The tree below has been compiled by descendants. Since I now manage "The Tilbury Magazine" - and more information is available online - I'm trying to clarify the beginning of the tree. Detail is lacking as regards the "nephews and nieces", and whether or not George was himself a father. Any help, confirmation of particular items, would be most welcome - thank you.
BAILEY BELL BERRY BISHOP BLIGHT BOSTOCK BRAMSTON BRIGHT CROZIER DURRANT EDMONDS
FITT FROST INGHAM JOHNSON LEGERTON MORGAN NATHAN NICHOLLS PORTER POSFORD
QUITTENBOURNE REDHOUSE? SERGENT SMITH TRAYLEN WOMBWELL WOODARD
By George Wombwell's will the menagerie was divided amongst his widow, the EDMONDS - and a relative DAY, of whom I have discovered nothing to date. (Caroline, December 2017)
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- 1 George Wombwell
- b: 24 December 1777 Saffron Walden, Essex
- Moved to Langley, Essex, when a few weeks old
- d: 16 November 1850 Northallerton Market (bronchitis)
- Buried Highgate Cemetery, London
- Started the Wombwell Menagerie
- & Anne MORGAN b: 1788; d: 3 October 1876
http://www.georgewombwell.com/articles/Enigmatic_Mrs_Wombwell_updated2016.pdf
Please read the above article about Anne Morgan/Wombwell as regards her origins and marriage, daughter
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- Elizabeth, sister of George Wombwell (according to her obituary); or (of Anne [MORGAN]?)
+ John BLIGHT (see census entries below)
Ellen BLIGHT, niece of GW [?] - "The Lion Queen" - b: 1833
d: 11 January 1850, killed by tiger at Chatham*
FreeBMD: Ellen Elizabeth BRIGHT d: 1Q 1850 (Medway 5/283)
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- 2 Amelia Ann Wombwell (see pdf above)
- b: 18 April 1808; d: 9 June 1859
- Buried Highgate Cemetery; took on Menagerie No. 1
- + Edmund BRAMSTON (Army accoutrement maker)
- 2 Mrs REDHOUSE?
- 2 Mrs BRIGHT [Invalid entry]
* According to Archibald Forbes, writing in 1872 as an eye-witness, Helen Bright was killed while performing at Greenwich Fair - see the link below to "George Wombwell: Origins & Adventures"
At the Inquest it was stated that "The deceased was a niece of Mr. Wombwell's, and daughter of John Bright, a bugle player in the band."
1851: Town Head - Caravans - Wardleworth, Lancashire
Ann Wombwell, Head (Widow) age 63 b. [1788] Braintree, Essex (Wild Beast Merchant)
Harriet BLIGHT, Niece age 15 b. [1836] London, Middlesex (Scholar)
Samuel UNWIN, Nephew age 19 b. [1832] Waddesdon, Essex (Servant)
Leonora PLANT, Servant age 22 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (House Servant)
James KILLICK, Servant age 36 Crefsen, Essex (Labourer)
Thomas DAVY, Servant age 23 b. Little J____nsham, Norfolk (Labourer)
John BLIGHT, Head age 49 b. London, Middlesex (Musician)
Elizabeth BLIGHT, Wife age 57 b. Braintree, Essex
- Emma Elizabeth BLIGHT, Daughter age 22 b. Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Henry Morland BLIGHT, Son age 19 b. Chesterfield, Derbyshire
George ANTHONY, Head, age 22 b. Norsfield, Worcestershire (Master of the Band)
Elizabeth ANTHONY, Wife age 25 b. Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
Jane HALSELL, Servant age 11 b. Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
1861: Market Place - Sleep in Caravans - Town of Doncaster, Lancashire
List of Persons not in Houses:
George BERT ) Brothers (Unm) age 17 b. Leicester, Leicestershire (Showman)
Charles BERT) age 8 b. Leicester, Leicestershire
Joseph CRECRAFT, Head age 36 b. Leicester, Leicestershire (Showman)
Elizabeth CRECRAFT, Wife age 35 b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- Maryann CRECRAFT, Daughter age 12 b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- John CRECRAFT, Son age 9 b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- Martha CRECRAFT, Daughter age 1 b. Warwick, Warwickshire
Ann Wombwell, (W[idow]) age 73 (Properietor of Menagerie)
John BLIGHT, Brother in Law (Married) age 59
Elizabeth BLIGHT, W. Sister (Married) age 63
- Edwin BLIGHT, Nephew (Married) age 39
+ Helen BLIGHT, Neice (Married) age 25
- Emma BLIGHT, Neice (Unmarried) age 33
- Henry BLIGHT, Nephew (Unmarried) age 28
- Harriet BLIGHT, Neice age 25
- Anne BLIGHT, Neice age 18
Thomas DAVEY, Servant (Unmarried) age 30
- 1 William Wombwell b: 1790; d: 29 December 1854
- Buried at Tollesbury, Essex
- + Hannah b: 1789 d: 11 September 1854 Buried at Tollesbury, Essex
- 2 Mary Ann Wombwell b: 1811 d: 3 Sep. 1881
- Buried Tolleshunt Knights, Essex
- + John POSFORD (m: 17 February 1842) b: 1807; d: 21 February 1893
- Buried Tolleshunt Knights, Essex
- 3 Had 2 sons and 2 daughters - See POSFORD tree.
