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 1801 - 1855 (54 years)
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| Name |
Richard Thomas Welbank |
| Born |
1801 |
St Vincent  |
| Christened |
6 Jan 1801 |
KIngstown, St Vincent |
| Gender |
Male |
| 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 [1] |
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. |
| Died |
14 Jun 1855 |
Pau, Pyrenees Atlantiques, France |
- 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.
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| 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 |
| Person ID |
I674 |
Welbank1 |
| Last Modified |
8 Jun 2022 |
| Family 1 |
Margaret Sophia Allen, b. 13 Sep 1806, Errol, Perth, Scotland , d. 11 Jun 1831, Cannanore, India (Age 24 years) |
| Married |
1 Jul 1828 |
Bathwick St Mary,Somerset, England. |
| Type: Licence |
| Last Modified |
5 Feb 2012 |
| Family ID |
F231 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Hermine Sieber, b. 9 May 1818, Vienna |
| Married |
15 Jan 1838 |
St Stephen, Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria |
- Age 34
Birth date about 1804
Brth place London
Father Christoph Welbank
Mother Maria N
Spouse Hermine Sieber
Natalie Hermine Welbank was born in Dresden in 1838. Record gives father's name as Richard Welbank, born in London. Strong possibility she was R T Welbank's daughter.
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| Children |
| + | 1. Natalie Hermine Welbank, b. 10 Oct 1838, Saxony , d. 10 Jun 1920, 134 Bishops Road, Fulham, London, England (Age 81 years) |
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| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2023 |
| Family ID |
F391 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S3053] Alphabetical list of the officers of the Madras army, (Longman in London) (Reliability: 3).
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