William Welbank

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Broker. of St. James' Place, London SW
• Note: 25 Jan 1768, London; Freedom of City: Fletcher
• Note: 1781; Many documents related to hemp dealing at the National Archives dated 1780-3 eg: Reference: ADM 106/1263/474 Description: Mr. Barr, Symons Wharf. Complains of his treatment by Mr. Welbank of Deptford Yard on his unloading a cargo of hemp at Symons Wharf for delivery to the Admiralty. Date: 1781 Oct 19 Held by: The National Archives, Kew
• Note: 1787; The tenders for a breadfruit ship: On 10 May, 1787, government advertised for a vessel for the breadfruit voyage. The incoming tenders were made into a short list of five ships by 16 May. Campbell on 15 May tendered his ship Lynx, 300 tons, with a third flush deck able to be put on her, new sheathed. Campbell considered her "a compleat little ship". This was all a handy idea as Bligh had sailed Lynx and knew her well. Campbell Letter 162: Adelphi 15 May 1787 Honble Commissir of the Navy I have a ship the Lynx well known to your Board having formerly been one of His Majesty's Sloops of War, tho' constructed for the Merchant service, if her burthen being above 300 tons measurment can be dispensed with she may from having a third flush deck be navigated with very little more expence than a vessel of 250 Tons being a full burthensome Roomy Vessel & if intended for a long voyage will in my opinion have many advantages in point of all sorts of accomodation. Should she upon examination be found fit for the Service intended, my price is £2200...About three years since I gave to your Board £2300 - for this very Ship with hardly any Stores. She is now well found was new Sheathed last year & is as compleat a little Ship as any in the Thames. With the greatest respect I am She lyes in the Greenland Dock Lockt up with the keys in my possession - ([83]) Other merchants tendering included: ([84]) Dawson of King Edward Stairs, the William Pitt 240 tons, value £1200; Etches of Newcastle offered a new ship of 240-250 tons for £9/10/- per ton. The hemp contractors Welbank, Sharpe and Brown offered their 270-ton Shepherdess, lying at Pickle Herring Chain, value £2050. That is, Welbank Sharp and Brown tendered two ships, Shepherdess and Bethia. A late offer was Harriott. ([85]) (Since the 1960s, Australian historians have argued that a desire for flax as one of Britain's necessary naval stores was one of the reasons Britain settled Australasia - an argument about Imperial strategy - but they have not noticed flax merchants Welbank, Sharpe and Brown offering a ship for breadfruit, nor, after 1800, Welbank, Brown and Petyt taking contracts for convict transportation. [Bethia was chosen and the name changed to Bounty. National Archives have many documents relating to Welbank Sharpe and Brown's hemp trading. Perhaps this was the point that they moved from hemp trading to broking ships to the Government].
• Note: 1789; An Account of the Number of Vessels, with the Amount of their Tonnage, their Names, the Port to which they belong, and the Names of the respective Owners of each, that have cleared out from the Ports of London, Bristol and Liverpool, to the Coast of Africa, for the Purpose of purchasing slaves, in the Three Years preceding the 5th of January 1792. House of Commons Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 82, pp. 329-37. London: .....George Sharpe & George Browne & William Christopher & William Welbank & Rowland Webster & John Middleton & Robert Smith plus executors of the late John Langley; ....
• Note: 1791, Croydon; William WALBANCKE d. 1791 Church of Croydon In the south aisle, those of Mary, wife of John Smith, rector of Weybridge, who died in 1787; John Vade, vicar of Croydon, who died in 1765; James Wilkins, Capt. of Dragoons, who died in 1769; James Douglass, Esq. Major General, who died in 1743; William Welbancke, Esq. who died in 1791; and Richard Peers, Esq. alderman of London, who died in 1765. Against the south wall, is a tablet to the memory of Francis Tirrel, who was a benefactor to the town, and died in 1600. Source: 'Croydon', The Environs of London: volume 1: County of Surrey (1792), p. 187. (www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45377)
• Occupation: 1791; Welbank, -, broker, Suncourt, Cornhill. 17 Oct 1791. (E.M. 320; G.M. 975.)
• Residence: 1780-1791, Croydon, Surrey, England; Land tax records, occupying a house & garden

William married Mary Amory on 8 Aug 1769 in St. Martin Outwich, Middx.. Mary (daughter of Rev Thomas Amory and Mary Baker) was born in St Olave, Old Jewry; died in c. 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George Welbank was born on 8 Aug 1770 in Old Jewry, London; was christened on 8 Aug 1770 in St Michael, Cornhill, London / Protestant Dissenters Registry, London; died in 1775; was buried on 27 Feb 1775 in St Thomas a Becket, Stockton on Tees, Durham.

William married Jemima Jones on 20 Apr 1776 in St. Botolph Without Bishopsgate, London, Middlesex, England. Jemima was born about 1754 in of Stratford le Bow, Middx.; died in 17 Aug 1840 in Ramsgate, Kent, England - Age 86. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
parish record book, 1776 no 178

1. George Welbank was born on 6 Jan 1777; was christened on 29 Jan 1777; died on 9 Mar 1821; was buried on 14 May 1821 in St John the Evangelist, Coulsdon, Surrey, England.
2. Captain Robert Welbank was born on 17 Jan 1778 in St Botolph's, Bishopgate; was christened on 4 Feb 1778 in St Botolph's, Bishopgate; died in 1857 in Aged 79.
3. Jemima Welbank was born on 23 Apr 1778; died on 9 Feb 1858 in No. 2, Prospect Row, Ramsgate, Kent [Will].
4. Mary Welbank was born in 1780; was christened on 27 Jun 1780 in St Mary, Stratford Bow, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex; died on 4 Oct 1839.
5. Harriet Welbank was born on 10 Sep 1781; was christened on 11 Sep 1781 in St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey, England; died in Jan 1782; was buried on 22 Jan 1782 in St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey, England.
6. Harriet Welbank was born on 16 Mar 1783 in Croydon, Surrey, England; was christened on 6 Apr 1783 in St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey, England; died on 17 Mar 1868 in Malling, Kent, England ; was buried on 21 Mar 1868 in Tandridge, Surrey.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: Possibly born in North Cowton in 1687 to Christopher Welbank. He was living in Greenwich in 1752 and in 1753 William Welbank of Greenwich left the residue of his estate to his brother George, living in Greenwich. He also had land in North Cowton when he died, mentioned by his daughter Mary in her Will. However this would make him quite old when he married (45) and died (80).
• Residence: 1744, Stockton; 8 Paradise Row, Stockton. History of Stockton on Tees p 116
• Residence: 1752, Greenwich, London.; Reference code: GB-0033-ORD Title: Ord of Sands Hall (Sedgefield) papers Dates of creation: 1606-1858 Extent: 141 items Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections Origination: documents relating to the property and agricultural activities of the Ord family around Sedgefield, Co. Durham. 33 (formerly 11 and 12) 22 November 26 George II (1752) (1) George Welbank formerly of Stockton now of Greenwich, Kent, gent. (2) Thomas Stokoe of Bryanslope, gent. (3) Richard Carlisle of Stillington, gent. Release by (1) and (2) to (3) of the above premises at present mortgaged by (2) to (1). Consideration: £1,110, of which £630 is paid by (3) to (1) and £480 by (3) to (2). Signed and sealed: (1) and (2). [H] 1m. Lease (formerly No. 11) missing.

George married Margaret Chapman on 4 Aug 1732 in St. Mary's, Gainford, Durham. Margaret was born in 1700; died in 1789; was buried on 19 Oct 1789 in Stockton on Tees, Durham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
age 89