Mary Montague Henshaw Toulmin
Wife of U.S. District Court Judge Harry T. Toulmin, once described as the most powerful man in Alabama.
Sister-in-law of legislator and Mobile Mayor Harry Pillans who helped draft the 1901 State Constitution.
Daughter of Andrew Isbell Henshaw and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw.
Third cousin once removed of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, wife of former King Edward VIII of England.
Judge Harry T. Toulmin was the grandson and namesake of the Hon. Harry Toulmin who was the first federal judge in Mississippi Territory and later the state of Alabama. This later became the Southern District of Alabama, but the entire state originally encompassed one district. He was also the first Secretary of State of Kentucky and author of The Laws of Alabama. Judge Harry T. Toulmin's maternal grandmother was a granddaughter of Catherine Laurendine, a wealthy slave owner who owned the grandmother and great-mother of Marie Laveau, the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans who was rumored to be Judge Toulmin's third cousin.
Mary Montague Henshaw Toulmin was a niece of Senator Thomas Montague Isbell, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the Secession of 1861.
Mrs. Toulmin's third cousin Alice Montague Warfield was the mother of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson who married Edward, Duke of Windsor and former King Edward VIII of England. Mrs. Simpson lived in Pensacola in 1916 with her cousin Corinne Montague Mustin, who had joined the Virginia Chapter of the Colonial Dames in 1913, and visited Mrs. Toulmin in Mobile at that time.
Mrs. Toulmin's father Andrew Isbell Henshaw married his first cousin Mary Anderson Isbell. After her father's death, the widow married her late husband's brother-in-law, so Mrs. Toulmin became the stepdaughter of her uncle, Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey whose first wife had been a sister of Andrew Isbell Henshaw.
Mrs. Toulmin was born at the Isbell home, Willowbank Plantation, in Cumberland County, Virginia. Her mother, Mary A. Isbell Henshaw "returned to her parents' home during her confinement, and there Mary Montague Henshaw was born."
Mollie Toulmin was a member of the Mobile Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR #37950), the Massachusetts Chapter of the Colonial Dames of the XVII Century, and she also took an active part in a number of other organizations and clubs. She married April 28, 1875, the Hon. Harry Theophilus Toulmin and lived at the old Toulmin house built in 1828 by his father, General Toulmin, at Toulminville in the first years of their marriage. They afterward moved to a nearby home which later became the Toulminville library after Judge Toulmin's death and which continued in this public use for many years until its demolition at the time of the erection of the new Toulminville Public Library on the same site. Mollie Toulmin then moved to Mobile to live with her stepsister/cousin "Daisy" Torrey Pillans, residing with her at 908 Government Street for 16 years until her death in 1932. Daisy and Mollie always addressed and referred to one another as "Sister Daisy" or "Sister Mollie." They both addressed Daisy's sister-in-law Helen Dellet Gibbons ("Dolly") Torrey as "Sister Dolly." Mrs. Torrey also sometimes lived with them on Government Street for periodic stretches when she let the large Torrey home on Conception Street to renters. She also owned a large antebellum country home at Claiborne, the Dellet Park Plantation, which she later left to her husband's heirs, the Torrey and Pillans families. The bed where General Lafayette had once slept was still at the plantation at that time. Local and family legend said that General Lafayette visited Dellet Park before the erection of the present house, and according to the Torreys and Pillanses, the Lafayette bed also predated the mansion.
Register of the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1909), page 483:
Alabama. 626 Mrs. Harry T. Toulmin (Mary Montague Henshaw), Mobile. Elected 1908. Seventh in descent from John Alden. Supplemental claims: William Mullins, John Howland, John Chipman, John Tilley, Ralph Sprague.
History of the Organization and Subsequent Works of the Woman's Whist League (1905), page 45.
U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
Name:Mary Montague Toulmin
Application Date:29 Dec 1923
Application Place:Mobile
Spouse:Harry T Toulmin
Marriage Date:4 May 1869
Death Place:Townsville, Alabama (Toulminville)
Spouse Death Date:12 Nov 1916
Pension File Number:7474
Application Type:Widow
Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
Name: Mary Montague Toulmin
Birth Date:5 Jan 1850
Birth Place:Virginia
Death Date:12 Mar 1932
Death Place:Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Cemetery Name:M. Cem Lot 27 Sec. F
Death Age:82
Race:White
Marital Status:Widowed
Gender:Female
Street Address:908 Gov't St.
