| Description | William Sacheverell Coke was the second son of D'Ewes Coke (1774-1856) and Harriet Wright. He went into the army, serving as lieutenant in the 39th Regiment. As senior officer of the guard on the confict ship Regalia, he accompanied 129 male convicts from Dublin to the colony of New South Wales in 1826.
In 1837 he married Sarah Kift Deane (1821-1870) in Cape Town [South Africa] with whom he had eleven children: Mary (1838-1850), Alice (1839-1929), Lucy Harriet (1841-1903), William Langton (1843-1913), Alfred Sacheverell (1846-1924), Emily Maud (1848-1907), Clementine Rosalie (1851-1946), Hester Marion (1852-1906), Henrietta Margaret (1853-1900), Frances Geraldine (1860-1957), and Herbert de Odingsells (1863-1890).
In 1870 he married Susan Annie Miller and had three further chidlren: D'Ewes Leventhorpe (1874-), Algernon John Parker (1876-) and Ethel Marie Sacheverell (?)
On the death of his older brother in 1873, who died unmarried, he inherited Brookhill. |