Her father Captain Thomas Galilee and his brother Samuel (also a master mariner) are examples (as in the story of Captain Thomas King, merchant of Wapping of the link between Whitby and the River Thames.
Jane and her five sisters were all born in Rotherhithe, where Jane was christened at St Mary's, Rotherhithe on 4 April 1784 at the age of one.
Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97) was the son of John Galilee and Mary Campion of the parish of Hinderwell, on the coast north of Whitby:
John Galilee married Mary Campion at Hinderwell in 1741.
Their children wereA note, written by a much later hand (possibly Capt Galilee’s granddaughter Miss Margaret Langborne 1825-1910) on the inside back cover of Thomas Atkinson's Whaling Journal was very useful in confirming that this was the family of Captain Thomas Galilee. It states:
• Jane Galilee, bap 8 Oct 1742
• Thomas Galilee, bap 27 Feb 1744
• John Galilee, bap 29 Sep 1747
• Robert Galilee, bap 20 Sep 1750
• Mary Galilee, bap 17 May 1753
• Samuel Galilee, bap 9 Dec 1755
• Hannah Galilee, bap 26 Oct 1758
• Margaret Galilee, bap 23 Jul 1761
• “female” (?Henrietta) Galilee, bap 2 Sep 1763
"Robert lived at Staithes and Jack at Sunderland both I believe also [drank?] like fishes as was the correct thing in those days for sailors.[The word in square brackets is fairly illegible, but I’m afraid it does look very like “drank”!]
Aunts Potter and Chilton were sisters"
Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97), son of John Galilee & Mary Campion
This section was revised and rewritten 30 January 2022
Thomas Galilee married Jane Atkinson (1751-1817) on 4 June 1775 in the parish church of Rotherhithe, on the south bank of the River Thames.
The Newcastle Courant of Saturday 17 June 1775 recorded:
Last week at St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe, London, Capt Thomas Galilee of Whitby, to Miss Atkinson of Kirkleatham
Thomas and Jane lived in Princes Street, Rotherhithe. A terrace of early 18th century houses, it was the best address in Rotherhithe. Thomas owned his own house there. He and Jane had 7 daughters, all baptised at St Mary's
- Mary, baptised 26 August 1778
- Elizabeth, baptised 22 March 1780
- Harriet, baptised 31 July 1782
- Jane, baptised 4 April 1784
- Margaret was born c1785
- Henrietta, baptised 1 August 1787
- Charlotte was baptised on 20 November 1788, and buried at St Mary's, Rotherhithe on 1 July 1789
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| St Mary's Rotherhithe by Rob Kam |
On 16 April 1793 Captain Galilee made his Will. He described himself as Master Mariner, of Princes Street in the parish of St Mary Rotherhithe. His executors were his
good friends the Revd William Atkinson Fellow of Catharine Hall Cambridge [his brother-in-law], Edward Sage, William Rawdon and Isaac Atkinson [his brother-in-law] of Cheapside London wholesale Linen Drapers & Copartners, and my brother Samuel Galilee of Red Lion Street in the parish of St John of Wapping, Middlesex, Master Mariner
By the summer of 1795, he and his family had moved across the river to Number 168 Wapping High Street and his wife had started up a business as a China and Slop-Seller (slops being sailors' outfits).
Captain Galilee died in 1797 when his daughters were aged between 10 and 19, but whether he died on land or at sea, I cannot tell. His widow Jane took out Letters of Administration with the Will annexed on 26 September, the men named as Executors having renounced probate.
John Galilee (1747-), son of John Galilee & Mary Campion
John Galilee married Ann Garbutt at Hinderwell on 13 Jun 1779. They had two children:
- Ann Galilee, born 15 Jun 1780, bap 15 Jun 1780 at Hinderwell
- John Galilee, born 2 Mar 1782, bap 3 Mar 1782 at Lythe
Robert Galilee (1750-), son of John Galilee & Mary Campion
Robert Galilee married Everel Weatherill on 6 Mar 1785 at Easington. Information on this family comes from the IGI and Richard Weatherill's family tree.
Robert was a shipowner, sailor and farmer near Staithes.
