See also

Family of Richard COURTEEN and Helen WITHERSPOON

  • Husband:

  • Richard COURTEEN (bap.1776, d.1852)

  • Wife:

  • Helen WITHERSPOON ( -1846)

  • Marriage Licence:

  • 20 Jul 1803

  • St James Clerkenwell

  • Marriage:

  • 21 Jul 1803

  • St James Clerkenwell

Husband: Richard COURTEEN

  • Name:

  • Richard COURTEEN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Name Suffix:

  • the younger

  • Father:

  • Richard COURTEEN (1749?-1813)

  • Mother:

  • Elizabeth WRIGHT (1741?-1824)

  • Baptism:

  • 31 Oct 1776

  • Monnington on Wye, HEF, UK

  • Apprentice:

  • 4 Jul 1793

  • Scarborough, NRY, UK1

  •  

  • Apprenticed to Richard H. Lister a Scarborough attorney.

  • Articled Clerk:

  • 4 Jul 17932

  •  

  • Occupation:

  • 3 Jul 1800

  • Solicitor3

  •  

  • Address: Maiden Lane, Covent Garden

    Admitted as solicitor

  • Bankruptcy:

  • 21 May 18034

  •  

  •  

  • Address: Late of Great Bell Alley

    Formal notice in the London Gazette

  • Imprisonment for Debt:

  • 9 Jan 1804

  • Fleet Prison5

  • Imprisonment:

  • 31 Jul 1804

  • Fleet Prison6

  •  

  • This is a First Notice pursuant to the 'Act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors' passed in 1803 (44 George iii) by which debtors owing less than £1,500 can apply for release from prison (see page 936 of the London Gazette entry).

  • Imprisonment:

  • 1 Dec 1804

  • Fleet Prison7

  • Imprisonment for Debt:

  • 10 Sep 1821

  • Bedford Gaol

  •  

  • See Bedford Gaol Records online. Released 28/10/1821 https://apps.bedford.gov.uk/grd/detail.aspx?id=37313

  • Imprisonment for Debt:

  • 17 Oct 1821

  • Bedford8

  • Occupation:

  • 1829

  • Solicitor; London9

  •  

  • Address: 27 Old Jewry

  • Census:

  • 1841 (age 60)

  • Rotherhithe

  • Will:

  • 9 Oct 1846

  • Rotherhithe, SRY, UK

  •  

  • Address: Paradise Row

    Proved 18/4/1853 at London. Appoints Mary Benbow as executor and leaves everything to her 'my faithful servant'.

  • Census:

  • 1851 (age 74)

  • Rotherhithe

  •  

  • Address: 24 Paradise Row

    States birthplace as Hereford, Monnington

  • Occupation:

  • 1851 (age 74)

  • Solicitor of the Court of Chancery

  • Death:

  • 30 Nov 1852 (age 76)

  • Rotherhithe10

Wife: Helen WITHERSPOON

  • Name:

  • Helen WITHERSPOON

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Census:

  • 1841 (age 55)

  • Rotherhithe

  •  

  • Address: Paradise Row

    Age does not match with age quoted at death

     

  • Death:

  • 16 Jun 1846

  • Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth

Sources

1.

IR1/36. Cit. Date: 4 July 1793. National Archives.

2.

Court of Common Pleas: Registers of Articles of Clerkship and Affidavits of Due Execution; Class: CP71; Piece: 2, (Ancestry images). National Archives.

3.

Admission Rolls of solicitors. Custom Id: C216/23; National Archives.

4.

London Gazette. Issue:15586 Page:611. Cit. Date: 21 May 1803.

5.

Fleet Prison Commitment Books. Custom Id: PRIS 1/20; National Archives.

6.

London Gazette. Page 936. Cit. Date: 31 July 1804.

7.

Fleet Prison Commitment files. Custom Id: PRIS 2/90; National Archives.

8.

London Gazette. Page 1941. Cit. Date: 25 September 1821.

9.

Trade Directory: 1829 London Post Office Directory, 1829.

10.

St Mary Rotherhithe Parish Registers.