Marie Augustine Girault

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Father: August Girault

Descendant: Augustine Walmisley

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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.

Marie Augustine Graff entered the UK on the 1st April 1837 from Boulogne. Her profession is a Mantua maker (a type of clothing - an over-robe).

In the place of her signature it says "pour ma femme" and the signature of her husband (it is the same as that on his arrival documents in 1840). There is a remark "left on 24th July last" which seems to indicate that she had visited before.

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.

First marriage

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. And probably a fourth John Charles Girault Walmisley as well.

Her husband Charles Louis Auguste Graff entered Britain on the 8th May 1840.

Second 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.

Children

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

Note that John Charles Girault Walmisley is likely to actually have been the son of Charles Louis Auguste Graff as he was still alive 9 months before John was born.

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	Q2 1843	Westminster St Margaret, Middlesex
Augustine Anna Walmisley	~1844	Westminster, Middlesex
Philip Walter Walmisley	~1846	Westminster, Middlesex

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)

In 1st March 1842 a Nicolaus Girault and wife (a mechanic from France) came to England at the Port of London from Boulogne on the Maguet (possibly the ship name).

On 3rd March 1843 a Graff from Boulogne who was a "graveur" (engraver) from France came to England on the "City of Boulogne"

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