Born

Date calculated from age at death

Licence obtained for marriage to Charles WELSTEAD in Faculty Office.6

Married Charles WELSTEAD in Wormley.11,12

From the Parish Register .-
"Charles Welstead Esq. of this Parish Bachelor and Sophia Porter of the Parish of Enfield in the County of Middlesex Spinster were Married in this Church by Licence this sixth Day of March in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred and ninety eight by me Berd. Franken (Rector)
This Marriage was solemnized between us :-
Charles Welstead, Sophia Porter
In the Presence of :-
George Porter
A M  Porter"

Death of Charles WELSTEAD.7,8,9,10

Wrote will.1

1) This is the last will and testament
2) of me Sophia Welstead of Park Street Grovesnor Square in the County
3) of Middlesex Widow and Relic of Charles Welstead late of Valentines in
4) the County of Essex Esquire ... ...

Some names mentioned :-
1) Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol
2) George Porter
3) Charles Porter
4) William Merry
5) my nephew Edward Robert Porter
6) my niece Sophia Jane Methold the wife of Henry Methold of Rothingham Terrace in the county of Middlesex
7) Mrs Marianne Elizabeth Porter of Coral Cottage Chelmsford
8) Anna Maria Georgiana Porter the wife of Edward Robert Porter
9) Isabel Eliza Porter the wife of my nephew Thomas Porter
10) Maria Elizabeth Porter the wife of Robert Tindal Porter
11) my sister in law Elizabeth Evitt
12) my brother in law Thomas Evitt
13) to his (Thomas Evitt) children Thomas Augustus Evitt Georgina Elizabeth Holt and Sophia Wlstead Evitt
14) Mrs Catherine ???
15) to her sisters Miss Ann Martin Christiana Sophia Simpson Georgina Martin and Marianne Martin
16) Mary Sparks
17) Henry Merhold
18) William Smith
19) Thomas Morgan Gepp of Chelmsford
20) my friend Philip Barrett Cooper of Henley on Thames
21) James Cooper of Waterloo Place Silk Mercer
22) Mrs Susanna Terry the wife of Charles Terry
23) my nephew John Fortesque Porter
24) Mary Olivia Porter  the daughter of the said Edward Robert Porter
25) her sister Constance Anna Porter
26) Charles Edward Porter the son of the said Edward Robert Porter
27) Marianne Elizabeth Porter
28) Maria Elizabeth Porter the wife of the said Robert Tindall Porter
29) Arthur Thomas Porter son the said Thomas Porter
30) Richard ?? Porter
31) Willoughby Porter
32) Thomas Tindall Merhold
33) to my kind friend Mrs Susanna Terry (...) also my diamond cluster ring left to me by her Aunt Deane.

Recorded in census in St George Hanover Square (Park Street).2

Sophia Welstead - 65 - Ind.
Susanna Terry - 45 - Ind
Staff x 2

Codicil to Will.1

Names mentioned :-
Philip Barrett Cooper
James Cooper
Susanna Terry

Died in St George Hanover Square.3,4,5

From the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal :-
"In Park-street, Grovsvenor-square, in the 75th year of her age, Mrs. Welstead, relict of the late Charles Welstead, Esq., of Valentines, Essex."

From the London Daily News :-
"WELSTEAD.  May 28, at 126, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, Sophia, widow of the late C. Welstead, Esq., Valentines Essex"

Probate.1

Executors :-
Thomas Morgan Gepp
Thomas Porter
Philip Barrett Cooper