George Gilpin-Brown

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• Note: Changed his name to Gilpin-Brown because he inherited George Brown the Younger's estate. His sons were entitled to bear arms including the Gilpin motto "dictis factisque simplex" (plain in word and deed) probably granted to him when he changed his name.

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• Note: Bought Sedbury Hall from the descendants of Christopher Boynton, who originally built at. At the time he and Jemima occupied it the original Medieval building was still part of the Hall, but it was completely rebuilt after the Gilpin-Browns sold it.
• Occupation: Vicar of Stockton

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Died:
WILL
The Revd John Gilpin of Sedbury
jewels and ... namely a sprig ornament for the head a Maltese Cross a pair of ear rings a Song Broach two pins and a pair of bracelets diamond clasps with Roman pearl all of which belonged to Dame Elizabeth Preston the late sister of my wife Jemima Gilpin to Richard Bethell of Rise...Esquire and William Sampson of York Place in the County of Middlesex Esquire upon trust
[to be held according to the will of Elizabeth Preston - not clear whether they are to be sold]
I bequeath the household furniture plate china linen glass books prints pictures wines and liquors fuel consumable provisions and other household ... belonging to me and all other in my personal estate and effects to my said wife Jemima Gilpin
I devise that my manor of Sedbury ... and all my freehold messuages lands tenements tithes and hereditaments in Sedbury.. to my nephew William Gilpin of East Sheen .. Esq and Robert Rayson of Stockton in the county of Durham gentleman upon trust to sell the same together or in parcels...and out of the proceeds to [pay all debts and expenses and invest the remainder in stocks, funds securities, income to go to Jemima then after her death held in trust for his only surviving son George Gilpin]
I devise and bequeath the residue of my ffreehold and copyhold [properties] to my said wife to her heirs and assigns [and Trustees are charged to handle the management].
Proved London 19 Mar 1844.



Memorial in Arkengarthdale Church

In Memory of
the Revd John Gilpin
of Sedbury in the Norrth Riding of Yorkshire
a Magistrate for the Counties of York and Durham
and sometime Vicar of Stockton Upon Tees
He married Jemima, youngest daughter of
George Brown of Stockton, Esquire
and on the demise of her brother
became connected with the
Manor and Estate of Arkengarthdale
of the distribution of the wealth
thus committed to his trust
he followed the example of his predecessor
by zealously promoting
the spiritual and temporal wellbeing
of his tenants and the other
inhabitants of the parish.
He supported on a liberal scale
all the voluntary charities established by his brother-in-law
and expended a considerable sum in improving
and ornamenting this church.
His whole conduct was influenced
by a strict adherence to Christian principles,
and he was highly esteemed for his kind and benevolent disposition,
and the undeviating uprightness of his character.

John married Jemima Brown. Jemima (daughter of George Brown and Margaret Welbank) was born in c. 1776; died in 10 Jan 1854 (age 77) in Sedbury Hall, Yorks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: George Brown, esq., who died in October 1814, and who was proprietor of two- thirds of the manors Arkingarthdale otherwise Arkindale and the New Forest, built a school in Arkindale about a year before his death, for the education of all the children of that manor on the Madras system, allowing the master 441. a year in addition to the fixed stipend of 161. above-mentioned. Mr. Brown, by his Will, dated the 16th February 1811, devised his two-thirds of the manors and all his lands and hereditaments, formerly the estate of Charles Bathurst the elder and Charles Bathurst his son, in Arkindale and New Forest, Kirby Hill and Kirby Ravensworth, in the county of York, to George Welbank, William Sampson and Robert Clarke, esqrs. and Mr. George Alderson, upon certain trusts, for the benefit of his sisters Jemima, wife of the Rev. John Gilpin, and Dame Elizabeth Preston, wife of Sir Robert Preston, bart., and others of his family or relations; and by a Codicil to his Will, dated the 19th of Feb- ruary 1811, he gave to the said trustees in his Will named, the sum of 3,000l., upon trust, as soon as conveniently might be after his decease, to pay and apply so much thereof as they should see necessary (for to their discretion he entirely submitted the same), in the building of two schools within the parish of Arkingarthdale, in such situations as in their opinion should be most con- venient for and best adapted to the education of the children residing within the said parish ; and upon further trust, to invest upon government or real securities, the residue of the said sum of 3,000l., which should not be so paid and applied as aforesaid, and to pay the dividends or interest thereof to the masters for the time being of the said schools, in equal proportions, as the sole and only recompence for teaching the said children; and he directed that the person or persons who for the time being should be seised of his two-thirds of the manor of Arkingarthdale, should have the sole conduct and direction of the said schools, and that they should as soon as the said schools should be inhabitable, nominate and appoint two proper masters thereto, and from time to time nominate and appoint others, as often as any vacancy should happen, and should from time to time fix and appoint the number of children to be instructed at each school, and make and ordain such rules for the manage- ment of the said schools as they should conceive would be the most conducive to York.] FOR INQUIRING CONCERNING CHARITIES. 609 to the education of the children, to the improvement of their morals and for promoting christian virtue. Since Mr. Brown's death, Lady Preston's trustees having purchased the third of the two manors which had belonged to a different proprietor, the entirety is now vested in William Sampson, of Copthall-court, Throgmortonstreet, London, esq., Robert Clarke, of Stockton-upon-Tees, esq., Robert Welbank, of Tandridge, Surrey, esq., and William Bethell, esq., of Rise in the county of York; the two last named being substituted trustees for the purposes of Mr. Brown's Will. The trustees of the Will being advised that the bequest of the 3,000l. was void under the Statute of Mortmain, took no steps to carr the bequest into effect, but Mrs. Gilpin and Lady Preston and their husban have continued the school at Arkindale, upon the same footing on which it was supported by Mr. Brown at the time of his death. With respect to the two payments of 4 l. each for apprenticing a boy, or other purposes mentioned in the Will of Dr. Bathurst, we do not find that these sums have usually been specifically paid or applied; and in answer to our inquiry on this subject we are informed that the |. of the manors and estates have allowed to each of the respective schoolmasters at Arkindale and in the New Forest a house to live in rent-free, and also a schoolroom and some little land, and that the two sisters of Mr. Brown also supply the school at Arkindale with bibles and other books; and it is suggested, that thus, in fact as to the Arkindale school at least, effect is given to Dr. Bathurst's donation of 4l, and it is added, that the salary of the master at Arkindale and his house to live in, with some land, amount in the whole to 721. a year. It seems, however, to us proper and desirable, that the directions of Dr. Bathurst should be complied with as to the specific payments of the two sums of 41. each, and the application of them to the purposes mentioned in the Will, or such of those purposes as can conveniently be effected. The school at Arkindale was numerously attended at the time of our inquiry, there being occasionally 150 scholars. They are instructed in reading, writing and accounts, with the Church Catechism. The school for the children of New Forest is kept at Helwith in that district, and all children of the New Forest who apply are admitted, and instructed as free scholars in reading, writing and accounts; but the number of children attending that school is much less considerable, the New Forest being much more thinly peopled than Arkindale, which contains three villages, besides several scattered farms and miner's houses.

