Genealogy of the Westall family

1. Alexander Westall b. c. 1570 BA Corpus Christi, Cambridge 1585/6 Parish of Norwich 27/11/1586, Rector of Shropham, Norfolk 1587
married Elizabeth Rawlyns (bap. 18/11/1571 St Peter Mancroft, Norwich) probably grand-daughter of Richard Rawlyns on 29/11/1594 Attleborough.

2. Children: Daniel (Danyell Westhall) and Anne
Daniel bap 14/11/1596 Attleborough. Apothecary of Norwich. Member of Norwich Congregational Church by transfer from the English Church of Rotterdam 1644. One of the subscribers to the Covenant drawn up for the Congregational Church 10/06/1644. Appointed Deacon 26/07/1647.
Passenger Great Yarmouth to Amsterdam 26/06/1637 to visit his sister Anne.

3. Child: Daniel 1625 – 1669
wosted weaver apprenticed to Timothy Norwich. Freeman 1655
married Elizabeth Heyward (b. c. 1631 joint heiress with her sister Rebecca – who married Francis Annison- and daughter of William Heyward, Mayor of Norwich, Alderman 1664) on 19/04/1654 in Norwich. Elizabeth was left part of the manor of Reepham and Kerdistone and Kerdistone Calthorpe.

4. Children: Samuel b.c. 1660 worsted weaver benefited from grandfather William Heyward’s Will and was left land including Cheadle Grange in Staffs which he sold for £1085; Benjamin b. c. 1662 citizen of Norwich, voted Thetford 29/07/1702, living 1712; Timothy b.c. 1664 apprenticed to Edward Thomas of Norwich tailor for 7 years to 1701; Isaac b. c. 1667.
Samuel married Anne Palmer b.c. 1665.

5. Children: Mary b.c. 1685 who married Thomas Emerson b.c. 1680; Benjamin 1696 – 1772 b. Norwich. Freeman by birth Norwich councillor apprenticed to Thos. Bell in 1712 Beer Brewer; Samuel b.c. 1697 worsted weaver, freeman of Norwich by birth married Anne Reeve(b.1700) in 1737; Elizabeth b.c. 1702 married William Smith b. 1702 - their daughter Elizabeth(b 1731) married Benjamin Carr, their daughter Anne Carr was the third wife of William Hodges R.A. (1744-1797), their son was John (later Sir John) Carr.
Benjamin married Sarah, who died in 1750.

6. Children: Ann b. c. 1725 who married (1746) Richard Money b.c. 1720; Elizabeth b.c. 1730 who married John Merry b.c. 1730; Benjamin 1736 -1794 Freeman of Norwich by birth. Norwich councillor and church warden. Beer Brewer. Became bankrupt 1774, due to terms of his father’s will. Became manager of a brewery in Hertford (West St).
Benjamin married firstly Mary Ayton b. Clerkenwell, St James London 1739 and died 1770; he married secondly Martha Harbord 1752 – 1806, daughter of Henry Harbord.
From his first marriage Benjamin had children:
Benjamin b. c1763 who died in infancy; Richard b. 02/01/1765 Reepham, bap. All Saints, Norwich who became a Royal Academician and died in London 1836 when art tutor to Princess Victoria. (See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) Richard may have had a son with an unknown partner; Benjamin b. 1766 Norwich, Tailor and Coachmaker in London who married Elizabeth Harbord (1769 – 1814), sister of his father’s second wife; Mary b. 1769 Norwich who married William Daniell RA (1769 – 1837); Anne 1770 – 1862 born blind who had a pension from the Royal Household after the death of her brother Richard.
From his 2nd marriage Benjamin had two children:
7. William b. Hertford 12/10/1781 (who died 22/01/1850) was an Associate of the Royal Academy. He was landscape artist with Captain Matthew Flinders on the “Investigator” which circumnavigated Australia (1801 – 1803) (See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). He married Ann Sedgwick 1789-1862 daughter of Rev. Richard Sedgwick, Vicar of Dent and sister of Adam Sedgwick Professor of Geology at Cambridge University; George b c 1784 who died in infancy.

William had five children:
8. (Rev) William b. 1821 who became an MA at Cambridge and went into the Church.
He married (1858) Selina Hawksley 1833 – 1907 daughter of William Hawksley (c. 1800 – 1856); Richard b c. 1822 who died in infancy; Richard b c 1823 who appears to have been severely disabled; Thomas b. c. 1825 who became an engineer, married in India and joined the Royal Navy, his son Thomas moved to St. Lucia and his descendants are in many countries of the world; Robert b. c. 1829 who became an artist, exhibited at the RA and wrote an obituary of his father published in the “Art Journal” in 1850.

William had ten children:
9. (Rev) William Hawksley 1860 1922 who married Adela Pope (1870 – 1954) daughter of Dr Edmund Pope; Arthur who married Jessie Koe and had six children including Bernard, Chief Executive of De La Rue and Rev. Wilrid , Bishop of Crediton; Rosetta; Violet; Mabel; Lilian (Lily); Agatha; Jessie; Leonard who married Bertha Humphry; Lancelot who married Mabel Lengfester.

Rev William Hawksley had three children:
William Edmund Northcote 1896 - 1966 who married first Peggy who had a daughter also Peggy, both deceased; Rupert 1900 – 1984, was Headmaster of Kelly College, Devon 1939 – 1959, who married Sylvia Page 1897 – 1979, daughter of Arthur Page; (Rev) Nigel c1903 – c1990 who married Eileen and had two children.

10. Rupert had five children, four living of which the youngest

11. Richard Jeremy Westall b 17/02/1939 author of the two biographies of Richard Westall RA and William Westall ARA published in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and responsible for the website www.bradonpace.com/westall and this blog westallart.blogspot.com, who married Aurore Jean Ribas (b. 02/03/1945) in Eastbourne 12/03/1966, daughter of Juan Ribas of Marseille and Therese Esteve, is responsible for this genealogy and has a son Mark and a daughter Sylvia.