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Author: Caselli, Elizabeth

Biography:

CASELLI, Elizabeth, formerly RICHARDS (1788-1826: findmypast.co.uk)

She was born on 26 Aug. 1788 and baptised on 11 Dec. at Batter Street, Presbyterian, Plymouth, to Edmund Richards and his wife Elizabeth Pike, who had married at Stoke Damerel on 18 Jul. 1781. Nothing is known of her education. According to her Poems on Religious and Moral Subjects (1818) she lost her mother at sixteen; in addition, some poems record the deaths of her sister and father within two months of each other. The volume also reveals her maiden name in an acrostic. She married Ranieri Caselli (1782-1857), a Block and Pump maker, of Quay Street, Flushing (near Falmouth), at Plymouth St. Andrew on 28 Jan. 1808. The marriage register does not record her as a minor but as an orphan (and probably needing a marriage); she or her remaining family may not have disclosed the fact, or she simply may not have known her age. By May 1818, in the Preface to her volume, she writes of the “domestic concerns of a young family”: she had at least four daughters and six sons. She was buried at Falmouth, Cornwall, aged 40 (sic), and was buried there on 25 June 1826. Her husband remarried and had another family. (findmypast.co.uk 3 Nov. 2021; ancestry.co.uk 3 Nov. 2021; Caselli, Poems on Religious and Moral Subjects [1818]) AA

 

Books written (1):

Falmouth: James Trathan, the author, and all the booksellers, 1818