James and William Andrews, and Joseph Andrews II

James Andrews (b. 1746) operated a mill in Isleworth, just outside of London, for most of the last quarter of the 18th century. His wife, Mary (c. 1748-91). operated a school there as well. They were the parents of Maria Grace Andrews Saffery (1772-1858) and Anne Andrews Whitaker (1775-1865), the former marrying a Baptist minister and the latter a Baptist layman in Salisbury in the late 1790s. By the early years of the nineteenth century James Andrews had relinquished the mill in Isleworth (or lost it, which may be the more likely scenario, since later references to his finances are not positive) and retired to the West Country to be near his two daughters, upon whom he became on better terms than in the late 1790s, when he resisted their decision to leave the Anglican church for the Particular Baptist denomination. It does not appear that he ever became a Baptist, like his daughters.

William Andrews, (b. 1743) and his wife, the former Leah Shuff, lived at Shaw, near Newbury; they had at least two children, William and Harriet, who were cousins of Maria Grace Andrews and Anne Andrews (later Saffery and Whitaker, respectively).  The Andrews sisters’ father was James Andrews of Shaw, the original home of the Andrews family, including that of Sir Joseph Andrews of nearby Shaw House (see entry above).

Joseph Andrews II (1727-1800) was a wealthy though distant relation of the James Andrews above. Upon his death in December 1800, his estate and title were inherited by his nephew, Joseph, the son of his half brother, James Pettit Andrews and Ann Penrose, the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Penrose, rector of St Nicolas’ Church, Newbury. Sir Joseph and his wife were interred at Hampstead. His heir was Sir Joseph Andrews III (1768-1822). He and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Hunt (1771-1822), were known to Maria Grace Andrews Saffery and Anne Andrews Whitaker (see the entry on Saffery on this site). The exact relationship of the family of Sir Joseph Andrews and that of James Andrews, the father of Maria Grace and Anne, is not known.  For the complete poetry and correspondence of Maria Grace Saffery, including some 300 letters between her and her sister Anne, see Timothy Whelan, gen, ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vols. 5-7 (Saffery's early Minerva Press novel, The Noble Enthusiast [1792], can be found in vol. 7).