Biography

From The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants with the Pedigrees of the Founders of the Order of Runnemede Deduced from the Sureties for the Enforcement of the Statutes of the Magna Charta of King John: 
William Coventry Henry Waddell, of Murray Hill, New York City, eldest son and heir, and only surviving descendant of Lloyd Daubeney, of Bristol, aforesaid, b. New York City, corner Broadway and Wall Street, May 28, 1802, d. New York City, June 1, 1884, financial agent of department of state and United States marshal for the Southern District of the State of New York under the administration of Andrew Jackson, official and general assignee in bankruptcy from 1841 to 1884; one of the principals in the important suits to determine the rights of the boards of proprietors of East and West New Jersey to land under water; in 1842, built his home on Murray Hill, northwest corner Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street, sometimes known as "Waddell Castle," famous in its day as the most imposing residence upon Manhattan Island; m. Julia Anna Cobb, January, 1828 (m. secondly, Charlotte Augusta Southwick, widow of William McMurray, and had several children,