John Towgood

Banker in Clements Lane, the son of Matthew Towgood (q.v.) and Mary Mills (sister of John Mills of Great St Helens, City of London,q.v.), baptised Walthamstow[e] Essex 16/07/1757.

1. Married Martha Rogers, the daughter of Thomas Rogers, 30/04/1792 at St Mary Islington, when he was described as of Walthamstow. Children Charles, George, Lucy and Samuel were baptised at four different London/Essex churches between 1800 and 1804: another daughter Maria appears marrying William Morgan the younger 04/04/1819 at St Mary Islington. She is described in the ODNB entry for the older William Morgan as 'the beautiful niece of Samuel Rogers.' The John Towgood a barrister not practising aged 62 in the 1861 census, living with his wife Mary P Towgood and being visited by Samuel Towgood a solicitor aged 56 is almost certainly another son. Will of John Towgood banker of Clements Lane City of London proved 19/04/1837.

2. John Towgood was described as mortgagee-in-possession of Somersalls on St Kitts between 1817 and 1831, with various lessees and 'renters', including Stedman Rawlins and Jedediah Kerie Edmead; he claimed the compensation for unpaid purchase money, having apparently sold the estate to the latter in 1834.

Ancestry.com, England and Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 [database online].

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]; Ancestry.com, England and Wales Christening Records 1530-1906 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1918 [database online]; ODNB William Morgan (1750-1833) Actuary; PROB 11/1877.

2. Ancestry.com, Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database on-line], St Kitts, 1822, 1828, 1831.