(miscarried) Thrale

1779 - 1779  (0 years)

• Name	(miscarried) Thrale
  Birth	10 Aug 1779	Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Aug 1779	Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England
  	Aged 38, Hester Thrale wrote in the Family Book … I think I am again pregnant. Hester had a difficult pregnancy, which she prayed was a son. During most of the pregnancy, she was confined to the house. On 10 August 1779, she was a few days away from being full-term, but problems with the clerks had arisen at the brewery. In Thraliana, she wrote … Mr Thrale wished me to go, nay insisted on it, but seemed somewhat concerned too, as he was well apprized of the Risque I should run. I went however, & after doing the Business I went to do, beg’d him to make haste home, as I was apprehensive bad Consequences might very quickly arise from the Joulting &c. – he would not be hurried … no Pain, No Entreaties of mine could make him set out one Moment before the appointed hour – so I lay along in the Coach all the way from London to Streatham in a State not to be described, nor endured; – but by me: –& being carried to my Chamber the Instant I got home, miscarried in the utmost Agony before they could get me into Bed, after fainting five Times. The stillborn child was a full-term, perfectly formed, boy. Henry’s inaction seemed to have contributed to the loss of his last chance to have a male heir. John Perkins who was present at the scene in the brewery, said that Henry seemed to be… Planet-struck.
  Person ID	I2168	UK Thrale family
  Last Modified	17 Jun 2024

  
  

  Father	Henry Thrale, M.P.,   b. Between 1724 and 1730, Harrow Corner, Southwark, Surrey, England d. 4 Apr 1781, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 57 years)
  Mother	Hester Lynch Salusbury,   b. 16 Jan 1741, Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales d. 2 May 1821, Clifton, Gloucestershire, England (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	11 Oct 1763	Saint Anne's Church, Soho, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Note	11 Oct 1776
  	Baronet Sir William Weller Pepys (1740-1825) wrote these verses to mark their 13th wedding anniversary. Give me to bless Domestick Life With sweet Repose secure from Strife; (Cries every Pedant in a College) A Wife not over-stockt with Knowlege; This—every Fool who loves to quote What Parrot-like he learn’d by rote; And every Coxcomb whose Pretence To Wisdom marks his want of Sense, And all good Huswives skill’d in Darning Who rail with much Contempt at Larning: And all who place their Sovreign Good in The Composition of a Pudding Repeat with such Triumphant Air Such deep Sagacity—you’d swear That Knowledge among Woman kind Was deadliest Poyson to the Mind; A Crime—which venial if conceal’d Like Theft at Sparta,—if reveal’d, The Guilty stamps with such disgrace, No Culprit dares to Show her Face. But tell me You, who dar’d despise These vulgar Maxims—who from Eyes Which well might grace the loveliest Fair, Turn’d not because bright Sense beam’d there; But—vent’rous Deed!—in Marriage sought A Mind with Stores of Knowledge fraught; Tell me through all these thirteen Years, Through varying Scenes of hopes and Fears; Could Ignorance more faithful prove? Could Folly’s Self more warmly love? Then long may this Auspicious Morn At each still happier Year’s Return Tell—what thy Sweet Experience shews, That Head and Heart are friend—not Foes.
  Family ID	F46	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Sources

  [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, October 1763 (Reliability: 3).