Robert HAMPTON [14884]

  General Notes:

Robert is recorded as a Merchant

Robert Hampton
Marriage
Marriage Date: 10 Sep 1812
Marriage Place: St George Hanover Square, Westminster, England
Spouse: Eliza Blagg
Register Type: Bishop's Transcript
Page:55
Number: 677
Witnessed by Wm. Blagg [her father] & Jane Blagg [her oldest sister].
Ref: London Metropolitan Archives; Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931 Westminster St George, Hanover Square, 1812 - 1816

677
Robert Hampton bachelor of St Botolph Aldgate London and Eliza Blagg spinster of this Parish were married in this church by licence this seventh day of September in the Year 1812 by me C Williams
This marriage was solemnised between us Robert Hampton, Elizabeth Blagg.
In the presence of M Blagg, Jane Blagg
Ref: Register Marriages St George, Hanover Square, London. (Bishops Transcript)

Possible Burial for ROBERT Hampton;Age: 52, Estimated birth year: abt 1776; Burial Date: 23 Sep 1828; Burial Place: St Luke, Chelsea, England"

The following advertisement appeared on the front page of "The Morning Post" newspaper in London, England on Saturday October 25, 1828. It also appears periodically through the months of November and December the same year.
AFFECTING CASE - The attention of a Christian and Benevolent Public respectfully and earnestly entreated to the following Case of deep Affliction and Distress. It was purposed to have given it publicity in a combined Narrative, drawn up by one of the benevolent persons who ministered to Mr. Hampton's wants in prison; but the distressed wife having in a letter to a Lady of distinguished Christian charity, set forth the sufferings of her Husband and children leaving out her own, (which have been great), it is thought that the unpremeditated language of her own sorrowful heart will best excite the charitable feeling that is desired:- "My Husband was formerly a merchant of some respectability in North America, where, from a misplaced confidence in his agent, during this time he was transacting business in this country, his property was sacrificed, and we precipitated from the position of every comfort to the most abject poverty. In August 1825, Mr. Hampton was seized with a violent illness which continued with unabated rigour for more than twelve months, when, contrary to the opinion of every one, the disease to some measure quelled, but left his frame in a shattered and debilitated a state, as utterly to preclude all possibility of his contributing to the support of our unhappy family, which consists seven Children, and our only means of supplying their necessities restricted to twelve shillings a week - sum little more than adequate to procure them bread. Thus, while hourly sinking into the grave through sickness and want, he was arrested, on the 23rd of May last, for a debt contracted in . . . . . some years ago, when health and industry afforded him the prospect of being enabled to discharge it. Unfortunately his long and severe illness put a final stop to all his exertion, and he was carried to a prison, where he now lies confined to his bed, from which, I fear. he will never arise; and but for the benevolence of one or two friends in the immediate vicinity of Whitecross street, destitute of every comfort. so melancholy a situation requires.
"EIIZA HAMPTON. 16 Jubilee-place, King's-road, Chelsea, Sept. 1, 1828."
The fear expressed by Mrs. Hampton was shortly afterward realized. Mr. Hampton died (and happily in great peace) on Sunday, the 14 th instant, in the Debtors' Prison, Whitecross-street, where, for many days previously, Mrs. Hampton (not long recovered from an illness that threatened her life) had been in watchful attendance upon him. The small weekly in-come upon which the family have had to subsist for nearly three years, (in the whole of which period Mr. Hampton was an entire invalid, and in the first of which he was confined wholly to his bed), will shortly cease, through exhaustion of the source whence it is derived. Mr. Hampton's father was one of his late and present Majesty's Gentlemen Pensioners; and she was brought up in great elegancy of life by the late Mr. Gifford, of literary eminence. Of the now fatherless family, two are boys of fifteen and thirteen years of age, and five girls, the oldest twelve, and the youngest two years old. The younger boy, although wholly uninstructed in the art, possesses a decided talent for drawing, chiefly architectural. The purpose of this appeal is to raise a fund to be invested for the benefit of the Widow, that, when her present small income shall have ceased, she may not be, as otherwise she would be, in circumstances of entire destitution. - Subscriptions will be most thankfully received by the following Bankers and Individuals, the latter of whom can wholly or in part authenticate the Widow's Narrative, and add to it many afflictive particulars: - Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths; Messrs. Frys and Chapman ; Sir K. C. Glynn, Mills, and Co. ; Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, and Co.; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co. St. James'- street ; Messrs. Cockburn, 4, Whitehall. The Rev. Dr. Towne, Chaplain to the London Lying-in Hospital, No. 3, Bache's-row, near Charles-square, Hoxton; M. Waller. Esq. No. 8, Lad-lane ; Mr. Jago (of the Invalid Office), No. 3, Elizabeth-street, Belgrave-place Chelsea ; Mrs. McMullan. St. Georges Hospital, Hyde Park-corner; Mr. John Horden, No.1 Barnsbury-street, Islington; Mr. How, 11, Fore-street Cripplegate; Mr. Liddell, No. 95, Bishopsgate-street Within; Mr. Edward Henwood, No. 1, Castle-court, Bulge-row, Cannon-street; John Smith, Esq. 5 Austin-friars; James Bruce, Esq. 7 Pope's Head-alley, Carnhill; Rev. H. Blunt, Sloanestreet, Chelsea,
Researched and Transcribed by Bob Thompson - 2020

  Research Notes:

That Robert Hampton was that who was born in India has been rejected.

Robert married Eliza BLAGG [14885] [MRIN: 5277], daughter of William BLAGG [22543] and Elizabeth REAR [22544], on 10 Jul 1812 in St George Hanover Sq. (Eliza BLAGG [14885] was born on 6 Oct 1787 in MDX LND, baptised on 4 Jan 1788, died in 1865 in 6 Askew Rd Hammersmith LND and was buried on 2 Oct 1865 in Brompton Cemetery LND.)