VI. Fiennes Samuel Trotman, born 24 Oct., 1796; died 31 Jan., 1863, at Brighton; buried at Dallington, Northants; B.A., Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; vicar of Dallington: rector of Stoke Goldington and Gayhurst, Bucks; he married, first, in 1826, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Earle, rector of Swerford, Oxfordshire; she died at Dallington in 1841. He married, secondly, Caroline, daughter of George Short, Esq., of Bickham, Devon, who died at Marshfield, Gloucestershire 23 April, 1891, aged 90. By his first wife he had issue:

(1) Mary Ann, born Feb. 2, 1826, married to Rev. Assheton Lloyd.

(2) Emma Lucy, born March 13, 1829; married to
H. E. Sullivan, Madras Civil Service.

(3) Edward Fiennes Trotman, of whom below.
(4) Henry Peers Trotman, died as a scholar at
Winchester College.

(5) *Margaret, married to Rev. Edward Elton, M.A.,
Balliol College, Oxford; vicar of Wheatly,
Oxfordshire, 1849-84; rector of Sherrington, 1884.
(6) Walter Samuel Trotman, B.A., born June 1832:
Exeter College, Oxford; in holy orders; chaplain
in India.

(7) William Charles Trotman, Fellow of New College, Oxford; solicitor, Calcutta; died 1879.

(8) Arthur Lawrence Trotman, M.A., St. Mary's Hall, Oxford; in holy orders.

(9) Ellen, married to Arthur Wickham.

(10) Charles Hare Trotman, in the Indian Army.

(11) Mary Georgina, married to Edward Valentine Buckle, M.A., Lincoln College, Oxford; vicar of Banstead, 1865.

VII. Edward Fiennes Trotman, Fellow of New College, Oxford; B.C.L., 1853; vicar of South Burcombe, Wilts, 1858-69; rector of Langton Matravers, Dorset, 1869-76; vicar of Wimborne, Dorset, 1876-81, and rector of Marshfield, Gloucestershire, 1881; born 24 April, 1828; honorary canon, Bristol Cathedral, 1889 ;* married Anne Symes, daughter of Peter Cox, Esq., Beaminster, Dorset, and has issue:

VIII. (1) Margaret Annie.

(2) Fiennes Trotman, of Beaminster, solicitor, adm. 1886. We give a portrait of Canon Trotman, the present representative of this line of Trotman. It is taken from a photograph by Mr. Bravender, of Bath,

(3) Edward Peter Trotman,
(4) Charles Newsham Trotman.
(5) William Wykeham Trotman.
(6) Henry Leigh Trotman.

(7) Francis Earle Trotman.

(8) Angela Mary. (9) Evelyn. (10) Sybil. (11) Dorothy.

TROTMANS OF "TROTMAN ANCHOR."

Mr. John Trotman, who has rendered the name so wellknown in naval circles by his invention of the Trotman anchor, descends from the Cam Trotmans; but the precise line has not yet been ascertained though it is probable that his ancestor Daniel Trotman, was of the Nash Court branch, whose pedigree was entered at the Heralds' Visitation in 1682.

The Trotman pedigree, owing to numerous off-shoots, and the repetition of similar Christian names, is a most involved one, and so far we have been unable to prove Mr. Trotman's ancestry beyond his great grandfather.

I. Daniel Trotman, of Cam, may almost certainly be identified with the Daniel Trotman* who died in 1773, aged 49, and was buried in Cam churchyard, where his m.i. still remains. If so, his wife Ann survived him, and d. 27 Feb., 1794, aged 70. The following m.i. upon a headstone in Cam churchyard relates to his family;-" In memory of five sons of DANIEL ANN TROTMAN, viz.: | DANIEL and infancy; CHARLES died Feb. 20th, RICHARD died Sep. 3rd, | 1781, aged July 20th, | 1794, aged 25 years. " Besides these, we presume

and

ROBERT | died in their 1778, aged 18 years; | 28 years; | SAMUEL died

* We venture to surmise that this Daniel Trotman was a son of Richard Trotman, of Stinchcombe, yeoman, who was apprenticed at Bristol in 1703, and died 1736. It so, this Richard was a brother of Daniel Trotman, who died 1748. They were sons of Daniel Trotman, of Cam, yeoman, 1634-1693, who married Jane Nelme, d. 1721-2. He, son of Robert Trotman, of Cam, yeoman, 1597-1664, who married, 1626, Hester Watkins. He, youngest child of Richard Trotman, of Cam, clothier, whose will was proved in 1630. Perhaps the Richard Trotman who married Anne Hale, and was fourth son of John Trotman, of Nasse Court, who died in 1577, the elder brother of Richard Trotman, who married Katherine Tyndall, whose grandson was Samuel Trotman, of Bucknell, the founder of the Syston line of Trotman. This John was son of Thomas Trotman, of Cam, clothier, who died 1558, having married Agnes Harding, of Cam.

