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Family of George Woolley and Charlotte Gell

Husband: George Woolley

  • Name:

  • George Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • John Woolley (1748-1828)

  • Mother:

  • Elizabeth Valentine (1754-1834)

  • Note:

  • WOOLLEY George M.D., 11 June 1860. The Will of George Woolley formerly of Brompton but late of 20 Eldon Road Kensington both in the County of Middlesex M.D. deceased who died 30 May 1860 at Eldon Road aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of the Reverend Joseph Woolley of 20 Eldon Road aforesaid Clerk the Son and the sole Executor. Effects under £100.

  • Birth:

  • 1 May 1783

  • Marylebone, Middlesex

  • Occupation (1):

  • 1811 (age 27-28)

  • Surgeon, of Petersfield, Hants (Pallot's Marriage Index)

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 57-58)

  • Surgeon, Brompton Row, Kensington

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 67-68)

  • Physician MD, MRCS, 8 Brompton Row, Kensington

  • Occupation (2):

  • 1858 (age 74-75)

  • M.D. (on Charles Alfred's marriage cert.)

  • Death fact:

  • 1860 (age 76-77)

  • 1860 Jun Qtr, Kensington, 1a/58

  • Death:

  • 30 May 1860 (age 77)

  • 20 Eldon Road, Kensington, Middlesex

Wife: Charlotte Gell

  • Name:

  • Charlotte Gell

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • William Gell ( - )

  • Father:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 17 Aug 1786

  • Lewes, Sussex

  • Census:

  • 1851 (age 64-65)

  • Wife in household

Child 1: Georgiana Charlotte Woolley

  • Name:

  • Georgiana Charlotte Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 8 Jun 1812

  • Petersfield, Hampshire

  • Baptism:

  • 25 Jul 1812 (age 0)

  • Church Of Christ-Independent, Petersfield, Hampshire (IGI)

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 28-29)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 38-39)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (3):

  • 1861 (age 48-49)

  • Teacher, boarder in Kensington, unmarried

  • Census (4):

  • 1871 (age 58-59)

  • Boarder, unmarried, 30 & 31 Montpelier Rd, Brighton

  • Death fact:

  • 1878 (age 65-66)

  • 1878 Dec Qtr, Brighton, 2b/157 (aged 66)

  • Death:

  • 1878 (age 65-66)

  • Brighton, Sussex

Child 2: Susannah Elizabeth Woolley

  • Name:

  • Susannah Elizabeth Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 6 Dec 1813

  • Petersfield, Hampshire

  • Baptism:

  • 25 Mar 1814 (age 0)

  • Church Of Christ-Independent, Petersfield, Hampshire (IGI)

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 27-28)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 37-38)

  • Living with brother Frederick, Stoke Mandeville

  • Death:

  • 29 Dec 1875 (age 62)

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Child 3: George Newnham Woolley

  • Name:

  • George Newnham Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Henrietta Charlotte Blennerhassett (1822-1883)

  • Children:

  • Henrietta Charlotte Blennerhassett Woolley (1845- )

  •  

  • George John Blennerhassett Woolley (1847-1932)

  • Note:

  • 14 July 1874. The Will of George Newnham Woolley late of Bardney in the County of Lincoln Surgeon who died 16 May 1874 at Bardney was proved at Lincoln by Elijah Brackenbury of Bardney Chemist and Druggist the sole Executor. Effects under £100.

