William Welbank d. Nov 1854 Croft, Durham, England: Welbank Family Tree

1779 - 1854 (~ 75 years)

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Name	William Welbank
Christening	2 Jul 1779	Northallerton, Yorkshire, England
Gender	Male
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 [1]
	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
Death	Nov 1854	Croft, Durham, England
Burial	16 Nov 1854	All Saints, Hurworth, Durham
Person ID	I544	Welbank1
Last Modified	26 Feb 2023

Father	Christopher Welbank, b. 1720, Northallerton, Yorkshire d. 1793 (Age 73 years)
Mother	Mary Dawson, b. 1741, Northallerton d. Feb 1798, Northallerton (Age 57 years)
Marriage	1 Nov 1765	Northallerton
	Mary Dawson was Christopher's cousin once removed, the granddaughter of his father's sister Ann. She was 24 and he was 45. She was the only living child of her father and due to inherit quite a lot of property. Her father was a witness to the wedding, so presumably approved of the groom. Her father, grandfather and brother had all been called Edward Dawson; her brother had died in childhood. Her first son was Edward Dawson Welbank and a grandson was Edward Dawson Welbank Mitchell.
Family ID	F175	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary-Ann Hirst d. 8 Jul 1843, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Marriage Mar 1805 Northallerton

Children

+	1. Mary Welbank, b. 11 Mar 1806, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton
	2. Jane Welbank, b. 1808, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton d. 30 Nov 1808, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton (Age 0 years)
	3. William Christopher Welbank, b. 26 Jul 1811, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton d. 11 Aug 1811, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton (Age 0 years)
	4. Anne Welbank, b. 1813, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton

Family ID F12 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 12 Aug 2020

Sources
[S4] John Gough Nichols, The Topographer and Genealogist, Vol 2, (John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1853).