The Family of William Wrathall (1785

The Family of William Wrathall (1785 - 1841)

In Nov. 2004, the following family data were extracted from Derek Wrathall's transcription of the will of William Wrathall (Feb. 1841):

His late uncles were William Wrathall, of Burnsall in the County of York, and Stephen Wrathall, whose son was William Wrathall. William's father was Lupton Wrathall (see Descendants of Lupton Wrathall of Burnsall (1716 - 1790)), who was a brother of William and Stephen. William, the father of Charles Bryant Wrathall, wine merchant, was apparently not a close relative of any of the above. Myra Simmonds' Descendants of Henry Wratho lists some descendants of Lupton Wrathall of Grassington (1716 - ):
- William (1747 - 1827)
- Henry (1749 - )
  - spouse: Ann Constantine (m 17 Feb 1777)
- Stephen (1752 - 1821)
  - spouse: Sarah Herd (m 6 Mar 1786)
  - Mary (1794 - )
  - William (1800 - ) spouse: Hannah
  - Margaret (1804 -)
- Lupton (1757 - )
The surname of Ann Hicks, sister of William's late wife, corresponds with the following Individual Record from the British IGI:
WILLIAM WRATHALL
Spouse: ROSAMOND HICKS
Marriage:25 DEC 1824 Saint Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England
William's niece, Emily Hartley, was the daughter of William's sister, Susannah Hartley of Grassington, who died prior to 1841. Derek Wrathall's transcription of the Burnsall Parish Register (1813 - 1900) has this entry:
5 Nov. 4, 1823: Wiliam Hartley, Linton, Surgeon, & Miss Susannah E. Wrathall, Burnsall, Spinster
and the British IGI has the following Individual Records:
EMILY JANE HARTLEY
Christening:15 DEC 1832 Long Preston, Yorkshire, England
Father: WILLIAM HARTLEY
Mother: SUSANNAH ELIZABETH

Susanna Elizabeth WRATHALL
Christening: 23 May 1790 St. Bartholomew The Great, London, London, England
Father: Lupton WRATHALL
Mother: Jane

LUPTON WRATHALL
Christening:03 AUG 1794 St Bartholomew The Great, London, London, England
Death:01 MAR 1795
Father: LUPTON WRATHALL
Mother: JANE

St Bart's is in Smithfield, on Bartholomew Close, a few miles northwest of William's address (listed as Tooley Street in Southwark in William's will), which is across Tower Bridge from the Tower of London. William's father Lupton had a grocery in Smithfield (see below).

In Stephen Wrathall's transcription of The Biography of Stephen Wrathall, Richard Theophilus Wrathall mentions that:

Stephen Wrathall ... in his early life in England with three younger brothers established a ship chandler's business in Blackwall. The brothers were successful in this business venture, and ... they owned a line of vessels trading to West Indies and .... a biscuit factory in Blackwall.

Blackwall is several miles to the east of Southwark. Records of the chandler's business and the biscuit factory are difficult to locate, but Stephen's mother died prior to Stephen's emigration to Tasmania:

Just as they reached the zenith of their commercial fame, their mother took ill and died. ... Stephen ... was the oldest son..... a family squabble arose, and it resulted in a smashup of the firm of Wrathall brothers. Stephen .... walked off, and from that moment the [brothers] never saw nor heard from him, and they knew not where he went.

Trevor L. Bramley's Descendancy of Stephen Wrathall (1779 - 1872) lists several children of Stephen and Mary Ann Walker as being christened in Saint Dunstan's, Stepney, London, which is a few miles northwest of Blackwall. So it is likely that Stephen Wrathall of Tasmania and William Wrathall of Southwark were brothers, but there is no evidence yet available that William Wrathall of Southwark and Charles Byrant Wrathall of London were close relatives.

The Family of Lupton Wrathall

In December 2005, Derek Wrathall mentioned the following:

On my notes I have ... William Wrathall of Kettlewell, who married Mary Leyland, and his grandfather ... Henry Wrathall born 1749 at Linton, who married Ann Constantine. I have also noted that Henry had a brother, Lupton, who is buried in the churchyard of St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London.

In April 2007, the British History Online website had burial data for the family of Lupton Wrathall of Southwark (1757 - 1821), quoted below (with thanks to Dr. Peter Webster, Editorial Controller, British History Online).

Citation:

'Grave stones in the church and churchyard', The records of St. Bartholomew's priory [and]
St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield: volume 2 (1921), pp. 488-99.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51794
Date accessed: 23 April 2007.

MEMORIALS NOW IN THE CHURCHYARDS

Name	Description	Date of death	Year	Age	Ref. No.
Wrathall, Jane	Wife	9 Feb.	1808	55	23
" , Lupton	Husband	26 July	1821	64	"
" , William Lupton	Grandson and son of Wm. and Rosamond W.	3 May	1827 (fn. 55)	2	"
" , Rosamond	Wife	13 Oct.	1827 (fn. 55)	44	"
" , William	Husband	Feb.	1841 (fn. 56)	56	"

55	Buried here from a dissenters' burial ground, 11 Feb. 1841.
56	Buried here with above, 11 Feb. 1841.

In Jul. 2008, the National Archives website Access to Archives had the following record (Crown copyright protected material):
Guildhall Library (Aldermanbury, London)
Records of Sun Fire Office [MS 11936/467]
MS 11936/467/913228 , 4 December 1815
Insured: Lupton Wrathall, 19 Cloth Fair

In Feb. 2002, John Hebden extracted Wrathall entries from London Post Office Directories:

1808 & 1815: L. Wrathal, grocer, 19 Cloth-Fair, Smithfield
1828: Wrathall & Knight, biscuit-bakers 78 Tooley St.
1833 - 4: Pigots [Directory:] Wrathall, Knight & Co., grocers, ship biscuit bakers, wine mchts 78 Tooley St.

These data may confirm the information from Stephen Wrathall's biography regarding the biscuit factory and the location of the factory in Southwark, and also indicate the connection to a wine merchant, but not whether Charles Bryant Wrathall was involved.