Alexander Ferdinand von Mayersbach ( BEF 1750 - 31 JAN 1798 )

Born: BEF 1750 at Germany
Source: Birth of Child

Father: Johann Friedrich von Mayersbach
Mother: Carolina Sabina

Wife: Unknown
Married: BEF 1776

Children

Wife: Sarah Leigh
Married: 19 MAY 1776 at Saint Lawrence Pountney, London
Source: Certificate

Children

Died: 31 JAN 1798 at 15 Saville St, Westminister, London
Source: Gentleman's Magazine


Notes


1776 Various newspaper items about Lettsom's attack on Mayersbach.

1776 Gentleman's Magazine Review of Lettsom's Observations preparatory to the Use of Dr. Myersbach's Medicines

1776 An answer to a pamphlet, written by Doctor Lettsom, entitled Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Mayersbach's medicines

1776 An answer to a pamphlet, written by Doctor Lettsom, entitled Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Mayersbach's medicines Full Text

1776 London Review of English and Foreign Literature Review of Lettsom's Observations and An Answer

15/5/1776 Marriage Licence

19/5/1776 Marriage to Sarah Leigh

25/11/1776 News Report

1777 The Monthly Review - Reviews of Various Pamphlets

1/4/1777 Baptism of Daughter, Penelope Priscilla Augusta

1779 Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis. ... Vol. 23

21/5/1781 Wilson v Myersbatch

1781 - 1797 London Land Tax

1782 Fire Insurance
Alexr Ferd Mayersback
Princes Street, Hanover Square
Insured Value: 650 Pounds
Policy No. 82989
Source: Sun or Royal Exchange Insurance Company

1784 Poor Rate St. Mary, Islington
The Lower Side (probably part of present day Essex Rd)
Dr Mayersbach
24 Rents
2-10-0

This is the largest valuation on the page, although there are other larger values elsewhere in the book

Source: Islington Local Studies Library

1784 Fire Insurance
Alexr Ferd Mayersback
Princes Street, Hanover Square
Insured Value: 650 Pounds
Policy No. 82989
Source: Sun or Royal Exchange Insurance Company

1785? Composition by John Percy, dedicated to Miss Mayersbach. Cover includes von Mayersbach coat of arms

1786 Petition for a Bill of Naturalization

1786 Naturalization by Act of Parliament

1787 Annotations by Sam. Johnson & Geo. Steevens, and the various commentators upon Merry Wives of Windsor, written by Will. Shakspere.

1787 Medical cautions; chiefly for the consideration of invalids.

20/12/1787 Baptism of Son, Louis Henry Ferdinand

2/3/1789 Baptism of Daughter, Caroline Georgina Louisa

1788 Mrs Mayersback, Red Lion-square is a subscriber to "Prolegomena to the Dramatick Writings of Will Shakspere"

1790 Voyage Philosophique & Pittoresque en Angleterre et en France fait en 1790

1790 Indenture of lease and release between Alexander Van Mayersbach and John Samuel Torrians

This is a land registry document dated 1790, an Indenture of lease and release between Alexander Van Mayersbach, of Red Lion Square, London, 'Doctor of Physic' and John Samuel Torrians, late of Bombay in the East Indies, and a Major in the service of the English East India Company. It would seem likely that Alexander Van Mayersbach was the next freehold owner after Aaron Capadose.

The document also refers to buildings and the size of the estate: Whereby Alexandra Van Mayersbach and Sarah his wife, in common of the sum of 3150 (pounds) of lawful money of Great Britain to them in hand paid by the said John Samuel Torrians, d of 10/- to them paid by the said Charles Torrians and their heirs. All that Capital brick messuage, tenement or dwelling house and the barns, stables, and out offices thereunto ajoining, situate, standing and being in the Parish of Great Stanmore....30 acres and 19 perches, be the same more or less formerly divided into 6 fields, which were 4 fields and them called or known by the following names:
The Upper Thrifts. Containing 12 acres 1 rood and 13 perches.
The Lower Thrifts. Containing 11 acres 1 rood and 8 perches.
The Little Thrift, Containing 1 acre 3 roods and 8 perches.
The further Thrift. Containing 4 acres 2 roods and 30 perches.

Source: The Grove Website

Modern map showing location of The Grove

Extracts from Victoria History of Middlesex mentioning The Grove.

1790 Essays on fashionable diseases.

15/10/1791 Article in The Times

1792 Purchase of Heathfield House, Turnham Green. Drawing of Heathfield House

"Heathfield House was conveyed in 1792 by Francis Augustus, Lord Heathfield, to Alexander Mayersback, a London physician, and passed in 1796 to Mrs. Sarah Wildman and in 1825 to the Revd. Samuel Curteis and then to Robert How. How's trustees were admitted in 1833 and sold the unoccupied house in 1836 to John Rich and John Bertrand, who were licensed to demolish it.

Heathfield House stood at the south-west corner of Turnham Green, where its site was later occupied in turn by Christ Church Vicarage and the fire station. Part of the garden wall, which stretched along Sutton Lane, survived in 1897. The botanist William Aiton laid out the grounds for Lord Heathfield, whose house was an Italianate building: the main block of five bays contained two storeys, basement, and attics, with round-headed windows on the first floor and a pedimented porch, and was flanked by singlestoreyed wings. After its demolition the fine wrought iron entrance gates were bought by the duke of Devonshire for Chiswick House."

