WILLIAM STEPHEN JACOB

Born 19th November 1813 - Died 16th August 1862

Elizabeth, the wife of William Stephen Jacob,
a portrait of William Stephen not yet having been located.

A son of Reverend Stephen Long Jacob, he was born on 19th November 1813, baptized on 26th December of that year and died on 16th August
1862. On 17th September 1844 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Mathew Coates. She was born on 31st December 1819 and died on 8th September 1898. They had children:

1 Anna, born 29th July 1847. On 3rd September 1882 she married A E Pridham, a solicitor.
2 Philip, Indian Civil Service, born 27th January 1849, dsp 1874.
3 Stephen, Indian Civil Service, born 31st October 1850, died in December 1898.
4 Francis MICE, born 26th April 1853.
5 William Henry, born 21st October 1854, dsp 13th April 1875.
6 George, Indian Civil Service, born 15th October 1857.
7 Charles, born 17th October 1859, died in 1876.
8 Mary, born 14th October 1854. In November 1889 she married the Reverend Arthur Elwin of Dover, Kent.

He was educated at Addiscombe and Chatham, and followed a carreer in the Indian Army. He was lieutenant in the Bombay Engineers 1833-1848 and established a private observatory at Poona in 1842, before becoming Director of the Madras Observatory 1848-1859. He made observations on double stars, on satellites of Saturn and on Jupiter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1849 and died at Poonah on 16th August 1862.

Sources:

William H. George, © 2001, Edward Jacob (1713-1788), A Biography, ISBN 0 9534092 3 6.

Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, 'A Selection of Arms Authorised by the Laws of Heraldry', London 1860.
MSS in the possession of Margaret Hyatt-Jacob
Pedigree of Jacob Family registered at the College of Arms
Pedigree of Jacob Family published anon in ca 1840.
Information supplied by Edward Crawford.
Boase, 1797, p 43.