Hello, My name is Mark Callaway.  I live in Rincon, Ga.  My dad is Charles G. Callaway.  His dad was Wilton Callaway.  His dad was Clifford Callaway.
Mark Callaway
dcbb3316 at msn.com

I would like to thank Jeanne Norsky in Montana for sending us information she has found about the "Mystery Callaway", Arthur Callaway, who appeared in the September Newsletter.

Hi, Donna.......I'm cleaning up e-mails I've held getting ready for a new computer. Just came across something I thought you might like to know about - perhaps you already do.

You and I have corresponded re. Arthur William Calloway (b. OHIO)......a physician in Asheville NC.....married to Charlotte Lytle (my kin). They had two children Ann B. Calloway (b. 1906) and James L. Calloway (b. 1908).

At any rate........I have obtained the birth certificate of Ann B. Calloway and found her middle name to be "Bowles".

Then I googled "Ann Bowles Calloway" and got a document tracing some of the Calloways (her father, Arthur W. Calloway, e.g.). I thought you might want to google the Ancestry site as well......the citation is towards the bottom of the section that pops up (the info is about Pages 213-215, or close).

Give it a try.........we now know who Arthur's first wife was, the day they married, her death and his 2nd wife's (Charlotte Lytle) marriage date.

I also have the birth certificate of Ann's younger brother, James L. Calloway.

Wanted to get this info. to you before I forget.

Jeanne in Montana
norsky at ttc-cmc.net

Editor's Note - I looked up the article Jeanne mentioned and it is a lineage prepared by Ann Bowles Calloway. An excerpt follows. Census records indicate that Thomas Bond Calloway's father was William Calloway, born about 1813 in Delaware. He is listed with family on the 1850 Dearborn Co., IN census, and the 1860 and 1870 Hamilton Co., OH census.

~ from The History of the Bowles Family, compiled & published by Thomas M. Farquhar, Philadelphia, PA, 1907, pp. 209-214

Anna Bowles, born Feb. 8, 1845, at Harrison, Ohio; married Thomas Bond Calloway on Jan. 31, 1855. (Editor's Note - census records show this date should be 1867) Resides in Home City, Ohio. Her four children were: Samuel Bond Calloway, Robert Bowles Calloway, Arthur William Calloway and Walter Bowles Calloway.

Samuel Bond Calloway, born March 28, 1868; married Sadie Duncan. Their two children: Ada Calloway, b. Oct. 18, 1893, and Gertrude Calloway, b. April 1, 1897. Reside in Seattle, Wash.

Robert Bowles Calloway, born Sept. 7, 1869; died July 17, 1872.

Arthur William Calloway, born April 2, 1872, at Harrison, Ohio; married to Daisy Bell Sinks Nov. 19, 1896, who died Feb. 5, 1898. He married, secondly, Charlotte Lytle, May 7, 1904. He is a physician in Asheville, NC.

Walter Bowles Calloway was born in Harrison, O., Dec. 28, 1873; married Wilma Shine in Home City, O., Oct. 5, 1903. Lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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I would like to thank David Worthy for sharing the following information regarding his family line. In it is mentioned John Callaway, the silk weaver.

Dear Ms Morgan,
I thought that members might be interested in the attached excerpt from my family history relating to my ancestor John Worthy of Canterbury It mentions John Callaway, and may also give people ideas for further research.

Any feedback would be very welcome!

Yours sincerely,
David Worthy
davidworthy at tiscali.co.uk

John Worthy of Canterbury

1786-8    Moved to Ashford, and Canterbury.

              Much of the traffic between the North East and the South East was by coal boat from Newcastle or Sunderland, and it was by this route that Brian Salvin of Croxdale’s new gardener travelled from London in 1748.

              Ashford is the last place of residence recorded in the Durham Carpenters’ Guild attendance roll in 1804, but John appears to have defaulted in his subscription payments several years before and lost touch with the Guild.

1788       Ae. 41. May 27th. John Worthy, carpenter and joiner was admitted as a Freeman of the City of Canterbury by Redemption (purchase) at a fee of £20. (Freeman’s Roll CL & P SOG).

