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Roxey Ann Caplin var sådan set opfinderen af det victorianske
korset, og derfor en ret betydningsfuld person. Men hvor kan
jeg finde mere om hende? Jeg tror at hun har været gift to gange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxey_Ann_Caplin

http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101042053/
Fra dette link har jeg af omveje fådet følgende tekst:
Caplin, Roxey Ann [formerly Emily Roxey Caplin]
(1793-1888), corset maker, writer, and lecturer on health, was
born in Canada, the daughter of English settlers; Canadian
Indians taught her canoeing and swimming as a child. Probably
trained as a milliner, she married about 1835, and by 1839 was
living in London. Her husband, Jean Francois Isidore Caplin
(c.1790-c.1872), used his knowledge of anatomy, gained as a
Paris medical student, to treat spinal deformities. He moved
to London about 1830. In 1838 he patented (no. 7640) a
front-opening corset with a back adjusted by pulleys and
wheels. In 1839 Madame Caplin appeared in the London Post
Office directory as a 'wholesale and retail milliner and
patentee of the mechanical corset' (her name was given as
Emily Roxey, then Roxey Ann from 1849).

From 1841 the couple were listed at 58 Berners Street,
London. Jean Francois Caplin, called an orthopaedic corset
maker and later an 'orthorachidiste', registered designs for a
mannequin in 1841 and the Hygean or Corporiform Corset in
1849. However, the Athenee des Arts de Paris's commendation
stated that it was invented and manufactured by his wife. In
1843 the Court Magazine commented:

Madame Caplin has made the manufacture of Corsets a complete
study, embracing at once the several designs of anatomy,
geometry, drawing and mechanics ... the artist may be traced
in all, and her system of measurement is at once perfect and
infallible. (R. A. Caplin, Health and Beauty, frontispiece)
The Caplins' knowledge of anatomy, fashion, and commerce
created a highly successful product.

In 1849 Jean Francois Caplin lectured in Manchester on spinal
deformities, then in the early 1850s, while retaining their
London base, husband and wife had premises in Princes Street,
and the Manchester Hygiaenic Gymnasium [sic] was run from
their Pendleton home. Invalid boarders were cured by exercise,
diet, and good corsetry. Its prospectus reassured parents that
'Independently of the maternal care of Madame Caplin, a well
educated governess of the highest respectability, residing in
the establishment, will devote her whole attention to the
requirements and comforts of the young ladies' (J. F. I.
Caplin, 'Prospectus').

Madame Caplin's corsets and Monsieur's portable gymnasium were
awarded medals at the 1851 Great Exhibition and examples of
their corsets survive in the Museum of London. Royal patronage
followed, according to James Torrington Spencer Lidstone's
Londoniad (1856), which described Madame thus:


You'll an incarnation of the Graces meet At No. 58, in
Berners-street; A deity in human form enshrined; Gracious
demeanour, and a courtly mien, Learning and worth are thine,
great Nature's queen.
(Lidstone, 60)


Jean Francois Caplin became a doctor of medicine in 1854,
perhaps for his electrochemical bath which used the principle
of electroplating to expel poisons from the body. In 1855 he
opened the Hygeinic Gymnasium and Kinesitherapic Institution
for Ladies and Children, at 9 York Place, Portman Square,
London, which soon became the Hydro-Galvano Therapeutic
Institution. His many books describe the bath, with
testimonies to its effectiveness for an astonishing range of
illnesses.

Madame Caplin now advertised extensive alterations to Berners
Street, to show her 'numerous inventions for the purpose of
preserving the health and displaying the natural beauties of
the female form' (R. A. Caplin, The Needle, 60). She also
lectured upstairs in her Ladies Anatomical Gallery where, 'in
addition to Canova's Anatomical Venus and the Venus de Medici,
hundreds of magnificent models, executed with the utmost
fidelity to nature, exhibit every organ of the body and the
whole course of embryology' (ibid.). This was 'quite distinct
from the rest of the Establishment, and a visit to one does
not necessarily involve a sight of the other' (ibid.).

Roxey Caplin wrote her first book in 1856. Health and beauty,
or, Corsets and clothing, constructed in accordance with the
physiological laws of the human body gave a history of stays,
culminating in her own Hygeinic Corset, which had been
'pirated or attempted by almost every staymaker in London and
Paris' (R. A. Caplin, Health and Beauty, 51). The Needle: its
History and Utility (1860) concentrated on the history of the
needle since Homer's day, and the clothing it created. She
noted 'so far as ornament is concerned... no genuine and
earnest effort has yet been made to adapt the dress to the
body, in such a manner as shall preserve the health and
display the natural beauties of the human figure'. She decried
the appalling conditions in the clothing trades, but hoped the
sewing machine would improve 'the condition of those whose
woes have been so beautifully and pathetically described by
dear Tom Hood'.

