William Westall was a partner in the London firm of Westall & Co., Later Baggallay, Spence and Westall, a haberdashery wholesaler. In 1826 William Westall (or his father?) is listed as one of the founding 'proprietors' of the University of London. In 1830 he is a plaintiff in a theft court case at the Old Bailey, representing the firm, which was then at King Street, Cheapside. (The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to transportation for seven years). In 1831 he was an initial subscriber to 'A Topograghical Dictionary of England'. In 1835 he is listed as an elector for Aylesford in a poll to select the knights of the shire representing the western division of the county of Kent in parliament. His address is given as 20, King Street, Cheapside. By 1839 the firm has moved to Love Lane, Aldermanbury, London, as witnessed by a petition to parliament for lower postal rates, to which the firm is a signee. There is a record of a William Westall apprenticed to a haberdashery firm in Oxford.
I am looking for baptism, burial and marriage records for him and for his son William.