  • Birth:

  • 23 Jan 1815

  • Petersfield, Hampshire

  • Baptism:

  • 29 Jul 1830 (age 15)

  • Saint Luke, Chelsea, London (IGI)

  • Census (1):

  • 1851 (age 35-36)

  • Surgeon & apothecary, High St, Buckden

  • Census (2):

  • 1861 (age 45-46)

  • General medical practitioner, High St, Buckden, Hunts

  • Census (3):

  • 1871 (age 55-56)

  • Medical practitioner, lodging at 26 Ferry Road, Bardney, Lincs (married, wife absent)

  • Death fact:

  • 1874 (age 58-59)

  • 1874 Jun Qtr, Lincoln, 7a/300 (aged 59)

  • Death:

  • 16 May 1874 (age 59)

  • Bardney, Lincolnshire

Child 4: John Woolley

  • Name:

  • John Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Mary Margaret Turner ( - )

  • Children:

  • Emmeline Mary Dogherty Woolley (1843-1908)

  • Note (shared):

  • A noted educationalist in Britain and New South Wales, John Woolley was appointed headmaster of King Edward VI's Grammar School, Hereford in 1842. In 1844 he was elected the first headmaster of Rossall School, and in 1849 he was appointed headmaster of Norwich grammar school.

    In January 1852 Woolley was chosen as principal of the newly formed Sydney University. He arrived in Australia in June, and delivered an inaugural speech at the opening of the university in October. Besides being principal, he was professor of classics and logic in the university. He pressed for the new university to be a secular institution and one which would offer a liberal education to equip a future colonial governing class. Woolley was one of the original trustees of the Sydney grammar school. He was the first to propose the scheme, for connecting the primary schools of New South Wales with the university by a system of public examinations.

    In 1865 Woolley visited England, and during his absence in 1866 he was elected president of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. He drowned on his return voyage in the steamship London, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1866. A public testimonial amounting to £2000 was collected in New South Wales and presented to his widow as a tribute to his services.

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • Birth:

  • 26 Feb 1816

  • Petersfield, Hampshire

  • Baptism:

  • 2 Aug 1816 (age 0)

  • Church Of Christ-Independent, Petersfield, Hampshire (IGI)

  • Death fact:

  • 11 Jan 1866 (age 49)

  • Drowned in the SS London while returning from Britain to Australia

  • Education:

  •  

  • Brompton Grammar School, London Univ, Exeter Coll Oxford

  • Death:

  • 11 Jan 1866 (age 49)

  • At sea, Bay of Biscay

Child 5: Joseph Woolley

  • Name:

  • Joseph Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Ann Hicks (c. 1822- )

  • Children:

  • Adam Sedgwick Woolley (1847- )

  •  

  • Annie Mary Woolley (1850-1922)

  • Note (shared):

  • A naval architect, in 1848 Joseph Woolley was appointed principal of the Central School of Mathematics and Naval Construction, founded by the Admiralty at Portsmouth Dockyard, and retained this post until the closure of the school in 1853. In 1850 he published The Elements of Descriptive Geometry, intended as an introductory treatise on the application to shipbuilding of descriptive geometry. On leaving his post at Portsmouth, Woolley was appointed Admiralty inspector of schools, and in 1858 he was nominated one of HM inspectors of schools.

    In 1860 Woolley played a large part in the foundation of the Institution of Naval Architects. In 1864 the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering was founded, and Woolley was appointed inspector-general and director of studies. He held this post until the school was merged into the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1873.

    Woolley also served as Rector of Crostwight, Norfolk, and in 1879 he served as joint Mayor of Kingston-upon-Thames.

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • Birth:

  • 27 Jun 1817

  • Petersfield, Hampshire

  • Baptism:

  • 8 Aug 1817 (age 0)

  • Church Of Christ-Independent, Petersfield, Hampshire (IGI)

  • Education:

  •  

  • Brompton Grammar School & St Johns Coll, Cambridge

  • Occupation:

  • 1840 (age 22-23)

  • Fellow & Tutor of St Johns Coll, Cambridge

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 23-24)

  • Clergyman, living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 33-34)

  • Head of nautical school, Portsea, Hants

  • Census (3):

  • 1861 (age 43-44)

  • Clergyman & inspector of schools, 2 Vicarage Terr, Kensington

  • Census (4):

  • 1871 (age 53-54)

  • 27 Brunswick Gardens, Chelsea

  • Census (5):

  • 1871 (age 53-54)

  • Clergyman without cure of souls, director of education for the Admiralty

  • Census (6):

