NOTES:  John Allen Adamthwaite was baptised at St Michael, Cornhill in the City of London on26 jul 1795 - he was the younger son of Thomas Adamthwaite, Notary Public, and Lucy, nee Vipond

He married Susan Anglin BRYAN on 4 June 1829 at St George, Everton

John Allen ADAMTHWAITE was also a Notary Public

He died on 24 Aug 1850 and was buried on 30 August at Nunhead Cemetery

John Allen and Susan ADAMTHWAITE are known to have had the following children:

• Thomas Bryan ADAMTHWAITE, b 1831, d. 1851 age 20 - occupation Notary's clerk

• John Allen ADAMTHWAITE, junior, b. 1832, d. 1881 age 48 yrs - occupation Mercantile Clerk

• Joseph Gibson ADAMTHWAITE, b. 1834, d. 1849 age 14

• William Vipond ADAMTHWAITE, b. 1836, d. 1859 age 22 - occupation on the Stock Exchange

• Lucy ADAMTHWAITE, b. 1837, d. 1849 age 11

• James ADAMTHWAITE, b. 1839, first death recorded in 1859 - second death record in 1912 [see note 2 at end]

• Robert ADAMTHWAITE, b. 1840, d. 1841 age 18m

• Mary ADAMTHWAITE, b. 1841, d. 1842 age 9m

• Mary Catherine ADAMTHWAITE, b. 1843, d.1845 age 14m

 

WILL - dated 23 August 1850

 

This is the last Will and Testament of me John Allen Adamthwaite of Peckham Rye in the County of Surrey Gentleman I devise and bequeath All the Real and Personal Estate to which and shall be entitled at the time of my decease unto Robert Gibson of Sandhouse Lodge in the County of Berks Gentleman and Alexander Ridgeway of no 2 Royal Exchange Notary their heirs administrators and assigus respectively upon trust to sell and convert the same into money or to suffer my said real and personal estate or any part thereof to remain as at present invested as they may deem adviseable and to invest the moneys to arise from such real and personal estate in the name of the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will in or upon any of the stocks funds or securities of the United Kingdom or any real securities in England or Wales with power to vary such investments as they shall deem fit and to continue such investments until the youngest survivor of my four infant children Thomas Bryan Adamthwaite John Allen Adamthwaite William Vipond Adamthwaite and James Adamthwaite shall attain the age of twenty one years and after the said youngest survivor shall have attained the age of twenty one years in trust to be equally divided among my said children and I declare that it shall be lawful for my trustees in their discretion to raise and apply in or towards the advancement in life of each or any of my said children and part of his share of my said trust estate and to apply the whole or any part of the yearly product of the same trust estate for the common maintenance education and bringing up of my said children not having been advanced in life as aforesaid I declare that the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will shall be responsible only for their or his own respective acts defaults and scripts and be exempt from liability for involuntary lapses and be at liberty to deduct nd allow to each other all expences incident to the execution of the trusts of my will I appoint the said Robert Gibson and Alexander Ridgeway Executors of this my will and guardians of my four infant children.  Lastly I revoke all other testamentary writings in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty.  

 

                        J A Adamthwaite.  

 

Signed by the said testator as his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in this presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witness.  

 

                       Wm H J Stratford. J Rowland. Martha Dimmock [note 1].

 

Proved at London 17 Sept 1850 before the worshipful James Parter Deane Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of Robert Gibson Esquire and Alexander Ridgeway the executors to whom administration was granted having been first sworn duly to Administer.

 

 

Note 1:  there is some mystery as to the identity of Martha Dimmock, one of the witnesses to this will. In the 1841 census she was a servant in John Allen Adamthwaite's household - however following the death of John Allen Adamthwaite (his wife Susan had died a few years earlier), by the time of the 1851 census the four Adamthwaite boys had become wards of Martha Dimmock and were living with her in Stoke Newington. If you know more, please let us know!

 

Note 2: Although we hold a death certificate and burial record for James Adamthwaite in 1859, a James Theophilus ADAMTHWAITE appeared on the records in Texas in 1876 and we have received sufficient evidence that he is the son of John Allen ADAMTHWAITE and Susan his wife - we believe that the first recorded death in 1859 was fraudulent, possibly created by the one remaining surviving brother in order to claim his inheritence  - see the article 'A tale of Tragedy, Bigamy and Intrigue' to find out more