William Bromley

Party in the Chancery suit of Bourdieu v Bromley. Possibly the fraudulent London solicitor of the same name, in partnership with his brother Joseph Warner Bromley until 1834 and bankrupted in 1844. This William Bromley was born 10/08/1787 and baptised 02/09/1787 in St James, Clerkenwell, London, son of Nathaniel Warner Bromley and his wife Sarah. He married Catherine Taylor (1787-1859) in St Pancras in 1812 and died in New Zealand, 18/12/1849 aged 62 years.

London Gazette, Issue 19195, 23/09/1834, p. 1724; Times 16/7/1844 p. 7 bankruptcy of Willam Bromley, fraudulent solicitor; Ancestry.com, London, Church of England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]; Taylor, Peter Alfred, comp. and ed., Some Account of the Family of Taylor (formerly Taylard) (privately published, 1875) p. 595; Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 [database online]; Ancestrycom, New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 [database online].

We are grateful to Peter Winnington for his assistance with compiling this entry.