Ann Welbank

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]

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

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

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• 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

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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]

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

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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

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Died:
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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]