Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Death2 Apr 1877799
FatherSir John Peter (iv) Boileau Bart. (1794-1869)
Notes for Caroline Mary Boileau
Chadwick’s book has a great deal on Caroline. She came under the influence of the vicar who so argued with her father, and became excessively religious. I have to say, given her behavior, her obsession with death, and how she ended up living, you’d have to conclude she was a bit of a nutter. After her father died, she became a travelling preacher, zipping around the country preaching to drunks and prostitutes, holding prayer meetings in streets and halls, spending long hours in solo prayer.
She died at the age of 48, in Bryanstone House in Harrowgate, after a long illness, and from the effects of an operation.
When she was younger, her two younger sisters, Mary and Theresa, were also heavily influenced by the vicar, and became excessively religious, but they didn’t follow her so far down the path of weirdosity.
As BBB15 puts it:
“After their father's death in 1869 his three unmarried daughters were left to their own devices. The two younger lived quietly at Torquay, but Caroline, free at last, spread her wings. At first she had the idea of being a nurse, but a few years later she had become a Methodist preacher, travelling round the country.”
She died at the age of 48, in Bryanstone House in Harrowgate, after a long illness, and from the effects of an operation.
When she was younger, her two younger sisters, Mary and Theresa, were also heavily influenced by the vicar, and became excessively religious, but they didn’t follow her so far down the path of weirdosity.
As BBB15 puts it:
“After their father's death in 1869 his three unmarried daughters were left to their own devices. The two younger lived quietly at Torquay, but Caroline, free at last, spread her wings. At first she had the idea of being a nurse, but a few years later she had become a Methodist preacher, travelling round the country.”