But it must be remembered that this suggested descent, though possible, and even probable, requires verification before it can be accepted throughout.

that Robert Trotman who died 1798, aged 40, was yet another son, and that their eldest son was the John Trotman next named.

II. John Trotman, of Cam, who died 8 July, 1808, aged 60, m.i. He married Ann, at Cript Church, Gloucester, 17 April, 1781. She died 26 June, 1783, aged 33, leaving an only child :

III. John Trotman, of Dursley, linen-draper, who was born at Cam, 2 Feb., 1782, died 30 Sept., 1825, aged 43, and was buried at Cam, m.i. He married at Axbridge, 4 April, 1805, Arabella, daughter of John and Arabella Honiball, of Wiveliscombe, Somerset; she was baptized at Stogursey, 1 Sept., 1785; died 4 Dec., 1867, aged 82. They had issue, thirteen children : (1) Mary Ann, died 9 Dec., 1817, aged 11.

(2) Daniel Trotman, died 8 Oct., 1825, aged 17.

(3) Emma, married in 1839, to John Osborn, of New York, and has issue.

(4) Eliza, died 12 March, 1852, aged 20.

(5) John Trotman, of whom next.

(6) Jane, married to John White Creed, of Kingscote ; died in 1852, aged 35, leaving a daughter, Edith Susan Creed.

(7) Marion, died unmarried in 1869, aged 50.

(8) Caroline, late of Dursley, now, 1892, living at Clevedon.

(9) Frederic Trotman, died 2 March, 1822, aged 14

months.

(10) Frances, died 9 July, 1841, aged 16.

(11) Alphonso James Trotman, died 9 Jan., 1844, aged 20. (12) Arabella Honiball, died 7 Sept., 1836, aged 21.

"of

(13) Rossa Honiball, died 24 June, 1826, aged 14 weeks. IV. John Trotman, of 31, Acacia Road, St. John's Wood, London, born at Dursley, 8 Aug., 1808. Mr. Trotman is the inventor of the well-known "Trotman Anchor," which he patented on 20 April, 1852, No. 14076; he then described himself as Dursley, Gloucestershire," though he was not actually resident there at the time. The improvements in anchors, which he thereby effected, are stated to be "chiefly applicable to that class of anchors known as Portman's anchors." Mr. Trotman's anchors have been largely adopted in foreign navies, and in the English mercantile service, and at one time much controversy

took place as to their use in the Royal Navy, and a notice of him appeared in "Men of the Time." Mr. Trotman married, in 1850, Susannah, daughter of William and Susannah Collins She died March, 1878, aged 55, and had issue:

V. (1) Florence, died August, 1865, aged 4.

(2) John Throgmorton Trotman.

(3) May.

The portrait of Mr. Trotman which we give is reproduced from a painting by Mr. John Pettie, R.A.

THE ARMS OF TROTMAN.

A grant of a coat of arms was made by Sir William Segar, Garter King of Arms, 27 November, 14 James I., 1616, to Edward Trotman, of Cam, in the County of Gloucester, the sonne of Richard Trotman of the same place. The arms are thus emblazoned in the grant :-" Argent a crosse gueles, between foure Roses of the same, the barbes vert, and further for an ornament vnto his sayd coate of armes, a convenient creast or cognisance, fit to be borne, which is also on a healme forth of a wreath of his cullers, a garbe bound vp wth a band argent and azure between two ostridge feathers."

Richard Trotman above mentioned, married Katherine Tyndale, and in consequence the Trotmans have quartered the Tyndale arms as appears in the book-plate of Samuel Trotman, of Syston, dated 1702.

This grant was printed in full in "Gloucestershire Notes and Queries," II. 211.

NOTE: p. 297, the arms impaled by Trotman on the hatchment at Syston are those of the family of Haynes, of Wick Court, and shonld be thus blazoned: -Argent on a fess gules, between three demi-greyhounds courant azure, as many bezants.