Author: Wardle, Charlotte
Biography:
WARDLE, Charlotte, later MORGAN (1794-1828: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 4 Jan. 1794, at Mold, Flintshire, the only daughter of Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle (1761-1833), soldier and later M.P., and his wife, Ellen Elizabeth Parry (1767-1844), who brought considerable wealth to the marriage from the estates in Caernarvonshire of her father Love Parry. Gwyllym Wardle was frequently unfaithful, considered a rogue, and by 1815 his financial difficulties had forced him abroad and the family settled in Florence. Charlotte Wardle published St. Aelian’s (1814), a poem in five cantos on Welsh history and culture with learned notes. She also translated from Norwegian, Norway: A Poem (1814). In Florence she married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flint, on 14 Feb. 1827. She gave birth to a son, George Augustus Morgan, on 11 Apr. 1828 but died ten days later, presumably from birth complications. Her death report concluded, “Even in this accomplished age, she was highly distinguished for superior talents and accomplishments.” She was buried in the Cimiterio della Misericordia o dei Pinti at Florence. Her parents outlived her and also died there. Her husband remarried. (ancestry.co.uk 21 Aug. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 21 Aug. 2020; "Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd," ODNB 21 Aug. 2020; GM Mar. 1793, 210 and May 1834, 555; William Hamilton Reid, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Wardle [1809]; Chester Chronicle 19 Nov. 1790, 10 Jan. 1794; Chester Courant 20 May 1828; Morning Chronicle 5 June 1828; findagrave.com 21 Aug. 2020 [Firenze/Pinti, c24e/47/3]) AA