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Family of William Nettleship and Julia Attfield

Husband: William Nettleship

  • Name:

  • William Nettleship

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • William Nettleship (1768-1855)

  • Mother:

  • Jane Pine (c. 1771-1827)

  • Note (shared):

  • 1851: Master jeweller, 33 St John Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex

  • Birth:

  • 15 Jan 1795

  • Bow, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 5 Feb 1795 (age 0)

  • All Saints Poplar, East India Road

  • Occupation:

  • 17 Jun 1824 (age 29)

  • Jeweller, Mitcham, Surrey (cutting from Morning Chronicle)

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 45-46)

  • Jeweller, 44 Kirby St, Saffron Hill

  • Census (2):

  • 1841 (age 45-46)

  • Jeweller, 44 Kirby St., Holborn (Hatton Garden/Saffron Hill)

  • Census (3):

  • 1851 (age 55-56)

  • Master jeweller, 33 St John Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex

  • Death fact:

  • 26 Apr 1851 (age 56)

  • Cause of death: bronchitis

  • Death:

  • 26 Apr 1851 (age 56)

  • 33 St John Street, Clerkenwell

Wife: Julia Attfield

  • Name:

  • Julia Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Richard Attfield (1757-1825)

  • Mother:

  • Ann Lane (c. 1757-1827)

  • Note:

  • NETTLESHIP Julia, 26 May 1888. The Will of Julia Nettleship late of 26 High Street Finchley in the County of Middlesex Widow who died 9 April 1888 at 26 Ufton Road Hackney in the said County was proved at the Principal Registry by John Attfield of Ashlands Watford in the County of Hertford Gentleman the Nephew the sole Executor. Personal Estate £131 13s. 4d.

  • Birth:

  • 1803

  • Whetstone, Friern Barnet, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 31 Jul 1803 (age 0)

  • St James the Great, Friern Barnet, Middlesex

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 37-38)

  • Present at census

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 47-48)

  • Wife in household

  • Census (3):

  • 1861 (age 57-58)

  • 42 Wimborne St, Shoreditch, widow

  • Census (4):

  • 1871 (age 67-68)

  • Mother-in-law, widow, living in household of James & Emily Dutton

  • Census (5):

  • 1881 (age 77-78)

  • Widow, annuitant, boarder at Gresham House, Finchley (Charles Sparrow, tobacconist)

  • Will:

  • 16 Jan 1885 (age 81-82)

  • Date of will; probate 26.5.1888 to John Attfield, nephew

  • Death fact (1):

  • 1888 (age 84-85)

  • 1888 Jun Qtr, Hackney, 1b/258 (aged 85)

  • Death fact (2):

  • 9 Apr 1888 (age 84-85)

  • M J Boyd, daughter, in attendance

  • Residence:

  • 1888 (age 84-85)

  • 26 High Street, Finchley

  • Death:

  • 9 Apr 1888 (age 84-85)

  • 26 Ufton Road, Kingsland, Hackney

  • Cause of death (Facts Pg):

  • 9 Apr 1888 (age 84-85)

  • Old age, softening of brain, coma

Child 1: Julia Nettleship

Child 2: Mary Jane Nettleship

Child 3: William Henry Nettleship

  • Name:

  • William Henry Nettleship

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Caroline Bellingham (1843-1915)

  • Children:

  • William Stephen Nettleship (1876-1894)

  •  

  • Henry Nettleship (1878-1944)

  •  

  • Julia Attfield Nettleship (1889-1974)

  • Note:

  • Nettleship, William, Working Jeweller, Wilson Street, Wanganui. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Nettleship is a native of London and came out to Victoria as a lad in 1851 [actually 1854], per schooner `Robert and Betsy', ninety tons, taking eight months on the voyage. Mr. Nettleship claims to have been the first to be apprenticed to his trade in Victoria. He completed his term in 1855. Mr. Nettleship came to New Zealand in 1869, working at his trade off and on for some years. He established the present business in 1879, and has a convenient shop and comfortable dwellings erected on freehold land from his own plans as above. Mr. Nettleship has a complete plant, including rolling mill, lathe, and every appliance. His trade extends along the West Coast. He undertakes every description of work that may be required, and may be depended upon to turn out anything entrusted to his care in first-rate style. Mr. Nettleship has been connected with the volunteer rifles in Wellington and Wanganui for about fifteen years.

    Source: Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1897, Wellington Province

    With grateful acknowledgements to Harry Dutton

  • Birth:

  • 30 Aug 1837

  • St Andrew Holborn, London

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 3-4)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 13-14)

  • Living with parents, unmarried

  • Immigration:

  • 1854 (age 16-17)

  • to Arrived Melbourne as crew member of "Robert and Betsey" (boarded in London on 22.12.1853)

  • Occupation (1):

  • 1863 (age 25-26)

  • Goldsmith & jeweller, Ballarat, Vic., Australia (on marriage cert.)

