Henry Richmond

1713 – 1805

✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-05

Henry Richmond is the oldest of this line the records can yet name — a Great Grimsby man, of the small silted haven that the town then was on the south shore of the Humber. On the 22nd of January 1740/1 he married Mary Loggon in the parish church of St James, and there the two of them raised a large family across seventeen years: Anne, Mary, John, William, a first Henry who lived barely three years, Edward, Frances, Elizabeth, and last the twins George and Margaret. It is through the fourth of them, William — baptised in the January of 1746/7 — that this line runs; and it was William who carried the family, and its trade, north to Thorne.

The Grimsby register of those years sets down no man's occupation, so Henry's own goes unrecorded there — but water runs unbroken through the generations that follow him, watermen and mariners of the Humber and its rivers. Grimsby in his day was no great port: its medieval haven had long since silted, and the docks that would one day make the town were half a century and more away; it kept itself modestly, by fishing and the coasting trade.

Of Henry's own beginnings nothing is yet certain. No Grimsby baptism survives for him, so he seems to have come into the town from elsewhere — very possibly from across the water, where the name was common on the Yorkshire shore. Mary died about 1757, after the twins were born; Henry married again, an Elizabeth, and had two more children, Robert and Catharine, at the close of the 1750s. A Henry Richmond — in all likelihood this one, the only grown man of the name in the town — was buried at Grimsby on the 19th of May 1805, the register reckoning him about ninety-two: a life, if the age holds, that reached from the first Hanoverian years almost to Trafalgar.

Composed from validated records · 2026-07-05

Family

Marriage

MLSpouseMary Loggon

Children

WRChild · the line continuesWilliam Richmanmain line1746–1819

Life

Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred

1740

Married

22 January 1740 at Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Henry Richmond & Mary Loggon — Jany 22.— Marriage — Great Grimsby, St James (22 January 1740/1)

The record image is with the family — family sign-in

Read at the image record Evidence

Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:

Marriage — Great Grimsby, St James (22 January 1740/1) — Henry Richmond & Mary Loggon, married at Great Grimsby (St James), 22 January 1740/1 — findmypast, Lincolnshire Marriages & Banns (Lincolnshire Archives), record GBPRS/LINCS/MAR/00194979, page 84; original register image GRIMSBY_ST_JAMES_PAR_1_3/0519, read at full resolution 5 July 2026. The entry stands immediately above the register's '1741' year-header (February weddings follow it), so the year is old-style 1740/1. There is no residence against either name and no note of a licence — the mark of an in-parish couple married by banns. read at the image

1805

Buried

19 May 1805 at Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Buried at Great Grimsby (St James), 19 May 1805; the burial register makes him about ninety-two.— From our research

Confirmed in index record Evidence

Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:

Burial — Great Grimsby, St James (19 May 1805) — Henry Richmond, buried at Great Grimsby (St James), 19 May 1805, the register giving an age of about ninety-two (so born c.1713) — findmypast, Lincolnshire Burials (Lincolnshire Archives), cross-listed in the National Burial Index for England & Wales. He is the only adult Henry Richmond buried at Grimsby, the son of that name having died an infant in 1752. The register image has not yet been read at full resolution: the exact age wants confirming from the leaf. index entry — original not yet seen

Our research

Where did Henry Richmond come from?

Open research · Great Grimsby, and one generation up

Henry is named from the front — by his marriage, his children and his burial — but not yet from behind. His own baptism is the new wall.

An incomer to Grimsby — and a candidate across the water

No Henry Richmond baptism is indexed at Grimsby (or anywhere in Lincolnshire) for c.1705–1722, so he came into the town from elsewhere — and the trail points across the Humber, to Beverley. There a John Richman was raising a family in just the right years: Henry (baptised 9 March 1715), then John (1718), William (1721), Mary (1723), Ann (1726) and Margaret (1729). The old naming custom fits it hand in glove — our Henry's children carry those very names (John, William, Mary, Anne, Margaret), and his first son, John (1745), takes the name a man traditionally gave for his own father's father. On this reading Henry's father is John Richman of Beverley.

It is a strong probability, not a proof: the Beverley–Grimsby crossing rests on the name, the age and the naming alone — no record yet carries the man over the estuary — and these are the commonest names of the century (a second Henry, son of a John, was baptised inland at Bolton Percy in 1710). To do: John Richman's marriage (c.1710–14, Beverley), for Henry's mother and John's own origin; and any Beverley or Hull waterman link that would carry the family to the Lincolnshire shore.

His end, and his second family

The 1805 burial makes Henry about ninety-two — a remarkable age that wants the register leaf read to confirm it. After Mary's death about 1757 he married an Elizabeth, by whom came Robert (1759) and Catharine (1760); that second marriage, and Elizabeth's own surname, are not yet found. And his wife's line waits too — see Mary Loggon's page: Loggon is an uncommon Lincolnshire name, and her parents are the parallel rung up.