Author: Thomas, Joan Elizabeth
Biography:
THOMAS, Joan Elizabeth, later Conder (1785-1877: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised on 5 May 1785 at All Saints church, Fulham, London; her parents were Roger Thomas (1736-87) and his second wife Amelia Roubiliac (1760-1827) who had married on 11 June 1782. Amelia was the daughter of L. F. Roubiliac, a sculptor. Joan Elizabeth was known as Eliza and she married Josiah Conder (q.v.), a bookseller and writer, on 8 Feb. 1815 at Saint Mary’s, Battersea. They were to have six sons (two died in infancy) and one daughter; all of the children were baptised soon after birth in the established church but in 1837 their births were recorded in the non-conformist registry. Josiah was the son of Thomas Conder who published works by Ann and Jane Taylor (q.v.) and his son inherited his bookseller’s shop in Bucklersbury, London. Later Josiah moved to new premises in St. Paul’s Churchyard where the family lived. In Associate Minstrels, Conder’s contributions are marked with “E.” Ann (“A”) and Jane (“J”) Taylor also contributed; another contributor identified as “C” was Josiah Conder. She contributed to her husband’s Star in the East but the preface states that she made anonymity a condition of publication. Conder also wrote and published hymns. The 1851 Census records the family living in Lambeth and Josiah is identified as the editor of The Patriot. He died in Dec. 1855 and by 1861 Conder had moved to Lewisham in Kent. At the time of her death on 22 Jan. 1877 she was living in Montreux Cottage in Lewisham. Her will left effects of under £300. (ancestry.co.uk 26 Jan. 2024; ODNB [Josiah Conder] 26 Jan. 2024; John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology [1892])
Other Names:
- Joan Elizabeth Conder