Mary Stuart Hall  (1830 – 1874)

Jane Stuart Hall  (1805 – 1881)

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Bittern Manor, near Southampton

Mary Stuart Hall’s parents were Jane Stuart Hall, nee  Pearce (1805 Hungerford – 1881 Whitechapel) and Captain James Stuart Hall  (1795 Madras – 20 May 1937 Newbury).  They were married by marriage bond/ licence (issued 11 Nov 1826 in Salisbury) on the 14 Nov 1826 at Hungerford.  Both of full age and James shown as out of Wiltshire.  Captain James Stuart Hall is listed as “gentry” in a town directory of Hungerford and living at Charnham Street.

They are shown as having 3 children, Mary 1830, Jane 1836 and a brother James Stuart Hall (1833- 1833) who died 18 May 1833, age 4 months.  He is buried in the southern extension to St. Nicholas’s Church graveyard.  He has/had a gravestone which is recorded in the appendix of Walter Money’s book.  (Only a small part remains as the church hall was constructed on the site and the graves cleared.  Some stones remain but have been moved.)

James made a will (signed 12 may 1837 (full copy can be found on Ancestry)) witnessed by William Pearce and Mary Pearce, making Jane the sole heir and executrix.  He died possibly on the 13 May 1837.  There is another gravestone recorded for the southern extension in the appendix of Walter Money’s book for a James Stuart Hall, d 13 may 1837 age 11? (probably a misread 41)

James was the son of Captain James Stuart Hall (1753 France- 1822 Bittern Manor, Hampshire), (Mary’s grandfather).  James (the elder(1753))  arrived in Madras in 1775, became advocate, attorney and proctor at the Mayor’s Court.  He later bought the City’s first Newspaper “The Madras Courier” and became it editor.  (So the talent Mary had for writing was inherited from her grandfather).

James (the elder(1753))  lived and died at Bittern Court, near Southampton, Hampshire.

James (the elder) also had a brother in the army in India Captain John Joseph Stuart Hall (1759 – 1823).  James (the elder) had 3 wives.  Mary’s grandmother was Mary Frances L’ Allemande who it seems was married first to a Mr Angus who James was staying with in India.  The rumour appears to be that Angus died of a broken heart in 1780 and Hall married the widow/ or eloped to Tanjore together with Mary Frances*

*Text from internet archive  “List Of Inscriptions On Tombs Or Monuments In Madras Vol-i (1945)"

It is thought William Angus broke his heart owing to the infidelity of his wife (Hickey : No. 32, Orig. letters from Madras).

William Angus married Mary Frances L* Allemonde at Chingleput on September 25, 1777. Lieut. James Stuart Hall married

Mary Frances L'Allemande on July 17, 1780 at Amboro.

In 1851 Mary is living at 1 Madeira Place with her sister Jane Stuart Hall (born 1838, Newbury) and her mother, Jane, who is a widow. 

In 1861 they are shown at 11 Madeira Place, the mother an annuitant, Mary an authoress and Jane, her sister, a music mistress.

In 1871 they are shown at 12 Madeira Place, the mother, Jane, 66, an annuitant, sister Jane, 34 a governess and also living with them is a nephew Sidney Herbert Pearce 6

Mary Died of Tuberculosis, aged 44 on 3^rd September 1874 and was buried on the 9^th September  -  see Obit. Mary wrote several books and poems.

In 1881 after Mary’s death they are found having moved to 120 Leman St, Whitechapel to live with James Mitchell, 44, born Chertsey, a coffee house keeper.   Jane, 42, nee Stuart Hall, is his new wife, the mother, Jane is 76 and they have a servant Emily Land 17.  The mother, Jane died 2 July 1881 at 120 Leman Street, Whitechapel, Middlesex but was buried in NRC with her daughter Mary on 9 July. 1881.  Jane’s probate gives her address as late of 12 Madeira Place, £458 16s 6d, and was proved at Oxford by Jane Mitchell, wife of James Mitchell of 120 Leman St. 

In 1891 Jane moved to Cable street, her husband still a Coffee House Keeper.  In 1901 the Coffee House includes Dining Rooms and by 1911 they have retired to a house with 6 rooms at Addlestone Surrey.  Jane died aged 87 on 11 may 1923.

Author: D Clow
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