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'''Hannah Courtoy''' (1784 - 26 January 1849), born '''Hannah Peters''', was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant [[John Courtoy]] in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's [[Brompton Cemetery]] has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by [[Reuters]] in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine. |
'''Hannah Courtoy''' (1784 - 26 January 1849), born '''Hannah Peters''', was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant [[John Courtoy]] in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's [[Brompton Cemetery]] has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by [[Reuters]] in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine. |
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Courtoy died on 26 January 1849,<ref>[http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001286/18490219/064/0007 "Deaths"] ''Bell's Weekly Messenger'', 19 February 1849, p. 63. [[British Newspaper Archive]]. Retrieved 25 December 2015. {{subscription required}}</ref> at 14 [[Wilton Crescent]], Belgrave Square, one of the most expensive areas of London. Her Will is held in the British [[National Archives (United Kingdom)|National Archives]].<ref name=BNA>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D128966 Will of Hannah Courtoy otherwise Hannah Peters, Single Woman of No 14 Wilton Crescent...] National Archives. Retrieved 24 December 2015.</ref><ref name=fmp>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bmd%2fd%2fdduty%2f783144 Index to Death Duty Registers Transcription.] findmypast. Retrieved 25 December 2015. {{subscription required}}</ref> |
Courtoy died on 26 January 1849,<ref>[http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001286/18490219/064/0007 "Deaths"] ''Bell's Weekly Messenger'', 19 February 1849, p. 63. [[British Newspaper Archive]]. Retrieved 25 December 2015. {{subscription required}}</ref> at 14 [[Wilton Crescent]], Belgrave Square, one of the most expensive areas of London. Her Will is held in the British [[National Archives (United Kingdom)|National Archives]].<ref name=BNA>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D128966 Will of Hannah Courtoy otherwise Hannah Peters, Single Woman of No 14 Wilton Crescent...] National Archives. Retrieved 24 December 2015.</ref><ref name=fmp>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bmd%2fd%2fdduty%2f783144 Index to Death Duty Registers Transcription.] findmypast. Retrieved 25 December 2015. {{subscription required}}</ref> |
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Hannah Courtoy (1784 - 26 January 1849), born Hannah Peters, was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant John Courtoy in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's Brompton Cemetery has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by Reuters in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine.
Life
Hannah Courtoy was born Hannah Peters[1] in 1784.[2] She never married but had three daughters, Mary Ann (1801),[3] Elizabeth (1804-1876),[4] and Susannah (1807-1895).[citation needed] In 1830, Susannah married Septimus Holmes Godson,[5] a barrister of Gray's Inn.[6]
In 1815, Courtoy inherited a fortune from the elderly merchant John Courtoy (born Nicholas Jacquinet in France, 1709) through a Will that was disputed in court.
Death
Courtoy died on 26 January 1849,[7] at 14 Wilton Crescent, Belgrave Square, one of the most expensive areas of London. Her Will is held in the British National Archives.[1][8]
Courtoy's distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum of 1854[9] in Brompton Cemetery, where her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Mary Ann are also interred, has been the subject of considerable curiosity ever since a report by Reuters in 1998[10] speculated that it contained a working time machine.[11][12]
The Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi the Younger is buried nearby.
See also
References
- ^ a b Will of Hannah Courtoy otherwise Hannah Peters, Single Woman of No 14 Wilton Crescent... National Archives. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ FIFTY NOTABLE PERSONALITIES. The Friends of Brompton Cemetery. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ Westminster Baptisms Transcription. findmypast. Retrieved 25 December 2015. (subscription required)
- ^ England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription. findmypast. Retrieved 25 December 2015. (subscription required)
- ^ Westminster Marriages Transcription. findmypast. Retrieved 25 December 2015. (subscription required)
- ^ "Barristers Called. Michaelmas Term, 1837." The Legal Observer, Vol. XV, No. 438, p. 170.
- ^ "Deaths" Bell's Weekly Messenger, 19 February 1849, p. 63. British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 25 December 2015. (subscription required)
- ^ Index to Death Duty Registers Transcription. findmypast. Retrieved 25 December 2015. (subscription required)
- ^ Meller, Hugh, & Brian Parsons (2013). London cemeteries: An illustrated guide and gazetteer. Stroud: History Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-7524-9690-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ London's coolest gravestones. Sandra Lawrence, CNN, 17 October 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ Brompton Cemetery: The sealed mausoleum believed to be a fully-functioning time machine. Richard Jinman, The Independent, 12 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ Is the secret of time travel lurking in an old London cemetery? Helen Smith, Daily News, 29 October 1998, p. 4A. Google News. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
External links
- http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LONDON/2002-09/1033238863
- http://www.rogerclarke.com/Family/S/Courtoy-Newsletter21.htm.html
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