Countess St. Germans Susanna "Susan" Mordaunt

Countess St. Germans Susanna "Susan" Mordaunt

Female 1779 - 1830  (50 years)

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  • Name Susanna "Susan" Mordaunt  [1
    Title Countess St. Germans 
    Born 15 Dec 1779  [2
    Christened 05 Jan 1780  Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Presentation at Court 17 Jun 1819  Presented to the Regent with Misses Eliot Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Died 05 Feb 1830  Fulford Park, Devon Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Buried 12 Feb 1830  St. Swithin's, Shobrooke, Devon Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I00619  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 

    Father 7th Baronet John Mordaunt,   b. Bef 10 May 1734,   d. 18 Nov 1806, Walton Hall, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 72 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Prowse,   b. 25 Sep 1749,   d. 06 Oct 1826, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Family ID F00140  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Husband 2nd Earl St. Germans, William Eliot,   b. 01 Apr 1767, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jan 1845, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 30 Aug 1814  Chapel of Walton, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00108  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • --- "Morning Post" 07 May 1824, page 3:
      Fashionable Arrivals.
      The Earl and Countess of St. Germans, and Family, at their new residence in Seymour-street, from their seat in Cornwall.

      --- "The Sun" 22 May 1829, page 4:
      Fashionable Intelligence
      Arrivals.
      The Earl and Countess of St. Germains and Miss Erskine, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from the Continent.

      --- "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor, Vol. 16, July 1836, page 239:
      DEAF AND DUMB
      A degree of progress has been made, and a hope of more is now entertained. The late Countess of St. Germains (Miss Mordaunt) had a school, preparatory to that at Exeter, for Deaf and Dumb children. Some lessons for their instruction appeared in a periodical, the name of which has not been ascertained, nor whether they were the same as those published in the Cottager's Monthly Visitor; which last, it is understood were written either by Lady St. Germains, or her sister, Mrs. Tuckfield, who also takes great interest in the subject. Lady St. Germains, however, it is thought was named as the writer.

      --- Taken from Mrs. Mary Erskine's Will, probated 1821:
      APPEARED PERSONALLY The Honorable William Eliot, at present residing at the Countess of Ely’s, Lower Grosvenor Street, in the county of Middlesex, and Susan Eliot wife of the said Honorable William Eliot of the same place, and made oath that they knew and were well acquainted with Mary Erskine, formerly of Kensington Row in the county of Middlesex, but late of Hereford Street in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square in the same county, widow, deceased, for some time previous and down to the time of her death. And during such, their knowledge of and acquaintance with the said deceased they have frequently seen her write and subscribe her name to writings and have thereby become well acquainted with her manner and character of handwriting . . .
      Signed on the 28th day of July 1821 by Wm Eliot and Susan Eliot
      (Pertaining to the will of Mrs. Mary Erskine, Susan’s sister.)

      --- "An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, etc: in Two Volumes" Vol 2, by W. Penaluna, 1838, page 167:
      South Petherwin.
      The countess of St. Germans appointed a mistress to teach thirty poor children, and paid her a salary of 12 pounds per annum, which since her decease has been continued by her daughter.

      --- "Visitation of England and Wales Notes" Vol. 13, 1919, (Heritage Books, 01 May 1998), page 129:
      Susan Mordaunt, daughter of Sir John Mordaunt, Baronet, M.P., marr. at Walton, co. Warwick, 30 August 1814; died at Fulford Park, co. Devon, 5 February 1830, bur. at Shobrooke, co. Devon. Administration granted in April 1830.

      ---- "Leamington Spa Courier" 20 Feb 1830, page 3:
      On the 5th inst. at Fulford Park, the seat of R.H. Tuckfield, Esq. Susan, Countess of St. Germans, youngest sister of the late Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart.

      ---"Sherborne Mercury" 15 Feb 1830, page 4:
      On Friday week, after two or three days' illness, at Fulford Park, the seat of R.H. Tuckfield, Esq., Susan Countess of St. Germans.

      --- "Morning Post" 10 Feb 1830, page 4:
      On Friday, at Fulford Park, near Crediton, to the great grief of her family, the Countess of St. Germans.

      ---"The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 100, Part 1, E. Cave, 1830, page 188:
      Feb. 5. At Fulford Park, near Crediton, the Right Hon. Susan Countess of St. Germans. She was the 6th and youngest dau. of Sir John Mordaunt, the 7th Bart. (and grandfather of the present Sir John,) by Elizabeth, dau. and coh. of Thos. Porwse, of Axbridge, esq.; she became in 1814 the fourth wife of the hon. Wm. Eliot, (who succeeded his brother in the Earldom in 1823,) and had no family.

  • Sources 
    1. Scan of Original Baptism Record.

    2. England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906.

    3. "Morning Post" 19 Jun 1819, page 2.

    4. "Leamington Spa Courier" Saturday, 20 Feb 1830, page 3.

    5. Parish Burial Record.

    6. "Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910" (Wellesbourne, 1800-1824, 14).