The photo box: Tons of toffs!

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I have to clear my desktop of the gentry of olde Englande ..

This one caught my eye ...

Louisa Jane LAYARD (b Uffington 17 July 1823; d The Hollies, Tunbridge Wells 9 May 1913), daughter of the Rev Brownlow Villiers Layard MA (b 19 January 1779; d Wembley 26 March 1861) of Uffington, Boulogne-sur-mer, then Wimbley, and his (second) wife Sarah Jane née Margary. Louisa Jane, it seems, married a cousin, Henry Joshua MAGARY (b Hornchurch x 22 August 1811; d Weston super Mare 21 January 1876), a Major General in the Royal Engineers. That employ meant that he spent years on India, and later in Ireland as well as, sometime, at home in Kensington.

If you think that Louisa looks a little stout and tired, there is a reason. She gave birth to sixteen children, fourteen of whom surivived, and eleven of whom can be seen, with their parents, in Kensington in the 1911 census. The most memorable amongst them was Augustus Raymond Margary of the British Consular Services who was murdered in Man You, China, 21 February 1875.

The grand photo of Sabine Thellusson which I deciphered in my last came from a dealer named 'nageit1'. So I visited his shop, to see if there were more like her. Were there! She has come from an album which has been defoliated, but otherwise unharmed, and all the photos have been separated, which is s shame becuase they make a wonderful group. I realised quickly that all the friends and relations that were included in the album were of the same social stratum as Sabine. Titled, untitled, gentry, wealthy, ex-wealthy, town & country folk. There were however a couple of problems. Firstly, the handwriting of the clearly very elderly person who had scribbled the names on the mounts of the photos, mostly seeming to date from the early 1860s, is execrable. Second: when you HAVE deciphered it, or think you have, some of the captions are incomprehensible. 'Mr Turner', 'Miss Woodhouse'. But I've scored with some, and here come the first ones:

Isabel Bridgeman got done first, because  she had a whole, easily readable, name.

Charlotte Sobieski Isabella BRIDGEMAN (b Knockin, Shrops x 24 May 1835; d Hartley Wintney 13 July 1914). Daughter of Hon Capt [Charles] Orlando Bridgeman (later Vice-Admiral, b Derbyshire 5 February 1791; d Knockin 13 April 1860) and his wife Eliza Caroline née Chamberlain ... but, enough. Isabel makes her way, with lashings of family, to one of those books about 'descendants of Edward IV and Henry VIII' (which doesn't account for the Sobieski) and I'm not going there ...!

Orlando father? brother?

Enough for me to stick to Isabel, who married (naturally) a baronet in 1863 ...

And (obligatorily) bred ... all of which is recounted in the Blood Royal books. Without a picture of the lady ...

Next the photo of 'Mrs Daniel Chandos née Poole'. 

Took a while to untangle that one! But even I have heard the name Chandos-Pole (I always thought it sounded like something to dance around) and I ultimately found my way to Millicent Chandos POLE (b Radbourne Hall x 21 June 1821; d Brentwood 1907) one of the ten children of Edward Sachaverel Chandos Pole and his wife Maria Wilmot. Millicent married wine merchant Maximilan August[e] Dremel ('Dremel and Kniep') (b Germany; d The Warren. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 14 April 1904), so it wasn't Daniel it was Dremel. It may have even got transcribed by our old collector as Dreymill ..

They were married in Dremel's home town of Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle) and their first children were born in Germany, but they returned home and settled comfortably in Chelsea, although Mrs Dremel had to make do with rather less than the 16 servants at Radbourne Hall. They lived in fine social cirumstances, and the names of Mrs Dremel and Miss [Anna Helena] Millicent Dremel appear (just occasionally with Mr) in garden parties, balls et al listed not too far below the titled folk. They were also on hand for weddings, funerals and anything to do with the extended Wilmot family and the Pole family.

It appears that mother became a good friend of Mrs Sullivan, whose son Arthur composed music. Youngest son Charles Henry, stricken with the tuberculosis which would kill him at 24, kept a diary which, recently, came up for sale on the internet, and their social engagements are therein recorded ...

