Frederick Augustus Searle (1824-1903)   

In 184 Frederick Augustus Searle went to Trinidad to run a sugar plantation. 

There in 1853  he married Georgiana Richardson. His occupation was described as a 'West Indian Planter'. The married couple moved to a plantation in Surinam where they lived and worked for 30 years before returning to England. 

On a trip to Italy in 1879 he bought Sant'Antonio the dilapidated ruins of a house which had once belonged to the Roman poet Horace who died in 8 BC. The house which is 30 miles from Rome was built in around 100 BC with parts rebuilt in 1583.  Frederick Searle and his wife spent 20 years restoring the property.

Mary Lennox Searle (Ozanne) 1858 - 1928

Mary (May) Lennox Searle was born on 24 February 1858 on the Orange Grove Plantation, Trinidad, Jamaica. She married John Ozanne at Holy Trinity Church, Essequibo, West Demerara, British Guiana in 1879

She had two children - Harold and Katherine May, both born whilst she was living in British Guiana.  

She had a brother Frederick Charles Searle 1859 - 1904 and a sister Georgiana 1863 to 1944

Mary Ozanne did not accompany her husband to the Gambia when he was appointed as British Commissioner, and where he died of yellow fever aged 42.  She spent some time living with her sister Georgiana in Harrow and also lived in the South of France to avoid the cold English weather.  

She died at the Bristol Hotel in Cannes aged 70.