CABOLINE HEESCHEL. 



CHAPTER I. 



RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY LIFE IN HANOVER. 



CAROLINE LUCRETIA HERSCHEL was bom at Han- 

 over on the 16th of March, 1750. She was the eighth, 

 child and fourth daughter of Isaac Herschel, by Anna 

 Use Moritzen, to whom he was married in August, 

 1732. The family consisted of ten children, four of 

 whom died in early childhood. 



A memorandum in the handwriting of Isaac 

 Herschel, transcribed by his daughter in the original 

 German at the beginning of her Recollections, traces 

 the family back to the early part of the seventeenth 

 century, about which time, it appears that three 

 brothers Herschel left Moravia on account of their re- 

 ligion (which was Protestant), and became possessors of 

 land in Saxony. One of these brothers, Hans, was a 

 brewer at Pirna, a little town two miles from Dresden, 

 and the father of two sons, one of whom, Abraham by 

 name, was born in 1651, was the father of the above- 

 mentioned Isaac, and the grandfather of Caroline 



