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Catesby family

We do not know when Mark Catesby established his home

in the parish of St Giles'-without-Cripplegate in the City of
London, yet on 15 April 1731 his first-born son, Mark, was
christened in the church. John, the second son, was born

eleven months later on 6 March 1731/32, while Caroline

was baptized on 27 May 1733. In the parish register, they
were recorded as the children of "Mark Catesby
Gentleman & Eliz[abeth]", an interesting designation

because Mark Catesby and Elizabeth Rowland were not
married – they got married in 1747. Mark was always

described in the register as a "gentleman", one of about 20
fathers of that rank whose children were baptized in St

Giles' during the same 12-month period in 1730–1731:
almost one thousand infants received that rite in the same

period. We also know that John and Caroline died a few
St Giles' Cripplegate parish 1730–1731:
months after their births and were buried in St Giles' occupations of fathers of infants baptized during the same twelve-month period

churchyard. as Mark Catesby's and Elizabeth Rowalnd's first child.
Elizabeth and Mark's second daughter, Anne, was [no. of different occupations 165; total no. infants baptized 987]

baptized on 27 December 1737 in St Luke's, Old Street,
after St Giles' parish had been divided into two. Meanwhile,
Baptismal entries in the registers of St Giles' parish for
young Mark must have died although no record of his Mark (1731), John (1731/32) and Caroline (1733), children of Mark Catesby and Elizabeth Rowland.
burial has been found. The parish register of St Luke's

shows that on 6 July 1740, the couple's fifth baby, who had
been born on 26 June, was also christened Mark (re-using a
Christian name within the same generation was often done

when an older sibling had passed away).