William Edward Wilmerding (1799-1860)

Christian Wilhelm
Wilmerding
* 22.01.1762 Braunschweig
+ 19.07.1832 Moscow (NY)

Catherine
von Falkenhahn
* 03.04.1766
+ 31.12.1839 Moscow, NY, USA

William Edward
Wilmerding

Kaufmann

* 08.09.1799 New York City
+ 11.04.1860 New York City

1. Kinder mit Joanna Mary Gosman (* 29.11.1801 Scotland + 26.03.1842 New York?) (oo 23.04.1821):

George Gosman Wilmerding * 14.03.1822 Moscow, Livingston County, NY + 03.06.1889 Bay Shore, Suffolk County, NY	Catherine Falkenham Wilmerding * 16.08.1823 Moscow, Livingston County, NY + 18.01.1825 Moscow, Livingston County, NY	William Edward Wilmerding * 15.07.1825 Moscow, Livingston County, NY + 21.04.1856
Charles Henry Wilmerding * 22.08.1827 Moscow, Livingston County, NY + 31.12.1871	John Christopher Wilmerding * 28.02.1829 in New York, NY + 11.12.1903 Orange, NJ oo 21.04.1864: Georgiana Louisa Heckscher 2 Söne und eine Tochter	Theodore Tho der Horst Wilmerding * 27.05.1831 New York, NY + 26.12.1884 Hamilton, Bermuda
Isaac Townsend Wilmerding * 12.05.1833 New York, NY + 06.01.1837 New York, NY	Thomas Augustus Wilmerding * 27.05.1835 + 26.10.1906 Moscow, Livingston County, New York	Mary Joanna Wilmerding * 01.01.1837 New York, NY + 09.02.1843 New York, NY
Catherine Wilmerding * 20.06.1839 New York, NY + 29.10.1887 Lausanne, Schweiz unverheiratet	.	.

2. Kinder mit: Margaret Elizabeth Lawrence (+ 18.12.1850) (oo 18.11.1845):

Thomas Lawrence
Wilmerding
* 16.08.1846 New York, NY
+ 30.05.1879 auf See
unverheiratet

Margaret Ireland
Wilmerding
* 22.07.1848 New York, NY
+ ?

Frederick Becker
Wilmerding
* 19.07.1850 New York, NY
+ 23.01.1902 Paris
oo 1885: Ida Schenck (* 1856 NY)
kinderlos

3. Kinder mit: Eleanore Earle Lawrence (* 31.01.1827 New York + 06.08.1874 Vevey, Vaud, Suisse) (oo 27.11.1853):

Washington
Wilmerding
* 22.02.1856 New York, NY
+ 14.05.1860

Edward Mortimer
Wilmerding
* 24.08.1858 New York, NY
+ 03.10.1887 Navajo Springs, Arizona
unverheiratet

Louis Earle
Wilmerding
* 19.09.1860 New York, New York
+ ?

