Meriel Nelson

Meriel married Christopher Welbank on 1 May 1712 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. Christopher (son of Robert Welbank and Grace Conyers) was christened on 13 Jan 1686/87 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England; died in 1729; was buried on 14 Jan 1729 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Meriel married Michael Webster [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
As his parents name another boy Mark in 1725, he must have died before then.

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• Occupation: shoemaker

Thomas married Mary Smith [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Lambs Conduit Street
• Occupation: 1748, London, attorney; 14 Jun 1748 Christopher Welbank, place of abode Gray's Inn, admitted to the Queen's Bench. 1754 Christopher Welbank and David Warburton of Grays Inn. 1756 Smart and Welbank Attorneys at their chambers in Gray's Inn Gazette, 12 Oct 1760 Messrs Smart and Welbank attorneys at law of Grays-Inn, handling a bankruptcy in Newcastle.
• Occupation: 1756, Receiver for the Treasurer of York; ..Lowe Esq., suffered a recovery to the use of Christopher Welbank, the receivers of the Treasurer of the county, 66s. 8d. of meadow, fifty acres of pasture, pasture for sixteen cows and common.. The History of Yorkshire. By Marshal General Plantagenet-Harrison, H.K.G. Wapentake of Gilling West. Published in 1885 Also two other records of land transactions in which he may be acting as attorney: 1763 Samuel Morris of Stratford-upon-Avon releases crofts and woods in Langley to Christopher Welbank of Hatton Garden. In 1767 Christopher Welbank of Kirby Street Middx involved in the fourth part in a land transaction. As the addresses, Hatton Garden and Kirby Street, match the addresses in the christening records of his children, this is good evidence that Christopher of Mount Pleasant was an attorney.
• Occupation: 30 Jun 1760, Hatton Garden; 1760 Christopher Welbank the younger of Hatton Garden executes articles with Christopher Welbank the elder of Hatton Garden. (Kings Bench, Registers of Affidavits of Due Execution, National Archives KB170/14). 1774 Mark Newby completes articles with Christopher Wellbank, attorney of St Andrew, Holborn. 1775 Thomas Hudson articled to Christopher Wellbank, attorney of St Andrew, Holborn.
• Residence: 1767, Hatton Garden; Address given at christening of first child Meriel, and third child Jane,.also "Christopher Welbank, formerly of Hatton Garden" at marriage of his daughter Mary.
• Residence: 1768, Kirby Street; address in christening record of daughter Mary. In 1767 Christopher Wellbank pays land tax in Little Kirby Street. 1769 Mark Newby articled to Christopher Welbank of Little Kirby Street.
• Residence: 1775, Hatton Street, City of Westminster, Marylebone, London NW8; address mentioned in Edward Dawson's christening record.
• Residence: 1779, Northallerton; Youngest child christened at Northallerton, and was living at Mount Pleasant (built approx 1780) when his daughter Mary married.
• Note: 1793, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England; National Burial Index for England & Wales Transcription First name(s) CHRISTOPHER Last name WELBANK Birth year 1721 Death year 1793 Age 72 Burial year 1793 Burial day 12 Burial month 7 Place NORTHALLERTON Church description ALL SAINTS Church denomination ANGLICAN County Yorkshire, Yorkshire (North Riding) Country England Record set National Burial Index for England & Wales Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Christopher married Mary Dawson on 1 Nov 1765 in Northallerton. Mary (daughter of Edward Dawson) was born in 1741 in Northallerton; was christened on 21 Aug 1741 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England; died in Feb 1798 in Northallerton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 19 Jul 1742; Welbank Robert son of Christopher Welbank late of Northallerton in the County York Shoemaker ... apprenticed for 7 years to Elizabeth Gray of the City of York widow of Oswald Gray cooper.
• Occupation: 1744, York, Yorkshire England; His cousin John was apprenticed to Robert Welbank in the City of York, wine cooper, so presumably to him. Robert Welbank cooper was franchised in York in 1744.
• Note: 1764; Robert Welbank of the suburbs of York, cooper, £50 indemnity in respect of his child with Ellen Upton
• Residence: 1756-1765, St Trinity, Micklegate, York; from hearth and window tax records.

