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William’s second wife was Ann Pierce, widow of John Manning, who was the owner of Long Wharf. William Gerrish and Ann Manning had one son named Henry.
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Feb 14, 2014 · In 1791, Emma and Sir William married, and she became Lady Hamilton - a genuine rags to riches story. And yet, even as she shared that house in Wimbledon with her diplomat husband and her lover, the national hero, Emma was just a twist of fate away from a return to rags.
When Lady Margaret Hamilton was born in 1558, in Silvertonhill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, her father, Alexander Hamilton, was 18 and her mother, Agnes Crawford, was 14. She married Sir John Murray from 1584 to 1588, in Peeblesshire, Scotland.
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Charles Greville was a nephew of Sir William Hamilton, British Ambassador to Naples, a wealthy widower, scholar and antiquarist. Greville asked his uncle to take Emma because Greville needed to find a suitable wife.
In 1644 William1 Gerrish married Joanna Lowle Oliver, widow of John Oliver and the daughter of Percival Lowle (also spelt Lowell ), his former employer in England. Joanna
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Emma, Lady Hamilton was the mistress of the British naval hero Admiral Horatio (afterward Viscount) Nelson. The daughter of a blacksmith, she was calling herself Emily Hart when, in 1781, she began to live with Charles Francis Greville, nephew of her future husband, Sir William Hamilton, British.
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Emma was the 28-year-old wife of Sir William Hamilton (the British Envoy to Naples) and Nelson was a 35-year-old post captain when the couple first met in Naples on the 12th September, 1793.
