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Henry Alexander Hadden                                                1864-1946             (1st Husband)
Henry was born on 1 February 1864, the son of Frederick John Hadden and Margaret Jane Harvey, at Scarborough, Yorkshire. His father, Frederick, was a coffee planter of Ceylon, and a lace manufacturer of Nottingham.
He attended school in Rugby, Warwickshire. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, on Oct. 13, 1883. B.A. 1887 (History Tripos) and M.A. 1890, the same 		  year he became a solicitor. He married Maude Gertrude Annesley Webster-Wedderburn. They first settled in at his house Gabledene, at Walton-on-Thames. Maude was already pregnant at the time of the marriage. Soon afterwards Henry bought Woodcroft, in Stanmore.
The marriage lasted about ten years. He divorced Maude on the grounds of adultery with William Rider.

Maude Gertrude Annesley Webster-Wedderburn         1871-1930
Maude was born on 11 January 1871, the daughter of George Gordon Gerard Wedderburn and Caroline Dixon, at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire.
They only had one child.
  Betty Valentia Born 26 Apr 1893   Sydenham, Kent Married William Stewart

Birth of Parents
Henry Alexander Hadden b: 1 Feb 1864         Scarborough, Yorkshire       1864 1Q Scarborough 9d 326
son of Frederick John Hadden and Margaret Jane Harvey

Maude Gertrude Annesley Webster-Wedderburn
  b: 11 Jan 1871               Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
daughter of George Gordon Gerard Wedderburn and Caroline Dixon
Marriage
Sep 24 1892
Henry Alexander Hadden (28)
Maude Gertrude Annesley
Webster-Wedderburn     (21) 		St Mathias, Earls Court, London       1892 3Q Kensington 1a 277
Bachelor, Solicitor, 3 Warwick Road, Father: Frederick John Hadden
Spinster, 31 Coleherne Road, Father: George Gordon Webster-Wedderburn
After Banns, Wit: Caroline, and Frances Webster Wedderburn, T. H. Hadden,

Children
Betty Valentia Hadden b: 26 Apr 1893               Sydenham, Kent       1893 2Q Lewisham 1d 1183
daughter of Henry Alexander Hadden and Maude Gertrude Annesley Webster-Wedderburn

1901 Census RG13-1211 1 April 1901 Little Stanmore, Middlesex
Woodcroft
Henry A. Hadden (M)
Lucy (Sis)(s)
Betty W. (Dau)
Plus 4 Servants 		Age 37
Age 44
Age 7 		Living on own means
Living on own means 		Scarborough
Nottingham
Sydenham 		Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire
Kent 		abt 1863
abt 1856
abt 1893

Marriage ended in Divorce on 11 August 1902

Death
Henry Alexander Hadden Died 8 Dec 1946, Age 82,  at "Woodcroft", Stanmore, Middlesex       1946 4Q Hendon 5f 96


William Henry Rider                             1854-1914           (2nd Husband)
    William was born about 1854, the son of William and Mary Ann Rider, at Islington, Middlesex. He first married Letitia May Smith He was a Master Printer, and was one of the big London publishers. His publishing house continues to this day (albeit swallowed up in a merger).
    He published a lot of books on the occult, and got Maude involved into that business. Maude wrote several books: "The Wine of Life" (1907), "The Door of Darkness" (1908), "This Day's Madness" (1909), "Wind Along the Waste" (1910 - made into the 1922 movie "Shattered Dreams"),   "Shadow Shapes"  (1911),   "All Awry"  (1911), 		  "Nights and Days" (1912), "My Parisian Year" (1912, non-fiction), "The Sphinx and the Labyrinth" (1913), "Blind Understanding" (1915), and "Where I Made One" (1923)
    She hung around with the Golden Dawn boys - Swinburne, MacGregor Mather, and so on, and became one of Aleister Crowley's girls, and the orgies, booze and drugs, and bizarre mumbo-jumbo that they all incanted while doped up, was slowly driving her insane.
    After William's death she moved to 50 St Petersburgh Place, Notting Hill.
There were no children.