Robert married Elizabeth Gray on 21 Oct 1744 in Myton-upon-Swale, Yorks. Elizabeth was born in 1704; died on 26 Mar 1790; was buried on 28 Mar 1790 in St Trinity, Micklegate, York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen Upton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married John Stamper in 1765 in Saint Andrew, Holborn, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: The problem here is to work out which of the many Christophers in England around that time was our Christopher who married Ann Knapp. I am pretty confident that this Christopher is the direct ancestor of all Welbanks in England today. His family with Ann Knapp are well documented as our branch.
• Occupation: Attorney at Law
• Note: 30 Jun 1760, ; Welbank Christopher the younger of Hatton Garden Middx gent [completes articles with] Christopher Welbank the elder of Hatton Garden gent. 5 years 30th June 1760. (Kings Bench, Registers of Affidavits of Due Execution, National Archives KB170/14) Christopher of Southampton Buildings is presumably Christopher the Younger. The same address and name suggests they were relatives. Christopher Welbank of Mount Pleasant Northallerton (1720-93) lived at Hatton Garden. He is a likely candidate for Christopher the Elder. At the moment Christopher, his older brother's son, is the most likely candidate for Christopher the Younger, as a fairly close relative who is the right age to complete articles in 1760 (at a pinch: he would have been articled in 1755, at age 12). So Christopher (new) Welbank has been given the birth details of Christopher of Mount Pleasant's nephew. On the other hand the record doesn't state that the two Christophers are nephew and uncle, so Christopher the Younger might be a related Christopher who doesn't appear in the parish records.
• Note: 1767; Admitted to the Queen's Bench (Rolls of Attorney, National Archives KB 172/1)
• Note: 1779; Joseph Lockall articled to Christopher Welbank of Dyer's Buildings. In the papers, Christopher says he is an attorney at the Queen's Bench and also in the Courts of Chancery. This will be Christopher the Younger, as the older Christopher has moved to Northallerton. Mr Welbank of Dyer's Buildings appears as attorney in many bankruptcy cases in 1776, 1778, 1779, then Mr Welbank of Gray's Inn in cases in 1781, 1783, Welbank and Rain of Gray's Inn in cases from 1784 and 1785 (various newspapers).
• Note: 2 Nov 1779, St Andrew's Holborn; 2 Nov 1779 by Licence Christopher Welbank, Bachelor of St Andrew, Holborn, London Ann Knapp, Spinster of St Andrew, Holborn Married by Tho's Clark 1st Witness: Catherine Knapp 2nd Witness: Margaret Knapp
• Note: 1782, Nat. Archives C12/2128/12; Lawsuit Price V Welbank against Christopher Welbank of Southhampton Buildings. Samuel Price, Dublin-based bookseller and brother of the deceased, is co-executor with Christopher Welbank and complains that Welbank has made decisions about the funeral without consulting him and has not paid over the proceeds from sale of annuities. Welbank agrees he didn't inform Price because they are not getting along, and admits he hasn't paid all the proceeds over, although he assures the court that he will do so shortly.
• Residence: 1782, Lamb's Conduit Street.; Address given in Mary Ann's christening record.
• Note: 1785; Christopher Wilbank attorney of 15 Southhampton Buildings, fire insurance for £400. Also land tax paid at Old Southampton Buildings in 1785 and 1786.
• Note: 25 Feb 1785; John Jones apprenticed to Christopher Welbank attorney of Gray's Inn.
• Residence: 1786, Southampton Buildings, Holborn; mentioned in son James Freedom of City record as 'son of Christopher Welbank late of Southampton Buildings, Holborn.
• Note: 10 Nov 1797; Dated 10 Nov 1797 "To our well beloved in Christ, Margaret Knapp spinster, the aunt, next of kin and ? or Guardian lawfully and ? to James Welbank, Mary Ann Welbank spinster, Richard Welbank and Frances Welbank spinster, minors, the natural, lawful and only children of Ann Smith formerly Welbank late of Fee Rent in the Parish of St Andrew Holborn in the county of Middlesex." [ document appoints Margaret Knapp guardian of minors and holder of money until one of them reaches the age of 21 ] " for the ? and benefit of the said minors and until one of them shall attain the age of 21 years." Margaret Knapp of Aldersgate St, London, is Ann's aunt and mentions all of Ann's children in her will. [Margaret KNAPP - PCC 1802] £5 to brother Thomas Knapp, and William his son, £2 to John his son. £5 to great-niece Mary Welbank. Frances gets a small mahogany bureau, a watch, earrings necklaces jewellery and "all the best of my wearing apparel" silks laces muslins and linen. Richard Welbank gets a bed, hangings, feather bed bolster and pillow, sheets blankets two small counterpanes and a large chest with two drawers at the bottom. James Welbank gets a large mahogany bureau, plate, damask tablecloths, Huckaback towels, a china punchbowl, etc, the residue to be sold and equally divided between James, Richard and Frances (?? Mary left out):: James and Richard Welbank to be the executors. Funeral expenses not to exceed £15.

