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Title: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: webbedwards on Friday 05 July 19 10:05 BST (UK)
Hi All, trying to find the parents of Thomas Townsend Webb b 1809 died 1859 of Tiddington House Tiddington he m 1844 Caroline Davis 1812-1881, they had Elias John Webb in 1850 died 1930 of The Browns End Bromsberrow
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 05 July 19 10:06 BST (UK)
What does the 1844 marriage give for address, father and witness names?

Tiddington  is Oxfordshire? Bromberrow Forest ff Dean?
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: webbedwards on Friday 05 July 19 10:23 BST (UK)
do not have details of that, Tiddington is at Stratford on Avon
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: Cazza47 on Friday 05 July 19 10:31 BST (UK)
In 1851 census it says he was born London, there is a baptism for a Thos Webb in 1809 St Anne's, So-ho, Middlesex, parents Joseph & Ann Webb.
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: ColC on Friday 05 July 19 10:32 BST (UK)
I wonder if this is Thomas in 1841 free cen, abode Tiddington,Snitterfield  Warwickshire.

WEBB   Thomas   30   Independent   OUC   
WEBB   John   M   25   Independent   WAR   
ALLIBON   Thomas   20   Male Servant   WAR   
GREEN   Martha   20   Female Servant   WAR

Colin
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 05 July 19 11:45 BST (UK)
1851 for information.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGZP-9YP

If the father died 1859, did he leave a will?
Who is the executor?

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/wills-or-administrations-after-1858/

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=webb&yearOfDeath=1859&page=9#calendar
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 July 19 16:13 BST (UK)
FreeBMD has a marriage of Thomas WEBB, June qtr 1844, Ledbury registration district, vol 26, p282. Caroline DAVIS is listed on the same page.

Ledbury RD included parishes in both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.  PRs for those counties aren't on Ancestry, and FindMyPast has some records for H'shire and W'shire but not this one.

Could they have been RC or otherwise non-conformist?  Might they have used the Register Office?

Carol

Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 July 19 17:04 BST (UK)
No, they were Church of England (see marriage report below).  Sadly this doesn't name his father.

Worcester Journal 27 June 1844
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 July 19 17:17 BST (UK)
Did Thomas have a sister called Christian?  If so, their father was probably Thomas.

Worcester Journal 11 July 1844
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 July 19 18:27 BST (UK)
If that Thomas is the father of your Thomas, this could be his death notice :-\
Added:  'Wednesday' was 14 August 1833.

Warwick & Warwickshire Advertiser 17 August 1833
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: ColC on Friday 05 July 19 18:31 BST (UK)

I think this may be John who was with Thomas in 1841
John Nanfan Webb baptised 15 Mar 1814 HOLY TRINITY,STRATFORD ON AVON,
Parents Thomas and Harriet

Sister Christian Webb baptised there 28 Mar 1821


You may already have Caroline?
Caroline Davis
Baptism 28 Jul 1811
EASTHAM, WORCESTERSHIRE
Thomas & Hannah


Colin

Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 July 19 18:45 BST (UK)
If that Thomas is the father of your Thomas, this could be his death notice :-\

Warwick & Warwickshire Advertiser 17 August 1833
And that could be the Thomas WEBB Esq who wrote a will on 18 January 1832 (proved 17 December 1833).

I'm no expert, but it does give his abode as 'Tiddington in the parish of Alveston in the county of Warwick'.  He leaves the 'mansion House' (and other land and property) at Tiddington to his eldest son Thomas, and provides for 'my dear wife Harriet'.

The will is quite long and repetitive, but he mentions 'other children' who will have equal shares of the residue.  Unfortunately those children aren't named.

Carol
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 July 19 18:52 BST (UK)
Colin, I think we might have cracked it ;D

Question:  Who were the parents of Thomas WEBB?

Answer:  Thomas and Harriet, apparently!

Carol
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: ColC on Friday 05 July 19 18:53 BST (UK)

HOLY TRINITY,STRATFORD ON AVON,
Parents Thomas and Harriet
Others: Harriet 1812, Sarah 1816, Elizabeth 1817, Mary Ann 1819, Amelia 1823.

The only Thomas Webb, father Thomas born London on family search was 9 Jul 1810, baptised 5 Aug 1810 SAINT DUNSTAN, STEPNEY, LONDON but mother Mary, so does not seem to fit?


Colin
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: ColC on Friday 05 July 19 18:57 BST (UK)
I think you are right Carol. Maybe someone could check the baptisms for London on Ancestry OPRs.

Colin
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 July 19 19:04 BST (UK)
I would Colin, but it's stupid o'clock here so I need some sleep!

