Harriet Esbe Wells

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• Baptism: 30 Jul 1836, College Street Catholic Apostle & Irvingite, Chelsea, London

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Census Listings:
1841 Union Road, Cambridge, England. age 4. (digital copy A 71)
1851 Newman Street, Marylebone, London. daughter, age 14. (digital copy A 70)

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Census Listings:
1841 Union Road, Cambridge, England. age 32, Clerk B A (digital copy A 71)
1851 Newman Street, Marylebone, London. Head (mar). age 42, Clergyman. (digital copy A 70)
1861 Lawbrooks House, Shere, Surrey. Head (mar). age 52. Clerhyman of the Churuc of England (without care of souls) (digital copy A 78)

Died:
The Reverend John Tighe Wells; 6th April 1869.
The Will of the Reverend John Tighe Wells late of Albury Nr Guildford, Surrey in the county of Surrey, Clerk deceased who died on or about 13th March 1869 at Pirbright in the county aforesaid was prived at the Principal Registry by the oath of Ellen Margaret Wells of Aldbury aforsaid Widow & Relict . the sole Executrix Effects under ?1500.

John married Ellen Margaret Bayford on 4 Jul 1833 in St Luke, Cheslsea, London, Middlesex.. Ellen (daughter of John Bayford and Frances Heseltine) was born in 1812 in Parsons Green, London, Middlesex, England; died on 11 Jan 1898 in Aldbury, Guildford, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 30 May 1812, All Saints, Fullham. London, Middlesex.

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Census Listings:
1841 Union Road, Cambridge, England. age 28. < E.M. Wells> (digital copy A 71)
1851 Newman Street, Marylebone, London. wife, age 27, < Ellen M Wells> (digital copy A 70)
1861 Lawbrooks House, Shere, Surrey. wife, age 45. Clergymans Wife. < Ellen M Wells> (digital copy A 78)
1871 Heathfield, Aldbury, Surrey. England. Head (wid). age 58. < Ellen Margaret Wells> (digital copy A 72)
1881 29 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury. Head (wid). age 67, No Occupation. < Ellen M Wells> (digital copy A 73)
1891 7. Grafton Crescent, St Pancras, Grandmother, (wid). age 79, Living on own means. (digital copy A 74)

Died:
Probate: 1898
Ellen Margaret Wells of Albury, Surry, widow died 22 January 1898, Probate London 10 March 1898 to Charles Augustus Est Wells Esquire & Robert Augustus Bayford Q.C. Effects ?2721 0s 5d.
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Married:
The Reverand John Tighe Wells, clerk of the Parish of Bryngwyn in the county of Monmouth, Bachelor.
Ellen Margaret Bayford, of this Parish, Spinster & Minor.
were Married in this Church by Licence, by and with the consent of John Bayford, the natural & Lawful Father of the said minor,
on the fourth day of July 1833. By me H J Owen Minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea.
In the presence of John Bayford; Emily Butler; Frances Bayford; Angela Frances Owen; Clara Sophis Bayford; Julia bayford ; Charles Bayford.
[Archive - digital copies of Marriahe & Licence]

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Post office Directories: 1843 John Batford & James H Bayford,
Proctors & Notaries, 12 &13 Great Knightrider Street, Doctors Commons (1)
Census Listings:
1841 Albury Village Surry. age 65. Proctor. (digital copy A43)

Note 1. Doctors Commons, also called the College of Civilians, was a society of Lawyers practising Civil Law in London. The Society had buildings with rooms where it's members lived and worked, and a large Library, Court proceedings of the Civil Law Courts were also held in Doctors Commons. After the Court of Probate Act of 1857, a motion to dissolve the society was entered on 13th January 1858 and the last meeting took place on 10th July 1865.
[Archive - picture of Doctors Commons - misc DM 6]

Buried:
John Bayford Esquire age 70 of Hoerton Villa Kensington.
Grave: Number 59, Row 13, S, depth 11ft, cost ?1. 5s. 6d.
[archice - digital copy]

John married Frances Heseltine on 31 Mar 1804 in St Pancras Chapel, London. Frances (daughter of James Heseltine and Frances Altham) was born on 20 Mar 1781 in London, Middlesex, England; died in 1848 in Horton Villas, Kensington, London; was buried on 21 Sep 1848 in St Lukes, Chelsea.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 16 Apr 1781, St Benet, Pauls Wharf, London

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Census Listings:
1841 Albury Village Surry. age 60. < Frances Bayford> (digital copy A43)

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• Baptism: 5 Nov 1743, Wensleydale,

