3. Abraham3 TOULMIN (Abraham2, Abraham1) reference *13 (#333) was born ????. Abraham died 1716.
He married Mary ???? ????. (Mary ???? reference =*13) (Mary ???? is #655.) Mary became the mother of
Mary TOULMIN 1697. Mary became the mother of Abraham TOULMIN 1704. Mary became the mother of Caleb TOULMIN
?1715. From Oxon. (see above); name only from the will of *13 (App.J).
Abraham became the father of Mary TOULMIN 1697. Abraham became the father of Abraham TOULMIN 1704. Abraham
became the father of Caleb TOULMIN ?1715. An Abraham (no dates) is shown as son of *1 by JMH & ME90; not in Burke. "d.unm" (ME90).
I have rather arbitrarily identified him as the father of *131,*132, *133, whom I believe to have been the testator of App.J (see note under
*1 above), and the comments that follow depend on these assumptions.
"Mr Abraham Toulmin, though educated in the medical line, kept a school in Old Gravel Lane, Wapping. Mr Toulmin and his wife, the latter
descended from a family in Oxfordshire, the former from Yorkshire, were brought up in the established church; but discovered their love of
what appeared to them religious truth, and their reverential regards to the convictions of their own minds, by embracing the sentiments and
adopting the practices of the Sabbatarian Baptists." (Savage/life, referring to Savage's maternal grandfather, who must have been the
father of *131 since *132 was Savage's uncle.) Hence it is likely their children were not baptised as infants, and only the adult baptism of
*132 is known to have been recorded.
The apprenticeship of *132 confirms that his father was Abraham, not William Toulmin; and these two independent pieces of evidence I think
establish this quite conclusively despite the assertion in Burke. The assertion that *13 was from Yorkshire is difficult to reconcile with
descent from Abraham of Chard (*), and I wonder whether he may not after all have been connected to the Lancashire family - perhaps even
identical to Abraham Toulmin bap. Bolton-l-S 1675 (***3114), who seems to have disappeared from Lancashire and would have been about the
right age. (He even had a sister Sarah, but she probably d. young.) It seems highly probable that the father of *131 etc was also the
testator of App.J: the latter was a schoolmaster of the parish of Stepney (which at that time still included most of Old Gravel Lane) and it
is clear from the will that he was leaving children under 21: Mary (*131) would have been about 19; Abraham (*132) was apprenticed 3 years
later; Caleb (*133) may have been only 1, but I doubt whether the date 1715 for his birth is correct.
Abraham TOULMIN and Mary ???? had the following children:
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i.
William4 TOULMIN reference *134 (#995). He married
Mary HOWSON 1758. (Mary HOWSON reference =*134) (Mary HOWSON is #996.) William Toulmin of Hackney m. Mary Howson in 1758; "I think
(from an old book I saw in the Victoria and Albert Museum) that he was the brother of Caleb" (Flood,21). She is certainly referring to
Caleb (*133), but I've not traced the marriage and have no other record of this William, unless he was the surgeon of Prescot St . The date
suggests the next generation, and the surgeon of Prescot St (App.D,42 and App.O, end)
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ii.
Mary TOULMIN was born 1697.
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iii.
Abraham TOULMIN was born 1704.
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iv.
Caleb TOULMIN was born ?1715.
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