1824: Birth |
Caroline Ann Shield was baptised at Caythorpe church, Lincolnshire in 22 January. She was the second youngest daughter of William Metheringham Shield of Frieston Hall, Lincolnshire. Her father was a prosperous yeoman farmer with strong Lincolnshire connections. |
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1843 March: Death of father |
Caroline's father, William Metheringham Shield, was buried at Llandawke, Carmarthenshire on 23 March. |
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1864: British Botanical Competition |
During this year Caroline collected a set of plants from the county of Carmarthenshire for the Royal Horticultural Society's botanical competition. She was awarded a silver medal. [Middleton, R. 2014. The Royal Horticultural Society's 1864 botanical competition. Archives of natural history. 41.1 25-11.] |
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1866 June 18: Death of mother |
¹Stamford Mercury: 1866 June 29 DIED. At Llanstephan, Carmarthenshire, on the 18th inst., Mary relict of W. M. Sheild, Esq., of Freiston, in this county. |
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1870: Marriage |
The marriage of Caroline to Benjamin Morris Oakeshott, a London ironmonger and widower, was recorded in Carmarthen in the second quarter of 1870. |
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1875: Exchanges |
Hardwicke's science gossip 11 240. FOR exchange, Nos, 131, 179, 284c, 318, 338, 405, 576, 637, 668, 704, 873b, 984. - C. A. Oakeshott, 19, Eardley-crescent, South Kensington. |
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1884: Sale of specimens. |
Hardwicke's Scientific Gossip 20 264. OFFERED, 150, 940, 1142, 1212, and many others, for 830 (if Irish), 1042, 1347. Lists exchanged : note change of address. - C.A. Oakeshott, Marlborough Avenue, Torquay. THREE hundred dried plants, including many rare species, all British, for shells - C. A. Oakeshott, Marlborough Avenue, Torquay. |
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1886: Publication? |
List of plants observed at Worthing, Shoreham &c. during several years. untraced but mentioned by F. H. Arnold. |
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1892: Death |
The death of Caroline Ann Oakeshott was recorded at Greenwich in the third quarter of 1892. |
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