Wolrich, Thomas

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Thomas Wolrich of Armley House nr Leeds proposed Society for Constitutional Information 14.2.1783 by Gamaliel Lloyd 2nded Jeremiah Batley ("to be sent to Mr lloyd's Leeds")

Thomas Wolrich's ancestry was taken back to Ethelred the Unready in Burke's Landed Gentry 1837 vol 4 p759, where it said he was brought up by Lady Hewley (Sarah Hewley DNB 1627-1710) which may have meant his father Tobias 1683-1742, as he was son of a Church of England vicar who died when Tobias was six years old. The vicar Thomas was son of Capt Henry Wolrich, master of horse to King Charles I, whose brother Sir Toby was another Royalist, and grandfather of Penelope Hatton Wolrich, who married her 2nd cousin Tobias and was mother of the SCI member. Lady Hewley who was born a Wolrich, married an ardent parliamentarian, which would explain how Thomas Wolrich came to be a Presbyterian from a Royalist family / Tobias Wolrich bach of Leeds age 24 = St Martin i t Fields 22.10.1713 Penelope Wolrich of Kingston, Surrey age 22. Their son Thomas born 1719 according to an Ancestry user-submitted tree / Penelope Hatton Wolrich bur 21.1.1763 Leeds age 76 / Thomas Wolrich merchant of Leeds = Rochdale St Chad, Lancs 18.4.1754 Peggy Hamer of Hamer sp by lic wits Hatton Wolrich, Saml Hallows Hamer, James Hamer, Saml & Josiah Oates / Thomas Wolrich subscr 1772 to Joseph Priestley On Vision as did his uncle Hatton Wolrich / Public Advertiser 29.11.1776 David Stansfield of Hope House nr Halifax =14.11.1776 the only daughter of Thomas Wolrich Esq merchant in Leeds (Sarah Stansfield died 1824, Thomas Wolrich left no sons) / James Bischoff (DNB 1775-1845) in 1802 "married Margaret, the daughter of David Stansfeld, a prosperous Leeds cloth merchant. Her maternal grandfather, Thomas Wolrich, another leading merchant in the town, had collected a notable series of statistics relating to the cloth industry in the early 1770s." / London Packet 4.10.1780 Thomas Wolrich Leeds "associator" / Bailey's Directory 1781, 1784 Wolrich & Stansfield merchants Quebec, Leeds / West Yorkshire Archives, Leeds WYL230/2660 Thomas Wolrich of Armley House Esq / Whitehall Evening Post 30.7.1789 on 16th inst died wife of Thomas Wolrich of Armley House, Leeds / Leeds Mill Hill Presbyterian Chapel buried (late in 1790?) Thomas Wolrich of Armley Lane died of "disorder in bladder" / Leeds directory 1800 Mrs Wolrich, Quebec (widow of his uncle Hatton?)