Mrs Marianne Gilbert

Born Marianne Charlotte Isabelle Peters in or about 1831, her father was William Peters, a banker by profession, who lived at Beckenham Place in Kent, and later at Ashfold House, Slaugham, near Crawley in Sussex.

On 16 December 1848 at St George's Church in Beckenham she married Colonel Walter Raleigh Gilbert (1813-1896), of Priory House, Bodmin, Cornwall. Her husband was the Chief Constable of the County of Cornwall; he was also a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Artillery, but retired on half-pay. He was later Colonel of the 1st Cornwall Artillery Volunteers.

At the time of both the 1861 census and the 1871 census, Mrs Gilbert was either visiting or living with her parents at Ashfold House at Handcross near Slaugham Green in Sussex. With her on the first occasion were her daughter Mary Marianne and Cecilia Isabelle. On the second occasion she was accompanied by daughters Cecilia Isabelle and Edith Geraldine.

When the census was taken in 1881 she was with husband at The Priory, Bodmin. Also present that night were her eldest and her youngest daughters, Mary Marianne Gilbert and Edith Geraldine Gilbert.

Mrs Marianne Gilbert died on 15 October 1918 at 6 Palmeira Avenue Mansions in Hove, Sussex. She left effects valued at £207.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London on 1 August 1861.

[From an album compiled by the sitter.]