Augustus died in 1904, Millicent in 1907. Daughter Millicent lived, unmarried, to the age of 80 (d Cromwell Hotel, Kensington 15 August 1935), Captain Sidney [John Reginald] wed and bred and died 18 December 1923, and eldest son [William] Lewis [Augustus] seems to have died in 1908. But, in their day, Mrs and Miss Dremel were shining starlets of society. 

PS this popped up later on e-bay

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I am rather proud of my cryptographic talents in the next case. And my piecing together of the who and which and when ...  This family seems to have been a favourite of our collector, for there are no less that four photos of the Madocks girls. Yes, Madocks with one 'd'. 

Well, there was a bunch of Madocks girls, as well as a couple of brothers. Mary Eliza (Mrs Edward Lloyd), Louisa George (Mrs Conway Lucas Rose), Emily Charlotte (Mrs James Beech of Brandon Lodge, Warwickshire and Shawe House, Staffs), Sidney Frances, Sophy Caroline (Mrs Thomas Davison Bland). They were the daughters of John Edward Madocks MP of Fron-Yw and Glan Y Wern Hall, Llandyrnog, Denbighshire (1786-1837) and his wife, banker's sister, Sidney née Robarts. Mr Madocks seems to have bought himself commissions in the army, but his real raison d'être was as a country gentleman ... he was the freeholders candidate for Denbigh, against the Lord Of the Manor, Sir William Watkins Wynn, in 1831. But I see that in 1833 they are both in parliament. It seems to have killed poor John. Mrs Madocks carried on with the property (I spot her ploughman winning second prize at the local show) and I see that in 1851 the widowed Sidney (d Eaton Place, 19 May 1852) and Mary Eliza are at home with twelve indoor servants to care for them.. the 'confidential housekeeper' for 52 years, Mrs Oliver died the following year ..

I see the the Misses Madocks sponsoring a school for 100 children .. their brother, the Colonel John Edward Madocks ('of the Lancashire Militia'; b 9 October 1820; d 9 September 1892) is there too ... the other brother, Henry Robarts Madocks (b 1825; d Eaton Place, 20 December 1902), is in India ('assistant judge at Bhangalpour... ') ...

Glan Y Wern Hall

So, who are the ladies in our 1860s pictures. All the scribbles must say 'Miss' not 'Mrs'. Well, number two picture is Mary Eliza, and number three is Louisa (who would have calligraphically guessed that was 'Mrs Rose'). The other two look like 'Miss'. Well, by 1860, poor Sophy, who had married a wealthy Yorkshire landowner, was dead (aged 30), Emily was well and truly a Beech wife and mother, and the only 'Miss' remaining was Sidney Frances. In 1861 she was alone at Glan Y Wern Hall (with 6 servants). Is it she? And the top one. Surely that says Mrs. But the resemblance ...

Oh corks! The whole lot will be in Debrett, I'm sure. There's that Napier chap from Magdala (he keeps turning up in my work!) whose daughter married Henry in India. And some one marrying a Lord. There's Mary Eliza's daughter marrying her cousin Captain Rose in 1883 with half a column of gifts from Beeches, the Blands, the Henry Madockses (Aline, Ermine and Marie, granddaughters of Napier), the Colonel ... Mrs Cornwallis West, Mrs Naylor Leyland, a whole lots of Sandbachs, Lady Probyn ... Lady Probyn? I know her! She's in the album too ... and, yes! Mrs and Miss Dremel (see above) ...  There's a distant cousin 'of Merton College' leaving the family over 100,000L ...  what have I got into!

Well, here they are .. the girls 

Mary Eliza MADOCKS (b Llandyrnog x 25 March 1822; d Rhagatt Corwen, Merioneth 22 March 1898) married Edward LLOYD 4 December 1855

Louisa George MADOCKS (b Grosvenor St x London 24 June 1819; d Chard, Somerset 26 March 1910) married Conway Lucas ROSE 19 May 1847

Sophy Caroline MADOCKS (b Glan Y Wern Hall x 5 October 1826; d Kippax Park, Yorks December 1856) married Thomas Davison BLAND 29 July 1848

Emily Charlotte MADOCKS (b Llandyrnog 18 August 1823; d 2 Eaton Place 19 November 1913)  married James BEECH 1843

Sidney Frances MADOCKS (b Grosvenor St x London 14 May 1818;  d Farquhar Rd, Upper Norwood 10 October 1900)

Take your pick.

