Lady Mary Thrale

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: Died intestate

Notes:

In The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 1, Fanny Burney wrote…

"Lady Ladd; I ought to have begun with her. I beg her ladyship a thousand pardons–though if she knew My offence, I am sure I should not obtain one. She is own sister to Mr. Thrale.

She is a tall and stout woman, has an air of mingled dignity and haughtiness, both of which wear off in conversation. She dresses very youthful and gaily, and attends to her person with no little complacency. She appears to me uncultivated in knowledge, though an adept in the manners of the world, And all that. She chooses to be much more lively than her brother; but liveliness sits as awkwardly upon her as her pink ribbons.

In talking her over with Mrs Thrale who has a very proper regard for her, but who, I am sure, cannot be blind to her faults, she gave me another proof to those I have already of the uncontrolled freedom of speech which Dr. Johnson exercised to everybody, and which everybody receives quietly from him.

Lady Ladd has been very handsome, but is now, I think, quite ugly–at least she has the sort of face I like not. she was a little while ago dressed in so showy a manner as to attract the doctor's notice, and when he had looked at her some time, he broke out aloud into this quotation:

"With patches, paint, and jewels on, Sure Phillis is not twenty-one But if at night you Phillis see, The dame at least is forty-three!"

I don't recollect the verses exactly, but such was their purport.

"However," said Mrs. Thrale, "Lady Ladd took it very good- naturedly, and only said, 'I know enough of that forty-three?I don't desire to hear any more of it.'"

Buried:
The Parish Register entry in Warbleton, Sussex for the burial of Lady Ann Lade 31 March 1802 notes that she was brought from St. Albans

Mary married Baronet Sir John Lade, M.P. in Jun 1756. John (son of John Inskip) was born about 1690; died on 21 Apr 1759; was buried in Warbleton, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Baronet Sir John Lade was born on 1 Aug 1759; died about 1838.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Upon his death a popular London Magazine of the time described Ralph as "the greatest brewer in England". Grand Magazine I, 203.
• Occupation: Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England; Brewer
• Occupation: Surrey, England; High Sheriff
• Occupation: Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England; Master of The Brewers Company
• Residence: Brighton, Sussex, England; Address:
  64 West Street
  http://www.thrale.com/brighton
• Occupation: 1741-1747, Southwark, Surrey, England; Member of Parliament
• Property: 25 Feb 1747, Old Bailey, Middlesex, England

Notes:

See also: http://www.thrale.com/ralph_thrale_mp_owner_1729_1758

Ralph married Mary Dabbins. Mary died about 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Dobbins
• Name: Mary Dobbinson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cottager
• Residence: Offley, Hertfordshire, England; Offley
• Note: 1697, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
• Religion: 1702; Sacrament certificate signed by Ralph Thrale

Notes:

Residence:
Moved to Offley from Sandridge

Note:
Elizabeth Zarvite, wife of Francis Zarvite, was attacked by other women for breaking marriage vows by consorting with Ralph Thrale

Ralph married Anne Halsey on 7 Sep 1693 in St James Garlickhythe, Middlesex, England. Anne (daughter of ? Halsey) died in 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: Sandridgebury, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England
• Will: He was described in his will as Richard Thrale the elder of Marshalswick, Sandridge. He left a large family and a substantial estate and left a substantial legacy to the poor of the parish, like his father before him. In his will he left ... * a legacy to the poor of the parish; * his son William £400 and the bedstead in the chamber called the Maids Chamber, two feather beds, two feather boulsters, one cover lid, two blankets, one flock bed, six pairs of sheets, his mother's coffer, the long table and from the kitchen, the form, four joint stools, and other items; * his son John similar articles which were at the house of another son Ralph; and * the remainder of the estate to the eldest son Richard.
• Property: 1630, Marshalswick, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England
• Residence: Abt 1687, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England; Farm Berristead
• Property: 1688, Cell Barnes, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England; Took a lease of Cell Barns Farm, St. Peters, St. Albans, part of the Gorhambury Estate, at a yearly rental of £-60, and the original lease is preserved in the County Muniment Room at Hertford (Hert. Muniment Room, Gorhambury Document Vo. 4, No. C 61A).

Richard married Susan Thrale on 30 Apr 1650 in Saint Mary's, Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Susan died in 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
She was born a Thrale although it is not known from which branch of the family that she came.