Father Name:Andrew I Henshaw
Father Birth Place:Clark County, Alabama
Mother Name:Mary A Isbell
Mother Birth Place: Willow Bank, Virginia
Spouse Name:Harry T Toulmin
FHL Film Number:1908498
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59
Name:Mary M. Toulmin
Death Date:Mar 1932
Death County:Mobile
Comment:H.T.
Volume:12
Roll:3
Page #:5946
Mayflower Lineages:
1. Alden-Bass-Henshaw
John Alden + Priscilla Mullins
Ruth Alden + John Bass
Joseph Bass* + Mary Belcher
Elizabeth Bass** + Daniel Henshaw
David Henshaw*** + Mary Sargent
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
*brother of Hannah Bass Adams
**1st cousin of Joseph Adams
*** 2nd cousin of President John Adams, father of Pres.John Quincy Adams)
2. Howland-Sargent
John Howland + Eliz Tilney
Hope Howland +John Chipman
Lydia Chipman + John Sargent
Jonathan Sargent + Mary Sprague
Nathan Sargent + Mary Denny
Mary Sargent + David Henshaw
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
Wife of U.S. District Court Judge Harry T. Toulmin, once described as the most powerful man in Alabama.
Sister-in-law of legislator and Mobile Mayor Harry Pillans who helped draft the 1901 State Constitution.
Daughter of Andrew Isbell Henshaw and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw.
Third cousin once removed of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, wife of former King Edward VIII of England.
Judge Harry T. Toulmin was the grandson and namesake of the Hon. Harry Toulmin who was the first federal judge in Mississippi Territory and later the state of Alabama. This later became the Southern District of Alabama, but the entire state originally encompassed one district. He was also the first Secretary of State of Kentucky and author of The Laws of Alabama. Judge Harry T. Toulmin's maternal grandmother was a granddaughter of Catherine Laurendine, a wealthy slave owner who owned the grandmother and great-mother of Marie Laveau, the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans who was rumored to be Judge Toulmin's third cousin.
Mary Montague Henshaw Toulmin was a niece of Senator Thomas Montague Isbell, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the Secession of 1861.
Mrs. Toulmin's third cousin Alice Montague Warfield was the mother of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson who married Edward, Duke of Windsor and former King Edward VIII of England. Mrs. Simpson lived in Pensacola in 1916 with her cousin Corinne Montague Mustin, who had joined the Virginia Chapter of the Colonial Dames in 1913, and visited Mrs. Toulmin in Mobile at that time.
Mrs. Toulmin's father Andrew Isbell Henshaw married his first cousin Mary Anderson Isbell. After her father's death, the widow married her late husband's brother-in-law, so Mrs. Toulmin became the stepdaughter of her uncle, Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey whose first wife had been a sister of Andrew Isbell Henshaw.
Mrs. Toulmin was born at the Isbell home, Willowbank Plantation, in Cumberland County, Virginia. Her mother, Mary A. Isbell Henshaw "returned to her parents' home during her confinement, and there Mary Montague Henshaw was born."
Mollie Toulmin was a member of the Mobile Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR #37950), the Massachusetts Chapter of the Colonial Dames of the XVII Century, and she also took an active part in a number of other organizations and clubs. She married April 28, 1875, the Hon. Harry Theophilus Toulmin and lived at the old Toulmin house built in 1828 by his father, General Toulmin, at Toulminville in the first years of their marriage. They afterward moved to a nearby home which later became the Toulminville library after Judge Toulmin's death and which continued in this public use for many years until its demolition at the time of the erection of the new Toulminville Public Library on the same site. Mollie Toulmin then moved to Mobile to live with her stepsister/cousin "Daisy" Torrey Pillans, residing with her at 908 Government Street for 16 years until her death in 1932. Daisy and Mollie always addressed and referred to one another as "Sister Daisy" or "Sister Mollie." They both addressed Daisy's sister-in-law Helen Dellet Gibbons ("Dolly") Torrey as "Sister Dolly." Mrs. Torrey also sometimes lived with them on Government Street for periodic stretches when she let the large Torrey home on Conception Street to renters. She also owned a large antebellum country home at Claiborne, the Dellet Park Plantation, which she later left to her husband's heirs, the Torrey and Pillans families. The bed where General Lafayette had once slept was still at the plantation at that time. Local and family legend said that General Lafayette visited Dellet Park before the erection of the present house, and according to the Torreys and Pillanses, the Lafayette bed also predated the mansion.
