Mary Tilbury of Norwich
(18thC sugar-cask...) |
Daughter of Thomas, she married Samuel Barker, wine & brandy merchant
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- Thomas TILBURY, d. before 17 March 1789
- 2. Sarah TILBURY Chr. 17 February 1765 St. Stephen, Norwich
- 2. Sarah TILBURY Chr. 25 May 1766 St. Stephen, Norwich
- 2. Thomas TILBURY Chr. 11 October 1767 St. Stephen, Norwich
- d. before 26 November 1833
- 2. Robert TILBURY b. 17, Chr. 30, April 1769 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 2. William TILBURY b. 1, Chr. 20, May 1770 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 2. Mary TILBURY b. 6, Chr. 23, August 1772 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- m. Samuel BARKER 3 April 1804 St. Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk
- 3. Hannah BARKER Chr. 22 April 1805 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. Thomas BARKER Chr. 16 March 1806 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. Susanna Dade BARKER Chr. 17 March 1807 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. William BARKER Chr. 10 July 1808 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. Hannah BARKER Chr. 24 December 1809 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. Marianne BARKER b. 7, Chr. 10[15], February 1811 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. William BARKER Chr. 23 June 1812 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. Henry BARKER b. 8, Chr. 11, April 1815 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 3. Thomas BARKER Chr. 16 March 1806 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
- 2. Sarah TILBURY Chr. 25 May 1766 St. Stephen, Norwich
m. Mary [--]
Mary's marriage, Samuel & Mary's children: from the IGI.
Part of the above family tree is drawn from these documents:
1789, 17 March
Extract from the Will of the late Thomas TILBURY of Norwich, deceased (ref.N/TC/D51/4 296x2).
Norwich City Council, Town Clerk's Deeds (St. Peter Mancroft)
No. 3 Bethel Street, Norwich
1804, 21 September
Release and Declaration of use of a messuage shop in the parish of St. Peters of Mancroft, Norwich (ref.N/TC/D51/5 296x2):
James HUDSON of Norwich, banker
William TILBURY of London, druggist
Samuel BARKER of Norwich, wine & brandy merchant, & Mary his wife
to:
- Thomas TILBURY of Bedford Row in Middlesex, gent.
Above documents are available at the Norfolk Record Office
When the above transaction took place, Mary TILBURY was about 32 years old, and had been married only a few months. The first child - at least, of whom there is trace so far - was Hannah, born in April 1805.
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There are no obvious descendants of Samuel & Mary BARKER's children to date (from online material - the Norfolk Transcription Archive has few entries for St. Peter Mancroft), but this MIGHT possibly have been their son William (although BARKER is a frequent name).
William BARKER b. c.1812
on marriage: 'Of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich'
m. Mary COOK 10 December 1835 St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
[It would be good to hear from a member of this family - C.]
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In Wine & Brandy
From volume III of
"A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain"
by William Withering, M.D., F.R.S., 1776.
"MONOGYNIA - PRUNUS (Calyx: 5-cleft; beneath: petals 5; drupa: 1-celled, closed at the top; nut with projecting seams). ...
Var. Bird's Cherry / Wild Cluster Cherry
[Grows in] ... woods in Norfolk, common."
- "It grows well in woods, groves, or fields, but not in a moist soil. It bears lopping, and suffers the grass to grow under it. The fruit is nauseous: but bruised, and infused in wine or brandy, it gives it an agreeable flavour. ..." from S. May.
4th publication 1801 as "A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants" revised by William Withering (Cadell & Davies & Robinson, Wynne & Scholey, Walker, Cuthell & Wallis) [Google Books Online].
From volume II of
"Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, & 1789"
by Arthur Young, published 1794
VINES (pages 21-23):
- "net profit from 7 to 10 per cent." [from cultivation of vines in France at] "even so little as [produces] 7l. per acre ... still more than sugar pays in the West Indies, which is usually suppposed to be the most profitable cultivation in the world."
- "If agriculture, in England, yield 15 per cent. and landed property three, throw the two together, and the mean is not more that 5 1/2 or 6" ... "It is this large annual product which in the vine provinces gives bread to such numbers of people; beside the direct object of common labour, which amounts ... to 2L;12s.6d. per acre ... there is the trade of casks, which, independent of the employment of coopers, gives a value to the woods of a country, as well as an activity to foreign commerce, by the import of staves and hoops. The props have the same effect as our hop-poles, and render willow plantations, as well as common under-woods, much more valuable than they would be otherwise."
- [the cultivation of vines is] "indiscriminately" [on good and bad soil, situations]. "There are two reasons wby vines are so often found in rich plains; the first is the export of wheat being either prohibited, or allowed with such irregularity, that the farmer is never sure of a price: but the export of wine and brandy has never been stopped for a moment. The effect of such contrast in policy must have been considerable, and I saw its influence in every part of France, by the new vineyards already planted, or begun to be planted, on corn lands, while the people were starving for want of bread; of such consequence, in the encouragement of any culture, is a steady unvarying policy! The fact is the more striking in France, because the vine culture is very much burthened in taxation; but, always possessing a free trade, it thrives. The second reason is, that the culture of this plant is much better understood in France that that of corn. An advantageous rotation of crops, and that arrangement of a farm which makes cattle necessary to corn, and corn necessary to cattle, on which the profit of arable land so much depends, is what the French have hardly an idea of. ... But their vineyards are gardens; the turnips of Norfolk, the carrots of Suffolk, the beans of Kent, and the cabbages of an English gentleman, are not so clean as the vines of France, while the whole oeconomy of the plant is perfectly understood, both in theory and practice."
- "If agriculture, in England, yield 15 per cent. and landed property three, throw the two together, and the mean is not more that 5 1/2 or 6" ... "It is this large annual product which in the vine provinces gives bread to such numbers of people; beside the direct object of common labour, which amounts ... to 2L;12s.6d. per acre ... there is the trade of casks, which, independent of the employment of coopers, gives a value to the woods of a country, as well as an activity to foreign commerce, by the import of staves and hoops. The props have the same effect as our hop-poles, and render willow plantations, as well as common under-woods, much more valuable than they would be otherwise."
Printed at Bury St. Edmund's by J. Rackham, for W. Richardson, London [Google Books Online].
From
"Salad for the Solitary"
by Frederick Saunders, 1853
"The following admonitory voice from a tomb in Thetford churchyard, Norfolk, will at least be perused with interest by the advocates of the temperance cause:"
- "My grandfather lies buried here,
- My cousin Jane, and two uncles dear;
- My father perished with an inflammation in his eyes,
- My sister dropt down dead in the Minories;
- But the reason why I'm here interred, according to my thinking,
- Is owing to my good living and hard drinking!
- Therefore, good people, if you wish to live long,
- Don't drink too much wine, brandy, gin, or anything strong."
- My cousin Jane, and two uncles dear;
Published by Lamport, Blakeman & Law [Google Books Online].