Catalogue description Diaries of Caroline Yarde Scobell, 1845-1846

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

Details of AMS5683
Reference: AMS5683
Title: Diaries of Caroline Yarde Scobell, 1845-1846
Description:

Between May and October 1846 the family stayed with relatives in Bath and near Exeter. The diary records the ascent of the Albion balloon at Bath, a sitting to James Leakey at Exeter and a visit to Mr Dudeny's celebrated paper mills at Bradninch, Devon

 

The diaries record mainly social events but include some items of topical interest, including an exhibition to see Tom Thumb at Brighton (5683/1 f.6) the restoration of Southover Church (f.9) the Lewes by-election (f. 14) and Queen Victoria's visit to Lewes (f.15). Caroline's two brothers attended school at Brighton but she and her three sisters had lessons at home and attended drawing, dancing and German lessons at Brighton
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Immediate source of acquisition:

Documents given on 18 June 1979 (Acc 2424)
Administrative / biographical background:

Caroline Scobell was born on 7 October 1828, the daughter of the Rev John Scobell and his wife Eliza, at that time incumbent at Lewes All Saints and St John Southover. He was the son of a Bodmin doctor and was a scholar at Balliol, 1812-1816

 

Certainly the most notorious episode in the life of the family occurred in 1857 at the funeral of Caroline's sister Emily at All Saints. Emily, it is said partly owing to persecution by her father, had joined John Mason Neale's sisterhood of St Margaret, East Grinstead in August 1857 and died of scarlet fever on November 13. At the funeral Neale was almost killed by an angry mob amid cries of 'no property'

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