Henry Tritton Reaks
Market Place, Dover
Walmer Academy
Alfred House Academy
Grove House, Ramsgate
Occupation: Schoolmaster
Henry was born and baptised in St. Martin’s Herne to Henry Reaks and Elizabeth nee Tritton. Sometime before his youngest brother Thomas was born in 1800 the family moved to Canterbury where they became Methodists worshipping at the Union Chapel- Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion, on Watling Street. Henry, unlike Thomas and also their fellow schoolmaster brother James was to remain with the ‘connexion’ all his life and later even travelling from Deal to Dover’s Zion Chapel to have his children baptised.
In October 1812 Henry married Amelia Sophia Loop in St. Martins Church, Canterbury where the previous month Amelia had been a witness at her sister Caroline’s marriage to James Milner Underdown. Soon after Henry and Amelia married they moved to Market Street, Dover where Henry ran a school that proved to be so successful that four years later he had to look for larger premises. In 1816 Henry bought Walmer Academy from a Mr. Falera. Where exactly this school was is currently unknown.
By 1820 he had moved to Alfred House on Lower Street. It was this school that his brother Thomas was to take over in 1834/35 when Henry moved to Grove House in Ramsgate. He must have died soon after as we can find no further records for him after this. Certainly, when Selina Ann married in 1849 the newspaper said “…. only daughter of the late Henry Tritton Reaks, Esq. formerly of Grove House, Ramsgate”
| Name | Born | Baptised | Married | Died | Buried |
| Henry Tritton Reeks | 1791 | 15 February 1791 St. Martin’s, Herne |
Amelia Sophia Loop 10 October 1812 St. Martin’s, CanterburyBorn 1786 Canterbury Died 1853 Edinburgh |
Unknown | Unknown |
The Children of Henry Tritton Reaks & Amelia Sophia Loop
| Name | Born | Baptised | Married | Died | Buried |
| Selina Ann | 28 February 1814 St. Mary’s, Dover |
25 April 1814 Zion House, Dover |
David Mc Dougall 02 September 1849 Edinburgh Also on 11 Sep 1849 Capel St Scots Presbyterian, Dublin |
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| Frederick Pyott | 20 November 1815 St. Mary’s, Dover |
11 January 1816 Zion House, Dover |
1816 King Street, Dover |
9 Feb 1816 St. Mary’s Dover |
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| William Henry | 2 August 1817 Walmer |
15 September 1817 Zion House, Dover |
1819 Sandwich |
10 December 1819 St. Peter’s, Sandwich |
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| Alfred Meffen | 16 January 1819 Deal |
No date is given in 1819 Zion House, Dover |
1)Anne Hoverton 24 August 1848 Dublin South, District 2) Emma Pim 6 July 1854 Monkstown, Dublin |
23 April 1873 Sandymount, Dublin |
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| Emma | 1820 | Unknown | 1821 Lower Street |
2 July 1821 St. George’s |
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| Henry Tritton | 4 April 1822 Lower Street, Deal |
3 July 1822 St. George’s, Deal |
1825 | 23 March 1825 St. Lawrence, Ramsgate |
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| Clara Sophia | 22 Sep 1824 St. Lawrence, Ramsgate |
23 March 1825 St. Lawrence, Ramsgate |
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| Henry Tritton | 1829 Tilmanstone |
Census
| Year | Address | Name | Number of Males | Number of Females |
| 1801 | ||||
| 1811 | ||||
| 1821 | Lower Street, Deal | Henry T Reaks | ||
| 1831 |
Trade and Street Directory
| Directory and Year | Trade or Occupation | Address |
| Pigot’s Directory 1824-1826 | Academy | High Street, Ramsgate |
| Pigot’s Directory 1824 | Academy | Lower Street, Deal |