Dorothy Elizabeth Boehm (née Berney)

Widow of Edmund Boehm, a London West India merchant, having married in 1781. They lived at Ottershaw Park Surrey 1796-1819, until Boehm's bankruptcy. Edmund Boehm died 1822 aged 82 (memorial in Chobham Church).

1. Built 16 St James's Square on land bought from Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount, in 1804. House completed 1807. Account of June 21st 1815 evening reception including the Prince Regent, interrupted  by Major The Hon. Henry Percy with four French Eagle standards and news of the victory at Waterloo.

2. Dorothy Boehm had a grace-and-favour apartment at Hampton Court Palace from 1827 onwards. In 1841 she was shown still living there, Independent aged 75, born F[oreign parts]. Her death was registered Q1 1842 at Kingston Surrey.

T71/895 Barbados claim nos. 631A&B.

http://www.johnathersuch.com/op_website/op_owners_text.htm. Will of Edmund Boehm of St James's Square proved 22/11/1822 PROB 11/1663.

1. This is is supported by the Survey of London Vol. 29 & 30 Part 1 (1960) pp. 154-159, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40558 which show the purchase; Emma Edgcumbe, later Lady Brownlow, 'Slight remembrances of a Septuagenarian' (John Murray, London: 1861), reported at http://chobham.inof/stanners.htm [accessed 03/03/2010].

2. Sarah E. Parker, Grace and favour: a handbook of who lived where at Hampton Court Palace 1750-1950 (Hampton Court, Surrey, Historic Royal Palaces, 2005), p. 95 Apt. 36 Suite XI; 1841 census online; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online].