Talk:Hester Lisle

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Hutchins source

Information given in The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Vol. II, p.153 of a 1973 reprint,[1] about Hester's children, may be garbled. What is said there about a son John William born 1787 and at Wadham College, died 1805, looks like John William Clapcott who matriculated at Wadham in 1804. Father given as John.

The other daughter Harriot Hester mentioned in Hutchins as born 1774 may have died young. The editors of the Horace Walpole correspondence assume that, so the two "nieces" he mentions are Marcia and Emma. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:31, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Given that this source states that the future wife of Charles Arbuthnot, i.e. Marcia, was born 1774 rather than 1775, there is some date uncertainty. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Forster v Forster

The time spent in Lille by the Lisle family (confusingly, "Lisle" is also an old spelling in English for Lille) is bound up with a leading legal case, Forster v Forster, between John and Mary Forster in a consistory court, before William Scott, later Lord Stowell.[2] That is background supporting the idea that Mary went to Lille. The articles by Richard Chapman in [3] and [4] are my sources for the Lisles involvement. They are well sourced to archival sources, and so despite some obvious typos, I think they should be treated as reliable, as far as the movements of the Lisle family are concerned, and Hester's involvement with Mary's second family.

These give some context for the final years (apparently) of William Clapcott Lisle's life. There is also [5] showing he was being pursued by creditors. That is an awkward reference, absent the newspaper original. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:10, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]