Magdalene was born in Oldhamstocks on 22nd March 1793 & christened there.[1] [2] Magdalen married Sir William Delancy on 4 April 1815 at an unknown location.[3]
William Delancy died of wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo and Magdalen married Henry Harvey in 1819.[3]
She died in 1822 & is buried in Salcombe Regis, Devon.[2]
According to Wikipedia, Magdalene was born in East Lothian, Scotland on 22 March 1793, the fourth of six children of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet (1761 -1832) and his wife Lady Helen Douglas (1762-1837), a daughter of Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk. She was baptised at Oldhamstocks, East Lothian. [6]
She married William Howe Delancey on 4 April 1815, in Edinburgh, Scotland. [7]
Following the escape from Elba of Napoleon Bonaparte and subsequent attack on Belgium, her husband was ordered to Brussels. Magdalene followed him and, when he was wounded at Waterloo, nursed him for six days until his death on 26 June, and his burial on the 28th, barely three months after the couple's wedding.
At her brother's request, Magdalena wrote a serial narrative account of her experience, "A Week in Waterloo". A condensed account was found amongst the papers of her nephew, General De Lancey Lowe, after his death in 1880. The account was published in full with an explanatory preface in 1906. It was highly praised both before and after publication, by the likes of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens, William Thackeray and Thomas Moore.
In 1817 at Dunglass House, Magdalene De Lancey married Captain Henry Harvey, Madras infantry, who retired in 1821. She died on 12 July 1822 at Sidmouth, in Devon, giving birth to her third child, Frances Magdalene Harvey, at the age of 29. [8] [9]
The full title of Magdalena's account is A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's' Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle". This book is available free on-line through Project Gutenberg
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