grateful remembrance - Ketteringham Norfolk
Wall memorial by E Gaffin, with a shield between mourning cherubs on the south chancel wall :
"To the memory of Mary the wife of John Thomas Atkyns esqr, and daughter of Edward Atkyns esqr of Ketteringham Hall. This melancholy tribute of affection and esteem was erected in grateful remembrance by her son in law Nathaniel William Peach esq MP.
She died the 23rd of November 1829 aged 68 and was buried at Burnham in the county of Bucks"
Mary was the daughter of Jacob Rigail, a Russian merchant,
She m John Thomas Atkyns (later Wright) +++ (1758-1822) 2nd son of Edward Atkyns 1753 & Dorothy, daughter of John Wright of Oxford - John Thomas inherited the Oxford estate of his uncle John Wright and took additional name of Wright in March 1797
having 1 daughter
1. Harriot 1825 m 1824 (2nd wife) Nathaniel William Peach flic.kr/p/wbqdjj son of Nathaniel Peach (1749-1788) & Julia Maria Keasberry (1763 /1769 -1849) William was the widower of Elizabeth Goodman 1782 - 1709 and the father of several children
Whilst looking after his eldest son Edward, ===, John Thomas's his father Edward left his Gloucestershire property to trustees for the benefit of his younger children, of whom the survivors were John & Mary . They did better than expected from this provision, because in 1770 the trustees unexpectedly came into the family's Lower Swell estate, and the way Edward's will was drawn meant it passed to the younger children and not to his elder son (who went to law over it and lost). His other property, Pinbury was sold to Lord Bathurst's growing Cirencester estate in 1786 or 1788, and Lower Swell passed to John Atkyns Wright +++ , who pulled down the family home and replaced it with a farmhouse.
Eldest son Edward Atkyns (1757-94) === m 1779 actress, Charlotte Walpole (1758-1836), but finding she was not accepted by Norfolk society, and being pressed by creditors, he moved to France, where they seem to have gained an entrée to court circles. When the French Revolution began they left Paris and moved to Lille, and then in 1791 returned to England. Charlotte in particular was much exercised by the plight of the French royal family and aristocracy, and after her husband's death she raised mortgages on the Ketteringham estate to enable her to maintain efforts to assist aristocratic French émigrés. When the French monarchy was re-established in 1814, she petitioned King Louis XVIII for reimbursement of more than £30,000 she claimed to have spent on this cause, but he was unable to afford to repay at a time of financial austerity. Charlotte turned instead to her sister-in-law, Mary Atkyns +++ who paid off the mortgages, and settled an annuity on her in return for title to the Ketteringham estate. (Edward & Charlotte's only child Wright Atkins had died without heirs aged 24 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1dL0E7 )
Mary then settled Ketteringham on her own daughter, Harriot Atkyns, when she married Nathaniel William Peach MP (1785-1835) in 1824. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/671C8B Sadly, Harriot died the following year, but Nathaniel retained the Ketteringham estate until his death, after which it passed to his son William by his 1st marriage, who sold it in 1836 for £80,000. - Church of St Peter, Ketteringham, Norfolk
grateful remembrance - Ketteringham Norfolk
Wall memorial by E Gaffin, with a shield between mourning cherubs on the south chancel wall :
"To the memory of Mary the wife of John Thomas Atkyns esqr, and daughter of Edward Atkyns esqr of Ketteringham Hall. This melancholy tribute of affection and esteem was erected in grateful remembrance by her son in law Nathaniel William Peach esq MP.
She died the 23rd of November 1829 aged 68 and was buried at Burnham in the county of Bucks"
Mary was the daughter of Jacob Rigail, a Russian merchant,
She m John Thomas Atkyns (later Wright) +++ (1758-1822) 2nd son of Edward Atkyns 1753 & Dorothy, daughter of John Wright of Oxford - John Thomas inherited the Oxford estate of his uncle John Wright and took additional name of Wright in March 1797
having 1 daughter
1. Harriot 1825 m 1824 (2nd wife) Nathaniel William Peach flic.kr/p/wbqdjj son of Nathaniel Peach (1749-1788) & Julia Maria Keasberry (1763 /1769 -1849) William was the widower of Elizabeth Goodman 1782 - 1709 and the father of several children
Whilst looking after his eldest son Edward, ===, John Thomas's his father Edward left his Gloucestershire property to trustees for the benefit of his younger children, of whom the survivors were John & Mary . They did better than expected from this provision, because in 1770 the trustees unexpectedly came into the family's Lower Swell estate, and the way Edward's will was drawn meant it passed to the younger children and not to his elder son (who went to law over it and lost). His other property, Pinbury was sold to Lord Bathurst's growing Cirencester estate in 1786 or 1788, and Lower Swell passed to John Atkyns Wright +++ , who pulled down the family home and replaced it with a farmhouse.
Eldest son Edward Atkyns (1757-94) === m 1779 actress, Charlotte Walpole (1758-1836), but finding she was not accepted by Norfolk society, and being pressed by creditors, he moved to France, where they seem to have gained an entrée to court circles. When the French Revolution began they left Paris and moved to Lille, and then in 1791 returned to England. Charlotte in particular was much exercised by the plight of the French royal family and aristocracy, and after her husband's death she raised mortgages on the Ketteringham estate to enable her to maintain efforts to assist aristocratic French émigrés. When the French monarchy was re-established in 1814, she petitioned King Louis XVIII for reimbursement of more than £30,000 she claimed to have spent on this cause, but he was unable to afford to repay at a time of financial austerity. Charlotte turned instead to her sister-in-law, Mary Atkyns +++ who paid off the mortgages, and settled an annuity on her in return for title to the Ketteringham estate. (Edward & Charlotte's only child Wright Atkins had died without heirs aged 24 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1dL0E7 )
Mary then settled Ketteringham on her own daughter, Harriot Atkyns, when she married Nathaniel William Peach MP (1785-1835) in 1824. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/671C8B Sadly, Harriot died the following year, but Nathaniel retained the Ketteringham estate until his death, after which it passed to his son William by his 1st marriage, who sold it in 1836 for £80,000. - Church of St Peter, Ketteringham, Norfolk