L30/11/329/79

Letter from Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Hardwicke to Miss Hatchwell. A painful piece of intelligence that Miss Hatchwell may mention to Lady de Grey; ‘an account arrived this day of the death of Sir Joseph Yorke – in crossing the river the boat was overset and alas he perished with two captains his friends, and the boatman.’

Friday 6 May No Year [1831]

From: 1831 To: 1831

Lord and Lady Caledon went to Burlington Street and were entreated to break the sad tidings to Lady Clanricarde which they did; Miss Kington felt quite unequal to do it herself. Catherine left both Agneta and Miss Kington with their poor mother. I thought Lady de Grey would wish to have the sad particulars but I know nothing more except that he was returning from Portsmouth with Captain Brady and Captain Young. [Notes: On 5 May 1831 Yorke was aboard the yacht Catherine, with Captains Matthew Barton Bradby and Thomas Young, and a seaman named John Chandler, when the boat was struck by lightning in Stokes Bay, causing it to capsize. All aboard were drowned. In this letter - Agneta is Agneta Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of the deceased Joseph Sydney Yorke; Lady Clanricarde is her step-mother. Lady Clanricarde is the widow and second wife of the deceased. Born Lady Urania Anne Paulet, her first husband was Sir Henry de Burgh, 1st and last Marquess of Clanricarde, and her second husband was Peter Kington. Yorke was her third husband. Miss Kington is Urania Mary Ann Kington, daughter of Lady Clanricarde by her second marriage, and step-daughter of Joseph Yorke.]

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Robinson, Thomas Philip,
Hatchwell,
Yorke, Joseph Sydney,
Alexander, Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon,
Alexander, Catherine Freeman [Lady Caledon],
Yorke, Urania Anne [Marchioness dowager of Clanricarde],
Kington, Urania Mary Ann,
Yorke, Agneta Elizabeth,
Bradby, Matthew Barton,
Young, Thomas,
Chandler, John

family correspondence, DEATH, drowning