m. (1) N.N., (2) Mary Wolfe.

For his first wife, the following marriages were found on FindMypast for a John Wetherall from 1749 to 1759 anywhere in the world:

1,   1 Aug 1851  in London to Susanna Goldwell
2.  10 Oct 1751  in Westminster, London to Mary Sharall
3.   1 May 1753  in Holland West, Lincs to MAnn Drewry (or Druery)
4.  11 May 1755  in St Denis church, Morton, Notts to Mary Johnson
5.         1756  in St James, Taunton to Ann Spiller
6.         1756  in Lincoln, Lincs to Elizabeth Coleham
7.  23 Apr 1758  in Downham Market, Norfolk to Judith Rolfe
8.   7 Jul 1749  in All Sainst, Evesham, Worcs to Elizth Dawson
9.  19 May 1749  in London to Grace Neale
10.

Plus a varity of other spellings of Wetherall aroun d England.
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This record, which has to be him, is held by the national Archives, Kew:

IRELAND: Letter from John Wetherall, Examiner of Information Books, to Commissioners of...

Reference: T 1/439/154-155
Description:
IRELAND: Letter from John Wetherall, Examiner of Information Books, to Commissioners of Revenue in Ireland on goods imported into Ireland from Isle of Man
Date: 1765 Jan 26
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

My guess is that the Examiner of Information Books worked in the Customs Department.
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John Betham's Abstract of his will, made in 1802, only source due loss of all Irish wills by fire around 1922 in their civil war of that time:

"Wetherall, John, Dublin esqre
Dated 2nd April 1786
22nd March 1794
Wife Mary W - Daughter
Mary Wife of Henry Hamilton
Esqre - Daughter Isabella W
----- William W formerly of the Wt
Indies - now Dublin - Niece
Charlotte W - Daughter of my
late Brother William W - Sister
Mary Millicken - Nephews
John - Joseph - George - William
and Rogers W - Capt
Frederick Augustus of the 17th
Regt of Foot now on duty at
Gibraltar - Revd John W
Chaplain to said Regt."
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Remarkably a much fuller text of this was extracted before 1912, when his Wetherall book was published, at the command of Frederick Bradford McCrea and included in his book, pp. 8-10.  This is written in an indirect tense and is not the sort of words that I have ever seen used in a will.  So my conclusion is that this is an extract too, though with far more information than Betham’s ‘Genealogical Extract’.  So this does not give us the original text either.

I have put a copy of McCrea’s book elsewhere on my site.  Go to Home, select Original Documents and it is about half-way down that page of options.
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The trancription of the marriage register is:

“1767  June 26  Jno Wetherell [sic] & Mary Hendrick, Prerogve Licece, by Andw Buck.”

This transcript is found as a series of scans on this website: <churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie>.  I am not clear what the name was of the book they were printed in.

I now also have scanned copies of this book, the Prerogative marriage licence bond and the entry in the parish marriage register.

I also have the entry for the marriage licenc bond for Mary Wolfe’s first marriage to Charles hendrick in 1758.
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