Person:Cecil Hamilton (5)

Personal History

Cecil Frances^[5] Hamilton, daughter of John James Hamilton and Cecil, Marquess and Marchioness of Abercorn,^[2] was born 19 July 1795^[1] and was baptized 18 August in the parish of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England.^[2]

Death and Probate

The Rt. Hon. Cecil Frances Countess of Wicklow, then of Cavendish Square, died 7 July 1860 at Brighton, Sussex, England^[5] (registered in the district of Brighton),^[3] and was buried 17 July 1860 in the parish of Stanmore, Middlesex.^[4]

On 19 February 1861,^[5] in London, administration of her personal estate and effects was granted to her husband the Rt. Hon. William Forward Earl of Wicklow. Her effects were less than £300.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 “Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn”, in Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's ‘Peerage of Scotland’ containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914)
   vol. 1, p. 68.

   See transcript, issue #7 under John James, ninth Earl of Abercorn, ….

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Church of England. Parish of St Mary, Harrow (Middlesex). Parish Registers, 1558–1967
   London Metropolitan Archives, City of London DRO/003/A/01/005. Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1735–1812, f. 60.

   Digital image in London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31280_198037-00451 : accessed 7 Feb. 2018).
   
   Baptized, 1795, August “18 Cecile Frances Hamilton Daughter of John James & Cecile Hamilton Marquis & Marchioness of Abercorn”

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Registered during Q3, 1860, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   [digital images, Ancestry.com].

   “Howard (Countess of Wicklow), Cecil Frances” and “Wicklow (Countess of)”, Brighton dist., vol. 2b, p. 121.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Church of England. Parish of St John the Evangelist, Stanmore (Middlesex). Parish Registers, 1599–1989. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
   London Metropolitan Archives, City of London DRO/014/A/01/013. Register of burials, 1843–1898, p. 59, no. 465.

   Digital image in London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813–2003 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1559/31280_194441-00253 : accessed 7 Feb. 2018).
   
   “Cecil Francess Howard Countess of Wicklow, [of] Cavendish Square, London, [bur.] July 17^th [1860], [age] 64, [ceremony performed by] Douglas Gordon”

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} “Administrations, 1861”, in Principal Probate Registry (London). Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration: Made in the Principal Registry and in the Several District Registries of Her Majesty's Court of Probate. (London, United Kingdom: HM Stationery Office, [1859?]–present)
   vol. surnames W–Z, p. 91.

   Digital image in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1904/31874_222595-00096 : accessed 7 Feb. 2018).
   
   “The Right Honourable Cecil Frances Countess of WICKLOW”, of Cavendish-square, co. Middlesex, d. 7 July 1860 at Brighton, co. Sussex; probate at Principal Registry, 19 Feb., granted admin. to (her husband) the Rt. Hon. William Forward Earl of Wicklow of Cavendish-square; effects under £300.