John Tatham

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 03 Sep 1780, St Mary, Rotherhithe
• Occupation: Feb 1813; Mariner
• Residence: Feb 1813, Highgate
• Occupation: 1815, Southampton St, Strand; Tea Dealer
• Occupation: abt 1822 - 1825, 14 Old Jewry, London; Merchant (East Ind.)
• Residence: abt 1822, Highgate
• Residence: 1827 -, Madras, India
• Probate: 1843; Rupees 40891

Notes:

The second son, John Tatham, Esq., formerly of Highgate, d. 16 March, 1839, at Madras; Gent.'s Mag., N.S., XII.,1839, p.102. He is perhaps identical with the John Tatham, Merchant, 14 Old Jewry, London, in 1822. [Curtis]

Occupation:
Indemnity for lost warrant: Messrs. Venn Wright & Venn, Bond 16 Dec 1815, amount of security £164. Sureties: John Tatham, Southampton Street, Tea Dealer; Edward Beaumont Venn, Bow Lane, Broker. [HEIC]

Residence:
29 Sep 1827: John Tatham, Bond & Covenant, to reside 2 years, Madras; Amount of security £500; Sureties: John Hammond, Colebrook Terrace, Islington, Gentleman; Henry Tatham, Charing Cross, Gun Maker. Authority of Court: 19 Sep 1827. [HEIC]
Renewed 21 Oct 1829.

Probate:
Intestate's Name: Mr. John Tatham. Amount belonging to the Estate in Company's Paper and other Securities.Rs. 40802 8 0. Amount of the Estate in Cash. Rs. 89 3 1. Total amount of C. rs. 40891 11 1 deposited in the Honourable Company's Treasury on account of the deceased's estate; the following sums, besides being amount of debts, remain in hand ready to be paid, viz. Thoolagherrie Ausary, Carpenter, C. rs. 2 10 6. Representatives of the late Mr. John Hammond, C. rs. 174 15 4.
Mr. Henry Tatham C. rs. 57 0 0. [London Gazette, 16 May 1843, issue 20225, page 1613]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Jul 1734, St Thomas, Stockton-on-Tees
• Occupation: abt 1750 - 1780; Royal Navy
• Post/Rank/Title: 10 Sep 1759; Lieutenant
• Post/Rank/Title: 1779; 1st Lieutenant
• Residence: Sep 1779, 2 Paradise Street, Rotherhithe
• Post/Rank/Title: 1780; Commander

Notes:

Post/Rank/Title:
1st Lieut., HMS Endymion

Death:
On service off the American coast

Thomas married Jane Morris about 1777 in Philadelphia, PA. Jane was born about 1754 in Pennsylvania?; died on 24 Jan 1823 in Highgate; was buried on 01 Feb 1823 in Highgate. [Family Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Sep 1779, 2 Paradise Street, Rotherhithe

Notes:

Carr, Jane, Kings County, spinster, late of Philadelphia, and Thomas Tatham. N. Y., mariner.
[New York Marriage Licences, transcr Robert H Kelby, page 9. Reprinted from NY Genealogical and Biographical Record, Jul 1915. Date not stated; others on same page are 1775, 1777, 1779. Originals in the archives of the New York Historical Society. Corresponds to p. 67 of list of marriage licenses published by NY State in 1860. Article online accessed 29 Jan 2012]

Name and identity not established. Named as Morris M Bultes in Horace Hallings Tatham tree; as Mauries in Christopher Oldham tree. Being researched by Emmeline Garnett in 1970s.

Birth:
age 68 at death

Death:
She d. 24 Jan., 1823, aged 68, at Highgate, when descr. as "widow of the late Thomas Tatham, Esq., R.N."; Gent.'s Mag., XCV., Jan.-June, 1823, p.188. [Curtis]

Burial:
not found in 1823 register 'Burials at Highgate in the Parish of Hornsey'; nor St Mary, Hornsey.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Jun 1708, St Peter, Bishopton
• Occupation: Aug 1723, Stockton-on-Tees; Grocer's Apprentice
• Occupation: Dec 1731, Stockton-on-Tees; Merchant
• Occupation: - 1758, Sunderland; Salt Officer
• Probate: 12 Jan 1764, York

Notes:

Occupation:
As "William Tatham, son of Ralph Tatham, of Bishopton, Durham," he was apprenticed 1 Aug 1723 to William Lownsdale, of Stockton, Durham, Grocer, the fee being £40.

