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5 unusual facts about Emma Elizabeth Thoyts


Bryanston Square

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (1860–1949, historian) was born in a house on the Square.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

In 1899, Emma married one of the last of the great Cope family from Bramshill House in Hampshire, John Hautenville Cope.

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She wrote widely, particularly upon subjects related to Sulhamstead and the surrounding villages and the families who lived there.

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Emma was born in Bryanston Square, Marylebone in Middlesex on 8 July 1860, the eldest daughter Maj. William Richard Mortimer Thoyts of Sulhamstead House in Berkshire and his wife, Anne Annabella Puleston.

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The two settled in Finchampstead in Berkshire, where Emma died on 9 November 1949, having outlived her husband by seven years and a day.



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