Author: Curling, Mary Anne
Biography:
CURLING, Mary Anne (b 1797: ancestry.co.uk)
Her parents were Lydia Amelia Jones and John Curling, a tailor, who had married at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, on 29 Dec. 1796. Mary Ann was the eldest of their four children (three daughters and one son); she was born on 27 Nov. 1797 and baptised in St. Marylebone with her siblings on 3 Apr. 1806. A sister, Amelia, was born in 1801 and later served as a witness when Mary Ann sued John Buck, pastor of the Baptist church in Oxford Street, for breach of promise. John Curling wrote his will on 17 Sept. 1810 “being of weak state of body” and left his wife income from insurance and the lease of his house at 18 George Street, Marylebone. Mary Ann became engaged to John Buck in Nov. 1818 but he broke with her in Apr. 1819; he subsequently published an account of the circumstances of their relationship in an effort to redeem his character as a religious leader. One of her poems, “Caprice,” reflects on his betrayal. No other information has been located. (ancestry.co.uk 29 Jan. 2024; Report on the Trial Curling Against Buck, For Breach of Promise of Marriage [1820])
Other Names:
- M. A. Curling