Notes:

Died:
fever acquired while canvassing for the post of coroner for Middlesex.

Notices in the Daily Universal Register of the 24th and 26th June 1786, from Christopher regretting that he can't canvass the voters due to sudden illness, then notices from Ann Welbank announcing his death and suggesting the voters choose a candidate who is prepared to pay her an allowance out of the income. However, they chose the man who had already been filling in for the former coroner during his terminal illness, who had declined to pay her anything.

Buried:
the date fits his desth, although the location is puzzling.

Christopher married Ann Knapp on 1 Nov 1779 in St Andrew, Holborn. Ann (daughter of Richard Knapp and Mary Barker) was christened on 31 Oct 1756 in St Andrew, Holborn, London, England; died in 1797. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Meriel Welbank of Hatton Garden (from parish register)

Notes:

Died:
announcement in Leeds Intelligencer 19 Aug 1837 says she died "lately in London".

Mary married Thomas Mitchell on 2 Mar 1789 in Northallerton, Yorks. Thomas died in 1859 in Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester; was buried in 1859 in Unitarian Chapel, Upper Brook Street, Manchester. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: follower of the Rev William Turner, dissenter and Unitarian. Recorded borrowing 20 works from his Hanover Square Library in Newcastle: Amongst 13 of the most popular borrowings from the Hanover Square Library, 7 were books of sermons, one example of the continuing network of communication and ideas between ministerial and lay Rational Dissenters.146 On 32 occasions Margaret Hogg borrowed sermons, discourses and tracts. Of John Selkirk?s 36 borrowings, 15 were sermons. Amongst 26 works which John Taylor borrowed were 13 sermons. John Murray borrowed ten sermons amongst 14 works, Miss Wellbank ten amongst 20 works. Although by no means unique to Rational Dissenters, amongst Rational Dissenters enthusiastic reading of sermons, particularly of the wide range present in Hanover Square Library, encouraged individual consideration of a range of theological viewpoints. UNIVERSITY OF KENT Submission for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy RATIONAL DISSENT IN ENGLAND c. 1770 - c. 1800: DEFINITIONS, IDENTITY AND LEGACY Valerie Smith October 2016
• Note: 1798; She was bequeathed ?600 on her mother's death, so was fairly comfortably off but still operated various businesses.
• Occupation: 1818, Scarborough, Yorkshire; Announcement that Miss Welbank is opening a girls' boarding school in Queen Street Scarborough, which was still advertising in 1821, offering "warm and cold bathing". (Yorkshire Gazette, 5 May 1821). Most likely to be Jane? Her unmarried nieces Janetta and Rosa also opened schools.
• Note: 1822, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; Ran a boarding school. YARMOUTH. Mrs WELBANK, successor to MISS OSBORNE, begs to inform the Friends of that Lady, and the Public in general, that she has taken possession of the House.. (Norfolk Chronicle, 20 Jul 1822) The tenancy expired in 1823.
• Residence: 1825, 41 Albany Street, Edinburgh; Nobility, gentry and clergy - Pigot's directory
• Note: 1826, 41 Albany Street, Edinburgh; According to Bob Gamble, she was known as Mrs Welbank even though unmarried, and lived at Albany Street where she ran a boarding house for Unitarian students at Edinburgh University. A Mrs Jane Welbank lived at 41 Albany Street from 1820-1828. In August 1824 Harriet Martineau and her brother James stayed with her during a walking tour of Scotland, In December 1826 John James Audubon says he met her and was fascinated by her very red nose due to excessive rouge. He also says she had daughters, which is odd. ' I went to Mrs Welbank, Albany Street, to dine with William Gregg - Dr Gardner was there - Mrs Welbank has a Red Nose. - Now, when I say red, I do not mean to say that it is covered with that soft downy, velvety light substance that I often have seen and felt on thine, composed of a Bloom of pure White, with a thought of vermillion - Not I - I Infer that the strongest decoction of the little Insect called cochenille would only be a very poor color compared with the Truly red colored Nose of the Lady here mention - This redness extends from the center of the ridge, off and over the cheeks, the forehead, & the chin in rich profusion, and along with the Cap, the Ribbands and the Dress, I thought that Nothing so very red had ever met my Eye before - She is aimiable, however, and so are her Daughters and so, Lucy, never mind the Color!' Perhaps the "daughters" were her students?
• Occupation: 1834, 58 Eldon Street, Newcastle ; MRS WELBANK takes this Method of informing her Frends and the Public, that she has just received (direct from the India House) a fresh Supply of TEA, which she is enabled to sell at considerably reduced Prices. Strong fine-flavoured Congou at 5s, and Teas of superior Quality equally low. (Newcastle Journal, 8 Nov 1834) In the York Herald 4 Aug 1838 is an advert offering "easy employment" as an agent for the East India Tea Company. Teas are packed in leaden containers, neither shop nor fixtures are required, the licence is 11/- per annum.
• Occupation: 1837, 31 Eldon Street, Newcastle; Mrs Welbank listed as a tea dealer at this address, Pigot's directory.
• Occupation: 1851; Independent Means
• Residence: 1851, Eldon Street, Newcastle

Notes:

Buried:
same burial ground as the Rev Turner.

