Mrs Jane Maddy
(1813-1894)
17 June 1862

Volume 7, page 141, sitting number 8808.

Born in 1813, Jane Gwynne was the daughter of Reverend Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne, a county vicar who used the fortune he inherited to develop the harbour and town of Aberaeron in Cardiganshire. 

On 13 July 1837 she married Thomas Watkin Maddy.

The family appear on the 1851 census living in the village of Sutton St Nicholas in Herefordshire. Present on the night of the census were Thomas and Jane and their three children — Mary Anne Frances (12), Thomas Herbert (10) and Harriet Joyce (8) — Mrs Maddy’s niece Alice, and three servants. Mr Maddy gave as his profession ‘Attorney, Clerk of [the] county courts and farming 103 acres, employing 6 outdoor Labourers.’ 

Thomas Watkin Maddy of Sutton Court in Herefordshire died in Portsmouth, aged 47, on 24 July 1860. He left an estate valued at £7000.

‘The deceased gentleman left Hereford on Monday for the purpose of accompanying Mrs Maddy to join their two daughters at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, being then in his usual state of health, which has latterly not been very robust. They reached Portsmouth in the afternoon, and went to partake of luncheon at an hotel near the Pier, where Mr Maddy was suddenly taken ill. […] the opinion of his medical attendants being that death resulted from apoplexy.’ (Hereford Times, 28 July 1860).

In 1891 Mrs Maddy was living in a house called ‘Dolaeron’ in Llanddewi Aberarth in Cardiganshire with her unmarried daughter Joyce Harriet Maddy and two servants. 

She died there, aged 81, on 12 March 1894.