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  • Name Robert Willes 
    Birth 1764  Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening 4 Oct 1764  Holy Rood Church, Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Literate 1796 
    Residence 1796  Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence Between 1798 and 1803  234, Holywell Street, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1802 
    Cork Cutter 
    Medical Between Aug 1806 and Oct 1806 
    Decline 
    Prison 10 Oct 1806  Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Prisoner for Debt 
    Name Robert Willis 
    Residence 10 Oct 1806  St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Parish, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _FSFTID LH2C-DJ8 
    _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH2C-DJ8 
    Death 10 Oct 1806  Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: a Natural Death by the visitation of God/Inquest 11 Oct 1806 
    Burial 17 Oct 1806  St Andrew's Burial Ground, Holborn, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • (Medical):...John Sullivan a Prisoner for Debt in Newgate maketh Oath that the decd Robert Willes who was also a Prisoner for Debt hath been ill in a decline upwards of two months that he continued to decline and get worse daily until about twenty minutes past three yesterday afternoon when he departed this Life. That he was attend by his own Apothecary and also by the Surgeon of the Gaol during his illness...the said Robert Willes On the Tenth day of October in the year aforesaid being a Prisoner for Debt in His Majestys Gaol of Newgate...and being sick and Diseased in his Body of such Sickness and Disease did then And there die a Natural Death by the visitation of God...
    Person ID I687  FamilyTree1
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2021 

    Father Robert Willes,   b. 1739, Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Dec 1796, High Street, Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Wiltshire   d. 1805, Gosport, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F670  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Jane Jacobs   d. 1794, Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 3 Aug 1783  St Mary's Church, Portsea, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Robert WILLES bachelor & Jane JACOBS spinster both of this Parish were married in this church by licence 3 Aug 1783 in the presence of X the mark of Jno HENDRICKS & Richd GUDGE


      Hampshire: - Marriage License allegations, Bishop of Winchester, 1689-1837   Volume 3.
      Willes, Robert, of Portsea, cork-cutter, 21, b., & Jane Jacobs, of the s., 21, sp., at P., 02 Aug 1783.
    Children 
     1. Robert Willes,   b. 1784, Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F1043  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Feb 2020 

    Family 2 Rhoda Ann Largent,   b. 1769, Houndsditch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1829, Little Wild Street, St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage License 3 Sep 1796 
    at the Vicar General's Office 
    • Vicar General's Office 3rd Sept 1796
      Which day appeared personally Robert Willes and made oath, that he is of the town and county of the town of Southampton aged twenty nine years and upwards and a bachelor, and intendeth to intermarry with Rhoda Ann Largent of the parish of St Botolph Bishopsgate, London, aged twenty four years and upwards and a spinster, and that he knoweth of no lawful impediment, by reason of any pre-contract, consanguinity, affinity, or any other lawful cause whatsoever, to hinder the said intended marriage, and prayed a licence to solemnize the same in the parish church of St Botolph Bishopsgate aforesaid and further made oath that the usual place of abode of her the said Rhoda Ann Largent hath been in the said parish of St Botolph Bishopsgate for upwards of four weeks last past.
      Robert Willes
      Sworn before me C. Coote
    Marriage 4 Sep 1796  St Botolph's Church, Bishopsgate, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • No.432 - Robert Willes of the town and county of the town of Southampton, bachelor, and Rhoda Ann Largent of this parish, spinster, were married in this Church by licence this fourth day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety six, by me Willison Coneybeare, Rector.
      This marriage was solemnized between us Robert Willes, Rhoda Ann Largent
      In the presence of Jas. Lyers?, Mary Largent, Wm Pugh
    Children 
    +1. Robert William Largent Willes,   b. 1797, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1852, St Pancras Workhouse Infirmary, St Pancras, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    Family ID F274  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 May 2017 


 

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