Register of the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1909), page 483:
Alabama. 626 Mrs. Harry T. Toulmin (Mary Montague Henshaw), Mobile. Elected 1908. Seventh in descent from John Alden. Supplemental claims: William Mullins, John Howland, John Chipman, John Tilley, Ralph Sprague.
History of the Organization and Subsequent Works of the Woman's Whist League (1905), page 45.
U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
Name:Mary Montague Toulmin
Application Date:29 Dec 1923
Application Place:Mobile
Spouse:Harry T Toulmin
Marriage Date:4 May 1869
Death Place:Townsville, Alabama (Toulminville)
Spouse Death Date:12 Nov 1916
Pension File Number:7474
Application Type:Widow
Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
Name: Mary Montague Toulmin
Birth Date:5 Jan 1850
Birth Place:Virginia
Death Date:12 Mar 1932
Death Place:Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Cemetery Name:M. Cem Lot 27 Sec. F
Death Age:82
Race:White
Marital Status:Widowed
Gender:Female
Street Address:908 Gov't St.
Father Name:Andrew I Henshaw
Father Birth Place:Clark County, Alabama
Mother Name:Mary A Isbell
Mother Birth Place: Willow Bank, Virginia
Spouse Name:Harry T Toulmin
FHL Film Number:1908498
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59
Name:Mary M. Toulmin
Death Date:Mar 1932
Death County:Mobile
Comment:H.T.
Volume:12
Roll:3
Page #:5946
Mayflower Lineages:
1. Alden-Bass-Henshaw
John Alden + Priscilla Mullins
Ruth Alden + John Bass
Joseph Bass* + Mary Belcher
Elizabeth Bass** + Daniel Henshaw
David Henshaw*** + Mary Sargent
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
*brother of Hannah Bass Adams
**1st cousin of Joseph Adams
*** 2nd cousin of President John Adams, father of Pres.John Quincy Adams)
2. Howland-Sargent
John Howland + Eliz Tilney
Hope Howland +John Chipman
Lydia Chipman + John Sargent
Jonathan Sargent + Mary Sprague
Nathan Sargent + Mary Denny
Mary Sargent + David Henshaw
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
Mary Montague Henshaw Toulmin
Wife of U.S. District Court Judge Harry T. Toulmin, once described as the most powerful man in Alabama.
Sister-in-law of legislator and Mobile Mayor Harry Pillans who helped draft the 1901 State Constitution.
Daughter of Andrew Isbell Henshaw and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw.
Third cousin once removed of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, wife of former King Edward VIII of England.
Judge Harry T. Toulmin was the grandson and namesake of the Hon. Harry Toulmin who was the first federal judge in Mississippi Territory and later the state of Alabama. This later became the Southern District of Alabama, but the entire state originally encompassed one district. He was also the first Secretary of State of Kentucky and author of The Laws of Alabama. Judge Harry T. Toulmin's maternal grandmother was a granddaughter of Catherine Laurendine, a wealthy slave owner who owned the grandmother and great-mother of Marie Laveau, the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans who was rumored to be Judge Toulmin's third cousin.
Mary Montague Henshaw Toulmin was a niece of Senator Thomas Montague Isbell, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the Secession of 1861.
Mrs. Toulmin's third cousin Alice Montague Warfield was the mother of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson who married Edward, Duke of Windsor and former King Edward VIII of England. Mrs. Simpson lived in Pensacola in 1916 with her cousin Corinne Montague Mustin, who had joined the Virginia Chapter of the Colonial Dames in 1913, and visited Mrs. Toulmin in Mobile at that time.
Mrs. Toulmin's father Andrew Isbell Henshaw married his first cousin Mary Anderson Isbell. After her father's death, the widow married her late husband's brother-in-law, so Mrs. Toulmin became the stepdaughter of her uncle, Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey whose first wife had been a sister of Andrew Isbell Henshaw.
Mrs. Toulmin was born at the Isbell home, Willowbank Plantation, in Cumberland County, Virginia. Her mother, Mary A. Isbell Henshaw "returned to her parents' home during her confinement, and there Mary Montague Henshaw was born."
