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William Vertue

(born 7 Nov 1798 Lowestoft, Suffolk)

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Paternal grandmother: Sarah Ralph (born 22.2.1733 died 1811 )  

married 27 Apr 1761 St Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk

Paternal grandfather: John Vertue (born 24.2.1736 East Bergholt, Suffolk )   View NotesHide notes  

Baptised 23 Mar 1736, familysearch - also gives birth date.

John Vertue would have been 40 when John Constable was born in his birthplace. Attached pictures of East Bergholt by Constable.

“John Constable was born in East Bergholt, a village on the River Stour in Suffolk, to Golding and Ann Constable. His father was a wealthy corn merchant, owner of Flatford Mill in East Bergholt and, later, Dedham Mill. Golding Constable also owned his own small ship, The Telegraph, which he moored at Mistley on the Stour estuary and used to transport corn to London. Although Constable was his parents' second son, his older brother was mentally handicapped and so John was expected to succeed his father in the business, and after a brief period at a boarding school in Lavenham, he was enrolled in a day school in Dedham. Constable worked in the corn business after leaving school, but his younger brother Abram eventually took over the running of the mills.”

“...Constable adopted a routine of spending the winter in London and painting at East Bergholt in the summer. And in 1811 he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose Cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings.

“From 1809 onwards, his childhood friendship with Maria Bicknell developed into a deep, mutual love. But their engagement in 1816 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr Rhudde, Rector of East Bergholt, who considered the Constables his social inferiors and threatened Maria with disinheritance.

“...Constable painted several oil sketches of the view towards East Bergholt Rectory, showing the fields where he walked with his beloved Maria Bicknell. He painted this lively impression of the rising sun glowing over and through the fields from an upper floor window at the back of his family home. His response to the scene is expressed through energetic brushstrokes and the use of intense reds and greens - the expanded chromatic range that Constable was using in his oil sketches at this time.

“Constable's description of East Bergholt appeared in the letterpress to the second edition of Lucas-Constable mezzotints, English Landscape:

“East Bergholt, or as its Saxon derivation implies, 'Wooded Hill', is thus mentioned in 'The Beauties of England and Wales' … It is pleasantly situated in the most cultivated part of Suffolk, on a spot which overlooks the fertile valley of the Stour, which river divides that county on the south from Essex.

“The beauty of the surrounding scenery, the gentle declivities, the luxuriant meadow flats sprinkled with flocks and herds, and well cultivated uplands, the woods and rivers, the numerous scattered villages and churches, with farms and picturesque cottages, all impart to this particular spot an amenity and elegance hardly anywhere else to be found.”

http://hoocher.com/John_Constable/John_Constable.htm

 

Mother: Susanna Critten (born 1772)  

married 19 Dec 1793 Southwold, Suffolk

Father John Ralph Vertue (born 22 Jan 1767 Woodbridge, Suffolk)   View NotesHide notes  

See also tree at Also, see tree at http://awt.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cyanda1&id=I2514&ti=5538


Sister: Susannah Stewart Vertue (born 12.3.1795 Southwold, Suffolk )   View NotesHide notes  

Source IGI

Independent baptism record image found on FMP

Brother: John Ralph Vertue (born 17.8.1796 died 28.6.1844 )   View NotesHide notes 3 children  

John was a painter and died from inflammation of the lungs. See death certificate at: http://suepeggram.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=suepeggram&view=26&ver=2702&id=3008155

His son’s baptism record shows that he was living at White Chapel Road, Lambeth in 1827 and confirms he was a painter.

John Ralph and his brother William both married on the same day in 1821, witnessing each others weddings. See attached marriage record. Joanna was a widow.

Wife: Joanna Emberson (born 1789 )   View NotesHide notes  

Joanna ??? was a widow by the time she married John Vertue in 1821, see marriage certificate

Daughter: Susanna Stewart Vertue (born 1822 )   View NotesHide notes  

Baptised 23rd June 1822 St Mary’s Lambeth, according to FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings.

Could also be Susanna Stewart Vertue

Daughter: Ann Vertue (born 1824 )   View NotesHide notes  

Baptised 31st July 1824, St Mary’s Lambeth - IGI.

Married Benjamin Daniels, father James according to marriage record.

Son: John Ralph Vertue (born 9.12.1826 )   View NotesHide notes  

IGI has a John Vertue born 9th December 1826, baptised 21st January 1827, mother Hannah at Sion Chapel-Union Street Lady Huntingdons-Nc, Mile End Old Town. However, seems unlikely to be John Ralph. Attached image is much more certain, Saint Mary's Lambeth, coincidentally only 2 days before.

