See also

Family of Richard COURTEEN and Elizabeth WRIGHT

Husband: Richard COURTEEN

  • Name:

  • Richard COURTEEN1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Henry COURTEEN ( - )

  • Mother:

  • Margaret ( - )

  • Birth:

  • Jan 1749 (est)

  • Deptford, SRY, UK2

  •  

  • Address: Copperas Street

  • Baptism:

  • 26 Feb 1749 (age 0)

  • Deptford, SRY, UK2

  •  

  • Address: St Paul

  • Residence:

  • 26 Feb 1749 (age 0)

  • Deptford, SRY, UK2

  •  

  • Address: Copperas Street

  • Property ownership:

  • 26 Sep 1788 (age 39)

  • Kenderchurch, HEF, UK3

  •  

  • Address: Howton Grove

    Cited in the indenture. Maybe he just occupied Howton Grove

  • Property ownership:

  • 1791 (age 41-42)

  • Scarborough, YKS4 5

  • Appointment as Justice of the Peace:

  • 1795 (age 45-46)

  • Scarborough, NRY, UK6 7 8

  • Residence:

  • 1796 (age 46-47)

  • Ebberston, YKS, UK9

  •  

  • Address: Ebberston Hall

  • Will:

  • 5 Mar 1813 (age 64)

  • Seal, KEN10

  •  

  • Will mentions wife Elizabeth and son Richard. Proved 26/3/1813 in PCC

  • Death:

  • 6 Mar 1813 (age 64)

  • Seal, KEN, UK11

  •  

  • <a href="http://gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?grave=438234 &scrwidth=2400"><br>Richard Courteen grave monument<br>(www.gravestonephotos.com)</a>

     

Wife: Elizabeth WRIGHT

  • Name:

  • Elizabeth WRIGHT

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1741 (cal)

  •  

  • Death:

  • 1824 (age 82-83)

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 30 May 1824

  • St Stephen Walbrook

  •  

  • Address: Sise Lane

Child 1: Richard COURTEEN

  • Name:

  • Richard COURTEEN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Name Suffix:

  • the younger

  • Spouse:

  • Helen WITHERSPOON ( -1846)

  • Baptism:

  • 31 Oct 1776

  • Monnington on Wye, HEF, UK

  • Apprentice:

  • 4 Jul 1793

  • Scarborough, NRY, UK12

  •  

  • Apprenticed to Richard H. Lister a Scarborough attorney.

  • Articled Clerk:

  • 4 Jul 179313

  •  

  • Occupation:

  • 3 Jul 1800

  • Solicitor14

  •  

  • Address: Maiden Lane, Covent Garden

    Admitted as solicitor

  • Bankruptcy:

  • 21 May 180315

  •  

  •  

  • Address: Late of Great Bell Alley

    Formal notice in the London Gazette

  • Imprisonment for Debt:

  • 9 Jan 1804

  • Fleet Prison16

  • Imprisonment:

  • 31 Jul 1804

  • Fleet Prison17

  •  

  • 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 Prison18

  • 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

  • Bedford19

  • Occupation:

  • 1829

  • Solicitor; London20

  •  

  • 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)

  • Rotherhithe21

Sources

1.

St. Paul Deptford Parish Registers.

2.

Baptism Deptford, SRY, UK (St Paul) 26 Feb 1749 Richard Courteen.

3.

Indenture of four parts, 29 September 1788, Herefordshire Archives.

4.

MS 11936/384/593384. London Metropolitan Archives.

5.

Berkeley, Edmund., and Berkeley, Dorothy Smith, 1988, George William Featherstonhaugh : The First U.S. Government Geologist, Page 4.

6.

Oaths of Justices of the Peace, C 202, Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Writ Files, C 202/183/5; National Archives.

7.

Sacrament certificate: Richard Courteen of Scarborough, QSB, 1795 3/2/1; North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton.

8.

Qualification oath: Richard Courteen, QSB, Midsummer Quarter Sessions: records relating to oaths of office, 1795 3/2/9; North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton.

9.

James Schofield, 1796, The Scarborough Guide, Page 33.

10.

Will of Richard Courteen. National Archives.

11.

Seal MIs. Cit. Date: 6 March 1813.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Trade Directory: 1829 London Post Office Directory, 1829.

21.

St Mary Rotherhithe Parish Registers.