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Henry Dorling

Henry Dorling in the 1860s
Henry Dorling in the 1860s

Dorling married the widow Elizabeth Mayson (maiden name Elizabeth Jerram) in 1843. He already had two sons and two daughter, and she had three daughters and a son.[1] They went on to have a further thirteen children.[1] They lived most of the year in the Grandstand at Epsom Racecourse, with Elizabeth's mother, Dorling's mother-in-law.[1]

Dorling Drive, a street built in 1961 in Ewell, was named after Dorling.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Beetham, Margaret (2004). "Beeton , Isabella Mary (1836–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2008-04-14. 


Category:Epsom and Ewell

[edit] rough notes

In 1857 McMahon married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Franklin Head, 93rd highlanders; she died in 1866, and in 1868 he married Charlotte Emily, daughter of Henry Dorling of Stroud Green House, Croydon. was this our man?

from: T. G. Bonney, ‘McMahon, Charles Alexander (1830–1904)’, rev. Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 April 2008

T. R. Moreman, ‘McMahon, Sir (Arthur) Henry (1862–1949)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 April 2008

Memorandum re Epsom cemetery, includes: "The first burial took place on the 15 June 1871, the deceased, Elizabeth Dorling was the wife of the Reverend Henry Dorling who was the Clerk to Epsom Racecourse. Henry Dorling paid seven pounds, seven shillings and six pence for the grave space. The cost of an ordinary space at that time would have been one pound eleven shillings and six pence with the cost of interment at a princely three shillings and six pence."