Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot

Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot

Female 1825 - 1911  (85 years)

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  • Name Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot 
    Born 17 Dec 1825  47 Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Christened 17 Jan 1826  St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall, Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Medical Bef 15 Jun 1847  Has Measles Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Census 1851  36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Died 15 Jan 1911  38 Eccleston Square, Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Buried 20 Jan 1911  Family Vault, Pilltown, County Killkenny, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I00297  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 2 Sep 2021 

    Father 3rd Earl St. Germans, Edward Granville Eliot,   b. 29 Aug 1798, Plymouth, Devon Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Oct 1877, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Countess St. Germans, Jemima Cornwallis,   b. 24 May 1803, Burlington-street, London, Middlesex Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 02 Jul 1856, 36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, St. George, Hanover Square, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Family ID F00121  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Husband Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby,   b. 13 Aug 1821,   d. 24 Feb 1906, 38 Eccleston Square, Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married 15 Jan 1850  St. James', Picadilly, Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Children 
     1. Edward Ponsonby,   b. 01 Mar 1851, 36 Dover-street, London Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 01 Dec 1920  (Age 69 years)
     2. Maria Ponsonby,   b. 04 Jun 1852, 36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Nov 1949, 41 Belgrave-road, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 97 years)
     3. Cyril Walter Ponsonby,   b. 08 Sep 1853, Canford Vicarage, Canford, Dorset Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Nov 1927, Nursing Home in London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     4. Granville Ponsonby,   b. 13 Sep 1854, Canford Vicarage, Canford, Dorset Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Feb 1924  (Age 69 years)
     5. Arthur Cornwallis Ponsonby,   b. 08 Jan 1856, Canford Vicarage, Canford, Dorset Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Apr 1918, Hampstead, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
     6. Ethel Jemima Ponsonby,   b. 08 Apr 1857, Canford Vicarage, Canford, Dorset Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jun 1940  (Age 83 years)
     7. Walter Gerald Ponsonby,   b. 31 Jul 1859, Canford, Dorset Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1934, 87 St. George's road, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     8. Sarah Kathleen Ponsonby,   b. 05 Aug 1861, Canford, Dorset Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Jun 1936  (Age 74 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Lady Louisa Ponsonby
    Lady Louisa Ponsonby, c.1853
    Lady Louisa Ponsonby, 1861
    Lady Louisa Ponsonby, 1870s

    Headstones
    Grave of Walter and Louisa, Earl and Countess of Bessborough
    Grave of Walter and Louisa, Earl and Countess of Bessborough
    Detail of Grave of Lady Louisa Bessborough
    Graves of the 7th & 8th Earls and Countesses of Bessborough
    Bessborough Family Graves at St. Paul's, Piltown.
    Bessborough Family Graves, St. Paul's, Piltown

  • Notes 

    • --- "Morning Chronicle" 23 December 1825, page 4:
      On the 17th instant, the Lady Jemima Eliot, of a daughter.

      --- "Western Courier" 13 Sep 1843, page 3:
      Lady Jemima Eliot, accompanied by the Honourable Miss Eliot, have left the seat of the venerable Earl of St. Germans for Ireland, and the Misses Pringle, have since arrived at Port Eliot on a visit to the noble Earl.

      --- "London Evening Standard" 25 Dec 1847, page 2:
      The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot arrived at Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall, on Wednesday last from town. The Countess and Lady Louisa Eliot had arrived there the previous Friday.

      --- "Western Courier" 2 Feb 1848, page 3:
      Major-General the Hon. Henry, and Mrs. Murray entertained at dinner on Thursday, the 27th of January, at Government House, Lord Eliot, Lady Louisa Eliot, Hon. Granville and William Eliot, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Dalzell, 81st Regiment; Colonel and Mrs. Barlow, 14th Regiment; Colonel and Mrs. Rowland, Royal Artillery; Captain Schomber, R.N.; Mr. Massingberd; Copleston L. Radcliffe, Esq; Lieutenant and Miss West; Lietuenants Lepper and Jones; Captain Nelson, Brigade Majore; Captain Prothero, A.D.C. The whole party went in the evening to the ball at Moorshead's Hotel, patronised by the Honourable Mrs. Henry Murray, which was very well attended; and the arrangements did credit to Mr. Moorshead, and gave universal satisfaction. It is hoped that these ball-rooms will be liberally patronised, as they afford amusement easily accessible to families residing at Stoke, Devonport, and in Cornwall.

      --- "Illustrated London News" 2 Jun 1849, page 10:
      MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--- On Wednesday, at St. George's Church, Miss Meyrick, eldest daughter of Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick, and niece of the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, was led to the hymeneal altar by Mr. Charles Holder, of the 5th Dragoon Guards. The bride, who was very beautifully attired, was attended by a train of eleven bridemaids, four of whom were her own sisters; the Lady Rachel Russell, Lady Louisa Eliot, Lady Margarent Butler, the Hon. Miss Cotton, Miss Phillpotts, Miss Augusta Somerset, and Miss Gertrude Vane making up the number. Several of these young ladies were attired in pink satin costumes, and the remainder in blue dresses of a similar material. The Bishop of Exeter performed the ceremony, which was attended by a large circle of the friends of both parties. The bride's presents were of the most superb description. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, with characteristic munificence, presented their fair niece with a purse of 10,000 pounds, and other relatives made valuable additions to the fiance's jewel-case.