Source

9/12/1792 Marriage of Daughter, Penelope Priscilla Augusta

1793 Middlesex of Register of Deeds - sale of property in St. Luke's, Middlesex

1794 Dr Mayersbach, 6 Cork-street in "The Fashionable Court Guide"

19/2/1794 Trial of Adam Hannaway

1796 Ambulator: or, a pocket companion in a tour round London

15/4/1796 Middlesex of Register of Deeds - assignment of lease of 70, Banner St, Moorfields, Middlesex

23/4/1796 Baptism of Daughter, Sabina Harriet

5/5/1796 Burial of Daughter, Sabin Harriet

1797 Mrs Mayersback, Cork-street is a subscriber to "Munster Abbey" by Sir Samuel Egerton Leigh

18/9/1797 Will

1797/8 Diary of Son, Louis Henry Ferdinand

1798 Death
Dr. Meyersbach, the famous water doctor, died a few days since, after only a few hours illness.
Source: London Times 14/2/1798, Page 2

31/1/1798 Death
After a few hours illness, Dr. Meyersbach, the celebrated water-doctor
Source: Gentleman's Magazine v.68(1), Page 175

7/2/1798 Burial

19/2/1798 Probate

3/5/1798 Bank of England Extract of Will

1799 An essay on regimen, for the preservation of health..

5/12/1799 Advert for Pills

1800 Obituary of Louis Weltje

1800 Italian exercises, together with a collection of Italian and English dialogues, ...

1800 Mrs Mayersbach, 15 Saville-row in "Boyle's Fashionable Court and Country Guide"

1804 Article "Quacks and Empiricism" in The Medical and Physical Journal

1811 The history, topography, and antiquities of the Parish of St. Mary Islington

30/4/1819 Newspaper Report

1820 Poem The Grand Consulation written by George Canning (19th Century politican) mentions Myersbach in line 14

1826 Mems. Maxims, and Memoirs

1847 Coat of Arms Wappenbuch des gesammten Adels im Konigreich Wurtemberg; volume 3
Published: Nurnberg 1847 Publisher: Tyroff

12/8/1857 News Report

25/4/1881 The Times - Obituary of Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli)

1897 Historical Collections Relating to Chiswick - Extract re: Heathfield House

1933 Lettsom: His Life, Times and Descendants - James Johnston Abraham

1939 Surgeons All - Harvey Graham

1963 Cork Street and Savile Row Area: Table of notable inhabitants on the Burlington Estate.
6. Cork Street - Doctor Alex. Mayersbach, 1791-6.
15. Saville Row - Dr. Mayersback, 1796-9
Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2 (1963), pp. 566-72.

2002 Quacks, Fakers and Charlatans in Medicine - Roy Porter - page 283ff

2003 The Grotto Located Within the Grounds of the Former Grove Estate, Harrow

2007 The Germans as the Alter Ego of the English? by Silke Meyer, in Ethnologia Europaea, Pages 58 - 68 - Google Preview
Full Text

2008 Entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as Theodor Myersbach

2012 A Humble Companion by Laurie Graham - Fictional Account of the Life of Louis Weltje's Daughter including references to Dr Mayersbach - Google Preview

N.D. A Book About Doctors - J.C.Jeaffreson

N.D. Siebmacher's Wappenbuch Abgestorbene Bayerische Geschlechter

Brief Biography of John Coakley Lettsom from Munk's Lives of the Fellows, Volume II

TO DO Bedford Estate Rentals 1804~ 23 Hart St - Now 6 Bloomsbury Sq - Disraeli's obit
TO DO Guildhall MSS. 14236/6, ff. 179, 249; 9, ff. 274-7; 10, ff. 240-3; 11, ff. 64-9. - Heathfield House footnote
TO DO Lysons, Environs, ii. 198. & Plate facing p. 33. - Heathfield House footnote
TO DO PRO Estate duty 1797/8
TO DO LMA Middlesex Deeds Registry - look for Mayersbach entries - see information leaflet
TO DO LMA Middlesex of Register of Deeds - MDR.1796/2/631 - get copy
TO DO LMA Middlesex of Register of Deeds - MDR.1800/4/413 - get copy
TO DO LMA Middlesex of Register of Deeds - MDR.1792/1/637? - Banner Street, St. Luke - Look for deed registered 4/4/1792
TO DO LMA Middlesex of Register of Deeds - MDR.1793/6/667 - get copy
TO DO LMA records of German communities in London - see information leaflet
TO DO Ancestry freemason - see "masons.htm" possible sources
TO DO East Sussex Record Office (Lewes) - Fitzhugh Gates Deeds - 62 East Street (The Cafe Royal) - ref. SAS-ACC5090/3
TO DO British Newspaper Library - Complete copying newspaper copies c1778
TO DO British Newspaper Library - Look for press comment in January/February 1786 on Act
TO DO LMA Death of first wife about 11/1773 in the Goodmans Fields area of London - Possibly St Mary, Whitechapel X024/112
TO DO Guildhall Library Royal Exchange Assurance, MSS 7253 Bd 6, Nr. 82989 + others? 1782 & 1784
TO DO PRO Kings Bench Records 1779-1781 see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=177



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