Thomas William Millard Bennett

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• Census: 1891, Hatfield, Herts; Bank clerk, in lodgings
• Occupation: 1901, Hatfield, Herts; bank clerk
• Occupation: 1939; Company director

Family/Spouse: Gwendoline R Lloyd. Gwendoline died in 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Millard Bennett was born in 1916; died on 13 Sep 2004 in London.

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• Occupation: vicar

William married Mary Hodgson Fowle in 1866. Mary (daughter of Thomas Fowle and Mary Welbank) was born in 1839; died on 10 Jan 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1851, Wetherall, Cumbria; Boarder (one of three girls) at a school run by Elizabeth Robinson, originally from Newcastle, and her sisters.

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• Residence: 1834, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton; Listed as Attorney inTranscript of the entry of "professions and trades" for NORTHALLERTON in Pigot's Directory of 1834

Thomas married Mary Welbank on 21 Oct 1834 (Licence) in Northallerton, Yorks. Mary (daughter of William Welbank and Mary-Ann Hirst) was born on 11 Mar 1806 in Mount Pleasant, Northallerton; was christened on 16 Mar 1806 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Vicar of North Otterington

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• Occupation: 1795, linen-draper?; March 1789 The same day was married, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, wholesale linen-draper, to Miss Welbank, eldest daughter of Christopher Welbank, Esq; of Mount Pleasant, near Northallerton. 1795 William Welbank is apprenticed to Thomas Mitchell, linen-draper. He would have been 16. 18 Aug 1803 John Westoby Palmer has declined his retail business as a linen draper in York in favour of William Welbank. WILLIAM WELBANK Linen-draper and Haberdasher Near the Minster-Gates, York, BEGS permission to acquaint his Friends and the Public, that he has ENTERED to the Shop lately occupied by Mr J.W.Palmer. From the experience he has had in the first houses in London, hopes for a CONTINUANCE of the same patronage and support with which Mr. PALMER has been favoured. WILLIAM WELBANK has laid in a NEW and COMPLETE ASSORTMENT of LINEN DRAPERY and HABERDASHERY GOODS of every description. 1804 William Welbank, linen-draper, has an apprentice. 1822 William Welbank of York, linen-draper, requires an apprentice.
• Note: 1801; Appears on A List of the Ordinary Members of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Note: 1804; testified in sensational trial Dighton v Watts involving his future brother-in-law Godfrey's wife. Mrs Godfrey Hirst and her sister Mrs Dighton were in the habit of scandalously going to theatre alone, and had met two soldiers and eloped to Ripon with them. Mr Dighton sued Mr Watts for alienation of affections, asking for damages of £5000, but the defendant's lawyer argued that Mrs Dighton already had a poor reputation so Mr Watts had not been the one to cause damage to her husband. "I understand they [Mrs Godfrey Hirst and Mrs Dighton] are now following a life of direful infamy" Numerous witnesses testify to Mrs Dighton's and Mrs Hirst's scandalous ways. William Welbank esq testified in the trial on behalf of Mr Dighton, who he said had always shown affectionate regard to his wife. The jury awarded damages of £1,100. The trial was written up in Sporting Magazine: or, Monthly Calendar of the transactions of the Turf, the Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, (Volume 24, Rogerson & Tuxford, 1804) so probably was widely read about with great fascination. John Gough Nichols describes them as "the unfortunate Hirst family" and says they have lost all pretensions to respectability by mixing with plebian blood and low persons. Mary Anne also had a brother Francis who inherited the Golden Lion Inn and partnered with a "low person" and had eight illegitimate children with her before eventually being persuaded to marry her in his demented final years.
• Occupation: 1806; 1806 Notice that a partnership between William Welbank, Richard Hirst and Richard Barker, under the name of Welbank and company, merchants, Kingston-on-Hull, is dissolved. Richard was one of Mary Anne's brothers.
• Occupation: 1811, Northallerton, Yorks; wine merchant? William Welbank, wine and spirit merchant, of Northallerton, in London and Country Directory, 1811. The same directory has William Welbank as a draper in York. He could be dealing in wine as an extra hustle.
• Note: 1812; 1812 Thimbleby coursing Meeting has Welbank's and Hirst's dogs competing (Sporting Magazine: or, Monthly Calendar of the transactions of the Turf, the Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to thre Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, Vol 39 (Rogerson & Tuxford, 1812))
• Note: 23 Mar 1818, New Times (London); Partnership dissolved - H Hirst, F Hirst, W Welbank, R Hirst, and J Horner, Lead Hills Mines, Lanark.
• Note: 24 Mar 1821, Yorkshire Lent Assizes; Lord Mayor of York v Welbank Welbank is carrying out trade in a house on the corner of Makestreet and Petergate, but refuses tp pay to become a freeman, arguing that the house is not part of York.
• Occupation: 23 Sep 1822, Leeds Intelligencer; Northallerton agent for Coutts and Messrs Martin, Stone and Martin, bankers.
• Occupation: 1823, Northallerton; Fire and Life Insurance Offices, Globe, William, Wailes London Guardian, William, Wellbank Norwich Union, Thomas, Dixon Royal Exchange Thomas, Watson Union, Jas. Langdale, stationer Pigots Directory
• Note: Aug 1824, York; York Herald 28/8/1824 announces the death of Miss Welbank, sister to Mr Welbank, linen-draper of this city. However, this doesn't correspond to the death of any of William Welbank's sisters. Only Jane was unmarried at her death and she died in 1852. Evidence that William Welbank, draper of York, was a different man?
• Occupation: 1829, Northallerton; Welbank William, esq. Northallerton. Savings Bank secretary
• Note: 1832; Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's ... Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell · 1832 · Law reports, digests, etc R. C. PEASE, J. K. WATson, H. PEASE, and T. B. Locke, who have survived R. HARRIson, their late Partner, deceased, against JoNATHAN HIRST, EDw1N HIRST, FRANCIs HIRST, and WILLIAM WELBANK. A ... The latter three acted as guarantors for Jonathan Hirst in 1817 on a promissory note for £300. The Hirsts were brothers of William's wife Mary Anne. Francis Hirst was the landlord of the Golden Lion in Northallerton. Another brother Henry was a solicitor in Northallerton, Jonathan was in business in Hull, Edwin was a farmer. (the Topographer and Genealogist Vol 1, John Gough Nichols, 1846, which says that Francis had eight illegitimate children by a "low person" and brought the family into disrepute). An ironmonger in Hull, Jonathan Hirst, was a bankrupt in 1829 (the Gazette) and had changed address several times.
• Note: 1839; Member of the Newcastle-upon Tyne Literary and Philosophical Society, follower of the Rev William Turner. who founded it. Together with his wife, subscribed to a book of sermons published 1839. Mrs Gaskell was also a follower and mentions Mrs Welbank as a friend in one of her letters. (She may be referring to William's sister Jane who was also known as Mrs Welbank). HIs brother-in-law Thomas Mitchell, nephew Edward Dawson Welbank Mitchell, niece Janetta Bishop Mitchell, and sister Jane seem also to have been followers of Rev Turner, lived in Newcastle where he was based and moved to Manchester where he moved when he retired, and were all buried in the Unitarian Chapel in Manchester where he was also buried.
• Note: 1840; bankruptcy. Contents of house were sold off, including a valuable library of 600 books, telescopes and a pair of globes, several dozens of port, sherry and claret, a quantity of home-made wines and of pickles and preserves, a four-wheel carriage with a single harness.
• Note: 1840, Northallerton; White's Directory, Gent
• Residence: 1841, Northumberland Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; William (60) and Mary (55) are here on census night , staying with Dorothy Hirst.
• Note: 12 Aug 1843, Yorkshire Gazette; William Welbank has sold land to the Great North of England Railway Company and they owe him (actually his assignees) £1733 which they have yet to pay.
• Residence: 1851, 3 Oxford Street, St Andrew, Newcastle; Boarder, corn merchant. Thomas Hirst, 32, bank agent, is visiting.
• Note: 1854; Probate to Mary Fowle, effects under £20