      --- "Illustrated London News" 1 Dec 1849, page 12:
      The Earl and Countess of St. Germans, and Lady Louisa Eliot arrived in town on Thursday, from a visiting tour in Scotland.

      --- "Morning Post" 18 Sep 1854, page 4:
      The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Countess St. Germans intend to sojourn a few weeks at Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall. Lady Louisa Ponsonby (daughter of the noble earl and countess) and infant son, by the last letters from Canford, are progressing most favourably.

      --- "Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard" 16 Mar 1895, page 5:
      DOWN AMPNEY
      The Earl of Bessborough.--- The Hon. and Rev. Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby, who succeeds his brother as seventh Earl, as reported in another page, married, in 1850, Lady Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot, duaghter of the third Earl of St. Germans. Their son, Mr. Edward Ponsonby, the Speaker's Secretary, becomes Viscount Duncannon. The Earl of Bessborough is a cousin of Lord de Mauley. The new Earl and Countess of Bessborough have been spending the winter in Cornwall, on a visit to their relatives the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, at Port Eliot. Lord Bessborough is suffering from influenza, and is confined to his bed at Port Eliot.

      --- "Royal Cornwall Gazette" Thursday, 17 Feb 1898, page 4:
      LOCAL GOSSIP.
      Lord and Lady Bessborough and Lady Mary Ponsonby have been staying for some time at Port Eliot, Cornwall, on a visit to Lord and Lady St. Germans. Lady Bessborough is the only sister of Lord St. Germans. She passed all her early life at Port Eliot, and was greatly beloved in the village of St. Germans.

      --- "The Scotsman" 16 Jan 1911, page 6:
      The Dowager Countess of Bessborough, widow of the seventh Earl, and only sister of the Earl of St Germans, died yesterday morning at her London residence, 38 Eccleston Square. She was 85 years of age. Her Ladyship, who was a daughter of the third Earl of St. Germans and married in 1850, leaves three daughters and five sons. She had been ill for about two months.

      --- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" Monday, 16 Jan 1911, page 3:
      DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS BESSBOROUGH.
      The Dowager Countess of Bessborough, widow of the seventh Earl, and only sister of the Earl of St. Germans, died yesterday morning at her London residence, 38, Eccleston Square. Her ladyship, who was a daughter of the third Earl of St. Germans, and married in 1850, leaves three daughters and five sons. She was 85 years of age and had been ill for about two months. She gradually grew worse, and, following a serious attack on Monday last, death occurred yesterday from heart failure.

      --- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" Friday, 20 Jan 1911, page 9:
      The Hon. Constance Waldegrave, Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane, and Sir Hubert and Lady Medlycott were present at the first part of the funeral service of the Dowager Countess of Bessborough, at St. Gabriel's, Warwick-square, Pimlico. The coffin was subsequently removed for interment in the family vault at Bessborough, Piltown, Kilkenny.

      --- "Cheltenham Looker-On" Saturday, 21 Jan 1911, page 24:
      OBITUARY. We regret to announce the death of the Dowager Countess of Bessborough, which took place on Sunday last from heart failure, on the sixty-first anniversary of her wedding day. Lady Bessborough, who was in her eighty-sixth year, was the widow of Walter, seventh Earl of Bessborough, and daughter of Edward, third Earl of St. Germans. She was the grandmother of Lord Duncannon, Lady Oranmore and Browne and Lady Irene Congreve, and had great-grandchildren.

      --- "Hackney Express & Shoreditch Observer", 21 Jan 1911, page 6:
      The Dowager Countess of Bessborough, sister of the Earl of St. Germans, died in London on Sunday morning from heart failure at the age of 85. She had been ill for about two . . . [scan did not pick up the last line]

      --- "Royal Cornwall Gazette" 26 Jan 1911, page 4:
      At the funeral of Louisa Dowager Countess of Bessborough, on Friday, at the family burial ground attached to the Episcopalian Church of Piltown, co. Kilkenny, the chief mourners included Lord Eliot. Upwards of a hundred wreaths were laid on the grave, the principal tributes including those from the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, Lord Eliot, and Sir Reginald and Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew.

  • Sources 
    1. [S00003] FamilySearch.org.

    2. Letter from WGCE dated 15 Jun 1847.

    3. "1851 England Census Record" (Middlesex, St Geroge Hanover Square, May Fair, District 3, 19).

    4. "Visitation of England and Wales: Volume 17" by Joseph Jackson Howard et al, 1911.

    5. "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" Friday, 20 Jan 1911, page 9.

    6. [S00004] FMP Parish Records Collection, www.findmypast.co.uk, (Transcriptions of Parish Christenings, Marriages and Burials).