Born.1

1/4 before 9 P.M.

Christened in St George Hanover Square.2,1

Father - Edward Colsill Edlin
Mother - Sophia Edlin
Father's occupation - Turner
Abode . Bond Street

Research note :-
The family Bible states that she was baptised at home

Recorded in census in Richmond, Mortlake (Ship Lane).3

Mentioned in Will.4

Of Sarah Henry née Edlin (1777-1846)
Annotated as "my niece Louisa Adelaide Edlin"

Recorded in census in Dorking, Capel (Holmwood).5

William James Edlin - Head - 28 - Assistant Curate Holmwood - b. Westminster
Louisa Adelaide Edlin - Sister - 20 - b. Westminster
Charles Edlin - Brother - 26 - b. Westminster
Staff x 1

Mentioned in Will.6

Of Thomas Edlin (1818-1853)
Annotated as "my sisters ... Louisa Adelaide Edlin"

Married James PAYN in Wantage, West Isley Parish Church.53,50,54,55

From the Marriage Certificate :-
1) Licence or banns - Blank
2) Vicar - John S Utterton
3) Witnesses - William Yool, Harriett L Emberson, & 2 illegible
4) Bride - Louisa Adelaide Edlin, 23, spinster, West Isley
5) Father of the bride - Edward Colsill Edlin, gentleman
6) Groom - James Payn, 24, bachelor, gentleman, West Isley
7) Father of the groom - William Payn, gentleman

From the Morning Chronicle :-
"On the 28th ult., at West Isley, Berks, James, youngest son of the late W. Payn, Esq., of Kidwells, Maidenhead, to Louisa Adelaide, daughter of the late E. C. Edlin, Esq., of Mortlake, Surrey."

Birth of daughter Harriet Frances PAYN in Kendal.20,21

Birth of daughter Effie PAYN in Marylebone.24

Birth of daughter Alicia Isobel PAYN in Hastings.28

Birth of daughter Mabel PAYN in Scotland, Edinburgh.30

Recorded in census in Scotland, St Andrew (Edinburgh, Claremont Avenue, 17).7

Birth of daughter Jessie Adelaide PAYN in Kensington.31

Birth of daughter Lilian PAYN in Kensington.37

Birth of son Maurice Ranken PAYN in Kensington.40

Death of son Maurice Ranken PAYN in Cricklade.38,39

Birth of daughter Nina Sybil PAYN in Kensington.43

Death of daughter Nina Sybil PAYN in Cambridge.41,42

Birth of daughter Madeline PAYN in Kensington.44

Birth of son George Frederick PAYN in Kensington.45,46

Recorded in census in Kensington, St Mary Paddington (Maida Vale, Warrington Crescent, 43).8

Birth of son Neville James PAYN in Kensington.47

Death of daughter Mabel PAYN in Kensington.29

Recorded in census in Kensington, St Mary Paddington (Maida Vale, Warrington Crescent, 43).9

Witness at wedding in Paddington, St Saviours, Warwick Street.10

Of Alicia Isobel Payn & George Earle Buckle

Death of daughter Effie PAYN in Paddington.22,23

Recorded in census in Paddington, St Mary Paddington, Paddington Green (Maida Vale, Warrington Crescent, 43).11

Witness at wedding in Paddington, St Saviours, Warwick Street.12

Of Madeline Payn & John Rogers

Death of James PAYN in Paddington.48,49,50,51,52

Death of daughter Alicia Isobel PAYN in St George Hanover Square.25,26,27

Death of daughter Harriet Frances PAYN in Dorking.19

Occupation Own means.13

Recorded in census in Kensington (Chepstow Mansions, 7).13

Head of household
Staff x 1
Annotated as "Widow"

Attended the funeral.14

Of Sir Peter Henry Edlin
Annotated as "Sister"

Attended the wedding in Falmouth, All Saints' Church.15

Of Phyllis Marion Granger & Ralph Halford-Thompson

Death of daughter Lilian PAYN in Falmouth.32,33,34,35,36

Died in Sudbury (Bury St Edmonds).16,17

Obituary.18

From The Times :-
"Obituary
Mrs. James Payn
Another link with the literary world of the Victorian era has been severed by the death on Thursday, after a short illness, in her 87th year, of Mrs. James Payn. Louisa Adelaide Edlin, sister to the late Sir Peter Edlin, Q.C., was married in 1854 to James Payn, the novelist. It was, as Payn's biographer says, "a perfectly happy marriage"; "the source and cause of the happiness of my life," wrote Payn in "Some Literary Recollections." "The Backwater of Life," an essay written in his declining years, when he was crippled by gouty arthritis, contains this touching passage :- "O Love, that cherishes its object when all that makes it lovely has departed, that prefers to possess it useless as a broken toy rather than lose it, that slaves for it and sacrifices its all to give it daily comfort, that holds all menial offices as gracious opportunities for mitigation of discomfort and of pain, we know you now as we have never know you before."
Payn was a most gregarious and hospitable man, and for more than 30 years his handsome, graceful, and gracious wife welcomed to their house in Warrington-crescent his innumerable friends. Among her early acquaintances was Dickens, of whom Payn was an ardent disciple. When Payn had grown to his full maturity the literary men and friends of literature in whose society she was most frequently thrown were Sir Leslie Stephen, George Murray Smith, Frederick Lehmann, Sir John Robinson, Thomas Chenery, and Alexander Innes Shand; and in Payn's later years the younger school of novelists, whose early efforts he had encouraged, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Stanley Weyman, Mr. Anstey Guthrie, and the late H. S. Scott ("Mr. Henry Seton Merriman"), found ready sympathy and appreciation at the hands of his wife.
Mrs. Payn survived her husband nearly 19 years, and enjoyed excellent health till within the past year, when she began to fail. One of her daughters married M. G. E. Buckle, and another Judge Granger, but both are now dead; and of her numerous family only four remain, two sons and two daughters."

Probate in London.17

"Of Hartest-place, Bury St Edmonds, widow"
Executor :-
Madeleine Rogers, wife of John Rogers
Neville J. Payn
Effects - £1,086 11s. 0d.