Magdalena (Hall) Harvey
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Magdalena (Hall) Harvey (abt. 1793 - 1822)

Magdalena Harvey formerly Hall aka Delancey
Born about in East Lothian, Scotlandmap
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Wife of — married 4 Apr 1815 in Edinburgh, Scotlandmap
Wife of — married 1819 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at about age 29 in Sidmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdommap
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Biography

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]

Magdalena Hall.[4] [5]

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]

Notes

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

Sources

  1. "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY79-XC3 : 12 February 2020), Magdalene Hall, .
  2. 2.0 2.1 "England, Devon Bishop's Transcripts, 1558-1887," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2M3-3T11 : 15 March 2018), Magdalene Harvey, Salcombe-Regis, Devon, England; citing Burial, The Devon Record Office, Exeter.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Marriage: Type: Book Citation. Text: The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. Clarence Volume. Being a Complete.[[1]] P391
  4. Hall-14874 was created by Veronica Williams through the import of DELANCEY - St Helena Connections_2012-03-23_2014-12-01.ged on Nov 30, 2014.
  5. Wikipedia Page: De Lancey William Howe Abbreviation: Wikipedia, De Lancey Stephen (Etienne).
  6. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY79-XC3
  7. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCJ-LL4W
  8. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ28-L5K
  9. Wikipedia, accessed 28 Feb 2022




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Hall-14874 and Hall-3342 appear to represent the same person because: same name and dates, same spouse names, attached to same parents
posted by S Stevenson

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