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Second son and heir of George Dewar (q.v.), whom he succeeded in 1786, and father of David Albemarle Bertie Dewar (q.v.). He married his step-cousin Penelope Susannah, the daughter of General Edward Mathew, Governor of Grenada, and of Lady Jane Mathew (nee Bertie), the sister of his step-mother Lady Caroline Dewar (nee Bertie): the two sisters were the daughters of the second Duke of Ancaster. Penelope Sarah was a sister of Anne Mathew, who was the first wife of the Rev. James Austen, brother of the novelist Jane Austen.
Ancestry.com, David Dewar in the Burke's Family Records (Indexed) [database online]. Fully sourced genealogical account of the Austen family at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=janeausten&id=I146 [accessed 21/11/2016].
We are grateful to Ronald Dunning for his assistance with compiling this entry.
Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Penelope Susannah Mathew
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Children
David Albemarle Bertie Dewar
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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- 1794 [LA] → Owner
Inferred to be among David Dewar's estates |
Physical (1) |
Country house
Enham Place or House [Built]
description → Replacement or rebuilding of an existing house by David Dewar between 1786 and 1792 on the Hampshire estate purchased by his father George Dewar. ...
notes → Destroyed by fire c. 1883 and replaced with the extant Victorian house known as Enham Place or Enham House....
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Father → Son
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Son → Father
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Second son but heir under his father's will proved in...
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Brother-in-laws
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The two men married sisters, the daughters of Edward Mathew (q.v.) and Lady Jane...
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Brothers
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
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Enham House, Kings Enham, Andover, Hampshire, Wessex, England
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