George Welbank

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• Occupation: 9 May 1719, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; Matthew Halliday apprenticed to George Welbank, cordwainer, of Burrowbridge.

George married Mary Wiles on 6 May 1705 in Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Dorothy Snowden on 16 Nov 1712 in St Olaves, Marygate, York. Dorothy died in 1772 in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; was buried on 16 Mar 1772 in Aldborough, Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
this death has the same quite unusual name

Isabel married Robert Heslup on 27 Dec 1743 in York, Yorkshire England. Robert was born in 1716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1753, Alnhams, Yorkshire; The parish register records that he lives in Boroughbridge for the birth of his first child, but Alnhams for his other children.
• Note: 1757, Aldborough, Yorkshire, England; Bundle of English and Latin deeds relating to a messuage and land in Aldborough, Yorkshire purchased from George Welbank and others in 1767 Ne D 5572-Ne D 5601 Ne D 5607-5608 Mortgage by lease and release from George and Rachel Welbank to Alice Walker of one third part of a messuage and land in Aldborough, Yorkshire, redeemable for £150 and interest; 17-18 Jul. 1757 Ne D 5609-5610 Lease and release from George and Rachel Welbank and others to Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln [later 2nd Duke of Newcastle under Lyne of a messuage and land in Aldborough, Yorkshire; 3-4 Apr. 1767
• Occupation: 1757 - 1767; Welbank; Rachel (fl 1757-1767); Mrs; m 1stly William Burnand of Leeds; m 2ndly George Welbank carrier of Ripon Yorkshire

George married Rachel Burnand on 26 Jul 1750 in Aldborough, Yorks, England. Rachel died in 1789 in widow of B'bridge; was buried on 22 Jul 1789 in St Andrew, Aldborough, Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1781-1790, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; Land tax records, 8/4d payable per year. Living separately from Christopher Welbank, who pays less for his property.

Notes:

Died:
In 1791-4 the land tax record says "late Welbank".

Dorothy married William Chambers [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: currier (noted in parish register christening records of his children).
• Residence: 1783-1799, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; Christopher Welbank appears on land tax records between these dates. In 1802 M Welbank is probably at same address - widow Mary?

Christopher married Mary Dickinson in 1758 in Aldborough, Yorks. Mary was born in 1723; died on 20 Nov 1801 in St Andrew, Aldborough, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 3 Mar 1748, York, Yorkshire England; John, son of Dorothy Welbank of Burrowbridge, widow, apprenticed to Robert Welbank in the City of York wine cooper for 7 years. Robert is his cousin.
• Residence: 1 Jun 1769, Marylebone, London?; John Welbank wine cooper of Marylebone takes apprentice John Bee. Although no evidence that he comes from York, the year is plausible. 1780 John Welbancke pays land tax in Jees Court, Marylebone.

Notes:

Buried:
daughter of George Welbank, Ripon

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• Occupation: 1810, Tower of London; REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONER (1810-1811) Working for Office of Ordnance in the Tower of London, Richard Welbank writes or signs various reports. Reports for Commissioners 1 Nov 1810 - 24 July 1811 VOL IV
• Occupation: 1818; Clerks under Clerk of Ordnance. ... Chief Clerk Richard Welbank, esq. from The Royal kalendar, and court and city register for England, ... - Google
• Occupation: 1819, Tower of London; The University of Nottingham Library Manuscripts and Special Collections Catalogue of the papers of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne in the Newcastle collection. Part 1: Lord lieutenancy papers, including militia and yeomanry papers. Ne C 4712 18.8.1819 Letter from Mr Welbank, Office of Ordnance, London, to [H.P.F. Pelham-Clinton] 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; 18 Aug 1819. Counterpart of order to Pickford and Co. to deliver stores from the Tower to Clumber Park for the Duke of Newcastle, Commandant of the Clumber Yeomanry Cavalry. 2 ff Ne C 4714 14.9.1819 Letter from Mr Welbank, Office of Ordnance, London, to [H.P.F. Pelham-Clinton] 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; 14 Sep 1819. Counterpart of order to Pickford and Co. to deliver stores from the Tower to Clumber Park for the Duke of Newcastle, Commandant of the Clumber Yeomanry Cavalry. 2 ff Ne C 4722 4.1.1820 Letter from Mr Welbank, Office of Ordnance, London, to [H.P.F. Pelham-Clinton] 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; 4 Jan 1820. Counterpart of order to Pickford and Co. to deliver stores from the Tower to Clumber Park for the Duke of Newcastle, Commandant of the Clumber Yeomanry Cavalry. 2 ff
• Residence: 1840; London, England Electoral Registers 1832-1965 Welbank, Richard, Enfield, Copyhold, Little Pipers, Silver Street, Enfield
• Residence: 1841, Clay Hill, Enfield, Middlesex; from census
• Note: 1844, Will ; leaves his musical instruments and printed music to his sons.

