It seems our captain's names are Wilton Morton Jousiffe who married Anne Bartlett Honibourne at St Martin-In-The-Fields, London, Westminster, England, on 29 June 1850. The marriage certificate identifies his father as Francis Jousiffe. The record also identifies Wilton as a Captain in the Spanish Army. Anne is given as a spinster while Wilton is recorded as having been married previously – first wife diseased. There is no record of their ages at the time of the marriage.
An 1861 census has his wife Anne B Jousiffe living as a lodger at 20 York Street, Marylebone, as a lodger. She was married and of independent means; but where was Wilton as he is not recorded as living at the same address? A further complication is that her age is recorded as 51 years. This places her date of birth as 1810, but the only Anne B Honibourne we can trace is one born in 1803, the daughter of Henry and Sarah Honibourne, also of Dorset. This is the same place she gives in the census record as her place of birth. It is possible that the "7" was incorrectly shown as a "1", which would then make her 57 years of age and would correspond with the birth records. Alternatively, this is a different Anne Honibourne.
Interestingly, a record in French has surfaced (yet to be accurately translated) that indicates that our Anne may have been resident somewhere on the European continent in 1860, where the death certificate in French suggest that she died abroad around this time, ten years after her marriage to Milton. She would have been around 60 years of age.
Working on this presumption, Anne would have been 43 years of age when she married Captain Jousiffe, and it is unlikely that there would have been any issue from this marriage.
Meanwhile, our captain surfaces two years later in 1863, in an article describing a fraud he stands accused of, but is acquitted. In the article we learn that:
1. Mr Jousiffe “been described as a gentleman” lived in Hampstead. It appears Capt Jousiffe who has no occupation but wishes to increase the furniture in his house before the great exhibition in order to entertain foreign friends.
2. The court is also told that Mr Jousiffe is actually an author by trade as he is "engaged in literary pursuits" and is currently translating and writing a series of guidebooks in four different languages.
This brings us to Capt. Jousiffe, the author. His first book “2000 Miles in Spain” is published in 1836 and his last in 1840 “Roadbook for All Countries” At this time he is also reported as starting a club in Naples: 1843,30 Sept - Weekly Freemans Journal Dublin: “To the whig conservatives: Protestants and catholics….to Dr Southey in Radcliff Church, Bristol which the male was a native, sept 9th Capt Josiff has established a club in Naples”
The most compelling thing that ties the two persons together and suggests strongly that they may be the same persons, is the marriage certificate that gives his occupation as "Captain", the same title that is used as the author of various guidebooks written and translated by Wilton Morton Jousiffe (see court record above).
We have yet to establish exactly who the Francis Jousiffe is who is recorded on his marriage certificate as his father. Assuming Wilton is a similar age to Anne, his date of birth may have been around the late 1700s or early 1800s. The closest fit for him of the confirmed Francis Jousiffes in our family tree would be Francis George Augustus Jousiffe who was born to Francis and Harriot Jousiffe in 1872. This would have made him around 28 years of age at the time Wilton was born. However, we have yet to find a birth certificate for Wilton. Could this have been a birth out of wedlock, to Francis and someone with the surname "Milton"?
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