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SIGN UPWilliam GOUNDRY 1780 – 1830 – Genealogical Records
Birth Date: 30 JAN 1780
Birth Location: Woodhamburn, Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Death Date: 17 NOV 1830
Death Location: Primrose Street, Bishopsgate Street, City of London
Father: Joshua GOUNDRY
Mother: Sarah OATES
Spouse(s): Elizabeth LEE, Elizabeth MICKLEBURGH
Children(s): William GOUNDRY, Eliza GOUNDRY, William GOUNDRY
In 1780, William GOUNDRY entered the world in Woodhamburn, Aycliffe, Co. Durham, born to Joshua (Joseph) GOUNDRY and Sarah OATES. Years later, William GOUNDRY married Elizabeth LEE and Elizabeth MICKLEBURGH, and the couple became parents to William Oates GOUNDRY, Eliza GOUNDRY and William GOUNDRY. William GOUNDRY died in 1830 in Primrose Street, Bishopsgate Street, City of London.
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Parents
Joshua GOUNDRY
1747 – 1830
Birth Location: Smelt House, Howden-le-Wear, Co. Durham
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Sarah OATES
1752 – 1788
Birth Location: Raby, Co. Durham
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Spouses(s)
Elizabeth LEE
Birth Location: Baldersdale, Yorkshire (North Riding)
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Elizabeth MICKLEBURGH
1772 – 1863
Birth Location: Lowestoft, Suffolk
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Children(s)
William GOUNDRY
1805 – 1807
Birth Location: 10 Winkworth Buildings, City Road, London
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Eliza GOUNDRY
1807 –
Birth Location: –
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William GOUNDRY
1808 – 1810
Birth Location: Lower Shadwell, Middlesex
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Sources
Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Year: 30 JAN 1780
Event Place: Woodhamburn, Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Record Source: his grandmother Phebe GOUNDRY witnessed the birth
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: OCT 1794
Record Source: he was apprenticed to a Quaker in Allendale.
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1805
Record Source: he paid 16s-8d. rent on property at Winkworth Buildings, Hackney.
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1805
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1806
Record Source: he paid 19s-9½d. rent on property at Winkworth Buildings.
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1807
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1807 AND 1808
Record Source: he was in business at Lower Shadwell, Middlesex and was involved in litigation, GOUNDRY v WEBB, re some agreements for leases.
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1808
Record Source: he was listed in a Directory of London as a Merchant at Lloyd's Coffee House
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: BET 1809 AND 1814
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: BET 7 SEP 1809 AND 17 OCT 1809
Event Place: 54 Lower Shadwell, Lambeth, Surrey
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1810
Record Source: he was in business at 34½ Wapping.
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1810
Event Place: 54 Lower Shadwell, Lambeth, Surrey
Record Source: the business was named GOUNDRY & Co.
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 JUN 1810
Record Source: in the Court of King's Bench he was the defendant in a case brought by a Collector of Taxes who alleged GOUNDRY, who was stated to be a respectable Merchant in the City, had assaulted him and turned him into the street, when he had attempted to "di
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 JUN 1810
Record Source: with his brother-in-law John MICKLEBURGH he wrote to the Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser complaining that a report in the previous day's edition had wrongly reported that GOUNDRY, who was the defendant in a trial, had withdrawn an action agains
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 25 APR 1811 AND 22 AUG 1811
Record Source: he was insured for a business at 53 Shadwell.
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 MAY 1811
Record Source: in a Court Case, "FENTON and Others v. GOUNDRY" it was judged that "though a bill was accepted payable at a place certain, it was still to be taken to be payable generally and universally, and wherever demanded" - this referred to a transaction o
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1813
Record Source: he and his wife each contributed £10-10s-0d. through the East London Auxiliary Society to the British & Foreign Bible Society.
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1814
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 DEC 1814
Record Source: he was declared bankrupt. He was described as a Rope Maker and Sail Cloth Manufacturer at Lower Shadwell, Middlesex, and living at Stamford Hill, Middlesex.
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 24 DEC 1814
Record Source: the first hearing re his Bankruptcy was heard
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 28 JAN 1815
Record Source: a Meeting of his Creditors was held at the Guildhall, London.
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: MAY 1815
Record Source: the Quaker Yearly Meeting met in London "when John KINSEY, Joseph GURNEY, Joseph ALLEN, and others appeared. John WILKINSON and Thomas MAW were appointed assistant clerks. An Appeal was presented from William GOUNDRY which produced considerable d
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 FEB 1816
Record Source: he advertised the sale of shares in the Albion Patent Rope Company, which offered 10% on all orders procured by the holder, and stated that "It is probable to pay the Share-holders 100 per Cent. per Annum on Money advanced - For further particular
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 AUG 1816
Record Source: a Certificate was issued re his bankruptcy, his address was late of Lower Shadwell.
