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About Natstand Family Documents natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 URL: www.natstand.org.uk/pdf/LeesE000.pdf Root person: Edwin Lees (1800 – 1887) Description: Family document Creation date: version 2.0 2018 November 18 Prepared by: Richard Middleton Notes: Press items reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) About Natstand family documents: A Natstand family document is intended to provide background information concerning the family of a deceased naturalist. It is hoped that such information will form a framework which will help interpret their surviving correspondence, specimens and records. In some cases it will also give an insight into the influences on their early lives and the family constraints within which they worked and collected. We have found that published family data concerning individuals rarely contain justification for dates and relationships and not infrequently contain errors which are then perpetuated. The emphasis in Natstand family documents will be on providing references to primary sources, whenever possible, which will be backed-up with transcriptions. Although a Natstand biography page will always carry a link to a family document, in many cases these documents will be presented without any further biographical material. We anticipate that this will occur if the person is particularly well known or is someone we are actively researching or have only a peripheral interest in. The following conventions are used: Any persons in the family tree with known natural history associations will be indicated in red type. Any relationships will be to the root naturalist unless otherwise stated. Dates are presented Year – Month – Day e.g. 1820 March 9 or 1820.3.9 1820 March or 1820.3 Dates will be shown in bold type if a reliable reference is presented in the document. In cases where an exact year cannot be given (e.g. it is derived from an age at death), the date will be presented in normal type and preceded with "c" – e.g. c1798. There are some cases where a date is available from a secondary source only (e.g. a published obituary), in these cases it will be presented in italics – e.g. 1823.7.21 Data sources: Census data have been used, whenever possible, to confirm relationships; they are not considered a reliable source of data concerning age. Contemporary newspaper family notices are considered as reliable sources of relationships and dates; reports and obituaries are treated more cautiously. Parish records generally provide a reliable source of data and digitised images have been used whenever possible. Any difficulties with transcription will be made clear. In some cases only transcripts have been available; errors here are usually confined to spelling. The most important source of this material is the International Genealogical Index compiled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah. National Civil Registration Indexes are considered reliable, as are probate records. Richard Middleton James Robert Middleton - 1 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 g/fa James Teverill (1750 – 1813.1.18) g/mo **1 married Mary Nicklin Pickard (1738 - 1780?) in 1774 aunt Maryanna Teverill (1776 - 1780) Birmingham mother 1Elizabeth Teverill (1777 – 1834.4.1) Birmingham **1 married Thomas Lees (1772 – 1809.6.30) at Worcester in 1797 Edwin Lees (1800.5.12 – 1887.10.12) wife1 **1 married Sarah Wright Kingsbury (1804.3.21 – 1878.1.9) at Tewkesbury on 1827.7.26 No Issue wife2 **2 married 2Jane Matthews née Bridges (1834 – 1913.7.28) in Islington on 1883.8.3 No Issue step-son Joseph Bridges Matthews (1862 – 1928.8.5) **2 married John W Goodman (c1777 – 1847.7.27) at Worcester on 1814.5.5 ½brother 3James Teverill Goodman (1815.7.1 – 1834.9.11) Worcester ?aunt Ann Pickard Teverill (1779 - ?) g/aunt **2 married Eleanor Pickard (1745 – 1824.12.22) on 1786.7.3 ½aunt Mary Teverill (1787.10.10 - 1871.12.4) *** married John Vine Hall (1774.3.14 – 1860.9.22) on 1806.8.26 ½cousin Edward Pickard Hall (1808.6.3 – 1886.11.6) *** married Anne Ralph () on 1836.4.13 six sons & “five or six” daughters ½cousin Stephen Prentis Hall (1810.5.6 – 1872.4.24) *** married Christina Christie Coutts Shelly () on 1841.2.18 Issue ½cousin John Vine Hall (1813.2.5 – 1892.12.25) ½cousin Rev. Christopher Newman Hall (1816.5.22 – 1902.2.18) **1 married 4Charlotte Gordon (1828/9 – 1903.7.5) on 1846.4.14 5divorced on 1880.2.17 No Issue **2 married Harriet Mary Margaret Knipe (1841.7.4 – 1922.4.21) on 1880.3.29 No Issue - 2 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 ½cousin Eleanora (Nora) Martha Hall (1818.4.2 – 1884.8.1) *** married Rev Thomas Allnutt (1819.8.18 – 1903.5.27) on 1840.7.3 Issue – 9+ children ½cousin Mary Hall (1819.12.22 – 1896.5.20) *** married Henry Allnutt (1815.9.3 – 1879.6.30) on 1841.3.10 Issue ½cousin Arthur Hall (1824.10.31 – 1919.3.30) *** married Ellen Jane Craig (1838.2.20 – 1926.10.1) on 1862.2.27 Issue – 14 children born alive ½cousin Emily Hall (1827.1.9 – young?) ½cousin Henry Warren Hall (1828.9.29 – 1901.6.27) **1 married Susan Sutcliffe Wood (c1840 – 1884) 1860.5.1 6Rev. William Newman Hall (1868 – 1915.10.12) +2 daughters? **2 married Kate Chapman (c1865 - ) on 1886.10.23 - 3 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 Sources: 1738 October 16: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Mary Nicklin Pickard, daughter of Samuel and Anna Pickard. 