Mollie Toulmin was a member of the Mobile Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR #37950), the Massachusetts Chapter of the Colonial Dames of the XVII Century, and she also took an active part in a number of other organizations and clubs. She married April 28, 1875, the Hon. Harry Theophilus Toulmin and lived at the old Toulmin house built in 1828 by his father, General Toulmin, at Toulminville in the first years of their marriage. They afterward moved to a nearby home which later became the Toulminville library after Judge Toulmin's death and which continued in this public use for many years until its demolition at the time of the erection of the new Toulminville Public Library on the same site. Mollie Toulmin then moved to Mobile to live with her stepsister/cousin "Daisy" Torrey Pillans, residing with her at 908 Government Street for 16 years until her death in 1932. Daisy and Mollie always addressed and referred to one another as "Sister Daisy" or "Sister Mollie." They both addressed Daisy's sister-in-law Helen Dellet Gibbons ("Dolly") Torrey as "Sister Dolly." Mrs. Torrey also sometimes lived with them on Government Street for periodic stretches when she let the large Torrey home on Conception Street to renters. She also owned a large antebellum country home at Claiborne, the Dellet Park Plantation, which she later left to her husband's heirs, the Torrey and Pillans families. The bed where General Lafayette had once slept was still at the plantation at that time. Local and family legend said that General Lafayette visited Dellet Park before the erection of the present house, and according to the Torreys and Pillanses, the Lafayette bed also predated the mansion.
Register of the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1909), page 483:
Alabama. 626 Mrs. Harry T. Toulmin (Mary Montague Henshaw), Mobile. Elected 1908. Seventh in descent from John Alden. Supplemental claims: William Mullins, John Howland, John Chipman, John Tilley, Ralph Sprague.
History of the Organization and Subsequent Works of the Woman's Whist League (1905), page 45.
U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
Name:Mary Montague Toulmin
Application Date:29 Dec 1923
Application Place:Mobile
Spouse:Harry T Toulmin
Marriage Date:4 May 1869
Death Place:Townsville, Alabama (Toulminville)
Spouse Death Date:12 Nov 1916
Pension File Number:7474
Application Type:Widow
Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
Name: Mary Montague Toulmin
Birth Date:5 Jan 1850
Birth Place:Virginia
Death Date:12 Mar 1932
Death Place:Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Cemetery Name:M. Cem Lot 27 Sec. F
Death Age:82
Race:White
Marital Status:Widowed
Gender:Female
Street Address:908 Gov't St.
Father Name:Andrew I Henshaw
Father Birth Place:Clark County, Alabama
Mother Name:Mary A Isbell
Mother Birth Place: Willow Bank, Virginia
Spouse Name:Harry T Toulmin
FHL Film Number:1908498
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59
Name:Mary M. Toulmin
Death Date:Mar 1932
Death County:Mobile
Comment:H.T.
Volume:12
Roll:3
Page #:5946
Mayflower Lineages:
1. Alden-Bass-Henshaw
John Alden + Priscilla Mullins
Ruth Alden + John Bass
Joseph Bass* + Mary Belcher
Elizabeth Bass** + Daniel Henshaw
David Henshaw*** + Mary Sargent
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
*brother of Hannah Bass Adams
**1st cousin of Joseph Adams
*** 2nd cousin of President John Adams, father of Pres.John Quincy Adams)
2. Howland-Sargent
John Howland + Eliz Tilney
Hope Howland +John Chipman
Lydia Chipman + John Sargent
Jonathan Sargent + Mary Sprague
Nathan Sargent + Mary Denny
Mary Sargent + David Henshaw
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
Wife of U.S. District Court Judge Harry T. Toulmin, once described as the most powerful man in Alabama.
Sister-in-law of legislator and Mobile Mayor Harry Pillans who helped draft the 1901 State Constitution.
Daughter of Andrew Isbell Henshaw and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw.
Third cousin once removed of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, wife of former King Edward VIII of England.
Judge Harry T. Toulmin was the grandson and namesake of the Hon. Harry Toulmin who was the first federal judge in Mississippi Territory and later the state of Alabama. This later became the Southern District of Alabama, but the entire state originally encompassed one district. He was also the first Secretary of State of Kentucky and author of The Laws of Alabama. Judge Harry T. Toulmin's maternal grandmother was a granddaughter of Catherine Laurendine, a wealthy slave owner who owned the grandmother and great-mother of Marie Laveau, the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans who was rumored to be Judge Toulmin's third cousin.
Mary Montague Henshaw Toulmin was a niece of Senator Thomas Montague Isbell, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the Secession of 1861.
Mrs. Toulmin's third cousin Alice Montague Warfield was the mother of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson who married Edward, Duke of Windsor and former King Edward VIII of England. Mrs. Simpson lived in Pensacola in 1916 with her cousin Corinne Montague Mustin, who had joined the Virginia Chapter of the Colonial Dames in 1913, and visited Mrs. Toulmin in Mobile at that time.