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: MAY 1817
Record Source: the Quaker Yearly Meeting met in London. There were three Appeals - two from London and Middlesex and one from Cambridge and Huntingdonshire Quarterly Meetings. Two of the Friends nominated on the Committee were objected to by William GOUNDRY. T
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 31 AUG 1817
Record Source: he was in business as GOUNDRY & Co., Patent Rope Warehouse at 54 Lower Shadwell
Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 31 AUG 1817
Event Place: 54 Lower Shadwell, Lambeth, Surrey
Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 7 SEP 1817
Record Source: another Certificate was issued re his Bankruptcy, his address was late of Lower Shadwell and Stamford Hill, Middlesex.
Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 MAR 1818
Record Source: it was advertised that a Dividend would be paid to his Creditors on 25 Apr 1818
Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1819
Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1821 AND 1824
Record Source: he was listed in the British Imperial Calendar as Managing Director of the Albion Patent Rope Company at Lower Shadwell
Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 MAR 1823
Record Source: at a meeting of shareholders of the Bank of England, he opposed a proposal to reduce the half-yearly dividend from 5% to 4% due to lower profits. He said that the Directors should produce detailed accounts of the profits to show if a reduction wa
Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1825
Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 JUN 1825
Record Source: a partnership he had with William EMERY, trading as William EMERY & Co. as Tea Dealers in Bristol was dissolved.
Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 MAR 1826
Record Source: the Lord Mayor of London heard a case against him that he had obtained money by false pretences. It was claimed he had sold shares in the non-existent "Equitable Tea Agency Company", of 19 Fenchurch Street, London, which he claimed sold 29 millio
Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 30 MAR 1826
Record Source: some Friends (ie. Quakers) appeared at the hearing and said that although GOUNDRY dressed and wrote in the manner of a Quaker, he had been disowned by them due to fraudulent circumstances to do with his 1814 bankruptcy. The Lord Mayor issued a sum
Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 31 MAR 1826
Record Source: GOUNDRY appeared at the hearing and denied the charges, or that he had been expelled by the Quakers, and said that after appealing to the Society of Friends in 1823, he was reinstated as a Member. As the maximum sentence for the offence was transp
Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 APR 1826
Record Source: he was taken into custody from Goldspear? Streetin Newgate Prison, and remanded until the next Sessions, charged with "Unlawfully obtaining from John BELL £20, the property of Nicholas and John BELL". He was described as being 5 ft 7 inches tall
Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 MAY 1826
Record Source: he appeared in Court, and on a technicality was found Not Guilty
Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: NOV 1826
Record Source: he appeared at the Guildhall as a witness in an assault case brought by a prisoner in Whitecross Street gaol against some of his fellow prisoners. It was claimed that GOUNDRY had had his clothes stolen by fellow prisoners in Whitecross Street Gaol
Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 SEP 1830
Record Source: at the Old Bailey he was a prosecution witness in a case in which a 17 year old youth was sentenced to transportation for 14 years for stealing a necklace, value 10s. from the neck of a baby who was in the street with his mother. GOUNDRY saw the i
Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 1835
Record Source: He was included in a painting of 24 Friends at the London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends which was painted c.1840
Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 17 NOV 1830
Event Place: Primrose Street, Bishopsgate Street, City of London
Record Source: - he was not a Quaker, but his death was recorded in their Meeting Minutes.
Genealogy Event 44
Event Type: Burial
Event Year: 21 NOV 1830
Event Place: Bunhill Fields, Finsbury, City of London
Record Source: - at his wife's request, he was given a Quaker burial.
Event Type: Birth
Event Year: 30 JAN 1780
Event Place: Woodhamburn, Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Record Source: his grandmother Phebe GOUNDRY witnessed the birth
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: OCT 1794
Record Source: he was apprenticed to a Quaker in Allendale.
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1805
Record Source: he paid 16s-8d. rent on property at Winkworth Buildings, Hackney.
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1805
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1806
Record Source: he paid 19s-9½d. rent on property at Winkworth Buildings.
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1807
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1807 AND 1808
Record Source: he was in business at Lower Shadwell, Middlesex and was involved in litigation, GOUNDRY v WEBB, re some agreements for leases.
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1808
Record Source: he was listed in a Directory of London as a Merchant at Lloyd's Coffee House
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: BET 1809 AND 1814
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: BET 7 SEP 1809 AND 17 OCT 1809
Event Place: 54 Lower Shadwell, Lambeth, Surrey
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1810
Record Source: he was in business at 34½ Wapping.
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1810
Event Place: 54 Lower Shadwell, Lambeth, Surrey
Record Source: the business was named GOUNDRY & Co.
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 JUN 1810
Record Source: in the Court of King's Bench he was the defendant in a case brought by a Collector of Taxes who alleged GOUNDRY, who was stated to be a respectable Merchant in the City, had assaulted him and turned him into the street, when he had attempted to "di
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 JUN 1810
Record Source: with his brother-in-law John MICKLEBURGH he wrote to the Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser complaining that a report in the previous day's edition had wrongly reported that GOUNDRY, who was the defendant in a trial, had withdrawn an action agains
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 25 APR 1811 AND 22 AUG 1811
Record Source: he was insured for a business at 53 Shadwell.