              It is likely that John arrived in the city shortly before this, for the freedom of a city had a different significance from the mark of honour for which it is nowadays bestowed. Granted by the City Corporation (or Burghmote), it was an essential qualification for a tradesman to practise his business, and was obtained either by right by the sons of Freemen, by apprenticeship to a Freeman, or by purchase— for which the suitability of the applicant had to proved.

              Canterbury, seat of the Primate, was, like Durham, a Cathedral city and centre of local judiciary, culture, social life, and the prosperous agricultural industry round about. In the eighteenth century it was relatively much more important locally and nationally than it became in the nineteenth century, when it was overtaken by the growth of industrial towns such as Chatham and Gravesend, and ports like Folkestone and Dover. The city was largely contained inside the one and three quarter miles of its grand medieval walls, built with the revenue brought by the pilgrims who came to the shrine of Thomas a Becket. The suburbs outside were small and the surrounding hop fields came up close to the city. Visitors, even the demanding William Cobbett, found it attractive—‘This fine old town is remarkable for its cleanliness and niceness . . . The country round it is very rich.’

              The city was governed by the ancient Corporation or Burghmote, and in 1787, which was a time of general corporate improvement in England, a further authority, the Pavement Commission, was set up to pave and light the streets. In days when corporate graft was was common and unconcealed, it was advantageous for an ambitious businessman to pay court to official bodies, among the boys of which the jobs were shared out.

              John took up residence in Broad Street at the property now numbered 37A, the shop on the north side of the junction with Havelock Street, a 12 window house taxed at £2 per annum, and the family lived there until his death in 1821.  Next door he rented a garden and yard, and kept a horse, taxed at 10/6 (but not a cart). (1788 Window Tax CL).

              Broad Street skirts the city wall on the eastern side. John’s house comprises the major part of a timber framed building, probably once black and white, and refaced with stucco in the nineteenth century.  Contemporary maps show that it had an unobstructed view across Broad Street to the city walls and the tower of the Cathedral beyond. The lease of 1794 gives the following description:

To John Worthy of Canterbury, all that messuage or tenement and garden lying in the parish of St. Paul without the walls in Broad Street—to the same street west; to ground belonging to the Dean and Chapter demised to Edward Smith (and late demised with the messuage and premises hereby granted to John Wootton); and the said garden of Mrs. Loubart north . . . from the feast of St. Michael . . . 30 years . . . paying yearly nineteen shillings quarterly by even payments’ (My punctuation).  (Dean and Chapter Lease Books CL).

              The garden and yard are described in the conveyance as

     ‘All that Garden or parcel of ground, containing 26 perches and three quarters of a perch (about .2 acre), some time heretofore used as a hop Garden, and now in the tenure of the said John Worthy, and sometime parcel of the Lands belonging to the late dissolved Monastery of St. Augustine, near and without the walls of the City, in or near a place called Broad Street. To the lands of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church Canterbury towards the north; and to the Lands of the said Dean and Chapter called the North Holmes towards the east; and to the street there towards the west, together with the Edifices and Buildings erected thereon’. (My punctuation). (City Lease Books CL).

              This property adjoined John’s house on the southern side, and now forms the entrance to Havelock Street. As it was not liable for Window Tax the buildings referred to must have been sheds, and presumably he used it as his builder’s yard. The yearly payments of rent at Michaelmas are recorded in the Corporation accounts until 1799, when he bought the Freehold for £150. (CL).

              Gostling in ‘A Walk in and about Canterbury’, 1825 edition, describes the North Holmes as ‘two or three pleasant fields’.

              Identified from successive leases through to 1837, which give measurements and names of tenants and neighbours which correspond with the 1841 Census, early maps and the 1873 Ordnance Survey map.

Children born at Canterbury:

            Winifred. Born 1788.

            Joseph. Born 1794. 

Burials at St. Paul’s:

            Mary Worthy. 14th April 1788.

            Frances Worthy. 23rd April 1789.

            James Worthy. 6th July 1790.

              Were these infant deaths? The St. Paul’s registers at this period give no help over the age of the corpse, only commenting if it was a pauper. (CL).

              Nominated as Overseer for the Poor for the parish of St. Paul’s, Canterbury. (St. Paul’s Vestry Minutes CL).

