John Easterling (1777-1847)

John EASTERLING

Parents: William EASTERLING & Elizabeth VENN

John EASTERLING:
Born: 1777 Clyst St George, Devon
Bapt: 19 January 1777 Clyst St George, Devon
Died: September 1847, Commercial Road, Exeter
Bur: 5 September 1847, St Mary Steps, Exeter, Devon (aged 72 years)
Occupation: Tailor
Residence: 24 Berwick Street, Soho (1823)

John EASTERLING = Jemima BEADLE
Married: 22 November 1810 St Botolph Without Aldgate {1}

Jemima BEADLE
Born: ABT 1790
Died: September 1848, Commercial Road, Exeter (aged 57 years)
Bur: 28 September 1848, St Mary Steps, Exeter, Devon

Parents: not found

John James EASTERLING

John James EASTERLING
Born: Monday 18 November 1811, Southwark
Christened: Sunday 15 December 1811, Christ Church, Southwark {2}
Died: February 1820 aged 8 years 24 Berwick Street
Buried: 13 February 1820 St James, Piccadilly, Middlesex {7}

George William EASTERLING

George William EASTERLING
Born: Sunday 23 October 1814, St. Anne's Court
Christened: Thursday 22 December 1814, St. Ann, Soho, Westminster {3}
Died: May 1815 Soho, Westminster
Bur: 7 May 1815 St Annes, Soho, Wetminster {4}

Elizabeth EASTERLING

Elizabeth EASTERLING
Born: Saturday 27 April 1816, St. James, Westminster
Christened: Sunday 12 May 1816, St. Ann, Soho, Westminster {5}
Died:

Thomas George EASTERLING

Thomas George EASTERLING
Born: 1818, St James, Westminster
Christened: Saturday 30 May 1818, St. Ann, Soho, Westminster {6}
Died: April 1820, of Berwick Street (aged 10 month in register)
Bur: 16 April 1820, St James, Piccadilly {8}

John ThomasEASTERLING

John Thomas EASTERLING:
Born: 28 February 1821, St. James, Westminster
Christened: 3 March 1822, St. Ann, Soho, Westminster {9}
Died: March 1884, Exeter (aged 62 years)
Bur: 9 March 1884, St Mary Steps, Exeter, Devon
Occupation: Tailor

John Thomas EASTERLING = Sarah SPLATT
Married 20 July 1845, St Mary Steps, Exeter, Devon

Sarah SPLATT:
Born: ABT 1816, Moreton Hampstead, Devon
Bapt: 31 March 1816, St Andrew's, Moreton Hampstead, Devon
Died: May 1877, Stepcott Hill, Exeter (aged 60 years)
Bur: 13 May 1877, St Mary Steps, Exeter, Devon
Occupation: Dealer in Clothes

Parents: John SPLATT = Elizabeth (Betty) LANGWORTHY

George Henry EASTERLING

George Henry EASTERLING:
Born: 28 August 1824, St James, Westminster
Christened: Sunday 28 August 1825, St Anne, Soho, Westminster {10}
Died: September 1914, Crediton (90)
Occupation: Iron Founder / Engine Fitter

George Henry EASTERLING = Harriet HEARD
Married: 10 September 1854 St Andrew's, Plymouth

Harriet HEARD
Born: 27 Feb 1831, Alphington, Exeter, Devon
Died: 1886, St Thomas (55)

Parents: George HEARD & Alice HAMMERCOT

Amelia Frances (Fanny) EASTERLING

Amelia Frances (Fanny) EASTERLING
Born: 1829, East Teignmouth
Christened: Sunday 28 June 1829, East Teignmouth, Devon
Died: September 1882, Exeter (aged 53 years) unmarried
Occupation: Tailoress

Additional Details

Land Tax Records
St Margaret Westminster
Berwick Street
1807 Mills's Buildings ------- Easterling £4 3s 4d -- 16s 8d
1808 Mills's Buildings James Easterling £4 3s 4d -- 16s 8d
1810 Mills's Buildings James Easterling 16s -- 16s 8d
1811 Mills's Buildings James Easterling 16s -- 16s 8d
1812 Mills's Buildings James Easterling £4 3s 4d -- 16s 8d
1813 Mills's Buildings James Easterling £6 17s 6d -- £1 7s 6d
1814 Mills's Buildings James Easterling £6 17s 6d -- £1 7s 6d

1817 Berwick Street East - John Easterling 14 £1 0s 6d
1818 Berwick Street East - Jno Easterling 14 £1 0s 6d
1821 Berwick Street [Josh. Stevenson] - Jno Easterling 14 19s 10d
1822 Berwick Street [Josh Steavenson] Jno Easterling 14 19s 10d
1823 Berwick Street [Josh Steavenson] Jno Easterling 14 19s 10d
1826 Berwick Street [Clarke] Jno Easterling 30 £2 3s 9d
1828 Berwick Street [Clarke] John Easterling 30 £2 0s 0d

Note: It is unclear who the earlier James Easterling is, and what relationship he shares with John Easterling, Tailor.

