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The Mawby family
fl. 1780-1890
The iron bridge built in 1832
In the late 18th century, Henrietta Mawby married
John Dove of Bourne and they had six children in Bourne (circa 1780-90). She
was named as John’s wife in 1797 when her father made his will.
Henrietta was baptised on 20th May 1755 at Market Deeping.
Her parents were John Mawby, a maltster and property owner of Market Deeping
and Charlotte (Francis). Perhaps Henrietta’s father had commercial
connections with John Dove, who also owned a malting business.
After Henrietta, John and Charlotte’s next child was John
Mawby, baptised in August 1758, a grazier of Thurlby, near Bourne, who married
twice. In 1786, his first wife, Mary Lawrence, bore him a son called John.
This John became the grocer and draper, who, in 1825, obtained the “house,
buildings and former kitchen garden in South Street, Bourne, and the warehouse
complex known today as Wherry’s grain warehouse and Bourne Eau House.” He
married Elizabeth Turnell and they had nine children, although some died in
childhood.
The house then known as The Cedars, was home to John and
Elizabeth’s children and grandchildren until 1894. John owned a wool
warehouse, and was described as a wool stapler in his will, and we know from
the transaction above that he was also a grocer and draper in the town. He was
credited with building the cast iron bridge that connects The Cedars with
Church Walk in 1832, so creating a shorter walk to the Abbey Church where the
family were all regular worshippers. At his death in 1837, he left only one son and
four daughters, all under twenty one.
John and Elizabeth’s only surviving son was baptised on 25th
June 1820 at Bourne and named Thomas Turnell Mawby. His father, John, died in
1837, when Thomas was only seventeen, but he was well provided for and
inherited his father’s business interests, when he came of age. Thus, he
became a wool merchant and owned several businesses in the town, including one
selling wines and spirits, situated in West Street. He was also a linseed cake
merchant and assistant bank manager, according to census records of 1851 to
1891.
In 1846, Thomas married Anne Maria Willders of
Cambridgeshire. They raised a very large family of seventeen children at The Cedars between 1847 and
1868. By the time of the census of 1871, Thomas described himself as a bank
manager and landowner. He employed a cook, two nursemaids and a housemaid. One
of his sons, Charles, followed in his father’s footsteps and became a bank
clerk. Thomas had three sisters, who married three brothers. His sister,
Sarah, married Stephen Andrews, a solicitor, and raised a family in North
Street. Another of his sisters, Mary Ann, married Christopher Robert Andrews,
a clergyman. The third sister, Elizabeth, married John Nicholas Andrews, the
curate of Baston.
Thomas was a vicar’s warden of Bourne Abbey from 1864 until
1893. He died in March 1894 and his burial was noted in both the records of
the Abbey Church and the town cemetery. The Mawby family's tenancy of The
Cedars ended in 1894 and the house was subsequently purchased by William
Wherry.
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THOMAS TURNELL MAWBY
We wish to record the death of Mr T T Mawby which
took place on Thursday morning at his residence, The Cedars. The
deceased was a prominent churchman and for upwards of thirty years
occupied the position of Vicar's churchwarden at the Abbey Church.
During his tenancy of the office, the interior of the church has
undergone vast improvements. When, through ill-health, he last year
placed his resignation ion the hands of the Vicar, it was accepted with
great reluctance, unfeigned regret being on all hands expressed. For
many years he fulfilled the duties of manager of Messrs Wilson, Peacock
and Company's bank and he was held in the highest esteem alike by
directors and subordinates. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon,
amid universal evidence of sympathy. A preliminary choral service was
held in the Abbey Church. The service at the grave was conducted by the
Rev A Lazenby. The coffin was covered with a large number of exquisite
floral wreaths, from the family, relatives and friends.
- obituary from the Stamford Mercury, Friday 6th April 1894. |
His grandfather, John Mawby (1758-1818), had three other
children with Mary Lawrence and after her death, married Jane Osborn at the
Abbey Church. This second marriage produced seven children, of whom the first
son was Robert Osborn Mawby. Robert Osborn eventually owned a large number of
farms and businesses in the town. He married Sarah Onn and raised a family in
Bourne between 1824 to 1834. He was living in West Street in 1861. Another son
of the second marriage, called Edward, became a butcher in the town in the
1820s.
Robert Osborn Mawby’s son, Lawrence, was born at Bourne in
1824 and became a seasoned traveller and adventurer. He took ship to Australia
in 1847, sailed to New Zealand and returned to Bourne with his young family in
1855. He added two children to his family during their stay in Bourne, before
returning to Queensland in 1864.
