Adelaide Georgina (Blackall) Cochrane (abt. 1841 - 1864)

Born about 1841 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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Died 3 Oct 1864 at about age 23 in Madeira Island, Portugal

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Biography

The Honourable Adelaide Georgina Blackall was born about 1841, in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Samuel Wensley Blackall.^[1]

On the 30th March 1851 Adelaide (9) was living at Montpellier Crescent, Brighton, Sussex, at a school for girls run by the Mistress of the school, St Katherine Cree-Church-born Margaret Grace Baguley (50). Others in the household at the time were Margaret Baguley's niece, Brooklyn, New York-born Susan Margaret Turner (17, receiving instruction at home), Henley On Thames-born Louisa Elizabeth Chapman (28, Teacher), fellow students: Milborne Port, Somerset-born Sarah Elizabeth Mallycott (17), Sarsden, Oxfordshire-born Henriltta Barter (17), Upminster, Essex-born Agnes Josepha Brunfill (15), St Marylebone, London-born Elizabeth Hayward (13), and three servants there to see to the needs of the school's pupils: St Lukes, London-born Elizabeth Cheshire (29,Cook), Yapton, Sussex-born Elizabeth Coles (24, an Upper Housemaid, and Washington, Sussex-born Esther Longley (17, also an Upper Housemaid).^[2]

Adelaide married Commander the Honourable Ernest Grey Lambton Cochrane, one of the sons of Thomas, 10th Earl of Dundonald, on the 15th September 1864. Notices were published in various newspapers, all of them in October.^[3] (14 Oct Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 15 Oct Dundee Courier and Daily Argus, 19 Oct unnamed publication.)

The Honourable Adelaide Georgina Cochrane née Blackall passed away, on the 3rd October 1864, at Madeira Island, Portugal, aged just 23 years, only a few weeks after her wedding, and a short while after departing Sierra Leone, where her father was serving as Governor. Her Last Will and Testament, proven on the 25th May 1870 at Longford, Ireland, left effects worth less than £5 to her husband.^[4]
Adelaide and Ernest had no children as they were barely married before she died.

Adelaide's death was announced in several newspapers -- notably in Ireland, Scotland, and England.^[5]

Research Notes

Please refer to the rest of the discussion that took place on this G2G thread, wherein the possibility of Catherine Bond being the mother was negated by the dates. That the website "The Peerage" has Catherine Bond as Adelaide's mother is demonstrated as incorrect, as was the name of Samuel Wensley Blackall's first wife - proven by actual documentation to be Georgiana Rowles, not "Catherine Bowles".

I don't think it matters much that peerage supports Adelaide's existence, if she was born about 1836 and her supposed parents did not marry until 1858.

If she (Adelaide) was born AFTER the marriage of Blackall to Bond in 1858, then she could not be the same person marrying Cochrane in 1864. The dates simply do not jibe.

It says to me that her mother could not be Kate Bond -- or that she was 20 years illegitimate, born to an 18-year-old mother.

Also, there is evidence that Samuel's first wife was Georgiana Rowles (1814-1853), not Catherine Bowles, no matter how many websites say Bowles. The dates for Georgiana would work for her to be the mother of Adelaide.

There is also that the peerage lists an unknown child, deceased prior to 1864, but Samuel's Last Will and Testament names his son as living (he - the son - could not be executor if deceased). IF there was an unnamed son born to the Blackall=Bond union, then it has to be considered that Blackall had at least three children, not two (Adelaide plus two sons, one died infancy, one survived to at least 1871).

I have not given her a mother, because of my concern regards the date conflicts.

I'm fairly sure she was born in Ireland, given where Samuel was at the time, but have not yet found confirmation. I also don't have a PLACE for the marriage to Cochrane, just the date.

Samuel's son, Robert, was born about 1834 according to a reference in a book (found on googlebooks). It is listing his birth (1834), when he married Mary Emily Gifford (1867), and when he inherited Coolamber Manor (1871).

This pretty much confirms that Robert and Adelaide have to be the children of the first wife, not the second.

First name(s) Samuel Wensley

Last name Blackall

Residence Street, Longford

Marriage year 1833

Parish St George, Hanover Square

Spouse's first name(s) Georgeina

Spouse's last name Rowles

Spouse residence St George Hanover Square

County Middlesex

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Sources

1. ↑ Year of birth is based on her age at school in 1851 (9 years), and her stated age at death in 1864 (23 years). No birth, or baptismal record has yet been found.
2. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGJK-3NT : 9 November 2019), Adelaide Georgiana Blackall in household of Margaret Grace Baguley, Brighton, Sussex, England; citing Brighton, Sussex, England, p. 40, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
3. ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLS4-G61D : 19 April 2019), Adelaide Blackall in entry for Ernest G L Cochrane, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing United Kingdom, 19 Oct 1864, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm.
4. ↑ National Archives of Ireland Will Calendars online search: Cochrane, Adelaide Georgina 03 Oct 1864
5. ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZS-PMY3 : 17 April 2019), Adelaide Blackall Cochrane, Wife, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, 28 Oct 1864, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .

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