Robert Welbank

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• Occupation: Northallerton, Yorkshire; Presumably a shoemaker as three of his sons are known to be shoemakers/cordwainers
• Note: 9 Jun 1677; Robert Welbanck m Collin Scarlett, Brompton by Northallerton. Also a possibility for his marriage.

Robert married Grace Conyers on 26 Apr 1677 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. Grace was born about 1661 in Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

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• Occupation: Northallerton, Yorks; shoemaker
• Residence: 1718-1729, The Blew Houses, East Row, Northallerton, Yorks; In 1718 Christopher Welbank rented one backhouse and chambers and one back shop and one fore shop for £4/year. In 1724 he also rented a house and in 1726 took on the rent of another shop just vacated by Joseph Kelley which was part of the same burgages, and also some premises to farm. East Row was the East Side of the High Street. Several court proceedings before and after his death alleging he had failed to pay rent to the rightful owner. He and his widow said that he had acted in good faith. National Archives C11/1476/50
• Note: 24 Jan 1729, Probate Records; Christopher WELBANK, shoemaker, of North Allerton [Northallerton, Yorkshire]; also spelt Welbanck DPRI/6/B/1728/W1/2 24 January 1729 inventory, actual total £268 DPRI/6/B/1728/W1/1 25 January 1729 administration bond penal sum not mentioned

Notes:

Died:
died of fever, according to parish records. His son Mark had died 2 weeks earlier of smallpox.

Christopher married Meriel Nelson on 1 May 1712 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. Meriel was born about 1690 in Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Edward Dawson on 19 May 1715 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. Edward died in 1738 in Northallerton; was buried on 4 Jun 1738 in All Saints, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cuthbert married Ann Mempers [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Ripon, Yorkshire; William, Merchant of Greenwich, mentions a cousin Elizabeth Wilson of Ripon in his Will.

Elizabeth married Robert Wilson on 5 May 1734 in Ripon, Cathedral. [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]

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• 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:

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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• Occupation: Currier and one of the four and twenty vestrymen

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

Jane married William Holmes on 27 Nov 1755 in All Saints, Northallerton . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Christened:
Cuthbert son of Ann Welbank, widow

Buried:
Cuthbert son of widow Welbank

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• Note: Mentioned in the will of William Welbank, merchant of Greenwich.

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]

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• 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

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 1798, Northallerton; Leeds Intelligencer West Yorkshire, England 5 Feb 1798 On Wednesday died at Northallerton, Mrs Welbank, mother of the late Edward Dawson Welbank

Notes:

Died:
1800 will of Mary Welbank, widow, of Northallerton. Her son William will be a beneficiary when he reaches the age of 21. She leaves £600 apiece to her three daughters, and her books are shared equally between William, Jane and Anne Frances.
Her chased gold watch to Jane.
Plain gold watch which belonged to her late husband to her son William.
Gold stop watch which belonged to her son Edward Dawson, to Godfrey Hirst, innholder.
Twenty guineas to Thomas Mitchell.
(Godfrey Hirst and Thomas Mitchell are appointed guardians to William until he becomes 21).
Also mentions properties inherited from her late father Edward Dawson. 80 acres of land outside Northallerton and other properties within Northallerton.
A property on West Row in Northallerton called the Angel Inn bought by her late husband.

Mary married Christopher Welbank on 1 Nov 1765 in Northallerton. Christopher (son of Christopher Welbank and Meriel Nelson) was born in 1720 in Northallerton, Yorkshire; was christened on 29 Dec 1720 in Northallerton, Yorkshire; died in 1793; was buried on 12 Jul 1793 in Northallerton, All Saints, Yorkshire, Age 72. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]