Henrietta, mentioned above, had several other brothers,
beside John. Her brother, Joseph Mawby inherited his father’s malting business
in Market Deeping. He married and had a son called Joseph Beecroft (or
Beecraft) Mawby. The son married Frances (Draper) Dove on 5th June 1837, after
the death of her husband William Dove.
Footnote: A memorial in Bourne Abbey churchyard remembers
Elizabeth Mawby (died 5th April 1856), and her husband John Mawby, who died on
26th January 1837 at the age of 49.
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MAWBY FAMILY TOMBSTONE IN THE CHURCHYARD |
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A secluded corner of the churchyard contains a
magnificent stone sarcophagus erected to the memory of John and
Elizabeth Mawby from one of the town's oldest families. John died on
26th January 1837 at the age of 49 and is buried here but Elizabeth died
on 5th April 1856 at the age of 62 after the churchyard had been closed
for further burials. Her name is engraved on the tombstone but she was
interred instead at the newly opened cemetery in South Road on 10th
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This photograph was taken of The Cedars in South
Street (now Bourne Eau House) during the tenancy of Thomas Mawby whose
family lived there from circa 1825 until he died in 1894. The four
people in the picture are believed to be four of his children, Jack and
Lottie, (standing) and Lizzie and Louisa in the window. The photograph
was owned by their brother, George Turnell Mawby (1857-1900), who
emigrated to Manitoba, Canada, in 1880, probably because the family were
in financial difficulties, and is still in the possession of his
descendants. |
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THE MAWBY DESCENDENTS
John Mawby, eldest son of John’s first marriage to
Mary Lawrence, was a wool merchant, grocer and draper, who married
Elizabeth Turnell (died 1856) and they had the following children:
Charlotte - born 1818, died before 1828.
Thomas Turnell - born 1820, married Anne Maria Willders in 1846. Thomas
died April 1894.
Elizabeth - born 1822, buried 17 April 1825.
William Lawrence - born 1823, buried 15 April 1825.
Mary Ann - born 1824, married Christopher Robert Andrews in 1846.
Elizabeth - born 1826, married John Nicholas Andrews in 1849.
Charlotte - born 1828, lived in Bourne, buried April 1911.
Sarah Lawrence Larken - born 1829, married Stephen Wilson Andrews in
December 1853 and had five children in Bourne between 1856 and 1875.
Lawrence - born 1831, died 1832.
Robert Osborn Mawby, eldest son of John’s second marriage to Jane
Osborn, was a farmer and wool merchant, who married Sarah Onn of Bourne
in May 1822 and had the following children:
Lawrence - born 1824.
Robert - born 1827.
John - born 1829.
Henry - born 1831.
Edwin - born 1832.
Edward Mawby, third son of John and Jane Osborn, married Elizabeth Eadon
of Bourne in February 1823, and they had the following children:
Catherine - born 1824.
Elizabeth - born 1826.
Fanny – born 1830.
Mary - born 1832.
Edward – born 1836.
Thomas Turnell Mawby, eldest son of John Mawby and Elizabeth Turnell,
was a wool merchant and bank manager, of The Cedars, Bourne, who married
Anne Maria Willders, and they had the following children :
Mary Lawrence - born 1847, unmarried in 1891 and living with parents.
John Frederick - born 1848, a scholar in 1861.
Thomas Arthur - born 1849, died 1894.
Anne Frances - born 1850, died 1869.
Alfred - born circa 1851, civil engineer.
Charles Edward - born 1853, bank clerk in 1871.
William Henry - born 1854.
Charlotte Elizabeth - born 1855, unmarried in 1881.
Elizabeth - born 1856, died 1870.
George Turnell - born 1857, emigrated 1880, died 1900 in Canada.
Edmund Walter - born 1858, gentleman's tailor, lived in London.
Margaret Ellen - born 1859, married Dr. William White, medical
practitioner.
Maria Louisa - born March 1862, governess.
Frank Willders - born December 1862, married Amy Summerson, medical
practioner in Cambridgeshire. His brother, Alfred, lived with the family
in 1901.
Emily Josephine – born 1864.
Ethel Mary - born 1866, living at home in 1891.
Edith Florence - born 1868, living at home in 1891.
Thomas Arthur and his father Thomas Turnell both died in 1894 and that
is the last year for which we have a Mawby family record in Bourne. |
NOTE: This information on the Mawby family was researched by the late Freda
Weston of
Glenbrook, NSW, Australia, Lavinia Wager, of Point
Lookout, Queensland, Australia
and Jane Farquharson of Benson, Oxford, England.
See also
The Dove family
Bourne Eau House
William Wherry
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