Elizabeth Collingridge b. 29 Oct 1827 Kentish Town d. 26 Jan 1916 Cary Castle, St Marychurch: The Tatham Family of County Durham

1827 - 1916 (88 years)

Name	Elizabeth Collingridge [1, 2, 3, 4]
Birth	29 Oct 1827	Kentish Town [1, 2, 5, 6]
Baptism	13 Dec 1827	St Pancras Old Church [1]
Baptism		Elizabeth Collingridge (1827-1916) Baptism register
Residence	1828	Fitzroy Place, Kentish Town [7]
Residence	Jun 1841	Highgate Hill, Highgate [2]
Residence	also resid: Thomas Collingridge, 48 b Middlesex [father]: Sarah Collingridge, 70 b Middlesex [great-aunt or grand-mother?]; Anne C Fortescue, 40 b Middlesex [aunt].
Residence	abt 1849 - 1853	West Hill, Highgate [4]
Residence	Mar 1851	Bathwick Hill Villa, Bath [8]
Residence	visiting Forster family I courted my dear wife some 8 or 9 months before she would accept my suit. Some time in the year 1852 her Aunt and herself went down to Bath for a few weeks, to stay with another aunt, a Mrs Forster, who with two stepsons lived, I think, at Lansdowne Crescent. While they were there I went to a hotel in Bath for a few days, and found out that on Sundays Mrs Forster and Miss Fortescue with their niece went to what was then called a Chapel-of-Ease, Landerdale Chapel. I sat behind them, and after, the service, joined them on coming out. I was introduced to Mrs Forster, and was asked by her to their mid-day dinner, to my great joy, had a walk with all three of them after dinner, and was asked to dinner again on the next day, after which I had to return to London. I found out on what day the Aunt and her niece were returning home; I met them at Paddington; they had their own carriage waiting for them, I pursued them in a Hansom to the foot of Highgate's steep hill, and we all walked up to their house. My suit progressed favourably after that. [4] Pubsey was very much in love with our Grandmother Elizabeth Collingridge, who must have been beautiful, with blue eyes and auburn hair, and a very white skin. He followed her, and her aunt Miss Mary Ann Fortescue, to Bath, when they went there on a visit, and on the return journey followed them up Highgate Hill in a Hansom, alighting at the right moment to walk with them up the steepest part. [Silvia Tatham, History of Nortchourt House]
Residence	Jul 1853	Highgate [9]
Marriage	20 Jul 1853	St Michael, Highgate
Marriage	Charles Meaburn Tatham, b. 21 Sep 1828, 45 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury d. 12 Jul 1924, Cary Castle, St Marychurch
Residence	Apr 1861	6 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington [10]
Residence	Apr 1871	14 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington [11]
Residence	Apr 1881	14 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington [12]
Residence	Apr 1891	14 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington [5]
Residence	Mar 1901	14 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington [13]
Residence	Apr 1911	Emberton [14]
Residence	abt 1912 - 1916	Cary Castle, St Marychurch [4]
Residence	We went to different places in England for the winter months of the last few years of my wife's life. She died in this house Cary Castle, St Mary Church, on the 26th of January 1916. She liked this place better than Emberton or any other place she had ever been staying at since she left Highgate on her marriage. [Charles Tatham, Recollections]
Death	26 Jan 1916	Cary Castle, St Marychurch [6, 15]
Death	The end came quite peacefully, just like falling asleep. They called dear Pubsey, and he came and knelt by her bed, and it was all over very soon. This was best. But he does feel it. [Silvia Tatham, diaries]
Burial	29 Jan 1916	All Saints, Emberton [16]
Probate	04 May 1916	London ; £3,647 18s. 2d [17]
Probate	Tatham Elizabeth of Emberton Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire (wife of Charles Meaburn Tatham) died 26 January 1916 at Torquay Devonshire Administration London 4 May to the said Charles Meaburn Tatham esquire. Effects £3647 18s. 2d. [NPC]
Notes	named in Diamond Wedding notice 19 Jul 1913 as the only surviving child of Thomas Collingridge at the time of her marriage [her younger sister Anne died Aug 1828 aged 15 days] brought up by her aunt Anne Caroline Fortescue (1800-1869), unmarried sister of her mother Elizabeth Fortescue (1796-1828). [Aunt is named as Mary Ann, not Anne Caroline, in Silvia Tatham's History of Northcourt House] suffered from brain illness for the last 6 years of her life. [Silvia Tatham, diaries]
Person ID	I0038	Tatham \| Meaburn branch \| Spouse
Last Modified	06 Jul 2023

