See also
| Husband: | Richard Attfield (1787-1849) | |
| Wife: | Louisa Cooke (c. 1796-1871) | |
| Children: | Mary Attfield (1815-1904) | |
| James Attfield (1817-1847) | ||
| Martha Attfield (1819-1871) | ||
| Ann Attfield (1821-1822) | ||
| Elizabeth Attfield (1822-1855) | ||
| Harriet Attfield (1824-1856) | ||
| William Attfield (1826-1827) | ||
| Louisa Attfield (1827-1906) | ||
| Fanny Attfield (1829-1868) | ||
| John Sutton Attfield (1832-1905) | ||
| Marriage | 3 Nov 1814 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Name: | Richard Attfield | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | William Attfield (c. 1760-1808) | |
| Mother: | Mary Roake (1766-1831) | |
| Birth | 1787 | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Baptism | 19 Jul 1787 (age 0) | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Occupation | 5 Jun 1802 (age 14-15) | Apprenticed to John Heppel of Wigmore St, Upholsterer (see notes) |
| Will | 31 Oct 1807 (age 19-20) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Occupation | 21 Sep 1815 (age 27-28) | Upholsterer, Lower Brook Street |
| Will | 7 Jun 1824 (age 36-37) | Mentioned in mother's will |
| Occupation | 1829 (age 41-42) | Tratt & Attfield, Upholsterers, 19 Lower Brook Street (London PO Directory, 1829) |
| Will | 21 Mar 1831 (age 43-44) | Executor to mother's will |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 59-60) | Proved 2.6.1849 |
| Occupation | 1847 (age 59-60) | Upholsterer |
| Occupation | Land agent (on John Sutton Attfield's marriage cert, 1867) | |
| Residence | 1847 (age 59-60) | Lower Brook St, Grosvenor Square, and No.19 Canterbury Villa, Maida Vale, Middlesex |
| Death fact | 1849 (age 61-62) | 1849 Jun Qtr, Kensington, 3/261 |
| Death | 18 Apr 1849 (age 61-62) | Kensington, Middlesex |
| Burial | 25 Apr 1849 | All Souls Cemetery, Kensal Green (aged 61) |
| Name: | Louisa Cooke | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 1796 | Greenwich, Kent |
| Census | 1851 (age 54-55) | Annuitant, 2 Clifton Road, Marylebone (widow) |
| Census | 1861 (age 64-65) | Gentlewoman, Great Stanmore, Middlesex |
| Census | 1871 (age 74-75) | Fund holder, High Street, Great Stanmore, Middlesex |
| Death fact | 1871 (age 74-75) | 1871 Sep Qtr, Hendon, 3a/83 (aged 76) |
| Death | 4 Sep 1871 (age 74-75) | Great Stanmore, Middlesex |
| Burial | 9 Sep 1871 | Saint John The Evangelist, Great Stanmore (aged 76) |
| Will | 10 Oct 1872 (age 75-76) | Admin to John Sutton Attfield (under £1000) |
| Name: | Mary Attfield | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 13 Aug 1815 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 21 Sep 1815 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 31) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Census | 1851 (age 35-36) | Living with mother |
| Census | btw 1861 and 1871 (age 45-56) | Unmarried, living with mother |
| Census | 1881 (age 65-66) | Visitor to Dermott Ayling, 2 Cathcart Rd, Beddington, Surrey (unmarried) |
| Census | 1891 (age 75-76) | Living on own means, boarder, Hastings (unmarried) |
| Death fact | 1904 (age 88-89) | 1904 Dec Qtr, Hastings, 2b/14 (aged 89) |
| Death | 7 Dec 1904 (age 89) | Hastings, Sussex |
| Name: | James Attfield | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 23 Sep 1817 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 20 Oct 1817 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Census | 1841 (age 23-24) | Possibly staying with uncle James & Harriet Attfield, Kingston |
| Death fact | 1847 (age 29-30) | 1847 Dec Qtr, Kensington, 3/334 |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 29) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Death | 1847 (age 29-30) | Kensington, Middlesex |
| Burial | 25 Oct 1847 | All Souls Cemetery, Kensal Green (aged 30) |
| Death fact | 1848 (age 30-31) | Mentioned in codicil to father's will |
| Name: | Martha Attfield | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1 Jul 1819 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 17 Oct 1819 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 27) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Census | 1851 (age 31-32) | Living with mother |
| Census | 1861 (age 41-42) | Unmarried, living with mother |
| Death fact | 1871 (age 51-52) | 1871 Mar Qtr, Hendon, 3a/85 (aged 51) |
| Death | 13 Jan 1871 (age 51) | Great Stanmore, Middlesex |
| Burial | 17 Jan 1871 | Saint John The Evangelist, Great Stanmore (aged 51) |
| Will | 10 Oct 1872 (age 53) | Executor: John Sutton Attfield, brother (under £2000) |
| Name: | Ann Attfield | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 22 Apr 1821 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 15 Nov 1821 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Death | 1822 (age 0-1) | Lower Brook Street, Westminster |
| Burial | 10 Nov 1822 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster (aged 18 months) |
| Name: | Elizabeth Attfield | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse 1: | Francis Henry Ball (c. 1818-1844) | |
| Spouse 2: | Joseph Jopling (1818-1904) | |
| Birth | 17 Jul 1822 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 4 Dec 1822 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 24) | Mentioned in father's will (Elizabeth Ball, widow) |
| Death | 1 Dec 1855 (age 33) | Florence, Italy |
