Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/330/168
  • Title
    Letter from Harriett Yorke to Countess de Grey, written from Bonnington. Excellent account from Nocton. Lady Sarah [Robinson] seems to have derived benefit from her visit to Leamington. Writer hopes that Eleanor will not be her only child, and that in time she will produce a son.
  • Date free text
    8 Nov 1823
  • Production date
    From: 1823 To: 1823
  • Admin/biog history
    Harriet Yorke, nee Manningham born c.1763, was the daughter of Charles Manningham and his wife Ann. Her siblings were: Charles William Manningham, b. 1762, d.1849 Coote Manningham, b.c.1765, d.1809 Boyd Manningham, b. 1766 Amelia Manningham, b.1767 Elizabeth Manningham, b.1768, d. 1853 (usually referred to as Eliza or Elvira in the letters) Henry Manningham, b 1773, d. 1821 Coote Manningham married Anna Maria Pollen in 1802. Their children were: Charles Coote Manningham b 1804, d.1810 Boyd Pollen Manningham, b. 1807, d. 1831 Harriet Manningham, b,1806, d. 1824 Mary Anne Manningham, b.1802, who married Edward Buller. Coote Manningham died in 1809, and his wife died in 1822. By Anna Maria's Will, Coote’s siblings Harriet Yorke, Charles William Manningham and Elizabeth Manningham became the guardians of Coote's surviving children (Boyd, Harriet and Mary Anne). The children lived with Elizabeth. The letters contain several references to Elizabeth's "charges" and other details of this side of the family.
  • Scope and Content
    Have had no news from Wimpole and do not know if Lord Hardwicke’s property in the fens was damaged in the storms and floods. According to the newspaper the devastation in the Isle of Ely is greater than ever before known. Reference to ‘this unfortunate and I cannot but call it disgraceful marriage of Mrs Colleton! It has been, as you may imagine, a great blow upon poor Mr Carew, and must be a subject of mortification to all of us.’ [widow Charlotte Jemima Colleton, nee Pole Carew married Alphonse Joseph Marie Morel de Champemont in Italy in August 1823]. Repeats comments on the marriage made by Lady Hardwicke, including reference to Charlotte Jemima’s daughters. The writer only knows that the new husband ‘is or has been in the French army, also that he is much younger than Charlotte, and that he has not a sixpence!’ News of writer’s sister and niece; have been paying a long visit in Suffolk and now in Cambridge visiting a younger sister of the late Mrs Coote Manningham, who is married to Dr Haviland, a professor of Physic. Next week they are going to Wimpole. Mr Yorke has nearly recovered the effects of gout, and Mr Maule discovered and removed the cause of his deafness – it had been caused by some cotton having worked its way into his ear and some wax had formed round it. He does not hear very acutely, but is not now more deaf than he has been for many years past.
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