WRATHALLS OF LONDON

In 1999, Hilary Wrathall of Ontario sent this information on London Wrathalls:
Before my marriage I was a Wrathall. I grew up in Surrey and Essex, England. My father is Albert William Wrathall (date of birth January 9th, 1923); he grew up in East London. My grandfather grew up in Pimlico, London, England; his name was Frank William Wrathall, and his date of birth was April 3rd 1889. He was an only child. His father was William Westcombe Wrathall Jr., and his date of birth was approximately 1856. His father was William Westcombe Wrathall Sr., and I have no information on his date of birth, but I believe him to be a brother of some of the Wrathalls that left Britain as the dates coincide. Someone had mentioned a brother William who stayed behind. Does anyone know more? My father, brother and I are very interested.

Some years ago Wrathalls from the Australian branch came to visit my parents in Surrey, England, but my father did not have any information at that time on his family. When his mother died, his sister unearthed some papers.

Perhaps we can find out more. I can be contacted at hilaryvieira(at)sympatico(dot)ca. I currently live in Paris, Ontario, so maybe the Canadian Wrathalls and I are related somewhere along the line. Looking forward to hearing from as many Wrathalls as are interested.
As of December 2000, the Westcombe Wrathall I.G.I. Records appear to confirm Hilary's research.

Roy Wrathall has been researching a wine merchant named William Wrathall, who lived in the London area. Roy relates the following from the International Genealogical Index (IGI) for London :
Wrathal, Charles Bryant, son of William Wrathal and Susanna. Christened 26 May 1789, London St. Sepulchre
He had a brother, Joseph Lucas, Christened 12 Apr 1786, and there may be more brothers, but I was only looking for Charles ! I wonder if there's any link to either the Wine merchant and/or Stephen Wrathall of Tasmania? There are no Charles Wrathalls in the Yorkshire IGI.

As Roy noted, the London Wrathall I.G.I. Records have some data that may link them to Stephen Wrathall of Tasmania, some of whose children also have parish records from London.

Mark Pemberton of London contributed this info in 2001:
Have been looking at your extremely comprehensive site and thought I should drop you a line. I am not myself a Wrathall, but [I am acquainted with] the Wrathall family of Highgate, London.

This particular branch of the Wrathall family derives from Linton in North Yorkshire, where there are about a dozen Wrathall graves in the churchyard. In the church itself one of the flagstones is inscribed with the name of a Wrathall (Ann Wrathall, I think). Wrathalls are mentioned in the church history dating back well into the 18th century.

The family remained based in Yorkshire until [William Parker Wrathall] moved to .... Belgium. The family industry was marble and other building products.
Jane Lucas of Vancouver, who can be reached at JaneLucas(at)telus.net is interested in the line of Charles Bryant Wrathall mentioned above:
My name is Jane Lucas and I am a collateral descendant of Joseph Lucas, 1739-1807. In his will, which I am in the process of transcribing, he mentions a William Wrathall. I've included the relevant section of the will below.
I also give and bequeath unto
Mary Bacon of Hitchin Mary Bacon her daughter
William Lucas Senior of the same place John
Wilkinson of Red Lion Square Gentleman the
Reverend ______ Bowdon Dissenting Minister
of Tooting and who resides in Lower Tooting the
Reverend John Sutcliffe of Olney in Bucks and _______
Wrathall widow of the late William Wrathall
deceased the sum of one hundred pounds apiece in
the same three per cent annuities
Naturally I wondered who the Wrathall family was, as I had never heard of them before in any other family records, so I was really surprised to find that there was a Joseph Lucas Wrathall [born To William and Susanna Wrathall; Christening: 12 Apr 1786 St. Sepulchre, London]. It is interesting that Joseph Lucas left his namesake's mother a hundred pounds, but couldn't remember her name!

My Joseph Lucas was a bachelor and seems to have made a ton of money as a shipowner in the whaling industry. He was a tinplate worker and evidently, although I have no proof of this yet, had contracts to provide lighting in London. This may be the connection to the Wrathall family. I did find a William Wrathall in Kent's Directory of London for 1794; I've included the entry for Wrathall and a couple on either side of it below. Many of the tinplate workers also had these contracts for lighting, and of course it was whale oil that was used, so the Patent Lamp Warehouse that William Wrathall had may have had connections with the oil merchants. All conjecture though!
Wrangham Anthony, Stationer, 153, New Bond-street
Wrathall Wm., Patent Lamp Warehouse, 93, Fleet-street
Wrather R. R., Woollen-draper, 44, Charing-cross
Wray Keith, Mercht., 6, Tower-dock
The only connection I can possibly think of is that Joseph Lucas was a godfather for the Wrathall child, which was then named after him. As the child isn't mentioned in the will, I'm wondering if he died as an infant, and Joseph Lucas either kept a connection with her, or felt an obligation to her. Certainly William Wrathall was dead at the time the will was drawn up in 1804. So I'm just wondering if you know any reason why our two families might be connected!

I have genealogical information about my Joseph Lucas, who was born in Hitchin and none of the family are in the IGI. There are absolutely no connections by marriage to the Wrathall family as far as I can tell, and I am assuming that it was a business connection or friendship. I assume it may have been that he was godfather to their son Joseph Lucas Wrathall. Of course, that information wouldn't have been recorded at the time of the christening.