| Name: | Harriet Attfield | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 16 Jul 1824 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 28 Sep 1824 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 22) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Census | 1851 (age 26-27) | Living with mother |
| Death fact | 1856 (age 31-32) | 1856 Mar Q, Marylebone, 1a/340 |
| Death | 21 Mar 1856 (age 31) | 18 Carlton Hill, St Johns Wood, Middlesex |
| Burial | 28 Mar 1856 | All Souls Cemetery, Kensal Green (aged 31) |
| Will | 10 Oct 1872 (age 48) | Admin (PR) to John Sutton Attfield, brother (under £800) |
| Name: | William Attfield | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 10 Jun 1826 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 30 Oct 1826 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Death | 1827 (age 0-1) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Burial | 24 Feb 1827 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster (aged 8 months) |
| Name: | Louisa Attfield | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Joseph Jopling (1818-1904) | |
| Birth | 9 Oct 1827 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 23 Nov 1827 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 19) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Census | 1851 (age 23-24) | Living with mother |
| Census | 1881 (age 53-54) | St David's Ward, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | 1906 (age 78-79) | 592 Church Street, York, Ontario |
| Death | 28 Dec 1906 (age 79) | York, Ontario, Canada |
| Name: | Fanny Attfield | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | James Jonathan Watson (1827-1910) | |
| Birth | 22 Oct 1829 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 20 May 1830 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 17) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Census | 1861 (age 31-32) | Married, living with mother in Great Stanmore (husband absent) |
| Death | 22 Jan 1868 (age 38) | 5 Trinity Square, Southwark, Surrey |
| Name: | John Sutton Attfield | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Rose Stewart Taylor (1845-1908) | |
| Birth | 29 Jan 1832 | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 24 Jun 1832 (age 0) | St George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex |
| Will | 1 Mar 1847 (age 15) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Census | 1851 (age 18-19) | Living with mother |
| Occupation | 1858 (age 25-26) | Engineer, Norbiton Cottage, Kingston upon Thames (executor to will of James Attfield, uncle) |
| Occupation | 1869 (age 36-37) | Civil engineer, Stanmore, Middlesex (on son Henry's birth cert.) |
| Census | 1871 (age 38-39) | Civil engineer, St Hugh's Road, Penge, Surrey |
| Occupation | 10 Oct 1872 (age 40) | Engineer, 1 Alcester Road, Wallington, Surrey (executor to will of sister Harriet) |
| Occupation | 1895 (age 62-63) | Civil engineer, Lahore, India (Thacker's Indian Directory, 1895) |
| Will | 2 Sep 1903 (age 71) | Date of will (see notes) |
| Death | 17 Jul 1905 (age 73) | Okara, Montgomery District, Punjab, India |
| Will | 20 Mar 1909 (age 77) | Probate, London Fol.330 to Andrew Mure Slight (£2276) |
Richard Attfield, apprenticed to John Heppel of Wigmore Streeet, Middlesex, Upholsterer, payment date 5 Jun 1802.
Ancestry.com. UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811
FILE - Policy register - ref. MS 11936/522 - date: 1829
item: [no title] - ref. MS 11936/522/1098495 - date: 18 November 1829
[from Scope and Content] Insured: Benjamin Tratt and Richard Attfield, 19 Lower Brook Street Grosvenor Square, cabinet makers and upholders
Records of Sun Fire Office, Guildhall Library
"...to my good friend Richard Attfield of Lower Brook Street Grosvenor Square in the County of Middlesex Upholder (sic) in testimony of the high sense I entertain of his amiable character as a husband father and friend..."
Will of James Sutton, 30 Jan 1830
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t18340220-125
FRANCIS FOSTER, theft : simple grand larceny, theft : simple grand larceny, 20th February, 1834.
Evidence of George Stone: I am a policeman - on Monday the 27th I apprehended him in Edden-street - I asked if his name was not Foster - he said it was - I asked if he had not taken a silver spoon to Smart's to sell - he said he had - I asked where he got it - he said he bought it from a Jew - I told him I had inquired of his master, and he had worked at the Duke of Sutherland's on the 8th of January - he said No, he was at work at home; that he worked for himself, and was his own master - I told him Mr. Attfield was his master - he is an upholsterer in Brook-street.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18340220-125-defend1254&div=t18340220-125#highlight
Information about Richard Attfield's business partner:
Benjamin Tratt marr. Eleanor Todd, 2.8.1834, St Marylebone
1841 census: Benjamin Tratt, upholsterer aged 60 & wife Eleanor aged 55, Duke St, St Geo Han Sq
1851 census: B Tratt, no occupation shown, aged 75 (born c1776) Arlington, Middx & wife Eleanor aged 70 (born c1781) Packingly, Worcestershire, 25 Duke St, St Geo Han Sq
Benjamin Tratt death: 1858 Sep Q, Marylebone, 1a/326
10 October 1872. Administration of the effects of Louisa Attfield late of Great Stanmore in the County of Middlesex Widow who died 4 September 1871 at Great Stanmore was granted at the Principal Registry to John Sutton Attfield of 1 Alcester Road Wallington in the County of Surrey Engineer the Son and one of the Next of Kin. Effects under £1,000.