Richard Whitbourn (1785/6-1857)

Dates

Birth: 1785/6 Binscombe, Compton, Surrey, UK
Father: John Whitbourn 1755-1830
Mother: Ann Heath 1755-1829

Christening: 17 January 1786 St Nicholas, Compton, Surrey, UK

Marriage: 17 October 1809 St Peter and St Paul, Godalming, Surrey, UK
Wife: Mary Ann Furlonger 1785-1855

Death: 6 February 1857 Enton Mill, Witley, Surrey, UK
Buried: February 1857 All Saints, Witley, Surrey, UK

Children

Richard Whitbourne 1811-1868
Mary Ann Whitbourne 1813
Arthur Whitbourne 1814-1858
Thomas Whitbourne 1815-1887
Jane Whitbourne 1817
Ellen Whitbourne [Balchin] 1819-1876
Elizabeth Whitbourne [Beale] 1821-1870
Fanny Whitbourn [Baker] 1823-1899
Emily Whitbourne 1825-1858
James Whitbourne 1828-1909
John Whitbourne 1831

Notes

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Richard Whitbourn baptised on 17 January 1786 in Compton, St Nicholas, parents John and Ann Whitbourn. "Christenings 1786 January 17th Richard, [changed from John], Son of John and Ann Whitbourn (of Binscombe)".

Entry in West Surrey Family History Society Surrey Marriage Index for Richard Whitbourn and Mary Ann Furlonger, both of this parish, on 17 October 1857 in Godalming by licence.

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Richard Whitbourn and Mary Ann Furlonger on 17 October 1809 in Godalming, St Peter and St Paul. "The Year 1809 No. 335 Richard Whitbourn of this Parish Bachelor and Mary Ann Furlonger of the same Spinster Married in this Church by License this seventeenth Day of October in the Year One Thoufand Eight Hundred and Nine [...] in the Prefence of ? and Sarah Furlonger".

In the 1841 census as Richard Whittamore (sic - in the index, Whitbourn on the original), aged 55 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Surrey, a mealman and farmer, and living with Mary Ann (wife?), Authur, James and John (sons?), and Elizabeth, Ellen, Emily, Fanny and Mary Ann (daughters?) at Enton Mill, Godalming, Surrey.

In the 1851 census as Richard Whitbourn aged 55 (sic - in the index, 65 on the original), born in Godalming, Surrey, a miller employing 2 men and farmer of 280 acres employing 6 labourers) and living with his wife (Mary Ann), two sons (James and John), five daughters (Elizabeth, Emily, Fanny, Jane and Mary Ann) and a grandson (Charles Frederick Balchin aged 2 and born in Godalming, Surrey) at Enton Mill, Godalming, Surrey.

His wife died in 1855 and was buried in Witley.

Death of Richard Whitbourn in FreeBMD in January-March 1857 in Guildford (2a 42).

Entry in West Surrey Family History Society West Surrey Burials for Richard Whitbourn in 1857 aged 71 in Witley.

Entry in Find A Grave for Richard Whitbourn died 6 February 1857 and buried at All Saints, Witley, Waverley, Surrey. "In/Memory of/Mary Ann Wife of/Richard Whitbourn/Who Died Jany 20th 1855/Aged 69 Years/Also/Richard Whitbourn/Who Died Feby 6th 1857/Aged 71 Years/Also Emily/Daughter of the Above/Who died March 12th1858/Aged 32 Years".

Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Richard Whitbourn died 6 February 1857 in Surrey, probate 5 February 1858 Principal Registry. "Whitbourn Richard 5 February The Will of Richard Whitbourn late of Enyton in the Parish of Godalming in the County of Surrey Mealman deceased who died 6 February 1857 at Enyton aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oaths of Richard Whitbourn of Godalming aforesaid Gentleman Arthur Whitbourn of Guildford in the said County Maltster and Thomas Whitbourn of Enyton aforesaid -mealman- [added handwritten], the Sons and the Executors.

There are nine entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Richard Whitbourn born in Godalming, Surrey in 1785, some giving his parents as John Whitbourn and Ann/Anne Heath, his marriage to Mary Ann Furlonger (some give her surname as Hall), his children and his death on 6 June 1857.

Enton Mill, a corn mill c1621) is just east of Witley by the railway line.

Relationship

Richard Whitbourn was the father of Fanny Whitbourn, wife of James Baker, my fourth cousin once removed.

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