Author: Waugh, Joseph
Biography:
WAUGH, Joseph (1785-1869: ancestry.com)
He was born in the Lake District in the hamlet of Redmain, Isel, Cumberland, on 8 Jul. 1785 and baptised on 31 Jul., the son of George and Sarah (Fell) Waugh. Nothing is known of his education but he must have gone into his father’s business in Carlisle: he (Joseph) is listed as a grocer there in 1810-11. His father eventually retired in 1833 at which time he had premises on the market-square and specialised in coffee-roasting; in the 1861 census Joseph Waugh describes himself as a retired tea merchant. The Tagus: an Epic Poem (1814), celebrating Wellington’s military achievements on the Continent, is his only known literary effort. It does not appear to have been advertised or reviewed, but it may reflect Waugh’s expanding commercial interests at the time, since in 1815 he advertised as an agent for certain new publications issued in parts (Carlisle Journal). On 2 May 1825 he married Alice Ridley Crow (b 1797) at Haughton Le Skerne, Durham. They had two daughters, one born in Bristol in 1830 and the other in Haughton Le Skerne in 1835. The family settled in Darlington, Durham, where they may have farmed for a time: that is the occupation given in the census of 1851. Farming was perhaps combined with shop-keeping. Waugh was retired by 1861 and he later moved a few miles away, with his wife, to Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire, where he died on 12 Mar. and was buried on 16 Mar. 1869, leaving effects valued at under £10,000. She lived to 1877 and also died at Middleton Tyas. (ancestry.com 28 Apr. 2024; findmypast.com 28 Apr. 2024; Carlisle Journal 28 Oct. 1815) HJ