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Well done Christina it has really been bugging me that I could not find Albert Howell Maitland anywhere else. So.....was he already married when he married Louisa Kemp in 1860?

Wendy

Here's the charming Catherine with her family in 1851, gives a better idea of her real age:

HOLYOAKE, John Head Married M 51 1800 Traveller In Needles & Hooks Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, Charlotte Wife Married F 50 1801 Redditch, Worcestershire
WARD, Catherine Daughter Married F 30 1821 Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, John Son Married M 29 1822 Needle Maker Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, Mary A Daughter Unmarried F 19 1832 Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, Eliza Daughter Unmarried F 16 1835 Redditch, Worcestershire
PLAYDON, Mary Servant Unmarried F 21 1830 General Serv Pershore, Worcestershire

Piece: 2049 Folio: 206 Page: 39
Registration District: Kings Norton
Civil Parish: Edgbaston

Address: Lee Bank Road, Edgbaston County: Worcestershire

(Had been hoping that Howell/Maitland was with her)

Isn't this odd, was she trying to repent her sins?

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

name: Catherine Julia Ward Holyoake
gender: Female
baptism/christening date: 17 Jun 1852
baptism/christening place: St. Andrews, Bordesley, Warwick, England
birth date:
birthplace:
death date:
name note:
race:
father's name: John James Holyoake
father's birthplace:
father's age:
mother's name: Charlotte Holyoake
mother's birthplace:
mother's age:
indexing project (batch) number: I02373-6
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1545603
reference number: 63

Source Citation
"England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NF62-1N5 : accessed 25 June 2012), Catherine Julia Ward Holyoake, 1852.
_______________________________________________________

She'd already been baptised once:

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

name: Catherine Holyoake
gender: Female
baptism/christening date: 05 Aug 1820
baptism/christening place: Stafford, England
birth date:
birthplace:
death date:
name note:
race:
father's name: John Holyoake
father's birthplace:
father's age:
mother's name: Charlotte Holyoake
mother's birthplace:
mother's age:
indexing project (batch) number: I03887-0
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 350476

When she 'married' Major Robert Westmacott she gave her fathers name as Chas Maitland which it obviously wasn't.

Name: Julia Holyoake Maitland
Spouse Name: Robert Westmacott
Spouse Age: Full Age
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 19 Sep 1855
Parish: Greenwich St Alphege
Borough: Greenwich
Spouse Father Name: Richard Westmacott
Register Type: Parish Register

Witnesses:- Eliza Blanch Bowden and James Bowden going by the above census Julia would have been 34.

Not sure about her dad on that 1855 marriage, I do think it says John. However, she's elevated his status to "gentleman".

I don't think Alfred Howell (Maitland) did die, I think he's lurking somewhere.

Must off to bed now!

All about Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott

http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/rmw1.html

There is also some of his work if you Google his name and click on Images

I looked again at the 1855 marriage and think that you could be right and it says John Maitland for her father.

Robert Hopke Reed's first marriage

parents: Thomas Reed
spouse: Anne Louisa Bandeira
groom's name: Robert Hopk'E Reed
bride's name: Anne Louisa Bandeira
marriage date: 20 Feb 1856
marriage place: Saint James,Westminster,London,England
groom's father's name: Thomas Reed
bride's father's name: Joacquim Bandeira

I think this was her death as they were living in Penge which comes under Croydon
Deaths Mar 1870 (>99%)
Reed Annie Louisa 37 Croydon 2a 154

Marriage in 1871 to Louisa Kemp/Maitland
Marriages Mar 1871 (>99%)
Bruen Adriana McWhorter Kensington 1a 19
Cockran Sutton Fraser Kensington 1a 19
>>Maitland Louise Adelaide H Kensington 1a 19
>>Reed Robert Hopke Kensington 1a 19

By 1881 he was a widower again
Name: Arabella D. Reed
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Robert Hopke Reed
Gender: Female
Where born: Penge, Surrey, England
Civil parish: Lambeth
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street Address: 46 Colby Rd
Education:

Employment status:

View image
Registration district: Lambeth
Sub-registration district: Norwood
ED, institution, or vessel: 26
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 630
Folio: 14
Page Number: 22
Household Members:
Name Age
Robert Hopke Reed 51
Arabella D. Reed 20
Mary Reed 8
Reginald Reed 9
Ann Branderia 76
Minnie Cresa 18

Possible death of Louisa Adelaide

Deaths Sep 1873 (>99%)
Reed Louisa 35 Lambeth 1d 331 They were living in Lambeth in 1881 and the age fits.

Just a quickie while I'm on my lunchbreak (this case has really got to me!!).

I've found a newspaper article (too long to type out in full) from 1878 where a Mr Alfred Howell, wholesale Sheffield and Birmingham warehouseman, who conducted business in London was bankrupt. He had petioned for liquidation in 1877.

The case was primarily about how aspects of the case had been handled, no personal stuff.

Now, wasn't Catherine/Kate/Julia Holyoake/Ward/Maitland from the West Midlands area?

Will look into it further tonight, unless anyone else fancies a delve?

Hope Rosie checks back .....

EDIT: Found another similar article from 1877 where it says he is of 143 Houndsditch

London Gazette 27/04/1877

The Bankruptcy Act, 1869.
In the London Bankruptcy Court.
In tbe Matter of Proceedings for Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, instituted by
Alfred Howell, of No. 140, Houndsditch, in the city of
London, Wholesale Sheffield and Birmingham Ware
houseman.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a First General Meeting
of the creditors of the above-named person has been
summoned to be held at the London Warehousemen's
Association, No. I l l, Cheapside, in the city of London, on
the 14th day of May, 1877, at two o'clock in the afternoon
precisely.—Dated this 18th day of April, 1877.
GOWING and MANDALE, 19A, Coleman-street,
E.C., Solicitors for the said Debtor.