Pigot's Directories of London for 1820, 1822 & 1825-6 all list John Easterling, tailor, as living in 24 Berwick Street, Soho

Otterton Parish
Apprenticeship Indenture - 5th July 1790

This indenture, made the 5th day of July in the 30th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Ninety.
Witnesseth that Mr Oliver Carter and John Bridle church wardens of the parish of Otterton in the county of Devon and Jacob Skinner and John White overseers of the Poor of the said parish, by and with the consent of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the said County whose names are hereto subscribed, have put and placed, and by these Presents do put and place John Easterling, a poor child of the said parish, Apprentice to Mr William Pew for an estate called Grindles with him to dwell and serve from the day of the date of these Presents, until the said apprentice shall accomplish his full age of 21 years according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
During all which term the said apprentice his said master faithfully shall serve in all lawful business, according to his power, wit and ability; and honestly, orderly and obediently in all things demean and behave himself towards his said master and all his during the said term.
And the said William Pew for himself, his Executors and Administrators, doth covenant and grant to and with the said Churchwardens and Overseers, and every of them, their and every of their Executors and Administrators, and their and every of their successors, for the time being, by these presents, That the said William Pew the said apprentice in Husbandry ..... shall teach and instruct or cause him to be taught and instructed during the said term.
And shall and will during all the term aforesaid, find, provide, and allow, unto the said apprentice, meet, competant, and sufficient Meat, Drink and apparel, lodging, washing and all other things, necessary and fit for an apprentice. And also shall and will to provide for the said apprentice, that he be not any way a Charge to the said Parish , or parishoners of the same, but of and from all Charges shall and will save the said Parish and parishoners harmless and indemnified during the said term.

In witness whereof, the Parties above said to these present Indentures, interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year above written.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of John Hill.
William Pew signs and seals
We whose Names are subscribed, Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid do consent to the putting forth of the abovesaid John Easterling apprentice, according to the intent and Meaning of the above Indenture.
Samuel Eyre
Richd Row

Guildhall Library : Records of Sun Life Office
Policy Register
ref MS 11936/498 - date 1822 - 1824
item ref MS 11936/498/1005073 - date 14 May 1823
Insured : John Easterling at 24 Berwick Street, Soho, tailor

City of Westminster Archives
St. Anne, Soho, Westminster
Baptism Register
6 Dec 1835 No entry for Easterling found !!

The IGI gives these details.

Boyd
1798 Cranham, Essex Jemima Easterling & Jon Mathews [Ed : not sure about these, but they may have been witnesses] This needs checking out

