Daughter of (William) Henry Richards and Mary Keogh, born on the 17th of August 1857 at 20 Randolph Road. Paddington, London3
Married Werner Louis Adolph Julius Mähler on the 25th of September 1878 at Dominic's Priory, Haverstock Hill, London
Children
Francesca Mary Eleanor, born on the 26th of June 1879 at 10 Oppidans Road, Hampstead, Middlesex
Madeline Marie Christina, born on the 1st of November 1880 (died 10th August 1891)
Louis Frederick Alfred, born on the 25th of October 1881
Elise Marie Antoinette, born on the 3rd of July 1883
Winifred Marie Beatrice, born on the 14th of August 1884 (died 4th April 1886)
Evelyn Marie Beatrice, born on the 24th of July 1886
Died on the 12th of August 1950
At the time of her birth her father describes himself as 'merchant'. According to family stories passed down2 he was an engineer. Kate spent her childhood years in Brazil and Spain where her father would have been working, probably as a mining engineer, but by 1871 her mother, sisters and brother were living in London in Primrose Hill, just north of Regent's Park. Kate met and married Adolph Mähler, a merchant who had been born in Amsterdam but settled in London.
They lived initially in Hampstead, London, and then moved to ....
In 1891 the family had moved south of the river to Norwood
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1 Information mainly from Rattray family bible
2 "Greatgrandmother, born a Jewess, married an Irishman, - Keogh" See Keogh family stories
4 Marriage found in free BMD Catherine Mary Richards /
Werner Lewis A J Mahler
Pancras 1b 288 September 1878
4 Catherine Mary Richards, birth registered at Kensington in the third quarter of 1857. (1a 20)
15 births found without reference to Keogh. No match found for marriage Henry Richards / Mary Keogh over same period or for five years previous.
5 Mrs E Liston, Lyncroft?? Church House?, Bourton on the
Water
Miss E. Mahler, Lyncot, Bourton on the Water
Liston - On April 23, peacefully at St Angela's Convent, Bristol, Evelyn, wife of the late Dr Prosper Liston, of Bourton-on-the-Water. Requiem Mass at the Catholic Church, Bourton-on-the-Water, on 12:15 p.m., on Thursday, April 28, followed by interment at the cemetery. Flowers may be sent to S.W. Sly and Sons, West End, North Leach, Cheltenham. 2005, 1994, 1988, 1983. Evelyn died after Xmas 1982 from Mum's Xmas list
Mrs K.M. Liston 6/49 Front Road, Tunbridge Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 5LE
Aunt Elise died 1964 from Mum's Xmas list
Auntie Flo - a "Swindale"
6 Joan Druce Clinch
Clinch - On March 1, 1974 , peacefully after a short illness, Joan Druce, of Church House, Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos., onl surving daughter of the late Arthur Howard Clinch, of Lower Slaugher. Service March 7, at 2 p.m., the Church of St Lawrence, Bourton-on-the-Water, to be followed by crematio. Inquiries to J. W. \Sly and Son, Tel Northleach 288. Companion to Evelyn Liston
7
1901 at Oakdene, Gleneldon Road, Streatham, Surrey
1911 at 34 Norfolk House Road, Streatham, Surrey. Her daughter Francesca was
visiting her.
8 The C Mahler in the London Telephone Directory for 1943 is Carl S Mahler. A Mrs Mahler is living at Rosemead, Sharps Lane Ruislip, Middlesex in 1926 but there is no known connection.
9 The death of Catherine M. Mahler aged 92 was registered in the third quarter of 1950 in the North Cotswold district (7b 406). John Swindale's transcription from the Rattray family bible gave the year as 1953.