Frederick William Welburn (1843 - 1899)

Born May 1843 in Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Jessie Eliza (Fox) Welburn — married Dec 1869 in Weymouth, Dorset, England

Descendants

Died 21 Mar 1899 at age 55 in West Overton, Wiltshire, England

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Biography

Frederick was born in 1843. He was the son of Matthew Welburn and Ann Brown. He passed away in 1899.

Christening

Name: Fredrick William Welburn

Gender: Male

Christening Date: 16 May 1843

Christening Place: AMPLEFORTH,YORK,ENGLAND

Birth Date: 16 May 1843

Father's Name: Matthew Welburn

Mother's Name: Ann^[1]

Marriage

Name Jessie Eliza Fox

Name Frederick William Welburn

Event Type Marriage

Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec

Registration Year 1869

Registration District Weymouth

County Dorset

Event Place Weymouth, Dorset, England^[2]

Census 1871

Place - Netherbury, Dorset

Address - Church Street

WILBURN Frederick M Head M M 28 Curate Of Netherbury North Riding of Yorkshire - Ampleforth

WILBURN Jessie Wife M F 30 Dorset - Cerne Abbas

PRIOR Sarah Jane Servnt U F 19 Domestic Servant Dorset - Netherbury

Census 1881

Place -West Overton, Wiltshire, England

Address - Overton Village

Frederick W. WELBURN Head M Male 37 Ampleforth, York, England Vicar Of Overton Cum Fyfield Wilts

Jessie E. WELBURN Wife M Female 40 Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England

William E. WELBURN Son Male 9 Netherbury, Dorset, England Scholar

Sarah A. BENGER Servt U Female 22 Bromham, Wiltshire, England Domestic Cook

Emily E. WILKINS Servt U Female 18 Hilmarton, Wiltshire, England Domestic Housemaid

Census 1891

Place -West Overton, Wiltshire, England

Address - Overton Village

Surname First name(s) Rel Status Sex Age Occupation Where Born Remarks

WELBURN Frederick W Head M M 47 Vicar Of Overton(Em'er) North Riding of Yorkshire - Ampleforth

WELBURN Jessie E Wife M F 50 Dorset - Cerne Abbas

WELBURN William G Son S M 19 Undergraduate Of Oxford Dorset - Netherbury

GILES Edith Servnt S F 21 Dom Servant Housemaid Berkshire - Watchfield

WILKINS Naomi Servnt S F 21 Domestic Servant Cook Wiltshire - Baydon

Overton Church

To take us back a complete century it should be noted that before the Rev Tootell who was a ‘very little’ man and father-in-law to the Rev Workman having married Tootell’s daughter, Grace, the Vicar had been the Rev. Frederick Welburn who had been appointed in 1875 and died in office in 1899, aged 55. An Evangelical he was much beloved and respected in his parish which in those days consisted of Overton-cum-Fyfield with Alton Priors.

A NEW CHURCH FOR OVERTON

From Mr W. Welburn, whose father was Vicar here when the present Church was rebuilt we learn the following about the old church. “There was no road to the old church, it stood in the field with double white gates between the yews. The church had galleries around three sides and the body of the church was filled with deal pews. There was a three decker pulpit ornamented with tattered red cloth, great patches of damp on the walls and vaults under the whole of the Nave. The galleries were much favoured by the youths of the parish who used to take nuts up with them and spit the shells on those underneath. I fear that my father who was in those days an athletic and rather quick tempered man, sadly interfered with these delights”. From other sources we learn that the Nave was 15th century, the chancel of early 14th century architecture, a western tower bearing the date 1697 opened into the nave by a poor archway. There was a fine early 13th century chancel arch. The whole structure was very unsound, the walls being of sarcen boulders strapped with iron and propped with buttresses of brickwork. The roof of the chancel was very crumbling, whilst that of the nave owed its watertight condition to the thin covering of copper for which the church was locally famous. An indication of the lamentable condition is shown by mention of the sexton very ‘busily endeavouring to hide the frogs under the floorboards’. The Rev Welburn set about the daunting task of raising the money for the rebui8lding. This was considerably helped when Lord Bruce M.P., a trustee for Sir Henry Meux paid a visit and reported back to Sir Henry the condition.

The man onto whose shoulders fell the brunt of the tremendous problem was the Vicar of that time, the The Rev. F.W.. Welburn, he set about the task of raising money for this purpose in a very determined manner. During April of l876 he inserted an advertisement in the Marlborough Times which read: — OVERTON CHURCH. The above Church being in a very dilapidated state, a strong effort is being made to obtain FUNDS for the purpose of restoring it. Subscriptions will be thankfully received by the Rev. F.W. Welburn, Vicar for Overton or The Wilts and Dorset Bank”.

In the Church Magazine of March 1930 is an extract from a letter from Mr. W. Welburn whose father was Vicar when the present Overton Church was built. He writes ‘I have always regretted that the old Church was entirely destroyed though it certainly was very dilapidated. Mr. Ponting the Architect has told me that the south wall of the Nave ought never to have been taken down, being very solid, but he was young at the time and my father over-ruled him. I fancy the Duke of Marlborough, who was a big land-owner in the district and who was their patron had urged him to rouse the Parish up, and so he was anxious to have everything new.^[3]

Potted Biography

WELBURN, FREDERICK WILLIAM.

Adm. pens. (age 19) at JESUS, Sept. 29, 1862.

S. of the Rev. Matthew.

B. at Ampleforth, Yorkshire . School, private.

Matric. Michs. 1862.

Ord. deacon (Salisbury), 1867; priest, 1868; C. of Osmington, Dorset , 1867-9. C. of Netherbury, 1869-72.

C. of Peckham, Surrey , 1872-5. V. of Overton with Fyfield, Wiltshire , 1875-99.

Married Jessie Eliza, dau. of John Fox, of Weymouth.

Died Mar. 21, 1899, aged 55, at Overton vicarage.

( Crockford; The Times, Mar. 23, 1899.)^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Family Search - Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C07158-1 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 990882 ,
2. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2D2W-QSM : 13 December 2014), Jessie Eliza Fox, 1869; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1869, quarter 4, vol. 5A, p. 677, Weymouth, Dorset, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
3. ↑ https://www.upperkennetnews.co.uk/the-heritage-of-the-upper-kennet-valley/
4. ↑ Search result from http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/