Occupation:
William Tatham, who was born in 1708, was a salt officer in Sunderland. This meant collecting taxes on an essential commodity. Because salt was so important, especially for preserving food into the winter, it was always a tempting thing for the government to tax. William III had reintroduced the tax for his French wars.
The great economist Adam Smith thought it must be the right job for no less a person than the great poet Robert Burns, but it never came about. A letter to Burns read: "Indeed, first when your Book reached Edr. [Edinburgh], Mr Smith, Commissioner of the Customs, suggested a thing which he thought might be procured, and which he said was just what he would have wished for himself had he been in narrow circumstances - being a Salt Officer. Their income is from £30 to £40, their duty easy, independent, and free from that odium or oppression attached to the Excise." [CGC]

Probate:
Admon of his estate was granted on 12 Jan 1764 to Alice his widow [grant document at Borthwick Institute; cf Raine's Test. Ebor. V.105; quoted by Wood; quoted by Curtis]

William married Alice Raisbeck on 25 Dec 1731 in St Thomas, Stockton-on-Tees. Alice (daughter of William Raisbeck and Esther Rudd) was born in 1708 in Stockton-on-Tees; died after Sep 1779. [Family Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1755, Stockton-on-Tees; Milliner
• Residence: 1779, Stockton-on-Tees

Notes:

for supposed link with "the celebrated wit Lord Alvanley", see note under her daughter Ann Tatham.

granted the administration of her husband's estate 12 Jan 1764 [Raine's Test. Ebor. V.105; quoted by Wood; quoted by Curtis]

Name:
said to sign herself "A S Tatham" in letter 13 Sep 1779

Occupation:
Mrs Mary Pearson, Dyer in the Close, Newcastle, hereby gives notice, that she carries on the business of Silk-Dying, by experienced workmen from London, as in the late Mr. Pearson's time; where all sorts of silks, brocades, damasks, satins, shagrins, Turkey mantuas, etc, are cleaned, dyed and calendered; she also cleans all sorts of wrought beds and sewed work; cleans and dyes scarlet cloaks and plaids; cleans and glazes chintzes and linens of all kinds; cleans, dyes and waters harrateens, and stuff beds of all sorts, and cleans, dyes and calenders all sorts of woollen goods and linen jerseys; she likewise discharges, dyes, frames and waters all sorts of tabbies, paduasoys, lutestrings, ducapes, burdets, dunjarees, mohairs, etc, to patterns or directions, and dyes worsted or woollen cloth, Saxon green or blue.
Any of the above goods are taken in by Mrs. Manney Thomson, at her shop, West End, Luckenbooths, Edinburgh; [...]; Mrs. Tatham, Milliner in Stockton; [...]; and at the above Mrs. Pearson's shop, Tyne-bridge-end, or at her house without the Close-gate; who will be accountable for all the goods which come to the above-mentioned persons hands; and all persons who favour her with their work may depend upon having it done as well, expeditiously and cheap as at London or elsewhere. [Caledonian Mercury, 18 Oct 1755]

Death:
just possibly = Alice Tatham, of St Giles in the Fields, buried St Anne, Limehouse, 03 Oct 1780, aged 70 [Parish register]

Notes:

Curtis states that there were 12 children, of whom 7 died young. However he elsewhere records that 7 of them were married, and that 2 others (John, Charles) lived beyond childhood.

