Wortley Family Nottingham c1750-1800

[tullox]

I am wondering if anyone can help me with details of the following family:

Robert Wortley married Ann  Leake 7 Jan 1772 St Marys Nottingham

They had the following children (from IGI) all baptized at High Pavement Presbyterian Chapel
Mary 29 Oct 1772 who married Henry Latham --the line I am following
Henry 17 Mar 1784
Robert 20 Jan 1776
Robert Leake 17 Jun 1779

I have found a burial in the National Burial Index for a Robert Wortley bur,Feb 1817 St Marys Nottingham ( which is where he and Ann were married). There is an estimated birth date of 1748 .

I cannot find out any more about Robert except that there are various news items about a robbery in 1783 of the shop of Robert Wortley Hosier and Hatter in Saddlergate Derby and then all the stock being sold 2 years later 1785. I am wondering if this is him as his daughter Mary married into a respected family of Grocers and Drapers. On her wedding her place is given as Nottingham but Henry Latham is from Ilkeston Derbyshire.

There is no mention of a Robert Wortley (of an appropriate date) in the IGI. Has anyone any suggestions where I should go next?


Many thanks

Sue
(ps. I am in South Australia so I cannot visit in person!!)

[sunflower]

Hi Sue

Robert Leake Wortley was also a Grocer

Marriage
Robert Leake Wortley, bac, 21 (or over) Grocer, married Elizabeth Beardsley, spin, 21 (or over) at St Nicholas 5.1. 1808 by licence.  Joseph Beardsley Butcher was bondsman.

Burials
Robert Wortley aged 69, Bridlesmith Gate, buried at St Marys - 7.2. 1817
Robert Wortley aged 47, Bridlesmith Gate, buried at St Nicholas - 1.8. 1825

Carol

[trish1120]

Either Robert remarried or he is a different Robert Wortley;

Marriage;
11 August 1783, St Werburgh, Derby, Derbyshire
Robert WORTLEY, occp Hatter and Hosier
Elizabeth BORRAS
(Source FreeREG)

Can only find 1 child for them on F/S;
ANNE Wortley, christened 16 December 1784, St. Werburgh, Derby, Derbyshire

Trish

[sunflower]

There is this burial also at St Mary's Notts

Ann Wortley aged 70, abode High Pavement - 5.10.1815

Carol

[tullox]

Thank you so much Carol and Trish. I can now discount the Robert Wortley of Derbyshire as Robert had a son Henry in 1784.
 I have the birth of Ann Leake who married Robert and she was baptized 22 Jan 1742/3 (double date) so that makes the burial in 1815 about right.

I will follow up the Robert Leake Wortley--a son as I know there is some on-line material on him but the Grocer detail is a bonus.

So many thanks

Sue

[tullox]

Hi Carol and Trish

I have just found a baptism for Robert Leake Wortley in Anc which puzzles me. There are 2 entries both the same birth date and same baptism date. The first is the one I first quoted from High Pavement Presbyterian the second is the Old Meeting Presbyterian Ilkeston so my original hunch that there was a connection with Ilkeston is borne out. As I know Ann Robert's wife was born in Nottingham St Marys perhaps this suggests that I should be searching for Robert Wortley senior in Derbyshire??

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Sue

[sunflower]

Hi Sue

I think they are roughly  about 7 miles apart,  so perhaps the minister covered 2 churches and recorded in both registers?

Carol