George Cleaver Maxwell
The name George Cleaver Maxwell is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in St James church burial ground, Swimbridge, Devon, England.
There are 328 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
George Cleaver Maxwell was buried in 1862. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
George Cleaver Maxwell age is given as 72.
George Cleaver Maxwell calculated year of birth is 1790.
George Cleaver Maxwell is listed on the GPR grave numbered 114241.
George Cleaver Maxwell is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
George Cleaver Maxwell has the record number 246983 within the GPR person name database table.
George Cleaver Maxwell family name was Cleaver (to see all the others with the same family name, just click the name ).
The record was added to the GPR on 30 January 2011
There is one image available for the monument listing George Cleaver Maxwell (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against George Cleaver Maxwell record:
George Cleaver Maxwell was born at Tencett, Northamptonshire on 8th July 1789, son of George Maxwell, surveyor and land agent, and his wife Frances Goodman. He married his first cousin, Miss Mary Goodman, daughter of Thomas Goodman of Peterborough on 18th June 1812. In the early 1820’s George was committed to a mental institution in Norfolk after he became disturbed and extremely violent. He remained in the asylum for some twenty years after which he was released into the care of his nephew’s maiden aunts-in-law, the Misses Peacock at Hartford, Huntingdonshire. In 1844, the Misses Peacock sold up and moved to Black Torrington, Devon to be near to George’s nephew, John Goodman Maxwell Esq., then living at Coham House. Later the family united into one household at Bydown House, Swimbridge, where George Cleaver died on 15th November 1862. After George had been locked up in the 1820's, his wife Mary was also struck down with mental illness, (probably depression in modern terms) and was in the care of a doctor for a number of years before being returned to her parents in Peterborough where she died in 1839. Despite his incapacity, George ran his own affairs and left an estate of some £6000 mainly made up of inherited property in Farcet and Fletton in Huntingdonshire.