Died:
"old age" aged 81

She was living with her nieces, daughters of her sister Mary (Welbank) Mitchell, before she died.
The Newcastle Journal, 14 Feb 1852

Ann married Thomas Robinson in Aug 1801 in St. Nicholas, Newcastle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 1793, Northallerton, Yorks; articled to Thomas Watson, attorney

Notes:

Died:
fits

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• Occupation: 1795, linen-draper?; March 1789 The same day was married, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, wholesale linen-draper, to Miss Welbank, eldest daughter of Christopher Welbank, Esq; of Mount Pleasant, near Northallerton. 1795 William Welbank is apprenticed to Thomas Mitchell, linen-draper. He would have been 16. 18 Aug 1803 John Westoby Palmer has declined his retail business as a linen draper in York in favour of William Welbank. WILLIAM WELBANK Linen-draper and Haberdasher Near the Minster-Gates, York, BEGS permission to acquaint his Friends and the Public, that he has ENTERED to the Shop lately occupied by Mr J.W.Palmer. From the experience he has had in the first houses in London, hopes for a CONTINUANCE of the same patronage and support with which Mr. PALMER has been favoured. WILLIAM WELBANK has laid in a NEW and COMPLETE ASSORTMENT of LINEN DRAPERY and HABERDASHERY GOODS of every description. 1804 William Welbank, linen-draper, has an apprentice. 1822 William Welbank of York, linen-draper, requires an apprentice.
• Note: 1801; Appears on A List of the Ordinary Members of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Note: 1804; testified in sensational trial Dighton v Watts involving his future brother-in-law Godfrey's wife. Mrs Godfrey Hirst and her sister Mrs Dighton were in the habit of scandalously going to theatre alone, and had met two soldiers and eloped to Ripon with them. Mr Dighton sued Mr Watts for alienation of affections, asking for damages of £5000, but the defendant's lawyer argued that Mrs Dighton already had a poor reputation so Mr Watts had not been the one to cause damage to her husband. "I understand they [Mrs Godfrey Hirst and Mrs Dighton] are now following a life of direful infamy" Numerous witnesses testify to Mrs Dighton's and Mrs Hirst's scandalous ways. William Welbank esq testified in the trial on behalf of Mr Dighton, who he said had always shown affectionate regard to his wife. The jury awarded damages of £1,100. The trial was written up in Sporting Magazine: or, Monthly Calendar of the transactions of the Turf, the Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, (Volume 24, Rogerson & Tuxford, 1804) so probably was widely read about with great fascination. John Gough Nichols describes them as "the unfortunate Hirst family" and says they have lost all pretensions to respectability by mixing with plebian blood and low persons. Mary Anne also had a brother Francis who inherited the Golden Lion Inn and partnered with a "low person" and had eight illegitimate children with her before eventually being persuaded to marry her in his demented final years.
• Occupation: 1806; 1806 Notice that a partnership between William Welbank, Richard Hirst and Richard Barker, under the name of Welbank and company, merchants, Kingston-on-Hull, is dissolved. Richard was one of Mary Anne's brothers.
• Occupation: 1811, Northallerton, Yorks; wine merchant? William Welbank, wine and spirit merchant, of Northallerton, in London and Country Directory, 1811. The same directory has William Welbank as a draper in York. He could be dealing in wine as an extra hustle.
• Note: 1812; 1812 Thimbleby coursing Meeting has Welbank's and Hirst's dogs competing (Sporting Magazine: or, Monthly Calendar of the transactions of the Turf, the Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to thre Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, Vol 39 (Rogerson & Tuxford, 1812))
