Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England: Thrale & Thrall family history

Thrale history

Tree: UK Thrale family

Notes:

St Leonard’s Church Streatham was the principal place of worship for the Streatham Thrale family, comprising Ralph Thrale MP, his son Henry Thrale and Henry's wife Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury, her mother Hester Maria Thrale and their children during the time that the family lived at Streatham Park. Here is the Thrale burial vault and were buried several Thrales. The church has two of the three mourning tablets with a Latin epitaph written by Dr. Samuel Johnson. The other is for Oliver Goldsmith.

Thrale burial vault

The Thrale family vault was under the church’s south aisle, and the original floor covering slab remains. The family remains were removed to the new catacomb at the time of the rebuilding of the church in 1831-2. According to Bromhead's, Heritage of St. Leonards (pp. 27, 32 & 35), family members whose remains are laid to rest here include:

Ralph Thrale MP died 1758;
Hester Maria Salusbury nee Cotton died 18 June 1773;
Henry Salusbury Thrale died 1776;
Henry Thrale M.P. died 1781;
Sophia Thrale died 1824; and
Cecilia Margaretta Thrale died 1857.

Thrale family burial vault..

Also interred here, without monument following childhood death, are:

Frances Thrale died 1765
Anna Maria Thrale died 1770;
Penelope Thrale died 1772;
Lucy Thrale died 1773;
Frances Anna Thrale died 1775; and
Henrietta Sophia Thrale died 1783.

The remains are still there and were respectfully filmed by the BBC in 2001.

Churchyard

Buried in the churchyard are:

Susannah Arabella Thrale died 1858;
Thomas Arthur Bertie Mostyn died 1876 (Susannah’s nephew) and Cecilia Margaretta Thrale‘s’ son) who raised the monument to Susannah Arabella Thrale.

Beware. In Thrale family history, there are two important churches, both confusingly called St Leonards, in:

Sandridge ; and
Streatham .

Address : Latitude: 51.42952471766461, Longitude: -0.13160526752471924

Media

Photos

St Leonards Church, Streatham 1790

Documents

Account of Henry Thrale's mourning tablet at St Leonards Church
Reprinted in Gentleman's Magazine in May 1784.

Headstones » Slide Show		Henry Thrale's memorial tablet Erected on Friday 20 September 1782. The monument is by Joseph Wilton R.A. who also made George III's coronation coach. The Latin inscription is by Dr. Samuel Johnson.
		Hester Maria Cotton's mourning tablet By Joseph Wilton, epitaph by Dr. Samuel Johnson.
		Sophia Thrale's mourning tablet By John Flaxman at St Leonards Church, Streatham.
		Thrale family burial vault St Leonards, Streatham.
		Memorial to Susannah Arabella Thrale and Thomas Arthur Bertie Mostyn. St Leonards Church, Streatham.

Videos

BBC TV Arena: According to Beryl (2001).
On 6 October 2001, BBC Television broadcast 'According to Beryl'. Their hour-long account of the family arrangement enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and the Thrale family of Streatham seen through the eyes of Beryl Bainbridge, author of the book on the same subject, According to Queeney.

We also have an account of the Bery Bainbridge book According to Queeney, upon which this TV programme about Queeney, Johnson and the Thrale family is based.

Cemeteries

	Name	Location
1.	St Leonards Church	Streatham, Surrey, England

Burial

Matches 1 to 14 of 14

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Burial		Person ID	Tree
1	COTTON, Hester Maria	aft. 18 Jun 1773	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I683	UK Thrale family
2	MOSTYN, Thomas Arthur Bertie		Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I429	UK Thrale family
3	THRALE, Anna Maria	23 Mar 1770	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I217	UK Thrale family
4	THRALE, Cecilia Margaretta	Unknown	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I96	UK Thrale family
5	THRALE, Frances	8 Oct 1765	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I216	UK Thrale family
6	THRALE, Frances Anna		Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I91	UK Thrale family
7	THRALE, Henrietta Sophia		Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I82	UK Thrale family
8	THRALE, Henry M.P.	11 Apr 1781	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I83	UK Thrale family
9	THRALE, Henry Salusbury	28 Mar 1776	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I670	UK Thrale family
10	THRALE, Penelope		Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I219	UK Thrale family
11	THRALE, Ralph		Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I220	UK Thrale family
12	THRALE, Ralph M.P.		Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I69	UK Thrale family
13	THRALE, Sophia	1824	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I95	UK Thrale family
14	THRALE, Susannah Arabella		Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I93	UK Thrale family

Christening

Matches 1 to 3 of 3

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Christening		Person ID	Tree
1	THRALE, Anna Maria	17 Apr 1768	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I217	UK Thrale family
2	THRALE, Henry Salusbury	3 Mar 1767	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I670	UK Thrale family
3	THRALE, Sophia	11 Aug 1771	Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England	I95	UK Thrale family