Lady Emily Louisa Caroline TAYLOR [4097]

  General Notes:

Lady Alston appears to have been part of the social whirl of Victorian London, a scrap book of paper cuttings on the family, possibly the property of Lady Alston, is in the possession of Roy Alston of Suffolk 2003.

Lady Emily Louisa Caroline Alston
Birth year 1842
Burial date 28 Nov 1907
Place Brompton
Age 65
Residence 69 Eccleston Square, Pimlico County Middlesex
Document type Burials Burial number(s) 166963, 168677 Burial book number 166963 Burial register number 168677
Piece description Brompton Cemetery burial register no. 116, references 167931-169415 Records year range 1906-1909
Archive reference WORK 97/183
Record set Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery Records

  Research Notes:

Image Courtesy Roy Alston 2010

Newspaper Cuttings from Lady Emily Alston's book courtesy Roy Alston.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, Eccleston Sq St George Hanover Sq LND. Emily is recorded as a wife aged 28 born MDX

2. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, 69 Eccleston Sq MDX. Emily is recorded as a wife aged 38 born St George Hanover Sq

3. Emily Louisa Caroline Taylor, Late 19th C.
Emily c1880's

The Alstons were part of London social life in the late 19thC.
A scrap book of paper cuttings on the family, probably the property of Lady Alston, is now in the possession of Roy Alston of Suffolk 2003.

The cuttings are a small sample of their social whirl.

The numerous references to dinners weddings funerals etc range between a
Garden Party at Marlborough House, where guests from the Queen down attended including the Sir Francis and Lady Alston, to "On saturday night July the 6th (1889) Mr and Mrs Faudel Philips threw open their house in Grosvenor gardens and entertained a large party. . . . . Lady Alston appeared in blue satin and tulle and wore some handsome jewels. . . . . "

The Queens Drawing Room.
Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales and the Princess Louise, Victoria, and Maud of Wales attended by Lady Suffield, Miss Knollys, . . . . . Escorted by a detachment of the 1st Life Guards, arrived at the garden entrance of the Palace from Marlborough House.
Then follows a long list of Royalty, Ambassadors, The Peerage, Ministers, Military, and others of the great and good who attended including: . . . .Lady Alston, . . . . . Nora Alston . . . . .
Ref: The Morning Post 27 Feb 1889.

4. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, 69 Eccleston Sq St George Hanover Sq LND. Lady Emily is recorded as married aged 49 born St George Hanover Sq LND

Emily married Sir Francis Beilby ALSTON K.C.M.G. J.P. [4091] [MRIN: 1413], son of Rowland ALSTON of Pishobury HRT [4042] and Rose MILLES [4085], in 1862. (Sir Francis Beilby ALSTON K.C.M.G. J.P. [4091] was born on 29 Nov 1820 in Marylebone London MDX, baptised on 6 Dec 1820 in St Marylebone Westminster LND, died on 24 Aug 1905 in St George Hanover Sq and was buried on 28 Aug 1906 in Brompton Cemetery LND.)

  Marriage Notes:

A marriage date of 24 Dec 1895 given by ? is incorrect