William Carpenter Noel Shore |
He
was a very handsome man, wavy hair, blue eyes, and must have been a
great flirt in his day for when I first
went to Dublin nearly every old lady whom his
sister – Aunt Bessie brought to call on me whispered confidentially
“My dear I thought at one time I might have been your Aunt” or
remembered him very very well after so many years. I fancy too he
had no idea of the value of money and was very wasteful of it – for
we were very badly off after his death and from what I know there
was no reason for us to be so. He was a Major in the Militia, not
the regular army.
They went
back to live in Dublin. In 1876, their daughter, Caroline Mary was
born, followed in 1878 by the birth of a son, John Teignmouth
William. Caroline was always known as Cis and John was always
called Jack. Around 1880, the family moved to London where William
had a position as an Examiner in the Treasury Department. In spite
of being handsome and sweeping Mary off her feet, he was absolutely
hopeless with money. Mary’s brothers made a lot of money
speculating on the stock exchange etc, however, William didn’t have
their luck and must have lost the lot, as when he died, Charles
Adamthwaite came and took away all Mary’s wedding presents – silver,
crystal etc – to help repay some of the money he had loaned
William.
William
died in 1888 in the Hospital for Heart Disease, in Soho Square,
London. Poor Mary and the two children were left very badly off and
in the 1991 Census were living in lodgings in Kensington. However,
her two sisters, Fanny who was married to Kenric Murray, Secretary
of the London Chamber of Commerce, and Lucy who was married to Major
Hughes took care of them all. In spite of taking all her wedding
presents, her brother Charles was also very kind to them.
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