Marianne Croker

Marianne Croker (1791–1854) was an English watercolour painter and author of the 19th century.

Marianne Croker
Born	1791 (1791)
Died	1854 (aged 62–63)
Other names	Marianne Nicholson
Occupation	Watercolour painter
Parent	Francis Nicholson (father)

Early life

Croker was born as Marianne Nicholson. Croker's father was Francis Nicholson, a leading watercolourist. Croker had a brother, Alfred.^[1]

Career

Some time after 1818, Croker and her brother Alfred made the acquaintance of Thomas Crofton Croker, then a civil servant with antiquarian interests. The three made a number of trips to the south of Ireland to gather material for a proposed publication – Researches in the South of Ireland (1824) – to which Marianne contributed illustrations.^[2][3]

In Marianne, Thomas Croker found a partner who shared his interests and talents, and the two made numerous visits to Ireland in support of Thomas's later publications dealing with Celtic folklore.^[2] Marianne's extensive contributions to Thomas's work are largely unacknowledged.^[1][4]

Croker was the author of two books, Barney Mahoney and My Village Versus Our Village – both published at her request under her husband's name.^[2] She also exhibited a number of landscape paintings.^[1]

Personal life

In 1830, Croker married Thomas Crofton Croker, a civil servant with interests in antiquity. They had one child, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, an amateur antiquary and poet.^[1]

On 6 October 1854, Croker died in England, two months after the death of her husband.^[1] She was buried at Brompton Cemetery in London (in the same grave as her husband) on 10 October.^[5][6][7]

References

1. McCormack 2004.
2. Croker 1862.
3. Golightly 2007.
4. Haase 2008.
5. "Brompton Cemetery burial search". royalparks.org.UK. Retrieved 5 September 2019.(Marianne Croker, burial register 9591, Year of death: 1854, Date of burial: 10 October 1854)
6. "Marianne Croker". Find a Grave. Retrieved 5 September 2019. (has grave stone image)
7. Stephenson, R. (2002). . Archived from the original on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 5 September 2019.

Works cited

• McCormack, W. J. (2004). "Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798–1854)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6739. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Press. p. 241. ISBN 9780313334412.
• Croker, T. Crofton (1862). Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland. London: William Tegg. pp. iv–xix.
• Golightly, Karen B. (December 2007). Who Put the Folk in Folklore?: Nineteenth-century Collecting of Irish Folklore from T. Crofton Croker to Lady Augusta Gregory (D.Phil). Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

External links

• Croker