Sylvia Stephanie Livingston (1830-1882)

Mrs Sylvia Stephanie (Livingston) Drayton, Kirkpatrick

She was her parents' only child and grew up predominantly in New York City. On October 23, 1850, she married Naval Lieutenant William S. Drayton, a cousin of the Draytons of Drayton Hall, South Carolina. In 1861, the year after her husband died, she purchased an estate at Hyde Park in New York that she named Drayton House in his memory. In 1862, she converted to her mother's Catholic faith. On doing so, she financed the construction of "Regina Coeli" Hyde Park’s first Catholic Church, on Harvey Street, described as, "a small but beautiful structure featuring an English-Gothic design". In 1868, at the British Embassy in Paris (and afterwards at the Madeleine), she marrried Temple Kirkpatrick, then Secretary to the British Legation at Berlin. She died while staying with her husband's relatives on the Isle of Wight in England. She was survived by two children from her first marriage (Maud and Percival) and her only child by her second marriage (Sylvia) but all three died without issue. 

Parents

Mortimer Livingston

Mortimer Livingston, President of the New York & Havre Steamship Company

1807-1857

Sylvie (de Pau) Livingston

Mrs Sylvie (de Pau) Livingston

1808-1880

Spouses

William Sidney Drayton

Lt. William S. Drayton, U.S.N., of New York City & Staatsburg, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

1813-1860

Richard Temple Godman Kirkpatrick

R. Temple G. Kirkpatrick, British Diplomat, of New York & the Isle of Wight

1832-1916

Children

Mortimer Livingston Drayton

Mortimer Livingston Drayton, died in early childhood

1853-1855

Maud Drayton

Maud Drayton, of New York; died unmarried

1857-1885

Percival Langdon Drayton

Percival Langdon Drayton, died unmarried

1858-1892

Catherine Livingston Drayton

Catherine Livingston Drayton, died in infancy

1859-1860

Sylvia Mabel Kirkpatrick

Mrs Sylvia Mabel (Kirkpatrick) Prendergast; died without issue

1869-1960

Associated Houses

Drayton House

Hyde Park, New York

Image from  The Long Lost Drayton House (April 2018) by HydeParkHistorian