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From: Mimi <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] John STUL(T)Z - tailor's almshouse
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:05:57 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200504191800.j3JI0bbn023147@lists8.rootsweb.com>


> Family lore states that an uncle John STULZ (a tailor), was made a Baron
> for his philanthropy with this almshouse. We do not know the location or
> the name of this almshouse.

Thank you Mary and Colin for your insights, they are much appreciated.
Here is a little bit more information (not that I have much!)
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What I do (sort of) know. John had at least one brother, Andrew (and I
suspect a couple of sisters because of nieces and nephews named in his
will). They were supposedly from and area of Alsace-Lorraine. John, as I
mentioned, ended up in England. Andrew went to Brooklyn, New York. In US
census records I have found sometimes nativity is listed as French,
sometimes German which leads me to believe they lived near the boarder.
Andrew's son's obituary lists birthplace of S---------, France
(approximately 7-10 letters).

John married Sophia _______ and they adopted a daughter, Sophia Trouvee
Clifford. After John's death Sophia married Henry Robert Lewis, Esq.

Rumor has it that John was the tailor to the queen's beau ... or maybe
people mixed this up .... I've seen references to a John Stulz being the
tailor to Beau Brummell. In any event, it appears that John was successful
at tailoring and left a legacy to the "unknown" almshouse and the other
institutions I mentioned in my first query.

the following is part of John's will:
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Extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate Divorce
And Admiralty Division of the High Court Justice.

In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

JOHN STULZ
Forty thousand pounds
On the fourth day of January 1853 the Will (with a Codicil)
Of John Stulz late of Saville Row in the County of Middlesex
And of Norwood in the County of Surrey deceased was proved
By the Oaths of Sophia Lewis (wife of Henry Robert Lewis
Esquire (formerly Stulz Widow the Relict William Wesbey
And Edward Clark (in the Will written Clarke) the Executors
To whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly
To administer An Interlocutory Decree having been first
Made and interposed for the force and validity of the said
Will and Codicil and a Remission under Seal of the Court of
The Judicial Committee of Her Majesty¹s Most Honorable Privy
Council having been brought in (as by Acts of Courts Appears.)

AVP.


Extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate Divorce
And Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice

In the Pre-rogative Court of Canterbury.

THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me JOHN STULZ of Saville Row in the
County of Middlesex Esquire made the Sixth day of July in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty eight I appoint my dear wife
Sophia Stulz and my friends William Wesbey of Princes Street Hanover Square
in the said County Tailor and Edward Clarke of the Stock Exchange in the
City of London stockbroker to be Trustees and also EXECUTRIX and EXECUTORS
of this my will
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