              John attended the Vestry (Parish Council) regularly for twenty-nine years, and took his turn at serving as Overseer of the Poor and Surveyor of Highways, no doubt reaping any benefits he could there from. It says much for the tolerance of the citizens of Canterbury, (not exactly a hotbed of Catholicism since the Reformation), that an openly practising Catholic with an outlandish northern accent could hold such an office. The Rev. John Skinner of Camelford, Somerset, in ‘Diary of a Somerset Parson’, could still write of the construction of a Chapel by the Catholics at Downside in 1821:

     ‘I am well aware of the indefatigable perseverance of these people; I well know their principles respecting us are unchanged. I know what had been done, and can anticipate what will yet be done by encouraging such sparks and fanning them into flame which, if it comes into contact with a combustible rabble, may yet renew the horrors of a St. Bartholomew’s Eve, or reillumine the bonfires of Smithfield’.

              Voted in the Election for two Members of Parliament for the City of Canterbury. ‘John Worthy, Broad Street, Carpenter’.

              The term Carpenter was used to describe the proprietor of a carpentry and joinery business, as well as the tradesman himself.

1790       August 22nd. Took his first apprentice carpenter & joiner in Canterbury, Thomas Gatty; fee—‘services performed or to be performed’; period—7 years from 20th March 1790; carpenter and joiner.

              Later apprentices:

              John Worthy junior; no fee; period 7 years from August 9th 1793; carpenter and joiner.

              William Critch; fee £20; period 7 years from 26th March 1801; carpenter.

              Geo. Rule; fee £15, paid by Ann Smith; 7 years from April 25th 1814; carpenter and joiner. (CL).

              Ann Smith’s Charity was founded in 1662 for the apprenticeship of children of St. Paul’s, of which eight were placed out annually. (Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary). John was 67 when he took this last apprentice, and presumably still working.

1793       His son John taken as apprentice. (see above)

1794       Ae. 46. 8th March. Birth of his youngest child, Joseph Worthy, at Broad Street. (BIBLE).

              The Godfather was Edward Hambrook, a currier of St. Mildred’s, a member of the Pavement Commission, and presumably a close friend.

              7th September. John junior, William, Mary & Winifred confirmed by Bishop Douglass in the Roman Catholic Chapel at Hales Place, the seat of the Hales family at Hackington, on the north eastern outskirts of Canterbury.  (HPC).

              Three generations of Worthys attended the Roman Catholic chapel in this house. The estate was purchased by the old Kentish family of Hales in 1675. In 1685 the third Sir Edward Hales openly declared himself a Catholic, and subsequent generations, through which ran a rich vein of eccentricity, remained staunch Catholics until the family died out towards the end of the nineteenth century. The fifth Sir Edward (1724-1802) inherited the title directly from his grandfather, who had allowed his son to die in the debtors’ prison in Canterbury. In 1766 he rebuilt the house—‘more fit for the residence of a monarch than a simple country gentleman’—at a cost from which the already shaky family finances never fully recovered.

              At the western end of the house was the magnificent chapel. In 1855 it was paved with flagstones similar to those in the entrance Hall of the mansion, pews of high box type, and windows of plain glass. The altar was of white marble, and above were a rose window and a coloured picture of St. Stephen with stones in an apron. (Kent Recusant History no.s 12 & 13-1984-5).

              The fifth Sir Edward was a customer of John Worthy in 1800 and 1801.

1794       7th October. Took a lease of the garden and yard in Broad Street from the Mayor and Commonalty of Canterbury, for a period of six years from 10th October, at a rent of £3 10s per annum.

1796       Appointment as City Carpenter for the Year. Rebuilding of Coldharbour Bridge.

              This bridge crossed the main branch of the river Stour from the northern end of Coldharbour Lane to fields on the other side, on the northern outskirts of the City.

              In 1794 the bridge, which was leased to the elderly Sir Edward Hales, had fallen into disrepair, and the Corporation served a notice on him to comply with the covenants in his lease and rebuild it. This had no effect, and the following year the Committee was directed to treat with James Hacker, a Canterbury builder, to rebuild the bridge, and to invite Sir Edward Hales to contribute towards the cost. Nothing came of this either.

              From the Burghmote (City Corporation) minutes:

              Tuesday 23rd February 1796.

