Thank you so much for this, Ciderdrinker. It is amazing what a new pair of eyes can find!
The wording in Daniel Mallory's 1745 will seems to imply my ancestor John Mallory was not originally of Warwick as he says of his brother 'Now or late of Warwick'.
Family members in this will are:
Brother John Mallory (£300 + £400 South Sea annuities during his life then to go to children), nephew Daniel Mallory (£500), nephew Samuel Mallory (£500), cousin John Mallary [sic] (£500), niece Hannah Float (£500 + £200 annuities to her children), niece Hannah Mallory (£500 aged under 21), late sister Witham, Mr Thomas Witham of Long Lane London (£105, executor), kinswoman Sarah Barnet widow (owed £190 of £224 lent to her).
He requested to be buried in Putney 'near to my sister Witham' and his burial took place there on 27 May 1745.
The fact Thomas Witham was his executor and his sister was a Witham enabled me to find the marriage of a Thomas Witham to an Anna Smith in London in 1717. I had already found the marriage of an Anna Mollary [sic] to a William Smith in Warwick in 1702 so this was evidently her.
I have found Daniel Mallery in the Old Bailey records in 1724 here regarding a trial of a person who tried to use a forged bank note in his shop:
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name=17240226I have also found some interesting bits and pieces including this is "The story of Charing Cross and its immediate neighbourhood":
"To the " Parrot," in Henrietta Street, Daniel Mallory, Laceman (Late Partner with Mr. John Mallory at the Indian Queen in the Strand), announces that he has removed. — June 28, 1729."
The 1745 will of Daniel Mallory calls him a laceman so up until 1729 he was in partnership with a John Mallory. Now was this my ancestor John his brother, or the John Mallory his cousin?
I have also found the niece Hannah Float was Hannah Mallory who married John Float in London in 1734. So there must have been another brother. Still a lot more digging to do but this has helped me make an in road for sure.
Thank you again so very much.
Kind regards,
Jon