Rev Sydney Malet SCROGGS [9507]

  General Notes:

Sydney was a descendant of Sir William Scroggs 1623-1683

Sydney was issued a passport 15 July 1856.

Sydney was for some years in New Zealand as a surveyor, image is of the raupo hut he used when at his work in Taieri, Mosgiel Otago.

Name: Sydney M Scroggs
Gender: Male
Initiation Age: 25
Birth Year: abt 1824
Initiation Date: 19 Jul 1849
First Payment Year on Register: 1849
Year Range: 1837-1862
Profession: Surveyor
Lodge: New Zealand Pacific Lodge
Lodge Location: Wellington New Zealand
Lodge Number: 758
Folio Number: 281

MICHAELMAS TERM, 1873.
Sydney Malet Scroggs, clerk in holy orders, M.A., was licenced as a stipendiary curate in the parish of Clewer, in tbe county of Berkshire.

Sydney was aged 68 at his death

  Research Notes:

Image courtesy of National Library of NZ

  Other Records

1. Baptism of Sydney Malet Scroggs, 7 Jul 1824.
Name: Sydney Malet Scroggs
Baptism Date: 7 Jul 1824
Baptism Place: Walcot St Swithin, Somerset, England
Parish as it Appears: Walcot
Mother: Sibyll Jane Scroggs

2. Letter from Col Dansey Royal Artillery.: Enquiring after his nephew Sydney Malet Scroggs to Capt O'Brien at the Home Office, 10 Apr 1846, Norwich NFK.
Ref National Archives CO 209/50 at ff 278-279
Searched by, and courtesy of D Leask - 2017

Capt O'Brien
Home Office.

Norwich April 10, 1846.
My dear O'Brien
I should be much obliged by your making the enquiry at the Colonial Office about my nephew.
The name is Sydney Malet Scroggs, he went to New Zealand about four years ago in the Brougham, as a Surveying Cadet under the Surveyor Mr Brees, in the Service of the New Zealand Company. He was engaged for three years and I believe was principally employed at or in the neighbourhood of Wellington. On the expiration of his engagement with the New Zealand Company, he entered on board the Victoria, which is a Brig, I believe in the Government Service commanded by Capt Richards his last letter, is from on board that vessel dated Hobart Tasmania 22^nd April 1845 - and he said they were going to take Guns and ammunition to Auckland, and expected to sail the next day.
Believe me
Affect^y yours
C C Dansey
Thought to be Charles Cornwallis Dansey R.A.

3. Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, Cockhaven Hse Teignton Devon. Sydney is recorded as head of house married aged 46 Curate of Kings Teignton born Bath SOM

4. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, The Vicarage Beech Hill BRK. Sydney is recorded as head of house married aged 66 a Clerk in Holy Orders born Bath Walcot SOM

5. Sydney Malet Scroggs: Will, 14 Jan 1893.
Scroggs the Reverent Sydney Malet of Cockhaven Bishops Teignton Devon clerk died 28 February 1893 Probate London 11 April to Evelyn Sydney Scroggs and Francis Reginald Dance Scroggs gentleman.
Effects. L3403 8s 9d
Ref: National Probate Calendar.

Sydney married Emma Frances STEPHENS [9508] [MRIN: 3288], daughter of Capt Henry William STEPHENS Esq [20330] and Lady Frances Augusta Eliza PIERREPONT [20344], on 28 Oct 1858 in Bishops Teignton DEV. (Emma Frances STEPHENS [9508] was born on 29 Oct 1823 in Marylebone London MDX, baptised on 20 Nov 1823 in St George Hanover Sq and died on 4 Dec 1876 in Windsor BRK.)