Author: Tessier, George
Biography:
TESSIER, George (1785-1845: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 19 Dec. 1785 and baptised on 8 Jan. 1786 at the French Huguenot church in Threadneedle Street, City of London, the seventh of at least eleven children of Abraham Tessier (1749-1803) and his wife Marie Marianne Rose Gordelier (c. 1750-1803), who had married at St. John’s, Hackney, on 16 Oct. 1774. Nothing is known of his education. He married Jane Bangham on 3 June 1807 at St. Augustine and St. Faith’s, Watling Street, City of London. They had eight children each of whose births he recorded in Odes without giving their names. He also wrote three Elegies but it is not known for whom. Their first two children were baptised in Holborn 1807-9 and the other six in Newington or Bermondsey 1811-24. His 1827 Preface gave his address as Chapel Place, Long Lane, Southwark, and stated that his poems “were composed amid the ordinary occupations of business, or during the seasons of domestic solicitude and trial.” His death certificate gives his occupation as Merchant’s Clerk. At his marriage in 1879, however, his eldest son George Frederick gave his father’s occupation as French Protestant minister so it is possible he was also a minister in some capacity. It is not known when his first wife, Jane, died, but he married Elizabeth Lopdell on 9 July 1842 at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, giving his address as Last Lane, and occupation as Gentleman. He died on 5 Feb. 1845, aged 59, from consumption, at 11 Portland Place, Walworth Common, Newington. (ancestry.co.uk 30 Jan. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 30 Jan. 2022; GRO death cert.) AA
Other Names:
- G. Tessier