Notes:

Birth:
The parish record notes that his father lives in Boroughbridge, so Richard would have been born there.

Richard married Ann Parsons on 8 Mar 1791 (Parish Register) in Lambeth St Mary. Ann died on 5 Apr 1847 in Clay Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: It is speculative that Christopher born in 1761 in Aldborough is the same man as Christopher Welbank, cooper of St Vincent. In his Will he says that he has a brother John with no children and a brother Richard with two sons and two daughters. And his brother Richard vouched for his son Richard Thomas joining the Madras Infantry. This suggests that Richard had some standing in society. People with standing in society would leave records eg Wills and newspaper announcements of marriages and deaths. It seems unlikely that there was another Richard with the same family configuration and standing in society as Richard Welbank of The Tower, but there are no records of him, his children, or his brother John.
• Occupation: Cooper in his Majesties Office of Ordnance.
• Note: 27 Mar 1817, Kingstown, St Vincent; Record of 21 slaves owned by Christopher
• Note: 1822 and 1825, Kingstown. St Vincent; similar records of slaves. The death rate is notable. In 1822, 4 have died in the last five years, aged 37, 38, 35 and 35. In 1825, another has died, age 29.
• Note: 1826, St Vincent; Will of Christopher Welbank, Cooper to His Majesty's Ordnance in the Island of Saint Vincent of Kings Town , Island of Saint Vincent. 12 Nov 1826 PROB 11/1718
• Note: 28 Jan 1828, Kingstown, St Vincent; Record of slaves owned and sold or manumitted by the Estate of Christopher. 5 were manumitted and 2 sold to Mr Storot.

Notes:

Note:
I Christopher Welbank of Kings Town in the Isaland of St Vincent cooper to his Majesty's Ordnance in this Island being of sound and disposing? mind... I give devise and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Richard Welbank now in the Army stationed in the East Indies the sum of ffive thousand five hundred pounds of Sterling money of Great Britain to be paid him by my Executors in twelve months after my decease out of my funded property.
Also I give devise and bequeath to each of my brothers Richard Welbank and John Welbank the sum of five Hundred Pounds apiece of like Sterling money to be paid to them by my Executors...
All of the rest and residue of of my funded property subject to the above.... I give devise and bequeath to my two nephews and my two nieces the children of my brother Richard Welbank.... to be paid to them on their attaining respectively the ages of twenty one years or their days of Marriage....
I give devise and bequeath unto William Storot his heirs and assigns all that my part of Lot Number Sixty Seven in Kingstown adjoining on or abutting on my present dwelling house and the lot formerly occupied by Peggy Sutherland fronting Long Court and bounded Northerly by the lot belonging to Dr West? in trust nevertheless for my goddaughter Elizabeth Jane daughter of Grace Ffroderick? until she shall attain the age of twenty one years...
I give devise and bequeath unto Benjamin Frith Hutchins ffifty pounds currency ...
As a mark of my esteem and regard for him I give devise and bequeath my slave Isaac unto the said William Storot ... until he shall arrive at the age of twenty one years or thereabouts if complete in a trade when it is my will that the said William Storot his heirs or assigns shall manumit him and that my Executors to pay him the sum of one hundred pounds currency or lay out the same in such a manner as may be most advantageous for him
my executors to manumit and set free my two slaves Rippon a cooper and Guashty? a labourer and to pay to each of them the sum of forty pounds currency in such a manner as may be most advantageous for them
All the rest residue and remainder of all my real and personal Estate lands tenements and Slaves bills bonds Notes Money Plate furniture and other property of what nature and kindsoever and wheresoever situate I give devise and bequeath unto the Honorable Edward Jackson Charles Shophard and William Storot Esquire of Saint Vincent and the survivors of them.... on trust to sell and dispose of the same at and for the best prices that can be got for the same and out of the proceeds thereof to pay satisfy and discharge my debts... and subject thereto I give devise and bequeath one half of such residue unto my son Thomas Richard Welbank and the other half unto my said nephews and nieces the four children of my brother Richard Welbank to be equally divided ....
and I authorise and empower my said Trustees ... to reserve to themselves the power .... of purchasing any portion of my residuary property directed to be sold especially my ... Slaves if they shall be desirous of belonging to any of them...
I the said Christopher Welbank have set and affixed my hand and seal to this my last Will .... at St Vincent this 13th day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Six

