Emma Lucy Madox Brown 1843-1894

In April 1841 Ford Madox Brown [aged 19] and [her mother] Elizabeth Bromley [aged 22] were married. They were half first cousins.

On 19th July 1843 Emma Lucy Madox Brown was born to Ford Madox Brown [aged 22] and Elizabeth Bromley [aged 24] at Paris [Map]. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.12%.

On 5th June 1846 [her mother] Elizabeth Bromley [aged 27] died of tuberculosis in Paris [Map]. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 2] was sent to live with her aunt Helen Bromley at Gravesend, Kent [Map].

On 5th April 1853 Ford Madox Brown [aged 31] and Emma Matilda Hill [aged 23] were married at St Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street [Map]. The witnesses were Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 24] and Thomas Seddon [aged 31]. Rector Edward Auriol [aged 48] performed the ceremony.

Edward Auriol: On 27th February 1805 he was born to James Peter Auriol. On 28th September 1829 he and Georgina Morris were married. On 7th January 1842 he was appointed Rector of St Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street [Map]. On 10th July 1880 he died.

In 1856 Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 12] was sent to live with the household of Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 27].

On 11th February 1862 at twenty past seven in the morning Elizabeth Siddal [aged 32] overdosed on laudanum at 14 Chatham Place. Possibly suicide - there may have been a note that said "look after Harry (her invalid brother)" which Ford Madox Brown [aged 40] persuaded Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 33] to burn. Shortly after her death Sarah Cox aka Fanny Cornforth [aged 27] moved into the family home to become housekeeper to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

On 28th December 1865 William Holman Hunt [aged 38] and Fanny Waugh [aged 32] were married at Christ Church Paddington. William Michael Rossetti [aged 36], and her brother and sister George and Emily were witnesses. She, Fanny, would die the following year eight days short of their anniversary. He would, ten years later, marry her younger sister Marion Edith Waugh [aged 18]; an example of Married to Two Siblings.

1870. Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 26]. "The Tempest".

1870. Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 26]. "The Duet".

1870. Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 26]. Study for "The Tomb Scene from Romeo and Juliet".

1871. Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 27]. "The Tomb Scene from Romeo and Juliet".

1872. Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 28]. "Study for The Tempest, Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess".

1872. Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 28]. "Margaret Roper Receiving the Head of her Father".

On 3rd September 1872 [her brother-in-law] Francis Heuffer [aged 27] and Catherine Emily Brown [aged 21] were married. She the illegitmate daughter of [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 51] and [her step-mother] Emma Matilda Hill [aged 43].

In 1873 William Michael Rossetti [aged 43] and Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 29] were engaged.

1874. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 45]. Portrait of Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 30].

On 31st March 1874 William Michael Rossetti [aged 44] and Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 30] were married. She the daughter of Ford Madox Brown [aged 52] and Elizabeth Bromley.

On 30th September 1875 [her daughter] Olivia Madox Rossetti was born to William Michael Rossetti [aged 46] and Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 32].

In February 1877 [her son] Gabriel Arthur Rossetti was born to William Michael Rossetti [aged 47] and Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 33].

In November 1879 [her daughter] Helen Maria was born to William Michael Rossetti [aged 50] and Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 36].

In April 1881 [her son] Michael Ford was born to William Michael Rossetti [aged 51] and Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 37]. He died in infancy.

In April 1881 [her daughter] Mary Elizabeth was born to William Michael Rossetti [aged 51] and Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 37].

On 9th April 1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 53] died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Birchington on Sea [Map]. There is a Celtic Cross marking his grave commissioned by his mother Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 81], designed by Ford Madox Brown [aged 60] and erected in the presence of his brother William Michael Rossetti [aged 52] and sister Christina Georgina Rossetti [aged 51] as written on the base of the cross.

On 6th October 1893 Ford Madox Brown [aged 72] died. He was buried at St Pancras and Islington Cemetery.

On 12th April 1894 Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 50] died at Hotel Victoria. Her husband William Michael Rossetti [aged 64] and daughter Olivia Madox Rossetti [aged 18] were present.

On 5th February 1919 William Michael Rossetti [aged 89] died. He was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave.