William Tatham

1834 - 1876  (42 years)

• Name	William Tatham  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Known as	"Willy"
  Birth	05 Aug 1834	45 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  	5th August 1834 - William the Son of Elizabeth & Meaburn Tatham born at 1/2 past 11 o'Clock at night. [Family Bible]
  Baptism	07 Aug 1834	45 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury   [1]
  	Baptized privately by Mr. Nicolay on the 7th August [2]
  Christening	26 Nov 1835	St Michael, Highgate   [1]
  	1835 Nov. 26th - Wm. and Mary christened at Highgate Middlesex by the Rev. Mr. Nicolay. [Family Bible]
  		William Tatham (1834-1876) Baptism register (Christening)
  Residence	Jun 1841	Mill Field Lane, Highgate   [3]
  	double counted in Jun 1841 census
  Residence	Jun 1841	Oriel Place, Cheltenham   [3]
  	with Anne Smith (grandmother), Mary Tatham (aunt), Elizabeth Parker (mother), Mary Ann Tatham (sister)
  Education	Aug 1842 - Jul 1851	Highgate School   [8]
  Residence	Mar 1851	2 Highgate Hill on the left, Highgate   [9]
  Occupation	Apr 1861	Wine Merchant  [5]
  Residence	Apr 1861	Merton Lodge, Highgate   [5]
  Occupation	abt 1862 -	43 Pall Mall, Westminster ; Wine Merchant, Christopher & Co  [4]
  	The Meaburn Tatham family is believed to have acquired Christopher & Co in the early 1860s after the death of George Christopher, or possibly earlier.
  Occupation	Apr 1871	118 Pall Mall, Westminster ; Wine Merchant  [6, 10]
  Residence	Apr 1871	Merton Lane, Highgate   [6]
  Marriage	07 May 1872	St James, Piccadilly   [11, 12, 13]
  	Jane Arabella Vaughan,   b. abt Feb 1838, Atcham ,   d. 08 Aug 1913, Newton Ferrers, Cornwall
  Death	22 Dec 1876	Brooke House Asylum, Upper Clapton ; Cause: Apoplexy  [4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16]
  	Long-established private lunatic asylum, open from 1759 to 1940. William son of Meaburn & Elizabeth departed this life December 22nd 1876 ... [13]
  		William Tatham (1834-1876) Memorial lectern in Great Ryburgh church William Tatham. December 22 1876. To the Glory of God.
  Burial	28 Dec 1876	Willesden Churchyard   [13]
  	... and was buried in Willesden Churchyard on Thursday December 28th (Innocents' Day) 1876 - aged 42 years. [13]
  Probate	21 Feb 1877	London ; < £140,000  [17]
  	The Will with a Codicil of William Tatham late of 118 Pall Mall in the County of Middlesex Wine Merchant who died 22 December 1876 at Brooke House Clapton in the said County was proved at the Principal Registry by Jane Arabella Tatham of 11 Grosvenor-street in the said County the Relict Ralph Edward Tatham of Portman Chambers Portman-square in the said County Esquire the Brother and Richard Goodhall Smith of Charlton in the County of Kent Esquire the Executors. 21 February. Effects under £140,000. [NPC]
  Person ID	I0027	Tatham | Meaburn branch | Descendant - male line
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	Meaburn Tatham,   b. 14 Dec 1784, Barton, Whittingham ,   d. 02 Apr 1875, Merton Lodge, Highgate  (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Parker,   b. 30 Oct 1799, Durham ,   d. 14 Jan 1872, Merton Lodge, Highgate  (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	29 Apr 1824	St Katharine-by-the-Tower, London   [2, 4, 18, 19, 20]
  	Marriage settlement of Meaburn Tatham of Lincolns Inn, gentleman and Elizabeth Parker of St Catherine's Cloisters near the Tower of London. 27 April 1824. [Durham Diocesan Records, Add.MS. 1632/7] Minister: G F L Nicolay [her guardian]. Witnesses: Thomas Porrett Hayes [1772-1850, solicitor in Bloomsbury], Sarah Jane Mitchell [her sister], Hannah Maria Wells, [...] Parker [unidentified], William Mitchell [her brother-in-law]. [Sarah Jane Parker & William Mitchell were married 2 months earlier on 24 Feb 1824, at the same church, by the same minister and with 2 of the same witnesses]
  		Meaburn Tatham & Elizabeth Parker Marriage register
  Notes	It is curious fact that one day, two or three years it may be before our going to Highgate, my Father and a friend of his, taking a long walk from Town, reached a field on the left of West Hill, Highgate, from which there was a beautiful view, comprising Caen Wood, a large pond, almost like a small lake in the next field between them and the open country as far, I believe, as Dutton Gap in Surrey. Stopping there for a few moments my father said: "This is the spot where I should like to build a house if I was ever to build one". It was the very spot where, two or three years later, he did build his house. It was, I think in the year 1834 that we left London and went into lodgings in Highgate, when the building began. [Charles Tatham, Recollections] (about the cottage on Highgate Hill where the family lived before Merton Lodge was completed). My Father returning home one evening from Town found my Mother in the little front garden shedding tears of despair because she could not get all the furniture - which had been brought from where it had been stored, I suppose - put inside the house. She was sitting in the midst of it, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage. It was all ultimately put in. [Charles Tatham, Recollections] Sunday, August 6th 1837. ... in the evening we took a walk up Milfield Lane & went to look at the new house which young Mr Tatham [sic; then aged 52] is building for himself; it is a very nice one & the situation lovely; ... . [Diary of Parthenia Pardoe, wife of Allen Williams Block. Their daughter Elizabeth (Betha) married Meaburn Tatham's son George at Highgate, 20 years later. ] Merton Lane was cut when Mr Meaburn Tatham built Merton Lodge, now in the possession of Mr John Glover, J.P. It was an ancient footpath leading across the fields in Hampstead; it was a field path in the time of Coleridge and was his favourite and constant walk. [John H Lloyd, History of Highgate, 1888] 1861 census: 3 live-in servants + 3 next door. In Apr 1881 Merton Lodge was the residence of John Glover, shipowner, age 51 b South Shields, his wife Louisa and 5 children.