• Note: 23 Mar 1818, New Times (London); Partnership dissolved - H Hirst, F Hirst, W Welbank, R Hirst, and J Horner, Lead Hills Mines, Lanark.
• Note: 24 Mar 1821, Yorkshire Lent Assizes; Lord Mayor of York v Welbank Welbank is carrying out trade in a house on the corner of Makestreet and Petergate, but refuses tp pay to become a freeman, arguing that the house is not part of York.
• Occupation: 23 Sep 1822, Leeds Intelligencer; Northallerton agent for Coutts and Messrs Martin, Stone and Martin, bankers.
• Occupation: 1823, Northallerton; Fire and Life Insurance Offices, Globe, William, Wailes London Guardian, William, Wellbank Norwich Union, Thomas, Dixon Royal Exchange Thomas, Watson Union, Jas. Langdale, stationer Pigots Directory
• Note: Aug 1824, York; York Herald 28/8/1824 announces the death of Miss Welbank, sister to Mr Welbank, linen-draper of this city. However, this doesn't correspond to the death of any of William Welbank's sisters. Only Jane was unmarried at her death and she died in 1852. Evidence that William Welbank, draper of York, was a different man?
• Occupation: 1829, Northallerton; Welbank William, esq. Northallerton. Savings Bank secretary
• Note: 1832; Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's ... Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell · 1832 · Law reports, digests, etc R. C. PEASE, J. K. WATson, H. PEASE, and T. B. Locke, who have survived R. HARRIson, their late Partner, deceased, against JoNATHAN HIRST, EDw1N HIRST, FRANCIs HIRST, and WILLIAM WELBANK. A ... The latter three acted as guarantors for Jonathan Hirst in 1817 on a promissory note for £300. The Hirsts were brothers of William's wife Mary Anne. Francis Hirst was the landlord of the Golden Lion in Northallerton. Another brother Henry was a solicitor in Northallerton, Jonathan was in business in Hull, Edwin was a farmer. (the Topographer and Genealogist Vol 1, John Gough Nichols, 1846, which says that Francis had eight illegitimate children by a "low person" and brought the family into disrepute). An ironmonger in Hull, Jonathan Hirst, was a bankrupt in 1829 (the Gazette) and had changed address several times.
• Note: 1839; Member of the Newcastle-upon Tyne Literary and Philosophical Society, follower of the Rev William Turner. who founded it. Together with his wife, subscribed to a book of sermons published 1839. Mrs Gaskell was also a follower and mentions Mrs Welbank as a friend in one of her letters. (She may be referring to William's sister Jane who was also known as Mrs Welbank). HIs brother-in-law Thomas Mitchell, nephew Edward Dawson Welbank Mitchell, niece Janetta Bishop Mitchell, and sister Jane seem also to have been followers of Rev Turner, lived in Newcastle where he was based and moved to Manchester where he moved when he retired, and were all buried in the Unitarian Chapel in Manchester where he was also buried.
• Note: 1840; bankruptcy. Contents of house were sold off, including a valuable library of 600 books, telescopes and a pair of globes, several dozens of port, sherry and claret, a quantity of home-made wines and of pickles and preserves, a four-wheel carriage with a single harness.
• Note: 1840, Northallerton; White's Directory, Gent
• Residence: 1841, Northumberland Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; William (60) and Mary (55) are here on census night , staying with Dorothy Hirst.
• Note: 12 Aug 1843, Yorkshire Gazette; William Welbank has sold land to the Great North of England Railway Company and they owe him (actually his assignees) £1733 which they have yet to pay.
• Residence: 1851, 3 Oxford Street, St Andrew, Newcastle; Boarder, corn merchant. Thomas Hirst, 32, bank agent, is visiting.
• Note: 1854; Probate to Mary Fowle, effects under £20

