Marriage of Lord Compton, 1787

August 15, 2019 at 9:14 pm (history, people, research) (maria compton, weddings)

Going all the way back to 1787, in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine (which has this fetching cover):

was this ANNOUNCEMENT for the marriage of Maria Smith, daughter of Joshua Smith of Earl Stoke Park (Wiltshire), with Lord Compton.

It reads: “— [August] 18 By Special licence, Lord Compton, son of the Earl of Northampton, to Miss Smith, eldest daughter of Joshua Smith, Esq; of Earl Stoke Park, county Wilts.”