The son of John Welchman, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, he was born in 1665.
on 24 April 1683, was admitted a probationer fellow of Merton College in 1684, and commenced M.A.
[1] His college presented Welchman in 1690 to the rectory of Lapworth, Warwickshire, and he was also rector of Berkeswell in the same county.
[1] Welchman obtained the rectory of Solihull, Warwickshire, in 1736, and held it until his death on 19 May 1739.
[5] It continued to be used at Oxford into a period towards the end of the 18th century when its Calvinist interpretations, for example of predestination, were falling out of fashion there.