Anna Sophia Savage Munkhouse

Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on Strawberry Hill in Port Royal, an estate which had belonged to her uncle Arthur Savage Senior. Daughter of Rev. Richard Munkhouse and Faith (Fidelia) Savage. The remainder of the compensation went to her sister Lucy Savage Sturgis Munkhouse (q.v.) and brothers-in-law, and to her two illegitimate cousins, Arthur Savage and Richard Savage (both of whom q.v.).

1. Arthur Savage of Arthur Savage & Co. Kingston Jamaica, a merchant and coffee planter of Strawberry Hill died c. 1815 and after specific bequests to among others his nieces left his residual estate to his sister Faith (later Fidelia, who married the Rev. Richard Munkhouse), and to two natural sons, Arthur and Richard by Jane Bowie: his will also provided for them to be educated in England.  The first Arthur Savage was the son of an American loyalist, in turn also Arthur, who was originally a merchant 'in the West India way' in Boston. The London merchant firm of Bird, Savage & Bird was clearly connected to the family given the evidence of naming practices including 'Bird' among the children of Faith/Fidelia Munkhouse.   

2. B. [born or baptised] 05/07/1802 according to Lawrence Park; the baptism record shows her baptised 18/09/1802 at St John the Baptist Wakefield and born 5th July [i.e. 1802].

T71/864 Port Royal no. 9.

1. Lawrence Park, Thomas Savage of Boson and his descendants (Boston, David Clapp & Son, 1914) pp. 28-30.

2. Ibid., p. 29, 'no futher record'; Ancestry.com, West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 [database online].