Birth of New Husband
William Henry Rider b: abt 1854         Islington, Middlesex       1854 3Q Islington 1b 158
son of William and Mary Ann Rider
Marriage
14 Oct 1902
William Henry Rider
Maude Gertrude Annesley Hadden

Death
William Henry Rider Died 27 Sep 1914

The Times, Tuesday, Sep 29, 1914   DEATHS
  RIDER - On the 27th Inst., at the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, W. H. Rider, of Paris, son of the late William Rider, of Belsize Park-gardens. No flowers. Cremation at Golder's Green, Wednesday next, at 3:15.
LONDON, 14 November 1914                         Probate
RIDER, William Henry, of 24 Cite Trevise, Paris, died 27 September 1914, at the Heart Hospital, Westmoreland-street, Marylebone, Middlesex, Probate London, 14 November to Maude Annesley Rider, widow.
  Effects £747 4s. 7d.


Major Harry Blaikie Brownlow                     1861-1932             (3rd Husband)
Born 1861, in India, son of Capt. Henry Charles Brownlow and Jane "Jeannie" Blaikie (daughter of Sir Thomas Blaikie, Lord Provost of Aberdeen). Like his father, Harry joined the Royal Artillery as a young officer. He was a 2nd Lieutenant by 1881, was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1888, and to Second Captain by 1889.
On May 31, 1889 he was seconded to the Punjab Field Force, and ordered to India. Arriving at Abbotabad, he immediately became friendly with the Gaselees. Lt-Col. Alfred Gaselee, an officer with the India Staff Corps, and later in command of the 5th Gurkhas, had married Alice Jane Baxter in Calcutta, on Jan. 26, 1882, and they were as happily married as any couple could be under the circumstances. This all changed when the dashing Captain Brownlow arrived on the scene. He was at the Gaselee bungalow all the time, sipping Darjeeling tea, smoking cigars and engaging in social intercourse with a passionate intensity. Colonel Gaselee tended to look upon him as a son, perhaps as a younger brother, and never suspected what might be lurking in the forefront of young Brownlow's mind.
Early in 1891 Gaselee and Harry left Abbotabad with the 		  Black  Mountain  Expedition,  attached  to  the  Hazara Field Force, and were away for some time, although they both came home for leave occasionally. Harry commanded the No. 2 Mountain Battery (the Derajat Battery) during this expedition. With the knowledge and consent of the Colonel, Harry began writing to Alice Gaselee on a regular basis. Gaselee felt that Harry, as a young man, lonely and unattached in India, would benefit spiritually from such a correspondence. His wife showed him all the letters, and they were quite proper.
In July 1891 Harry went on leave, alone, returning to Abbotabad. With the Colonel's knowledge, the young Artillery Captain visited the lonely Mrs Gaselee, and (without the Colonel's knowledge) demonstrated to the Memsahib his extraordinary prowess with a cannon. She became pregnant, and wrote her husband to that effect. The Colonel found this odd, as there had never been any children before, at least none that he could remember. Yet, even then, he was not suspicous. In the October Harry was commended in action (presumably in the field). On April 7, 1892 Alice gave birth, but the child died the following month.
In Sept. 1892 Gaselee went away again, and by this time Alice was living in a bungalow at Thundiani, just outside Abbotabad, with Harry Blaikie Brownlow occupying another bungalow just down the street. Gaselee's brain finally started to kick in when Alice stopped showing him Harry's letters, and when she started to get depressed. But, being a British Indian colonel, he couldn't sustain an emotional thought for more than two seconds, and decided to put it all down to Alice losing the baby.
At the very beginning of 1893 Harry left for Britain, and on Jan. 9, 1893 Alice finally told her husband the truth, and that she thought the late baby had had an element of Brownlow blood. The Colonel was in turn astonished, confounded, indignant, and outraged, and he left her, there and then, after getting her to write a confession. On Jan. 21, 1893 he sent her back to England in disgrace, while he planned his trip to the divorce court. Two days before, on Jan. 19, 1893, he dashed off a very aggressive letter to Harry in England, blasting him as a cad, and demanding that he take Alice as his wife, as he (the Colonel) had no more use for her. Harry didn't do the right thing, of course, but it's 		  pleasing to note that Gaselee did. On Dec. 1, 1893, in London, the judge granted him a divorce. Harry was cited as the villain.
Gaselee married again, in 1895, to another girl named Alice, and went on to great and illustrious things in the Army. He bcame General Sir Alfred Gaselee, the hero of the Boxer Rebellion, and died in 1918. His second wife died in 1940.
Meanwhile, young Brownlow was returned to normal duty from the seconded list on Jan. 17, 1894. In 1897 the Mansion House Relief Fund was set up to help people starving in India as a result of the great famine, and Harry generously contributed a pound. In 1892 he was promoted to First Captain, and on Jan. 11, 1899 to Major, living at the Royal Garrison at Sheerness, Kent. He retired on Jan. 6, 1909 and became a reserve officer. On Oct. 10, 1914, just after World War One broke out, he was activated from the reserve of officers as a Third Grade General Staff Officer.
He married Maude in 1915. In 1923 Harry had to put her away in an asylum in Peckham, where she died in 1930.
She and Harry Brownlow both repose in Niche 3903 within the East Columbarium at Golders Green Cemetery