1841 Census
Commercial Road, Exeter

name age trade born in Co

John Easterling 60 Tailor yes

Jemima Easterling 50 no

John T Easterling 20 Tailor j no

George H Easterling 15 no

Frances Easterling 10 yes

1851 census
All Hallows on the Wall, Exeter
West Street

name relation condition age occupation born

Thomas Easterling head mar 30 Tailor St James, London

Sarah Easterling wife mar 35 St Thomas, Devon

Ellen Easterling dau un 4 Exeter, Devon

Maria Easterling dau un 2 Exeter, Devon

1851 Census
All Hallows on the Wall, Exeter, Devon
Bartholomew Terrace

name relation condition age occupation where born

William Matthews head mar 42 Silversmith Exeter, Devon

Charlotte Matthews wife mar 44 Laundress Tiverton, Devon

Fanny Easterling visitor un 22 Tailoress Exeter, Devon

Elizabeth Gregory visitor un 27 Tailoress Exeter, Devon

1851 census
East Teignmouth, Devon
Dawlish Street

Margaret Champenonne head un 78 Land property Hartington, Devon

Jane Marsh serv un 60 Cook Totnes, Devon

Elizabeth Easterling serv un 34 House maid St James, Westminster

1881 census
Exeter, Devon
Parsons court, Stepcote Hill

name relation condition age occupation birth

Thomas Easterling head widower 60 Tailor St James, London

Sources

{1}
Saint Botolph, Aldgate, City of London
Marriage register
John Easterling otp bachelor and Jemima Beadle otp spinster
married in this church by banns
22 November 1810
This marriage was solomnized between us, both sign the register book
In the presence of Wm? Easterling, Ann Martha Telle, Charlotte Barclay {2}
Greater London Record Office. Film No. x87/164 entry No -
Christ Church, Southwark, Surrey
1811 15th December
Baptism of John James son of John & Jemmima Easterling
Date of Birth 18th November, 1811
{3}
City of Westminster Archives
St. Anne, Soho, Westminster entry No. 1008 1814 22 December
Baptism of George William Easterling, son of John & Jemmima Easterling of St. Anne's Court, tailor.
Born 23 October, 1814.
Minister Roderick McLeod. Minister Thomas Rogers
{4}
City of Westminster Archives
St. Anne, Soho, Westminster
1815 7th May Burial of George William Easterling son of John & Jemmima Easterling of St. Anne's Court, tailor.

{5}
City of Westminster Archives
St. Anne, Soho, Vol 4 entry No. 1699
1816 12th May
Baptism of Elizabeth Easterling, daughter of John & Jemmima Easterling of St. James, Tailor
Born 27th April, 1816.
Minister Roderick McLeod

{6}
St Anne, Westminster, Middlesex
1819 May 30th
Baptism of Thomas George Easterlingson of John & Jemmima Easterling of St. James, tailor.
Born 8 December 1818

{7} St James, Westminster, Middlesex
Burials register
1820 13 February
John James Easterling of Berwick Street, aged 8 years

{8}
St James, Piccadilly
Burial Register
Thomas George Easterling of Berwick Street, aged 10 month
Buried 16th April 1820

{9}
City of Westminster Archives
St. Anne, Soho, Vol No. 5 entry No. 2252
1822 3 March Baptism of John Thomas Easterling, son of John & Jemmima Easterling of St. James, Tailor
Born 28th July, 1821

{10}
City of Westminster Archives
St. Anne, Soho Vol. 5 entry No. 4003
1825 28th August
Baptism of George Henry Easterling, son of John & Jemmima Easterling of St. James, Tailor
Born 28 Aug 1824
H Pemble minister

Timeline

Timeline for John Easterling (1777-1848)

Date Age Condition

1777 0 born Clyst St George, Devon; Youngest son of William Easterling (1730-1780) & Elizabeth Venn (1739-1789)

1780 3 His father dies

1789 12 His mother, Elizabeth, marries William Gibbs

He would have become a parish apprentice, to a tailor, until aged 21

1898 21 Apprenticeship ends

At some point, goes to London

1810 33 marries Jemima Beadle (c1780-1848) at St Botolph without, Aldgate

1811 34 son John James born

1814 37 son George William born in Soho

1815 38 son George William dies in Soho

1816 39 daughter Elizabeth born

1817 40 Living at 24 Berwick Street, St James, Soho, Westminster (Land Tax, & Sun Life)

1818 41 son Thomas George born

1820 43 son John James dies at Berwick Street, aged 8 years

1820 43 son Thomas George dies

1821 44 son John Thomas born

1824 47 son George Henry born

1828 51 Last record of living 24 Berwick Street, St James, Soho, Westminster (Land Tax)

Returns to Devon with wife, Elizabth (12) John Thomas (7), George Henry (4)

1829 52 daughter Amelia Frances born East Teignmouth, Devon

1830 53 Living in Northumberland Place, Teignmouth (Pigot’s Directory)

1841 64 living in Commercial Road, Exeter with wife Jemima, John, George & Frances

1843 66 Referred to as “an infirm old man” in newspaper (see below)

1845 68 son John Thomas marries Sarah Splatt in Exeter

1845 68 becomes a grandfather to John Easterling born Commercial road, Exeter

1847 70 becomes a grandfather to Elizabeth Easterling born Exeter

1848 72 died in Commercial Road, Exeter

1848 Jemima Easterling dies aged 57, in Commercial Road, Exeter

John Thomas and Fanny are also Tailor / Tailoress

From Newspapers

Exeter & Plymouth Gazette Tuesday 25 October 1898

At Teignmouth Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr J.R. Gulson, the Rev Anson Cartwright, Col R.J. Morrison, Col C.W. Nightingale, and Mr. M.L. Brown
Mr G.H. Furler applied for an ejectment order against Mrs Heal, the occupier of the Bird in Hand Inn.
Mr W.J. Watts of Newton, acted as Magistrate's clerk
Mr J. Beal (Exeter) appeared for the applicant and Mr I. Carter (Torquay) for Mrs Heal

From the evidence it appears that the property was originally owned by a Mr Hutchings. On his death he left it to his sister, who died intestate, and the property fell by right into the hands of Mr G.H. Easterling who, by deed of gift, conveyed it to his son, Mr J. Easterling. He appointed Mr G.H. Furler as his agent to collect the rents, and he eventually leased the property from Mr J. Easterling

The usual notices to quit were served, which Mr Beal proved.