Quellen:
- Seine Seite bei Pumyea/Venedam.
- A. Munsell Bradhurst: "My forefathers, their history from records & traditions": "Mr, Wilmerding's eldest surviving son, William Edward, was born in 1799; ...
CHAPTER V
THE WILMERDINGS IN AMERICA— WILLIAM EDWARD
William Edward, the eldest surviving son of Cliristian William Wilmerding, was born in New York, 8th September, 1799. He became one of the most distinguished and prosperous merchants of his day — one of those whose honourable careers Mr. Walter Barrett loved to describe in his history of the Old Merchants of New York — and, withal, Mr. Wilmerding was as well known for his generosity and kindness of heart as he was for his business ability. Genial and sym- pathetic, he subscribed largely to the charitable and philanthropic institutions of his city, and his known integrity and his courtly manners won for him the respect of all with whom he was brought in contact. A true friend — without ever a backward glance or petty consideration — there were many among his less fortunate acquaintances and rela- tives who owed to him their first step on the ladder of prosperity.
He founded the firm of Wilmerding, Priest, & Mount, for so long well known as Wilmerding & Mount.
He married three times ; his first wife was Joanna Mary Gosman, who was born in Scotland 29th November, 1801, being the daughter of George Gosman, a Scotchman, descended, it is said, from the ancient Spanish family of Guzman," through the Duke of Medonia- Sidonia, a Grandee of Spain, who, having come to England in the Spanish Armada {temp. Queen Elizabeth), finally took refuge and settled in Scotland.^
By this marriage Mr. Wilmerding had seven sons and one sur- viving daughter, who died unmarried in Switzerland, in 1887, from the effects of a fire. Of the sons, George Gosman Wilmerding, the eldest, married Cornelia Lawrence (a sister of his step-mother's), and
THE WILMERDINGS IN AMERICA 293
died leaving daughters only ; the second son, William Edward,' named after his father, had four children, of whom the eldest, another William Edward,^ was the father of an only son, also named William Edward, who was born in 1874.
• The third son of Mr. Wilmerding by Joanna Gosman was the late Charles Henry Wilmerding, who left several sons by his wife, Harriet Burnham Russ ; the fourth was the late John Christopher, who left two sons and a daughter by his wife, Georgiana Louisa, daughter of the late Charles Heckscher, by Georgiana Louisa, daughter of John Gerard Coster; the fifth son was the late Theodore Wilmerding, who left a son and two daughters ; the sixth son died in childhood ; and the seventh, Thomas Augustus, married Miss Anne Elizabeth Clinton, and had four sons.
Mr. Wilmerding having lost his first wife (Joanna Gosman) 26th March, 1842, married secondly 18th November, 1845, Margaret Elizabeth Lawrence, one of several much-admired sisters, of whom another married Mr. Wilmerding's eldest son, George Gosman Wilmerding, as already stated. By this marriage Mr. Wilmerding had two sons and a daughter: — Thomas Lawrence Wilmerding, who died unmarried in 1879; the late Frederick Becker Wilmerding, who married Miss Ida Schenck in 1885, and died without issue in Paris, January, 1902; and Margaret Ireland Wilmerding.
The second wife dying i8th October, 1852, Mr. Wilmerding married thirdly his deceased wife's sister,^ Eleanore Earle Lawrence, 27th November, 1852, and had three sons. The eldest of these, named Washington, died in childhood ; Edward Mortimer, the second, died unmarried in 1887; and Louis Earle, the third, married firstly Miss
• The four children of Wiiliam Edward Wilmerding and his wife, Maria Dore, are the late William Edward Wilmerding ; the late Ferdinand Wilmerding (who married Emma, daughter of the Hon. B. Tracy) ; Mrs. William Moore, and Mrs. Le Grand Cramer.
^ The late William Edward Wilmerding (son of William Edward Wilmerding and Maria Dore) married ist July, 1872, Miss Mary Gregg, the ceremony being per- formed by her father, the Bishop of Texas, assisted by the Bishops of Mississippi and Tennessee.
3 The law with regard to Deceased Wife's Sister was the same in the United States as it is at present (1909) in England.
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S. Schenck (a sister of his step-brother Frederick's wife), by whom he had issue, and secondly Mathilde, daughter of Baron G. de Manfredi, of Corsica, by whom he has further issue.
Mr. Wilmerding — who was one of the most notable merchants of New York during the early part of the Nineteenth century — died 11th April, i860, and was buried in Greenwood, and his widow (Eleanore Lawrence) survived him until 6th August, 1874. An obituary notice which appeared shortly after his death says :
" Through a long course of years, he has maintained a high and imblemished reputation as a man of business, and as a citizen ; nor have his private virtues less truly won for him the esteem of a wide circle of friends. His death creates a void in the highest walks of our commercial life — an ambition to occupy which would well become the "best of our rising business men."

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