‘This Court, being of the Opinion that a Timber Bridge would be the most proper Bridge from Coldharbour Lane on Kingsmead, approve the Plan of a timber Bridge by Mr. Jesse White . . . and request him add such Particulars to the Plan . . . as will enable the Mayor & Commonalty to contract with some Person to build the Bridge accordingly . . . and it is ordered by this Court that handbills . . . shall be delivered to the several Carpenters and Builders of this City, that they may send Proposals to take such Contract, in writing sealed up, to the Chamberlain on or before Tuesday 1st Day of March, when a Committee . . . with the Mayor shall have power to . . . reject or approve the same . . . and carry this order over into Execution’.

              Tuesday 22nd March 1796.

‘It is ordered by the Court that the Committee . . . no such Contract having taken place . . . shall be impowered to contract with Mr. John Worthy the City Carpenter for the Year to build the said Bridge’.

              Tuesday 19th April 1796.

‘The Court of Burghmote to enter into a contract with Mr. John Worthy the City Carpenter to rebuild Coldharbour Bridge for the Sum of £132 agreeable to the plan and proposals now delivered to this Court by him, and that the same shall be built under the Inspection of Mr. Thomas Hudson of this City Carpenter as Inspector.’

              Tuesday 19th August 1796.

‘Upon report made unto this Court by the Committee of Survey, that they had surveyed the Road leading to Coldharbour Bridge leading thro Coldharbour Lane, part of which they found so bad that no Carriage or Foot Passenger could get to the Bridge, and that they therefore had undertaken to order Mr. Worthy to pile the sides of the Ditches, and Mr. Callaway Senr the Surveyor for the Highway of the Parish of Northgate having offered his assistance by a Labourer and Carriage to bring some rubbish from the City walls to make the Road, that they had accepted his offer, and had empowered him to take down some unnecessary part of the wall near Northgate Church for this purpose . .     

‘Mr. Hudson the Surveyor of the Works of Coldharbour Bridge having now made his report to this Court that Mr. Worthy had built and compleated the said Bridge agreeable to his Contract, it is ordered by this Court that the Chamberlain shall pay £132, the Sum for which the same was contracted to be built and completed’.

              John was paid a further £65 9s 5d for the road works.

              Jesse White, builder, City Councillor in 1808, and member of the Pavement Commission, from which came a steady flow of work, was clearly a man for state of the art technology. In his house in Harts Lane he installed two water closets which he surreptitiously connected to the public sewer, but this insanitary act was discovered by the Pavement Commission in 1801, and he was ordered to disconnect them.

              John Callaway, a master silk-weaver, was a prominent and influential citizen of Canterbury, who had an interest in this matter in that the bridge led to his own and which lay between the two branches of the river.

              ‘To supply the loss of the silk trade, the late Mr. John Callaway, an industrious and ingenious silk manufacturer, introduced in 1789, looms in the cotton branch, and erected mills for the purpose of carding and spinning the wool into yarn; which by a mixture of silk in the fabric, he converted into the light and elegant piece goods, known by the name of Canterbury and Chamberry muslins, Canterbury damasks, &c. These articles were so well received by the public, as to induce manufacturers in other parts of the kingdom to imitate them, to the injury of the original inventor.’ (Gostling’s Walk in and about the City of Canterbury—1825).

              After a span of ten years or so, the material went out of fashion. By the end of the century only ten master weavers remained and soon afterwards, the industry ceased.

              Among the many municipal pies in which Callaway had a finger was the Pavement Commission, of which he was Chairman for many years. When his own street was being widened, and the overhanging upper storey of his house was scheduled to be cut back, the Committee decided to make an exception in his case.

              John Worthy was to sit with him a number of times on Quarter Sessions juries.

1796       Ae. 49. A subscriber to the printing of the Canterbury Election Poll Book. (Beaney Institute, Canterbury).

              30th November. Took a ten year lease from the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral of the Broad Street house he had been renting since 1788.

              His religion does not seem to have prejudiced the even the Dean and Chapter themselves.

1797       Ae. 49. September 22nd. Financial difficulties. A note in the St. Paul’s Vestry minutes reads:

‘At this meeting it is agreed that if Mr. John Worthy is chosen (as Surveyor for the Highways) he shall apply for a six penny and a three penny cess (rate) and to pay Mr. White in part of his debt at the least fifteen pounds.’