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James's Father was John Heseltine. he had a brother Richard. He appears in the Land Tax records of the Upper Division of Castle Baynard in 1771-72 paying a land tax of six pounds a year, and in 1772-73 the tax had dropped to four pounds 10 shillings. In 1774-75 James appears in Thames Street, Castle Baynard untill 1784 where he rented two properties, one as a residence and the other as an office, paying two pounds twelve shillings and six pence exclusive of Hospital Rent, and one pound eight shillings for the office. He then appears in the Great Knight Street from 1785-86 untill 1804-05 where his rent changed from fifteen pounds in 1785 to seventeen pounds ten shillings in 1795 and down to Fourteen pounds seven shillings and sixpence in 1805 [?14 7s 6d] Whilst residing in Thames street, in the Parish of St Benet's Paul's Wharf he paid a poor tax to the church of 1/6 [1shilling & sixpence] a week . James was a Proctor at the Doctors Commons near St Pauls. The Doctors Commons consisted of five courts, which were, The Court of Arches, The Perogative Court, The Court of Faculties & Dispensation, The Consistory Court of the Bishop of London and the High Court of the Admiralty. He was initiated into the Freemasons LOdge #111 at the Queens Head, Grays Inn Road, Holdorn, London 1765, and he became the Grand Secretary of Freemasons 1769-1780. joint Grand Secretary 1780 to 1784, with William White. Grand Treasurer from 1785 untill his death in 1804. He was also the Senior Grand Warden in 1785. In 1781 James was a Founding member of the Toxophilite Society along with Sir Ashton Lever, as Presedent, and the few remaining Finsbury Archers, they met and shot in the grounds of Leicester House, Leicester Square untill 1784
Noted in the Lambeth Parish & Court records 1788 Proctor Arches, From the 17th May 1783 untill his death in 1804 he was the 9th Kings Proctor.
Occupation given in 1777 at the birth of his son James; Proctor in Doctors Commons.
In the 'Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 74, Jan - June 1804' under Obituary, with Anedotes, of Remarkable Persons, appeared this article;
In a fit of apoplexy, James Heseltine, Esq of Bedford Square, King's procurator, an office in war time worth from ?12 to ?20,000 per annum.
He is said to have died possessed of a fortune of ?200,000. His remains were interred, on the 14th, under Islington Church; where the pulpit has, in consequence, been covered with black, and adorned with an elegant funeral escocheon.
He had a house at Walthamstow, on which he had expended considerable sums of money. He is succeeded by Mr Charles Bishop (as King's Proctor).
The 'Oxford Dictionary' describes a Kings Proctor as "an official of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, who has the right to intervene in probate, divorce, and nullity cases, when collusion between the parties or suppression of material facts is alleged."

In 1818 on the 30th of June, Frances his wife went to court to claim her bequest from James' will. She lost the case.
Cases In Chancery, Heseltine v Heseltine.
James Heseltine, by his Will, dated the 2d day of September 1796, bequeathed "to my dear Wife, Frances Heseltine, exclusive of, over and above the provision made for her and under and by virtue of the Settlement made previous to our Marriage, all my Household Goods, Plate, Linen, and China; and also all the wine and other Liquors, Goods and Chattels whatsoever that shall be in or about my Dwelling Houses in Doctors Commons, and at Walthamstow, in the County of Essex, at the time of my decease; and also my Coach and other Carriages, with my Horses, and all my Live Stock at Walthamstow aforesaid, to and for her own use and benefit."
After the making of the Will, the Testator took a House in Bedford Square, and removed to it the greater part of the Furniture from his house in Doctors Commons.
The question was, Whether the Bequest in the Will passed the Furniture, &c removed to Bedford Square?
Mr. Bell, and Mr. Abercromby, in support of Exceptions.
Mr. Rouppa, contra.

The Vice-Chancellor:-
Probably, if the Testator had been asked, whether he meant to give his Wife the Furniture in Bedford Square, he would have answered in the affirmative; but a Gift of such Furniture as should be in his House at Doctors Commons, and at Walthamstow, at the time of his decease, cannot pass Furniture which at the time of his decease was in his house at Bedford Square.
Exceptions overruled.(a)

James married Frances Altham on 26 Dec 1776 in St Mary Islington, (By Licence). Frances was born in 1745 in Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Frances was the Daughter of Roger & Mary Altham. Roger Altham Esq, was a Proctor at the Doctors Commons and a neighbour in Thames Street, Pauls Warf.

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Married:
[Archive - digital copy of marriage]