Mr & Mrs Wilson and their Hummingbirds ... (1 Viewer)

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Quick one, found along the way, maybe of interest (at least for Martin? As it's about "Hummers" ) ... regarding (Mr & Mrs) williami & addae, as in:

• Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami DeLATTRE & BOURCIER 1846 (here), as "T. [Trochilus] Williami"

• the (Rufous-booted) Racket-tail subspecies Ocreatus underwoodii addae BOURCIER 1846 (same journal, three-four pages later, here), as "Trochilus Addæ"

In today's HBW (still!) Alive Key explained as:

williami
[...]
● “Dédié à M. William Wilson de Paris, amateur distingué, dont la modestie rehausse le grand mérite” (de Lattre & Bourcier 1846); William Savory Wilson (fl. 1853) US financier resident in Paris (per Beolens et al. 2014) (Metallura).
[...]

addae
Adda Wilson (fl. 1853) wife of US financier William Savory Wilson resident in Paris. The Richmond Card Index records, “For wife of Thos. B. Wilson, of Phila[delphia].”, followed by a pencilled note, “Something wrong! T. B. Wilson said to have never married!” (subsp. Ocreatus underwoodii).

Some additional pieces might/could possibly be found (?) if following the clues given in the ... [my blue and bolds]:

Wilson Family
Papers

1684 - 1954

[...]​

William Savory Wilson added to the family fortune through a variety of business ventures. He worked as a cloth merchant and profited through trading stocks and bonds for railroads and public works projects in England and the United States. He advised his other brothers and cousins on investment opportunities, and shared some funds and accounts with them. By the 1840s, he was living in Paris, France, and was married to a woman named Adda, about whom little is known. According to W.H. Day, by 1853 he had returned to Philadelphia with his family. His papers, housed primarily in Series II, contain a variety of letters and business documents he received in Philadelphia and Newark, and an account book from his time as a cloth merchant. ... [...] ... Wilson also assisted with family collection and donation activities, spear-headed by brother Thomas Bellerby Wilson [*].

[...]

William Savory Wilson (d.1870) m. Adda Wilson

[All from here]​

*His Brother was Thomas Bellerby Wilson (1807–1865), commemorated in Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni DeLATTRE & BOURCIER 1846, a k a King's Musketeer or Wilson's Inca, (OD in the first link above, on p.305, as "T. [Trochilus] Wilsoni")

It ought to be enough (at least in my mind). They can't be that hard to find (for anyone keen, or keener, with more time than I have) ...

Either way; good luck in/if trying (if anyone catch the bait)

Björn

PS. Even more clues here.

 

[Taphrospilus]

And remember other members of the family we discussed here. His death was mentioned here. Here we can read:

Elizabeth Adlene Wilson, dau. of William Savory Wilson of Hean Castle, Pembrokeshire, England and Adeline Driver Stevens of Denton, Md., b. Feb. 15, 1846, Paris, France, d. Mar. 3, 1932, Pinehurst, N.C.

Which would lead to her or here

Letters to Adeline Driver (Stevens) Wilson (1819-1891) from Baroness Saloage Faveroll (in French)

According here

Adeline Driver Stevens was born 31 Aug. 1819. Married William Savery Wilson, 2 May 1844.

But still failed to find the birth year of William Savory Wilson. And from your link here it seems not clear if he was born 1803/05.

P.S. Here a son of his brother.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

William S. Wilson's (Viridian) Metaltail

Quick one ...

In the same (death) year, as mentioned/claimed by/in the Wilson Family Papers (see post #1), the following note was published in the Daily Evening Telegraph, of Philadelphia, September 21, 1870:

A SINGLUAR WILL ADMITTED TO PROBATE.—The will of William Savery Wilson, deceased, ...
... has been left entirely to his wife, Adeline D. Wilson, and his four children, Elizabeth Adeline Wilson, William Thomas Wilson, Mary Louisa Wilson, and Flora Pauline Wilson. ...
[...]
The executors of the estate are Rathwell Wilson, brother of the deceased, ...

[here]​

Spellings of names, in a will, are (certainly) often very reliable (even if it's, as in this case, second-hand information/reported in a News paper).

Hopefully of some help?

/B

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Summing-up; William's and Adda's Hummingbirds

Thanks to the persistent research by Paul Scofield, in thread HBWAlive Key; mission ... (here, see post #535-541), I now think it's fairly safe to claim:

• Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami DeLATTRE & BOURCIER 1846 (OD in post #1), as "T. [Trochilus] Williami"
= William Savery Wilson (1803–1870)

• the (Rufous-booted) Racket-tail subspecies Ocreatus underwoodii addae BOURCIER 1846 (OD in ditto), as "Trochilus Addæ"
= Adeline "Adda" Driver Wilson, née Stevens (1819–1891), wife of the above (from 1844).

Well done Paul! :t:

Anyone think otherwise?

/B

 

[mb1848]

Björn as to Savery vs. Savory in another 1870 publication it says: Testamentary upon the estate oi William Savory Wilson, late of the city of ...
https://books.google.com/books?id=d...avory+Wilson,+deceased,&source=gbs_navlinks_s . On page 304.
More Wilson: The type of Tr. Caroli Boucier 1847 was from the belle collection of Edward Wilson (1808-1888) The other bird named in that article was Tr. Georginae it was from New Grenada and from the collection of TB/JB.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46217#page/550/mode/1up .
In 1847 Edward Wilson gave to the York Philosophical Society “ six Skins of Birds new to the collection, from New Grenada”.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20139#page/38/mode/1up .
Some evidence that Edward Wilson bought the type of Tr. Georginae from Boucier and then gave it to the York group??
Edward Wilson (1772-1843), who made his fortune in land dealings in America, was a friend of George Stevenson of “Rocket” fame and left his children a considerable fortune from which his son, also Edward (1808-1888), purchased the Hean Castle estate. (He was a noted collector of Humming birds) Although widely respected - he was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1861 – a series of poor investments forced him to dispose of his property to Charles Vickerman in 1876. (The eldest son became a physician and his second son was none other than Edward Wilson who accompanied Captain Scott and lost his life in 1912.
…others were of specimens which had been bought by Edward Wilson (1808-1888) of Tenby in South Wales. He often acted as agent for his brother, Dr Thomas Bellerby Wilson (1807-1865) of Newark, Delaware, in buying up European natural history specimens and collections which Thomas donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, U.S.A. In return for helping Edward Wilson obtain specimens of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs,…

 

[mb1848]

Sorry this publication uses Savery also a OCR/Google Book error?