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William Herbert Wilderspin


1772
Male
Person 00006815

Born 17/05/1772 at Shoreditch (IS)
Father: John Wilderspin (1723)
Mother: Elizabeth Kirkby (1740)
Worship Street

Christened 31/05/1772 at Shoreditch (I)
William Arbut

around 1790 at London ()
(biography from Oxford Dictionary of national Biography)
actor, going by name William Herbert, earned money reading to wealthy men like John Newton

from 17950/00/1801 at Lambeth ()
working at Royal Circus as actor and singer

Married 14/07/1795 at Southwark (IM)
to Sarah Youens (1776)
William Herbert Wilderspin, bachelor, and Sarah Youens, spinster, both "of this parish" (Horsleydown St John) married by banns -
he signed, she made a cross
2 daughters and three sons?

around 1810 at London ()
selling books and prints and writing on London history

1824 at Hastings ()
archaeological excavation

1828 at London ()
first librarian of Guildhall Library, and continued researching and publishing

1845 at London ()
retired through ill health

April 1851 at Shoreditch (C)
79

Died 18/11/1851 at Haggerston (SR)
Shoreditch district?

Funeral 23/11/1851 at Nunhead ()

Children
Elisabeth Sarah Wilderspin (1798)
Sarah Elizabeth Herbert (1800)
Frederick William Wilderspin (1805)
William Herbert Wilderspin
John Wilderspin (1723)
Alexander Wilderspin (1696)
John Wilderspin (1669)
Mary ? (1668)
Elizabeth Saville (1696)
William Savill (1668)
Jane Pamplyn (1671)
Elizabeth Kirkby (1740)

Last updated 07/11/2023

Source Key: A=Baptist records B=Burial register C=Census F=Family H=Christening register I=IGI L=Letter M=Marriage register P=Personally known R=Registry office (certificate or index) S=Website T=Tombstone W=Will Y=Boyds marriage index



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