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Showing posts with label Travally. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travally. Show all posts

Wednesday 20 September 2023

Thomas Travally and Rachel Winnall

St Dunstan & All Saints, Stepney - East end
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Thomas Travally (1685–1744) and Rachel Winnall (1680–1755), daughter of John and Alice Winnall, married at the church of St Dunstan & All Saints, Stepney, on 20 Sep 1704. The record of their marriage lists them as Thomas Trevalle (sic) of RatcliffWaterman and Rachel Winnall of Blackwall, where Rachel's father, John Winnall, was also a Thames Waterman.

St Dunstan's was known as the "Church of the high seas" because of the great number of sailors who lived there. It's also is known as "The Mother Church of the East End" and has had an important role in my family history, from baptisms in the 1630s, to the baptism of my own grandfather in 1897.

Thomas Travally and Rachel Winnall had six children, all of whom were also baptised at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney:
  1. Elizabeth Travally bap. 26 Aug 1705
  2. Esther Travally bap. 18 Jul 1709
  3. Mary Travally bap. 30 Jan 1712
  4. Winnall Travally b. 19 Apr 1715, bap. 15 May 1715
  5. Martha Trevally (sic) bap. 17 Feb 1716
  6. Warden Travally bap. 10 Feb 1718
On these baptism records too Thomas Travally is listed as a Waterman

"If watermen were the river’s taxi drivers, then lightermen drove the lorries."

According to the Binding Records of the Thames Watermen & Lightermen, Winnall Travally was apprenticed and therefore bound to his father, Thomas, on 18 Jul 1729. He would then have been around 14 and would be free on 20 Jan 1843, by which time he would have been 28 years old. That seems an inordinately long time. Did Thomas just not trust his son? Apprenticeships are still completed for those wanting to work on the river, offered through the Company of Watermen and Lightermen, lasting 5 years.   

Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge 
The World's Oldest Boat Race

Since 1715 the Race for Doggett’s Coat and Badge has been passionately rowed by apprentice river workers on the Thames. It is believed to be the oldest continually competed sporting event in the world. Thames Watermen compete to earn a coveted red Waterman's coat and badge. The race therefore dates, coincidentally, to the year of Winnall Travally's birth. Thomas and Winnall must surely have known about it. Could they even have taken part? 

(And little did I think I might have been following family tradition when I took part in the Dongola Race at Sunbury Amateur Regatta one year.)

Sunday 11 June 2023

John Gabbdey and Elizabeth Travally

St Dunstan & All Saints, Stepney - East end
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John Gabbdey married Elizabeth Travally, daughter of Winnall Travally and Elizabeth Benbow at the church of St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, on 11 Jun 1769. John Gabbdey was born on 20 July 1745 and baptised on 11 Aug 1745 at St Anne's Limehouse, the son of Henry Gabbdey and Ann Stewart. This pair of my 5th great-grandparents married, by licence, and, witnessing the marriage were the bride's father, Winnall Travally and a James Bryant. 

Information suggests that John and Elizabeth had four children: 
  1. William Travally Gabbedy b. 1770 in Limehouse, London
  2. John Benbow Gabbedy b. 17 Nov 1771 in Risby's Rope Walk, Limehouse, bap. 8 Dec 1771 at St Anne's Limehouse
  3. Thomas Gabbady b. 15 Feb 1773 in Risby's Rope Walk, Limehouse
  4. Esther Gabbedy b. 11 Feb 1775 in Limekiln Hill, Limehouse
In 1771, John Gabbdey's occupation is listed as Shipwright.

John Gabbdey must have died before 1781, because Elizabeth Gabbedy remarried, at St George in the East, to Edward Penfold on 7 Aug 1781. Witnesses were R Soper and the bride's father, Winnall Travally.

It is reported that Elizabeth Penfold was buried on 8 Dec 1822 in Downside, Surrey. There is indeed a record of a burial of an Elizabeth Penfold, aged 80, born 1742, on 8 Dec 1822 at St Andrew's Church, Cobham, Surrey. This is the right name and right age, but I need to see some other evidence that she had moved to this area before I could accept that this is relevant.

Monday 14 March 2022

William Dalton and Sarah Travally

Stepney Green
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Marathon - geograph.org.uk/p/6294695

William Dalton married Sarah Travally, daughter of Winnall Travally and Elizabeth Benbow. I've been unable to find a record of the actual marriage, however, there are records of four children to this couple: 

  1. Thomas Benbow Dalton b. 6 May 1770
  2. Sarah Dalton b. 22 May 1778
  3. Martha Dalton b. 2 Oct 1780
  4. Ebenezer Dalton b. 16 Aug 1782
The records for these children are unusual. Those in the set, 'England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975' do mention Saint Dunstan and All Saints Church, Stepney (as in parish), but they do not follow the usual format of Christian baptisms and specify the dates as birth dates, not christenings. They each also include the information: Maternal Grandfather's Name, Winnal Travaly and Maternal Grandmother's Name, Elizabeth, so we can have no doubt that these are the children of this couple and their pedigree. 

Also for each one is a further record in, 'England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977', which specified each child's birthplace as "White Horse Street, St Dunstans Stepney, Middlesex."
"White Horse Street was the main street of the medieval village of Stepney, centred around St Dunstan’s Church. Until the nineteenth century, although there were buildings along White Horse Street itself, the surrounding area was mainly open fields." [Source]

There were witnesses to all these birth records too, which in all four cases were Elizabeth Gabbedey and Esther Travally, both Sarah's sisters. 

These records are from Dr Williams' Library Registry; Registers of certificates, an early birth register of Protestant dissenters. Initial searches tell me that, "Following England’s split with the Roman Catholic Church during the reign of Henry VIII and his establishment of the Church of England, Protestants of other faiths, Catholics, Quakers and Jews were considered Nonconformists."

The burial of Ebenezer Dalton, who died on 17 Apr 1828, aged 47, at Shadwell, Ebenezer Chapel (Independent) (Independent / Congregational Chapel Watney Street ~ Coverdale & Ebenezer, Bigland Street), a Congregational Chapel, suggests which flavour of non-conformist.

Monday 9 November 2020

Winnall Travally and Elizabeth Benbow

St Dunstan's Church, Stepney
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Winnall Travally (1715–1783), son of Thomas Travally and Rachel Winnall, married Elizabeth Benbow (1715–1779), daughter of Richard Benbow and Elizabeth Cowtley, (although I've not [yet] found a record of the marriage).

Winnall Travally and Elizabeth Benbow, it appears, had four children; 
  1. Sarah Travaly (1739-1792)
  2. Winnall Travally (1741-1741)
  3. Elizabeth Travally b. 3 Sep 1742 in White Horse Street, Limehouse 
  4. Esther Travally (1744-1821) 
Winnall Travally, was a Waterman on the Thames, as was his father, Thomas Travally. With their only son not surviving infancy, sadly, that looks like the end of the line for the Travally's association with the river.

Elizabeth Travaly died, aged 63, and was buried on 24 Jun 1779, in Stepney.

Winnall Travally reportedly died of Consumption (Tuberculosis). He was buried, on 18 Jul 1783, at St Dunstan's, Stepney.