COSTERTON, Florence Caroline
Florence Caroline Costerton was born at Eye, Suffolk in 1866 and baptised at Eye on 25 April 1866, daughter of Charles Fisher Costerton (baptised 28 January 1822-1 March 1891), a magistrate and flax manufacturer, and his wife Harriet Nayler (c.1828-1912), eldest daughter of the late John Nayler of Eye, who married at Eye on 15 February 1849. In 1871, Florence was a 5-year-old, living at Scole House, Ipswich Road, Scole, Norfolk with her parents, 49-year-old Charles, who was born at Southtown, then in Suffolk, and 49 [sic] year old Harriet, with siblings Isabel Louisa 17, Ada Mary 13, Clement Fisher (22 December 1858-2 July 1930), Edward 8 and Helena Gertrude 6, who were all born at Eye. Florence had other siblings including Charles Ernest, born 1851, Alfred 1857, Julia Kathleen 1872, and Nora Margarite 1876. In 1901 Florence had a solo exhibition of her fans and miniature painting in the Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris. In 1906, a 39-year-old artist, when admitted as a patient at the Bethlem Hospital, London. Florence Caroline Costerton committed suicide by drowning in a pond at her sister's house at Daws Hall, Lamarsh, Essex on 27/28 June 1915, she was unmarried. Sometime her first names were reversed i.e. Caroline Florence.