Thursday 4 June 2020

Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale

In a will Benjamin Leigh Smith named as a Beneficiary's Name: Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale.

In this corona time we hear the name Florence Nightingale a lot.
so we look at the familytree first to see if Louis Hilary Shore Smith Nightingale is a familymember

The Nightingale family is known to have been in the Ashover area in the seventeenth century. Thomas Nightingale (1666-1735) started the family's fortunes by smelting lead in a Cupola in Lea where he acquired property.
His second son Peter (died 1763) inherited the smelting business and increased his property holdings in Lea and elsewhere.
He was succeeded by his son Peter (1803) who ran both the business and the estate.
Peter II died childless and both the business and the estate passed to his great-nephew William Edward Shore (1794-1874), whose grandmother Anne was Peter's sister.
In 1815 William Edward Shore took the surname Nightingale.
In the 1820s he rebuilt the house at Lea Hurst and bought an estate in Embley/Hampshire.
His younger daughter was Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the nursing pioneer popularly known as "The Lady with the Lamp".
William Edward Nightingale had no direct male heir and the estate and business passed to his nephew William Shore Smith (1831-1894) who took the surname Nightingale.
William was succeeded by sons Samuel Shore (Smith) Nightingale (1860-1925) and Louis Hilary Shore (Smith) Nightingale (1866-1940).
The estate was sold in 1946 although the business, Lea Lead Works, had ceased operation some time earlier.
When we google Louis Hilary Shore Smith Nightingale we find that he is also a Beneficiary of Florence Nightingale.
Name: Florence Nightingale
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 31 Oct 1910
Event Place: Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Event Place (Original): Middlesex, United Kingdom
Death Date: 13 Aug 1910
Beneficiary's Name: Henry Bonham Carter Samuel Shore Nightingale
Second Beneficiary's Name: Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale
Additional Person's Name: Arthur Hugh Clough


Lea Hurst


So we know he and Florence are related .
What about Louis Hilary Nightingale .
census 1901
Name: Louis H Nightingale
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 Mar 1901
Event Place: Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom
County: London, Middlesex
Civil Parish: Paddington
Ecclesiastical Parish: Christ Church
Sub-District: St John Paddington
Registration District: Paddington
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Occupation: Clerk In The Office Of The Masters In Surrey Law Courts
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1867
Birthplace: Westminster, London

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Louis H Nightingale Head M 34 Westminster, London
Mary E Culver Servant F 42 Dunkirk, Kent
Ellen Wallis Servant F 27 Newnham, Cambridgeshire
Ada A Wyatt Servant F 23 Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire

he died in WW2
Name: Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 3 Dec 1940
Event Place: Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Event Place (Original): Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Death Date: 27 Sep 1940
Beneficiary's Name: Frederick George Bonham Carter
Second Beneficiary's Name: Lillias Mary Coltman
Additional Person's Name: Herbert Clifford Brooke Taylor

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I was looking for information on Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale and came across your very useful blog post. The reason for my interest was that in July 1925 the large western portion of the Lea Hurst Estate was auctioned off and my paternal grandfather purchased the farm cottage of which he was the sitting tenant. I have a copy of the auction catalogue and the sale agreement which listed Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale as one of the three vendors of the estate.

John Holmes Kingston Canada