Father	Thomas Collingridge, b. abt 1791, Whitechapel d. 08 Aug 1850, Highgate (Age ~ 59 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Fortescue, b. 1796, Holborn d. Aug 1828, Fitzroy Place, Kentish Town (Age 32 years)
Marriage	16 Nov 1826	St Pancras Old Church [18]
	married by licence by Johnson Grant, officiating minister; witnesses: Cas [Charlotte?] Fortescue, A C [Ann Caroline] Fortescue, G S [George?] Fortescue [initials indistinct]
		Thomas Collingridge (1791-1850) & Elizabeth Fortescue (1796-1828) Marriage register
Notes	Infant daughter Anne Collingridge, buried 24 Aug 1828, aged 15 days, shortly after her mother [19]
Family ID	F0007	Family Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Charles Meaburn Tatham, b. 21 Sep 1828, 45 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury d. 12 Jul 1924, Cary Castle, St Marychurch (Age 95 years)

Engagement abt Aug 1852 [4]

Marriage 20 Jul 1853 St Michael, Highgate [3, 4, 9, 20]

Officiating minister: Rev Ralph Tatham, DD, Master of St John's College Cambridge [Charles Tatham's uncle].
Assisted by: Rev Thomas Hinly Causton, Vicar of St Michael's, Highgate [husband of Frances Louisa Tatham, Charles Tatham's 3rd cousin].
Witnesses: Meaburn Tatham [Charles Tatham's father]; Miss Fortescue [Elizabeth Collingridge's aunt]; James Hale Talbot.

Charles Meaburn Tatham & Elizabeth Collingridge
Marriage register

Notes

Exactly opposite Holly Lodge lived a Mr. Collingridge, a widower, occupying a nice fair sized house with his sister-in-law and his daughter, his only child, a very pretty girl then about 22 years of age. In 1850, while I was forming one of the reading party in Jersey, Mr. Collingridge died; Miss Fortescue and his daughter continued to reside in the house. People used to joke and tell me I had better look after the young lady, saying that she was very pretty, and had a large fortune. ...
One morning in the spring of 1852, Miss Fortescue, Miss Collingridge's aunt, sent my Mother a note, asking if she would allow them, the aunt and her niece, to accompany our family to the Highgate Institute, where instructive lectures were being given on certain evenings in the week at 8 o'clock. My Mother said she would be delighted to do so. On the first evening I walked up the Hill to the Lecture room with Miss Collingridge, sitting next her in the room, and from that moment fell desperately in love with her. After a year's wooing we were married by my Uncle Ralph and Mr. Causton, the Vicar at St. Michael's Church Highgate on July 20th 1853. My dear Father allowed me £100 a year till I should make a fair income at the Bar. I hope I may be believed when I say that I should have fallen in love had the young lady, Miss Elizabeth Collingridge, been possessed of no money at all. ...
I courted my dear wife some 8 or 9 months before she would accept my suit. Some time in the year 1852 her Aunt and herself went down to Bath for a few weeks, to stay with another aunt, a Mrs Forster, who with two stepsons lived, I think, at Lansdowne Crescent. While they were there I went to a hotel in Bath for a few days, and found out that on Sundays Mrs Forster and Miss Fortescue with their niece went to what was then called a Chapel-of-Ease, Landerdale Chapel. I sat behind them, and after, the service, joined them on coming out. I was introduced to Mrs Forster, and was asked by her to their mid-day dinner, to my great joy, had a walk with all three of them after dinner, and was asked to dinner again on the next day, after which I had to return to London. I found out on what day the Aunt and her niece were returning home; I met them at Paddington; they had their own carriage waiting for them, I pursued them in a Hansom to the foot of Highgate's steep hill, and we all walked up to their house. My suit progressed favourably after that. I became engaged about the end of August 1852, I think. I went for a few weeks with them on a tour in Wales and the Lakes, and was married on July 20th 1853.
[Charles Tatham Recollections]
Name Talbot in Tatham family:
Most likely origin is from Elizabeth Collingwood's grandmother Ann Talbot, who married her grandfather James Collingridge at Olney 19 Nov 1786.
And/or: One of the witnesses at the marriage of Charles Tatham & Elizabeth Collingridge on 20 Jul 1853 was James Hale Talbot.
He was born at Olney on 02 Jun 1808, son of John Hale Talbot and Sarah Thompson, marr at Olney 18 Jul 1804.
In Mar 1851 census James Hale Talbot was resid at the Rectory, Newton Blossomville [abt 2m from Olney & 3m from Emberton]: widower, 42, Rector, b Olney. Also resid 3 sons & 3 daus. Also Mary E Simpson, late wife's sister, unmarr, 49, clergyman's 3 daughter, b Chesham; + 3 servants.
He may be related to Thomas Hale, husband of Elizabeth Collingridge's aunt Elizabeth. After Thomas & Elizabeth Hale died, Charles & Elizabeth Tatham bought their house at Emberton.
This James Hale Talbot may have been the godfather of Charles & Elizabeth Tatham's elder surviving son, Meaburn Talbot Tatham.
Charles & Elizabeth Tatham's gg grandson was Charles Meaburn Talbot Tatham b 12 Feb 1961. He took the name Talbot from both sides of his family, after his mother's grandfather Talbot Baines, and his father's grandfather Meaburn Talbot Tatham.
Apr 1911 census shows that Charles & Elizabeth had 4 children of whom 3 were then alive & 1 dead. This is incorrect. Their 2nd child Meaburn Collingridge Tatham was born 31 Jul 1856 & died 19 May 1857 aged 9 months. Their 4th child Herbert Francis William Tatham was born 02 Dec 1861 and died in a tragic accident at Chamonix 04 Aug 1909. He was brought back to England and buried in the churchyard at Emberton. In his Recollections, Charles Tatham says of his wife "Her son's death had been a great shock to her, and in many ways affected her brain. After the burial of her dear son at Emberton she seemed, mercifully, to have forgotten that he had died."
Diamond Wedding: Tatham-Collingridge - On the 20th July, 1853, at St. Michael's, Highgate, by the Rev. Ralph Tatham, D.D., Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, assisted by the Rev. Thomas Hinly Causton, Charles Meaburn, eldest son of Meaburn Tatham, Esq., of Merton Lodge, Highgate, to Elizabeth, only surviving child of the late Thomas Collingridge, Esq., of Highgate, Middlesex.
[The Times, Sat 19 Jul 1913]
[similar wording in original marriage notice 60 years earlier, in Morning Chronicle 23 Jan 1853]

