Marie Augustine Girault

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Marie Augustine Girault was born in Paris, France, around about 1807 to Auguste Nicolas Girault. She married a copper plate engraver called Charles Louis Auguste Graff in Paris, France, and they had three children together, Gabrielle Augustine Graff (~1833), Emma Graff (~1839), and Charles Antoine Graff (9th December 1836) whilst in France.

The marriage certificate of their son Charles Antoine Graff with Émélie MILLET, says: "Given up by his parents to the foundlings and orphans hospice of Paris on May 14th 1837, recorded under number one thousand and one hundred and three of the numbers register as mentioned in his setting booklet was sent to a home/orphanage when he was only one year old."

She appears to have moved to England shortly after her first husband died, sometime between the birth of Emma Graff in ~1839 and ~1840 when she registered the birth of John Charles Girault Walmisley. Despite him being registered as a Walmisley (and her being listed as the mother as Maria Walmisley), it doesn't appear that she married John Walmisley until the next year.

Marriage In 1841 Maria Augustine Graff (nee Girault) married John Richard Lambert Walmisley, at St Paul, Covent Garden, London (in the registration district of Strand, Middlesex, London).

1841. Marriage solemnized at Parish Church in the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden in the County of Middlesex
When Married.	Name and Surname.	Age	Condition.	Rank or Profession	Residence at the Time of Marriage	Father's Name and Surname	Rank or Profession of Father
August 15	John Richard Lambert Walmisley	both of full age	Bachelor Gentleman	Tavistock Row	John Angus Walmisley	Gentleman
Maria Augustine Graff		Widow	Tavistock Row	Auguste Nicolas Girault	Gentleman
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by Banns by me Charles Wesley D.D.								This marriage was solemnized between us	John R.L. Walmisley	In the Presence of us	Alexis Simonin
Augustine Graff	John James

Bizarrely the IGI (parish register transcriptions) lists a Maria Graffe marrying a John Lambert on the 6th February 1842, at Saint Botolph Bishopsgate, London, London, England. Seems a bit of a coincidence.

They had a daughter called Augustine Anna Maria Walmisley.

In 1851 John and Augustine are living together with 5 children (and 2 servants) at No. 4, The Grange, Brompton, Kensington, in Middlesex.

In 1861 and 1871 she is living in Limerston Street in Chelsea, London. In 1861 with her children Emma, John, Augustine and Phillip Walmisley (and one servant) but in 1871 only with her daughter Emma (Graff).

In 1881 the census finds her living in Ealing with one of her daughters Emma M. Girault. The marriage certificate of Augustine (junior) lists a Gabrielle Girault as one of the witnesses. It is assumed that she was Augustine (junior)'s (and hence Emma's) sister. Gabrielle is also listed in the 1881 census, but living as a Governess in Glamorgan. Gabrielle Girrault is listed in the 1871 census as being a 27 year old, Paris born, governess in Harrow.

Children Child's Name D.O.B. P.O.B. Birth Certificate

Gabrielle Augustine Graff (Girault/Walmisley) ~1833 France - Emma Graff (Girault/Walmisley) ~1839 France John Charles Girault Walmisley ~1840 Westminster, Middlesex John George Charles Walmisley ~1842 Westminster, Middlesex Maria Augustine Walmisley AMJ 1843 Westminster St Margaret, Middlesex Augustine Anna Walmisley ~1844 Westminster, Middlesex Philip Walter Walmisley ~1846 Westminster, Middlesex -

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Random Notes: Maria Augustine Graff (m) JAS 1841 (Strand V1 P382)

In Jan-Feb-Mar 1882 in Brentford Middlesex a Marie Augustine Walmisley died at the age of 76 (birth ~ 1806)

In1840 Oct-Nov-Dec In the district of the Strand (London, Middlesex) Vol 1 Page 344 a John Charles Girault Walmisley was born.

Name: Girault, Augustine Lesourd-Delisle Birth - Death: 1810- Source Citation: Dictionary of Women Artists. An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. By Chris Petteys. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985. (DcWomA)

Name: GIRAULT, Alexander Record Type: Deaths Age at death: 75 Quarter: March Year: 1882 District: Pancras (1837-1901) County: London Middlesex Volume: 1b