Hester Maria Thrale "Queeney"

1764 - 1857  (92 years)

• Name	Hester Maria Thrale
  	Had a variety of nicknames used less frequently than Queeney, including Nig. Niggy. Tit. Birdey. Hetty. Samuel Johnson affectionately called her Sweeting.
  Nickname	Queeney
  Born	17 Sep 1764	Southwark, Surrey, England
  Christened	24 Sep 1764	Southwark, Surrey, England
  	Address: Saint Saviour's Church (now Southwark Cathedral)
  	by Rev James Evans
  Gender	Female
  Census	30 Mar 1851	Bolsover Castle, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England   [1]
  	Visitor to the household with mother.
  		UK census 1851
  Died	31 Mar 1857	Piccadilly, Middlesex, England   [2, 3]
  	Address: 110 Picadilly
  Buried	Overton Kirkyard, Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland   [2]
  Person ID	I94	UK Thrale family
  Last Modified	31 May 2016

  
  

  Father	Henry Thrale, M.P.,   b. Between 1724 and 1730, Harrow Corner, Southwark, Surrey, England ,   d. 4 Apr 1781, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, England  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Mother	Hester Lynch Salusbury,   b. 16 Jan 1741, Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales ,   d. 2 May 1821, Clifton, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 80 years)
  Married	11 Oct 1763	Saint Anne's Church, Soho, Middlesex, England   [4]
  Family ID	F46	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Admiral George Keith, Elphinstone, GCB, 1st Viscount Keith,   b. 7 Jan 1746, Elphinstone Tower, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland ,   d. 10 Mar 1823  (Age 77 years)
  Married	10 Jan 1808	Saint Marylebone, Middlesex, England   [5]
  Children	1. Honourable Georgina Augusta Henrietta Keith,   b. 12 Dec 1809,   d. 21 Sep 1892  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2004
  Family ID	F55	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 17 Sep 1764 - Southwark, Surrey, England Christened - Address: Saint Saviour's Church (now Southwark Cathedral) - 24 Sep 1764 - Southwark, Surrey, England Married - 10 Jan 1808 - Saint Marylebone, Middlesex, England Census - Visitor to the household with mother. - 30 Mar 1851 - Bolsover Castle, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England Died - Address: 110 Picadilly - 31 Mar 1857 - Piccadilly, Middlesex, England Buried - - Overton Kirkyard, Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Hester Maria Thrale aged 20 months Portrait of Hester Maria Thrale, 'queeney' as a child aged 20 months, full-length, in a blue checked dress and white apron, and a blue pudding hat, seated on a turkey rug, with a pet spaniel, Belle, by a cradle. By Johann Zoffany. Oil on canvas, oval 29 x 23¾ in. (73.6 x 60.3 cm.) Sold: 3 July 2012. London for £289,250
  		Hester Lynch Thrale and her first child, Hester Maria Thrale by Sir Joshua Reynolds
  		Hester and Queeney Thrale in 1777/8 by Sir Joshua Reynolds Hester Lynch Thrale and daughter Hester Maria Thrale. Painted in 1777 or 1778 by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Hester Thrale wrote to her friend Fanny Burney about the portrait [Yung 1984, p.113], complaining that "there is really no resemblance, and the character is less like my father's daughter than Pharaoh's." In the event, Mrs Thrale's portrait was not hung with the other portraits in the library, on the pretext that her husband did not like it. [Leslie and Taylor 1865, vol.2, p.313]. Hester Lynch Thrale wrote verses about this portrait. The portrait sold by Hester on 10 May 18163, bought by Samuel Boddington, merchant for £81 and 18 shillings, his sale Christie's 9 June 18664, bought by Louisa, Lady Ashburton; Mrs Hamilton McKown Twombly; her sale New York 1942; M. Knoedler and Company; bought by Lord Beaverbrook 1955, for Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Canada.
  		Hester Maria Thrale Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds
  		Hester Maria Thrale (AKA Queeney) Aged 17
  		Hester Maria Thrale (AKA Queeney) 1822
  		Cabinet given to Hester Maria Thrale by Samuel Johnson.

  
  

• Notes

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

  
  

• Sources

  [S146] Census - UK 1851, Archive reference: HO107; Piece number: 2148; Folio: 82; Page: 16; Schedule: 77; HouseHoldID: 2691280; Record set: 1851. [S39] The Thrales of Streatham Park, Mary Hyde, (Harvard University Press 1977), page 333 (Reliability: 3). [S18] GRO index (UK), (http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/DG_175464), Volume: 1A; Page: 113; Line number: 33. St. George Hanover Square, London, England. [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, October 1763 (Reliability: 3). [S33] Pallot's Marriage Index.