William married Mary-Ann Hirst in Mar 1805 in Northallerton. Mary-Ann (daughter of Godfrey Hirst and Dorothy Dunhill) died on 8 Jul 1843 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: She married in Aldborough in 1772 and Christopher Welbank was a witness, but there is no record of her birth. She must be his close relative, but he isn't likely to be her father as he would have been 17 when she was born, I have made the assumption that she is the child of Robert, his cousin, cooper of York.. He had recently married and a son had just died, in the year she was born, so quite plausible he would have a child of her age. He had died in 1766, before she married.

Notes:

Birth:
Archbishop of York Marriage Licences Index 1613-1839 gives her age on marriage as 25

Eleanor married Francis Catterson on 5 Mar 1772 in St Andrews, Aldborough, Yorkshire, England. Francis (son of William Catterson) was born in 1748 in Thirsk, Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 3 Sep 1794, London, England; Apprenticeship to Henry King Vintner
• Note: 6 Oct 1802, Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Vintners; This is to certify that on the 6th October 1802 James Welbank late apprentice to Henry King, Citizen and Vintner of London, was admitted into the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Vintners in right of his said Apprenticeship. As by the Books of the said company appears.
• Note: 15 Jun 1803, made a freeman of the Mayoralty of Charles Price Esq., Mayor; James Welbank, son of Christopher, late apprentice of Henry King, citizen and Vintner of London, was made a freeman of the Mayoralty of Charles Price Esq., Mayor, 15th June 1803.
• Occupation: 14 Apr 1804, Grocer
• Residence: 14 Apr 1804, Saint Martin le Grand in the City of London
• Occupation: 1825, 69 Queen Street, Cheapside; Grocers and Tea Dealers Pigot's Directory
• Census: 1841, Serle Street, Camden, Holborn, London WC2A ; Parish St Clement Danes, Westminster James Welbank 60, Law Writer, born in county William Welbank, 28, do., born in county Mary Ann Welbank, 24, born in county George Moody, 40, do., born in county Elizabeth Moody, 40, born in county Edward Harben, 60 Fish Monger, not born in county
• Census: 1851, 8 King Street, St George Bloomsbury, Mddlesex; James Welbank head 71, widower, Law writer William 39 son, ditto Mary A 33 his wife Mary Bartlett, 20, house servt?

Notes:

James Welbank, son of Christopher, late apprentice of Henry King, citizen and Vintner of London, was made a freeman of the Mayoralty of Charles Price Esq., Mayor, 15th June 1803.

This is to certify that on the 6th October 1802 James Welbank late apprentice to Henry King, Citizen and Vintner of London, was admitted into the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Vintners in right of his said Apprenticeship. As by the Books of the said company appears.

Buried:
Burial number 8295

James married Jane Sadler on 24 Jan 1808 in St Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex. Jane (daughter of William Sadler and Jane Sockett) was christened on 18 Jun 1780 in St George in East Stepney; was buried on 9 Oct 1845 in St Luke, Finsbury, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 14 Apr 1804, received £264.14.10d from will of grandfather Richard Knapp; General Release dated 14th April 1804 Mary Ann Welbank to James Welbank I Mary Ann Welbank of Drake Street, Red Lion Square in the county of Middlesex, spinster in consideration of the sum of £264.14.10d now paid to me by James Welbank of Saint Martin le Grand in the City of London, Grocer, Excecutor to Margaret Knapp deceased who acted as Trustee under the Will of my late Grandfather Richard Knapp deceased being the whole amount of what is due to me from the said James Welbank as such Executor as aforesaid or otherwise. 14th April 1804 (44th year of our Sovereign George III)
• Residence: 14 Apr 1804, Drake Street, Red Lion Square

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• Occupation: 31 Jan 1798, Grays Inn, Middx; Indentured as apprentice to John Dickonson, stationer
• Occupation: 1835, 61 Carey Street, London, England.; Welbank Rd, Law Stationer Robson London Directory
• Census: 1841, Princes Road, Lambeth,; Richard Welbank, 55, Law Stationer, n Sarah Welbank, 56, y
• Note: 28 Jul 1842, The Times; Richard Welbank, law stationer of 26 Princes Road, Lambeth, late of Chancery Lane, is a shareholder in a failed investment company (Westminster Investment Company, 5 shares)
• Census: 1851, 77 Low Slo St, Chelsea, Middx; Richard Welbank, 68, lodger, out of business Sarah, 67, wife Living near his son Richard.
• Occupation: 1853; Morning Chronicle London, England 25 Feb 1853 Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries Richard Welbank, aged 69, formerly many years employed in the Registrar's-office of the Court of Chancery.

Notes:

Died:
Death of: Richard Welbank
Date: 16th Feb 1853
Sex: male
Age: 69
Place: South Chelsea, Middx, [Cert 208]
Cause of Death: Chronic Asthma, 5 years; Bronchitis, 1 month
Informant: I Gould, 77 Lower Sloane St, Chelsea.



Buried:
burial no 6796

Richard married Sarah Baker on 23 Aug 1807 in St George, Bloomsbury. Sarah was born in 1784 in Farnham Surrey; died on 10 May 1858 in 21 Sloane Square, Chelsea, London; was buried on 14 May 1858 in Old Brompton Cemetery, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 12 Nov 1798; Frances Welbank apprenticed to John George Halentz habitmaker?, Southampton Street Convent Garden

Notes:

Died:
Her nephews William and Richard were executors. Effects £100.

