Christian Wilhelm
Wilmerding
* 22.01.1762 Braunschweig
+ 19.07.1832 Moscow (NY)
 		Catherine
von Falkenhahn
* ?
+ 31.12.1839 Moscow (NY)

Elizabeth
Wilmerding

* 10.08.1786 New York City
+ 11.06.1858

Kinder mit: John Maunsell Bradhurst (* 14.08.1782) [WEITER BEI BRADHURST] (oo 26.04.1806 Pinehurst):

Samuel
Bradhurst
* 16.04.1807
+ 29.04.1814
Samuel Stilwell
Bradhurst
* 19.09.1810
+ 14.07.1866
William Wilmerding
Bradhurst
* 13.10.1814
+ 23.11.1855
Henry Maunsell
Bradhurst
* 13.05.1822
+ 26.10.1894, The Moat, Pebmarsh, Essex, England
Mary Elizabeth
Bradhurst
* 19.07.1824
+ 18.02.1897
?

Quellen:
- Ihre Seite bei Pumyea/Venedam.
- A. Munsell Bradhurst: "My forefathers, their history from records & traditions": "A week later the Bishop again officiated at another family wedding of no less interest. On 26th April, 1806, Samuel Bradhurst's son, John Maunsell Bradhurst, married Miss Elizabeth Wilmerding, the eldest of the five clever and accomplished daughters of Mr. Christian William Wilmerding, who had come to America some years previously from Brunswick, where his ancestors had ranked for several generations amongst the most influential families in that Grand-Duchy. His wife was of the noble House von Falkenhan ; and it was through his mother, nee Christine Toder Horst, that he was related to that Mr. George Ferdinand Toderhorst, whose papers were rescued from the fire at the premises of Messrs. Bradhurst and Field.
The marriage of the young heir to the estate was celebrated at Pinehurst (or Maunsell Place) amid great rejoicings. Mrs. Maunsell was still living, and helped her niece and Samuel Bradhurst to receive with old-time hospitality the various relations who came from all sides — the Wilmerdings, the Schieffelins, the Stillwells, the Smiths, the Clarkes and the Clarksj" the Moores, the Watkinses, the Beekmans, ...
and the Dunkins — who all came rumbling along the country roads in their old-fashioned coaches from the country round about, and from the city itself, to make merry in the old colonial house, whither streets and avenues had not yet penetrated. There the portrait of General John Maunsell still hung, looking down on many a face once familiar to him, who, with others — listening to the memories which that portrait recalled — were all assembled to do honour to the marriage festivities of his name-sake. "
...
John Maunsell Bradhurst and Elizabeth Wilmerding, his wife — who survived him — had the following children :
Samuel, born 1807, died 29th April, 1814.'
Samuel Stillwell, born 19th September, 1810.
William Wilmerding, born 13th October, 1814, died 23rd November, 1855. He was a confirmed invalid at the time of his father's death, whom he only survived about one month.
Henry Maunsell, of Pinehurst, born 13th May, 1822.
Mary Elizabeth, born 1824 ; married Hickson W. Field, Esq., Junior, of Palazzo delle Sette Sale, Rome, and died 18th February, 1897. (Her daughter became the Princess Brancaccio.)
...
The mention of Paramus in connection with Baron von Schilling recalls the fact that Samuel Bradhurst was living there only six years previously, and that his son, John Maunsell, who was baptised in the old Dutch Church at Paramus, eventually married Elizabeth Wilmerding, the niece of Baroness von Schilling, It was to Paramus, too, that Samuel Bradhurst had been sent as a prisoner, during the Revolution, to the house of Colonel Prevost, and it was there that he married Mrs. Prevost's cousin. It is one of those odd coincidences to be met with in family histories that we should thus again be brought in touch with this little New Jersey village, whose chief points of interest now are its church, dating from 1725, and the residence, called " The Hermitage," where formerly Mrs. Prevost lived. Both she and Samuel Bradhurst were probably well acquainted with their neighbour. Baron Rothenburg, if not also with Baron von Schilling, and the von Falkenhahns, and Wilmerdings.
...
HENRY MAUNSELL BRADHURST, OF PINEHURST
RECOLLECTIONS OF PINEHURST
HENRY MAUNSELL BRADHURST,ofPinehurst, the youngest son of John Maunsell Bradhurst by Elizabeth Wilmerding, was born in New York 13th May, 1822, and succeeded to that estate in 1858, on the death of his mother, who, in accordance with her husband's Will, held it for life. Of Mr. Bradhurst's two brothers, Samuel, the elder, had been otherwise provided for ; and William, the second^a confirmed invalid — predeceased his mother unmarried; indeed, he only survived his father (who died in 1855) a few weeks. Thus it was that Henry, the youngest son, became possessed of the family home ; he also inherited a share of his father's other properties, of which considerable portions had been settled on his brothers, Samuel and William, and on his sister, Mrs. Field, and their heirs. During his parents' life-time, Henry Bradhurst acted as their agent in the manage- ment of the estates, and under his care the gardens of Pinehurst lost nothing of their fame, for there — within twelve miles of the heart of the city — bloomed in luxuriance the rarest and choicest of shrubs and flowers, many of which had been sent home by William Bradhurst from various countries during his years of travel. Among the neigh- bours at Pinehurst were two most interesting although widely different persons, into whose society Henry Bradhurst was frequently thrown in his youth, and of whom he retained many recollections. These persons were Audubon — the great painter of the birds and animals of North America — and that celebrity, Madame Jumel. How Henry Bradhurst narrowly escaped with his life from the former has already been told,' and as to the latter, the details of her strange career belong to the history
when the fallen Emperor had contemplated flight on that faithful banker's frigate. It was on the occasion of such visits that Henry Bradhurst would be shown into a darkened room, from the ceiling of which strange waxen figures were suspended by wires ; and if, unwarily, his head came in contact with them, his weird hostess would exclaim in an awed tone :
" Don't disturb the spirits ! Be careful, Henry, or you will displease them! "
Henry Maunsell Bradhurst spent much of his boyhood and early youth at the home of his mother's sister, Mrs. Felix Tracy, and was thus constantly in the companionship of his Tracy cousins, consisting of three brothers and one sister, Elizabeth. She married Mr. Russell George Noyes, by whom she had two little girls. After her marriage and departure from home, the letters which Henry Bradhurst wrote to her father continually asked for news of her ; even the business letters, which he wTote for his own father to her's, almost invariably contained a postscript from himself — pathetic in the light of after years — with some message or allusion to her. Mr. Noyes died in California, and finally Henry Bradhurst married his widowed cousin, 30th September, 1857. She was his mother's namesake as well as her niece, being the only daughter of Felix Tracy by Henrietta Wilmer- ding, a sister of Mrs. John Maunsell Bradhurst, and second daughter of Christian William Wilmerding. "


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