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SEDLEY, Frederica Johanna
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Name SEDLEY, Frederica Johanna Birth 1817 Ceylon
Gender Female Death Yes, date unknown Person ID I6514 Edgoose Last Modified 6 Feb 2026
Family ENSOR, Sidney Rainford, b. 13 Nov 1808, St. Pancras, Middlesex, London, England
d. 3 Jul 1876, St. Paul, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA
(Age 67 years) Marriage 1831 Kensington, Middlesex, England
Family ID F2423 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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FREDERICA JOHANNA ENSOR née SEDLEY circa 1817-
"At Kensington, Sidney Rainford ENSOR, Esq., of Dorset-street Portland-square, to Miss Frederica J. SEDLEY, of Notting Hill."
(Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, November 5, 1831, Issue 4097)
From the 1841 census of Barnes Green, Surrey:
Ann BROWN, aged 22, F.S., NOT born in Surrey;
Johanna SEDLEY, aged 50, Ind., NOT born in Surrey;
*Frederica ENSOR, aged 25, F.S., NOT born in Surrey;
Samuel HAMMOND, aged 20, carter, NOT born in Surrey;
Ann LOVELL, aged 45, F.S., NOT born in Surrey.
(HO107/1046/1/32/13)
No trace of Frederica ENSOR or Johanna SEDLEY has been found in the 1851 census.
From the 1861 census of 62 Margaret Street, Marylebone, Middlesex:
Frederica J. ENSOR, lodger, married, aged 44, fundholder, born Ceylon, East Indies.
(RG9/67/20/29)
NOTES & QUERIES:
Laura Wallace wrote: The SEDLEYs were an aristocratic family, but I have not been able to place Frederica in the peerages (books) of the time. The marriage was never mentioned in any of Sidney's biographies or obituaries and I wonder if perhaps her early death, or even worse (at that time), a divorce (which would have ruined his career), led him to decide to emigrate."
(Source: e-mail 11 October 2011)
(revised 03.02.2012)

