Person:Dorcas Walby (2)

Dorcas Walby was baptised on 30th November 1740 at Aston in Hertfordshire. She was the daughter of Dorcas Walby, formerly Chapman, and her husband George Walby, a butcher. They had married less than three months before young Dorcas's baptism.

As a young woman, Dorcas moved to London, where she was married on 23rd February 1766 to a hosier called William Jones at the church of St Botolph without Bishopsgate. They went on to have two children together: a son called William baptised at Spitalfields in 1767, and a daughter called Jane baptised at Rotherhithe in 1772.

Dorcas appears to have died in London in 1775, aged about 35, being buried at St Botolph without Aldgate on 14th November 1775. Her last abode was given as Petticoat Lane. Her husband William has yet to be traced after Dorcas's death. Back in Aston, both Dorcas's parents outlived her. Her father wrote his will six months after Dorcas's death, and it does not refer to her or her husband or children.

1. ↑ Church of England. Aston Parish registers, 1558-1980. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   1740: Dorcas Daughter of George Walby Nov 30

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2. ↑ London, Middlesex, England. Parish Registers of St Botolph Aldgate (London Metropolitan Archives, London).

   Burials November 1775 / 14 Dorcas Jonas Wife of... Petticoat lane