Hanway, Mary Anne

4.12.1796 Hanways at mrs Robinson's / 11.12.1796 mrs Hanway at mrs Robinson's / 22.1.1797 mes Hanway, Hays & Wt at mrs Robinson's / 2.4.1797 Hanways at mrs Robinson's / 29.11.1797 Hanway at theatre / 21.2.1799 meet M E Robinson, M Hanway / 15.11.1799 seek M Robinson at Hanway's / 15.12.1799 call on Hanway

Mary Ann Vergy sp otp = Hanway Hanway otp bach by lic 26.5.1788 St Marylebone, Mary Ann Hanway of Michaels Place age 60 bur St Mary Abbots Kensington 10.9.1817. Mrs Hanway was a moderately successful novelist. Her portrait by J Cranke was exhibited at the Royal Academy 1799. Mary Robinson wrote a poem on the death of Miss Louisa Hanway dated 25.12.1792 and published in the Diary or Woodfall's Register on 27.12.1792. Mrs Whittell had a poem on the same subject published in the Morning Post of 1.1.1793. Louisa Ann Hanway was buried 22.12.1792 St Marylebone, from the poems and the burial register apparently not an infant so presumably not a child of the novelist. Mrs Hanway had a sister Jenny Vergee who married James Cremer (by 1825 engraver of Trafalgar Place, Walworth) at St Marylebone 20.2.1791, but I have found nothing about the Vergy/Vergee/Virgee/Vergez family they came from. Peter Henry Treyssac de Vergy died 1774 age 41 and published several sentimental novels in English in imitation of Richardson and Rousseau 1769-1771 his will PCC 1774 simply named his executor Nathaniel Jones. Hanway Hanway was born Hanway Balack, bapt 22.11.1751 St Martin in the Fields and matric Wadham College Oxford 27.7.1770 age 18. His father was Thomas Balack of St Martins linendraper to Royal Family will PCC 1766 and his mother was Mary, daughter of Richard Townsend, woollen draper of St Martin's and his wife Ann, daughter of Stephen Worledge, goldsmith of Portsmouth will PCC 1709, whose widow Mary married Thomas Hanway and was the mother of Jonas Hanway DNB 1712-1786 in whose will of 1786 is the first reference I found to the changed name Hanway Hanway, who was thus a step-great-nephew to the famous Jonas. In his grandmother Ann Townsend's will of 1773 he was still called Hanway Balack. He was buried 1.9.1839 at Kensal Green cemetery aged 88 of 90 York Road Lambeth, his will PCC 1840. In 1796 he lived at 27 Manchester St, and later at Kensington