'Mrs. Thrale' has given rise to much surmise as to the true motives of the young people. Much information is given by Hester herself, who found it difficult to be objective. Henry had met Hester's uncle Sir Thomas Salusbury, reputedly at a house of a bon vivant at Brompton. He was invited to Offley Place, home of the Salusburys, as already recounted. He was apparently keen to go, for he knew it to be his father's boyhood home and 'he gave five shillings to a poor boy who lay on the bank because he was sure that his father had been such a boy'. By a further curious turn of the wheel of fortune, Hester Lynch had lived with her grand-mother Lady Cotton, widow of Sir Robert Cotton, at East Hyde. How surprised she and her future husband would have been to know that one of her childhood homes was adjacent to Thrales End! One wonders if she had ever recalled the name of the hamlet from her childhood. It is not relevant to relate fully of this remarkable woman, of long Welsh descent and a genealogy full of history romance and chivalry. She possessed poetry, scholarship and high intellect, but could tend to be spiteful and wayward, although she often had just cause. At East Hyde, she recovered from smallpox and measles, and it was at this place on the Hertfordshire-Bedfordshire border that she learned to love horses. She liked kicking her heels on the old corn bin and learning to drive from the old coachman. She always felt warmly to Hertfordshire. In a letter written from Streatham Park in 1792 as Mrs. Piozzi during the time of her second marriage, she wrote to an attorney in Hertfordshire to 'settle the business and pay in the cash; so end my possessions in Hertfordshire, it seems; the place I earliest attached my silly hearty to'. (17) Why Henry Thrale and Hester Lynch Salusbury married after meeting, is not clear. It was obviously not a love match. Involved in the marriage were fierce feuds between uncle Sir Thomas Salusbury and father John Salusbury who was very hot tempered. Howbeit, John Salusbury died, and Sir Thomas desired greatly to marry a widow Mrs. King with whom he was infatuated. Henry Thrale wanted a wife who would live at Southwark, and thus the mercurial Hester Lynch found herself married to the sombre Henry.
Hester did not like living at Deadman's Place at Southwark, named from the dead who were buried there during the Great Plague. Henry very much went his own way and she was allowed to do nothing. Slowly life improved however. She began to love Streatham Park, or Thrale Place, as it was later called, and a daughter was born in 1764, baptised Hester, but always called Queeney. A famous pack of foxhounds were kept at a hunting box near Croydon, although she could not at that epoch
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Richard Thrale/Dorothy Fuller; John Thrale/Sarah Jaques; Richard Grunwyn/Mary Thrale; Onslow Teddar/Mary Thrale; Richard Thrale/Martha Aylward; Robert Penn/Sarah Thrale; male Penn/; John Thrale/Margaret Chaplin; Richard Palmer/Sarah Thrale; Ralph Thrale/Elizabeth Grunwyn; William Thrale/Margaret Smyth; John Grindon/Abigail Thrale; male White/female Pemberton; male White/female Grindon; male Gale/female White; Charles Gale/female Wood; male Wood/female ?; James White/Jeanie Joubert; male Joubert/Bothia Collins; male Sergeant/female Joubert; male Andrews/; Thomas Thrale/Elizabeth Andrews; Ralph Thrale/Mary Crouch; Richard William Thrale; Hester Lynch Salusbury; Hannah Maria Green; Ernest Norman Thrale; Richard Thrale; Richard Thrale; John Thrale; John Thrale; Margaret Thrale; John Thrale; Richard Thrale; Robert Thrale; Robert Thrale; Thomas Thrale; Alban Thrale; Alice ; Jane ; Nicholas Thrale; Francis Thrale; Petronell Thrale; Francis Thrale; Edward Thrale; Alice Thrale; John Thrale; William Thrale; John Thrale; Helen ; Elizabeth Smith; Thomas Thrale; Alban Thrale; Thomas Thrale; John Thrale; Thomas Thrale; Thomas Thrale; Alban Thrale; Elizabeth Jaques; Ralph Thrale; Sarah Thrale; Martha Thrale; Thomas Thrale; Ralph Thrale; William Thrale; Alice Dixon; Robert Thrale; Abby Rebecca Thrale; John Thrale; William Thrale; Ralph Thrale; Ralph Thrale; female Grindon; male White; Elizabeth Pemberton White; female White; Charles Gale; James White; William Thrale; Thomas Thrale; Ralph Thrale; Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England; Sandridgebury, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England; Clophill, Bedfordshire, England; Luton, Bedfordshire, England; West Hyde, Bedfordshire, England; Thrales End, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England; Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England; St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; Napsbury, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; New Mill End, Bedfordshire, England; East Hyde, Bedfordshire, England; Kingsbury, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; Childwickbury, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England; Hundreds of Flitt, Bedfordshire, England; Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, England; Gifford, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England; Holborn, Middlesex, England; Nomansland, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England; Astwick, Bedfordshire, England; Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England; Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England; Saint Pauls, Walden, Hertfordshire, England; Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England; Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; Codicote, Hertfordshire, England; Hammonds, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England; Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey, Middlesex, England; Batchwood, St Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
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Thrale/Thrall history
