Ruth Martin Carvill's late 1902 Journal, entry dated 23 Aug 1902, pg 1 of 2.
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23/08/1902
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In Ruth Martin Carvill's journal entry dated 23 Aug 1902., she relates that she darned stockings, called on Miss Paddy who went bathing with her (swimming). Her Mother-s cousin, Amy Simpson, came for lunch. (Her father was Professor of Chemistry in London.) After lunch they went to Miss Rutherford-s for tea, painting, tennis & playing with a puppy. No drawings accompany this entry. NOTE: Mary E. Simpson (nicknamed Amy) was the daughter of Dr. Maxwell Simpson and Mary Martin (sister of Elizabeth Martin Carvill-s father, Robert Martin). Mary (aka Amy) and Elizabeth would be first cousins and close to the same age. Mary (aka Amy) was born 28 May 1855 in Dublin. The 1901 Census indicates she was living as Mary E. (age 45) at 7 Darnley Rd, Kensington, with her father, Dr. Maxwell Simpson, Widowed, age 86, Doctor of medicine later Professor of Chemistry at College Cork, and her brother Maxwell age 52, Retired Indian Civil Servant, as well as Lizzie Fortney age 29, General Servant Domestic. All were born in Ireland. She is NOT buried with her parents (d 1899 & Feb 1902), sister Lucy (d 1898) & brothers Maxwell (d1901) and John Martin Simpson (d1895) in Fulham Street Cemetery in London. At one point she was engaged (1890) to someone named Inglefield, but apparently that marriage never occurred (he was last heard from in 1890 as a road inspector in Accra.) Two other Simpson children are buried in Dublin (Rudolph & Anna Millicent Simpson, who both died in 1863.) This visit to the Carvill family would have been 6 months after the death of Amy-s father - she was the last surviving of the Simpson family as none married or had any children. In the 1911 census she is a "lodger' at St. George Hanover Square, London, single and listed as "Mary Elizabeth Maxwell Simpson'. On the 25 March 1903 Mary Elizabeth Maxwell Simpson was granted a 40 pound per annum pension "In consideration of the eminence as a chemist of her late father, Professor Maxwell Simpson, and of her straitened circumstances." Death date or location has not been determined.
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