Walter Mayers

Events

Date of Birth: about 1714

Walter’s burial record gives his age at death as 87.

Date of Burial: 8 November 1801.

Place of Burial: Worcester, Worcestershire, England (St Clement’s).

The burial is recorded in the parish register.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Ann Davis. Married 26 January 1746/7 in Worcester (All Saints’).

The marriage is given in the parish register. Ann was buried 6 May 1756 at St Clement, Worcester.

Spouse: Margaret Clarke. Married 29 March 1758 in Worcester (St Clement’s).

The marriage is recorded in the parish register.

Children (by Ann Davis):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Elizabeth Mayers (baptized 15 November 1747 at Worcester All Saints’).

Ann Mayers (baptized 1 October 1749 at Worcester All Saints’).

Mary Mayers (baptized 11 January 1750/1 at Worcester St Clement’s).

Walter Mayers (baptized 9 August 1752 at Worcester St Clement’s - died 5 November 1825 in Iver, near Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire) married Mary Price 26 November 1780 in Gloucester.

Ann Mayers (baptized 17 June 1754 at Worcester All Saints’).

Children (by Margaret Clarke):

William Mayers (baptized 30 March 1759 at Worcester St Clement’s) married Mary Strickland 17 September 1782 in Martley, Worcestershire.

John Mayers (baptized 23 November 1761 at Worcester St Clement’s - buried 19 January 1830 at Worcester St Nicholas’s) married (1) Hannah Jenkins 12 February 1784 in Worcester. Married (2) Arabella. John was apprenticed as a tailor in Worcester in 1776.

Thomas Mayers (baptized 23 November 1761 at Worcester St Clement’s - buried 5 May 1839 at St Luke's, Finsbury, Islington, Middlesex) married Ann. Thomas was a master tailor in Worcester in 1803.

Samuel Mayers (baptized 18 July 1764 at Worcester St Clement’s - buried 26 July 1829 at Claines, Worcestershire, St John the Baptist) married Ann Pardoe 6 April 1795 at Worcester St Peter the Great.

Joseph Mayers (baptized 18 July 1764 at Worcester St Clement’s) married Ann. Joseph was apprenticed as a cordwainer in Worcester in 1780.

Evidence

All Saints, Worcester, register:

Baptisms:

[1747 November] 15.^th Elizabeth Daughter of Walter and Anne Mayers.

[1749 October] 1.^st Anne daughter of Walter and Anne Mayers

[1754 June] 17.^th Anne daughter of Walter and Anne Mayers.

St Clements, Worcester, register:

Baptisms:

[1752] Walter of Walter & Ann Mayers was baptized August 9th

Banns of Marriage Walter Mayers of this Parish a Widower and Margaret Clarke of this Parish a Spinster were Married in this Church by Licence this 29th Day of March in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and fifty eight. by me Edward Taylor Minister

This Marriage was solemnized between Us Walter Mayers Margaret Clark

In the Presence of Nath.^l Bond Geo. Hook

Baptisms:

[1759] William son of Walter & Margaret Mayers [March 30]

[1761] John & Thomas Sons of Walter & Margaret Mayers Nov: 23.^d

[1764] Joseph & Samuel Sons of Walter & Margarett Mayers 18:^th

Funerals:

[1801] Nov.^r 8,^th Walter Mayers (aged 87 Years)

[1812 March] 4. Margaret Mayers. aet. 81.

from Berrow’s Worcester Journal (May 1772)

WALTER MAYERS, in Turkey-Street, near Severn Bridge, Worcester, Shopkeeper, begs Leave to acquaint the Public in general, that he has bought the Utensils belonging to the late Mr. Josiah Burton, of the Foregate-Street, deceased, for the Use of distilling Herbs and Flowers; whoever therefore please to have their Herbs or Flowers distilled, may depend on their being done with the utmost Care and Punctuality, and by the same Method Mr. Burton used; and those who like to buy such Waters ready prepared, may be served on the lowest Prices, and of the best Quality. Any one that chuse to sell their Herbs or Flowers, will be paid the Worth of them, by their humble Servant, WALTER MAYERS

from The Universal British Directory 1793-1798 (under "Principal Inhabitants of Worcester, traders"):

Mayers, Walter, shopkeeper, Turkey

Land tax redemption, 1798 and 1802:

(late) Walter Mayers is listed occupying property in St Clement Ward, Worcester, assessed at one pound one shilling.

References

Worcester St Clement’s, parish registers, FHL film 376937, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Worcester All Saints’, parish registers, FHL film 354328, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Berrow’s Worcester Journal (May 1772). Transcribed by Richard Heaton at his Family History Homepage. URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/index.html (accessed 18 April 2014).

UK, Land Tax Redemption, 1798. Digital images on Ancestry.com, accessed 5 January 2018.