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- 2 Harriet Wombwell b: 1815; d: 1890
- Ran menagerie No. 2
- + James EDMONDS b: 1805; d: 1871
- Inherited menagerie No. 2 in 1850
- 3 Amelia Wombwell
- 3 Annie Wombwell d: 1925
- 3 James Wombwell
- Ran menagerie No. 2 for a while before it was
- disposed of to the BOSTOCK family
- 3 Hannah Wombwell
- 3 Maggie Wombwell
- 3 Two other children - died young?
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- 2 Joseph Wombwell d: 5 July 1873 Buried Tollesbury, Essex
- + Charlotte CROZIER d: 1879 Buried Tollesbury, Essex
- 2 George Wombwell b: circa 1818; d: 1909
- Ran menagerie No. 3
- 2 James Wombwell b: 1819; d: 23 November 1846
- Buried with his mother at Tollesbury
- 2 Eliza Wombwell b: 1828; d: 5 March 1846
- Buried with her mother at Tollesbury
- 2 Charles Wombwell b: 1829; d: 1912
- + Spouse
- 3 Sarah Wombwell
- 3 Emily Wombwell
- 3 Kate Wombwell
- + Spouse ??
- 4 Fred (Lion tamer "Captain Fred Wombwell")
- b: August 1877; d: 4 May 1942
- + Mary TRAYLEN, married 1909 (No children)
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- 2 Frederick Wombwell b: 1832; d: 1869 Buried in Shrewsbury
- + Letitia SERGENT (m: 6 April 1852 at Tolleshunt Knights)
- d: 1867 in childbirth in the poorhouse
- 3 George Henry Wombwell b: 1863; d: 1933 Tollesbury (Farmer)
- + Caroline LEGERTON b: 1864; d: 1946
- 4 George Frederick Edmonds Wombwell b: 1888
- + Susan FROST b: 1886
- 5 Gwen Wombwell
- + Keith SMITH
- 6 Timothy SMITH
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- 5 Pauline Wombwell
- + Harrison BELL
- 6 Gareth BELL
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- 4 Florence Caroline Wombwell
- 4 Lillian Jessie Wombwell
- + Charles
- 4 Elsie Wombwell
- + William JOHNSON
- 4 Sydney Wombwell
- + Ethel SMITH
- 5 Frank Wombwell
- + Brenda
- 6 Mandy Wombwell
- + Paul INGHAM
- 7 Richard INGHAM
- 7 Gary INGHAM
- 7 Alex INGHAM
- 7 Elizabeth INGHAM
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- 5 George Wombwell
- + Valmai BULLOCK
- 6 Clive Wombwell
- + Janice
- 7 Sarah Wombwell
- 7 James Wombwell
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- 6 Robert Wombwell
- + (1) Birgitta
- 7 Sven Wombwell
- 7 Leif Wombwell
- + Catelyn
- 8 Alexa Wombwell
- 8 Nicole Wombwell
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- + (2) Kathryn
- 8 Jonathan Wombwell
- 8 Kyle Wombwell
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- 6 Nigel Wombwell
- + Mandy
- 7 Victoria Wombwell
- 7 Charlotte Wombwell
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- 4 Edward Bostock Wombwell
- + Doris
- 4 Claud Robert Legerton Wombwell
- + Betty
- 5 Claud Wombwell
- + Pat
- 6 Simon Wombwell
- 6 Timothy Wombwell
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- 4 Ena Wombwell
- + Kenneth
- 5 Susan
- 5 Charles
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- 4 Doilice Wombwell
- + Charles BERRY
- 5 Murray BERRY
- + Joyce
- 5 Charles BERRY
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- 4 Alice Wombwell (died aged 2)
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- 3 Frederick Wombwell b: 1857 d: 21 November 1907 Batchelor
- Buried Tollesbury
- 3 Charles James Wombwell b: 1860, Orphaned age 8; d: 1936
- Fostered by Mrs POSFORD at Tolleshunt Knights
- Apprenticed to his uncle Charles, a fisherman
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- + Ellan DURRANT
- 4 James Wombwell
- + Spouse?