              Thomas White, a brick layer and stonemason, and another regular attender at the Vestry, was also a minor property landlord in St. Paul’s and a Pavement Commissioner, and was to become a City Councillor in 1808. In 1788 the Quarter Sessions Justices had been obliged to make a court order requiring him to support his daughter-in-law and her five children after the death of his son. Now he embarrasses John Worthy by raising the private matter of a personal debt at the Vestry meeting. He does not sound prepossessing.

              If £15 was only part of the debt to White the total must have amounted to several thousand pounds in modern money.

1797-8    Further unspecified work for the City Corporation:

‘Paid John Worthy his two accounts of £1 15s 0d and £2 18s 6d’.

1798       Land Tax Assessment:

Proprietor                                  Occupiers                     Sums Assessed

Trustees of John Worthy           Themselves                                  5s 6d

              Has John become insolvent?

              Next door lives Thomas Gaddy (Gatty), apprenticed to J.W. in 1790, and presumably now an employee. (PRO).

1799       June 12th a small unspecified account of £4 19s 5d paid to John Worthy by the Pavement Commission. (Minute Book CL).

              Purchase of the freehold of the Corporation property in Broad Street.

              If insolvent the previous year, he has recovered quickly. Perhaps a customer who had defaulted on payment for a contract for which Thomas White was a sub-contractor had finally settled up.

              The ownership of freehold property rendered him liable for Jury service, and he sat on the Grand Jury at the Canterbury Quarter Sessions in 1799, 1800, 1802, 1803, April and July 1808, 1810 (as Foreman), 1811 and 1814.

              Much of the business of the Court concerned Felonies, Assaults and Batteries (several by the brutal and licentious soldiery, including a Sergeant-Major of the 52nd—later the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry), disputes between parishes over responsibility for the Poor, the giving of short weight in the Butter Market, and Bastardy orders. Some examples:

23rd April 1803.

‘William Bennett being now indicted for a Misdemeanour pleads not Guilty, tries his Traverse, is found Guilty and sentenced by the Court to be publickly whipt on Saturday next in the public street as near as conveniently may be to the late Corn Market between the Hours of Eleven and one in the Forenoon’. 

April 1808.

‘Mary Turnbull being now convicted of Felony is sentenced to be imprisoned in his Majesty’s Goal (sic) of Westgate  for three calendar months’. 

‘William Dodgon being now convicted of a Misdemeanour in attaining Goods under false pretence is sentenced to be imprisoned for the space of one month, and during that Period to be once publickly whipt on a Saturday between the Hours of Eleven and one in the forenoon’. 

11th July 1808.

 ‘John James Waterfield a Corporal in his Majesty’s Royal Artillery—£25

Henry Willis Gentleman a Lieutenant in the same Corps£25    (Recognisances). 

Upon Condition that the said John James Waterfield do and shall appear at the next General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said City and County and shall then and there abide and perform such order or orders as shall be made in Pursuance of an Act . . . concerning Bastards begotten and born out of lawful Matrimony upon the Complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of Saint Mary Northgate in the said City . . . for begetting a Child on the Body of Rebecca Barton Singlewoman which Child is likely to be born a Bastard and to be chargeable to the said Parish of St. Mary Northgate and that he do depart the Court without leave’. 

11th July 1814.

‘John Gold being now indicted for Grand Larceny is found Guilty and sentenced by the Court to be transported to such Place beyond the Seas as his Majesty with the Advice of his Privy Council shall be pleased to declare and appoint for the Term of seven Years’.

1800       Ae. 42. 17th April. Estimate and plan for rebuilding Stone Stile Farm, Selling, near Canterbury, for Thomas Hawkins, another local Roman Catholic landowner, to whom he was presumably recommended by Sir Edward Hales. The need for rebuilding the farmhouse was brought to the landlord’s attention by a letter from the tenant.

‘Gentlemen.

