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Facts and Events
John Walby was born around the 1750s, son of Dorcas Walby, formerly Chapman, and her husband George Walby, a butcher. The family lived at Aston in Hertfordshire, although no baptism has been found for John there. If the age quoted when he died is correct then he was born around 1757. There are large gaps between the baptisms of John's siblings for whom baptisms have been found at Aston, with gaps between 1751 and 1756 and again between 1756 and 1763.
John is named in his father's cousin William Walby's will in 1764, in which he was listed after his brother Benjamin (baptised in 1751) but before his brother Edward (baptised in 1756), which may suggest he was born between them. John was left ten pounds by William Walby, which he was to receive when he turned twenty one.
In 1769 John started an apprenticeship with his older sister Lydia's husband, Samuel Stroud, a baker in London. In the early 1770s the Strouds moved from London to Hatfield, about ten miles south of Aston. John's brother-in-law Samuel Stroud died in 1792 and John's sister Lydia Stroud died in 1799. In her will she left John a pair of silver spoons to remember her by.
Back in Aston, John's mother died in 1800.
By the 1820s John was living in London. He lived for a time at Limehouse in the eastern suburbs, before moving to Newington in the southern suburbs, where he was living at White Boar Alley on Kent Street when he wrote his will in October 1823. He described himself as a yeoman. It does not appear that John had married - or at least, his will makes no reference to any wife or children.
John died on 5th April 1824 in Newington. He was said to be 67 years old. His will left all his property to the children of his late sister Lydia, suggesting John had remained close to the Stroud family, presumably from having lived with them whilst serving his apprenticeship.
References
- London, England. Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925 (London Metropolitan Archives, London).
Apprenticeship indenture dated 6 Feb 1769:
"...John Walbey the Son of George Walbey of Aston in the County of Hertford Butcher doth put himself Apprentice to Samuel Stroud Citizen and BAKER of London..."
- ↑ Church of England. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Ancestry.com (comp.). England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database]. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2013)
PROB11; Piece 1685.
This is the last Will and Testament of me John Walby formerly of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex but now of White Boar Alley Kent Street in the parish of Saint Mary in Newington in the County of Surry Yeoman being of sound mind for which I desire to thanks God In the first place I direct that all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences may be paid and satisfied and after payment thereof I direct that my estate and effects money in the public stocks or funds and all other property whatsoever and wheresoever of which I may be possessed or to which I may be intitled at the time of my decease shall be divided into nine equal parts or shares and three of such parts or shares thereof I do hereby give and bequeath unto my nephew Samuel Stroud for his own use and benefit absolutely one other share thereof I give and bequeath to my nephew George Stroud absolutely one other share thereof I give and bequeath to my niece Dorcas Paddon Widow absolutely and one share thereof I give and bequeath to my nephew Benjamin Stroud absolutely one other share thereof I give and bequeath unto my nephew Edward Stroud absolutely one other share thereof I give and bequeath unto my niece Hannah Smith wife of William Smith absolutely and the remaining part or share thereof I give and bequeath unto my nephew Joseph Stroud absolutely But in case any or either of my said nephews or nieces shall depart this life before me then I do hereby give and bequeath the shares or share of him her or them so dying unto and equally among the survivors or survivor of all my aforesaid nephews and nieces share and share alike for his her or their own use absolutely and I do hereby make constitute and appoint my said nephew Samuel Stroud sole Executor of this my will and I do direct that my said Executors shall and may receive and repay himself all costs and expences which he may be put to or be liable for in the execution of this my will and shall not be answerable for any involuntary loss or losses of my said estate and revoking all former Will and Wills I declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I the said testator John Walby have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three John Walby (LS) Signed sealed published and declared by the said John Walby as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have here subscribed our names as witnesses the word yeoman having been first interlined
J. Russell Lant Street Southwark - S. Stringer his Clerk
Proved at London 26th April 1824 before the worshipful Charles Coote Doctor of Laws & Surrogate by the oath of Samuel Stroud the nephew the sole Executor to whom administration was granted being first sworn duly to administer
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Collier's Rents, White Street, Southwark (Independent) burials, in England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 (ancestry.co.uk)
Class RG4; Piece 4267.
No. 31 / 1824
Mr John Walby Died April 5 Aged 67 years [1756/7] Buried 12 Newington
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