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Theodor Willmann Naturalisation

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Date: About Jan 1865 to 15 Feb 1865
Location: Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdommap
Surname/tag: Willmann
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Transcription of Theodor Willmann naturalisation papers from National Archives at Kew, Ref. HO 1 119 4625, with papers arranged in date order, apart from wrapper which has been placed at the end
 [Original bundle was not in date order]

[NA cover page]
Ho 1
119/4625
E 30


To the Right Honorable Sir George Grey

Baronet Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the

Home Department


The humble Memorial of

Theodore Willmann of 116 Old Kent

Road in the County of Surrey Jeweller.


Sheweth

That your Memorialist was born at Saint Margen

Frieburg [sic] in the Grand Duchy of Baden in Germany of parents

subjects of the said Grand Duchy and that your Memorialist is

also a subject of the said Grand Duchy and is now of the age of

thirty-one years and upwards and is by trade a Master Jeweller

and carries on his business as such at 116 Old Kent Road aforesaid.

That your Memorialist came to the United Kingdom for the

purpose of business and residence eleven years ago - that he has resided

in Surrey during the said period namely at Gravel Lane Blackfriars

Road Surrey aforesaid for a period of six years and at 116 Old Kent 

Road aforesaid for the residue of the said period of eleven years.

That your Memorialist is married but has no children and 

has a fixed domicile here and intends to continue to reside within 

the United Kingdom.

That your Memorialist being permanently settled in business

in this Country is desirous to hold freehold and leasehold property

here and being now under arrangement to advance money on

mortgage of leasehold property is desirous to obtain all the rights

and capacities of a natural born British subject which the statute

of 7 and 8 Queen Victoria chapter 66 will allow him to enjoy.

Your Memorialist therefore humbly

prays that you will issue a Certificate granting

to your Memorialist all the rights and

capacities of a British subject which the said

statute will allow him to enjoy

And your Memorialist will ever pray

Theodor Willmann



I Theodore Willmann of 116 Old Kent Road in the 

County of Surrey Jeweller do solemnly and sincerely declare that

I was born at Saint Margen Freiburg in the Grand Duchy of 

Baden in Germany of parents subjects of the said Grand Duchy and

that I am also a subject of the said Grand Duchy and am now of

the age of thirty one years and upwards and am by trade a Master

Jeweller and carry on business as such at 116 Old Kent Road

aforesaid. That I came to the United Kingdom for the purpose 

of business and residence eleven years ago - that I have resided

in Surrey during the said period namely at Gravel Lane

Blackfriars Road Surrey aforesaid for a period of six years and

at 116 Old Kent Road aforesaid for the residue of the said period

of eleven years. That I am married but have no children and

that I have a fixed domicile here and intend to continue to

reside within the United Kingdom and that being permanently

settled in business in this Country and being desirous to hold

freehold and leasehold property here and being now under arrange-

ment to advance money on mortgage of leasehold property I am

desirous of obtaining all the rights and capacities of a natural

born British subject which the statute of 7 and 8 Victoria chapter

66 will allow me to enjoy and I make this solemn Declaration

conscientiously believing believing the same to be true and by

virtue of the provisions of an act made and passed in the session

of Parliament of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his late

Majesty King William the fourth intituted [sic] “An Act to repeal an act

of the present session of Parliament intituted [sic] an act for the more

effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in

various Departments of the state and to substitute Declarations in

lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and

extra judicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provision for

the abolition of unnecessary Oaths.”
Declared at Southwark Police
Court County in the County of
Surrey this twenty-fourth
day of January 1865
Theodor Willmann
Before me
T. B. Buchan
Metropolitan Magistrate


