Mrs John Sim
(1819-1871)
5 April 1861

Volume 3, page 46, sitting number 2882.

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Mrs John Sim,' this is almost certainly Mrs Margaretta Sim, wife of John Sim, a 'woodbroker.'

Born Margaretta Bovill, on 14 May 1844 at All Saints Church in Wandsworth she married William Brewster Twining of Twining's Bank, who died six years later in 1851. 

According to an announcement in the Morning Chronicle (15 September 1854): 'On the 14th September, at Wimbledon Church, [...] John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., of Clifton-place, Hyde-park [married] Margaretta Twining, widow of William Brewster Twining, Esq., and daughter of Benjamin Bovill, Esq., of Dunsford-lodge, Surrey.' 

Mrs Sim appears on the 1861 census, living at Nonsuch Park House, Cuddington, Surrey, with her husband and her seventeen-year-old step-daughter, Louisa. Also present on the night of the census were a niece, a nephew, and nine live-in servants. Mrs Sim gave 'Middlesex, London' as her place of birth. She was 41 at the time of the 1861 census, so she was born in or about 1820. She was apparently 20 at the time of the 1841 census but 32 when the census was taken in 1851. 

Mrs Margaretta Sim died, aged 52, on 8 September 1871 at Buxton in Derbyshire. She left an estate valued at £12,000.