Roxey Caplin ran her business at Berners Street until her
death. In 1876 she co-wrote Women in the Reign of Queen
Victoria. This praised the recent increase in physical
exercise and work opportunities for women, but called for
dress reform. From the 1870s she lived in Mortlake with her
bookkeeper and three servants. Although she claimed to be a
widow of sixty-four in the 1881 census, when she died of old
age and gangrene at Cambridge Lodge, Mortlake, East Sheen,
Surrey, on 2 August 1888, her death certificate gave her age
as ninety-five.

Sarah Levitt

Sources
S. Levitt, Victorians unbuttoned: registered designs for
clothing, their makers and wearers, 1839-1900 (1986), 26-30
+ R. A. Caplin, Health and beauty, or, Corsets and clothing (1856)
+ R. A. Caplin, The needle: its history and utility (1860)
+ R. A. Caplin and J. Mill, Women in the reign of Queen
Victoria [1876]
+ J. F. I. Caplin, Selection of documents and autograph
letters in testimony of the cures effected by the
electro-chemical bath of J. F. I. Caplin (1865)
+ J. F. I. Caplin, 'Prospectus of the Manchester Hygiaenic
Gymnasium', Catalogue of the works exhibited in the British
section of the exhibition ... together with exhibitors'
prospectuses, 10 (1856)
+ J. T. S. Lidstone, The Londoniad: a grand national poem on
the arts (1856)
+ registered design, 1841, TNA: PRO, BT 42, no. 669
+ registered design, 1849, TNA: PRO, BT 45, no. 1995
+ PO street directories, London, Mortlake, and Manchester
+ census returns for Mortlake, 1881
+ d. cert. Likenesses C. Silvy, photograph, c.1864, repro. in
Caplin, Selection of documents · photogravure photograph,
c.1875, repro. in Caplin and Mill, Women in the reign of Queen
Victoria Wealth at death £6452 19s. 10d.: probate, 5 Sept
1888, CGPLA Eng. & Wales

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(denmark-science/knowledge-history-genealogy)


Peter you better discuss this in news:soc.genealogy.britain

and you need to learn how to do english genealogy
see http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History

by ROY STOCKDILL

the major difference from Denmark is that we have a master index (not
without errors) of marriages in England and Wales from 1 July 1837 to
date and no privacy about births, marriages and deaths - (up to last
week in theory)

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ by volunteers
PLEASE NOTE: WE HAVE NOT YET TRANSCRIBED THE WHOLE INDEX

The FreeBMD Database was last updated on Mon 31 Mar 2008 and currently
contains 147,832,972 distinct records (190,149,333 total records).
On Thursday 24 Apr 2008 FreeBMD users did 206,211 searches

I also use
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx which is
by subscription with images and the official BMD Indexes 1984-2005

useable census is limited from 1841 to 1901 (and 1911 soon)


Peter Ole Kvint wrote:
> Roxey Ann Caplin var sådan set opfinderen af det victorianske korset,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_corsets
og
> derfor en ret betydningsfuld person. Men hvor kan jeg finde mere om
> hende? Jeg tror at hun har været gift to gange.

[OP believes she was married twice]

unlikely as her death recorded as :-

Deaths July or August or Sep 1888
CAPLIN    Roxey Ann    95    Richmond S    2a   177


>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxey_Ann_Caplin
>
> http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101042053/
> Fra dette link har jeg af omveje fådet følgende tekst:
> Caplin, Roxey Ann [formerly Emily Roxey Caplin] (1793-1888), corset
> maker, writer, and lecturer on health, was born in Canada, the daughter
> of English settlers; Canadian Indians taught her canoeing and swimming
> as a child. Probably trained as a milliner, she married about 1835, and
> by 1839 was living in London. Her husband, Jean Francois Isidore Caplin
> (c.1790-c.1872)

his death not obvious in the index
possible in another country or Scotland?

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/census/uk/default.aspx


1871 England Census
about Roxley A Caplin
Name:    Roxley A Caplin
Age:    53
Estimated Birth Year:    abt 1818
Relation:    Head
Gender:    Female
Where born:    Canada
Civil Parish:    St Marylebone
Ecclesiastical parish:    St Andrew
County/Island:    London
Country:    England
Street address: 58 Berners Street

Occupation: Corset Maker

Condition as to marriage: married (NOT widow)

   
View image
Registration district:    Marylebone
Sub registration district:    All Souls
ED, institution, or vessel:    3
Household schedule number:    273
Household Members:    
Name    Age
Annie Beadell    18
Roxley A Caplin    53
Alfred J Gardner    15
Helen Nish    50
Harriet Parker    21
Harriet Pope    27
Sarah Wood    27
   
View
Original
Record

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7619&path=London.St+Marylebone.All+Souls.3.46&fn=Roxley%20A&ln=Caplin&st=r&pid=183612&rc=&zp=100


Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 148; Folio: 94; Page: 46; GSU roll:
823295



1881 England Census
about Mary A. Caplin
Name:    Mary A. Caplin
Age:    64
Estimated Birth Year:    abt 1817
Relation:    Head
Gender:    Female
Where born:    Canada
   
Civil Parish:    Mortlake
County/Island:    Surrey
Country:    England
   
Street address:    Cambridge Lodge St Leonard
Condition as to marriage:    Widow
Ee
Occupation:    Hygenic Corset Maker (Dress)
   
Registration district:    Richmond
Sub registration district:    Mortlake
ED, institution, or vessel:    6
Neighbors:    View others on page
Household Members:    
Name    Age
Mary A. Caplin    64
Robert Gilbett    38
Sophia Mc Cullock    44
Frances Milburn    31
Sarah Ann Murray    18
   

Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 846; Folio: 110; Page: 10; Line: ;
GSU roll: 1341201.

1861
Madine V Caplin         abt 1808    Upper Canada B Subject    Head    St
Marylebone, Middlesex

1841


1841 England Census
about Francois Caplin
Name:    Francois Caplin
Age:    42
Estimated Birth Year:    abt 1799
Gender:    Male
Where born:    Foreign Parts
   
Civil Parish:    St Marylebone
Hundred:    Ossulstone (Holborn Division)
County/Island:    Middlesex
Country:    England
   
Street address: Berners Street

Occupation:
   

   
Registration district:    St Marylebone
Sub registration district:    All Souls and Trinity
Neighbors:    View others on page
Household Members:    
Name    Age
Francois Caplin    42
Rosey Caplin    34


Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 675; Book: 12; Civil Parish: St
Marylebone; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 13; Folio: 7; Page:
7; Line: 7; GSU roll: 438791.

a very fine image in colour
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8978&path=Middlesex.St+Marylebone.All+Souls+and+Trinity.13.4&fn=Francois&ln=Caplin&st=r&pid=16456397&rc=&zp=100


did he go back to Quebec?

Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967

Francois Caplan    Enterrement    1873    Restigouche (Ste-Anne)    Catholique
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1091&iid=d13p_12131373&fn=Francois&ln=Caplan&st=d&ssrc=&pid=1186739



> used his knowledge of anatomy, gained as a Paris
> medical student, to treat spinal deformities. He moved to London about
> 1830. In 1838 he patented (no. 7640) a front-opening corset with a back
> adjusted by pulleys and wheels. In 1839 Madame Caplin appeared in the
> London Post Office directory as a 'wholesale and retail milliner and
> patentee of the mechanical corset' (her name was given as Emily Roxey,
> then Roxey Ann from 1849).
>
> From 1841 the couple were listed at 58 Berners Street, London. Jean
> Francois Caplin, called an orthopaedic corset maker and later an
> 'orthorachidiste', registered designs for a mannequin in 1841 and the
> Hygean or Corporiform Corset in 1849. However, the Athenee des Arts de
> Paris's commendation stated that it was invented and manufactured by his
> wife. In 1843 the Court Magazine commented:
>
> Madame Caplin has made the manufacture of Corsets a complete study,
> embracing at once the several designs of anatomy, geometry, drawing and
> mechanics ... the artist may be traced in all, and her system of
> measurement is at once perfect and infallible. (R. A. Caplin, Health and
> Beauty, frontispiece) The Caplins' knowledge of anatomy, fashion, and
> commerce created a highly successful product.


Orthopedic corsets for supporting the trunk and correcting deformations
of the spine are still made in Copenhagen for Rigshospitalet of today

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=orthopedic+corset&btnG=Google+Search