While trying to decipher 'Mrs Lloyd' I happed upon another Lloyd in the collection. Ah ha! I presumed. Husband! But he wasn 't ...

He is Llewellyn Loyd or Lloyd. After the one 'd' in Madocks, I'm not assuming that there can't be one 'l' in Loyd. But if there are two, could this be E H Llewellyn LLOYD (27 July 1792-17 February 1876), naturalist. I mean, he might have been just a bird man, but he was gentry. And you have to be, to get in this photo collection. On the other hand, there is a Llewellyn LOYD Esq of Pontriffith in the 1840s, and a military one who died in the Zulu Wars (1881), defending the Prince Imperial. There's one in 1890 happy-wedding-day-ing a Miss Townley at Fulbourne in 1890 (a claret jug was, I feel, the Victorian equivalent of a toaster as a gift), and in 1891 inheriting largely from an uncle, Lewis Loyd .. 1891? hmm. A bit late, I feel ... none of them seems quite to fit, but I think we have to punt on Loyd rather than Lloyd ..

Postscriptum: And here, deeper in the box is 'Mrs Loyd'

OK, one more, then early night. I was up at dawn this morning, because our first post-fishflu market was starting up again and goodies were calling ...

There were two Vivians, so I thought kill two flies with one swat. And sure enough, the first one, just inscribed Vivian, is Lord Vivian. 

The other is a Miss Vivian .. photographed at Bodmin ... why the walking stick, and the shy angle. Is she an invalid? Or disfigured. Or just being arty.

Well, I sussed it. Because there is another scribbled hint on the mount. She is Mrs Trunisigen. Out with my Linear B dictionary, which tells me Trunisigen is spelled Tremayne. So! This is Mary Charlotte Martha VIVIAN (b Pentreath, Anglesey 13 October 1842; d Mount Tryon, Torquay 30 October 1917), second daughter of the second Baron [Charles Crespigny] Vivian, who I guess is the chappie above. Unless he's the 3rd Baron ... So Miss V married John Tremayne 'magistrate and landowner' at Bodmin 20 October 1860. We see them in 1861 living with papa ('Lord Lieuenant of Cornwall, Peer of the Realm'), and seventeen (is that a record?) servants ... by 1871 (Heligan, St Eve's Cornwall) they have four children, some high-class visitors and ... 22 servants, gamekeeper, gardener, coachman ...!
I see that Heligan was the ancestral home of the Tremaynes, built originally in 1603. And I see that from the iconoclastic 1970s it has become flats. Oh well, that's better than the fate of Glan Y Wern, which became a prison and a lunatic asylum. But, think, that's 25 workers out of a job. No? No. Because the 200 acres of the gardens of Heligan House have been restored, under the kitschy (I mean catchy) title of The Lost Gardens of Heligan ... I wonder if they have a portrait of Miss Vivian ...

I have lost my battle to identify 'Mrs Granville née Melluson?', having been led down a duff path to Stratford-on-Avon, so will sign off tonight and tackle another swathe of gentry tomorrow ...

AM I STUPID! That's THELLUSSON!  Its the lovely Sabine! see previous blog! Back I go .. Mrs Granville indeed! Mrs GREVILLE. Sister of Lady Probyn ... the net closes!   Sabine's father's middle name was Robarts: Mrs Madocks's maiden name was Robarts .... do I spy consanguinuity? I do! Abraham Robarts (1745-1816), banker, MP for Worcester. Married Sabine née Tierney ... and here it is! Had 11 children including Sabine Thellusson and Sidney Madocks ... yayy. So Mrs Greville (Granddaughter of said Sabine) is the great-niece of Mrs Madocks, and a cousin of all the five Madocks girls ...

Family album, surely!  And what a family, what a disaster that such a document has been broken up ...