Sirs I am a tenant of Stone Stile Farm in the Parish of Selling. Beg you will Take it in Consideration In Respect to the House, As it is in Such a State as Impossible to live in in the present State Me Or My Family. I think it May be Repard With puting new Wall A Round it, as the House is Bursting In two Parts,     Or a New On as you have Got the Plan of in your Possession Gentlemen as you think Most proper And you Will Oblige Yours to Command

                                                                                                    Thos. Berry’

              John’s estimate is in his own hand:

                                                                            ‘Canterbury 17th April 1800

Sir,

The Enclosed Plans, using all the Old Materials taken down, which are sound and Good, with one Celler under the Parlour, and one Garret in the Roof. The two Principal floors 7 feet high when finished, The External Walls 1 1/2 Bricks thick—4 inch Bricknog’d and Rendered Partitions on the Ground floor—and 3 inch Do. Lath and Plaster & Ceil’d ft6 in6 high. The Roof Cover’d with Plain Tiles—The Garet & Bedchambers floor’d with Inch White deal. The Parlour floor’d with Inch yellow deal—and the Offices and Celler paved with Brick—Two and Three light window frames Glaz’d with Green Glass in lead, and Inch ledg’d Doors, and Iron Latches to all the Rooms—One hundred Ninety Six pounds  £196—I am with the Greatest Respect your Most Obliged Obedt. Servt.

                                                                                                John Worthy’

              (KCR ref. U47/1 E28, and see references in ‘Georgian Houses for All’—John Woodforde—Routledge 1978, and ‘Some Kentish Houses’—Elizabeth Melling—KCC 1965).

              Whether the farm was rebuilt in this form is not known, although the retention of these documents by Thomas Hawkins indicates that it was. The buildings as a whole were pulled down in the late nineteenth century.

1800-1    Working for Sir Edward Hales, Bart., of Hales Place.

‘Mr. Calloway Dr.  Work done for Sir Edwd. Hales

1800 To John Worthy

Jan 18th 

To pulling down the Old Bridge over the Back Stream St. Stephen’s

Putting down new Joists and

       boarding 4 days                                     3/2d                         12s   8d

Boy  ditto                                                      1/2 day                       0s   9d

13.11 Cube Oak joists                                     3/9d                   £2      12s ½

122.0 Supl. 1½  Oak Plank                              6d                      £3    1s   0d

300—20d. 20—30d Nails

No. 10—6 Inch Spikes                                   6s 1½                          6s    1½

 

Feb 18th

To do. Bridge 7½  days                                  3/2d                   £1   3s   9d

130.0 Supl. of 11/2  Oak Plank                       6d                      £3   5s   0d

60.0 Run Oak Slab to spike to joists                                               10s   0d

3.0 Cube Oak rough joist                               2/-                             6s   0d

71.0 Run of 21/2  by 1 1/2  Footing

       peices and firings                                  1½d                     £3    8s 10½d

35.0 4 by 2 Oak firrings on joists                  21/2d                         7s 3½d

525—20d. 50—40d. Nails

25—6 Inch Spikes                                                                          12s   6d

                                                                                           ___________

                                                                                             £13   6s   2d

By Old Stuff                                                                                   2s   6d

                                                                                           ___________

                                                                                             £13   3s   2d 

1800   Mr. James Parker Dr.

Jany. 4

To repairing a Gate near the Old Pallace       1½days                        4s   9d

One Spurr to Post 42 feet run of Oak Stays                                    6s   3d

21.0 Run of Oak Slab                                    1½                               2s 7½d

No. 6 large Dog Nails  30—20d.  75—10d.

40—40d. Nails                                                                                 1s 4½d

One 10 Inch Staple one 8 Inch Spike                                               1s  0d

                                                                                           ___________

                                                                                               £0  16s  0d

              The boy was presumably his son John, his apprentice. There follows a note:

‘Sir

     I am sorry my Bill so Far exceeds The Estimate but we found the Timbers and Boarding so very Bad that we were Obliged to make them pretty near all new.

       I am Sir your Most Obliged

       Obedt. Servt.

                                                                                   John Worthy

                                                                                   Broad Street

                                                                                   Febr. 11th 1800

N.B. If Required the work may be Measured & Valued’

              Builders’ accounts have a long tradition.

              The bill is receipted, and has a note on the back in Sir Edward Hales’ shaky hand:

‘Worthy bill for mending the brige (sic) to Calloway Land in full of all demands paid February the 14th 1800’.

              This bridge was the northern approach to John Callaway’s land (see above—Coldharbour Bridge).

              Further receipts for unspecified work are as follows:

     5th July 1800 ................................................................................. £25 on account.

