Francis Wight Lea Wilson

Marriage record from January 1774 states she was upwards of twenty one years of age and from St Olave, Southwark, Surrey. Probably died 1834 Beckenham, Kent, giving birth year of 1754 — Kent Burials.

Her daughter’s baptism shows her father to have been Delabere, and his will kindly suppplied to me by a descendant shows the Delabere in question was the Rev Delabere Pritchett subchanter of St David’s Cathedral in Pembrokeshire.

Richard Lea paid £200 for marriage to Mary Pritchett in 1774, record shows he was “upwards” of 26 years.

This from http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=536&p=surnames.lea and needs to be investigated further

IGI gives above birth date and baptism a month after on 7th January

This from http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=536&p=surnames.lea and needs to be investigated further

Attached obituary shows the Colonel was son of John Wilson and Elizabeth Wyght

Marriage confirmed on IGI. Samuel was Lord Mayor of London in 1838

Wilson, Colonel Samuel (1792-1881)

Lord Mayor was born on an uncertain date in 1792 and married in 1813. His father, John Wilson, was a farmer of Stenson, Derbyshire. Wilson served in many capacities: magistrate in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Middlesex, Commander of the East London militia and Colonel in the Royal London militia from 1854 to 1878. As a Whig, he was a member of the Weavers’ Company, Alderman of Castle Baynard from 1831 and in Bridge Without from 1853 to 1871, Sheriff 1833-34 and Lord Mayor 1838-39. After living for many years in Kemptown, Brighton, he died in his ninetieth year at The Ceders, Beckenham Kent, 7 July 1881.

http://www.london-city-history.org.uk/biography.htm

Baptised 2nd Oct 1815, IGI.

The last squire of Beckenham.

“When we talk of The Village we naturally think of the High Street as the centre of village life, with tradesmen, shops and public houses serving the Manor Houses and Estates and the workers on those estates. The central figure was the Village Squire, the last of whom in Beckenham was Cornelius Lea Wilson, who died at Village Place in December 1911 at the age of 96.”

Baptised 30th April 1818, IGI