Help needed finding a needle in a haystack.

[davidbraidwood]

Glad to hear that someone is out there.
I see from another thread that Braindead did get Michel's will, but not much detail given.
An extra piece that I picked up that wasn't in the thread was in the England and Wales National Probate Calendar under Frances Mary Bartholomei.
She died 18 June 1884 at 20 Mariannen Gasse, Vienna, Austria.
She had been living at 101Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow which is shown as Michel's address.
David

[Pheno]

'Quote from: Braindead on Monday 10 January 11 22:32 GMT (UK)
In her daughter's marriage banns in France she's Marie Broadwood Tourmaly Hamilton
The image looks like Tormaly or Formaly: I was wondering if it was just a misunderstood 'formerly''



Just come fresh to this thread but on reading through initially I immediately assumed - maybe incorrectly - that Tourmaly, rather than being formerly was simply a misquote of de Bartholomei.

Pheno

[Kiwigirl]

Hello, Mary Ann Short/Mary Short/Mary Louisa Short is my 3rd great aunt and I along with some other cousins have been researching her for a long time.  But its been a while since we visited her again and this thread definitely brings her into the forefront again!  She seems to have changed her name and probably her age to suit her circumstances.  Thank you to all for your contributions and I look forward to following and hopefully contributing to this chat too.  I will pass on this thread to a cousin who did a lot of research... it will be interesting to see what she says too.
The probate record for Charles Hamilton Broadwood states that he had effects under 2,000 pounds.

Angela

[Rosinish]

I've got a feeling that Mary Short, Mary Louisa Broadwood, Mary Broadwood Hamilton, Marie Broadwood Tormaly Hamilton and Frances Mary Broadwood may well all have been the same person; a mistress of self-reinvention, I suspect.

I think Marie Broadwood Tormaly Hamilton, should probably read 'Formerly'?

Annie

[Rosinish]

In her daughter's marriage banns in France she's Marie Broadwood Tourmaly Hamilton

The image looks like Tormaly or Formaly: I was wondering if it was just a misunderstood 'formerly'

I should have kept reading prior to posting earlier 

Annie

[Maiden Stone]

A needle with an interesting thread attached. I look forward to further instalments.

[davidbraidwood]

More interesting information:
Hélène Marguerite Bartholomei married Jean Gabriel Chaâles des Etangs 26 Feb 1896 in Paris.
They had a child Andrée Marie Chaâles des Etangs.
She married Louis Andre Thebaud, American businessman, sportsman and philanthropist in the Gilded Age, who was 38 years her senior, so the family was still moving in rarefied circles.

[davidbraidwood]

fyi
I have updated FamilySearch Family Tree with the BMD information from this thread. I would welcome any collaborative help and comments over there.