     28th Feb. 1801.................................................................................. £10 on account

     6th April 1801.................................................. £10 on account for Mr. Harnett.

     20th June 1801........................................................................................... £10 1s 9d.

     4th July 1801.................................................................................... £10 on account.

              Harnett was a member of the staff of Hales Place. The next generation of Worthys and Harnetts were friends—see Joseph Worthy below. (Hales Papers CL).

1803       1st October. Surrender of his Dean and Chapter Lease of the house. (Lease Books CL). He continued in residence as a tenant.

1804       A reference in the Lease of adjoining land in Broad Street. His neighbour, John Buckley, was a silversmith and jeweller, a Pavement Commissioner and in 1802 an Alderman. An Anne Buckley was a witness at Joseph Worthy’s wedding, and a god-mother to his first child. The previous tenant had been Edward Smith, a coachmaker. (KCR Ref U1937 T1).

1805-6    Survey and Valuation for the proposed new street, later named Guildhall Street.

              This was authorised by Act of Parliament in July 1804 because:

‘. . . there is not at present any direct and convenient Street or Road for carriages to pass from the High Street & several other parts of the City . . . into the Turnpike Road leading from the said city to the Isle of Thanet, and other places to the Northward of the same city, to which there is a great Resort of Persons and Carriages . . . and it would tend greatly to the Safety and Accommodation as well of all persons resorting to those places . . . if a new Street should be made from . . . the High Street to . . . Palace Street . . .’

              The Act gave the Corporation powers to acquire the necessary property compulsorily, and provided for disputed valuations to be determined by a special Jury at the Quarter Sessions.

              From the Corporation accounts for 1805:

‘Paid the Town Clerk his Bill for Soliciting and the

       Expence in procuring an Act of Parliament for making

       a New Street from the High Street to the Palace Street. £344  19s   4d

Paid Messrs. Worthy Moss and Wright for Surveying the

       intended new Street                                                         £32   1s   6d’ 

1806

‘Paid Mr. Worthy his Bill of £8 8s for Surveying and

       Valueing the Estates in the line of the New Street

       Previous to being examined by a Jury of the County

       of Kent.                                                                              £8   8s     -

Paid Mr. Collard of Broadstairs for his journey and

       a like Survey and valuation.                                               £10  10s     -

Paid a Bill of £7 16s 4d Incured at the Kingshead for

       the entertainment of the Surveyors during their survey.       £7  16s   4d’

              Guildhall Street was designed to divert traffic to the Margate Road from the very narrow Mercery Lane, and was constructed later in 1806. One hopes that the surveyors’ measurements and valuations were not distorted by the effects of the lavish beanos at the King’s Head (now the County Hotel), an establishment to which the Mayor and Corporation resorted with considerable frequency and at substantial expense to the public funds to drink the King’s health. (The poor demented monarch badly need good health). No details of the hearing at the Kent Quarter Sessions have survived.

1807       Godfather to his Grandchild, Ann Worthy. (HPC).

1812       Ae. 65. From the Corporation Minutes for 17th March:

‘All the General City Surveyors being dead, the Mayor is requested to apply to Mr. John Worthy, Mr. William Moss & Mr. Russell Lavender to be appointed & sworn City Surveyors & Assessors betwen Party & Party as hath from time immemorial been the case.’

August 1812:

              ‘At this Court Mr. John Worthy & Mr. William Moss, Carpenters, & Mr. Collins &  Mr. Russell Lavender, Bricklayers, were sworn General Surveyors & Assessors between Party & Party in this City.’

              In 1815 Russell Lavender had the doubtful distinction of being engaged to take down the North Tower of Burgate, the only city gateway other than Westgate which had survived. (Burghmote Minute Books and Account Books CL).

1818       Ae. 71. Reference in Poll Book—’Builder, Broad Street’. Did not vote. (BL).

              Infirmity seems to have set in this year.

1821       Died. Buried 13th May at St. Paul’s churchyard. (Register in CL—page 34 no. 266).

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I would like to thank Peggy Carey for telling us about her discovery. It appears she may have found a lost Callaway in the 1840 Clark Co., IL census records. CFA hasn't identified this record before because it is listed as Whailey, Collawa on the census page with other surnames beginning with W. Could this be a census taker error? Can anyone offer any help identifying this person?