Author: Merryweather, Jane Anderson
Biography:
MERRYWEATHER, Jane Anderson, formerly LOY (1806-39: findmypast.co.uk)
She was born 13 Dec. 1806 at Whitby, the only daughter of Dr. John Glover Loy and his wife Mary Anderson. She married George Merryweather, also a physician, on 28 Jan. 1826 at Whitby (with the consent of her father, she being a minor). She had three daughters and a son. One daughter, Jane, died in infancy, aged four. Several of her poems record her ill-health and she is thought to have been an invalid for a number of years. The Hermit of Eskdaleside was first published anonymously in the Whitby Repository 8 Mar. 1833, 65-94, then published separately; a second edition with additional poems appeared the same year. She died on 7 Jan. at Whitby and was buried at St. John’s, Eskdaleside. (findmypast.co.uk 5 Aug. 2020; Newcastle Courant 4 Feb. 1826; Yorkshire Gazette 12 Jan. 1839; GM Feb. 1839, 222; Newsam, 155-6; Gideon Smales, Whitby Authors [1867], 150-2; Johnson Cata) AA
Other Names:
- I. A. M.