24 Jul Births, deaths & Marriages.
For those that are interested in the correct dates of people surrounding Alexis Soyer and his immediate family births deaths and marriages....
17 Jul Soup Kitchens and the Great Hunger.
Dublin Soup Kitchen Soup kitchens The great hunger. There had been Famines before it and Famines after it. Without a doubt, the worse was the Great Irish Famine 1846-1851. This period especially 1846 and 1847 was affected by Government propaganda and revisionist and national historians and much of...
14 Jul Wreath
Wreath left on Facebook page and Fanny Ceritto's wreath...
13 Jul Alexis’ Relationship with Francesca Cerrito.
Francesca (Fanny) Cerrito. Fanny, as she was more popularly known, started her affair with Alexis in circa 1851 and married him in 1857. it was one of the best-kept secrets. None of Alexis' or Fanny's circle of friends knew about it, although a couple suspected...
01 Jul Emma Elizabeth Soyer, nee Jones.
Emma Jones was born in London in 1813, and was instructed in French, Italian, and music. At a very early age she became a pupil of the Belgian painter Francois Simoneau (1783 - 1859), who in 1820 married her mother, Mrs. Jones. Finding that Emma...