1776 January 31: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Maryanna Teverill, daughter of James and Mary Nicklin Teverill. 1777 October 15: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Nicklin Teverill 1779 July 14: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Ann Pichard Tiverell [sic], daughter of Tiverell. From transcript of Birmingham nonconformists {Bull Ring} 1780 May 23: Burial of Mary Hannah daughter of James Teverill, Birmingham St Philip. 1786 July 3: Marriage of James Teverill (widower) and Eleanor Pickard at St Botolph, Bishopgate, London. Witnesses John and Mary Warren. [Interesting as this is too late to be Edwin’s granny. Since Elizabeth was born in about 1777 she must be Eleanor’s step-daughter!] 1787 November 8: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Mary, daughter of James Teveril and [blank]. 1791 June 16: Indenture between James Teverill of St. Johns Bedwardine, co. Worcester, farmer, Thomas Colmore of Birminghan, merchant, and Edward Blakemore, confectioner and Thomas King grocer, both of Birmingham, concerning premises in the Bull Ring, Birmingham. With Lease for a year dated 15 June MS 85/Acc1924-009/329139 (Birmingham City Archives) 1797: Pallot’s Marriage Index – Elizabeth Teverill married Thomas Lees of St Swithin, Worcester. 1797 December 14: *Bath Chronicle and Weekly News MARRIED, Mr. Lees, woollen-draper, of Worcester, to Miss Teverill. 1800 May 12: All Saints Worcester (Protestant & Dissenters’ Birth Registry) These are to certify that Edwin Lees, son of Thomas Lees and Elizabeth his wife, who was the daughter of James Teverill Of the parish of St John’s in the City of Worcester, was born in lawful wedlock in the parish of All Saints in the city of Worcester the twelfth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred … Registered at Dr William’s Library, Redcross- Street, near Cripplegate, London December 7th 1808. 1805 September 7: *Oxford Journal DIED – Mr Edward Teverill. Of Churchill, near Kidderminster. 1806 August 30: *Oxford Journal MARRIED – Mr. J. V. Hall, Bookseller, of Worcester, to Miss Teverill, of St. John’s. [This is Edwin’s aunt Mary and it shows how he became a book-seller. John Vine Hall moved back to Maidstone in 1814. John Vine Hall’s autobiography gives the date as 26th August.] 1808 June 3: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street Edward Pickard Hall son of John Vine Hall and of Mary daughter of James Teverill born in the Parish of St Swithin City of Worcester - present Chrir Hebb, Eliz. Lees 1809 July 6: *Cheltenham Chronicle DIED. On Friday last died suddenly, Mr Lees, Woolen Draper, Broad-street, Worcester. 1809 July 12: *Hereford Journal DIED – Saturday, after a few hours illness, Mr. Thomas Lees, woollen-draper, of Worcester, aged 35. [Consensus - died 1809 June 30] - 4 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 1809 July 20: *Worcester Journal WOOLEN DRAPERY. To be DISPOSED OF, with early Possession, The STOCK and PREMISES of the late Mr. LEES, deceased, in Broad-street, in the city of Worcester. For a view of the same, apply to Mrs. Lees, on the premises; Mr. J. V. Hall, High-street; or W. Handy, Auctioneer. All Persons who have any Claim or Demand on the Estate and Effects of the said Mr. Lees, deceased, are required to send in the same to Mrs. Lees, his Widow, or Mr. Pickard, administrators of the Effects; and all Persons indebted, are desired to pay the same to Mrs. Lees, who is duly authorised to receive it. (One Concern.) 1809 August 24: *Worcester Journal (also on 17 inst) To be SOLD by AUCTION, By W. HANDY, on Monday and Tuesday, the 28th and 29th days of August, 1809, The entire neat and modern HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects, of Mr. LEES, deceased. at his late dwelling-house in Broad-street, in the city of Worcester ; Comprising handsome fourpost, tent and stump bedsteads, with fluted mahogany oak front pillars, with flowered cotton hangings, and window curtains to correspond, straw and wool mattrasses, seasoned goose feather beds, bolsters, and pillows, blankets and quilts, Kidderminster and Scotch floor, bedside and bed-round carpets and hearth rugs, set of mahogany Cumberland dining tables, neat inlaid mahogany card, Pembroke, dressing and night ditto, handsome chimney, pier, swing and dressing glasses, in ornamental gilt fames, neat mahogany, beech and other chairs, angle and square mahogany bason stands, chests with drawers.
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