They had ten children:
- Robert Galilee, born 1 Nov 1786, bap 4 Nov 1786, buried 6 May 1796
- James Galilee, bap 15 Jul 1788, buried 16 Feb 1789
- Maria Galilee, born 15 Nov 1789, bap 16 Nov 1789, married Dr Appleby of Ripon [Richard Weatherill’s family tree]
- Jane Galilee, born 4 Sep 1791, bap 5 Sep 1791, buried 16 Mar 1792
- Averil Galilee, born 5 Dec 1793, bap 6 Dec 1793
- Lucy Galilee, born 21 Jun 1795, bap 23 Jun 1795, buried 28 Apr 1796
- Samuel Galilee, born 7 Dec 1796, bap 8 Dec 1796, married his cousin Hannah Weatherill [Richard Weatherill’s family tree]
- Robert Campion Galilee, born 23 Sep 1798, bap 25 Sep 1798
- John Galilee, born 18 Jun 1800, bap 19 Jun 1800
- William Galilee, born 15 Nov 1803, bap 16 Nov 1803, married Elizabeth Verrill [Richard Weatherill’s family tree]
Samuel Galilee (1755-), son of John Galilee & Mary Campion
Samuel was one of the executors of the 1793 Will of his brother Thomas: “my brother Samuel Galilee of Red Lion Street in the parish of St John of Wapping, Middlesex, Master Mariner"
He was also executor of the 1806 Will of his friend Thomas Potts, merchant of the Belize River mouth in Honduras.
Hannah Galilee ( 1758-), daughter of John Galilee & Mary Campion
Hannah Galilee married William Weatherill on 24 Mar 1782 at Hinderwell.
They lived in Hinderwell where William was a farmer and merchant, and churchwarden in 1827. They had eight children:
- James Weatherill, born 15 Aug 1783, bap 16 Aug 1783, bur 16 Nov 1787
- Mary Weatherill, born 7 Aug 1785, bap 9 Aug 1785, “died at about 20 years old”
- Hannah Weatherill, bap 2 Aug 1788, married her cousin Samuel Galilee. She died 2 Nov 1856 and is buried in Hinderwell churchyard beside her husband
- Jane Weatherill, born 24 Sep 1790, bap 26 Sep 1790. Miss Jane Weatherill was the governess of John Buchannan's children, they called her Ebbie.
- William Weatherill, born 31 Aug 1792, bap 3 Sep 1792, bur 12 Sep 1793
- Margaret Weatherill, born 23 Nov 1794, bap 26 Nov 1794. Died unmarried
- Hannah Weatherill, born 22 Jun 1798, bap 24 Jun 1798
- Ann Weatherill, born 12 May 1800, bap 13 May 1800
Margaret Galilee (1761-), daughter of John Galilee & Mary Campion
Margaret Galilee married Harrison Chilton on 20 Nov 1785 in Hinderwell. They had eleven children:
- Henrietta Chilton, born 23 Aug 1786, bap 24 Aug 1786, Hinderwell
- Isabella Chilton, born 25 Mar 1789, bap 26 Mar 1789, Hinderwell
- Mary Chilton, born 7 Nov 1790, bap 9 Nov 1790, Hinderwell
- Margaret Chilton, born 13 Sep 1792, bap 14 Sep 1792, Hinderwell
- Harrison Chilton, born 19 Nov 1794, bap 12 Dec 1794, Whitby
- Hannah Chilton, born 7 Feb 1797, bap 6 Mar 1797, Whitby
- Thomas Chilton, born 15 Aug 1798, bap 10 Sep 1798, Whitby
- Samuel Chilton, born Dec 1800, bap 18 Dec 1800, Whitby
- Jane Chilton, born 14 Aug 1802, bap 14 Sep 1802, Whitby
- Isabel Chilton, born 22 Dec 1805, bap 17 Jan 1806, Whitby
- Eliza Ann Chilton, born 11 Mar 1808, bap 7 Apr 1808, Whitby
1841 Census: Union Place, Whitby: Harrison Chilton (45) ship owner and family, including Eliza Chilton (30) independent
Henrietta Galilee ( ?1763-), daughter of John Galilee & Mary Campion
Henrietta married Thomas Potter on 27 Jan 1788 in Hinderwell. They lived in Sunderland. They had seven children:
- John Potter, born 4 Nov 1788, bap 4 Jan 1789
- Robert Potter, born 31 Jan 1790, bap 6 Jun 1790
- Elizabeth Potter, born 3 Oct 1791, bap 6 Jun 1792
- Thomas Potter, bap 27 Apr 1795
- Samuel Potter, born 6 Jul 1797, bap 17 Sep 1797, buried 15 Sep 1798
- Henry Potter, born 3 Jun 1802, bap 13 May 1803, Sunderland
- Mary Potter, born 9 May 1805, bap 28 Sep 1805, Sunderland, died 13 May 1810
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