The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 4)

[karenlee]

Can you post your findings please Karen? 

Sure can Ruskie.... will have to find out what I did with it all... didn't really expect to need it again...

[Ruskie]

No rush Karen - and if you've lost them it doesn't matter. 

[karenlee]

Oh no, they are not lost... just hiding in the mass of stuff inhabiting my computer

[karenlee]

From memory the Hon Mary WYNDHAM was Lady Leconfield.

[karenlee]

Okay.. I think that this is the one NB was referring to in his diary..

1841 Census England London
 4 Gosvenor Square
WYNDHAM
Lord Geo 50 Ind N
Mary 45 N
Fanny 20 N
Helen 15 N
Blanche 14 N
Caroline 11 N
Henry 10 N
Percy 6 N
Constance 4 N

The list of servants covers almost one and a half pages.

It appears that they come from Sussex as all the other documents regarding them speak of Petworth House in Sussex.

They were married into or related to some of the more prominent families of the time.  I think that the man who tried to pull one over them was either remarkably stupid or remarkably brave.  Which ever he was, I doubt that he succeeded.

[Ruskie]

Thanks Karen.
Oh they look very posh - living in Grosvenor Square!  . Gorgeous! (worth checking out on google maps)
Yes, George Lea's business went belly up - be interesting to know if the Wyndhams realised they'd been duped. I expect the servants dealt with all that stuff.

[avm228]

Um - not sure that we have seen this.  It looks good.  She is unmarried on the 1851 census but didn't Nat refer to her as Mrs Kennington?

I think I am going to have to re-read the diary.

I'm not exactly sure what the etiquette would have been in the 1840s, but certainly in earlier times unmarried ladies of a certain age were called "Mrs" as a mark of respect, regardless of their marital status.

[Siamese Girl]

Um - not sure that we have seen this.  It looks good.  She is unmarried on the 1851 census but didn't Nat refer to her as Mrs Kennington?

I think I am going to have to re-read the diary.

I'm not exactly sure what the etiquette would have been in the 1840s, but certainly in earlier times unmarried ladies of a certain age were called "Mrs" as a mark of respect, regardless of their marital status.

Anyone watch the TV series Upstairs Downstairs?  It was set in Edwardian London and  Mrs Bridges the cook was unmarried. The courtesy title "Mrs" lasted a long time.

Carole

[karenlee]

The  New Peerages and Baronetcies Whitehall April 11

Colonel George Wyndham of Petworth in the county of Sussex by the name style and title of Baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the East Riding of the county of York.