Frances married John Holland on 15 Apr 1805 in Saint Luke, Old Street, Finsbury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: It casts significant fresh light on Mrs. Gaskell's influential inner circle of friends, adding to our appreciation of her writings and of her life. The book uncovers some of the mysteries of Mrs. Gaskell's key relationships, most notably concerning Miss Mitchell, who has previously been misidentified in the Gaskell biography. Given Mrs. Gaskell's statement that Miss Mitchell was one of the two principal influences in her life, a deeper understanding of this shadowy presence and the figures around her is vital to our understanding of the author. ["You have done me so much good, dearest Nim; more than any one else in my life, - (that I'm aware of) except my own darling Aunt Lumb, & Miss Mitchell" letter to Mrs Emily Shaen, 27 Oct 1854] Existing orthodoxy identifies Miss Mitchell as Rosa Mitchell, a visiting governess in the Gaskell household. However, the Miss Mitchell mentioned repeatedly in Mrs. Gaskell's letters was in fact Rosa's much older sister, Janetta Bishop Mitchell. Janetta, born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1791, is further shown to have been a confidante not only of Mrs. Gaskell but also of Harriet Martineau. Miss Mitchell is mentioned in Harriet Martineau's early letters in the 1820s - working in Norwich from 1821-25, Janetta became close to both Harriet and her mother and remained in contact with them when Harriet gained literary prominence in the 1830s. Janetta Mitchell's fascinating and itinerant life is charted, demonstrating her close links to Unitarian communities across England. Janetta was an example of the many sophisticated women with few material resources who, despite remaining unmarried and culturally invisible, nevertheless found their own paths in 19th-century society. Mrs. Gaskell's Personal Pantheon is available from October 2020 (Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd) ISBN 9781913087463 hardback / ISBN 9781913087470 ebook / 229mm x 152mm, 256pp., fp. 12 b&w illustrations.
• Occupation: 1817, Nottingham; Governess to the daughters of Matthew Needham, a wealthy Unitarian. William Turner's son Henry had recently become a minister there. The Needhams had family in Norwich and spent summers there, accompanied by Janetta. They mixed with the Martineaus and Janetta became friends with Harriet.
• Occupation: 1821, Norwich Norfolk; Moved to Norwich to care for Mrs Needham's father, who was suffering from terminal mortification of the foot. While there became close with Harriet Martineau and her mother. Went for walks with Harriet after her brotner and baby nephew died. In 1824 Harriet and her brother James went on a walking tour in Scotland and stayed with Jane Welbank in Edinburgh.
• Occupation: 1825, Nottingham; After Mrs Needham's father died, Janetta returned to be governess to the Needham's children.
• Occupation: 1833, Knutsford?; Janetta had recently opened a girls' boarding school. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote that she would 'Recommend Miss Mitchell?s school through thick and thin?.
• Occupation: 1840, Runford Street, Manchester; Janetta moved to Manchester and was working at the Dover Street Academy, a mixed school for boys and girls run by a German emigre, Dr Philip Merz, In the 1841 census she is listed living at Runford Street with Philip Merz, his infant son, 5 female servants, 4 male teachers and 5 male students aged 12-15. No profession is given for her.
• Residence: 1843, 39 & 41 Coupland Street, Chorlton, Manchester; from land tax records
• Occupation: 1845, Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester; Now providing accommodation for students at New College, Manchester John Dendy soon removed to 93 Lloyd Street, where he boarded with Miss Mitchell, a very cultivated lady, who kept a boarding-house for the students Recollections by Sarah Dendy (nee Beard) in Reciords of A Family 1800-1933, H McLachlan 1935. This seems to be about 1847. James Martineau and William Gaskell were Professors at the college and William Turner was a visiting lecturer.
• Occupation: 1853, Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester; Manchester New College moved to London, Jametta now cared for William Turner and Jane Welbank, who moved from Newcastle.
• Note: 1856; In 1856 EG writes that her friend Miss Mitchell has the Rev William Turner lodging with her, is living in straitened circumstances with just one servant and is doing her own cooking, and has a weak heart.

Notes:

Residence:
William Turner and his daughter Ann moved to Manchester and lodged with Janetta. Her sister Rosabelle also lived here.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: surgeon, MRCS, LSA? (marriage record of son Alfred Bishton)
• Occupation: Abt 1820, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; surgeon
• Occupation: 1848, Brighton, Sussex, England; Boarding house keeper, dealer and chapman (bankruptcy notices)
• Census: 1851, Ponteland, Northumbria; Surgeon in general practice, living with wife and Marian, 12, William, 9, Alfred, 7
• Census: 1861, 22 Lloyd Street, Manchester; Edward Mitchell, Head, 63, surgeon, born Newcastle Mary Ann, 50, wife Marian, 22, daughter, born London Edward, 20, son, salesman, born Brighton William, 19, son, ditto, ditto Alfred, 17, son, clerk, ditto
• Residence: 1862, Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester; From death announcement, living at Lloyd Street, Greenheys in 1862 with two sisters living with him.

