Mary Ann Power , youngest daughter. She accompanied her sister Marguerite on the tour of Europe which left London on 25th Aug 1822. "Miss Power, Lady Blessington's youngest sister, was somewhat demure in aspect, of quiet and retiring manners. Lady Blessington has been described as a peach-blosom, and Miss Power as a primrose by her side". Charles Mathews (architect also part of this party) page 206 "One of the first results of the outbreak of open warfare [in 1831] between the gardiners and Seamore place had been the removal of Lady Blessington's brother, Robert Power, from his post as agent for the Tyrone Estates. On his salary as agent he had been keeping his old reprobate of a father, his youngest sister Mary Ann, and his own wife and daughters; and with the failure of that salary the position of these dependents became naturally very serious. Equally naturally, they looked to the brilliant Lady Blessington, of whose luxurious house and social prowess they had heard so much, to make good thedeficit. Valiantly, she strove to do what was expected of her. Money was sent to Ireland, and Mary Ann Power, who had been with the Blessingtons during their years abroad, was immediately invited to return to London and stay with her sister. She came and with a precipitancy one would hardly expect from so travelled a young woman, married an elderly French count called Saint Marsault, whom she met in Seamore Place. The story goes that M. Saint Marsault believed he was marrying an heiress; that Mary Ann Power mistook for real the jewelled rings which adorned the long yellow fingers of her decrepit admirer; and that each, with the realisation that the other was as poor as a church mouse, complained bitterly of being deceived. However this may be harmony barely outlasted the honeymoon, and the Contesse Saint Marsault was back at Seamore Place within a few weeks of having left it. She stayed a short while and returned to Dublin, her place in lady Blessington's household being taken by Robert's two daughters Marguerite and Ellen power, who were to remain with their aunt for the rest of her life."
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