Carol
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: PrawnCocktail on Saturday 06 July 19 10:22 BST (UK)

HOLY TRINITY,STRATFORD ON AVON,
Parents Thomas and Harriet
Others: Harriet 1812, Sarah 1816, Elizabeth 1817, Mary Ann 1819, Amelia 1823.


Harriet(1812) is described as Thomas's SECOND daughter on her marriage (Birmingham Journal, 2 Dec 1837). And she was married by her grandfather, Rev James Davenport.

The eldest daughter is listed as Margaret Nanfan Webb, on her marriage at Kenilworth in 1840. (Coventry Standard 2 Oct 1840). She died in Dawlish in 1845, aged 34, making her born about 1810 - 1811
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: webbedwards on Saturday 06 July 19 11:24 BST (UK)
Many thanks for the help
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: trish1120 on Saturday 06 July 19 15:30 BST (UK)
1851 Christian and Sisters in Ledbury, Herefordshire;
Joseph Lambourne Smith, 40
Christian Smith, 30
Fanny Isabella C Smith, 5
Francis Percy Smith, 3
Clifford Webb Smith   1
Mary Gertrude Smith, 3 mths
Jane Morgan, 19, Servant
Mary Treherne, 23, ditto
Ann Hall, 49, ditto
Mary Ann Gibbens, 17, ditto
James Barnes, 25, ditto
Richard Anton Hughes, 18, Clerk
Elizabeth Webb, 33, Visitor, Gentlewoman, born Stratford******
Amelia Webb, 27, Visitor, Gentlewoman, born Stratford on Avon, Worcestershire****
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: G Mlx on Saturday 11 September 21 00:18 BST (UK)
What does the 1844 marriage give for address, father and witness names?

Tiddington  is Oxfordshire? Bromberrow Forest ff Dean?
There is a Tiddington House in Oxfordshire, but this Tiddington House was demolished circa 1964.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust hold an 'Inventory of Household Furniture' left at Tiddington House, Stratford upon Avon, signed by Thomas T. Webb dated June 24th 1853.
Major General Alexander Ross Eliot Hutchinson an Indian Mutiny veteran, lived there circa 1876-1908. One of his daughters married Arthur Robert Johnstone Dewar 1869-1968.
Sir Gerard Muntz Bt. lived and died there in 1927 and Lady Muntz then leased the house to
Sir Edward Elgar in 1929. In 1931 it was sold to Richard Wedd.
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: trish1120 on Saturday 11 September 21 07:31 BST (UK)
Seeing this has been revived.

You may already have this by now;

Burials;
St James, Alveston

21 Aug 1833 Thomas WEBB age 50
Abode Tiddington

5 Aug 1842 John Nanfan WEBB no age given.

GRO has;
WEBB, JOHN  KENFEN age 27 
GRO Reference: 1842  S Quarter in STRATFORD ON AVON  Volume 16  Page 342

1841 there is a 45 year old Harriet WEBB, Independant, living in Birmingham with 2 servants.
She is not born in County

Trish :)
Title: Re: Thomas Townsend webb
Post by: G Mlx on Saturday 11 September 21 17:53 BST (UK)
Seeing this has been revived.

@Trish,
Thanks for the reply, but my research is about Tiddington House and the name of Thomas T. Webb came up among others and finished with Richard Wedd, so I that is why I uploaded on this thread some information, just in case it might be of interest to any Webb family members.
There are some more papers about the Webb family and Tiddington House at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
ER12/3/11 is a lease from Thomas Townsend Webb to George Last for Tiddington House at a yearly rent of £100 and £30 for contents, dated 24th June 1853.
ER3/3852 is a draft lease by Thomas Townsend Webb of Brownsend, Glos., to Fulwar Skipworth for seven years from the 25th December 1856.
ER3/3857 is another draft lease of Tiddington House, now in the occupation of Fulivar [Fulwar] Skipwith [Skipworth], from Caroline Webb of Brownsend, Glos., Widow, to Sir Robert N.C. Hamilton 6th Bt. for a term of 14 years from the 25th March 1861.
ER3/3865 (dated 17th September), mentions a marriage settlement between Henry Lawrence Barber of Abergavenny and Caroilne Elizabeth Webb of Brownsend, Bromsberrow, Glos., which also mentions Elias John Webb of Brownsend, her late father Thomas Townsend Webb and his interest in the will of Christian Webb.
ER3/3869 is a draft lease by Elias John Webb of Slandor House, in the Parish of Stoke in Teignhead, Devon, Thomas Henry Davis of Orleton, Worcs. and John Lane leasing Tiddington House and land to Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton of Avoncliffe, Warwickshire for 14 years from the 25th March 1875. See also ER3/3857 [Avoncliffe is next door to Tiddington House]