Emma Claudiana Rebecca Man was born on 1 July 1780 on Fenchurch Street, London, the eldest daughter of Henry and Eleanor (Thompson) Man, and was baptized on 4 August at St. Gabriel, Fenchurch.  Emma died, unmarried, on 10 August 1858 at Halstead Hall, Halstead, Kent, and was buried on 16 August at St. Margaret's, Halstead (shown left). 

Emma belongs to Generation Four.

[References: Birth and baptism - FHL Film # 0394830; her death - from a copy of her death certificate; and her burial from copy of record of film viewed at Kent RO.]

Notes: Her father, Henry Man, composed a number of poems to Emma and in his posthumously published 'Miscellaneous Works' a letter to Emma has been reproduced here.  Her gravestone still stands in St. Margaret's Halstead, Kent (see below). Her obituary appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1858 Volume V of the New series, page 536, November, as follows:

At Halstead, near Sevenoaks, Kent, aged 77, Emma Claudiana, eldest dau. of Henry Man, esq., many years Secretary to the South Sea House, author of two posthumous volumes of poems, 1802.  He died dec 5*, 1799.  An account of him will be found in the Gentleman's and European Magazine; and humorous anecdotes of him in Charles Lamb's "Elia" and Doctor Dibden's "Reminiscences" . [* not dec 4]

A book inscribed by Emma from her cousin William Man:

November 2003