  • Occupation (2):

  • 1879 (age 41-42)

  • Established jewellers business in Wanganui, New Zealand

  • Death:

  • 21 Mar 1915 (age 77)

  • 94 Wilson Street, Wanganui, New Zealand

  • Burial:

  • 23 Mar 1915

  • Wanganui General Cemetery, New Zealand

Child 4: Emily Ann Nettleship

Child 5: Clara Frances Nettleship

  • Name:

  • Clara Frances Nettleship

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Robert Burn (1836-1906)

  • Children:

  • William Walter Burn (1862-1901)

  •  

  • Kate Louisa Burn (1865-1934)

  •  

  • Emily Frances Burn (1867-1951)

  •  

  • Mabel Clara Burn (1869-1957)

  •  

  • Louisa Hannah Burn (1870-1956)

  •  

  • Robert Burn (1872-1945)

  •  

  • Alice Julia Burn (1875- )

  •  

  • Ethel Martha Burn (1879-1970)

  •  

  • Leonard Stanley Burn (1881-1928)

  •  

  • Francis Thomas Burn (1883-1934)

  • Note:

  • BURN Clara Frances of 29 Victoria Road Leigh-on-Sea Essex widow died 20 January 1925; Administration (with Will) London 23 July to Ethel Martha Burn spinster. Effects £175 9s.

  • Birth:

  • 24 Oct 1841

  • St Andrew Holborn, London

  • Birth fact:

  • 1841 (age 0)

  • 1841 Dec Qtr, Holborn, 2/141

  • Census (1):

  • 1851 (age 9-10)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1861 (age 19-20)

  • Living with mother

  • Baptism:

  • 27 Nov 1889 (age 48)

  • St Peter, De Beauvoir Town (present surname Burn)

  • Census (3):

  • 1901 (age 59-60)

  • 31 St Andrews Rd, Stoke Newington

  • Census (4):

  • 1911 (age 69-70)

  • Private means, 23 Victoria Road, Leigh, Essex (widow, 12 children, 9 living, 3 dead)

  • Death fact:

  • 1925 (age 83-84)

  • 1925 Mar Qtr, Rochford, 4a/742 (aged 83)

  • Death:

  • 20 Jan 1925 (age 83)

  • Leigh-on-Sea, Essex

Child 6: Sophia Elizabeth Nettleship

  • Name:

  • Sophia Elizabeth Nettleship

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • William Dixon Woollam (1839-1917)

  • Children:

  • Margaret Julia Woollam (1871-1953)

  •  

  • Edward Charles Woollam (1873- )

  •  

  • William Dixon Woollam (1874-1938)

  •  

  • Ernest Woollam (1879-1879)

  • Note:

  • WOOLLAM Sophia Elizabeth of Lea Croft Oatlands Drive Oatlands Park Weybridge Surrey widow died 17 May 1931. Probate London 8 July to Margaret Julia Woollam spinster. Effects £1925 0s. 5d.

  • Birth:

  • 4 Jul 1846

  • Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, Kent

  • Birth fact:

  • 1846 (age 0)

  • 1846 Sep Qtr, Greenwich, 5/236

  • Census (1):

  • 1851 (age 4-5)

  • Living with parents (birthplace = Blackheath, Kent)

  • Census (2):

  • 1861 (age 14-15)

  • Living with mother Julia in Shoreditch

  • Census (3):

  • 1881 (age 34-35)

  • Staying with mother-in-law, Moss Side, Lancs

  • Baptism:

  • 27 Nov 1889 (age 43)

  • St Peter, De Beauvoir Town (present surname Woollam)

  • Census (4):

  • 1901 (age 54-55)

  • Wife in household

  • Death fact:

  • 1931 (age 84-85)

  • 1931 Jun Qtr, Chertsey, 2a/95 (aged 84)

  • Death:

  • 17 May 1931 (age 84)

  • Leacroft, Oatlands Drive, Oatlands Park, Walton, Surrey

Note on Husband: William Nettleship - shared note

1851: Master jeweller, 33 St John Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex

Note on Wife: Julia Attfield

NETTLESHIP Julia, 26 May 1888. The Will of Julia Nettleship late of 26 High Street Finchley in the County of Middlesex Widow who died 9 April 1888 at 26 Ufton Road Hackney in the said County was proved at the Principal Registry by John Attfield of Ashlands Watford in the County of Hertford Gentleman the Nephew the sole Executor. Personal Estate £131 13s. 4d.

Note on Child 3: William Henry Nettleship

Nettleship, William, Working Jeweller, Wilson Street, Wanganui. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Nettleship is a native of London and came out to Victoria as a lad in 1851 [actually 1854], per schooner `Robert and Betsy', ninety tons, taking eight months on the voyage. Mr. Nettleship claims to have been the first to be apprenticed to his trade in Victoria. He completed his term in 1855. Mr. Nettleship came to New Zealand in 1869, working at his trade off and on for some years. He established the present business in 1879, and has a convenient shop and comfortable dwellings erected on freehold land from his own plans as above. Mr. Nettleship has a complete plant, including rolling mill, lathe, and every appliance. His trade extends along the West Coast. He undertakes every description of work that may be required, and may be depended upon to turn out anything entrusted to his care in first-rate style. Mr. Nettleship has been connected with the volunteer rifles in Wellington and Wanganui for about fifteen years.

Source: Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1897, Wellington Province

With grateful acknowledgements to Harry Dutton

Note on Child 5: Clara Frances Nettleship

BURN Clara Frances of 29 Victoria Road Leigh-on-Sea Essex widow died 20 January 1925; Administration (with Will) London 23 July to Ethel Martha Burn spinster. Effects £175 9s.

Note on Child 6: Sophia Elizabeth Nettleship

WOOLLAM Sophia Elizabeth of Lea Croft Oatlands Drive Oatlands Park Weybridge Surrey widow died 17 May 1931. Probate London 8 July to Margaret Julia Woollam spinster. Effects £1925 0s. 5d.