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Surrey / Re: Allan Ansell of Danescourt, Oxshott
« on: Sunday 27 November 22 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
From what I read it sounded like the accident was the result of reckless driving.  Mr Ansell was driving and his chauffeur was the passenger.  He tried to overtake two cars, one was already overtaking the other, with a lorry approaching in the opposite direction.  Both were thrown out of the car which suggests to me it was an open topped vehicle.

Regards,
Chris

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Surrey / Re: Allan Ansell of Danescourt, Oxshott
« on: Saturday 26 November 22 18:27 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks.

I assume William Cloude is the same chap as described here:

http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/biographies/986077/william-thomas-louis-woodward-cloude

Regards,
Chris


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Essex / Re: Ellen Willmott of Warley Place, Gt Warley, Essex
« on: Thursday 04 August 22 10:56 BST (UK)  »
An engraving of Fitzwalters dated 1818 is shown on this weblink….
https://www.thedicamillo.com/house/fitzwalters/

The two characters in the foreground may well have been Joseph Tasker and his wife-to-be Anne.

Chris

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Essex / Re: Ellen Willmott of Warley Place, Gt Warley, Essex
« on: Thursday 04 August 22 09:40 BST (UK)  »
John Tasker was living at Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square at the time of his marriage in 1789.

He was the architect who designed and built a number of properties in the Portman Square area from 1792.  I’m wondering if he acquired one of those new properties to live in himself as his central London base.

At some point he also acquired the Fitzwalters estate in Shenfield.  I believe Fitzwalters was passed on to his son Joseph who subsequently bought Middleton Hall as his country residence and sold Fitzwalters.

Chris

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Essex / Re: Ellen Willmott of Warley Place, Gt Warley, Essex
« on: Thursday 04 August 22 08:31 BST (UK)  »
Joseph’s father, John Tasker the architect, lived in a property on Baker Street, Portman Square in Marylebone.  So that may have been the birth place of Joseph.

Chris

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Essex / Re: Ellen Willmott of Warley Place, Gt Warley, Essex
« on: Wednesday 03 August 22 19:27 BST (UK)  »
Yes, it’s frustrating.  Is the difficulty due to the baptisms being in the Catholic church?

Thomas Tasker’s baptism transcript was labelled Independent, Masbrough.  I’m assuming that means he would have been baptised at the St Bede’s Catholic Church, Masbrough Street in Rotherham.  I’m guessing his sister Ellen may have been baptised at the same church but I can’t understand why one record is easily found but the other isn’t.

The death of Ellen Fell nee Tasker was registered in Aylesbury in 1845.

I haven’t been able to find Joseph Tasker’s census records.  I have an Ancestry subscription and haven’t yet tried to search FindMyPast.  His probate index indicates he died at his London property at 87 Marylebone Street.  He died on 8th April 1861, the day after the census was taken.

I read John Tasker’s Will in greater detail and it mentions his two brother, Richard and James who had predeceased him.  It gives his brother’s childrens names.  The Richard Tasker I mentioned in my previous post (i.e. the Richard who married Ellen Raw) was actually the son of John Tasker’s brother James.

Regards,
Chris

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Essex / Re: Ellen Willmott of Warley Place, Gt Warley, Essex
« on: Wednesday 03 August 22 14:26 BST (UK)  »
The Mary Spooner Will is quite enlightening.  She leaves a sum of £500 to her great-niece Ellen Fell.  She also leaves a sum of £4000 to her nephew Thomas Tasker, son of Richard & Ellen Tasker.  We’ve previously picked up Thomas Tasker, the grocer, in the census returns from Rotherham.

Richard Tasker married Ellen Raw on 19th May 1800 in Whitby.  Ellen is therefore Mary Spooner’s sister.  Mary and Ellen had a brother William, watch and clockmaker, who lived in Whitby and this may account for Richard & Ellen’s marriage taking place there.  I’ve found a baptism record for a Thomas Tasker, son of Richard & Ellen Tasker, 4th December 1810 in Masbrough, Yorkshire (a district of Rotherham which doesn’t seem to exist as such any more).

I suspect this Richard Tasker may have been the son of Richard Tasker, brother of John Tasker (1738-1816), the architect.  John Tasker was the grandfather of Countess Helen Tasker….godmother of Ellen Willmott.

Regards,
Chris

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Essex / Re: Ellen Willmott of Warley Place, Gt Warley, Essex
« on: Wednesday 03 August 22 12:19 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for this information.

I’d previously seen the 1851 census where Ellen Fell was visiting Mary Spooner.  Mary Spooner’s maiden name was Mary Raw.  She married Thomas Spooner in 1831 in Aylesbury.  Thomas Spooner died in 1839.  Mary died in 1853, a couple of years after the census was taken.

Mary Raw had 3 brothers as far as I can determine.  The eldest Thomas Raw was born In 1775 in Darlington and died in June 1861 in Islington.  In the 1861 census he’s shown as a retired linen draper.

Thomas Raw’s probate record is interesting.  Probate was granted to Thomas Tasker, his nephew.  Thomas Tasker was the grocer in Rotherham who had Frederick Fell as his grocer’s assistant in the 1861 census.

Regards,
Chris

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Essex / Re: Ellen Willmott of Warley Place, Gt Warley, Essex
« on: Monday 01 August 22 21:39 BST (UK)  »
I’ve not seen that baptism record.  Where did you find it?

Joseph Tasker also had a son called Joseph Louis Tasker born 1824, died of respiratory fever in Persia in 1848.

Have you found a marriage record for Joseph Tasker and Anne Sanger?

Chris

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