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Albany WALLIS

- 3rd Sep 18005

Life History

14th Aug 1722

Baptised in Knaresdale.1

Father - James Wallis
Mother - Ann

23rd Jun 1750

Career in Inner Temple.2

Admitted
Second son of James Wallis of Knaresdale.

1st Nov 1751

Mentioned in Will.3

of James Wallis
"Item I give my son Albany Wallis the sum of one pound and one shilling to be paid him by my Executors when so ever he shall think fit to demand the same"

9th Apr 1760

Licence obtained for marriage to Elizabeth VAUGHAN.8

"Know all Men by these Presents, That We Albany Wallis of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex Gentleman are hereby become bound unto the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas by divine Permission lord bishop of London in the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to him the said Right Reverend Father in God, or his lawful Attorney, Executors, Successors or Assigns : For the good and faithful Payment of which Sum, we do bind ourselves, and both of us, jointly and severally, for the whole, our heirs, Executors and Administrators, firmly by these Presents, Sealed with our Seals, Dated the ninth Day of April in the Year of Our Lord 1760
The Condition of this Obligation is such, That if hereafter there shall not appear any lawful Let of Impediment, by Reason of any Pre-Contact, entered into before the Twenty-fifth Day of March 1754, Consanguinity, Affinity, or any other lawful Means whatsoever ;  but that the above boundon Albany Wallis Bachelor and Elizabeth Vaughan Spinster may lawfully solemnize Marriage together, and in the same afterwards lawfully remain and continue Man and Wife, according to the Laws in that Behalf provided : And moreover, if there be not at this present Time any Action, Suit, Plaint, Quarrel, or Demand, moved or depending before any Judge, Ecclesiastical or Temporal, for or concerning any such lawful Impediment between the said Parties : Nor that either of them be of any other Parish or Place, not of any better Estate or Degree, than to the Judge at granting of the licence is suggested and by him sworn.
And lastly, if the said Marriage shall be openly solemnized in the church or Chapel in the licence specified, between the hours appointed in Constitutions Ecclesiastical confirmed, and according to the Form of the book of Common Prayer, now by Law established, and the above bounden Albany Wallis save harmless and kepp indemnified, the above mentioned Right Reverend father in God, his Chancellor and Surrogates, and all other his Officers and ministers whatsoever. by reason of the Premises ; then this Obligation to be void, or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
(Signed) Albany Wallis
Sealed and Delivered
in the Presence of
H S Andrews"

26th Apr 1760

Married Elizabeth VAUGHAN in Westminster, St Clement Danes.11,12

From the Parish Register :-
"Albany Wallis of this Parish, Batchelor, and Elizabeth Vaughan  of this Parish, Spinster, were Married in the church by licence this twenty sixth Day of April in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred and sixty by me Richard Stainsby Jun. Assistant Curate.
This Marriage was solemnized between Us :-
Albany Wallis
Eliz Vaughan
In the Presence of :-
Charles Wormington
Mary Kirk"

20th Jun 1762

Birth of son Albany Charles WALLIS.10

20th Mar 1776

Death of son Albany Charles WALLIS in Westminster Abbey, East Cloister.9,6

14th Feb 1800

Wrote will.4

1) This is the last will
2) and testament of me Albany Wallis of Norfolk Street
3) and I make the following devises and bequests to Thomas
4) Baxter my brother in law the messuage tenements
5) and lands called the Town Green in the parish of
6) Knaresdale in Northumberland for his life and after
7) his decease I give the same to Mary Blake of
8) Brompton her heirs and assignees to Mary Gordon
9) of ... ... ...
10) ... ... ...

Some names mentioned :-
1) Jane Johnson
2) Ann Lloyd
3) Charles Hamilton
4) Dame Ann Bayley
5) Lieut. Colonel Lewis Bayley


3rd Sep 1800

Died.5

8th Sep 1800

Probate in Prerogative Court of Canterbury.4

Joint Executors :-
Lewis Bayley
Dame Ann Bayley, widow
Richard Howard

10th Sep 1800

Buried in Westminster Abbey, East Cloister.5,6

"Albany Wallis, Esq.; died the 3rd, aged 86; in the East Cloister"

From the Harleian Society :-
"An eminent solicitor in Norfolk Street, Strand. He appears to have been admitted to the Inner Temple 23 June 1750, as the second son of James Wallis, of Knaresdale, co. Northumberland, Gent. He was an intimate friend of Garrick, and erected the monument to his memory in the Abbey. ..."

31st Mar 1817

Mentioned in Codicil to Will.7

Second codicil of Mary Blake
Described as :-
"under the will of my late uncle Albany Wallis"

Notes

  • From the Westminster Abbey website :-

    "Albany Wallis, eminent solicitor of Norfolk Street in the Strand, and his only son Albany Charles Wallis are buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey. The father was buried on 10 September 1800, aged 86. He was apparently a son of James Wallis of Knaresdale in Northumberland. As a close friend of the actor David Garrick he put up the monument in the south transept where Garrick is buried. Garrick had commissioned a memorial tablet in 1777 to Albany's drowned son. This marble tablet has a shaped top enclosing a heraldic cartouche and palm leaves with a relief of books below. The Latin inscription can be translated.

    "Below here was buried amidst the unfeigned tears of his fellow pupils, Albany Charles Wallis, sole hope of his most devoted father. Too greatly, alas, enthralled by the forbidden allurements of the Thames river he was carried away by its wild force and perished on the 29th day of March 1776, aged 13. Stay, young man, and contemplate his end"

    Albany Charles entered Westminster School in 1770 and was a chorister at the Abbey. His mother was Elizabeth (Vaughan). Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his portrait."13

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