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I think this is Marianne in 1851, given the birthplace of her youngest servant:
28 Walpole St, Chelsea, Middlesex Marian Reay Head W 47 N K Cambridge Sarah Bouton Visitor W 49 N K Middx London Sarah Do Do U 20 Essex Coggeshall Jane French Servt W 55 Servt London Mary Land Do U 21 do Norfolk Norwich Helen Dillon Do 9 Do New Zealand Nelson. |
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But in 1861 there is a family called Gordon at 28 Walpole St.
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Thank you, the bit Kate found about Miss Essex certainly confirms that connection and I see it says the late Lieut Essex. I had been playing with the possibility that her first marriage was to James Henderson Essex but has not found the confirmed link, and the reports I found had not indicated James had died. Good to know that she was widowed before she married again!
I did find Marianne, Robert and Jane arriving here in 1843 but they all travelled as Reay. I have no confirmed information that Marianne and Robert returned to the UK, or when they went, just reports in various church papers that they had returned. Robert reappears here some time in the mid 1860s and certainly married and died here. He was a surveyor. For all the money in the extended Reay family, this lot had money troubles. Charles left the UK owing over 100 pound, and there were complaints about Marianne's handling of the widows grant she was given. There are some interesting stories about Charles' headstone which seems to have been quite elaborate and was sent out from England. It was discovered in a yard in Auckland in the early 1900s, no one knows how it got there or if it have ever been delivered to his grave site. It is now next to the church and he is buried somewhere in the church grounds. Charles was certainly much loved by the local Maori, and there is a story that they said they were not sure where he was buried because they were afraid that his family would come and dig him up and take him away from them. OO Kate, I think you have found Marianne in 1851. * does a little dance*
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Had a look to see if I could find out anything useful about Sarah Bouton.
She was born Sarah Gardner in Coggeshall, Essex and married Charles Bonton there. Sarah & her children Sarah, Charles & William all left wills, but nothing to link them to Marianne.
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I have a relative, Daniel Butler who was sent out to Demerara in South America by the Missionary Society. He drowned there after the boat overturned as they returned from visiting prisoners on an island. It was so sad, his first child had been born just two weeks earlier.
He was from Berkshire and connected with St Johns in Reading. (He died in 1847). I would think that if British Missionaries were there, then the military was there too. I found an article about Daniel Butler's death in the newspapers on FMP (reading mercury). Di |
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The Post Office London Directory for 1852 lists Mrs Reay at 28 Walpole Street, Chelsea (on Historical Directories.)
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She does seem to vanish after that last sighting in 1852 in Chelsea. Now that we have a more accurate birth year I have tried looking for Marianne/Marian any surname b 1804 Oxfordshire, I have also looked for Helen born New Zealand in 1842 and nether of them seem to be around.
No sign of marriages or deaths here in NZ and nothing in the Australian newspapers either.
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It says she was born in Cambridge on that 1851 census.
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I would query the age of Helen ... possibly should be 19 not 9.
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Oops to Oxfordshire Kate, but Cambridgeshire does not help either!
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