The contention on the part of Mr Carter was that the notice that was made out in the names of two persons was only signed by one; and secondly, in the notice of application for ejectment John Easterling was called James. This, Mr Carter contended was bad and fatal to the legallity of the notice.

After considerable argument on both sides the bench ruled that they had nothing before them to show authoritively that the notices were invalid, and made an order to give up possesion in 27 days. The case lasted nearly two hours.

Western Times, Tuesday 17 January 1899

At Newton County Court on Friday before his Honour Judge Woodfall, Elizabeth Heal, landlady of the Bird In Hand Inn, Teignmouth, claimed £50 from George Henry Furler, for that defendant, being the agent of George Henry Easterling and of John Henry Easterling, obtained from the Justices sitting in Petty Sessions at Teignmouth a warrant for the ejectment of plaintiff from Bird in Hand Inn, the defendant at that time not being entitled to the possesion of the said premises.

Mr Howland Roberts, barrister of the Western Circuit (instructed by Messes Carter and Carter), appeared for plaintiff; Mr D Metcalf, barrister of the Western Circuit, for the defendant.

Mr Roberts said the plaintiff's predecessor, her husband, John Heal, was the original tenant, and he remained the tenant until the demise of Mr John Hutchings, in the year 1874, and the defendant, George Henry Furler, now claimed that he was agent of Mr Hutchings successors. The main point of the action was, shortly, whether Mrs Heal's tenancy of the Inn was duly determined by legal notice to quit.

It had been held under the third section of the Small Tenement Recovery Act, which provided that the obtaining of an order against a tenant where a landlord had no right to obtain, was a trespass, and that an action might be brought in the County Court based upon that trespass, although the warrant had not been duly executed.

Mr Roberts then went into the nature of the agreement and the alleged trepass. Mrs Heal bore out her advocate's statement, and said she received a notice on the 13th of October, and on the 24th went before the magistrates.The order was made aginst her and she instructed her solicitors to question it. On the 10th of December she received a letter from Furler and was ejected the same day.

Mr Frank Heal, plaintiff's son, Mr A E Dunn also gave evidence. The other witnesses in the case were George Henry Easterling, Mr Furler and P S Richards.

His Honour gave judgement for Plainfiff for the amount claimed £50 and costs, and remarked that if the plaintiff had claimed more she would have had it.

Western Times - Saturday 9 December 1843
Exeter Police
A boy named George Easterling with his father and mother, were charged with an assault on John Eveleigh. The complainant having heard on Sunday afternoon that some boys were fighting a cock, which he kept, in Horsepool Lane, went to the spot and found two boys named Rowe and Sayers, setting two cocks to fight, of which one was his. He collard Rowe, and in consequence of what he told him, went to Easterlings, and charged him with having set the cocks fighting. Easterling called him a liar, compainant persisted in coming into the house, and Easterling pushed him back. A scuffle ensued in which compainant got thrown down. Easterling's father, an infirm old man, and his mother came to his assistance, and Eveleigh got the worst of it, receiving a kick in the face from his juvenile opponent.
The Bench fined the boy 2s 6d.

Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 9 December 1843
James, George and Jemima Easterling, being father, mother and son, were charged by John Evelyn with an assault on Saturday afternoonm . The complainant kept a game cock, which was taken from his premises on that afternoon to fight another, as he was informed, at the instigation of the junior Easterling. He was called by a neighbour to stop the iniquitous proceedings and found the fight had ceased without the defendant being present. Seeing, however, that the other cock was put into Easterling's house, he knocked at the door, which was opened by the mother, and asked if her son had been engaged in the transaction. The son, who was upstairs, overheard the question, came down in a great passion and struck the complainant. The father and mother then pulled him towards the stairs and held him whilst the son kicked him, the marks of which he bore upon his visage.
Young Easterling then offered to fight him in the street, which he refused. The defendant denied the truth of this staement:- the father stated that he was upstairs reading the bible, and therefore not likely to get into a row of a Sunday: whilst the mother admitted that her son did push Evelyn and might have kicked him, but denied the other parts, and said that her son was "dressing" and had not been cock fighting at all. The father and mother were discgarged, but the son was fined 2s 6d and expenses.