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MY LIFE 



[Chap. 



Greenell, of Hertford, who died there in 1824 at the age of 

 79. He had two daughters, Martha, who married Thomas 

 Wilson, Esq., a solicitor, and agent for the Portman estate, 

 and Mary Anne, my mother. Their mother died when the 

 two girls were two and three years old. Mr. Greenell married 

 a second time, and his widow lived till 1828, so that my elder 

 brothers and sisters may have known her, but she was only 

 their step-grandmother. Mr. Greenell had died four years 

 earlier. Although he lived to such a comparatively recent 

 period, I have not been able to ascertain what was his busi- 

 ness. His father, however, my mother's grandfather, who 

 died in 1797, aged 80, was for many years an alderman, and 

 twice Mayor of Hertford (in 1773 and 1779), as stated in the 

 records of the borough. He was buried in St, Andrew's 

 churchyard. 



There is also in the same churchyard a family tomb, in 

 which my father and my sister Eliza are buried, but which 

 belonged to a brother of my mother's grandfather, William 

 Greenell, as shown by the following inscription : — 



*' Under this tomb with his beloved wife are deposited the remains of 

 William Greenell, 

 A native of this parish, who resided 56 years in St. Marylebone, 

 In the County of Middlesex, 

 Where he acquired an ample fortune, 

 With universal esteem and unblemished reputation. 

 He died the 17th day of January, 1791, aged 71." 



There is also an inscription to his wife Ann, who died a 

 year earlier, and is described as the " wife and faithful friend 

 of William Greenell, of Great Portland Street, Marylebone.'* 

 As the tomb was not used for any other interment till my 

 sister's death in 1832, it seems likely that William Greenell 

 had no family, or that if he had they had all removed to 

 other parts of England. 



My mother's mother was a Miss Hudson, whose cousin I 

 remember as owner of the Town-mill in Hertford, and his 

 daughters were my sisters' playfellows and friends, but this 

 family is now extinct so far as the town is concerned. 

 A sister of my grandfather Greenell married Mr. John 



