Isaac Wellbank

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• Occupation: 19 Apr 1820; Bound Apprentice in the Merchant Navy
• Note: 1839, living in New Zealand; (Enclosure No. 24.) 1839. 10 August.WAIKAHIKATEA.Block?Waikahikatea, Waimate. Sellers?Penehamani, Matahina, and Wiremu Warerau. Boundaries?"To the East the portion of land sold by Ruhe to the Church Missy. Society; to the South the piece of land let go by Ruhe and others to George Clarke; to the North the piece of land let go by Warerahi and others to George Clarke; the Waikahikatea is the boundary to the West." Contents?30 acres. Payment?One horse, one saddle and bridle. Signatures?Penehamani, Matahina, Wiremu Warerau, and George Clarke. Witnesses?Benjamin Nisbet, Aperahama Karaka, and Isaac Wellbank.
• Residence: 1845, Russell, New Zealand; on a jury list, "settler" residence Wai Kari
• Note: 27 Mar 1845; As the Matilda has been windbound, I have an opportunity of another brief letter to you, on the melancholy affairs of New Zealand. I find that the natives round about the Bay of Islands, have become, in several instances, mere mobs of plunderers. Mr and Mrs Welbank, who have lived many years among them, and are persons of upright and religious character, have related to us - that, after the Battle of Kerorarika, their tribe, under whose protection and in whose friendship they had lived peaceably for years, came and plundered them of everything they could find, leaving them to seek personal safety by a sudden flight in the dark. They destroyed their cattle in mere wantonness, leaving them dead in heaps, and not using them for food, .. (letter from the whaler Matilda, printed in The Patriot, 17 July 1845)
• Occupation: Aug 1853, Sydney; Sydney Morning Herald 19 Aug 1853 SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE STEAM PACKET COMPANY. A VACANCY having occurred in the office of Secretary to this Company, by the retirement of Mr. Wellbank, applications for the appointment, from gentlemen of business habits, thoroughly conversant with bookkeeping and general correspondence, will be received on or before the 22nd instant, addressed to the Chairman of the Company. Salary for the first year, £350. I. WELLBANK, Secretary.
• Occupation: 22 Oct 1853, Printer, Bridge Street, Sydney; Sydney Morning Herald, 22 Oct 1853 BOOK AND JOB PRINTING. The General Printing Business hitherto conducted at the office of the Sydney Morning Herald is removed to eligible and convenient premises in Bridge-street. The materials have been sold to Messrs. Reading and Wellbank. Mr. Reading has had the sole charge of that department for the last seven years. Mr. Fairfax has great confidence in transferring that part of the business to Messrs Reading and Wellbank. METROPOLITAN GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE, 12, BRIDGE STREET READING AND WELLBANK beg to inform their friends and the public that, having purchased the stock of printing type, presses, and material lately used in the job department of the Sydney Morning Herald Office, they are now prepared to receive orders for any description of Letter Press Printing. October 22, 1853. NOTICE. THE undersigned have this day entered into partnership, in the business of General Printers, &tc. JAMES READING. ISAAC WELLBANK
• Note: 1856; Your readers will no doubt remember the terrific explosion which took place in Sydney at the stores. of Messrs Reading and Wellbank, printers, whereby a large number of houses were more or less injured, and the store itself utterly demolished: this too was caused by the destructive, compound, [nitroglycerine] and as no one was near the place at the time, the explosion was unaccountable. 1856 Mt Alexander Mail
• Note: 1860; 1860-1868, English, Periodical, Journal, magazine, other edition: The Australian nautical almanac and coasters' guide : for the Southern and the Eastern coasts of New Holland / compiled by I. Wellbank Bookmark: https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/20270935 Physical Description 9 v. : maps ; 18-20 cm. Published Sydney : Printed and published by Reading and Wellbank, 1859-1868. Language English Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coasters' Guide is very rare. It was published annually from 1860 to 1889. The recent 'Australian Almanacs 1806-1930: A Bibliography' by Ian Morrison surveys the holding of 30 major public, academic and specialist libraries in Australia. It lists only one other known copy of the 1886 edition. For other years there are only a few known copies at best, and in some cases none. The full title indicates the coverage of the almanac: 'Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coasters' Guide For the South and East Coasts and Part of the North-west and West Coasts of Australia, Also the Principal Ports and Harbours of Fiji, Compiled From the Latest and Most Authentic Sources, for the year 1886 Being the Twenty-sixth Year of Publication'. This volume contains a variety of useful information for seamen of the era. The larger part is taken up with details of around 1000 localities around most of the Australian coast - in effect a coastal gazetteer of Australia. A typical entry is as follows Disaster Bay.?Immediately to the southward of Green Cape, and running three or four miles westward, is a deep indent on the coast, terminating in a curved sandy beach, three miles in extent; it is four miles wide between Green Cape and the steep rocky bluff forming the south head. A small river, named the Wonboyn, accessible only to boats in fine weather, empties itself into the N.W. corner of this bay. Anchorage in N.E. winds anywhere under its north shore (Green Cape), in from 13 to 17 fathoms, as close in as convenient; no dangers, and a bold cliffy coast. About half-a-mile within Green Cape on this shore of the Bay a fine steamer, named the City of Sydney, was run on shore and lost.
• Note: 1860; Norah Wellbank Buchanan Born: 25 Jan 1860 Glebe (1860/2526) Norah was named after family friend Isaac Wellbank. Died: 1951Carnegie (9426/1951) Married: 1882ALEXANDER HUTCHISONGlebe (1882/2421) Isaac was a witness at her parent's wedding. A Florence Bessie Wellbank Buchanan was named in his widow Elizabeth's will in 1910.

