Author: Offley, Mrs.
Biography:
OFFLEY, Julia Maria, formerly GLOVER (1780-1853: ancestry.co.uk)
"Mrs. Offley" was probably Julia Maria Glover, baptised 6 Mar. 1780 (with her sister Sophie Elizabeth) at St. Augustine the Less, Bristol, the daughter of Joseph Glover and his wife Elizabeth Halcott. She married John Offley, a merchant, on 27 Apr. 1803 at Hitchen, Hertfordshire, and had two children in 1805 and 1807. Her husband died in 1812 and their residence at 9 Montague Square, Bloomsbury, was put up for sale (together with a few hundred bottles of sherry). For reasons unknown, she moved to Dorset and her only poem The Assize Ball (1820) was printed in Dorchester and published in London by Hatchard. She died 14 Dec. 1853, aged 73, at Weymouth, with her daughter Julia Maria Cheales erecting a window in Trinity Church in her honour in 1855. (ancestry.co.uk 16 Sept. 2020; Morning Chronicle 1 and 2 June 1812; London Evening Standard 19 Dec.1853; Dorset County Chronicle 29 Nov. 1855) AA