  • 1881 (age 63-64)

  • Retired Director of Education for the Navy, Hextable, Sutton At Hone, Kent (visitor)

  • Death fact:

  • 1889 (age 71-72)

  • 1889 Mar Qtr, Sevenoaks, 2a/391 (aged 71)

  • Death:

  • 24 Mar 1889 (age 71)

  • Afton House, Mount Harry Road, Sevenoaks, Kent

Child 6: Benjamin Woolley

  • Name:

  • Benjamin Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Adelaide Haines (1829-1905)

  • Children:

  • Adelaide Constance Woolley (1852-1922)

  •  

  • Josephine Lucy Florence Woolley (1853-1928)

  •  

  • Blanche Amy Woolley (1855-1920)

  •  

  • Benjamin Douglas Markett Woolley (1857-1919)

  •  

  • Augusta Victoria Gertrude Woolley (1860-1934)

  •  

  • Charles Edward Allen Woolley (1863-1940)

  •  

  • Horace Bernard Woolley (1865-1929)

  • Note:

  • WOOLLEY Benjamin, 21 May 1869. Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of Benjamin Woolley late of Folkestone in the County of Kent a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy deceased who died 18 October 1868 at Chatham in the County aforesaid were granted at Canterbury to Adelaide Woolley of Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet in the County aforesaid Widow the Relict of the said Deceased she having been first sworn. Effects under £200.

  • Birth:

  • 24 Apr 1819

  • Brompton, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 19 Sep 1819 (age 0)

  • Trevor Chapel Arthur Street-Independent, Westminster (IGI)

  • Census:

  • 1861 (age 41-42)

  • Royal Navy on half pay, 1 St Peters Road, Hammersmith

  • Death fact:

  • 1868 (age 48-49)

  • 1868 Dec Qtr, Medway, 2a/254 (aged 50)

  • Death:

  • 18 Oct 1868 (age 49)

  • Chatham, Kent

Child 7: Edward Woolley

  • Name:

  • Edward Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 22 May 1820

  • Brompton, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 18 Nov 1820 (age 0)

  • Trevor Chapel Arthur Street-Independent, Westminster (IGI)

  • Death:

  • 2 Mar 1821 (age 0)

  •  

Child 8: Frederick Woolley

  • Name:

  • Frederick Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Emma Treyer Evans (1823-1892)

  • Children:

  • Frederick Emilius George Woolley (1857-1890)

  •  

  • Charles Augustus Woolley (1859-1936)

  •  

  • Emma Frederica Repton Woolley (1861-1947)

  •  

  • Francis Alfred Woolley (1862-1931)

  • Note 1:

  • Ordained deacon (Oxford), 1846, priest, 1847; C. of Great Haseley, Oxon., 1846-50. P.C. of St Paul's, Leeds, 1851-3; P.C. of Stoke Mandeville, Bucks. Head Master of Lewes Grammar School, Sussex and Rector of Lewes, 1863-77.

  • Note 2:

  • 5 April 1877. The Will of Reverend Frederic Woolley late of Lewes in the County of Sussex Clerk who died 16 March 1877 at Lewes was proved at Lewes by Emma Treyer Woolley of Lewes Widow the Relict and Charles Alfred Woolley of brighton in the said County Gentleman the Brother the Executors. Effects under £3,000.

  • Birth:

  • 19 Jan 1821

  • Brompton, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 23 Sep 1821 (age 0)

  • Trevor Chapel Arthur Street-Independent, Westminster (IGI)

  • Title:

  •  

  • Reverend

  • Census (1):

  • 1851 (age 29-30)

  • Curate of Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, Bucks (unmarried)

  • Census (2):

  • 1861 (age 39-40)

  • Clergyman, Headmaster of Lewes Grammar School, Lewes

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Rector of St Michael's, Lewes, Sussex

  • Death fact:

  • 1877 (age 55-56)

  • 1877 Mar Qtr, Lewes, 2b/112 (aged 55)

  • Death:

  • 16 Mar 1877 (age 56)

  • Lewes, Sussex

Child 9: Francis Henry Woolley

  • Name:

  • Francis Henry Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 15 Mar 1823

  • Brompton, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 29 Jul 1830 (age 7)

  • Saint Luke, Chelsea, London (IGI)

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 17-18)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 27-28)

  • Clerk at bank, lodger in Gateshead, Durham (unmarried)

  • Death fact:

  • 1860 (age 36-37)

  • 1860 Dec Qtr, Castle Ward, 10b/158

  • Death:

  • 24 Oct 1860 (age 37)

  • Castle Ward, Northumberland

Child 10: Charles Alfred Woolley

  • Name:

  • Charles Alfred Woolley

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Louisa Gell (1822-1897)

  • Children:

  • Ethel Mary Woolley (c. 1860-1862)

  •  

  • Hilda Verena May Woolley (1862-1862)

  •  

  • Charles Webster Rede Gell-Woolley (1864-1943)

  •  

  • Gwendolen Maria Gell-Woolley (1866-1891)

  • Note 1:

  • Charles Alfred Woolley was a leading lawyer in Geelong, Australia. After studying at Rossall School he was admitted as a attorney in 1856 and practiced in Lewes and Newcastle. In 1858 he moved with his family to Melbourne, Victoria, where he entered a partnership with Thomas Harwood in Geelong. They practiced as Woolley and Harwood, and later as Woolley, Harwood and Davies. Woolley also became a member of the Geelong City Council.

    Returning to England in 1865, Woolley was appointed Town Clerk of Hove, Sussex. He also resumed his legal practice in Brighton, where he settled, and built up a thriving business. His son Charles Webster Woolley also joined him. He died in 1910.

    His last address was 3 Dyke Rd, Brighton, where he was living at the time of the 1901 census.

    Source: http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/geelonglawyers/woolley/cw3.html

  • Note 2:

  • WOOLLEY Charles Alfred of Clifton Lodge Brighton esquire died 17 May 1910. Probate Lewes 16 June to Charles Webster Rede Gell-Woolley esquire. Effects £47585 16s. 7d. Resworn £49001 10s. 7d.

  • Birth:

  • 2 Feb 1831

  • Brompton, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 30 May 1831 (age 0)

  • Saint Luke, Chelsea, London

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 9-10)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 19-20)

  • Articled clerk, living with parents

  • Residence:

  • 1858 (age 26-27)

  • All Saints, Lewes (on marriage cert.)

  • Census (3):

  • 1871 (age 39-40)

  • Solicitor, 3 Wallands Terrace, Lewes, Sussex

  • Census (4):

  • 1891 (age 59-60)

  • Solicitor, 3 Dyke Road, Brighton

  • Census (5):

  • 1901 (age 69-70)

  • Solicitor, 3 Dyke Rd, Brighton (widower)

  • Death fact:

  • 1910 (age 78-79)

  • 1910 Jun Qtr, Brighton, 2b/150

  • Death:

  • 17 May 1910 (age 79)

  • Clifton Lodge, Brighton, Sussex

Note on Husband: George Woolley

WOOLLEY George M.D., 11 June 1860. The Will of George Woolley formerly of Brompton but late of 20 Eldon Road Kensington both in the County of Middlesex M.D. deceased who died 30 May 1860 at Eldon Road aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of the Reverend Joseph Woolley of 20 Eldon Road aforesaid Clerk the Son and the sole Executor. Effects under £100.

Note on Child 3: George Newnham Woolley

14 July 1874. The Will of George Newnham Woolley late of Bardney in the County of Lincoln Surgeon who died 16 May 1874 at Bardney was proved at Lincoln by Elijah Brackenbury of Bardney Chemist and Druggist the sole Executor. Effects under £100.

Note on Child 4: John Woolley - shared note

A noted educationalist in Britain and New South Wales, John Woolley was appointed headmaster of King Edward VI's Grammar School, Hereford in 1842. In 1844 he was elected the first headmaster of Rossall School, and in 1849 he was appointed headmaster of Norwich grammar school.

