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| Husband: | Charles Pembroke (1757-1802) | |
| Wife: | Elizabeth Philippa Porter ( -1787) | |
| Children: | Elizabeth Pembroke (1787-1858) | |
| Marriage | 11 Mar 1786 | Saint Katherine Creechurch, London |
| Name: | Charles Pembroke | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Nathaniel Pembroke (bef1716-1767) | |
| Mother: | Jane Attfield (1727-1769) | |
| Birth | 1757 | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Baptism | 30 Dec 1757 (age 0) | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Will | 27 Jan 1767 (age 9-10) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Occupation | 2 Aug 1773 (age 15-16) | Articled to John Chandler, Attorney, Guildford |
| Will | 5 Feb 1791 (age 33-34) | Witness to will of Mary Butler, sister-in-law |
| Will | 4 Apr 1802 (age 44-45) | Date of will (and codicil dated 11.9.1802) |
| Occupation | 1802 (age 44-45) | Gentleman, of Chertsey |
| Death | 24 Sep 1802 (age 44-45) | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Burial | 1 Oct 1802 | St Mary, Sunbury, Middlesex (aged 45) |
| Probate | 30 Oct 1802 | Probate to Susanna Pembroke (widow), William Pembroke, John Hodges |
| Name: | Elizabeth Philippa Porter | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Lawrence Porter (1741-1802) | |
| Mother: | Althea Barbara Alldridge (c. 1746-1780) | |
| Death | 1787 | Cobham, Surrey |
| Burial | 20 Jun 1787 | St Andrew, Cobham, Surrey |
| Name: | Elizabeth Pembroke | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 24 May 1787 | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Baptism | 11 Jun 1787 (age 0) | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Will | 4 Apr 1802 (age 14) | Mentioned in father's will |
| Census | 1841 (age 53-54) | Living with step-mother, Susanna Pembroke, Windsor Street, Chertsey |
| Will | 11 Dec 1845 (age 58) | Mentioned in will of step-mother, Susanna Pembroke |
| Census | 1851 (age 63-64) | House proprietor, London Street, Chertsey (unmarried) |
| Death | 20 May 1858 (age 70) | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Burial | 1858 | St Peter, Chertsey (aged 72) |
The firm of Paine and Brettell, solicitors of Chertsey, has been in existence since at least 1802 and can plausibly be traced to 1783 when Charles Pembroke, attorney at law, was in Chertsey. He was deputy steward of the manor of Chertsey Beomond at that date. He is referred to in a Phoenix Fire Insurance policy book as owning property in Chertsey in 1788 and was certainly active as a lawyer in 1792. By the time of his death in early 1803 he was in partnership with William Clark. The cash books of the firm containing accounts of receipts and payments by each of the partners and other references in the records show the changes that occured in the partnership. After Pembroke's death Clark was joined by Durley Grazebrook as partner in the firm in 1803. Clark died on 10 Sep 1843. Durley Grazebrook continued alone until the end of 1848 when he resigned in favour of his son Henry G Grazebrook.
Surrey History Centre, Notes to Collection ref 6200
Item ref: 6200/(133)
Deeds and papers relating to property of Charles Pembroke in Chertsey
Includes: abstract of title, 1856, of Mrs Pembroke to a copyhold messuage and garden, formerly 2 messuages, in Windsor Street, and a messuage in the High Street, Chertsey (manor of Chertsey Beomond), reciting from 1799 to 1856, with related deeds; probate, 1846, of will, 11 Dec 1845, of Susannah Pembroke, wife of Charles Pembroke. Her executors were the Rev William Pidcock and Durley Grazebrook; abstract of title of the devisees in trust under the will of James Cuddon to the manor of Chertsey Beomond, reciting from 1814 to 1850. Annotated 'for Mr Hunt in respect of Pembroke's estate'.
[This deed provides additional information to that in the Victoria History of the County of Surrey, vol III, pp 406-407]
Date(s): 1799 - 1857
WHILST Sense and Genius mourn a patron fled,,
And Friendship weeps him with the silent dead !
Whilst deeper anguish, with its keenest dart,
Has pierc'd, alas ! the virtuous widow's heart !
Let conscious Truth proclaim, with ardour due,
How nobly PEMBROKE from the world withdrew !
ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES PEMBROKE, ESQ. OF CHERTSEY, 1802
(first few lines)
by Mary Sewell