There were no children.

Birth of New Husband
Major Harry Blaikie Brownlow abt 1861         India
son of Capt. Henry Charles Brownlow and Jane "Jeannie" Blaikie
Marriage
2 Oct 1915
Major Harry Blaikie Brownlow
Maude Gertrude Annesley Rider

The Times, Monday, Oct 4, 1915   MARRIAGE
  BROWNLOW : RIDER - On the 2nd Oct., Major H. B. Brownlow, late R.A., to Maude Annesley, youngest daughter of the late Major George Webster-Wedderburn, 7th Royal Fusiliers, and widow of W. H. Rider.

Death
Maude Gertrude Annesley (Webster-Wedderburn) Brownlow Died 6 Nov 1930   Camberwell House, Peckham Road, Camberwell, Surrey

The Times, Friday, Nov  7, 1930, OBITUARY
MISS MAUDE ANNESLEY
  Mrs. Brownlow, who died yesterday, was known to the public by her pen-name of Maude Annesley.   She was the author of a number of novels which found many appreciative readers, including "The Wine of Life", "The Door of Darkness", a study of the occult, and "Wind Along the Waste".   She also contributed to the Fortnightly and other reviews.   She was Maude Gertrude Annesley, fifth daughter of Major George Webster-Wedderburn and granddaughter of Sir James Webster-Wedderburn.   She married first, in 1892, Mr. H. A. Hadden; secondly, in 1902, Mr. W. H. Rider; and, thirdly, in 1915, Major H. B. Brownlow, late R.A.   Mrs. Brownlow lived for some many years in Paris, where she was well known in literary circles.   She published "My Parisian Year" in 1914.
LONDON   24 December 1930                         Probate
BROWNLOW, Maude Annesley, of the Old House, Sudbury Court-road, Harrow, Middlewsex (wife of Harry Blaikie Brownlow), died 6 November 1930, at Camberwell House, Peckham-road, Surrey, Probate, London, 24 December, to the said Harry Blaikie Brownlow, retired major H. H. army.   Effects £3,109 18s. 11d.




Death
Major Harry Blaikie Brownlow Died 19 Sep 1932,  The Old House, Sudbury Court Road, Harrow, Middlesex
Cremated on 21 Sep 1932

The Times, Wednesday, Sep 21, 1932                         Death
  BROWNLOW - On Sept. 19th 1932, at the Old House Sudbury Court Road, Harrow, Major Harry Blaikie Brownlow, late Royal Artillery.   Cremation at Golders Green, 2 p.m., to-day (Wednesday).
LONDON, 21 October 1932,                         Probate
Brownlow, Harry Blaikie, of the Old House Sudbury Court-road, Sudbury, Middlesex, died 19 September, 1932, Probate London, 21 October, to Henry Guy Brownlow, lieutenant H. M. army and Katherine Brownlow, spinster.   Effects £7,792, 15s. 7d.