| Name |
Marie Cécile von Springer |
| Nickname |
Mitzi |
| Born |
May 1886 |
Austria  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Residence |
Between 1928 and 1939 |
Montreil-sur-mer, Pas de Calais, France |
Address:
L'hôtel Acary de la Riviêre |
- Frank and Marie lived at the house until the outbreak of WW2 when they moved to Paris. However, they still owned the house and after the war returned there from time to time.
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L'hôtel Acary de la Riviêre
This Villa, built by Field Marshall Viscount Henri Dominique Acary de la Riviera (a resident of Montreuil) in 1818, was described as one of the most delightful residences in Montreuil. It was bought by Baron Eugene Fould-Springer in 1928 and after his death in 1929, his wife Mary (Marie) continued to live there, re-marrying to Frank Wooster in 1933. The Mansion was bequeathed to the city on 9 November 1973 by Mary Wooster and after her death in 1978, became "The Franck and Mary Wooster Museum of Hope".
Also bequeathed to the town was the 14 bedroom annex to L'hôtel Acary, which is now a hotel and restaurant known as the Chateau de Montreuil. |
| Died |
9 Dec 1978 |
Paris, France |
Address:
Ritz Hotel |
| Buried |
Aft 9 Dec 1978 |
Gunnersbury Cemetery, London, England |
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Headstone: WOOSTER, Frank and Mary
More on Gunnersbury Park Cemetery. |
| Notes |
- The only daughter and heiress of the very wealthy Austrian industrialist Baron Gustav von Springer, Marie Cécile, Baroness von Springer was married in 1905 in Vienna to French banker, Eugène Fould. (Eugène was a member of the European banking house, "Fould Oppenheim" and grandson of Napoleon III's Finance Minister, Achille Fould) . Eugène, through marriage, obtained the title of 'Baron' and was from that point on called Baron de Fould-Springer.
In 1926 the couple acquired the Abbatial Palais of Royaumont, where they proceeded to house and display their numerous paintings and objects of art.
In 1929 Baron Eugène de Fould-Springer died and four years later, his widow married Frank Wooster. They lived alternatively in Royaumont, Montreuil-sur-Mer and Vienna. In 1938, after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, they left Vienna indefinitely and travelled via France to Canada, where they then spent the remaining war years.
After the end of WW2, Marie Cécilie (aka Mary Wooster) spent much of the remaining part of her life in Florence. The Abbatial Palais was occupied by the family of her daughter, Liliane.
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| Person ID |
I17955 |
Mitchell Families |
| Last Modified |
29 Jan 2014 |
| Family 1 |
Eugène Charles Joachim Fould (ID:I17956)
b. 14 Aug 1876, Ville d'Avray, France
d. 1929, Shanghai, China (Age 52 years) |
| Married |
12 Apr 1905 |
Vienna, Austria |
| Age at Marriage |
She was 18 years and 11 months - He was 28 years and 8 months |
| Notes |
- The Fould/Springer family had accumulated huge wealth and in the 1920's acquired the Palace Abbatial, in Royaumont, to the north of Paris. The contents of the house were sold off at auction in 2011.
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| Children |
| | 1. Baron Max Fould-Springer (ID:I17958)
b. 1906, Vienna, Austria
d. 9 Mar 1999, Paris, France (Age 93 years) |
| + | 2. Hélène "Bubbles" Fould-Springer (ID:I17959)
b. 22 Oct 1907
d. 28 Jun 1997, Kensington, London, England (Age 89 years) |
| + | 3. Thérèse Carmen "Poppy" Fould-Springer (ID:I17960)
b. 1914
d. 1953 (Age 39 years) |
| + | 4. Liliane Elisabeth Victoire Fould-Springer (ID:I17961)
b. 11 May 1916, Paris, France
d. 17 Feb 2003, Royaumont, Chantilly, France (Age 86 years) |
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| Last Modified |
7 May 2012 |
| Family ID |
F4435 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1886 - 1978 (~ 92 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 18 descendants in our family tree.
1842 - 1920 (77 years)
Francis George Leyland Wooster (ID:I17929)
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