Author: Parminter, Anne
Biography:
PARMINTER, Anne, formerly SHINGLAR (1769-1833: ancestry.co.uk)
Although there is no record of her baptism, it seems likely she was born in 1769, the daughter of Thomas Shinglar and his wife Anne Selbey, who had married at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, in 1767. Nothing is known of her early life until she married George Parminter, a coal merchant, on 27 Jan. 1801 at the same church. They lived at 19 Bolton Street, Piccadilly in 1804 to at least 1817. They went on to have at least three sons who were educated at Christ’s Hospital. (He is Risen, dedicated to the Governors of the school,mentions that her children had been accepted as pupils there. An MS note in the Bodley copy gives her address as Bolton Street.) In the Preface to The Votive Wreath (1826) she writes, “struggling under the pressure of a sudden and unexpected reverse of fortune, and impelled by the feelings of a wife, a mother, and a friend, I ventured to solicit patronage for this little volume.” The volume had over 300 subscribers, mostly from London, including a Mrs. Shinglar of Great Titchfield Street. Anne Parminter signed the Preface from Earl Street, Blackfriars, from where her husband traded as a coal merchant (with additional premises at Palace Wharf, Lambeth). He was declared insolvent in 1825, which was probably the reversal of fortune she refers to. She applied to the RLF in July 1829 from 73 Great Titchfield, Marylebone, London, in ill-health, and was awarded £10. She applied again in June 1832 and was also awarded £10. She had been a teacher to four girls in Islington on a salary of £40 a year but her health had deteriorated further and she declared “I am but the wreck of what I was.” She moved to Islington to keep her post but still lost it and died in at Wilmington Square, Clerkenwell, aged 64, and was buried on 3 July 1833 at St. Nicholas, Chiswick. (ancestry.co.uk 5 Dec. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 5 Dec. 2022; Morning Post 11 Nov. 1825; N&Q 23 Mar. 1861, 228; RLF 1/659) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Parminter