Francis Shand of Sandfield Park

West India merchant, Liverpool shipowner and Antigua proprietor, son and partner from 1826 of Charles Shand (q.v.) and William Shand (q.v.), and later described as an East India merchant.

1. Born 1800, eldest son of Charles Shand (q.v.) of Rupert House and his wife Grace, eldest daughter of John Mitchell of Maryton near Montrose. Baptised in Liverpool as a Particular Baptist in 1800 and again in the Church of England in 1819.

2. Married (18 March 1837) Lydia Byam (1818-1868) in St George parish, Antigua, West Indies. She was the daughter of Hon. Sir William Byam of Cedar Hill. Their 13 children were: Grace Byam (1838-1839); Jane Byam (1841-1912); Lydia Byam (1843-1922); Alice Byam (1845-1848); Edith Byam (1845-1849); Agnes Martha Byam (1847-1849); Francis (1848-1904); William Byam (1850-1853); Eleanor (1851-1853); Constance Elizabeth (1852-1925); Charles Arthur (1855-1910); Beatrice Mary (1857-); William Alfred Byam (1859-1942).

3. Francis Shand, age 50, merchant, born Liverpool, was living in Sandfield Park, West Derby, in 1851 with wife Lydia age 32, born Antigua, daughters Jane Byam age 10, born Antigua and Lydia Byam age 7, born Crofton Lancashire, sons Francis age 2, born Crofton and William Byam age 1, born West Derby, an infant daughter age 1 month, a visitor Martha Ann Byam age 29, one male and six female servants. He was at Woolton Wood Hall in 1861, with wife Lydia, daughters Jane Byam, Lydia Byam, Constance E. and Beatrice Mary, sons Charles A. and William A. B., a visitor named Harriet Mallory, Harriet's maid, two male and seven female servants.

4. Gunthorpe's estate in Antigua was sold by the West India Encumbered Estates Court for £2000, to Francis Shand.

5. Will of Francis Shand of Sandown [sic] Park Wavertree Liverpool who died 07/07/1868 at 16 Eaton Terrace proved 02/10/1868 by Alexander Shand brother and merchant of Old Church Yard Liverpool, effects under £70,000.

T71/877 Antigua claim no. 3 (Willock's Spyes); London Gazette 18245 06/05/1826 p. 1070; Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting, 3rd Report, PP1847-48 (167) XXIII Pt. I, p. 262; London Gazette 22928 10/01/1865 p.145. For an extensive family tree of the Shands see '2012JulyCrocker' by Astral14 on Ancestry.co.uk, https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/44813967/person/6262123639/facts [accessed 20/10/2018].

1. Edward Walford, The County Families of the United Kingdom (1860) p. 578; Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936 [database online]; Ancestry.com, Liverpool, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1919 [database online].

2. Ancestry family tree (Sancroft Baker), unverified: http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/17104541/person/463195091/facts [accessed 20/11/2012].

3. 1851, 1861 census online.

4. Times, 10/08/1865 p. 9.

5. National Probate Calendar 1868.

We are grateful to Mandy Francis and Janet Hollinshead for their assistance with compiling this entry.