William Steele Family of Broughton and Andover

I. William Steele III (1689-1769) married Anne Froude (1684-1720) in late 1713 or early 1714. She was the daughter of Edward Froude (1645-1714) and his wife, Elizabeth Blackbarrow.  Her sister Elizabeth married Richard Tezard, and their daughter, Elizabeth (d. 1740) married John James Manfield (d. 1762). 

1. William Steele IV (1715-85) and Mary Bullock of Yeovil (1713-62) m. 1749. Her brother, George Bullock, died at Yeovil on 4 March 1775, aged 73.

a. Mary Steele (24 July 1753-14 November 1813); she married the Rev. Thomas Dunscombe (1749-1811) on 1 January 1797; no issue.

William Steele IV and Martha Goddard of Pershore (1734-91), m. early 1768.   He rented the Pigeon House upon his marriage in 1749, then purchased it in 1758 and renamed it Broughton House, remodeling it somewhat into a Georgian mansion (Broome, p. 234). At his death, most of the lands went to Mary Steele, including Broughton House; Mrs. Steele got Grandfathers, which had been bequeathed to Anne Steele at her father’s death, then went to the Wakeford family at her death in 1778, but William IV bought it from them. At Mary’s death in 1813, Broughton House, Grandfathers, as well as another Georgia residence in Broughton adjacent to the parish churchyard, and most of the lands elsewhere went to Anne Steele Tomkins, with some going to William Steele Wakeford, Mary Wakeford’s son. In 1837, the Steele acreage just in and around Broughton Parish was 837 acres (Broome, pp. 234-35, 238-39). 

a. Anne (24 February 1769-1859) married Joseph Tomkins (1763-1847) of Abingdon on 13 December 1791. [He attended J. C. Ryland’s academy in 1772, at the age of 9.]

i. Mary (20 September 1793-1861) married Charles C. Bompas (1791-1844) in 1822 and they had ten children.

Selina Anne Bompas (1830-1921), was the 6th of the ten children.  Her sister-in-law, Charlotte Selina Bompas (1830-1917) would become a writer, publishing stories about her life as the wife of an Anglican missionary and bishop in the Yukon, Canada.  Selina Anne's cousin, also named Selina Carpenter Bompas (1833-1915), died in South Africa.

ii. Joseph (died as an infant)

iii. Emma (1796-1857)

iv. Samuel (died as infant)

v. Anne (1802-1842)

vi. Jane (1805-93)

vii. William (1808-55)

viii. Martha (1813-15)

b. Martha (26 August 1770-1834) never married, living at Broughton House and then, after 1791, with her sister Anne.

c. William died in infancy, 1772.

2. Anne Steele (1717-1778)

3. Thomas Steele (died in infancy, 1720)