Comments on: Susannah Dalbiac’s Almanack, 1776

By: Sharon O'Connor

Sharon O'Connor — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:14:55 +0000

Hi, I am hoping that Margaret Nairne reads this. Margaret, I am researching the people who are in our burial ground in Dulwich, South London, and Susannah’s relative James Dalbiac (1750-1824) is buried here! He moved to Dulwich with his wife Maria and they brought up their four daughters here. I am in the process of finding out which of them exactly is buried here. Would it be possible for you to get in touch as we would love to use a page from this wonderful almanack in our local history newsletter. Our email is history@dulwichsociety.com. Thanks and really hope you see this!

By: Angie (nee d'Albiac)

Angie (nee d'Albiac) — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:13:49 +0000

Fascinating reading. I came across this by chance and am so glad I did. I love reading the family history. Looking through the comments written above Nicholas Tanner’s comment was particularly interesting because I think his grandmother Cicely was sister to my grandfather Richard Henry.

By: Bee [Tingey}

Bee [Tingey} — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 06:08:50 +0000

Re Paris.

Thank you Margaret, I know the family are mainly East End so perhaps a link somewhere way bacl, I can only dream.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:02:40 +0000

What a wonderful thing to inherit, I am green with envy!!

Pauline.

By: Margaret Nairne

Margaret Nairne — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:57:41 +0000

So pleased to have found a new cousin, Nicholas Tanner, and thank you for your comments – your ancestor was, I think, Susannah’s youngest half-brother, John Dalbiac. Ours is Susannah’s nephew, Henry Luard (also a Huguenot name). Bee: there are many names mentioned in the diary and the name Paris comes up 10 times – I think they were close friends who lived in Wanstead. I have done a further online search and can see that Anna Maria Garthwaite designed silks for a Mr Paris in Spitalfields in the 1750s: definitely Huguenots then! And fascinating to see a map of London from then.
I like to think that Susannah was proud of her little 14-year-old diary, and that is why she kept it, although she could never have imagined it being looked after and passed down through her family over the next 239 years.

By: Nina Archer

Nina Archer — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:42:12 +0000

…… a lovely ‘snapshot’ of one young lady’s day to day existence … I wonder, was she annoyed with herself when she realised she had occasionally written entries in the wrong place and had to make crossings out ? – a very sweet and interesting article – thank you ……..

By: Bee (TINGEY)

Bee (TINGEY) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:51:22 +0000

What a busy life the family appear to have had, and how green the areas must have been at that time. What a lovely peep into the diary.

Intrigued by ‘Papa going to Mr Paris’s’ on 16 March. Interested in who was Mr Paris?? This is our family name.. Once told, years ago, that the Paris family were Huegonots.

By: Bronchitikat

Bronchitikat — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:14:08 +0000

Sounded a fairly dull life, from what Susannah recorded. Poor girl/woman.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:34:04 +0000

This is what Susannah’s London looked like in 1776 when she “went to Town”:

“A New and Complete Plan of London Westminster and Southwark with the Additional Buildings to the Year 1777”

http://blogs.lib.uconn.edu/outsidetheneatline/2009/08/05/map-of-the-week-london-in-1776/

By: Achim

Achim — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:07:38 +0000

Quite interesting after so many years — I myself started to write my Diary exactly 201 years later!

Love & Peace
ACHIM