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Birthbef 22 Oct 1770
Baptism22 Oct 1770, Alverstoke, Hants
Death14 Nov 1829, London
Burial18 Nov 1829, Bristol cathedral (MI in Elder lady Chapel)
GeneralCo-heir and, prob, 2nd dau.
FatherSir Samuel Marshall (<1741-1795)
MotherElizabeth Worsley (1743-<1795)
Notes for Edith Mary Marshall
The only (respectable) source for her death in 1845 in Exeter is Cokayne’s Complete Baronetage.  After quite a few searches I have found nothing to confirm Cokayne’s information.  In principle she should be in the BMD registers, but she is not to be found there, nor in the parish registers for Exeter.  The BMD registers for each quarter from Sep 1837 to Dec 1847 have been searched with nothing found.

I wonder if she did die in 1845?

Or did she marry again and thus have another name?  There is no marriage on FreeBMD from 1837.

Is she in the 1841 census?  No, I’ve looked.  Nor is there any sign of her anywhere near her daughter Louisa’s family.

She does not have a PCC will under the Barrington name.  Nor is there one under Marshall.  But other will depositories might have a will, if she made one.
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Her christening on FamilySearch:

father: Samuel Marshall
mother: Elisabeth
Name     Edith Mary Marshall
Gender Female
Christening Date 22 Oct 1770
Christening Place ALVERSTOKE,HAMPSHIRE,ENGLAND
Father's Name Samuel Marshall
Mother's Name Elisabeth
Indexing Project (Batch) Number C07357-2
System Origin England-ODM
GS Film number 918899
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On May 6th 1825 in the Salisbury and Winchester Journal, this was reported from Newport:

Lady Barrington, of Swainston House, who was severely injured by being thrown from her horse on Tuesday the 26th ult. [April] on Bowcombe Down, on her return home from Newport is, we are happy to hear, so much recovered as to be able to leave her bed, and great hopes are entertained that a complete recovery is not far distant.  Her ladyship is said to be as good a horsewoman as any in England.
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Eventually it was found from on-line registers of MIs in Calbourne church that she had died in 1829, some 16 years before G K Cokayne’s account.  Further it was shown there that she was buried in Bristol (not Exeter) cathedral, confirmed by this from the cathedral register:

SURNAME  FORENAME (S)  AGE  BURIAL DATE  CHURCH OR CHAPEL
BARRINGTON  Edith Mary  59  18/Nov/1829  Bristol Cathedral

Thanks to both the IoW and Bristol FHS.

And this directed me to page 475 of The Gentelemens Magazine for November 1829 where there was written in the obituary section, somewhat inaccurately:

“Nov 15. Edith-Mary, wife of Sir FitzWilliam Barrington, Bart, of Swainston in the isle of Wight.  She was a daughter of Sir Samuel Martin, Knt, RN was married in July 1790, and had issue a son, who died young, and five daughters.”
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I wonder if she left a will in the Bristol deanery?
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She died before her husband, yet she was not brought back to Calbourne for burial there, nor was any memorial placed there until done, undoubtedly much later, by her then two surviving daughters.  I wonder if she and her husband had separated?

On second thoughts,  Swainston had been left by her brother-in-law John the 9th baronet, to her eldest daughter Louisa.  While the Simeons owned another house on the island, possibly Edith Mary and her husband decided slowly that the time had come to leave Swainston.  The Bristol records say that Anne Emma and Mary were also buried in the cathedral.  So it sounds like the whole household had upped sticks to be there.  Then, after his wife’s death, Fitzwilliam the 10th baronet was on his own and may then have decided to return to Swainston where he died slightly less than three years later.  So the challenge now is to see if any rates were paid by the Barringtons and thereby find where they had been living.
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Mon Inscripts notes for Edith Mary Marshall
At All Saints church, Calbourne, Isle of Wight, transcribed by the IoW Family History Society and put on their website at <http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/mis_bis/mis_calbourne_all_saints.htm>;:

Sacred
to the memory of
our affectionately beloved mother
Dame Edith Mary
Wife of
Sir Fitz William Barrington Bt.
and
Daughter and Co-heiress of
Sir Samuel Marshall Kt.,
Captain in the Royal Navy.
She departed this life
upon the XIX day of November
MDCCCXXIX
in the LVIII year of her Age
and was buried in
the Cathedral Church at Bristol
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Margaret Macgregor has discovered from Bristol Record office that the  
VANDELEUR and the two BARRINGTON burials are commemorated by diamonds in the floor of the Elder Lady Chapel at the Cathedral.  She also found a newspaper cutting that said Edith Mary died in London.
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Armorial Blazon notes for Edith Mary Marshall
Gules on a fesse or three boars heads couped sable between three mascles or.
Blazon source notes for Edith Mary Marshall
On the assembly of arms done by his eldest granddaughter Louisa Edith Simeon, née Barrington.
Notes for Fitzwilliam & Edith Mary (Family)
On the Marriage Licence of 7th July 1789 it says:

“Fitz William Barrington ... of the parish of Saint George Hanover Square ... Middlesex .., batchelor ... intermarry Edith Mary Marshall of the parish of Saint Mary le bone  ... (Middlesex), spinster, 18 years and up ... with the consent of Samuel Marshall ... (her) father ... to solemnise in the parish church of St George Hanover Square [Middlesex].”

Signed by both FB and SM.
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And from the Harleian Society transcript of the St George Hanover Sq marriage register:

1789, July 8th:
Fitzwilliam Barrington, of this parish, Esqr, II, & Edith Mary Marshall, of St Marylebone, a minor.  By Licence, & with consent of her father Samuel Marshall.
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From the image of their marriage, this is the text recorded:

“Fitzwilliam Barrington of this Parish Esqr Bachelor and Edith Mary Marshall of the Parish of Marylebone Minor were Married in this church [St George Hanover Sq] by Licence by and with the consent of Samuel Marshall the natural and lawful father of the said Minor this eighth Day of July in the year 1789 by mw Robt Lowth vicar of Halsted
“This Marriage was solemnised between us: Fitzwilliam Barrington Edith Mary Marhsall [signed]
“In the presence of: S Marshall, ? Barrington, ??? Worsley”

The witnesses were probably Samuel Marshall, possibly FitzWilliam Barrington, father of the groom and a Worsley who might have been a relation of the bride’s mother whose maiden name was Worsley.
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