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 MAY 1811
Record Source: in a Court Case, "FENTON and Others v. GOUNDRY" it was judged that "though a bill was accepted payable at a place certain, it was still to be taken to be payable generally and universally, and wherever demanded" - this referred to a transaction o
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1813
Record Source: he and his wife each contributed £10-10s-0d. through the East London Auxiliary Society to the British & Foreign Bible Society.
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1814
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 DEC 1814
Record Source: he was declared bankrupt. He was described as a Rope Maker and Sail Cloth Manufacturer at Lower Shadwell, Middlesex, and living at Stamford Hill, Middlesex.
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 24 DEC 1814
Record Source: the first hearing re his Bankruptcy was heard
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 28 JAN 1815
Record Source: a Meeting of his Creditors was held at the Guildhall, London.
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: MAY 1815
Record Source: the Quaker Yearly Meeting met in London "when John KINSEY, Joseph GURNEY, Joseph ALLEN, and others appeared. John WILKINSON and Thomas MAW were appointed assistant clerks. An Appeal was presented from William GOUNDRY which produced considerable d
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 FEB 1816
Record Source: he advertised the sale of shares in the Albion Patent Rope Company, which offered 10% on all orders procured by the holder, and stated that "It is probable to pay the Share-holders 100 per Cent. per Annum on Money advanced - For further particular
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 AUG 1816
Record Source: a Certificate was issued re his bankruptcy, his address was late of Lower Shadwell.
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: MAY 1817
Record Source: the Quaker Yearly Meeting met in London. There were three Appeals - two from London and Middlesex and one from Cambridge and Huntingdonshire Quarterly Meetings. Two of the Friends nominated on the Committee were objected to by William GOUNDRY. T
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 31 AUG 1817
Record Source: he was in business as GOUNDRY & Co., Patent Rope Warehouse at 54 Lower Shadwell
Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 31 AUG 1817
Event Place: 54 Lower Shadwell, Lambeth, Surrey
Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 7 SEP 1817
Record Source: another Certificate was issued re his Bankruptcy, his address was late of Lower Shadwell and Stamford Hill, Middlesex.
Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 MAR 1818
Record Source: it was advertised that a Dividend would be paid to his Creditors on 25 Apr 1818
Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1819
Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1821 AND 1824
Record Source: he was listed in the British Imperial Calendar as Managing Director of the Albion Patent Rope Company at Lower Shadwell
Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 MAR 1823
Record Source: at a meeting of shareholders of the Bank of England, he opposed a proposal to reduce the half-yearly dividend from 5% to 4% due to lower profits. He said that the Directors should produce detailed accounts of the profits to show if a reduction wa
Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1825
Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 JUN 1825
Record Source: a partnership he had with William EMERY, trading as William EMERY & Co. as Tea Dealers in Bristol was dissolved.
Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 MAR 1826
Record Source: the Lord Mayor of London heard a case against him that he had obtained money by false pretences. It was claimed he had sold shares in the non-existent "Equitable Tea Agency Company", of 19 Fenchurch Street, London, which he claimed sold 29 millio
Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 30 MAR 1826
Record Source: some Friends (ie. Quakers) appeared at the hearing and said that although GOUNDRY dressed and wrote in the manner of a Quaker, he had been disowned by them due to fraudulent circumstances to do with his 1814 bankruptcy. The Lord Mayor issued a sum
Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 31 MAR 1826
Record Source: GOUNDRY appeared at the hearing and denied the charges, or that he had been expelled by the Quakers, and said that after appealing to the Society of Friends in 1823, he was reinstated as a Member. As the maximum sentence for the offence was transp
Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 APR 1826
Record Source: he was taken into custody from Goldspear? Streetin Newgate Prison, and remanded until the next Sessions, charged with "Unlawfully obtaining from John BELL £20, the property of Nicholas and John BELL". He was described as being 5 ft 7 inches tall
Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 MAY 1826
Record Source: he appeared in Court, and on a technicality was found Not Guilty
Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: NOV 1826
Record Source: he appeared at the Guildhall as a witness in an assault case brought by a prisoner in Whitecross Street gaol against some of his fellow prisoners. It was claimed that GOUNDRY had had his clothes stolen by fellow prisoners in Whitecross Street Gaol
Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 SEP 1830
Record Source: at the Old Bailey he was a prosecution witness in a case in which a 17 year old youth was sentenced to transportation for 14 years for stealing a necklace, value 10s. from the neck of a baby who was in the street with his mother. GOUNDRY saw the i
Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 1835
Record Source: He was included in a painting of 24 Friends at the London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends which was painted c.1840
Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 17 NOV 1830
Event Place: Primrose Street, Bishopsgate Street, City of London
Record Source: - he was not a Quaker, but his death was recorded in their Meeting Minutes.
Genealogy Event 44
Event Type: Burial
Event Year: 21 NOV 1830
Event Place: Bunhill Fields, Finsbury, City of London
Record Source: - at his wife's request, he was given a Quaker burial.