Capt. Richard Shubrick

Richard Shubrick married Jane Oldfield at Saint Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Middlesex, London, on the 5th November 1704. They christened 3 children at the same church:

• Sarah 5 Sept 1705
• Richard 4 Jan 1707
• Thomas 17 Aug 1710.

Capt. Richard Shubrick d. 1756 and is commemorated with a tomb in the churchyard of St. Anne, Limehouse.

He is misidentified as "Thomas" (probably confused with his son) in the following anecdote:

"My great great grandfather on my Mother's side, Thomas Shubrick, an Englishman, commenced life as a sailor, and subsequently became a captain of a merchantman, trading between some port in England, most probably London, & Charleston, S. C. An anecdote respecting him, which occurred in 1740, has been handed down, orally in the family. He had just set sail from Charleston, when a storm arose, & such was its violence that great apprehensions were felt in the town for the safety of the vessel which was supposed to have foundered, The night of the storm a Mrs. Wragg, the wife of an intimate friend dreamed that she saw Captn S. floating on a piece of the wreck & she was so firmly impressed with the truth of her dream that she persuaded her husband to man a small boat, and send out in search of her friend, whose probable fate had given them so much anxiety. The boat returned the day after without any tidings whatever of the missing vessel. But Mrs. Wragg again dreamed that she had seen S. in great distress, floating as before, & she again begged her husband to renew the search. He sent out this second time with no better success. She dreamed the same dream, the third time, & notwithstanding that her husband had vowed after the second failure that he would yield no more to her entreaties she pleaded for one more effort, & he at last consented. When the boat was about returning, something white was seen floating on the water, & on its being neared, it proved to be captn Shubrick & one sailor, clinging, almost exhausted, to a piece of the lost vessel. This Captn Shubrick's wife (Jane) survived him many years and resided in England. They had two sons, Richard and Thomas, who settled in Charleston, as merchants. Richard married Mrs. Elizabeth Vickeridge, daughter of Elias Ball & at her death in 1746 removed with his son & namesake to England, but continued his business connexions with his brother Thomas. His place of business was Baga Yard, St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London." Notices of Ancestors and Relatives, Paternal and Maternal, by Paul Trapier. Transactions, Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Volume 56.

• "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ51-MPB : 13 March 2020), Richard Shubrick, 1704.
• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol3/pp236-241