NZ family tree shows 3 more daughters, died in infancy

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: abt 1678 - 1705, Little Stainton
• Residence: abt 1708 - 1742, Bishopton
• Probate: 02 Dec 1751, Durham

Notes:

Robert Tatham, of Yarm, Yorkshire, married Bridget Laurence in 1652. Their son, Ralph, born in 1677, married Ann Mawes. This is the father of the member of St. John's. In the church at Bishopton there is a monument to his memory with the inscription: Here lies the body of Ralph Tatham, who departed this life May 9, 1742, aet. 64. [Admissions to the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, 1903]

Name:
called Ralph Lawrence Tatham of Little Stainton, in an early Tatham pedigree possessed by Dr. Ernest J. Tatham, of Cheltenham. [Curtis]
[confusion with his younger brother Lawrence]

Birth:
- age 23 in marriage licence 14 Jan 1701/02: ie born bet 15 Jan 1678 NS and 14 Jan 1679 NS;
- age 64 at death 09 May 1742: ie born bet 10 May 1677 and 09 May 1678;
- ie born bet 15 Jan 1678 NS and 09 May 1678.
(in theory)

Residence:
The Dwelling-House now in the Possession of Mr. Thomas Stelling of Little Stenton, nigh Bishopton, ... is to be sold. Enquire of Mr. William Raper of Tynemouth; Mr. Ralph Stoobs, Attorney in Darlington; Mr. Ralph Tatham of Bishopton, or Mr. Thomas Stelling of Little-Stenton, who will treat with any about the same. [Newcastle Courant, 16 May 1724]

A Dwelling-house, with a Malt-kiln, and other good Conveniencies for a Common Brewer, and a small Parcel of Ground behind the same, at Little Stainton, in the County of Durham, about 4 Miles from Darlington. Enquire of Mr Tatham, of Bishopton, or Mr Raisbeck, of Stockton. [ibid, 17 Apr 1736]

Probate:
This is the last will and testament of me Ralph Tatham of Bishopton in the County of Durham Gentleman as follows to wit I give & bequeath all my estate both real and personal unto my dear wife Ann Tatham her heirs and assigns forever and make her sole executrix of this my will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty. Ra: Tatham.
Signed sealed and delivered & declared by the said testator in the presence of us who are at his request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses hereunto. William Addison; Do: Hilton; Barrow Eden.

2d of December 1751. Ann Tatham the executrix within named was sworn to the truth and execution of this will and to perform the same. before me. Sam: Huson, Vic: of Bishopton

Burial:
M.I. apparently no longer in existence, according to the present [abt 1925] Vicar, the Rev R H Reilly.
The original stone monument was subsequently replaced by a brass tablet, now rather worn, 4 ft. x 2 ft., let into the lower end of the Chancel floor, forming the landing from the Sacrarium on to the Chancel floor, which has inscribed on it the following epitaphs [...] :
In memory of the Rev. Ralph Tatham, B.A., xxiii years Vicar of this Parish, who died Jan. xi. mdcccxxii, aged lxxiv years;
and of Charles Tatham, his son, who died Sept. iv, mdcccxxvii, aged xxxv years.
Also of Ralph Tatham his Grand father who died May ix, mdccxlii, aged lxiv years.
[Curtis]

Ralph married Ann Mawer on 15 Jan 1701/02 in Acklam. Ann was born about 1679 in Bishopton; died in 1759 in Bishopton; was buried on 14 Jun 1759 in St Peter, Bishopton. [Family Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 03 Jul 1679, St Peter, Bishopton
• Probate: 26 Mar 1759, Durham

Notes:

Notice in Newcastle Courant, 21 Apr 1759:
To be sold to the highest bidder, at the house of Thomas Dobing, in Bishopton, in the County of Durham, on Tuesday the first day of May next, together or in three parcels, betwixt two and eight o'clock, in the afternoon:
A freehold estate, at Bishopton aforesaid and East Newbegin, pleasantly situated, late the estate of Mrs Tatham, deceased, consisting of about 120 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture grounds, well watered, and fenced with quickset hedges; with about 300 trees (mostly ash) standing upon the ground, part fit for sale: Also a good mansion-house and farm-house, with all suitable conveniencies.
Likewise at the same time and place, a large dwelling-house at Little Stainton, a mile from Bishopton; with a common brewery, malt-kiln and malt-mill; with a good close and orchard behind the same, with suitable conveniences. - Mr Tatham, of Bishopton, will shew the premises.

