Henry de la Pasture

Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture, E M Delafield’s father, was born in Italy in 1841, probably at the end of May, and after the death of his father in Lyons in December 1840. It’s not clear why his widowed mother Ellen had gone on to Italy to have her baby; perhaps that was always the end point of their journey. Ellen did not remarry. There are legal papers relating to the trusteeship of Philip Ducarel, her husband’s uncle, in the Gloucestershire Archives, and in 1854 she made an application to...