SURTEES, Isabella, née Crompton (1833-1939)

[Paul Theroff]

Here is a centenarian new to me. Her birth date confirmed by early Burke's Peerages, but her father's title became extinct in 1848, so no death dates for her appear there. Burke's Landed Gentry does not give a death date for her.


Isabella Sarah Crompton Surtees

Birth
    7 May 1833
    North Yorkshire, England
Death
    28 Dec 1939 (aged 106)
Burial
    St. Mary's Churchyard
    Ticehurst, Rother District, East Sussex, England

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/249736423/isabella_sarah-surtees

Biographical information attached to the page:

"Isabella Sarah Crompton was born in 1833 in Yorkshire. She was baptized on May 12, 1833, at Thornton-Le-Street, York, England. Her father was Samuel Crompton and her mother was Isabella Sophia. She remained a spinster until her marriage on December 4, 1860, at Hove St Andrew, Sussex, England, to Scott Frederick Surtees. Isabella Sarah Surtees passed away at the age of 105. Her approximate birth year is listed as 1835, and her death is recorded around 1940. She was buried on January 1, 1940, in Ticehurst, Sussex, England."


Sir Samuel CROMPTON, of Wood End, cr Baronet 1838 (Jul 1785-27 Dec 1849); m.3 Nov 1829 Isabella Sophia Cathcart (29 Dec 1808-Dec 1896)
1.Elizabeth Mary (5 Jun 1831-13 Apr 1901); m.2 Apr 1850 Alan Frederick Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart (14 Nov 1828-30 Oct 1905)
2.Isabella Sarah (7 May 1833-28 Dec 1939); m.4 Dec 1860 Scott Frederic Surtees (1814-1889)
3.Fanny Selina (6 Feb 1835-    )
4.Alice (6 Mar 1837-    )

[Paul Theroff]

Her husband was Rev. Scott Frederic Surtees, of Dinsdale, Yorkshire, of that LG Family, himself a nephew of Sir John Caesar Hawkins, 3rd Bt.:

Rev Scott Frederick Surties

Birth
    1814
Death
    1889 (aged 74–75)
Burial
    St John the Baptist Churchyard
    Frenchay, South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority, Gloucestershire, Eng

[Paul Theroff]

Her mother was a granddaughter of the 9th Lord Cathcart, and so Isabella's sister was a cousin of Earl Cathcart, her husband.

[Paul Theroff]

Though her marriage is documented in the Surtees articles, she is actually listed as unmarried in Debrett's editions in the early 1900s.

Michael Andrews-Reading has informed me that he discovered that " Isabella Surtees was admitted to Ticehurst House, a mental asylum for the very well off, in 1864, and remained a patient there until her death, a remarkable 75 years."