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Mary Chichester
Mary Barbara Chichester later Lady Chichester born Mary Clifford became Mary Barbara Constable (29 October 1801 – 14 December 1876) was an English Catholic diarist. Life She was born in Tixall Hall in 1801. Her parents were Mary MacDonald and Thomas Hugh Clifford. Her father was a topographer and botanist who would take the family name of Clifford Constable in 1821. She had a brother, a sister and a strict Catholic upbringing. In 1822 she started a diary, characteristically while travelling, in this case to Ghent. In 1826 Mary Clifford Constable married her cousin Charles Chichester, an army officer. He had been brought up a Catholic, attending Stonyhurst College. They had 11 children, with five surviving their childhood. She lived at Calverleigh Court until 1835 when she followed her husband, living at Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau; and then in 1837 they were in British North America. Her husband was knighted at St James Palace in 1840 and that autumn they sailed west to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tixall
Tixall is a small village and civil parish in the Stafford district, in the English county of Staffordshire lying on the western side of the Trent valley between Rugeley and Stone, Staffordshire and roughly 4 miles east of Stafford. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 239. The place-name 'Tixall' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Ticheshale''. Deriving from Old English, the name means 'the hollow of the goats'. It is a fairly elongated village lying to the west of Great Haywood and just north of the sprawling Shugborough estate, the River Sow forming the natural boundary between the two, which joins the Trent on the Shugborough estate a mile or so east of Tixall. The village has benefited substantially from its close proximity to such affluent estates as Shugborough to the south and Sandon Hall and Ingestre Hall to the north, homes of the Earl of Lichfield, the Earl of Harrowby and the Earl of Shrewsbury resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |