Sophia HOADLY (1862- )

Name:	Sophia HOADLY
Sex:	Female
Father:	Frederick Augustus HOADLY (1838-1869)
Mother:	Elizabeth SMITH (aft1834-1915)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	11 Mar 1862	St George' Hanover Square, London, Middlesex 1
Census	2 Apr 1871 (age 9)	Leamington, Warwickshire 2

Additional Information

Birth	10 Shaftesbury Terrace, St Peter, Pimlico, Middlesex
Census	16 Park Street, Leamington, Warwickshire

Individual Note (shared)

Sophia is a complete mystery, and so far her existence at all is noted from the census.

 

In 1871, Sophia is living at 16 Park Street, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, with her mother.

[RG10/3195/1/10]

 

There is a well-known family story of a Great-Aunt who was a Lady-in-Waiting to a Russian Princess. No-one in the family presently can remember much detail, either of the Aunt's name, or indeed the Princess. Joyce Hoadly (b. 1927), told me that she remembered her father Len speaking of this Aunt, and vaguely thought the name sounded like "Syer". Could she have been this Sophia? Bob Hoadly recalls the Princess being a Princess Seltikov.

 

I have just found the following on the Internet:

 

"When Nicholas II, who still was Tsarevich in those days, in October 1890 left for a voyage around the world, he was accompanied by his brother George and the Princes Bariatinsky and Obolensky.

Each one of the Princes shot a tiger in India, which annoyed Nicholas because he didn't manage to shoot anything at all.

The lineage of Obolensky also descends from Grand Duke Michael Vsevolodovich of Chernigov.

The name `Obolensky' originates from the town of Obolensk, in the present district of Kaluga, about 120 miles south-west of Moscow, where in the 13th century Constantin Yuryevich Obolensky inherited land from his father.

Some of the French Obolenskys

Ä the ones that still wish to be addressed as Syatelstvo (Your Serene Highness)

Ä gather yearly during the last weekend of February.

Major-General Prince Vasili Petrovich Obolensky (1780-1834) is the progenitor of the Olkhi branch.

He was the Military Governor of Moscow and married Countess Catharina Mussin-Pushkin (1786-1875), daughter of Alexis Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin, Supreme Procurator of the Holy Synod and Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Prince Alexis Dmitrievich Obolensky (1855-1933) succeeded Pobyedonostsev as Supreme Procurator of the Holy Synod in1906.

He also was Senator and Marshall of Nobility of the district of Kozelsk.

 

On July 16, 1893 he married Princess Elisaveta Saltikov (1868-1957), daughter of Prince Nicholas Ivanovich Saltikov, the Oberhofzeremoniemeister of the Imperial Court, and Princess Anna Sergeevna Dolgoroukov.

I myself am a descendant of the first line of the Gluchovo-branch."

 

Various pieces of jewellery and two vases are now in the possession of the girls in the Hoadly family, that they were originally given by the Princess to the aunt. It is therefore probable that she was a Hoadly. Since Sophia (so far) appears not to have married, she could be a likely candidate?

Sources

1

GRO, Birth Certificate. Cit. Date: 12 February 2004. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: Registration District: St George Hanover Square. 1862 BIRTH in the Sub-district of Belgrave in the County of Middlesex No: 247 When and where born: Eleventh March 1862. 10 Shaftesbury Terrace Name if any: Sophia Sex: Girl Name and surname of father: Frederick Augustus Hoadly Name, surname and maiden surname of mother: Elizabeth Hoadly formerly Smith Occupation of father: Cook - professed Signature, description and residence of informant: F.A. Hoadly, Father. 10 Shaftesbury Terrace, Pimlico When registered: Twenty First April 1862 Signature of Registrar: W. V. Jorden. Registrar CERTIFIED to be a true copy of an entry in the certified copy of a Register of Deaths in the District above mentioned. Given at the GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE, under the Seal of the said Office, the 10th day of February 2004

Graham Hoadly.

	Source: Birth Certificate, Birth Certificate of Sophia Hoadly

2	"Census 1871 (Elizabeth Hoadly) Leamington, Warwickshire RG10/3195/9/10 & 11". Assessment: Primary evidence.

	Source: Census 1871 (Elizabeth Hoadly) Leamington, Warwickshire RG10/3195/9/10 & 11, Elizabeth Hoadly (a) 71