Maria Margaret La Primaudaye 1838-1919

On 10th April 1838 Maria Margaret La Primaudaye was born to Reverend Charles John La Primaudaye [aged 31].

In 1845 [her future husband] John Hungerford Pollen [aged 24] was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1845, with a parish in Leeds from 1847, writing of his experiences. Pollen converted to Roman Catholicism in 1851. He travelle d to Rome where he met Reverend Charles John La Primaudaye [aged 38] who had also recently converted to Catholicism; he being the father of his future wife Maria Margaret La Primaudaye [aged 6].

In 1855 John Hungerford Pollen [aged 34] and Maria Margaret La Primaudaye [aged 16] were married at the Church of Woodchester Monastery, Stroud, Gloucestershire. They had ten children.

On 20th January 1858 [her father] Reverend Charles John La Primaudaye [aged 51] died at Calcutta, India.

On 13th September 1866 [her son] Arthur Pollen was born to [her husband] John Hungerford Pollen [aged 45] and Maria Margaret La Primaudaye [aged 28]. He married 7th September 1898 Maud Beatrice Lawrence and had issue.

On 7th September 1898 [her son] Arthur Pollen [aged 31] and [her daughter-in-law] Maud Beatrice Lawrence were married.

On 2nd December 1902 [her husband] John Hungerford Pollen [aged 82] died.

In 1908 Maria Margaret La Primaudaye [aged 69] published a history of lace-making, including an illustrated catalogue of 120 pieces in her own collection, entitled 'Seven Centuries of Old Lace'.

On 18th January 1919 Maria Margaret La Primaudaye [aged 80] died.

30th August 1957. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Sketch of Maria Margaret La Primaudaye.

During the 1870s and 1880s, the John Hungerford Pollen and Maria Margaret La Primaudaye rented Newbuildings Place in Shipley, Sussex from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, a childhood friend of the La Primaudaye family.