1851 census 
Source                     HO107; Piece: 1993; Folio: 667; Page: 30
Place                      Whittingdon   District 1d, Shropshire
Dwelling                   Park Hall shed 115

Richard henry       Kinchant head M 46  Magistrate & Landed proprietor Cudden E I.
Maria eliza         Kinchant wife M 38                              Dublin Ireland
Eliza power         Kinchant dau    18                              St Leonards Bucks
John Charlton       Kinchant son    16                              St Leonards Bucks
Myra chatherine ann Kinchant dau    11    Scholar at Home           Whittington Salop
Richard caton       Kinchant son     9    Scholar at home           Whittington Salop
Richard Redmond     Caton    vist   44    Landed proprietor         Otleside Westmoreland
Frances eliza       Caton   niece   18                              Woodmancote Hants

Christian Tombs and monuments 1858 -

VENABLES, E. F. Inscription . -- Sacred to the memory of Edward Fredrick Venables, Esq., of Deoriaghat, near Azamgarh, who though not' in the service of Government, upheld its authority in this district during a, time of trial and difficulty, with equal valour, ability and prudence, and after attaining the highest personal distinction, fell in the gallant discharge of his duty, leaving a name dear both to his own countrymen and to the loyal portion of the native community, by whose joint subscriptions this monument is erected.

[The Mutiny at Azamgarh began on the 3rd June 1857, and most of the Europeans fled to Ghazipur. On the l8th June, however, Mr. Venables, an indigo planter of Ghazipur, marched into Azamgarh with a few sowars and three non-official Europeans. He was given full magisterial powers. He attacked the Palwars at KoeJsa without success. On the 18th July he was reinforced and attacked the Palwars again : and though he was driven back, the enemy suffered severely and disappeared. On the 28th July Azamgarh was once more evacuated : but Mr. Venables joined the approach. ng Gurkha force, and the enemy, compelled to retreat, were defeated at Mandoni by Captain Boileau and Mr. Venables on the 20th September.
Mr. Venables went on to Lucknow with General Franks, but returned to Azamgarh when it was threatened by Kunwar Singh and in the pursuit of that chief by Sir E. Lugard received the wound of which he died.

Mr. E. P. Venables was born in 1815 and was the son of Lazarus Venables, Barrister-at-law. The family originally belonged to Bollngton, co. Chester, and then to Woodhill, co. Salop. Mr. Venables married Eliza Power, daughter of R. H. Kinchant of Oswestry, but had no children.

The family is now extinct in the male line : its present representative is Mrs. Dillwyn-Venables- Llewelyn of Llysdinam Hall, co. Brecon.]

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 58
by Gerald le Grys Norgate

VENABLES, EDWARD FREDERICK (1818-1858),
One of the heroes of the Indian mutiny, born on 5 May 1815, was the third son of Lazarus Jones Venables, barrister-at-law, of Liverpool and Woodhill, Shropshire, by Alice, daughter of Thomas Jolley of Liverpool. He early went to India as an indigo-planter, and at the time of the outbreak of the mutiny was settled near Azimghur in the North-West Provinces.

After the rising of the 17th native infantry on 3 June 1857, he left Azimghur for Ghazipur. But some planters and clerks having been left behind, Venables and another planter, named M. P. Dunn, determined to rescue them. No help was afforded them by the commissioner of the division, and when they set out on the 16th they had only a few native mounted constables, given them by A. Ross, the magistrate at Ghazipur. To these, however, Venables was able to add some of the tenants on his own estates at Duri Ghat and a few refugees from surrounding villages. Having obtained the assistance from within the town of Ali Bakh, a native collector, Venables compelled the 13th irregular cavalry to abandon Azimghur and reoccupied it.

On 10 July he took the offensive against the sepoys with seventy-five mounted constables, an old gun, and a loyal native regiment. He stormed the police-station and released his friends. When, however, on the 16th he attacked the rajputs of the Palwar clan at Koilsa, he was deserted by his sepoys and had to re-enter Azimghur. Two days later reinforcements reached him, but most of them he sent to Ghazipur.

On the 20th he marched out again with the rest, and, though com, it was once more evacuated, Venables retiring a second time to Ghazipur. But Azimghur having been in August occupied by the Nepaulese allies, Venables again took part in an advance on it. On 19 Sept., when the rebels were surprised at Mandori, he, though only a volunteer, commanded the cavalry, was first up to the first gun taken, and killed three men with his own hand. Five hundred rupees were now offered by the sepoys for his head.

Venables next rode as a volunteer with General Sir Thomas Harte Franks [q. v.] in his march from Eastern Oudh to Lucknow, and rendered splendid services. In the early spring of 1858 he had retired to Allahabad in broken health and spirits, and was looking forward to a return to England, when Lord Canning persuaded him to again volunteer his services at Azimghur. His judgment and local knowledge were of great value to Lord Mark Kerr and Sir E. Lugard. With the former Venables re-entered Azimghur on 6 April. While engaged in the pursuit of Koor Singh after his defeat by Lugard on the 15th, he was mortally wounded, and he died four days later, on 19 April.

When, in the following June, the Calcutta chamber of commerce met to consider the question of a memorial to Venables, Lord Canning, the governor-general, wrote commending his intrepidity, energy, and calm temper, and his thoroughly just appreciation of the people and circumstances with which he had to deal. Venables, his two elder brothers being dead, had inherited from his father in 1856 the family estates near Oswestry in Shropshire. He married, in 1851, Eliza Power, daughter of R. H. Kinchant, esq., of Park Hall, Oswestry, but left no issue. His younger brother became heir to the property.

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