Miss Anne Mary Vavasor DURELL (1793–1873)
Her sisters Miss Jane Vavasor DURELL (1794–1871),
Miss Mary Vavasor DURELL (1795–1872), and
Miss Margaret Vavasor DURELL (1808–1880)
St Giles section: Row 10A, Grave B30
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| Grave 1 | JANE VAVASOR DURELL BORN 1794 DIED 1871 |
MARGARET VAVASOR DURELL BORN 1808 DIED 1880 |
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| Grave 2 | MARY VAVASOR DURELL BORN 1795 DIED 1872 | ANNE MARY VAVASOR DURELL BORN 1793 DIED 1873 |
Bostock gives this pair of vaults just one grave reference, so they are treated together here
These are the four elderly unmarried sisters of David Vavasor Durell, Chairman of the Oxford Canal Company, who lived together at 35 St Giles’s Street, Oxford and who all died there within nine years of each other. They were the daughters of David Durell, Rector of Mongewell, Oxfordshire, and his wife Anne Robin:
- Anne Mary Vavasor Durell (born at Mongewell in 1793 and baptised there on 21 April)
- Jane Vavasor Durell (born at Mongewell in 1794 and baptised there on 15 April)
- Mary Vavasor Durell (born at Mongewell in 1795 and baptised there on 29 July)
- Margaret Vavasor Durell (born at Mongewell in 1808 and baptised there on 17 November).
For more on their parents and three brothers, see their parents' grave.
Their mother died in 1836, and at the time of the 1841 census all four sisters were living with their father at the Rectory at Mongewell. After he died in 1852, they had to move out, and in 1861 Anne (68), Jane (67), Margaret (52) were living at 19 Clarendon Square, Leamington Priors, with three servants (a cook, footman, and housemaid). Mary (65) was already in Oxford, living with her brother David and his family at New Inn Hall Street.
By 1866 all four sisters were living together at 35 St Giles’s Street, Oxford (left).
The 1871 census shows them all at home here with four servants (a cook, footman, lady’s maid, and housemaid), and also a resident nursing sister.
All four sisters died between 1871 and 1880.
The first to die was Jane, the second sister, just a month after the 1871 census:
† Miss Jane Vavasor Durell died at 35 St Giles’s Street at the age of 77 on 31 May 1871 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 6 June (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church).
She left personal effects of nearly £45,000.
Mary, the third sister, died the following year:
† Miss Mary Vavasor Durell died at 35 St Giles’s Street at the age of 76 on 1 April 1872 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 8 April (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church).
She left personal effects of nearly £50,000.
Anne, the eldest sister, died just a year later again:
† Miss Anne Mary Vavasor Durell died at 35 St Giles’s Street at the age of 80 in June 1873 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 1 June 1873 (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church).
She left personal effects of nearly £60,000.
Margaret, the youngest sister, died seven years later:
† Miss Margaret Vavasor Durell, the fourth sister, died at 35 St Giles’s Street at the age of 72 on 20 December 1880 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 28 December (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church).
She left personal effects of nearly £90,000.
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