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Robert Mendham
b.Abt 1733
Facts and Events
Mother may have been Miss Feverall, because: - March 28, 1752 Mrs Mary Mendham, sister to Mr Feveral, of St. Stephens, [buried] in the vault, aged 48 years.
To support this supposition;
Robt Fiverall was witness the wedding of Robert Mendham to Margaret Scott in 1762
From contemporary directories; Robert Feverall, merchant of Walbrook in 1760 & Robert Mendham a Merchant at Feverall’s Walbrook 1765
Will refers to Mary Evans daughter, sons Rev Joseph and John who get the properties at Highgate and Great Ellingham and Samuel (wife Catherine), wife Margaret.
Probate executors sons Joseph and John and widow
References
- ↑ The Gentleman's magazine 1731-1907
80:397, pt. 1, Apr 1810.
7. At Highgate, aged 77, Robert Mendham, esq. formerly a merchant in Walbrook.
- ↑ Will Robert Mendham, in National Archives Kew.
- Survey of London
Village of Highgate
Edward Thoroton Gould of Mansfield Woodhouse, only son of Edward Gould, was the last of the family to own this estate. Three years after the death of his father he sold to Robert Mendham, esquire, a messuage formerly in the occupation of Richard Gower, esquire, afterwards of Sir Edward Gould and now of Robert Mendham, with 1 acre 2 roods 26 perches of land. It will be observed that this area very closely corresponds with the amount of land conveyed by Sir Roger Cholmeley to Richard Hodges, namely a garden and 1 acre plus 1 acre 34 perches, together I acre 2 roods 34 perches. Included in Hodges' land was a small area on the north-west, now occupied by Church House, No. 10, South Grove (see p. 34), and the site of Nos. 23-33, High Street, on the north-east.
Robert Mendham, a merchant in Walbrook, was elected a Governor of the Grammar School on l0th April, 1796, and died on 7th April, 1810, aged 77, leaving a son, John Mendham, who conveyed the estate in 1813 to John Pennell (the owner-occupier of Hertford House), who immediately conveyed it to Charles William Hick, who was a hatter, of Cheapside, and also owned property in Southwood Lane, north of the Baptist Chapel there.
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