Carlton Collingwood (1752-1828) & Elizabeth Katen (tbc-1833)
Carlton Collingwood was baptised on 6 July 1752 at St Mary’s, Chatham, the youngest child of Edward Collingwood and Jane Carlton.
Carlton married Ann Collins at St Alfege, Greenwich on 31 January 1775. In the baptism records at this church for their eldest two children, Edward (1776) and Jane Carlton (1777) ,Carlton was described as a master brewer.
The family lived at “a convenient brick dwelling house” adjoined a “compact brewhouse, with every convenient building necessary for the business, and mill-house erected on the wharf, most advantageously situated for water carriage, adjoining the River Thames, in Queen Street, Greenwich”. Unfortunately, the business did not fare well, and by 1777 Carlton was bankrupt and the mill’s 57 year lease, along with his trade utensils and household items, were offered for auction.
Carlton then worked as a clerk for the East India Company (possibly through intercession by his brother-in-law, Thomas Larkins, who was a commander and managing owner of the HEIC ship Warren Hastings, until its captured by the French in 1806, and then commander of the Marquis Camden). He was listed as a clerk in the Freight Office (1810-11 EIC Register). In the baptism record of his son, Francis Frederic (1782), he is described as a gentleman, and when his wife, Ann, died in 1792 the burial record described Ann as a “clerk’s wife”.
Carlton Collingwood of St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, married Elizabeth Katen at St Pancras old church, Camden, on 2 June 1797.
Carlton and Elizabeth had four children – William Collingwood (1798-1871), Thomas Larkins (1801-1843)1, Elizabeth (1807-1851)2, and Susannah (1805)3, who were all baptised at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, with Carlton described as of the Hon. East India Company, Gentleman.
In 1804, Carlton’s daughter from his first marriage, Jane Carlton Collingwood, married George Lambert at St Dunstan, Stepney, on 20 December 1804.
St Dunstan 1803 by George Shepherd / British Museum
Carlton Collingwood was buried at St Mary, Wanstead on 9 September 1828. His will mentions his daughter, Jane Carlton Lambert, who is given a small sum for mourning, with the remainder of the property to be divided between his four children by his wife Elizabeth – William, Thomas Larkins, Susannah, and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Collingwood died aged 69 in 1833 and was buried at St Mary’s, Wanstead on 15 August.
- Thomas Larkins Collingwood was apprenticed to a wine coopers and went on to have a shop at 28 Great Dover Street, Southwark (until 1835). He was buried at Wanstead on 25 June 1843. ↩︎
- Elizabeth died at Mile End, Old Town and was buried at St Mary Stratford Bow aged 43 on 15 April 1851. ↩︎
- Susannah was staying with her brother William’s family at the time of the 1851 census. She died on 9 March 1888 at her home, 102 Shardiloes Road, New Cross, Kent. ↩︎