George Welbank

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• Note: 4 Jul 1828, St John's College Cambridge; Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 about George Welbank Name: George Welbank College: ST JOHN'S Entered: Michs. 1828 More Information: Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 4, 1828. Parents deceased. B. in Westminster. School, Harrow. Matric. Michs. 1828; Scholar, 1828.
• Residence: 1832, 32 Cannon Place, Brighton (Pigot's Directory)
• Note: 8 Jan 1838, New York, USA; Name: George Welbank Arrival Date: 8 Jan 1838 Age: 29 Gender: M Port of Arrival: New York Port of Departure: London Place of Origin: Great Britain Occupation: Merchant Destination: United States of America Ship: Ship Quebec Microfilm Serial Number: M237 Microfilm Roll Number: 35 List Number: 14 New York, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003
• Note: 1842; This is the last will and testament of George Welbank of Brighton in the County of Sussex gentleman I give to friend Samuel Goodman one hundred pounds and I give devise and bequeath all my estate of what kind soever amd all the residue of my personal estate unto my friend Emma(?) Ekin(?) daughter of the late Mr Ekin of Huntingdon(?) to ?crow? to her the said Emma Ekin and her executors and administrators absolutely and for ever ... ... whereof I the said George Welbank have to this my last will and testament set my hand and affixed my seal this 9th June 1834 . George Welbank ... published and ... by the said George Welbak the testator as and for his last will and testament in the present of us whio in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other had hereunto set our names as witnesses, Fredk Cooper solr Brighton -- Albert Geary W J Williams his clerks. The probate clause was: Proved at London 30th Nove 1842 before the worshipful Robert Thomas(?) Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath of Samuel Goodman the sole executor to whom admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer this letter of admon of the goods of the said deceased granted in the months of July last to Mary Elizabeth Brown wife of William Brown the natural and lawful sister and one of the next of kin of the said deceased un the the suggestion the he died intestate having ??? voluntarily brought in and ??? by interlocutory decree as by acts of Court appear.
• Residence: 1842, Brighton, Sussex, England; Will of George Welbank, Gentleman of Brighton, Sussex - 30 Nov 1842
• Note: 18 Apr 1843; GEORGE WELBANK Esq., deceased - All persons having any CLAIMS upon the ESTATE of GEORGE WELBANK Esq formerly of Brighton, but who died at Quebec; in Lower Canada on or about the 3d day of March, 1842 are requested forthwith to send the particulars of their demands to us in order that they may be examined by the Executor and if found correct discharged; and all persons indebted to the estate are requested to pay the same to us F COOPER and WILLIAMS Solicitors to the Executor of the said George Welbank London Times, 20 Apr 1843

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"George Welbank esq a native of Sussex in England, aged thirty-three years, died on the third, and was buried in the fifth"

Register of births marriages and deaths, Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral Quebec

