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William Porter

Male Abt 1734 - 1797  (~ 63 years)


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  • Name William Porter 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Born Abt 1734  [1] 
    Research Status Brick Wall 
    Died 24 Sep 1797  [1] 
    Buried 28 Sep 1797  Banstead, Surrey, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2021 

    Wife Mary Haultain
              b. Abt Dec 1742
              d. 17 Apr 1785  (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Married 14 May 1767  St Peter and St Paul, Mitcham, Merton, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Age at Marriage He was 33, she was 24  
    Children 
     1. Martha Porter
              b. 19 Dec 1770, Shepperton, Surrey, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 16 Dec 1834, Walcot, Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)
     2. William Porter, junior
              b. Between 1758 and 1785
              d. Bef 1895  (Age ~ 136 years)
    Last Modified 3 Dec 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      William Porter would have been born c. 17341 though the exact date, and the names of his parents, are currently unknown.

      Family Life
      William married Mary Haultain (daughter of James Haultain a calico printer, and Martha Wells) by licence at St Peter & St Paul in Mitcham, Surrey, on the 14th of May 1767. They had at least two children:

      1. William junior
      2. Martha, b. 1770 and who married, against the dying wishes of her father, Archibald Adair Brice, the Rector of South Elmham St James in Suffolk


      Death
      William died on the 24th of September 1797 and was buried at Banstead

      Footnotes
      [1] We know that William Porter was at least 21 in 1767 when he married Mary Haultain, so he must have been born before 1746. The Registers of Banstead2 has him aged 63 when he died in 1797, making his year of birth c. 1734. Unfortunately the trail then runs dry as William Porter was a relatively common name and, with no other information to hand, it's impossible to say which candidate is the right one. For possible future research, the top candidates include:

      • Wm bapt 18 Jul 1733 at Kingston, to Ralph and Susan [Shaw?]
      • William bapt. 14 Aug 1735 at Cobham, to Robert and Elizabeth [Sutton?]

      [2] Registers of Banstead in the County of Surrey, 1547-1789 by FA Heygate Lambert, Page 124

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 14 May 1767 - St Peter and St Paul, Mitcham, Merton, London Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0142] Registers of Banstead in the County of Surrey, 1547-1789, The, FA Heygate Lambert, (1896), Page 124.

    2. [S0221] Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), William Porter; Surrey History Centre; Woking, Surrey, England; Surrey Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: 2375/1/19-20, 28 Sep 1797.

    3. [S0255] London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), William Porter / Mary Haultain, 16 Apr 1767.

    4. [S0141] Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Reference Number: P40/1/17, 14 May 1767.