Children

	1. Jessie Elizabeth Tatham, b. 24 Jun 1854, 6 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington d. 16 Jun 1942, Cary Castle, St Marychurch (Age 87 years)
	2. Meaburn Collingridge Tatham, b. 31 Jul 1856, 6 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington d. 19 May 1857, 6 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington (Age 0 years)
+	3. Meaburn Talbot Tatham, b. 09 Feb 1858, 6 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington d. 04 Jan 1937, Northcourt House, Abingdon (Age 78 years)
	4. Herbert Francis William Tatham, b. 02 Dec 1861, 6 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington d. 04 Aug 1909, Chamonix, France (Age 47 years)

Photos

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Charles & Elizabeth Tatham
abt 1914, possibly at Cary Castle

Cary Castle, Torquay
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Cary Castle, Torquay
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Histories

The Tatham family and Ryburgh parish, Norfolk

Family ID F0006 Family Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 15 Jul 2023

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Elizabeth Collingridge (1827-1916)
about 1915

Sources

[S06] Parish Registers, 13 Dec 1827, baptisms, St Pancras Old Church.
b 29 Oct 1827
[S01] Census, 1841, UK.
age 13 b Middlesex
[S02] BMD Index, 3Q1853, marriage reg Edmonton.
[S42] Charles Meaburn Tatham - Recollections.
[S01] Census, 1891, UK.
age 63 b Kentish Town
[S02] BMD Index, 1Q1916, death reg Newton Abbot.
age 88
[S06] Parish Registers, 15 Aug 1828, burials, St John the Baptist, Kentish Town.
(mother)
[S01] Census, 1851, UK.
[S36] Marriage Certificate, 20 Jul 1853.
[S01] Census, 1861, UK.
[S01] Census, 1871, UK.
[S01] Census, 1881, UK.
[S01] Census, 1901, UK.
[S01] Census, 1911, UK.
[S05] The Times, 28 Jan 1916, death notice.
[S57] Silvia Tatham - Diaries.
[S14] Probate Register.
[S06] Parish Registers, 16 Nov 1826, marriages, St Pancras Old Church.
[S06] Parish Registers, 24 Aug 1828, burials, St John the Baptist, Kentish Town.
Anne Collingridge, 15 days
[S04] H Curtis: Notes for a Pedigree of the Tathams of Co. Durham.