> In 1849 Jean Francois Caplin lectured in Manchester on spinal
> deformities, then in the early 1850s, while retaining their London base,
> husband and wife had premises in Princes Street, and the Manchester
> Hygiaenic Gymnasium [sic] was run from their Pendleton home. Invalid
> boarders were cured by exercise, diet, and good corsetry. Its prospectus
> reassured parents that 'Independently of the maternal care of Madame
> Caplin, a well educated governess of the highest respectability,
> residing in the establishment, will devote her whole attention to the
> requirements and comforts of the young ladies' (J. F. I. Caplin,
> 'Prospectus').
>
> Madame Caplin's corsets and Monsieur's portable gymnasium were awarded
> medals at the 1851 Great Exhibition and examples of their corsets
> survive in the Museum of London. Royal patronage followed, according to
> James Torrington Spencer Lidstone's Londoniad (1856), which described
> Madame thus:
>
>
> You'll an incarnation of the Graces meet At No. 58, in Berners-street; A
> deity in human form enshrined; Gracious demeanour, and a courtly mien,
> Learning and worth are thine, great Nature's queen.
> (Lidstone, 60)
>
>
> Jean Francois Caplin became a doctor of medicine in 1854, perhaps for
> his electrochemical bath which used the principle of electroplating to
> expel poisons from the body. In 1855 he opened the Hygeinic Gymnasium
> and Kinesitherapic Institution for Ladies and Children, at 9 York Place,
> Portman Square, London, which soon became the Hydro-Galvano Therapeutic
> Institution. His many books describe the bath, with testimonies to its
> effectiveness for an astonishing range of illnesses.
>
> Madame Caplin now advertised extensive alterations to Berners Street, to
> show her 'numerous inventions for the purpose of preserving the health
> and displaying the natural beauties of the female form' (R. A. Caplin,
> The Needle, 60). She also lectured upstairs in her Ladies Anatomical
> Gallery where, 'in addition to Canova's Anatomical Venus and the Venus
> de Medici, hundreds of magnificent models, executed with the utmost
> fidelity to nature, exhibit every organ of the body and the whole course
> of embryology' (ibid.). This was 'quite distinct from the rest of the
> Establishment, and a visit to one does not necessarily involve a sight
> of the other' (ibid.).
>
> Roxey Caplin wrote her first book in 1856. Health and beauty, or,
> Corsets and clothing, constructed in accordance with the physiological
> laws of the human body gave a history of stays, culminating in her own
> Hygeinic Corset, which had been 'pirated or attempted by almost every
> staymaker in London and Paris' (R. A. Caplin, Health and Beauty, 51).
> The Needle: its History and Utility (1860) concentrated on the history
> of the needle since Homer's day, and the clothing it created. She noted
> 'so far as ornament is concerned... no genuine and earnest effort has
> yet been made to adapt the dress to the body, in such a manner as shall
> preserve the health and display the natural beauties of the human
> figure'. She decried the appalling conditions in the clothing trades,
> but hoped the sewing machine would improve 'the condition of those whose
> woes have been so beautifully and pathetically described by dear Tom Hood'.
>
> Roxey Caplin ran her business at Berners Street until her death. In 1876
> she co-wrote Women in the Reign of Queen Victoria. This praised the
> recent increase in physical exercise and work opportunities for women,
> but called for dress reform. From the 1870s she lived in Mortlake with
> her bookkeeper and three servants. Although she claimed to be a widow of
> sixty-four in the 1881 census, when she died of old age and gangrene at
> Cambridge Lodge, Mortlake, East Sheen, Surrey, on 2 August 1888, her
> death certificate gave her age as ninety-five.
>
> Sarah Levitt
>
> Sources
> S. Levitt, Victorians unbuttoned: registered designs for clothing, their
> makers and wearers, 1839-1900 (1986), 26-30
> + R. A. Caplin, Health and beauty, or, Corsets and clothing (1856)
> + R. A. Caplin, The needle: its history and utility (1860)
> + R. A. Caplin and J. Mill, Women in the reign of Queen Victoria [1876]
> + J. F. I. Caplin, Selection of documents and autograph letters in
> testimony of the cures effected by the electro-chemical bath of J. F. I.
> Caplin (1865)
> + J. F. I. Caplin, 'Prospectus of the Manchester Hygiaenic Gymnasium',
> Catalogue of the works exhibited in the British section of the
> exhibition ... together with exhibitors' prospectuses, 10 (1856)
> + J. T. S. Lidstone, The Londoniad: a grand national poem on the arts
> (1856)
> + registered design, 1841, TNA: PRO, BT 42, no. 669
> + registered design, 1849, TNA: PRO, BT 45, no. 1995
> + PO street directories, London, Mortlake, and Manchester
> + census returns for Mortlake, 1881
> + d. cert. Likenesses C. Silvy, photograph, c.1864, repro. in Caplin,
> Selection of documents · photogravure photograph, c.1875, repro. in
> Caplin and Mill, Women in the reign of Queen Victoria Wealth at death
> £6452 19s. 10d.: probate, 5 Sept 1888, CGPLA Eng. & Wales

I see no sign of a second marriage

Hugh W


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I know a little about Madame Caplin. She seems to have had a daughter, Kate
HOWARD, in whom I have an interest.

I missed the original post. Was there a question, please?

Best wishes,

John Townsend
Antiquarian Bookseller/Genealogist
http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk

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John Townsend wrote:
> I know a little about Madame Caplin. She seems to have had a daughter, Kate
> HOWARD, in whom I have an interest.
>
> I missed the original post. Was there a question, please?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> John Townsend
> Antiquarian Bookseller/Genealogist
> http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk

did Madame Caplin have two marriages?

see
http://groups.google.com/group/dk.videnskab.historie.genealogi/topics
for the original enquiry

http://groups.google.com/group/dk.videnskab.historie.genealogi/browse_frm/thread/05441e99e3899183#

Hugh W

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