DESCENDANTS OF JOHN CHRISTIAN WOHLMANN
AND RELATED FAMILIES – DE CROISETTES, DANIEL, ANDREWS, MARRIOTT, CLARKE
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From the IGI: WILLIAM WARD - Gender: Male Christening: 06 MAY 1804 Saint Andrew, Holborn,
London, England. Admitted to the Freedom of the city 21st February 1826. The original document is in the hands of a related family. It reads: William Ward of London Innholder Was admitted into the freedom aforesaid and sworn in the mayorality of William Venables Esq mayor and Richard Clark esq chamberlain and is entered in the book signed with the letter C relating to the purchasing of freedoms and the admissions of freemen (to wit) 21st day of february in the 7th year of the reign of king George the fourth and in the year of our lord 1826 witness whereof the seal of the office of chamberlain of the said city is heretoaffixed dated in the chamber of the guildhall of the same city the day and year above said. Mentioned in his grandfather's will, so presumably orphaned by then, to receive £800 if he outlived his grandfather. This presumably funded his purchase of the Freedom and maybe the pub with which family papers associate him. He was following in the footsteps of his stepfather (deceased), John Nelson, husband of his mother Martha nee Wohlmann. He bought the Black Horse pub in Barbican City on the 19th January 1826 for £348 10s ?d. The effects, in an annex to the document, exchanged hands for £249 11s 0d. Signed by Henry Dale, 264 High Holbourn and Robert Godphry, 35 Chipwell (Chigwell?) Street. There are 8 pages in 18"x7½" double-sided lists of the contents of the pub, dated 19th January 1826. [This just about cleared William out as the total comes to near enough £600, not far short of his inheirtance, the rest of which would have bought his Freedom.] It would have been easy for him to lose his pub - through gambling, for example. There is a photograph of this, 47 Barbican, at the Guildhall and online. William married his grandfather's housekeeper: ELIZABETH SARAH (nee Wohlmann) ALLEN Marriage: 07 MAY 1826 Saint Botolph Without Aldersgate, London, London, England. Was this their first child? HARRIET CATHERINE WARD - Birth: 20 MAR 1827 Christening: 06 APR 1827 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England Identifying which William Ward he was in the first available full census, 1841, is problematic. For example, there is a William Ward, a 'traveller' in the 1841 census for Great Sutton Street, St James, Clerkenwell, in the right area, married to Elizabeth, with a child Eliza age 10. Not likely at all, William Ward, very wealthy, Clerk to a Brewery. Lived at 4 Tavistock Street, to be seen in the 1841-1891 censuses in Tavistock Street, the same house throughout, no. 4, in St Giles. Also in 1841, there is a William Ward with wife Elizabeth and son John at Willow Court, St Saviour. None were born in Surrey. This would fit better. What might appear a surprise is his occupation, meaning that if we have the right William Ward, he finished up working as a 'journeyman painter' . By 1847 he was a plumber, painter and glazier. This was, however, not unusual in the family: his first cousin George Wohlmann was in the same line of business, also south of the river. He too had fallen on hard times, as did most of the Wohlmann family: they seemed to be bad at business and lost out to their partners. This couple were still at Willow Court in the 1851 census with a child named Thomas, age 5, born in Spitalfields named Thomas Cornelius. The census states that 'Elizabeth' was born at St Lukes and was age 48 ie born c. 1802/3), and that William Ward, age 47, came from Holborn. Elizabeth might have gone home across the river for Thomas's birth. Probably this one as his wife died in East London: Deaths Jun 1859 WARD William E London 1c 8 |