Mawbey Tugwell

Gazette Issue 15032 published on the 19 June 1798. Page 4 of 20

Commissions in tbe Bradford Volunteer Association, signed by His Majesty ; dated May 26," I798 . .

• Benjamin H o b h o u s e, E s q; to be C a p t a in in t he First C o m p a n y.
• J o hn Johes to be L i e u t e n a nt in D i t t o.
• Thomas T u g w e l l, G e n t, to be Ensign in Ditto.
• Thomas Buth, Esq; to be Captain in the Second C o m p a ny
• J o hn Wlliam Y e r b u r y, G e n t, to be L i e u t e n a nt in D i t t o.
• M a w b ey T u g w e l l, G e n t, to be Ens ign in D i t t o.

Gazette Issue 15493 published on the 29 June 1802. Page 4 of 16

W h i t e h a l l, J u ly 3 , 1 8 0 2. Whereas it has been-humbly represented io the King, that, early on Saturday Morning last, a large and valuable Rick of Hay, the Property of Meffrs. Thomas and Mawbey Tugwell, of Bradford, in the County of Wilts, .was malicioufly fet • on Fire, and entirely consumed ; and whereas also an anonymous threatening Letter was found under the Door of the Workstrops of the said Messrs. T. and M. Tugwell, of which the following is a Copy, viz. D e a t h o r G l o ry to y ou T & M T u g w e ll "We •will B u rn y ou and y o ur Ho r s fe is we will C u t y o ur h e a rt o ut a nd E at him y ou ot to have y o ur D am h e a rt C ut o ut of y o ur B o dy y ou will G o to H e ll for S t a r v e i ng t he p o or t h ee S h ot S h aw .fly by n i g ht for some of y o u. His Majefty, for the better apprehending and bringing to Justice the Persons concerned in writing and fending the above -Letter, is hereby pleafed to promise His most gracious Pardon to any One of them, (except the Perfon who actually wrote the same,) who fhall difcover his or their Accomplice tor Accomplices therein, so that he, fhe, er they may be apprehended and convicted thereof. P E L H A M. And, as a further Encouragement, a Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS is hereby offered to any Perfon-making fuch Difcovery as aforesaid (except as is bejore excepted,) to be paid on the Conviction of any One or more of the Offenders, by the faid Meffrs. .T. and.M. Tugwell"

Bradford on Avon - In 1811 Mawbey Tugwell, his brother, and a partner had taken Greenland Lower Mill over at a rent of 460 pounds.

After Mawbey's death the "Clothiers" firm - Yerbury, Tugwell and Edmonds, remained there until 1824. (Brother Thomas ran the Greenland Upper Mill from 1810 to 1825)

Humphrey Tugwell (1704-1775) - Grandfather's Will: "I hereby give devise and bequeath the said/Capital Messuage or Mansion House with the outhouses, Gardens, buildings, appurtenances thereto also belonging the said messuages or tenements thereunto adjoining the one aforesaid in the occupation of William Jotham and the other untenanted with the outhouses, gardens, buildings and appurtenances thereunto also belonging the said messuage or tenement in the occupation of George Edwards situate in Church Street with the outhouses gardens and buildings thereto also belonging all the said fields of meadows and pasture situate lying and being in the said parish of Bradford

1. unto my wife Elizabeth Tugwell to hold to her for and during the term of her natural life

and after her decease I give and devise the same capital messuage or Mansion house messuages or tenements fields lands and premises and every part and parcel therof with the appurtenances

1. unto George Hayward Tugwell, Thomas Tugwell, Elizabeth Tugwell and MAWBY Tugwell - the four children of my late son -William Tugwell - to hold them, their heirs and assigns for ever on their attainment of their respective age or ages of 21 years as tenants in common and not as joint tenants but in case either should die before they attain the age of 21 years then I give and devise the share of his or her so dying of and in the said premises unto the survivors or survivor of them my said Grandchildren equally if more than one as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and if but one such survivor to such only one his or her heirs and assigns for ever and if all my said Grand children the said George Hayward Tugwell, Thomas Tugwell, Betty Tugwell and MAWBY Tugwell shall happen to die before they attain his her or their age or ages of 21 years or without leaving issue of his her or theirs body or bodies lawfully begotten their I give and devise the said Capital Messuage or Mansion House messuages or tenements fields lands and premises
2. unto my own right heirs forever in witness thereof I have to this my codicil contained in two sheets of paper to the first sheet set my hand and to this second and last sheet my hand and seal 26 april, 1775 -Humphrey Tugwell signed sealed published and declared by the said Humphrey Tugwell as a codicil to his last will and testament in the presence by us Dan Clutterbuck, William Jotham, James Bulgin.

By a codicil in her will, dated July 12th 1799, Mawbey's grandmother Elizabeth Tugwell left £100, the interest of which she directed to be divided among forty old and infirm persons, of the Parish of Bradford, on the fifteenth day of January in each and every year.

These dividends were managed by her grandson Mawbey Tugwell up to his decease, and then by his brother Thomas.

This TUGWELL'S CHARITY is recorded on a black painted board in the Choir Vestry and also in Parliamentary papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 21, Part 2.

Source: WRO Bishops' Marriage Bonds index, both of Bradford. Marriage: 06 Sep 1802, South Wraxall. Marriage license: 04 Sep 1802 Churchwarden, Holy Trinity, Bradford.

East Sussex Records Office holds an attested copy of the will of 'Mawby Tugwell' dated 1815.

According to Mawbey's memorial he left 5 infant children at his death in 1815.

His wife lived for another 46 years.

Children of Mawby Tugwell and Penelope Clutterbuck were:

  1. Mawby Tugwell, b. 1804, d. date unknown, in infancy.

  2. Marianne Tugwell, b. 1805, d. 1886, Tunbridge Wells.

  3. Elizabeth Tugwell, b. 1808, d. 09 Nov 1822, Widcombe Crescent, Bath

  4. +Penelope Tugwell, b. 1809, d. 1890, Hove.

  5. Charlotte Tugwell, b. 1810, d. 1891, Brighton.-buried with mother Penelope at St. Andrew Parish Church, and name inscribed on monument at Grave 23078, Hove, Sussex.

  6. Charles Mawby Tugwell, b. 1812, d. 1812, Bradford-on-Avon.

  7. Thomas Tugwell, b. 1813, d. 25 Dec 1840, College Street, Westminster.