Christopher Welbank, St Vincent

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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: 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

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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]

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• Note: 1920, 134 Bishops Road, Fulham, Middx, England; DE GUIRANDON Natalie Hermine Grimal of 134 Bishops Road Fulham, Middlesex widow died 10 June 1920. Probate: London 29 October to Anthony Welbank railway cl;erk. Effects £896 6s. 9d.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Natalie married Theodore Grimal De Guirandon in 1885 in St Giles, London, England. Theodore was born in 1836 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

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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?]