Mrs Vesey Holt
(1824-1903)
4 May 1861

Volume 3, page 197, sitting number 3480. 

Born in Mayfair on 2 August 1824, Ellen Mary Gaskoin was the daughter of John Samuel Gaskoin of Clarges Street, Mayfair.

On 11 June 1850 at St George’s in Hanover Square she married Vesey Weston Holt, eldest son of Captain William Holt of the Royal Navy. The marriage produced thirteen children in twenty years, though two died in infancy. 

In 1851 the couple were living at 6 Hugh Street in Pimlico with their first, as yet unnamed child, and three servants. Vesey Holt gave ‘Army Agent’ as his profession. 

In 1871 the family were living at 63 Warwick Square in Pimlico.

Vesey Weston Holt died, aged 56, after two days illness, on 14 January 1881 at Woodside House, Windsor Forest, Berkshire, leaving an estate valued at £45,000. The National Probate Calendar also mentions residences at 17 Whitehall Place in Westminster and at 63 Warwick Square in Pimlico.

‘The death of Mr Vesey Weston Holt, of Whitehall Place, the well-known and popular Army agent, is announced’ (Naval and Military Gazette, 26 January 1881).

Mary Ellen Holt appears on the 1891 census, living at Penhill House at Bexley in Kent with five unmarried daughters, an unmarried son, and seven servants, including a butler. 

When the census was taken in 1901, she was living at 104 Elm Park Gardens in Chelsea. The household included three unmarried daughters, her son Louis, who was a ‘member of the London Stock Exchange,’ and four servants. 

Mrs Holt died, aged 78, at 104 Elm Park Gardens on 22 April 1903, leaving an estate valued at £2373.