I have been trying to get a bit more biographical information about my Joseph Lucas, specifically how it was that he came from a provincial Quaker family in Hertfordshire and eventually ended up making a ton of money in the whaling and shipowning business, owning property all over the place and so on. I'm trying to find the link to what started it all.
[The family of Joseph Lucas Wrathall is listed in London Wrathall I.G.I. Records. The listing for WIlliam Wrathall's Patent Lamp Warehouse is also available at Georgian London Addresses and Locations - Fleet Street .]
In June 2003, DocumentsOnline (formerly PRO-Online). the British Public Records Office, had a record of the "Will of Robert Wrathall, Wire Drawer of Bull Head Court Jewen Street, City of London", dated 02 December 1766. Note that the DocumentsOnline link may not work with some browsers (especially earlier versions of Explorer and Netscape). Derek Wrathall transcribed The Will of Robert Wrathall in Oct. 2004.

In July 2005, the following references to Robert Wrathall and his father were available at various websites: See also The Family of Sarah and Robert Wrathall, in which Robert's son Richard is mentioned. In Jul. 2008, the PDF document Diocese of London Consistory Court Wills index contained the following:

Name: Wrathall, Richard
County: Middlesex
Parish: Saint James, Clerkenwell
Address: Percival Street
Microfilm Reference: X019/032
Month: Apr
Year: 1826
Folio/Page: 263

In July 2004, Vivienne Marchant (née Wrathall) of Wales [benson717(at)hotmail(dot)com] expressed an interest in the Wrathall family of London and environs:
I saw [Hilary's] piece in the Wrathalls of London and find that we are, I think, related. There is a blank in my notes on [Hilary's] family from 1 September 1852, when I have the birth of [Hilary's] great-grandfather William Westcome Wrathall. I have his marriage to Elizabeth Georgina Hall, followed by his death in November 1889 and birth of Frank William Wrathall on 3 April 1889. I think he married Ethel Elizabeth [COX] and died 10 February 1956. We are connected as my great-grandfather James Henry Wrathall and [Hilary's] great-great-grandfather William Westcome Wrathall were brothers.

Vivienne provided the following data:
1. James Wrathall
spouse: Mary __________
......2a. William Wrathall b. 28 March 1752
......spouse: Susannah Bryant b. 8 April 1779
............3a. James Henry Wrathall b. 17 May 1799
............spouse: Pleadwell Westcombe
.........................4a. James Henry Wrathall b. 14 December 1826
.........................4b. William Westcome Wrathall b. 3 March 1830
............3b. Charles Bryant Wrathall
............3c. Joseph Lucas Wrathall (named after previous employer of William Wrathall)
In Jul. 2010, Anne Corpe sent links to parish records containing the following data:

St. Mary, Lambeth, Surrey
Marriage No. 777, Nov. 20, 1820
James Henry Wrathall
Pleadwell Wescombe [sic]

St. Alphege, Greenwich, Kent
Marriage No. 456, Dec. 25, 1845
Samuel Walter Price, Colourman, Park Street
Father: Richard Price, Blockcutter
Pleadwell Wrathall
Father: James Henry Wrathall, Printing Ink Manufacturer

St. Luke's, Finsbury, Middlesex
Marriage No. 265, June 14, 1852
William Wescombe Wrathall, Artist, 25 Wellington St.
Father: James Henry Wrathall
Ann Dennison [Artist?]
Father: Thomas [Dennison]
In Dec. 2004, the British Library Online Newspaper Archive had a listing from the News of The World, Nov. 2, 1851, that included a column titled "The Gazettes", Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1851. In the column was a section titled "Partnerships dissolved", with the following item:

Wrathall and Brocke, Tottenham grove, Kingsland, Printing ink manufacturers
Some census records are available which contain Wrathall data for London and the surrounding area:
In Mar. 2005, the London Gazette (established in 1665) had in its Online Archive a number of old editions (1900 - 1979) containing Wrathall information. At that time, the Archive Search Results were as follows: Note: the London Gazette links may not work in some browsers.
In Jun. 2007, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 had entries concerning William Wrathall as a victim in 3 trials: Snow-hill Court is located between Smithfield and Fleet Street in London. It is possible that two defendants were transported at the expense of William Wrathall.
In August 2010, Ida Gurman [igurman(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au], who is researching the Gurman/Wilson/Rooke family tree, mentioned the following:
I found your website and Emma Wrathell, who married Bert J. Rooke, my uncle. I am very interested to know if you have any further info on them. I know Emma was a wife, a widow, and a mother all in one year. I had never known my uncle married, before getting his military information. Bert died in Flanders, March 1918. His son was born Dec. 1918; I believe Bert John junior also died in 1918. I would love to contact anyone interested and maybe find a photo of Bert and Emma. My family emigrated to Australia in 1958. My mother's parents were:
It appears Emma Wrathell was not a grand-daughter of John Wrathall (b. 27 Nov 1850, Skipton), who was listed as unmarried in the 1881 census. Isaac John Wrathell's father was John Wrathell (b. 1849?).