Robert Kite

At one point a wine merchant and possibly an insurance broker, then apparently a general merchant under Robert Kite & Co. (q.v.).

1. Will of Robert Kite merchant of Bucklersbury proved 27/11/1839; death of Robert Kite registered Q3 1839 Islington; burial of Robert Kite 16/07/1839 St Mary Islington aged 65.

2. Baptism of Frederick Robert Kite to Robert and Ann Kite of Dalby Terrace at St Mary Islington 18/07/1822; the Rev. Frederick Robert Kite formerly of Wood Vale Sydenham and afterwards of St Johns Parsonage Kenilworth died 13/08/1865 leaving personal estate under £16,000.

3. Robert Kite and his wife Ann Aplin of Dalby Terrace (presumably the sister or daughter of Kite's partner as a wine-merchant) are identified as parties in a Deed of Covenant to certain copyhold properties at Ambrosden and Blackthorn in the county of Oxford, held by the Aplin family dated 21/01/1823.

1. PROB 11/1918; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].

2. Ancestry.com, London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1865.

3. http://familytree.posterous.com/ posted Jan 27 2010 [accessed 17/01/2011].