Isaac married Elizabeth Bennett in 1835 in St Dunstan's in the East, London. Elizabeth died in 1910 in Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 1790, Whitby, Yorkshire, England; Seaman on the Rodney
• Note: 1822; The Regret (from wikipedia entry) Captain Thomas Wellbank, captained Potton on a voyage for the EIC in 1815 to 1816, and took command of Regret c. 1817. Fate BATAVIA, Sept 25 - The Regret, Welbank, from London, took fire about seven o'clock on the evening of the 23d instant, while at anchor in these roads, and by daylight this morning was burnt to the water's edge. The accident was occasioned by the exposure of a lighted candle to a cask of spirits below, which caught and exploded; and the rapidity of the flames was such, that the officers and crew could save nothing but the clothes they had on. The principal part of the cargo had been landed; about 30 or 40 tons of iron, and a quantity of coals remained on board; the iron has been nearly all saved, but so much damaged that it is partly unfit for use. The remains of the hull have been towed onto the Mud Bank, and every exertion is using for the preservation of the materials, which will be sold by public auction. (Morning Chronicle, London, 1 Feb 1823) Wellbank returned to England and was master of Potton again, including sailing her on another voyage for the EIC between 1823 and 1824.
• Occupation: 1815 -1824; Master Mariner, Captain for East India Company
• Note: 1827; Reference: ADM 101/58/7/2 Description: Folio 22: Mary Wilby, aged 50, Free Woman; disease or hurt, general debility and a fixed acute pain on the right side about the 6th rib. Put on sick list, 12 July 1827, at sea. Remained on sick list until 5 August 1827, when she went on shore to her husband in a weak and debilitated state. Folio 23: Elizabeth Byatt, aged about 12, Child of one of the prisoners; disease or hurt, vermes intestorum [worms]. Put on sick list, 13 July 1827. Last date of treatment, 14 July 1827, after which she is stated to have improved. Folio 23: Abstract of the preceding journal, being a summary of all the cases contained therein, nosologically arranged. Folios 24-27: Surgeon's general remarks. The prisoners have all arrived in good health, in spite of the constant gale of wind since the Cape of Good Hope. There was not one case of scurvy, this may partly be because of the careful way the provisions were cooked, the cleanliness and dryness of the prison and the exercise allowed the prisoners; it may also be in part due to the daily allowance of wine, lemon juice and sugar. The women also make better use of their oatmeal and use less of the salted meat than male prisoners. The Surgeon paid great attention to Article 24 of his instructions, respecting the prevention of prostitution between the prisoners and the ship's crew. The ship's officers, particularly the Master Mr Plunkett and the Chief Officer, Mr Wellbank, were very helpful in enforcing this. He recommends that female convict ships should be fitted with a solitary confinement cell and equipped with handcuffs as deterrents and punishments. There was a rule that all women should go below before dusk to help prevent criminal intercourse between the women and the seamen. Mary Page was handcuffed during the voyage for refusing to go below at dusk but this was only possible through borrowing the handcuffs of a passenger who happened to be a policeman. There had been a plan for a number of women to resist going below but she was the only one who acted. A petty officer refused to assist in taking her below and it is suspected that it was part of the plan that no seamen would help in removing the women from the deck. The Surgeon congratulates himself on delivering all the convicts and guards in good health, without any deaths and on effectively eliminating opportunities for prostitution. Signed, James Patton MD RN late Surgeon Superintendent of the Persian. Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, 22 August 1827. National Archives
• Note: 1839; In 1839 Whitby transported 133 female convicts to Sydney. Under the command of Captain Thomas Wellbank, she left Dublin on 18 February and arrived at Sydney on 23 June.
• Note: 1840; WELLBANK, Thomas, petition for almshouse 1840 as of Old Suffolk Street, Cannon Street Road, East London, with wife 70 and son commanding ship in India trade (he was present at Mutiny of the Nore; took machinery for a Mint to Cacutta 1823, etc.) [a record of "Miscellaneous papers" found online which I unfortunately neglected to record what archive they come from].
• Note: 1841; The sword, or "tebute" shown here was given to the museum in 1841 by Captain Thomas Wellbank, returning from a voyage transporting convicts to Australia. (Whitby Museum)
• Residence: 1841, Park Street, Greenwich; from census. Elizabeth Morgan, daughter 30 married to James Terry Morgan, mariner, is living at the same address, presumably her husband is off voyaging.
• Note: 19 Mar 1841, Evening Mail, London; Piracy and Murder An account of an incident dated December 29th, 1839, at Lombok, where Captain Wellbank of the Whitby contributed to the rescue of whaling boats captured by piirates. Colourful details such as an escaped boat with a sail made of trousers and shirts, delivering a note written with a piece of burnt wood. The report is forwarded from St Helena and the paper is sceptical of its truth.

Thomas married Dinah Marshall on 22 Jun 1800 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Dinah was born in 1770 in South Shields, Durham; died on 18 Apr 1859 in Mile End Road, Mile End Old Town; was buried on 25 Apr 1859 in City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
The probate index says she died at the Trinity Ground, Stepney

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• Occupation: 1782, Whitby, Yorkshire, England; Sea Captain

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Occupation:
1782 Captain of Good Design, sailing from Whitby
1786 Captain of Oak, taking a cargo of wood from Hull to Sunderland.
1787 Captain of ship taking coals from Sunderland.
1800 Captain of Oak, arrived at Whitby from Hull with goods.

Thomas married Mary Harrison on 3 Oct 1775 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 1747; ship's mate.

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Occupation:
on Happy Return, sailing from Whitby to Sunderland

Thomas married Jane. Jane was born in 1711; died in 1779 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: The record of Jane's death gives her age and says she is the wife of Thomas Wellbank, a sailor.