Mrs. Toulmin's father Andrew Isbell Henshaw married his first cousin Mary Anderson Isbell. After her father's death, the widow married her late husband's brother-in-law, so Mrs. Toulmin became the stepdaughter of her uncle, Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey whose first wife had been a sister of Andrew Isbell Henshaw.
Mrs. Toulmin was born at the Isbell home, Willowbank Plantation, in Cumberland County, Virginia. Her mother, Mary A. Isbell Henshaw "returned to her parents' home during her confinement, and there Mary Montague Henshaw was born."
Mollie Toulmin was a member of the Mobile Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR #37950), the Massachusetts Chapter of the Colonial Dames of the XVII Century, and she also took an active part in a number of other organizations and clubs. She married April 28, 1875, the Hon. Harry Theophilus Toulmin and lived at the old Toulmin house built in 1828 by his father, General Toulmin, at Toulminville in the first years of their marriage. They afterward moved to a nearby home which later became the Toulminville library after Judge Toulmin's death and which continued in this public use for many years until its demolition at the time of the erection of the new Toulminville Public Library on the same site. Mollie Toulmin then moved to Mobile to live with her stepsister/cousin "Daisy" Torrey Pillans, residing with her at 908 Government Street for 16 years until her death in 1932. Daisy and Mollie always addressed and referred to one another as "Sister Daisy" or "Sister Mollie." They both addressed Daisy's sister-in-law Helen Dellet Gibbons ("Dolly") Torrey as "Sister Dolly." Mrs. Torrey also sometimes lived with them on Government Street for periodic stretches when she let the large Torrey home on Conception Street to renters. She also owned a large antebellum country home at Claiborne, the Dellet Park Plantation, which she later left to her husband's heirs, the Torrey and Pillans families. The bed where General Lafayette had once slept was still at the plantation at that time. Local and family legend said that General Lafayette visited Dellet Park before the erection of the present house, and according to the Torreys and Pillanses, the Lafayette bed also predated the mansion.
Register of the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1909), page 483:
Alabama. 626 Mrs. Harry T. Toulmin (Mary Montague Henshaw), Mobile. Elected 1908. Seventh in descent from John Alden. Supplemental claims: William Mullins, John Howland, John Chipman, John Tilley, Ralph Sprague.
History of the Organization and Subsequent Works of the Woman's Whist League (1905), page 45.
U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
Name:Mary Montague Toulmin
Application Date:29 Dec 1923
Application Place:Mobile
Spouse:Harry T Toulmin
Marriage Date:4 May 1869
Death Place:Townsville, Alabama (Toulminville)
Spouse Death Date:12 Nov 1916
Pension File Number:7474
Application Type:Widow
Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
Name: Mary Montague Toulmin
Birth Date:5 Jan 1850
Birth Place:Virginia
Death Date:12 Mar 1932
Death Place:Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Cemetery Name:M. Cem Lot 27 Sec. F
Death Age:82
Race:White
Marital Status:Widowed
Gender:Female
Street Address:908 Gov't St.
Father Name:Andrew I Henshaw
Father Birth Place:Clark County, Alabama
Mother Name:Mary A Isbell
Mother Birth Place: Willow Bank, Virginia
Spouse Name:Harry T Toulmin
FHL Film Number:1908498
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59
Name:Mary M. Toulmin
Death Date:Mar 1932
Death County:Mobile
Comment:H.T.
Volume:12
Roll:3
Page #:5946
Mayflower Lineages:
1. Alden-Bass-Henshaw
John Alden + Priscilla Mullins
Ruth Alden + John Bass
Joseph Bass* + Mary Belcher
Elizabeth Bass** + Daniel Henshaw
David Henshaw*** + Mary Sargent
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
*brother of Hannah Bass Adams
**1st cousin of Joseph Adams
*** 2nd cousin of President John Adams, father of Pres.John Quincy Adams)
2. Howland-Sargent
John Howland + Eliz Tilney
Hope Howland +John Chipman
Lydia Chipman + John Sargent
Jonathan Sargent + Mary Sprague
Nathan Sargent + Mary Denny
Mary Sargent + David Henshaw
Andrew Henshaw + Elizabeth Isbell
Andrew Isbell Henshaw + Mary A. Isbell
Mary Montague Henshaw +Harry Toulmin
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