Friends and Acquaintances in St. Petersburg
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Reverend Edward Law was chaplain of the English Church in St. Petersburg from 1820 to 1864. He became Reverend Doctor Law in June 1844.
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Mary Eliza (Law) Cattley, daughter of Rev. Edward Law
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James Richard Cattley, who married Mary Eliza Law in October 1840
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Reverend Thomas Scales Ellerby, pastor of the British and American Congregational Church in St. Petersburg from 1840 to 1853
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Sarah Bealey Schofield, niece of Rev. T.S. Ellerby’s wife, who, before her marriage to Charles Bell, was nursemaid to the Ellerby children
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William Maingay, British merchant in St. Petersburg from the 1830s until May 1844, husband of Eliza (Lamb) Maingay
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Eliza (Lamb) Maingay and Anna Whistler became friends in St. Petersburg in 1844.
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William Bonamy Maingay, eldest son of William and Eliza (Lamb) Maingay, was romantically interested in Deborah Whistler for a time.
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Charles George Maingay, second son of William and Eliza (Lamb) Maingay, died in St. Petersburg in 1843, from a fall on the ice, at the age of 13.
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Eliza Anne Maingay (“Nina”), eldest daughter of William and Eliza (Lamb) Maingay, whose piety Anna Whistler deeply admired
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Emma Elizabeth Maingay, second daughter of William and Eliza (Lamb) Maingay, was the lifelong friend of Deborah Delano (Whistler) Haden, whom she met in St. Petersburg.
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Emily Maingay (“Lille” or “Lily”), youngest daughter of William and Eliza (Lamb) Maingay
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William Clarke Gellibrand, an English merchant, became a close friend of the Whistlers in St. Petersburg.
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Mary Tyler (Ropes) Gellibrand, the American wife of William Clarke Gellibrand, became a close friend of Anna Whistler’s.
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Mary Tyler (Ropes) Gellibrand and her biological sister, Elizabeth Hannah Ropes, whom she and her husband, William Clarke Gellibrand, adopted, frequently visited her brother, William Hooper Ropes, who lived across the hall from the Whistlers.
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The Whistler family frequently visited with Archibald Mirrielees, Scottish merchant, a friend of the Ropeses and Gellibrands.
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The Whistler family frequently visited with Jane (Muir) Mirrielees in St. Petersburg, after she became the third wife of Archibald Mirrielees in 1844.
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Benjamin Ropes Prince, brother of George Henry Prince and first cousin of William Hooper Ropes
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Charles Wood was in the cotton-spinning business in St. Petersburg.
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Lydia (Procter) Wood, wife of Charles Wood and a close friend of Anna Whistler’s in St. Petersburg
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Harriet (Henley) Whishaw, a close friend of Deborah Whistler’s, whose wedding the latter could not attend in 1846 because she was in England
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Charles Baird, owner of the Baird Iron Works, that made metal furnishings for many of the buildings of St. Petersburg, died in late 1843. “Old Mrs. Baird” was his widow.
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Francis Baird, son of Charles Baird, who succeeded his father as head of the Baird Iron Works
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The Elizaveta, the first Russian steamship, produced at the Baird Iron Works in 1815
