Cecilia Wagner

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She was the daughter of "a German gentleman and a Spanish lady of noble birth". She was reputed to be a 'great beauty'.

Gasparo's appeal for reconciliation with the Catholic Church seems to have failed, as on 6 August 1781 he was remarried at St.Pancras Old Church (Church of England). He was 52, she was in her twenties. Their first child was baptised in London in 1782, but they also lived in Paris (about 1784 - 1788) before settling at Bath - 5 St James' Street in 1791/2 (picture) and 11 Portland Place in 1800.

Gasparo, described as Professor of mathematicks, exhibited a model of London and Westminster at the Fantoccini Room, in Panton-Street, in the Hay-market, London, in 1785?, and in 1788 he exhibited his model of Rome together with one of Versailles at the Pantheon, Oxford Street.

In 1792 Gasparo was a member of the Bath Loyalist Association, whose purpose, in the wake of the French Revolution, was "to preserve liberty, property and the constitution of Great Britain against republicans and levellers". He also had several books published, two of which are listed in the British Library catalogue‡. Both are dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire†.

Gasparo (also known as Gaspar or Jasper) made his living as a teacher of French and Italian. He died at Bath 27 July 1801, aged 71. His obituary in the local paper described him as "a linguist and father of the promising young actress of that name at our theatre".

After Julia's marriage in 1805, Cecilia moved to London with her son, Francis, and later to her daughter's, Cecilia (Smith) in Strabane, Ireland, where she died, aged 77, in March 1838.

Cecilia married Gasparo Grimani on 6 Aug 1781 in Old Church, St Pancras, London. Gasparo was born in 1729 in Bologna, Italy; died on 27 Jul 1801 in Bath, Somerset; was buried on 1 Aug 1801 in St James, Bath, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the famous Grimani family of Venice, she was famed for her youthful beauty and talent. Born in Paris and named after Lady Suffolk, by whom she was partly brought up, and of whose daughter, Lady Catherine, she became a close friend. She became an actress, starting at the Theatre Royal in Bath (1800 - 1803), then Haymarket, London (1804) and Liverpool, where she met her husband, Charles Mayne Young, and they were married there in 1805. They played together in Manchester, where their son, Julian Charles, was born in 1806, and where Julia died 10 days later at the age of 21. Charles Mayne Young went on to be a very famous actor.

Julia married Charles Mayne Young on 9 Mar 1805 in St. Annes, Liverpool, Lancashire. Charles was born on 10 Jan 1777 in Fenchurch Street, London; died on 28 Jun 1856 in Brighton, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Ilmington, Warwickshire; Rector of Ilmington

Julian married Elizabeth Anne Georgina Willis on 26 Apr 1832 in All Souls, St. Marylebone, London. Elizabeth was born in 1815 in Hampton Sowt, Middlesex; died on 5 Apr 1890 in Kensington, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Feb 1837, Walcot, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Fleet, Hampshire

George married Charlotte Sophia Smith on 5 Oct 1858 in Murree, Bengal, India. Charlotte (daughter of Matthew Smith and Isabella Fraser Morris Hook) was born on 26 Aug 1840 in Agra, Bengal, India; died on 20 Nov 1926 in Lymington, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]