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Died:
Plaque in Arkengarthdale Church

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• Residence: Threadneedle Street, London; The alms-houses, in their present improved state, derive their origin from the princely munificence of the late George Brown, Esq., of Stockton, and of Threadneedle Street, London. For this benevolent purpose he bequeathed £3,000, and likewise £1,000 to the treasurer of the school for the blue-coat boys and girls at Stockton, for the general purpose of the charity. This excellent gentleman died in Londpon in Oct 1814. Stockton: an historical, biographical and descriptive poem ...By Thomas Webber p33 Pub. Jennett, 1830 (I believe this relates to his son George Brown the younger and I've copied it to there - MW)
• Occupation: 1758; Mariner, of the parish of Stockton (at his wedding).
• Residence: Abt 1760, 8, Paradise Row, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England; The Browns owned and occupied No. 8, Paradise Row, Stockton; which was afterwards inhabited by the Misses Welbank. [Genealogical Additions to the History of Stockton upon Tees. Page 102]

George married Margaret Welbank on 6 Feb 1758 in St Alphage, Greenwich. Margaret (daughter of George Welbank and Margaret Chapman) was born on 27 Jun 1737 in Gainford, Durham, England; died on 14 Nov 1776; was buried in Stockton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 1776, Stockton Church Graveyard; Gravestone inscription: Under this stone are deposited the remains of Margaret, daughter of George Welbank and wife of George Brown, gent, in whom were united the social and domestic virtues which are the best ornament of a Christian. A cultivated mind gave her a more perfect knowledge of her duty : the practice of it, an unaffected piety rendered habitual. Deprived of so amiable a pattern of conjugal and maternal affection, her surviving family mourn daily their irreparable loss ; whilst the many to whom she endeared herself by her benevolence of mind and conversation, shed the involuntary tear of friendship to her memory. She departed this life November 14, 1776, in the 40th year of her age." Also, here lie interred the remains of the above-named Geo. Brown, gent, who was blessed with a long life, and died the death of the righteous on the 15th day of March, 1805, in the 80th year of his age."

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Married:
Bride is of this parish. William, Jane and Mary Welbank are witnesses.

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• Residence: Abt 1760, Stockton on Tees, County Durham, England; Henry Brown Esq. of Stockton, was also living in 1760. He married and had issue a son, the late Mr Brown of Threadneedle Street, London, (by whose munificence Stockton almshouses were augmented,) and daughters, of whom Elizabeth married Sir Robert Preston, Bart. but had no issue; and another was wife of Rev. John Gilpin of Stockton, afterwards of Sedbury, near Richmond, co. York. The Browns owned and occupied No. 8, Paradise Row, Stockton; which was afterwards inhabited by the Misses Welbank. [Genealogical Additions to the History of Stockton upon Tees. Page 102]

Henry married Mary. [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