Grace (Carteret) Tollemache (1713 - 1755)

Born 8 Jul 1713 in England

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Died 23 Jul 1755 at age 42 in England

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Biography

Grace Carteret was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Lady Grace Carteret was born 8 July 1713, the eldest daughter of John Carteret, Lord Carteret, later 2nd Earl Granville, and his first wife, Frances Worsley.^[1]

She married on 22 July 1729 at St George's, Hanover Square,^[2] Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, son of Lionel Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower and Henrietta Cavendish.^[1] As her husband had already succeeded to the title of Earl of Dysart, she held the courtesy title of Countess of Dysart from the date of their marriage.

They had sixteen children;

1. Lionel Tollemache, born 1730, held courtesy title of Lord Huntingtower, died young and was buried 19 March 1730/1731 at Helmingham, Suffolk;^[1]
2. Lady Harriet Tollemache, died young 2 August 1733 and buried at Helmingham, 8 August;^[3]
3. Lady Grace Tollemache, born 9 April 1732, died young at Ham House, Surrey 10 May 1736 at was buried at Helmingham 15 May 1736;^[3]
4. Son, born about 1733, held courtesy title of Lord Huntingtower, died of smallpox 26 June 1740^[1]
5. Lionel Tollemache, born 6 August 1734, succeeded his father as 5th Earl of Dysart;^[1]
6. Lady Mary Tollemache, born 12 March 1736, die dyoung 14 August 1744 and was buried at Helmingham 18 August;^[3]
7. Son, born 24 June 1737, died young;^[3]
8. Lady Frances Tollemache, born about 1738, died unmarried at Isle of Wight 18 December 1807, and was buried at Helmingham 31 December;^[3]
9. Wilbraham Tollemache, born 23 October 1739, succeeded his brother Lionel as 6th Earl of Dysart;^[1]
10. Son, born 7 October 1740, died young;^[3]
11. Lady Catherine Tollemache, born 1741, died young 24 May 1751, and was buried at Helmingham 1 June;^[3]
12. Hon. George Tpllemache, born 14 March 1744, entered the Royal Navy, but died aged 16 after falling from the masthead of the Modeste man-of-war and drowning 13 November 1760;^[3]
13. Lady Louisa Tollemache, born 2 July 1745, succeeded her brother Wilbraham, as Countess of Dysart and married and had issue;^[1]
14. Lady Jane Tollemache, married 1) 23 October 1771, John Delap Halliday of Leasowes (died 24 June 1794); 2) 4 March 1802, David George Ferry, apothecary of Bath, and died 28 August 1802 having issue with her first husband;^[3]
15. Hon. John Tollemache, born 30 March 1750, killed in a duel with Lieutenant-Colonel Pennington at New York on 25 September 1777 having married and had issue a son;^[3]
16. Hon. William Tollemache, born 22 March 1751, entered the Royal Navy and was lost at sea during a hurricane, as Lieutenant of H.M.S. Repulse;^[3]

Grace, Countess of Dysart, died aged 42, on 23 July 1755 and was buried at Helmingham 10 August that year.^[1]

Research Notes

There are some differences in the birth and death details for some of the children that need further investigation.

For instance The Scots Peerage, vol. 3, p. 408 gives the two eldest sons who died young as;

1. "A son, born 21 May 1730, and died the same day."
2. "Lionel, born 15 March 1730-31, died next day ; buried at Helmingham 19 March."

citing Davy's Suffolk Collections, Brit[ish] Mus[eum], Addl. MS. 19,151.^[3]

At the moment the details for these two sons come from The Complete Peerage, vol. 4, p. , although there is no source cited.

Also a number of secondary sources have the birth date for Lady Jane Tollemache, as 26 March 1750, and her brother Hon. John Tollemache as 30 March 1750 and obviously both of these dates can't be correct. See for instance Cracroft's Peerage and Darryl Lundy's thePeerage.com

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct or dormant, 2nd ed., vol. 4 edited by Hon. Vicary Gibbs & H. Arthur Doubleday (London: St Catherine Press, 1916). p. 564-565. Digital image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo04coka : accessed 29 June 2020).
2. ↑ The register book of marriages belonging to the Parish of St George, Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex, vol. 1 - 1725 to 1787, ed by John H. Chapman (London: The Harleian Society, 1886). p. 6 digital image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/registerbookofma01west : accessed 29 June 2020).
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11} Paul, Sir James Balfour, The Scots Peerage founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, vol. 3, pp. 408-412 (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906). Digital image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun03paul : accessed 30 June 2020).