Lot 66
OF NAVAL INTEREST: MEMORIAL PENDANT, CIRCA 1830
16 July 2025, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,000 - £1,500
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OF NAVAL INTEREST: MEMORIAL PENDANT, CIRCA 1830
The chased fausse montre pendant glazed to reveal the gilt initials of Sarah Rebecca Domville née Smith on a ground of plaited hair, the mount engraved, The children of James & Sarah Rebecca Domville, Married 3rd April 1806, within a pierced surround, engraved with the names of nine of their ten children and small locks of their hair, the engine-turned reverse engraved with Sarah Domvile's date of death at the age of 40, Obt/ 23 Decr/ 1826, length 7.7cm, fitted case
Footnotes
James Bell Domville (1778-1846) was Inspector General of Hospitals in the Navy, at Greenwich Hospital. He also served as a Naval Surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. He married Sarah Rebecca Smith (1786-1826), the daughter of an auctioneer. Their wedding took place on 3rd April 1806 at St Margaret's in Westminster. Sarah's gilt initials are at the centre of this pendant and her date of death is engraved on the reverse. She is buried at St Alfege's church in Greenwich.
James and Sarah had ten children, as follows: Elizabeth Margaret (1810-1882), Katherine (died very young in infancy and not commemorated in this pendant), Dudley Smith (1815-1835), James William (1817-1883), Henry Jones (1818-1888), David Edward (1820-1866), William Thomas (1822-1879), John Smith (b 1823), Edmund Charles (1825-1901) and Sarah Charlotte (also died in infancy).
