent with her three sons. Catherine was working as a nurse.
The last trace I have of Francis Gould is the 1901 census, he was living at a boarding house in Deptford and working as a draper’s assistant.
Whilst searching for a marriage between Temple Wilmot and Catherine Somerville I came across another possible wife!
On 8 Mar, 9 Mar 1857 and again on 5 June 1857 there are banns called for a marriage between Temple Bouverie Cleaveland Wilmot and Louisa Heminger née Hooper. It’s not clear if any marriage actually took place as they are crossed through and unsigned however the GRO does have the marriages listed as taking place!
I attempted to obtain the marriage certificates from the General Register Office and received this message back:
‘Thank you for your enquiry. We are sorry that you did not receive notification of the outcome of your order. We should have advised you that we were unable to produce a certificate because we have checked the entries at the references quoted and both entries have been cancelled. As a result it appears there is an error in the indexes.‘
So who was Temple pretending to be now and who was Louisa Heminger?
The crossed out marriage entries are for Temple Bouverie Cleaveland Wilmot Esq the son of Thomas Wilmot, gentleman, deceased.
Louisa Heminger was a widow living in St Giles, Camberwell, Surrey and the daughter of John Hooper, a minister of the Lutheran Church, also deceased.
I set out to find her first marriage without much success, I couldn’t find a marriage for Hooper/Heminger. I changed the parameters slightly and found a marriage on 23 Jun 1852 at St Pancras between a Henry Heming and a Louisa Hooper. Louisa was six months pregnant.
Marriage entry of Henry & Louisa
Louisa was aged 22 and the daughter of Stephen Hooper a stationer. Henry was a commercial traveller and the son of John Heming a silversmith.
Louisa’s family lived at 45 Fleet St, London and her father was a legal stationer, a specialised and lucrative trade producing parchment for lawyers. Stephen married Louisa Kingsford in 1827. (Hooper may have been an anglicised form of Huber.)
Louisa and Henry had a son Henry Hooper Heming born 23 Sep 1852.
I can’t find a death for Henry Heming but it must have been before 1857 when Louisa ‘almost’ married Temple. On the 1861 census for Tunbridge Wells Louisa was living with her mother and son and both women were listed as widows. They also have a Cecil Mortimer Esq age 48 living with them as well. I did wonder if this was another of Temple’s aliases but a little research revealed that he was legitimate.
Louisa Heming died on 1 Oct 1861 from Phthisis Pulmonalis (TB), she was just 33 years old.
Louisa’s mother raised her grandson. They are both listed together on the 1871 census. In 1872 Henry emigrated to America where he worked as a journalist.
So why did Temple try and fail three times to marry Louisa? Perhaps her family spotted exactly what kind of man he was and each time put a stop to it. Perhaps their connections with the legal trade enabled them to investigate and find out he wasn’t who he claimed to be.
Temple didn’t stay ‘single’ for long after his failed attempt at marriage with Louisa. By September 1862 he had fathered another child!
Every family has one or two black sheep and it’s every genealogist’s dream to come across a character like Temple Wilmot. Tracking down the story has taken many months of painstaking research but I think it has been worth it!
Jane Stacy Bennett’s cousin was Catherine Bridget Boase Bennett Bosustow and her story must have scandalised the whole family.
Catherine’s relationship to her cousin Jane.
Catherine originally caught my eye as she was married in St Saviour’s church in Jersey, just a few yards from my home, and curiosity piqued I decided to investigate a little further. Thank goodness I did as I uncovered a wonderful scandal!
St. Saviour’s Church – Historical and Topographical Description of the Channel Islands 1840 Robert Mudie
Catherine Bridget Boase Bennett Bosustow was born on 10 Oct 1846 in Redruth Cornwall to Richard Bosustow and Catherine Boase Bennett. Richard was a grocer and in 1845 he married Catherine Bennett the daughter of John Bennett a stationer in Redruth.
The Bennett, Bosustow and Lanyon families were all successful Redruth shopkeepers and pillars of the community and then in 1847 Richard Bosustow was imprisoned at Bodmin Gaol for debt. In 1851 the census showed him living with his wife and daughter and working as a ‘commission agent’. Ten years later he was lodging with another family and described as having ‘independent means’. In 1861 his wife and daughter were living in Guernsey with his sister Ann Bosustow.
In 1861 Catherine ‘senior’ had aged only 3 years since the 1851 census!