William married Mary-Ann Hirst in Mar 1805 in Northallerton. Mary-Ann (daughter of Godfrey Hirst and Dorothy Dunhill) died on 8 Jul 1843 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 1822; Subscribers to a Collection of William Turner's fathers sermons, published by William Turner in 1822. Mrs Welbank and Miss Mitchell of Great Yarmouth T Mitchell of Northallerton W A Mitchell J Mitchell of Sheffield Miss Mitchell of Norwich several Martineaus, including Harriet. Bob Gamble says that her sister-in-law Jane Welbank was known as Mrs Welbank, under an old-fashioned convention that respectable older single women could be known as Mrs. She is known to have been close to Miss Mitchell (her sister Mary's eldest daughter) so she may have been the one referred to in all these entries.
• Occupation: 1822, Great Yarmouth; Opened a girls' boarding school YARMOUTH. Mrs WELBANK, successor to MISS OSBORNE, begs to inform the Friends of that Lady, and the Public in general, that she has taken possession of the House.. (Norfolk Chronicle, 20 Jul 1822) The tenancy expired in 1823. This could be Jane Welbank, although there is other evidence she was living in Edinburgh at this time.
• Occupation: 1834, 58 Eldon Street, Newcastle; MRS WELBANK takes this Method of informing her Frends and the Public, that she has just received (direct from the India House) a fresh Supply of TEA, which she is enabled to sell at considerably reduced Prices. Strong fine-flavoured Congou at 5s, and Teas of superior Quality equally low. (Newcastle Journal, 8 Nov 1834) In the York Herald 4 Aug 1838 is an advert offering "easy employment" as an agent for the East India Tea Company. Teas are packed in leaden containers, neither shop nor fixtures are required, the licence is 11/- per annum.
• Note: 1837, 31 Eldon Street, Newcastle; Mrs Welbank listed as a tea dealer at this address, Pigot's directory. Her sister-in-law Jane was living on Eldon Street in 1851, and was known as Mrs for greater respecability, so she is probably the tea dealer.

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Died:

In this town, on Pilgrim Street, on the 5th inst. aged 61, after protracted sufferings, endured with patience and resignation to the divine will, Mary Ann, wife of Mr Wiiliam Wellbank, formerly of Northallerton
Newcastle Journal, 8 Jul 1843