(proved on 26th July 1826)

Family/Spouse: Mary Baptiste. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: "Mr Welbank was intimate with several painters of note, including John Martin, whose family he attended, and some of whose pictures he owned." He also bought the painting "The Mall" from William Mulready. Memorials of William Mulready, Frederic George Stephens, 1890.
• Note: 15 Nov 1785; Admitted to London Freemason's Lodge
• Residence: 1791, Earl Street, Chatham Place; surgeon
• Occupation: 1797, Tower of London; A John Welbank was working as a clerk at the Royal Ordnance in 1797 on £70/ year, possibly he worked there with his brother before training to be a surgeon. Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies, 1797,
• Note: 7 Nov 1803, Oracle and the Daily Advertiser, London; On Thursday a party of the Law Association attended at Chalk Farm to shoot at a Target, when Mr. WELBANK, the Surgeon belonging to the Corps, discharged six shots, and lodged five in the bull's eye.
• Occupation: 1805, 102 Chancery Lane, London, England.; Surgeon (Holden's Triennial Directory)
• Note: 13 Jan 1807, Morning Herald (London); John Welbank is steward at the Anniversary Dinner of the Gentlemen educated at St Paul's School, held at the Freemasons' Tavern .
• Note: 1809, Bury and Norwich Post, 5 Jul 1809; Welbank v Young Welbank, a surgeon and accoucheur in Chancery-Lane, sues for the return of £135 paid for two coach-horses, one of which was lame on account of a thrush infection in its foot.
• Note: 12 Jul 1832, Morning Herald (London); Blundell v Welbank Fishmongers bring action against Welbank, a former surgeon, for payment for fish. Defendant said they'd agreed to offset his services against the fish, and Court agreed.
• Occupation: 1848; Morning Post London, England 13 Apr 1848 d. John Welbank, Esq., M.R.C.S aged 84

Notes:

Buried:
Burial register no. 3, references 2695-4071
3009 Private Grave F 78.0 x 11.3

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1817, Tower of London; Junior clerk in the Dept of Deliveries, Royal Ordnance Office
• Residence: 1822, Tower of London Ex Par
• Census: 1871, 1 Furnivals Inn, ; Robert Welbank Head Widower? 78 Rebecca Rubley 47 Servant
• Note: 1874, Will; 8 May. The Will of Robert Welbank formerly of the Ordnance Office in the Tower of London afterwards of thye War Office Pall Mall but late of 1 Furnival's-Inn all in the County of Middlesex Esquire who died 22 April 1874 at 1 Furnival's-Inn was proved at the Principal Registry by Charlotte Winks of 3 Halford-street Pentonville in the said County Spinster the sole Executrix.

Notes:

Buried:
according to the gravestone, remains were moved from the Tower of London. He is buried with his wife, her unmarried sister, and her father and mother.

The Times, 19 Oct 1844
THE TOWER - (From a Correspondent) - The first disinterment from the Tower burial-ground took place on Saturday last, when the mortal remains of several relatives of Lieutenant-General Dickinson, Royal Artillery, were thence removed to the new churchyard, Lee, Kent. The coffins were conveyed in a hearse, and deposited in a vault previously prepared for their reception. Two relatives of the General, the Rev W Ludlow and Mr R Welbank, superintended the removal, and accompanied the remains. We understand this rude, perhaps cruel, disturbance, has arisen from the alleged necessity of appropriating that which was formerly a burial-ground as the site for a portion of the projected new barracks.