It’s not clear why they were in the Channel Islands; they may have been on an extended holiday or avoiding creditors.
They next appear in the records on 10 Jun 1863 when Catherine Bridget Boase Bennett Bosustow married Temple Bouverie Cleaveland Wilmot Esq at St Saviour’s Church in Jersey.
Catherine Bridget Boase Bennett Bosustow
Catherine was 16 and three months pregnant. Bother her parents attended the wedding and signed the register as witnesses.
I obtained a copy of their marriage entry from the register:
It shows that Temple was the son of Somerset St Maur Wilmot Esq of Beaulieu, Hampshire, he was a bachelor and aged 35.
None of this is true!
Temple and Catherine’s first child was born on 26 December 1863 at Ennis, Clare in Ireland. She was baptised for the first time as Rose Eleanor Vivian Stuart Wilmot on 12 Mar 1864 at the Church of Ireland at Drumcliff, Co. Clare. The baptism record shows that her father Temple Wilmot was in jail. She was baptised for a second time at Our Lady’s RC church St John’s Wood Middlesex England on 24 Feb 1865. Her godmother was her grandmother Catherine Bosustow and her christian names had been upgraded to Rosa Eleanora.
Temple and Catherine’s second child was born on 17 Oct 1870 at Corfe Castle in Dorset and his name was registered as Charles Mowbray Fitzallen Howard and Temple was now using the name Charles Howard.
It was time to start investigating Temple Wilmot/Charles Howard.
I started searching for Temple’s birth but there is no record of a Temple Bouverie Cleaveland Wilmot being born or baptised anywhere in the UK or indeed the world, nor is there any trace of a Somerset St Maur Wilmot. Evidently Temple was a little economical with the actualité!
I searched for various iterations of the name and found an 1851 census entry for a Temple Wilmot working as an assistant teacher at Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. The census states that he is aged 26 (born about 1825 in Derby).
1851 Census Market Rasen
It didn’t take long to find a Thomas Cleveland Brice Wilmot and his wife Catherine (not Catherine Bosustow who would only have been 10 in 1856) baptising two children at the Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester, Dorset on 19 Sep 1856.
Double baptism 1856 – Holy Trinity Church baptismal register.
Charles Cleveland (with a faint third name which looks like Summerfield) and his sister Catherine Elizabeth. Father was described as ‘Clerk in the War Department Horse Guards’ and their residence is London. I could not find any trace of a marriage between Thomas Wilmot and Catherine before 1856.
After a fruitless search for the birth of a Charles Wilmot I found a birth entry for Cleaveland Somerville Wilmot born 10 Mar 1855 Islington (mother’s maiden name Somerville.) Father: Cleaveland Thomas Wilmot and father’s profession was described as ‘formerly in the army.’
I couldn’t find a birth entry for Catherine Elizabeth but I did find a relevant entry for a Catherine Somerville born 27 May 1856 father’s name Thomas Bryce Cleaveland Wilmot a clerk in the war office.
I also found a death entry for the child Catherine Elizabeth Somerville Wilmot.
On 5 Nov 1856, at Woolwich Arsenal Greenwich London, Catherine died. Father is listed as Thomas Wilmot, clerk in the war office, and they were living at 33 New Road. Cause of death was Tabes Mesenterica, a form of TB which can occur if an infant is fed cow’s milk. The death was registered by a Jane Cockle who was present. Jane Cockle was a neighbour, she was married to Francis and can be found on the census from 1841 – 1871.
The girl was buried at Greenwich on 10 November and her father was listed in the burial register as Edm. Wilmot!
No further trace of Catherine Wilmot senior.
Further research for what happened to Cleaveland Somerville Wilmot produced a Cleaveland Wilmot on the 1881 census for Newington. He was an engineer (metal) worker and lodging with James Stanford. He apparently married Elizabeth Martin and was the father of Mongo Park Wilmot born 1889 at Victoria BC Canada. Mongo married in 1910 to Emily Maud Sercombe in Exeter, Devon. He was dangerously ill with Spanish Flu in Nov 1918 but survived and lived until 1955.
Army Record of Mongo Wilmot
In 1910 his marriage certificate declares that his father Cleaveland Wilmot was a coachman, deceased but I can find no trace of his death.
It’s not clear if Temple continued his contact with his son Cleaveland/Charles Wilmot or if he was raised by his mother or another relative. I can find no trace of him on the census for 1861 or 1871. I can only assume that he was listed under another surname.
The Lanyons 