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Birthca Jun 1778
Baptism5 Jul 1778, St Giles, Cambridge
Death16 Jul 1837, Batchcop, Ludlow, Salop
BurialRichards Castle churchyard (MI)
GeneralRector of Richards Castle.
EducationTrinity Hall, Cantab: Adm 1895, matric 1797, BA: 1800; MA 1803.
MotherCatherine Cooke (-ca1824)
Notes for Rev Robert Fitzwilliam Hallifax
On MH's Hallifax pedigree she wrote a date of 1778, possibly the date of his birth.
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TFPL, Sep 2004: His death is in the very first set of volumes of the BMD registers at the Family record centre and was recorded in July, the first month of registrations.  He died a clergyman of "Vistation of God. Apoplexy".  The informant was William Downer, coroner of Ludlow (so there was an inquest, why?).
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The Church of England Clergy Database has this information for him:

Evidence
Year Type Name as Recorded Location Office/Status Full Record
1802 Appt(Institution) Halifax, Robert Fitzwilliam  Richard's Castle / Rector
1816 Appt(Institution) Hallifax, Robert Fitzwilliam  Cainham / Vicar
1816 Vac(resignation) Hallifax, Robert Fitzwilliam  Richards Castle / Rector
1816 Appt(Institution) Hallifax, Robert Fitzwilliam  Richards Castle / Rector
1818 Vac(resignation) Hallifax, Robert Fitzwilliam  Cainham / Vicar
1837 Monuments Hallifax, Robert Fitzwilliam /

The mystery is why he became vicar of Cainham for two years from 1816 to 1818, then returning to Richards Castle?
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Venn’s Alumni Cantabriensis has this record for him:

Adm. at TRINITY HALL, June 20, 1795. S. of Samuel (1749), late Bishop of St Asaph [and Catherine, dau. of William Cooke, Dean of Ely and Provost of King's]. School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1797; Scholar; B.A. 1800; M.A. 1803. Ord. priest (London) June 29, 1802. R. of Richard's Castle, Salop, 1802-37 (inst. [p.208] again in 1816). V. of Cainham, 1816-18. Registrar of Gloucester. Died July 16, 1837, at Batchcott, Salop. Father of Henry C. (1825). (Eton Coll. Reg., which gives R. of Richard's Castle, 1816; Foster, Index Eccles.; Cant. Act Bk.; G. Mag., 1837, II. 322.)
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His baptism on FamilySearch:

name: Robt Fritz William Hallifaadd
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 05 Jul 1778
baptism/christening place: St. Giles, Cambridge, Cambridge, England
father's name: Samuel Hallifaadd
mother's name: Cath
indexing project (batch) number: I00801-2
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1818401
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Will notes for Rev Robert Fitzwilliam Hallifax
In his will, dated 25th April 1833 and with admon on 25th Aug 1837, he lists:
His late uncle, Dr Robert Hallifax,
His eldest son, Robert Dampier Hallifax,
His son Henry Crawford Hallifax,
His daughter Louisa Eliza Bourke Hallifax,
His daughter Caroline Charlotte Hallifax,
His daughter Georgiana Lukin Hallifax,
His daughter Octavia Gertrude hallifax,
His daughter Dame Catherine Francis Guyler,
His son-in-law, Lieutenant-Col Sir Charles Guyler, bt, (69th Regt of Foot),
His sister Charlotte Anne Hallifax,
John Surius Dampier, barrister-at-law (a cousin).
Notes for Robert Fitzwilliam & Eliza Bourke (Family)
R W H gave his parish as Richard’s Castle and his occupation as Clerk.

E B R was a minor, her father was George Crawford Ricketts

The witnesses were George C Ricketts, Mary Bourke Anderson (E B R’s sister) and S J D Palmer.
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There are large memorials to her family in Ashford Bowdler church.
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