Robert married Frances Dickinson in Oct 1822 in TS John Jas Mary, St John's, Westminster. Frances (daughter of Richard Dickinson and Elizabeth) was born in 1785; died in 17 Jul 1830; was buried in Lee (St Margaret) Old Churchyard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
born to Richard + Anne

Notes:

Buried:
Ann Elizabeth Scott. Age of this record matches her birth date.

Ann married John Scott on 24 May 1822 (Licence) in Enfield, Middlesex, England. John was born in 1801. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: Sarah Bray, wife of Thomas Blakewell Bray, is mentioned in her uncle John's Will. However her father Richard's Will names her as Mary Anne.
• Census: 1851, Salehurst, Surrey; Thomas Bray, 50 and Mary Anne Bray, 38 , landholders, living with 4 servants at Darwell Bank

Notes:

Died:
In 1861 census no longer listed at Darwell Bank

Mary married Thomas Blakeway Bray on 10 May 1831 in St Paul Convent Garden, Westminster. Thomas was christened on 1 Sep 1799 in Church Stretton, Shropshire; died on 9 May 1891 in Church Stretton, Shropshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 1824; Richard was in East India Company Army 1824-34.
• Note: 6 Jan 1824; Petition to join the East India Madras Infantry, recommended by Sir Robert "Floating Bob" Preston and with an extract from the birth records of Kingstown, St Vincent detailing his birth and verified by Richard Welbank, his uncle. This confirms that he was born in St Vincent to Christopher Welbank, and christened Richard Thomas although his father's Will names him Thomas Richard.
• Occupation: 1826, Madras, India; Richard Thomas Welbank recorded as member of the Madras Army: 14 May 1824 Cadet, 7 Jul 1826 Lieutenant, Appointed Deputy Judge and advocate general 1830. Resigned 21 Feb 1834 in England.
• Note: 1827; Richard was a passenger aboard the ship Sarah, Bombay to London 1827
• Note: 1828; Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette Somerset, England 3 Jul 1828 Richard Thomas Welbank, esq; of the Madras Infantry, to Margaret Sophia, eldest daughter of John Lee Allen, esq; of Errol Park, in the county of Perth, and 10, Laura-place, Bath. After the ceremony the happy couple set off on a tour to the Lakes;
• Note: 14 Jun 1832, Cheltenham Chronicle; Mr R T Welbank listed arriving in Cheltenham.
• Occupation: 20 Apr 1834, Atlas, London; Request for extension of furlough from Lieut. R T Welbank, not long before resigning.
• Note: 4 Sep 1856, Morning Herald; Lost - a bank post-bill for £19 2s, date 16 June, 1856 - This Bill was remitted under cover to Madame Welbank, Biarrits, Basses Pyrenees, France, on the 17th of June last, and has never been received by that Lady. ...... Messrs Williamson, Hill and Williamson, who remitted the same .... reward of ONE POUND

Notes:

Died:
In 1856 his first wife's father applied for the return of £5000 he had put in trust for the couple and their children. (Morning Chronicle, 25 Feb 1856).

Etat-civil - Archives de Pau

"lesquels nous ont declare que Monsieur Richard Thomas Welbank, Capitaine au service de la Compagnie de l'Inde, age de quarante neuf ans, ne a Patras, demeurans a Pau, epoux de Madame Hermine Siebec, rentiere, eu decede aujourd'hui a neuf heures du matin dans la maison Tommes rue Maria, et ont les declarans Signe avec nous le present acte apres lecture faite."

Some of the details are not quite right. It says he was 49, born in Patras, and was a Captain in the East India Company (not a Lieutentant). Nevertheless there are no other men called Welbank in their records, and his father-in-law sought to recover the money settled on his first wife soon after this death.

Richard married Margaret Sophia Allen on 1 Jul 1828 (Licence) in Bathwick St Mary,Somerset, England.. Margaret (daughter of John Lee Allen and Louisa Ainslie) was born on 13 Sep 1806 in Errol, Perth, Scotland; died on 11 Jun 1831 in Cannanore, India; was buried in Errol Parish Church Graveyard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Hermine Sieber on 15 Jan 1838 in St Stephen, Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria. Hermine (daughter of Anton Sieber and Theresia V Ritter) was born on 9 May 1818 in Vienna. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]