In January 1852 Woolley was chosen as principal of the newly formed Sydney University. He arrived in Australia in June, and delivered an inaugural speech at the opening of the university in October. Besides being principal, he was professor of classics and logic in the university. He pressed for the new university to be a secular institution and one which would offer a liberal education to equip a future colonial governing class. Woolley was one of the original trustees of the Sydney grammar school. He was the first to propose the scheme, for connecting the primary schools of New South Wales with the university by a system of public examinations.

In 1865 Woolley visited England, and during his absence in 1866 he was elected president of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. He drowned on his return voyage in the steamship London, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1866. A public testimonial amounting to £2000 was collected in New South Wales and presented to his widow as a tribute to his services.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Note on Child 5: Joseph Woolley - shared note

A naval architect, in 1848 Joseph Woolley was appointed principal of the Central School of Mathematics and Naval Construction, founded by the Admiralty at Portsmouth Dockyard, and retained this post until the closure of the school in 1853. In 1850 he published The Elements of Descriptive Geometry, intended as an introductory treatise on the application to shipbuilding of descriptive geometry. On leaving his post at Portsmouth, Woolley was appointed Admiralty inspector of schools, and in 1858 he was nominated one of HM inspectors of schools.

In 1860 Woolley played a large part in the foundation of the Institution of Naval Architects. In 1864 the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering was founded, and Woolley was appointed inspector-general and director of studies. He held this post until the school was merged into the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1873.

Woolley also served as Rector of Crostwight, Norfolk, and in 1879 he served as joint Mayor of Kingston-upon-Thames.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Note on Child 6: Benjamin Woolley

WOOLLEY Benjamin, 21 May 1869. Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of Benjamin Woolley late of Folkestone in the County of Kent a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy deceased who died 18 October 1868 at Chatham in the County aforesaid were granted at Canterbury to Adelaide Woolley of Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet in the County aforesaid Widow the Relict of the said Deceased she having been first sworn. Effects under £200.

Note on Child 8: Frederick Woolley (1)

Ordained deacon (Oxford), 1846, priest, 1847; C. of Great Haseley, Oxon., 1846-50. P.C. of St Paul's, Leeds, 1851-3; P.C. of Stoke Mandeville, Bucks. Head Master of Lewes Grammar School, Sussex and Rector of Lewes, 1863-77.

Note on Child 8: Frederick Woolley (2)

5 April 1877. The Will of Reverend Frederic Woolley late of Lewes in the County of Sussex Clerk who died 16 March 1877 at Lewes was proved at Lewes by Emma Treyer Woolley of Lewes Widow the Relict and Charles Alfred Woolley of brighton in the said County Gentleman the Brother the Executors. Effects under £3,000.

Note on Child 10: Charles Alfred Woolley (1)

Charles Alfred Woolley was a leading lawyer in Geelong, Australia. After studying at Rossall School he was admitted as a attorney in 1856 and practiced in Lewes and Newcastle. In 1858 he moved with his family to Melbourne, Victoria, where he entered a partnership with Thomas Harwood in Geelong. They practiced as Woolley and Harwood, and later as Woolley, Harwood and Davies. Woolley also became a member of the Geelong City Council.

Returning to England in 1865, Woolley was appointed Town Clerk of Hove, Sussex. He also resumed his legal practice in Brighton, where he settled, and built up a thriving business. His son Charles Webster Woolley also joined him. He died in 1910.

His last address was 3 Dyke Rd, Brighton, where he was living at the time of the 1901 census.

Source: http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/geelonglawyers/woolley/cw3.html

Note on Child 10: Charles Alfred Woolley (2)

WOOLLEY Charles Alfred of Clifton Lodge Brighton esquire died 17 May 1910. Probate Lewes 16 June to Charles Webster Rede Gell-Woolley esquire. Effects £47585 16s. 7d. Resworn £49001 10s. 7d.