Brother: Edward Vertue (born 7.11.1801 Suffolk )   View NotesHide notes  

Source - family tree at http://awt.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=cyanda1&id=I11033&ti=5538, not found on IGI/FamilySearch.org

Sister: Sarah Vertue (born 25.5.1804 Southwold, Suffolk died 1804 Southwold, Suffolk)   View NotesHide notes  

Source IGI


Wife: Amy Moore (born abt 1795 ) married 20.9.1821 Lambeth, Surrey  

Daughter: Charlotte Vertue (born 1823 Flushing, The Netherlands ) 6 children  

Husband: Jacob Davis (born 1818 Wadesdon, Buckinghamshire )  

Son: William Davis (born 1841 Kent )  

Daughter: Amy Davis (born 1844 Kent died 1877 St Olave, Southwark)  

Son: John Davis (born 1846 Kent )  

Son: George Davis (born 1849 Kent )  

Daughter: Louisa Davis (born 1851 Kent )  

Son: James Davis (born 1854 Dartford, Kent )  

Daughter: Susanna Vertue (born 1832 Hull )  


William Vertue Notes:

"William was indicted for stealing on the 30th October, 1841 one telescope, value three shillings, the goods of George Baker to which he pleaded guilty. So, on the 29th November 1841, William was sentenced to 7 days in jail for larceny at the Central Criminal Court of Middlesex, he was 43." - http://suepeggram.tribalpages.com



Will of Sarah
Vertue (née Ralph), 1811. Page 1
Baptism of John
Ralph Vertue in 1827 - rather faded, but showin...
John Vertue 15
Sep 1861 burial, was living Crown Hill
The will of
William King Byles, 1811, page 1
The will of
William King Byles, 1811, page 2
The will of
William King Byles, 1811, page 3
The will of
William King Byles, 1811, page 4
The will of
William King Byles, 1811, page 5 - proved December ...
John Constable,
East Bergholt Church: part of the west end seen...
East Bergholt
Rectory by John Constable, 1810. In the Philadelp...
East Bergholt
Church by John Constable in 1810
A Church Porch
by John Constable “This view of the church in ...
A Hayfield at
East Bergolt, 1812 by John Constable.
Baptism 25th
September 1836 of a John Vertue to Hannah and Will...
Will of Sarah
Vertue, page 2

Census records (6):

1841 17 Rural Place, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex
  
Vertue William Head M 43 1798 Mariner Not Middlesex 2459
Vertue Amy F 44 1797 Not Middlesex 2679
Davis Jacob M 23 1818 Labourer Not Middlesex 2681
Davis Charlotte F 18 1823 Not Middlesex 2682
Vertue Susannah F 8 1833 Not Middlesex 2680

1841 Vine Court, Whitechapel, London
  
Vertue John 45 1796 Painter 2458
Vertue Joanna 52 1789 2465

1851 11 China Place, Back Road, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex
  
Vertue William Head Married M 54 1797 Mariner 2459
Vertue Amy Wife Married F 52 1799 Boot Binder Marylebone, Middlesex 2679
Vertue Susanna Daughter Single F 19 1832 Boot Binder Hull 2680

1851 An address in North Aylesford, Kent, Kent
  
Davis Jacob Head Married M 32 1819 Buckinghamshire 2681
Davis Charlotte Wife Married F 27 1824 2682
Davis William Son M 10 1841 Scholar Kent 2683
Davis Amey Daughter F 7 1844 Kent 2684
Davis John Son M 5 1846 Kent 2685
Davis George Son M 2 1849 Kent 2686
Davis Louisa Daughter F 0 1851 Kent 2687

1871 An Address in Woolwich, Kent
  
Lambkin Henry Head Married M 28 1843 2689
Lambkin Amy Wife Married F 27 1844 2684
Lambkin Charlotte L Daughter F 1 1870 2690

1881 89, Overy St, Dartford, Kent
  
Davis Jacob Head Married M 61 1820 Plate Layer On Railway Wadesdon, Buckinghamshire 2681
Davis Charlotte Wife Married F 56 1825 Flushing (B. S.), The Netherlan 2682
Davis James Son Single M 27 1854 Plate Layer On Railway Dartford, Kent 2688
Lamkins Charlotte Grand Daughter Single F 11 1870 Scholar Dartford, Kent 2690