MS 681 05

Reference code

MS 681 05

Title

Moulton-Barrett family papers: Papers and Portraits of Mary Moulton-Barrett, née Graham-Clarke (1781-1828)

Level

Series

Other Number

MS 681/01/1 Box ‘X Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett and her siblings’

Administrative / Biographical history

Mary Moulton-Barrett was the daughter of John Graham-Clarke (1736-1818) and Arabella née Altham (1760-1827) of Newcastle. Her father owned Jamaican sugar plantations, ships trading between Newcastle and Jamaica, a brewery, flax spinning mills, and glassworks. She married Edward Moulton-Barrett (1785-1857) in 1805, with whom she had 12 children. Only Mary, their fourth, did not survive infancy. Mary Moulton-Barrett died at Cheltenham in October 1828.

Date

1809-1827

Extent & medium

1 file and 13 items

Content description

Letters and portraits of Mary Moulton-Barrett and her family

Arrangement

These papers originally formed part of an amalgamated chronological series described as ‘The Jamaica papers’, arranged for the process of publication in the 1960s. In 2025 they were substantially re-arranged and re-catalogued in order to respect archival provenance, original order, context and improve clarity and access for researchers. In this process, Mary Moulton-Barrett’s papers have been separated from the Jamaica papers to form their own series. The papers have been arranged into 3 sub-series:

01 Personal papers
02 Portraits of Mary Moulton-Barrett
03 Portraits by Mary Moulton-Barrett

Publication note

These papers have been published or cited in Kelley, Hudson et al.: The Brownings’ Correspondence Vols 1-31, 1809-1865 - as Letter numbers or ‘Supporting Documents’ (SDs) Nos. Also, transcripts of some letters and documents have been published online at www.browningscorrespondence.com