HCR diary 22.4.1813 Miss Maling 93 Mount St Berkeley (Square)
17.12.1824 "I called late on Mrs Aders who was going to Brighton and gave her a letter to Miss Maling"
7.6.1828 "letter from Mrs Clarkson requesting me to call on Miss Maling - Esther being dangerously ill - I saw Mr M: whom I found very composed - Miss M: had gone out with Mr Benj: Greene and not wishing to see them I came away soon" "wrote to Mrs Clarkson explaining my feelings towards S: J: M:"
20.11.1828 re: Esther Maling's death
17.4.1829 Miss Maling - "melancholy stste"
29.5.1829 Miss Maling (shorthand passage)
7.2.1832 Mrs Masquerier had told the story of Mrs Aders former husbands to Miss Flaxman, Mrs Kay "as well as formerly to Miss Maling"
8.2.1832 wrote to Mrs Masquerier "informing her that I knew of what she has been saying to Miss Maling"
1.9.1837 Sara Jane Maling - Mrs Wimbridge - considerably older than him
British Library Add Mss 41267b, 27 letters from Sara Jane Maling to Catherine Buck (from 1796 wife of Thomas Clarkson), 15.1.1793 to 17.5.1807. I haven't read these but have seen a chapter in Civil Society in British History by Kathryn Gleadle p74-78 which makes it clear she was a strong democrat and feminist. In Sadler's edition of Crabb Robinson's Reminiscences p31 Sarah Jane Maling was mentioned as "a person rather older" than Catherine Buck ("and of much originality of mind and character") but from baptism records it appears that she was born on 25.6.1772 four months before Catherine Buck (born 29.10.1772). She was baptised Sarah on 13.12.1772 at Sudbury Independent dau of Abraham and Sarah Maling. Abraham was a son of the Rev Stephen Maling (will PCC 1765) for near 30 years dissenting minister at Lavenham (London Chronicle 16.11.1765). Abraham Maling took an apprentice in 1773 as a woolcomber of Lavenham. He had married Sarah Rand on 7.5.1771 at Bildeston Suffolk. When he died on 4.8.1828 his obituary in the Morning Chronicle 8.8.1828 called him "an Israelite indeed, in whom there was no guile" (John 1:47). He had lost his wife and at least eight children, his youngest daughter Esther dying aged 39 only two weeks before him. His will PCC 1828 left all his property to Sara Jane his only remaining child. Jackson Oxford Journal 13.5.1837 (Married) "John eldest son of the late John Wimbridge Esq, purveyor to His Majesty's Forces, to Sara Jane daughter of the late Abraham Maling Esq of Bury". He was a bachelor aged 35 and she was a spinster aged 64. She died on 9.10.1839 and her burial record at Kensal Green gave her age as 59 (8 years too young). Her will PCC 1839 left money to some nieces and cousins and the residue to her husband. John Wimbridge married again in 1859 to a widow of his own age and died in 1875, both his wives having brought him property.