Name:
Dau of William Mawer & Sarah Young, marr Sedgefield 11 Aug 1678. [LDS member, not verified]

Problem of identity:
(1) Ana, dau Gulielmi Mawer, Bishopton, bapt St Peter, Bishopton, 03 Jul 1679;
(2) Ann Mawer married to Ralph Tatham - aged 20 in transcr of marriage licence 14 Jan 1701/02, ie born bet 15 Jan 1680/01 & 14 Jan 1681/82.
It would be strange to declare herself as under age if she was not.
So possibly = Hannah, dau of William Mawer, bapt Bishopton 04 May 1682?
However, she herself had one daughter Ann and another Hannah, so it would be unlikely for the names to be confused.

Burial:
date does not seem possible- register to be checked - maybe s/be Jan for Jun?

Notes:

Marriage:
Marriage licence issued 14 Jan 1701/02: Ralph Tatham, 23, of Little Stainton; Ann Mawer, 20. [Archbishop of York Marriage Licenses Index, Borthwick Institute, York]

Marriage registered in Middlesbrough parish; celebrated in Acklam church, there being no church in Middlesbrough at that time.

No other known connection of either family with Acklam or Middlesbrough

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant
• Residence: 1692, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Residence: abt 1695 - 1731, Stockton-on-Tees
• Post/Rank/Title: 1720; Mayor of Stockton-on-Tees

Notes:

The Raisbecks were undoubtedly the principal Stockton family during the 18th century. [J G Nicholls "Topogr & General" vol II, 1853, p88]

Birth:
son of James Raisbeck, mariner, & Frances Bailey.

Burial:
possibly = Willm Raisbeck, bur St Thomas, Stockton, 26 May 1726;
or Willm Raisbeck, bur St Thomas, Stockton, 05 May 1735;
or Wm Raisbeck, bur St Thomas, Stockton, 03 Jun 1736.

William married Esther Rudd on 19 Aug 1695 in St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish St, London. Esther was born about Feb 1672/73 in Co Durham?; died in Mar 1738/39 in Stockton-on-Tees; was buried on 18 Mar 1738/39 in St Thomas, Stockton-on-Tees. [Family Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 04 Mar 1672/73, St Thomas, Stockton-on-Tees

Notes:

Thomas Rudd, of Sandford Warcop, and Alice Watson were married 13 Nov 1666 at Stockton-on-Tees church. Alice was buried 07 Nov 1723 at Long Newton, Co. Durham. [Curtis, MS additions to copy in SoG]

The Rev. Thos. Rudd, son of John Rudd, of Sanford, Westmorland, Rector of Long Newton, co. Durham, suffered for his faith and loyalty to the King, being deprived but subsequently reinstated at Long Newton. He was b. 11 May, 1641, and d. 1719., having m. Alice, dau. of Thos. Watson. [Curtis]

