Other 17th century Hartwrights from Shropshire and London
Thomas Hartwright I of Claines, near Worcester was born about 1698 and at this time there were other groups of Hartwrights in the United Kingdom.
The International Genealogical Index (IGI) shows one such group whose births and marriages appear in the parish registers for Shropshire. I have not had the opportunity to check the original records, but the IGI shows that Richard Hartwrite son of Richard and Adah was baptised on 15th November 1674. Four more sons were born to Richard and his wife, who is sometimes called Adah and other times Adith. John and Thomas (who died) were followed by Edward and Thomas Hartrite who was baptised 6th July 1691.
It appears from the IGI that both Richard and Thomas married. Richard to Margaret Bright at Clun in 1704. Their children were Edward (1706), Mary (1708) and Martha (1711). By 1715 Richard had died as Margaret Hartwright married Samuel Price on 17th January 1715. Seven years later in 1722 it seems that Richard’s youngest brother Thomas (bapt. 1691) married Mary Evans and two daughters were also baptised at Hopesay - Mary 1724 and Elizabeth 1727.
There is no further mention in the IGI of Hartwrights from this branch. Later 19th century references to Hartwrights in Shropshire are those who moved from Worcestershire to Shropshire. All of the above men’s first names also appear in Worcestershire. If you have any information, which will link the Shropshire and Worcestershire Hartwrights, please get in touch as I’m stuck!
Meanwhile in London the IGI shows that there was another Hartwright group, for whom the earliest record is 15 May 1609 when Mary Hartwright married Thomas Jennings at London St Gregory’s. By 1648 Gabriel Hartwright had married and he and his wife Elizabeth, were the parents of Gabriell who was baptised in December 1648. Other surnames in that period include Hartrot and Hurtrod which may be variations of Hartwright.
Edward Hartwright of St Luke, Old Street Middlesex died in 1799 and in his will he mentions his wife Mary and some of his children who were left certain bequests. From this it is possible to draw a conjectural Family Tree for the London Hartwrights. I have been helped by information from Mrs Irene Harris who has advised me that there are no longer any male lines for this group of Hartwrights.
Edward left 1gn. each to his sons Edward and Richard, for whom I do not have any other records. Edward’s son Thomas (probably baptised at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey in 1782) was left “The Three Jolly Weavers” in King Street, in trust until he was twenty-one. Edward’s daughters were:- Mary Ann, Mary Elizabeth and the youngest Charlotte, who was baptised in 1791 at Finsbury St Luke, Old Street. Charlotte married John Samson at Westminster, St Martin-in-the-Field. Their brother William, baptised in 1787 at St Luke’s, Old Street is the present day “London” Hartwrights antecedent. He became a goldsmith. His son William married twice, his second wife was Mary Periam. They were teachers who went to live in Bath but returned to London. He later became an ironmonger and lived with his wife at 37 The Barbican. Thanks to Mrs Irene Harris whose mother was a Hartwright, we know that William the Goldsmith’s son George, was a silversmith. Baptised on 17th November 1811 George married Lucy Mason at St Mary, Newington in 1835. They had three children including George William who became a carver and gilder who married Sarah Brown. George and Sarah had a large family, but George left Sarah to bring up the family on her own and he was never heard of again. My records show he died in 1873 just two years after the birth in the workhouse of his youngest daughter Mary Ann. Sarah’s eldest son George is shown on the 1881 census as a sailor, by 1901 he is a pickle cellarman living in Shoreditch with his wife Emily and two daughters Emily and Rosalind, neither of whom married. In the 1901 census index George’s mother Sarah occupation was shown as a fur-liner.
George’s brother Henry (Harry) married Clara Louise Teakle in 1895, whose father James Teakle was a Fancy box maker. In the 1901 census Index Harry is shown as a "warehouseman and shop…" and Clara is looking after three of their four children - Clara Elizabeth, Harry James and James Joseph. Nellie Ethel was born in 1903. It is through Harry and James that the two female lines continued into the twentieth century.
The Hartwrights
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