Go to transcription of Robert's Will.

This will dated 14/2/1805, approved 17/4/1821.

Thomas Snape Tunaley

b. 5-6-1802, Derby.

m. Catherine Smith 28-6-1850.

Bloomsbury, Middlesex.

Thomas d. April, 1855,

registration district Tamworth.

Information relating to Kathleen's daughter, Maud Pennington, courtesy of Mr. John Grove of Canada (click here for his website).

Much other information on this page courtesy of Dr. Jane Holmes of New Zealand.

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At the time of marriage, 1871, Walter Pennington was vicar of St. Marks, Dalston, London.

At the time of Maude Edith Pennington's birth, 1875 Walter was now working as an Anglican minister in Shebbear, North Devon.

By 1877 (see below), Walter and Kathleen had returned to London, with Walter now vicar of St. Philip's, Earl's Court.

The Bankruptcy and Fall of Rev. Walter Pennington.

See also: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50333

N.B.: Evidence, not included here. indicates Walter Pennington was suffering from a progressive illness over a considerable period of time

"Under Claxton, St. Philip's cultivated a doctrinal position characterized in 1871 as 'principally, though not exclusively Anglican. In 1872 part of the parish was ceded to St. Matthias's, a new church which Claxton had helped promote.
He was succeeded at his death in 1877 by Walter Pennington, under whom St. Philip's fell on hard times. Pennington, whose sole source of income was the pew-rents, became so encumbered with debt that, by a bizarre turn of events only possible under ecclesiastical law, the church and its pew-rents were sequestrated in 1880. Pennington stayed on until 1884, paid from a stipend by the sequestrator on the diocese's behalf".

"According to the secretary of the building committee for St. Cuthbert's, Philbeach Gardens, Pennington was 'commonly spoken of in the neighbourhood as a disgrace to his sacred office', but St. Cuthbert's vicar, Henry Westall, conceded that Pennington had his kindly side and noted that he generally could procure tickets for Drury Lane Theatre, 'having been of great service to Mr. Harris the lessee'. Since the promotion of the new church, again within St. Philip's parish, foreshadowed a further diminution of his income, his antagonism to St.Cuthbert's can be well understood".

Walter Pennington died July 13th 1884.

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Catherine Tunaley died 22 May 1883 at Peckham House, Peckham, Camberwell, London.

On 16 August 1883, probate was awarded to "Kathleen Constantia Pennington (Wife of the Reverend Walter Pennington, Clerk) the Daughter and only Next of Kin residing in Belgium".

Catherine's estate amounted to £20. Using an historic calculator, this amount was equivalent to just over £2000.

No records have been found as to how Kathleen came to be in Belgium but it seems fairly clear that, by then, she had deserted Walter.

Kathleen Constantia Tunaley

b. 13-4-1852

Wiggington Staffordshire. c.7-9-1852, Tamworth, Staffordshire.

m. Walter Pennington (Walter b. 14/1/1846 Hackney, London d. 1885).

Marriage: 28-8-1871, New Malden, Surrey.

The Bankruptcy and Fall of Rev. Walter Pennington.

N.B.: Evidence, not included here. indicates Walter Pennington was suffering from a progressive illness over a considerable period of time.

Walter Pennington died July 13th 1884 (see panel left)

1891 Census- Kathleen now in service in Bethnal Green. Kathleen Muriel Pennington adopted and Effie and Eric placed in an orphanage.

In 1894, 10 years after Walter's death, Kathleen married again to Henry Charles McCormack, listed on marriage certificate as "cattle dealer". Marriage took place on 9th July 1894, Deptford, Middlesex. Kathleen's late father Thomas Snape Tunaley listed on certificate as "Gentleman".

Records (see panel left) show Walter died in penury.

Kathleen d. 1901 - death registered West Ham, Essex.

The Grove family website includes photographs of Maud and confirms she married Frederick William Grove (b. 1865.) Children were Edith Frances Grove (1897), Alice M. (1900) Helen Olive (1902), Frederick Author (1902 d. 1904), William Walter (1904), and James Lewis (1914). Also, according to this website, the father of Frederick William was William Grove (c.Stafford England 1818) who, as a merchant, appeared to travel much between England, (Liverpool) Cuba and Nova Scotia. Frederick, as he became older, may well have travelled with his father although it does seem he would have worked mainly on his Uncle James' farm in Beaverbank. What seems fairly certain is that in 1890 following the death of Frederick's uncle James, most of James' farming land and stock was bequeathed to Frederick (click here).