Richard Payne MD

[famhunter]

I would like to find more relating to the family of Richard Payne MD (1733 - 1813), one time of Kensington Square (1795).  He married Mary Anne Carter and had children Mary Anne and William.

Mary Anne Payne married Richard Pretyman Cotton in 1816.

Any help gratefully received.

Fam

[Valda]

Hi Fam

Have you obtained a copy of Richard's Prerogative Court of Canterbury will?

Will of Richard Payne, Doctor in Physic of Kensington , Middlesex 13 March 1813 PROB 11/1542

Does it give you any further information about his family?

History and antiquities of Kensington: interspersed with biographical ...‎ - Page 277
by Thomas Faulkner,

A square marble tablet inscribed to the memory of Richard Payne M.D. of Kensington Square who died 14th February 1813 aged 80.

Kensington Square Individual house histories

'In 1785 the old house was purchased by Richard Payne of Gerrard Street, Soho, Doctor of Physic, who pulled it down and erected two new houses on the site. (ref. 97) Numbered 9 and 10, they were of unequal size, the smaller No. 9 having a frontage of under twenty feet. No. 10 was first inhabited from 1787 by Payne himself, who at the time of his death, in 1813, owned six freeholds in the square, on the east, south and north sides'

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50304


Regards

Valda

[famhunter]

Valda

Thank you for all the work you have put into my problem.

I have a copy of Richard Payne's Will, courtesy of Sue Hopkins, and there is certainly interesting information but unfortunately little applying to his ancestors.

The contents of a memorial tablet I have as a source on my website, listed below.  You will also be able to see what I have and have not in terms of information or lack of it relating to Richards parents.

I am also aware of the property in Kensington Square, and Gerard St, Soho, from the National Archives and the book by W H George on Richard Payne's grandson, Richard Payne Cotton.  I was not aware of your beautiful quote from Faulkner, that is a great addition.  Thank you.

My problem relates however more to where Richard Payne came from, I find it hard to believe that a successful doctor should not have equivalent family connections somewhere in a well documented form.  Thank you for your help in pointing the way.

Fam

[Valda]

Hi Fam

you can attempt to track him through his qualifications. He doesn't appear in this

http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/files/Medical_Licences.pdf


I would read the Guildhall research guide first for other sources

http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/apoths.htm

The other main medical libraries and archives are

The Wellcome library

http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/


The Royal College of Physicians

http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/general/gen_search.htm


The Royal College of Surgeons

http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/apoths.htm


It is possible that he might have qualified in Scotland but check English sources first.


Regards


Valda