A different account of Rev. Thomas Rudd's 50 year ministry at Stockton was given by John Brewster The Parochial History and Antiquities of Stockton-upon-Tees: Including an Account of the Trade of the Town, the Navigation of the River, and of Such Parts in the Neighbourhood as Have Been Connected with that Place, Durham: Thomas Jennett, 1829.
The Reverend Thomas Rudd: Curate of Stockton.
Before the division of the parish of Norton, A.D. 1712, Mr. Rudd had continued for half a century the indefatigable minister of the ancient chapel of Stockton, having become curate, May 1, 1663, as he himself observes, "under the good and learned Dr. Allen Smalwood." An autograph sketch of his own life appears in the parish register; as well as some memoranda, which have been useful in compiling this history. He was a native of Westmorland, and son of John Rudd, of Sandforth, in the same county. The period of Mr. Rudd's ministry at Stockton was critical:-- he first became resident there soon after the restoration, before the town had recovered from those troublous times, and was only just beginning to rise either in trade or population. He was not a negligent observer of the change that was taking place; and doubtless his judgement and discretion contributed his part towards its prosperity. It is not improbable that his representation had its weight in separating the chapelry of Stockton from the mother church. The first sermon in the new church was preached by him, March 30th, 1712, before its consecration, which took place on the 21st of August following; he was instituted to the rectory of Longnewton July 15th, and inducted the 21st of July the same year. The last circumstance, so immediately connected with his last act at Stockton, seems to confirm the pious and zealous part he must have taken in promoting the religious establishment at Stockton.
The period of Mr. Rudd's ministry here was also one of considerable anxiety to a large body of conscientious clergymen, who suffered under great difficulties from the acts of parliament which required a repetition of the oath of allegiance during the changes of government, from the time of the revolution to the settlement of the crown at the accession of the house of Hanover. Mr. Rudd had not experienced the same difficulties himself; but the benevolence of his heart led him to soften their ill effects to his friends. "The vicarage of Norton becoming vacant by the Rev. Thomas Davison (who was vicar then) refusing to swear allegiance to King William and Queen Mary, the said Thomas Rudd was inducted into the said vicarage of Norton, July 25, 1691, yet continues at Stockton still, and allows his good master the profits of his vicarage as formerly, because he left it upon the account of his conscience."
The short character on his tomb-stone, in the chancel of Long-newton church, is a deserved tribute to his memory.
Hic conditus est Thomas Rud hujus paraeciae per septennium Rector; postquam fuisset Ecclesiae Stocktonensis 50 annos Minister; vir morum simplicitate et probitate antiqua; Patriae, Ecclesiae, amicis fidelis; omnibus benevolus et beneficus; Obiit Julii 15, A.D. 1719, Aetatis 79.

Name:
written as Hester in 1695 marriage register

Baptism:
dau of Thomas Rudd, curate, of Stockton

Notes:

son James, of Stockton and Darlington; Mayor of Stockton, 1736, 1742, 1746, and 1756. Marr at Long Newton 26 Oct 1725 to Jane Colling, of Hurworth. 1 son, 2 daus: Thomas, d. unmarr Jun 1793; Anne, marr Thomas Sheen, of Newcastle, daus; Jane, marr Thomas Bone, of Newcastle.

son Thomas, of Stockton, and of the City of Durham; solicitor; Mayor of Stockton 1737, 1738, 1747 and 1757; born abt 1702, died Feb 1765 age 63. Marr Sarah, 4th dau. of the Rev. Henry Stapylton, Rector of Thornton Watlass, and Marske, Yorks; born abt 1702, died 29 Sep 1783 age 81. 2 sons: William; John Stapylton.
Lent money to Ann Mawer, his sister Alice's mother-on-law, to help pay costs of the court case over care & education of her grandchildren Elizabeth & Ralph Tatham.
Founder in 1725 of Stockton law firm; passed in 1765 to his son John Stapylton Raisbeck; then in 1793 to his son Leonard Raisbeck, one of the promoters of the Stockton and Darlington railway. Firm taken over by George Newby in 1840 and still in business as Newbys Solicitors in 2013.

son William, single, bur Stockton 07 Sep 1719. [FHL film #1894159, ref ID 18]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Aug 1652, St John the Evangelist, Kirk Merrington
• Occupation: 1674, Little Stainton; Yeoman
• Residence: bef 1681, Little Stainton
• Probate: abt Apr 1681, Durham; abt £50

Notes:

