The Death of Richard Wombwell

Maria West's husband, Richard Wombwell, died in 1833 and his burial was duly listed in the Stoke Newington, St. Mary burial records:

His age was given as sixty-eight, suggesting that he was born around 1765. As noted earlier though, such records can be treated as approximations at best. The problem with Richard Wombwell has always been placing him in the extended Wombwell family tree, and thereby establishing his exact relationship with George Wombwell senior and junior, respectively, and with his next door neighbour, Zacharias Wombwell, who, as we already know, was the younger brother of the older George Wombwell. The only available way to do this has been to find the baptism records of a Richard Wombwell in Essex, born in this period, and without an extant tree. The ancestors of Richard Wombwell are thus suggested by default, rather than by any direct, confirmatory evidence. On the positive side however, there would only appear to be one candidate for the position in the very well-researched Wombwell trees of Essex.