Notes

[NI0239] There is no reference to Robert Southey as a son of the poet, Robert Southey in Vol II of New Letter of Robert Southey in either 1816, 1817 or 1818. Non of the letters of those years mentions having a son by the name of Robert Southey. Note: Henry Herbert Southey had a son Robert Southey, born 1816-1817


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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 15:12:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Elizabeth Engle
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Subject: SOUTHEY, etc.

Published in "A Short History of the English Branch of the Agassiz
Family," is the following paragraph on page 24:

(quote):
There was a Miss Nunn who married the Revd. Robert Southey, Rector of
Ardleigh, son of Southey the poet. Another Miss Nunn married Mr. Acton
Chaplin, and her daughter Caroline Elizabeth Chaplin married Colonel
William Havelock, of the 14th Dragoons, and was mother of Sir Arthur
Elibank Havelock, K.C.M.G. Both these ladies (the Misses Nunn) were
sisters-in-law to Mr. Lewis Agassiz, of Stour Lodge, Bradfield (Essex).
(unquote)

NUNN is a very old family name in Essex and Suffolk, too, I believe, and
investigation along this line may lead you to the family of Southey the
poet. (The NUNNs and the AGASSIZ are both my families.)

I hope this helps.
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