- 5 Joseph Wombwell
- + Laly
- 6 Douglas Wombwell
- + Spouse ?
- 7 Tracy Wombwell
- 7 Joanne Wombwell
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- 4 Ernest William Wombwell
- 4 Arhtur Albert Wombwell
- + Nita
- 5 Arthur Frederick Wombwell
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- 4 Albert Edward Wombwell b: 1900 d: 1979
- + Marjorie
- 5 Kenneth James Wombwell
- + Jean NATHAN
- 6 Mark Andrew Wombwell
- + Julie NICHOLLS
- 7 Helen Elizabeth Wombwell
- 7 Claire Emily Wombwell
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- 6 Kerry Suzanne Wombwell
- + Robert WOODWARD
- 7 Maria WOODWARD
- 7 David WOODWARD
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- 5 Yvonne Wombwell
- + Alan PORTER
- 6 Richard PORTER
- 6 Catherine PORTER
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- 4 Charles Wombwell
- + Florence
- 5 Maurice Charles Wombwell
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- 4 Frederick Edmonds Wombwell b: 7 December 1899; d: 30 November 1993
- + Edie
- 5 Alan Wombwell
- + Nancy
- 6 John Wombwell
- 6 Michael Wombwell
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- 5 Betty Wombwell
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- 4 Judith Helena Wombwell, Emigrated to New Zealand
- 4 Lottie Catherine Wombwell, Unmarried
- 4 Lettticia Ellen Wombwell
- 5 Letticia Wombwell
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- 4 Alice Harriet Wombwell
- + Mr. WOODARD
- 5 Bunty WOODARD
- 5 Eric WOODARD
- 5 Bernard WOODARD
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- 3 Arthur Wombwell d: in Severalls Institution, Colchester
- 3 Alice Fanny Wombwell b: 1854; d: at Portsmouth
- + George Edward BISHOP
- 3 Catherine Hannah Wombwell b: 1856
- + Thomas Henry QUITTENBOURNE
- 4 Alice Wombwell QUITTENBOURNE
- 4 George Wombwell QUITTENBOURNE
- 4 Letitia Harriet QUITTENBOURNE
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- 2 William Wombwell b:1836 (??) d: 12 June 1849
- Killed by elephant at Coventry
- + Spouse (?)
- 3 Harriet Wombwell (?)
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- 2 Emma Wombwell b: 1839; d: 1909
- + James BOSTOCK m: 6 October 1852 Tollesbury; b: 1814; d: 1878
- Founder of Bostocks Menagerie,
- later Bostock & Wombwells' Menagerie
- 3 Arthur James BOSTOCK d: infant
- 3 A. F. W. BOSTOCK d: infant, Buried with grandmother
- Hannah Wombwell at Tollesbury
- 3 James William BOSTOCK b: 1855; d: 1919
- 3 George Henry BOSTOCK b: 1857; d: 1859
- 3 Edward Henry BOSTOCK b: 1858; d: 1940
- + Elizabeth BOSTOCK (cousin)
- 3 Amelia Ann BOSTOCK b: 1861; d: 1864
- 3 Emma BOSTOCK b: 1864; d: 1878 Norwich, Buried Tollesbury
- 3 Francis (Frank) Charles BOSTOCK b: 1866; d: 1912
- "The Animal King" - Went to USA
- + Susan BAILEY of Barnum & Bailey's Circus
- 3 Fannie BOSTOCK b: 1874; d: 1933
- + Frederick FITT
- 4 Doris Winifred FITT of Norwich
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- 1 Elizabeth ?Wombwell? b: 1800 Braintree, Essex; d: 3 February 1870 Edinburgh
- + John J. T. BLIGHT: Musician with Wombwell's Menagerie;
- b: 1801; d: 20 May 1876 Edinburgh - see above
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- 1 Frederick Wombwell b: 1802; d: 1837
George Wombwell: Origins & Adventures
The Menagerie at Windsor Castle by command of Queen Victoria
The Wombwell Menageries in the Newspapers
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