The marriage would make this Robert identical with the earliest Tatham mentioned in a charted pedigree given, in 1812, to George Christopher, (son of Capt. Wm. Christopher, 1735-1797, Hudson Bay Service, by his wife Anne Tatham, great-grand-dau. of Robert and Bridget) by the Rev. Ralph Tatham, Vicar of Bishopton, and copied in 1882 [recte: 1832] by John Kinder Tatham. This chart commences: "Robert Tatham of Yarm, Yorkshire. Will dated 1642, leaves £10 to the Poor of Merrington. Issue of Robert who married Bridget Lawrence, 1652 [recte: 1674]: I. Robert, b. 1675; II. Ralph, of Little Stainton, Durham, born 1677/8, d. 1742; marrd. Anne Mawes; III.Lawrence, b. 1681; d. 1759, unm,; (and others of no particular account.)" From the date and mention of this legacy, the Will of 1642, here quoted, is presumably that of Raiph Tatam, No.l.
Careful investigation of the Church, Churchyard, and Parish Registers at Yarm has failed to discover any trace of any Tathams about this time at Yarm; and there is no record of any gift to the Merrington Poor, other than that of the Ralph Tatam, No.l, of Ferryhill, who d. 1649. Evidently also, the date of Robert's marriage to Bridget is 1674, not 1652 as transcribed, from the Vicar of Bishopton's charted pedigree in 1812, which on the chart is said to be based on extracts from the Registers of the Church of Bishopton, where, however, no references to any Tatham of Yarm are to be found. The association of the Tathams with Yarm, in fact, remains, so far, an unsolved mystery. [Curtis]
Note (2013): Examination of a copy of the chart, dated 1832, shows that the date 1652 refers, correctly, to Robert Tatham's birth, not his marriage.

Name:
here numbered Robert Tatham II (following Curtis)

variously spelled Tatham, Tatum, Tateoun

Probate:
Robert Tatum, No.2, left no Will. The Admon of his goods was granted in 1681, though, unfortunately, the Bond of Admon has been destroyed, reports the Chief Clerk at the Probate Office, Durham. Particulars, which follow, of the Inventory of Goods, though these only amounted in value to about £50, are worthy of record, since they will enable the imaginative reader to reconstruct Robert Tatum's environment of some 245 years ago. [Curtis, 1926]

Burial:
Mr. Robert Tatum, 7 March 1681. [Surtees, op. cit.]

Robert married Bridget Lawrence on 29 Nov 1674 in Co Durham. Bridget was born about 1647 in Billingham. [Family Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After death of Robert Tatham #2 (1652-1681), married at St Peter, Bishopton, 30 Jun 1683, Margaretta [sic] Tatum to William Watson #2.
Not to confuse with William Watson #1 (d. bef Aug 1685), first husband of Margaret Tatham (1644- ). [cf. Curtis]

Bridget's baptism is not recorded in Billingham Parish Registers, but there is no doubt that she came from that parish. She married Robert Tatetam there in 1674. She is mentioned in the wills of two of her brothers - Ralph Lawrence of Cowpen Bewley (1673), and Robert Lawrence of Cowpen Bewley (1677) which mentions sister "Bridget Tatam" and "Her son Robert, my Godchild". A third brother John Lawrence of Wolviston (will 1679) mentions "my brother Robert Tatham and his wife" and "their two children"; also his nephew "Ralph Tatham son of my brother-in-law Robert Tatham" is left everything in Wolviston.
Bridget's father Robert Lawrence was bapt. Billingham 1602, probably the son of John Lawrence who m. Agnes Burn at Billingham in 1598. Robert Lawrence m. Katherine Catterick, bapt. Billingham 1604, at Billingham in 1626. Katherine's parents were John Catterick (son of Ralph Catterick of Wolviston) and Elizabeth Watson (daughter of Ralph Watson of Thorp Thewles, son of William Watson). They married at Grindon in 1603. John was buried at Billingham in 1606 and his widow Elizabeth married Thomas Redhead at Billingham in 1608.
Ralph Watson (Elizabeth's father) was mentioned in the will of his cousin Dr Anthony Watson, Bishop of Chichester (who attended the death bed of Queen Elizabeth I [DNB]).


Birth:
dau of Robert Lawrence & Katherine Catterick

Notes:

References to other children in 1832 pedigree.

Marriage:
Robert Tatum married 29 Nov 1674 Bridget Lawrence, according to a copy of a chart in the possession of Capt. Alfred Seton Christopher. [Curtis]

The Durham Marriage Bond is dated 28 Nov 1674 and reads: 'Robert Tateoun, of Little Stainton, Yeo, and Bridgett Lowrence, Sp'. [Curtis]