Ancestry.com. Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008.
Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Broker of St James Place, London SW
• Note: 15 Jan 1799, London; Freedom of City of London
• Occupation: 1800; ship's broker or "Russian" broker and warehouse manager for the East India Company. Initially in company with George Brown the Younger of Stockton, his cousin (1800 Brown, Welbank and Petit)
• Note: 1801; Offer of Welbank Sharpe and Browne, TI/671. In 1801 there sailed to NSW Welbank Sharpe and Browne's convict transports Canada, Minorca and Nile. Bateson, The Convict Ships, pp. 13-14. Brown, Welbank and Petyt also had contracts for the convict transports Coromandel and Perseus in 1801.
• Note: 1802; Charter of the Coromandel and Perseus, 19 Jan 1802. Welbank Brown & Petyt will be paid £10 per convict taken aboard and a further £5 for every convict delivered alive; half the rate for children. Lots of other detail. Historical Records of Australia Series 1 Governors Despatches to and from England Volume 3 1801-2 Published by The Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1915
• Note: 31 May 1805, London Gazette; George Brown, George Welbank and John Petyt, of Sun Court, Russia Ship Brokers, partnership dissolved
• Note: 1808; A Mr Welbank esq of London and Ravensworth Cowton, Yorks, is a Grantee of Arms in 1808. Erminois on a Chevron Azure between three Bucks trippant Sable in the mouth of each a Sprig of Hazel proper an Anchor erect between two Bees volant Or Crest: On a Wreath Or and Azure A Buck Erminois attired Or in the mouth a Sprig of Hazel proper the dexter forefoot resting on an Anchor Sable Vol XXIV fol 396 Personal Grants of Arms on record at the College of Arms. Grant books at the Herald's College, printed books and MSS in the British Museum, by John Foster, Grantees of Arms vol 2.
• Residence: 1809, 6 Scotland Yard, Whitehall; From the birth announcement of his son George. Perhaps he had offices in St James Place and lived here? An advert the same year says he lives at Little Scotland Yard, adjoining a mansion called Fife House.
• Residence: 1812, Wilsden-house, Middlesex, England; The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol 112, P402 Sep 22nd 1812: At Wilsden-house, Middlesex, the wife of G. Welbank Esq of St James's-place and eldest daughter of James Trotter of Horton Place, Surrey.
• Note: 31 May 1815; Case Rex v Welbank and others, King's Bench George Brown the Younger had died in 1811 and established a trust under his Will, to carry out charitable works in Arkengarthdale. George Welbank was one of the trustees until his death, so would have been the Welbank named in the case. The case concerns the rates payable on land which had been leased for mining, and was quite influential.
• Note: 1820; IN 1820 he was involved in buying a mortgage through Messrs Hanby Holmes, solicitors of Durham: Ref No. D/HH 3/1/21/26 1820 (1) Robert Johnson of Ploughlands, Crosby Garratt, Westmorland (2) Ann Hutchinson of Barningham, Yorks., widow (3) George Welbank of St. James' Place, Middlesex, Esquire; William Sampson of Copthall Court, Throgmorton Street, London, Esquire; Robert Clarke of Stockton, gentleman Draft assignment by (2) to (3) of two messuages and lands (Kidley Close etc.) as specified in Arkengarthdale, Yorks., for the remainder of two terms of 2,000 years. Recites previous deeds Consideration: £500 (to (2) in part redemption of mortgage money due from (1) to (2)) [George Brown the Younger, his business associate and cousin, had died a wealthy man and established a charitable trust that owned land in Arkengarthdale and was managed by several of his relatives. William Sampson was his sister Harriet's husband. Captain Robert Welbank and Richard Bethell, his sister Mary's husband, were also involved.]

George married Anne Trotter on 24 May 1808 (Licence) in Parish Church, Epsom, Surrey, England. Anne (daughter of James Trotter and Elizabeth Meyrick) was born in 1784; died on 21 Sep 1812 in Wilsden-house, Middlesex, England. aged 28; was buried on 28 Sep 1812 in Christ Church, Epsom, Surrey, England.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 1812, Wilsden-house, Middx; 22 Sept: At Wilsden-house, Middlesex, Mrs Welbank, wife of G. Welbank Esq. of St James's Place, and eldest daughter of James Trotter, Esq. of Horton place, Surrey The European magazine, and London review, Volume 62

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• 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 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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• Residence: Stratford (atte) le Bow, now Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England
• Note: 1840; Death Cert: Where & When: Seventeenth of August 1840 at Ramsgate Name and Surname: Jemima Wellbank Sex: Female Age: 86 Occupation: Widow Cause of death: Old age Informant: Ann Lane (or Law or ????), Present at the death, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire When reg: Nineteenth of August 1840 Registrar: John Powell, Registrar

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parish record book, 1776 no 178

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• Residence: 1812, Horton Place Surrey

James married Elizabeth Meyrick in 1778. Elizabeth died in 1820. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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