Joseph Medworth the son of Simon Medworth (1723-1761) a ropemaker and Anna Lampson was born in Wisbech

Wisbech

Wisbech is a market town, inland port and civil parish with a population of 20,200 in the Fens of Cambridgeshire. The tidal River Nene runs through the centre of the town and is spanned by two bridges...

 in 1752.
He married Sarah Fisher in 1775 at Wisbech St.Peter church.
He moved to London

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 and became a bricklayer

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 and returned to Wisbech in 1793.
He developed the 'Castle' site having bought Thurloe's mansion and grounds from the See of Ely in 1792. The Georgian Crescent, Union Place and Ely Place forming a Circus built by him frequently feature in costume drama

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s.
He demolished the mansion and replaced it with a Regency

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 villa in 1816.
On his death he left children by Mary Rowell, Sarah Gibson and Sarah Fisher.
The villa is now owned by Cambridgeshire County Council

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