Edward married Mary Ann Forty on 23 May 1837 in St Mary Islington, Middx. Mary was born in 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Officer of Inland Revenue
• Residence: 1858, Greenheys; At birth of Elizabeth Ann.

Family/Spouse: Ellen Smith. Ellen was born about 1821 in Coldstream Berwickshire; died on 28 Feb 1895. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Septimus married Janet Patterson on 12 Aug 1848 in Berwick on Tweed. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1861, 50 High Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester; Census shows Jane living here with her sisters Emma and Rosabelle, all listed as teachers, together with 4 girls aged 10-16, all listed as scholars, with a cook and a housemaid. She seems to be running a small boarding school.
• Residence: 1872, Higher Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland; She was then living with Emma Mitchell and Rosabelle Mitchell. They are all cousins of Mary Anne Mitchell, named in her probate record. In the 1871 census they are all desribed as retired school mistresses.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1861, 50 High Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester; Schoolteacher. In the 1861 census she is teaching at a school with her sisters Jane and Rosabelle. In 1871 she is a retired school mistress living with her two sisters in Westmorland.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: c. 1850, Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester; Living with her sister Janetta. Worked as a teacher and then as visiting governess to the Gaskell's daughters Flossy and Julia.
• Occupation: 1852, Governess to Elizabeth Gaskell's daughters; .. Miss Rosa Mitchell who has taught the girls in the mornings has a better engagement offered to her... Elizabeth Gaskell, letter to Elizabeth Holland c 8 Dec 1852 Letter of 9 March 1847 to Fanny Holland says Rosa Mitchell will give Meta two half-hour music lessons a week. In 1859 she ran a day-school which Julia went to. EG letter to Tottie Fox, March 1859. In 1861 she was living with her sister Jane and Emma in what looks like a small boarding school. Perhaps it had day pupils as well.
• Census: 1881, High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland; Norwood Emma Mitchell head, 72, income from annuities Rosa Mitchell, sister, 67, ditto In the 1871 census the two sisters are living with their okder sister Jane, but she had died by 1881.
• Census: 1891, High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland; Rosabelle Mitchell, 77, living at Norwood Cottage with one servant aged 17.

Notes:

Died:
Effects £186. Admin was to Marian Mitchell, spinster. Possibly Marion Charlesworth Mitchell, her niece.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1825, Edinburgh; Physician
• Occupation: 25 Sept 1827, London Gazette; James Dow and Thomas Welbank Robinson, Physicians, surgeons and apothecaries, of Barnsley, Yorks, partnership dissolved on 3rd September. Possibly Thomas was very ill and went to Devon for his health?

Notes:

Buried:
abode given as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, age 25 (parish records).

Mary married Thomas Fowle on 21 Oct 1834 (Licence) in Northallerton, Yorks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 1794, Helmsley, Yorks; A George Catterson married Jane Harrison in Helmsley in 1794 and has an interesting descent, He is a tanner and fellmonger at Flemingate, Beverley, son William had a tanning factory employing 35 and had 12 children, one daughter married a very wealthy leather merchant and another married a farmer at Beswick and the family farm the land to this day. However, have not established that it's the same George Catterson. He appears in the census of 1841 with an age of 70, suggesting birth year of 1771. A George Catterson was born in S Kilvington to William on 28 Mar 1769, and would be of age in 1794, so he is a more likely candidate.

George married Jane Harrison on 6 May 1794 in Helmsley, Yorks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 15 Jan 1828, Wetherby Sessions; Order filed from Boroughbridge and Thirsk for the removal of Dorothy Catterson and Jane Catterson, singlewomen. This is just before Dorothy gave birth to her son. Hang on - she was 45 when she had an illegitimate son by a man named Welbank?
• Census: 1851, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; William Hassard 72, agricultural labourer Dorothy Hassard 67, wife Jane Catterson 55, kept by the above
• Census: 1861, 75 Hebble Row Huddersfield; William Hussard 82, Brewer Dorothea Hussard, 77, wife Jane Catterson 75 sister-in-law, nurse Robert Welbank 32, son-in-law, unmarried, painter and gilder, born Thirsk (Robert Welbank is apparently Dorothy's son from before she married.)

Notes:

Died:
aged 84

Dorothy married Welbank in 1827 (unmarried). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married William Huzzard on 15 Oct 1836 in Kirby Hill by Boroughbridge, Yorks. William was born in 1779 in Flamborough, Yorks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1861, 75 Hebble Row Huddersfield; Nurse, living with her sister Dorothy and her husband.