John OSMOND ³

  Notes:

The elder son, John was born in Corfe Castle in Dorset, but settled in Warminster and then in Reading, where he was an Exciseman. He rode armed 'cap-en-pie' ('from head to foot') with large sums of money to London. He had 10 children with his wife Rebecca Monger (qv), all born in Warminster apart from the youngest who was born in Reading.

Their eldest son John was a woollen draper in New Bond Street, and lived in Chapel Street off Belgrave Square. He married three times, and his only daughter Eliza married her cousin John Nicholls. John and Rebecca's eldest daughter was Elizabeth (qv) who married Ben Nicholls (qv) of Farnham. Their next son was James, who worked for the Bank of England in London.

Their next son William was a property owner in Reading; he married but did not have any children. Next was Mary who is thought to have died young. Their next son Thomas was a doctor in Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex, as was his son Thomas. Next was George, who lived in St Pancras, and married Barbara Winska, the sister of his brother James' wife Elizabeth Winska. Their next daughter Kezia married William Storry, who also worked for the Bank of England: they retired to Emberton in Buckinghamshire. Little is known about the youngest son Henry, apart from his apprenticeship to the Needlemaker's Company in London when he was 14. The youngest daughter Rebecca did not marry, and also lived in Emberton.

PCC: John Osmond PROB11/1363 dated 19-9-1801

Additional source:
London Apprentices, SoG

John married Rebecca MONGER, daughter of James MONGER and Rebecca BUDD, on 3 Jun 1771 in St Andrew, Farnham, Surrey.^{1 2} (Rebecca MONGER was born on 18 Apr 1747 ⁶, christened on 1 May 1747 in St Andrew, Farnham, Surrey ¹ and was buried on 11 Aug 1832 in St George Hanover Square, Westminster ⁷.)