Anthony Welbank

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: Although not conclusive, I believe Anthony was distantly related to the current UK Welbanks. His mother appears to be the daughter of Richard Thomas Welbank, who was in the Madras Army before resigning and living in France. His father Christopher Welbank lived in St Vincent and was a slave owner. Christopher had two fairly distinguished brothers, John, who was a surgeon, and Richard, who was a civil servant and lived in the Tower of London. Christopher was born in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather Robert all worked in the shoemaking trade. The UK Welbanks are descended from a younger son of Robert's.
• Note: Wanted! ...Anthony was born in Montpollin, France in 1866. Correcting: Theodore Grimal De Guirandon, Head, M, 55, France (b.1836) Natalie de Guirandon, Wife, F, 53, Saxony (b. 1838) need to check: http://www.genealogie.com/recherche-genealogique/nom-GUIRANDON.html
• Note: 1877; 1887 Guirandon, Capt. Th. de, 134 can't read ref at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25197179
• Census: 1891, Bishops Road, Croydon, Surrey; Anthony Willbank, Bishops Road, Fulham, London, England, Male, 25, Single, Railway Clerk, Son, 1866, France [Page 6 RG12 49/ 1] Theodore G Le Guirandawn Head M 55 France Watalis Le Guirandawn Wife F 53 Iaxony Anthony Willbank Son M 25 France
• Census: 1901, 77 Oval Road, Croydon, Surrey; Anthony Welbank, M, 35, Single, Railway Clerk, Born France English Subject 77 Oval Road, Croydon, Surrey
• Note: 1902, London; LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 17, 1902 reports: 15th Oct imported dog(s) by Madame N G de Guirandon https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27483/page/6576/data.pdf
• Note: 1903, London; Naturalisations published in the Jewish Chronicle between 1902 and 1906 de Guirandon Natalie Hermine Grimal 134 Bishops Road, Fulham France Aug-03 04/09/03 p 29 (1903) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sherry/Nat%20C-E.htm
• Census: 1911, 134 Bishops Road, Fulham, London; Anthony Welbank, Boarder, Single, M, 45, Railway Clerk Accountant, Born Mountpallin France
• Note: 1919, Finsbury & Fulham; Electoral Register 184 Bishops Road: de Guirandon, Natalie and Welbank, Anthony.
• Note: 9 Sep 1941; Appears his mother's maiden name was Welbank, and her father was Welbank, thought by his neighbours to be an English Field Marshal. I wonder if he was Richard Thomas Welbank, who left the Madras Army in 1834 and died in France in 1855; Natalie was born in 1838 in Saxony. Have now found Nathalie's baptism in Dresden; her father's name is given as Richard Welbank. I have also found Richard Thomas' death notice in the Pau Archives; his wife was called Hermine Siebec; they married in Vienna in 1838, the same year Natalie was born; Natalie's middle name is Hermine which is supportive but not conclusive.

Notes:

Died:
The KIN of Anthony Welbank, late of 15 Parkfield crescent, Feltham, Middlesex....are requested to apply to the Treasury Solicitor .... (Estate about £6000)

Andrews Newspaper Index Cards 9.9.1941: The above newspaper notice is pasted on, and there are handwritten notes:

11.6.1941 Barr called at 17 Parkfield Crescent and obtained information. Deceased was abt 74 birthday 12 Dec - pensioned railwayman - lived at Fulham before Feltham - had property in Ilford - born in France - mother was not married when decd was born - maternal grandfather was a Field Marshal of England - mother married afterwards ? in France - decd spoke of her husband as his stepfather - mother died 20 yrs ago in Fulham

[He owned 5 freehold properties, 4 in Ilford].

1921 Anthony Welbank H.S. 55/6 Rly Clk Languedoc, France [copied from 1921 census?]