The Thomas & Honor Costello Family - England

Children:

Known Localities:

• St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish, Middlesex County, England (1748)

• St. Clement Danes parish, Westminster, London, Middlesex County, England (1756)

• Middlesex County, England (1756)

• Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1756)

• Prince William County, Virginia (1762)

POSSIBLE Chronological Timeline:

On 24 Jan 1734 within St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish in Middlesex County, England, Thomas Castelloe was buried.
SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYVG-DFD

On 28 Jan 1736 within St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish in Middlesex County, England, Ann Castillon was buried.
SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YVG-CLH

On 10 Sep 1736 within St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish in Middlesex County, England, Mary Ann Castillo was buried.
SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YVG-CG8

Chronological Timeline:

On 25 Sep 1748 in Middlesex County, England, Thomas Costllo chairman in St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish in Middlesex County and his wife Honor Costllo, Catherine Tool spinster, and Mary wife of John O'Neill Gentleman, all of the same place, created a deed with Thomas Byren Chairman of the same place and his wife Rose. The witnesses to the deed were Wm. Keate and Jno. Carr.

On 15 Sep 1748 in in Middlesex County, England, Wm. Keate solicitor for the defendant in the case of The King v. Rose wife of Thomas Byren, made an oath stating he saw Thomas Costello, Honor his wife, Catherine Tool and Mary O'Neille sign and release the deed.

NOTE: This appears to be a legal settlement filed in connection with a court case involving Rose Byren, where Thomas Costello, Honor Costello, Catherine Tool, and Mary O'Neill agreed to release all claims against Rose and Thomas Byren.

NOTE: How could the deed be proven 10 days before it was created? The were likely transcribed incorrectly.

SOURCE: https://www.londonlives.org/record/LMSMPS50388PS503880012
SOURCE: https://www.londonlives.org/record/LMSMPS50388PS503880013

On 25 Feb 1756, within the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, appears the widowed Honnor Castellow:

"119. (M.) Honnor Castellow, widow, was indicted for stealing one linen shirt, value 6 d. one silk handkerchief, value 2 s. one dimity stock, value 2 d, one metal stock-buckle, value 1 d. and one linen apron, value 1 s. 6 d. the goods of Richard Bilton, Feb. 25 .

Richard Bilton. I lost the goods that are mentioned in the indictment last Wednesday about 12 o'clock: I was just come in with these things from the washerwoman, and went to draw a tankard of beer; the prisoner and 3 Irish men were just come in; when I came up with the beer, they and the things were gone; I ran out and met the woman in Fleet-street, near the end of Salisbury-court; I asked her if she had been at the Castle in Portugal-street; she said no. I laid hold of her hand, and the apron and things dropped from under her arm; a man struck me, and said she should not go with me, but a gentleman said she should go; then the man went away and left us. The goods produced in court."

SOURCE: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t17560225-11
SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/70814/records/347042

On 23 Mar 1756, the churchwarden of St. Clement Danes parish in Westminster, London, Middlesex County, England paid 2 pounds & 2 shillings to "Mr. Jno. Smith for prosecuting & convicting Honour Costello of shoplifting."

SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYWB-BSY

The publication The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775, by Peter Wilson Coldham (published 1988 by Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD), states the following:

"Costello, Honor. S Feb-Apr T Jun 1755 Lyon. M."

The publication's introduction includes a list of abbreviations used:

• M = Middlesex

• S = Sentenced to transportation

• T = Transported

From that information we can deduce Honor Costello was sentenced to transportation in Feb-Apr 1755. In June 1755, he was transported out of Middlesex aboard the Lyon.

NOTE: I suspect 1755 is an error; it should be 1756.

SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61074/images/46253_542970-00201

On 10 May 1756 at the Old Bailey in London, Middlesex County, England, a transportation bond was signed for 30 individuals "severally convicted of theft and larceny for which they were lyable to the penalty of burning in the hand or whipping. And whereas His Majesty's Justice of the Gaol Delivery have orderd and directed that all the said convicts above named be transported as soon as conveniently may be to some of His Majesty's Colonies and plantations in America... for the space of seven years and that they should be for that purpose conveyed transferred and made over to the above bound Andrew Reid and John Stewart and their assignes for the respective terms aforesaid." It further states that Andrew Reid and John Stewart contracted with the Justices of the court for the performance of the said transportation. Honor Costello was one of the 30 individuals.

SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2381/images/32513_633870_1235-00000

The publication The Kings Passengers to Maryland and Virginia, by Peter Wilson Coldham (published 1997 by Family Line Publications; Westminster MD), states Honor Costello arrived in 1756 at Annapolis, Maryland.

NOTE: Review actual book for all data provided.

SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/records/401968

In June 1756 in London, 91 convicts were loaded aboard the ship Lyon, which arrived in Annapolis, Maryland on 30 Aug 1756. The convicts were sold into 7 years of indentured servitude.

NOTE: Another known convict aboard Lyon was William Logan, appearing as "William Login" in the 28 Apr 1756 court record above.

NOTE: Honor Costello's indentured servitude would've been completed as early as August 1763, at least seven years after the ship Lyon arrived in Annapolis, Maryland.

SOURCE: https://www.historiclondontown.org/post/william-logan

On 7 Jun 1762 in Prince William County, Virginia, the court oversaw "the examination of Honor Castilo and Edward McDonaugh on suspicion of felony. Honor Castilo and Edward McDonaugh being & brought before the court by precept from under the hand of William Tebbs gent. on suspicion of stealing a treasury note of five pounds belonging to John Baylis gent. being examined by the court and the witness against them being heard the opinion of the court is that the said Honor Castilo be hence discharged, and that the said Edward McDonaugh received on his bare back at the Publick Whipping post twenty lashes well laid on & that he be hence discharged."

SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4X-MHZZ-S

On 19 Oct 1769 within St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish in Middlesex County, England, John Costilo of Leg Alley was buried.

NOTE: Is this their son John? If so, he would've been 16 years old.

SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YVC-XPG