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Facts and Events
George Walby was baptised on 1st September 1678 at Aston in Hertfordshire, son of Sarah Walby, formerly Skeg, and her husband George Walby. Young George was the second of four children and the eldest son. In 1694, when George was sixteen years old, his father died. As eldest son George inherited most of his father's property. In 1700 George's mother wrote her will, which mentions George as her eldest son, but leaves nothing to him on the basis that he had already been well provided for following his father's death.
In 1706 George was married at Ardeley to Mary Smith of Stevenage. They settled in Aston, where they had three sons baptised between 1709 and 1713. George worked as a butcher.
George died when he was only 36 years old, being buried at Aston on 20th March 1715. Mary was left with the three small children to look after. She survived George by over forty years.
References
- ↑ Church of England. Aston Parish registers, 1558-1980. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).
1678
George the Son of George & Sarah Wawby Sept[ember] 1
This baptism has been linked to the George Walby who married Mary Smith on the basis that it is the only baptism in Aston at a plausible time to be marrying in 1706, and the adult George was a butcher, which was certainly the trade of the grandfather of the George baptised in 1678, and quite likely of his father too. The mother of the George baptised in 1678 left a will, written in 1700, which refers to her eldest son George as already being provided for since the death of her husband, showing that the George baptised in 1678 was still alive in 1700, and presumably living in Aston if he had inherited his father's property. There was another George Walby who lived in Aston around this time, who was buried there in 1729, but he appears to have belonged to the Walbys of Cottered, judging by his will, and he was not a butcher but a husbandman and tailor. We therefore conclude that the George baptised in 1678 was the one who married in 1706 and was buried in 1715.
- ↑ Church of England. Aston Parish registers, 1558-1980. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).
1714
George Walby - Butcher - Mar[ch] 20 [i.e. 20 Mar 1714/5]
- Administration bond, in Hertfordshire, England. Huntingdon (Hitchin) Archdeaconry Wills. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies)
H23/2581, 23 May 1715.
Deceased:
George Walby late of Aston, butcher
Bound:
Mary Walby, widow and relict of Aston (she signs "Mary Walbe")
William Smith of Aston
Witnesses:
Walter Hill
William Bigg
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