Found another version of the newspaper article from 1870. This time it says that Catherine was 'at present residing in Liverpool'.

Could this be her? If it is, she has shaved almost 20 years off her age.
Her occupation is.... 'Lady' - er, I don't think so!


1871 England Census
Name: Catherine Westinacott
Age: 31
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1840
Relation: Visitor
Gender: Female
Where born: Redditch, Warwickshire, England
Civil parish: Everton
Ecclesiastical parish: St Peter
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Registration district: West Derby
Sub-registration district: Toxteth Park
ED, institution, or vessel: 26
Household schedule number: 46
Piece: 3813
Folio: 7
Page Number: 7
Household Members: Name Age
John Woolley 39
Mary Ann Woolley 30
Ann Woolley 10
Jane Woolley 7
Catherine Westinacott 31


Still can't find the elusive Mr Howell/Maitland.

Have just read another, very long (about a full newspaper page), article in "North Devon Journal - Thursday 10 November 1870" about the whole affair.

It mentions that Catherine's connection with Maitland was summarily severed as he was compelled to quit the country having set it's laws at defiance.

Whilst Catherine was with Maitland she took to the stage and gained some notoriety and was very popular with playgoers in Birmingham.

Once she'd got her claws into Westmacott she accompanied him to the Crimea and served as an assistant to Florence Nightingale !!!!!!

When Westmacott realised she was already married (conveniently forgetting he had a wife and kids in Australia) he took advice, realised he could not legally live with her so waged a campaign of bitter letters to her family saying he'd been deceived. The paper says "the domestic relations of the parties concerned became somewhat complicated" (I'll say).

Her first husband, Edward Ward, was advised that she was guilty of robbery, perjury, adultery and bigamy. It was suggested that if proceedings took place in the Divorce Court "several gentlemen occupying high positions in society will be brought forward".

To say she was "a bit of a girl" was putting it mildly (trollop).

So, we know Maitland legged it abroad, but where?

This one says he's an artist, so not sure:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Alfred Howell
Arrival Date: 21 Aug 1854
Birth Year: abt 1814
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: English
Place of Origin: England
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Destination: England
Port of Arrival: New York
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Ship Name: Baltic


.. or there's this, occupation looks like "customer" but can't be:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Name: Alfred Howell
Arrival Date: 6 Dec 1851
Birth Year: abt 1810
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: English
Place of Origin: England
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Destination: England
Port of Arrival: New York
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Ship Name: America

(Not saying that either of those are him)

I think you're right Christina. Mary Ann Woolley that she was visiting also was born in Redditch I found her marriage hoping for a clue in her maiden name but she was Mary Ann Thomason, so no clue there

WELL DONE GUYS - Youv'e really gone to town - thank you , thank you, thank you - my fellow rellie found an article about Catherine Julia Holyoake who married Edward Ward and 6 months later she left him to live with Alfred Howell. He later changed his name to Maitland.

I have just had a quick glance at all your posts and it certainly looks as if she was a bit of a scally wag - well, all of them ! I

In the marriage record for Catherine Holyoake to Edward Ward it says under their names that both parties had been previously married in New York so the passenger lists fit in with them.

Another interesting thing is that you say that you thought that Alfred Howell was an artist in the passenger records - Robert Hopke Reed (Louisa's 2nd husband ) was a professor of music and his daughters by his first marriage were singing and artist teachers so I'm sure they all knew each other. Roberts brother Thomas German Reed and his wife Priscilla were in the theatrical business and are mentioned in the Biography records on ancestry - is there a connection here with Catherine being an actress - I'm sure they all knew each other.

I'll read all your info thoroughly now and get back to you - thank you again everyone - its becoming very interesting reading - I love skeletons in the cupboard !! :-D

Rosie, this was really one to get our teeth into - I bet there's more waiting to be uncovered.

I'm not 100% sure that those NY records are "your" Alfred Howell (I did say underneath the post that I wasn't saying they were him). There were actually a few chaps of that name around the same time so we can't be sure. The newspaper articles implied that it may have been in the 1850's. If that was the case he was back in 1860 to marry Louisa, and he was conducting business with her father in late 1850s.

I really can't believe that Mr Kemp was unaware of the shenanigans that had gone on, so why did he let his daughter marry such a bounder? Must be another story in there!

Robert Westmacott was also an artist but I'm not sure that is the connection

http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/rmw1.html

Makes interesting reading though Wendy. All his life history apart from the missing years, which must be the ones he spent with Catherine.

Plus you can look at some of his work in Google images. It does say he was a Captain but I think he said he was a Major when he married Catherine. It also says that his father bought most of his commission

Wendy

Hmmm

The Era - Sunday 20 March 1853
"Provincial Theatricals"
CORK - Queen's Royal Theatre

The following ladies and gentleman are at present engaged:
- List of actors and actresses currently playing there include -
Mr Alfred Howell, Theatre Royal, Gloucester
Miss Julia Maitland, Theatre Royal, Coventry

3d gallery, 6d pits, 1s upper circle and 2s dress circle.

Got to be them hasn't it? There are quite a few reviews in other editions of a "Miss Maitland" who was a promising new actress, lovely looking and with a sweet voice.

Perhaps Alfred leaving the country was just to Ireland. However, that NY shipping record may have been "artiste".

Yes it has got to be them. You and Christina are gradually pushing me into a paying for a sub for British Newspapers Archive! I already have GR, Ancestry and FMP but I don't have any other vices these days so I am now tempted to pay up and see what I can find

Wendy