We Edward Thomas Goddard of 86 Blackman Street

Southwark in the County of Surrey Baker Joeph [sic] Whitaker

of 2 Ralph Terrace Brunswick Road Camberwell in the

County of Surrey Wood Turner Frederick John Roper of

114 Old Kent Road in the County of Surrey Hosier and

John Jacobs of 110 Old Kent Road aforesaid China and

Glass Dealer

and all being respectively householders do jointly and severally

solemnly and sincerely declare that we know and are well acquainted

with Theodore Willmann of 116 Old Kent Road in the County of

Surrey Jeweller and that the said Theodore Willmann is a perfectly

respectable and loyally disposed person and we further declare

that to the best of our knowledge information and belief the several

matters stated in the above written Memorial of the said Theodore

Willmann are perfectly true and correct and we make this solemn

Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by

virtue of the provisions of an act made and passed in the Session

of Parliament of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his

late Majesty King William the fourth intituted [sic] “An Act to repeal

an act of the present session of Parliament intituted [sic] an act for the 

more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made

in various Departments of the State and to substitute Declarations

in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and

extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provisions for

the abolition of unnecessary Oaths”.


Declared at Southwark Police

Court in the County of Surrey

this twenty-fourth day of

January 1865 Before me
Edward Thomas Goddard

J Wittaker

Fred. Roper
John Jacobs
T. B. Buchan

Metropolitan Magistrate


[Wrapper]

London

25. Jan[uar]y. 1865:

R. R. Greig

[Stamp]

HOME OFFICE

30 JAN 1865
No. 840
 a/31

T. Willmann’s Memor[ia]l.

Inquiries if a Statem[en]t

signed by the Householders

will be sufficient

[?]/14
Yes

30/1



5 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn, W.C.
28 January 1865
Sir,

As to Theodore Willmann’s
memorial.
I have the honor of receiving your

letter stating “that it is requisite that the

four householders should state whether

they are British born subjects + also how

long they have personally known the

memorialist”.
As it will put the householders

to considerable inconvenience to attend

before the Magistrate again to make

a declaration I take the liberty of

enquiring whether the Home Secretary

Sir George Grey will be satisfied with

a statement of the facts required signed

by the 4 householders.
I may add they are all

British born subjects + have known

the Memorialist for a long period

I am Sir
Your most obedient Servant

Rob: R: Greig

[To] 

T.[?] G. Baring Esq.

Home Office

Whitehall


[Stamp]

HOME OFFICE

8 FEB 1865

5 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn, W.C.
Tuesday 7 February 1865
As to Theodore Willmann’s mem[oria]l.

Sir,
I beg to send herewith
a Statement of the 4 householders
as to their being British born subjects
+ the length of time they have
respectively known the memorialist as
required by your letter of 31st ult.
I have the honour to be
Sir,
your obedient Servant
Rob:R:Greig
[To]T. G. Baring Esq.
Home Office
Whitehall


[Stamp]

HOME OFFICE

8 FEB 1865

As to Mr Theodore Willmann’s 

Memorial for Certificate of Naturalization and

the Declaration of four householders in support thereof:

We Thomas Edward ^Thomas^ Goddard, John Jacobs,

Frederick John Roper and Joseph Soda Whitaker 

being the four declarants to a Declaration annexed to

the memorial of Theodore Willmann for certificate of

naturalization respectively state that we are respectively

British born subjects and have known and been 

well acquainted with the said Theodore Willmann

for the following periods of time namely I the said
Thomas Edward ^Thomas^ Goddard for a period of 5 

years and upwards - I the said John Jacobs 

for a period of about 6 years years [sic] and upwards

I the said Frederick John Roper for a period of

4 years and upwards and I the said

Joseph Soda Whitaker for a period of 8

years and upwards.

As witness our hands respectively this

fourth day of February 1865
[signed] Edward Thomas Goddard

[signed] John Jacobs
[signed] Fred. J. Roper
[signed] Joseph Sade Whitaker


[Notes on wrapper as far as legible]

No-4625

granted 15 February 1865

T. Willmann.

a/26

A Proper Case

H.W.

Grant cert.
[?/?]
R. R. Greig

 5 Verulam B[uildin]gs Gray’s Inn

[Stamp]

HOME OFFICE

 25 JAN 1865

No. 714



[Stamp]

HOME OFFICE

 8 FEB 1865

No. 1110



subject of the G[ran]d Duke
of Baden, aged 31,
married, a Jeweller,
has resided 11 years
and intends to do so
permanently - 


?Inform that the declarants
must state whether they are
British born, + also how long
they have known the applicant


amended W/ 25/1 T. [?].

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