  Photos » Slide Show		Merton Lodge, Highgate Only known image of house in 20th century. Cropped from photo of former Holly Court School, closed 02 Aug 1990. Building then demolished and built over.
  		Merton Lodge Coach House, Highgate. Photo abt 1900. Part of Merton Lodge, formerly the home of Meaburn Tatham (1784-1875) & family.
  		Merton Lodge, Highgate In about 1888. Home of Meaburn Tatham (1784-1875) and family from its construction in 1838; house & contents sold after his death.
  		Meaburn Tathams: Family grave Churchyard of St Andrew's, Great Ryburgh
  		Meaburn Tathams: Family grave Detail of headstone showing damaged lettering
  		Meaburn Tatham Family Vault Plaque set in south wall of St Andrew's Church, Great Ryburgh
  		Meaburn Tathams - Family Grave at Great Ryburgh
  Documents » Slide Show		Family Bible - Meaburn Tathams Page 3: 1825-1831
  		Family Bible - Meaburn Tathams Page 4: 1832-1872
  		Family Bible - Meaburn Tathams Page 6: 1872-1917
  Histories		The Tatham family and Ryburgh parish, Norfolk
  Family ID	F0013	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Arabella Vaughan,   b. abt Feb 1838, Atcham ,   d. 08 Aug 1913, Newton Ferrers, Cornwall  (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	07 May 1872	St James, Piccadilly   [11, 12, 13]
  	On the 7th inst., at St. James's, Piccadilly, by the Rev. George E. Tatham, rector of Ryburgh, Norfolk, William, son of Meaburn Tatham, Esquire, Merton Lodge, Highgate, to Jane Arabella, only daughter of the late Rev. William Vaughan, Rector of the Third Portion of Pontesbury, Salop. May 7. [Pall Mall Gazette, 08 May 1872] William son of Meaburn & Elizabeth Tatham married to Jane Arabella, only daughter of the Rev. William & Jane Vaughan of Pontesbury Shropshire: May 7th 1872 at St. James Piccadilly. [Family Bible]
  Notes	no children [Curtis]
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2013
  Family ID	F0307	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S06] Parish Registers, baptisms, St Michael, Highgate, 26 Nov 1835. b 05 Aug 1834 [S28] Family Bible, Meaburn Tathams. [S01] Census, UK, 1841. age 6 [S04] H Curtis: Notes for a Pedigree of the Tathams of Co. Durham. [S01] Census, UK, 1861. age 26 b Torrington Sq [S01] Census, UK, 1871. age 36 b St Pancras [S42] Charles Meaburn Tatham - Recollections. [S20] School and College Registers, Highgate. [S01] Census, UK, 1851. age 16 b St George Bloomsbury [S14] National Probate Calendar, 14 Dec 1870. brother Meaburn Smith Tatham [S02] BMD Index, marriage reg Westminster, 2Q1872. [S11] Newspaper, Pall Mall Gazette, 08 May 1872. marriage notice [S28] Family Bible. [S02] BMD Index, death reg Hackney, 4Q1876. age 41 [s/be 42] [S07] Other Sources, GWR Shareholders List. [S41] Death Certificate. [S14] National Probate Calendar. [S06] Parish Registers, marriages, St Katharine-by-the-Tower, 29 Apr 1824. [S53] Marriage Licence, Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations, 27 Apr 1824. [S22] IGI / BVRI, batch M019072.