Caroline Girle

Caroline Girle (27 December 1736 - 17 November 1817) kept a Journal throughout her life.[1] Although some volumes were destroyed, what remains is in the British Library[2] These Journals earned her the sobriquet "The Oxfordshire Diarist".[3][4]

Family

She was the daughter of John Girle FRS (ca 1702-1761) and Barbara Slaney (1717-1801),[5] and she had an elder brother John (1735-1746). On 5 August 1652 in Whitchurch on Thames, Oxon, she married Philip Lybbe Powys; they had four children :-

  1. Caroline (1763-1764)
  2. Philip Lybbe (1765-1838)
  3. Thomas (1768 -1817)
  4. Caroline Isabella (1775-28 August 1838), who married the Rev. Edward Cooper, a first cousin of Jane Austen.

References

  1. ↑ "Caroline Girle". www.tim.ukpub.net.
  2. ↑ e.g. "The Annual Journal of Caroline Powys, née Girle, begun 1757" British Library Add. Mss. 42160 and others
  3. ↑ "Amazon.co.uk: Caroline Girle Powys: Books". www.amazon.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "Powys, Caroline Girle, "Mrs. P. L. Powys,", 1738-1817 - The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  5. ↑ "Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry". H. Colburn. 1 October 2018 – via Google Books.
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