Caroline Girle Explained

Caroline Girle (27 December 1736 – 17 November 1817) was a diarist who kept a journal throughout her life.^[1] Although some volumes were destroyed, what remains is in the British Library.^[2] These journals earned her the sobriquet "The Oxfordshire Diarist".^{[3] [4]}

Family

Girle was the daughter of John Girle (–1761) and Barbara Slaney (1717–1801),^[5] and had an elder brother, John (1735–1746). On 5 August 1762, in Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Girle married Philip Lybbe Powys; they had four children:

1. Caroline (1763–1764)
2. Philip Lybbe (1765–1838)
3. Thomas (1768–1817)
4. Caroline Isabella (1775 – 28 August 1838), who married the Rev. Edward Cooper, a first cousin of Jane Austen.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Caroline Girle . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015102729/http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps01/ps01_073.html . Oct 15, 2022 . www.tim.ukpub.net.
2. e.g. "The Annual Journal of Caroline Powys, née Girle, begun 1757": British Library, Add MS 42160 and others.
3. Web site: Amazon.co.uk: Caroline Girle Powys: Books. www.amazon.co.uk.
4. Web site: Powys, Caroline Girle, "Mrs. P. L. Powys,", 1738-1817 - The Online Books Page. onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
5. Web site: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. 1 October 2018. H. Colburn. Google Books.