Her name is most likely corrupted from
Paoline - Pauline - Apollonia - Pollonia
€ 1.000 Award for the researcher who finds the list of Corsican refugees that were evacuated with the transportship the Tartar to Gibraltar in October 1796 (see below)
I am quite sure that this list should be somewhere in the National Archives
? 500 Award for the researcher who finds the birth or baptism of a girl called Pauline/Paoline/Apollonia/Pollonia who belongs to one of the families who were excluded from amnestie by Napoleon in 1796 and is born between 1775 and 1780.
Archive departementale de Corse du Sud
Accueil du site Conseil D?partemental de la Corse du Sud
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The Royal Dockyard
The National Archives, Kew - ADM 6/429
She is married to Gardiner Henry Guion.
They got married before March 7, 1798.Sources 3, 4
IF
Polini and Gardiner married they must have married between dec 1796 and Dec 1797 at Gibraltar
OR
between Dec 1797 and Mar 1798 at London (or Sheerness)
Child(ren):
Some descendants of Polini, members of the Albers, Halewijn and Lips families, were convinced that Polini was the same person as Maria Anna Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon.
The story was published in the Netherlands by A.J. Teychiné Stakenburg, in the Spiegel Historiael, Juni 1984 (see below).
This tale is complete nonsense of course.
The two oldest sisters of Napoléon were married and gave birth to their first child in 1798. It is utterly impossible they could have given birth to another child in 1798. (See Elise and Pauline)
It is even more impossible that one of the sisters gave birth to the child in England or that the child after the birth was taken to England by Gardiner.
For my comments on his article see at "Sources" at the end of this page.
December 1797 Gardiner's mother quits as a Matron of the London Hospital
February 1798 Capt. Charles Elphinston asks the Navy Board to be allowed to appoint Lt. Gardiner Henry Guion on his Ship the HMS Diomede and March 1798 the Diomede leaves for the South Africa and South America.
It is strongly believed that Gardiner's mother and Polini lived at the Commissioner's house in Sheerness in 1798.
Commissioner for the dockyard in Sheerness in 1798 was Francis John Hartwell.
After Gardiner served as a Captain's servant for John Elphinston (1782-1783) he sailed as Captain's Servant with Francis J. Hartwell (1786-1787).
Francis married Anna Charlotte, the daughter of Capt John Elphinston.
Both men must have been substitute fathers to Gardiner whose father died in 1780
Timeline Corsica
LA CORSE MILITAIRE
LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE ET LA CORSE
(22 mars 1789 - 21 juin 1794)
Chronologie recueillie par Antoine-Dominique MONTI
To my regret some publications exist in which a relationship, even a marriage, between my 4th ggfather Gardiner Henry Guion and Anna Maria Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon is mentioned. The publication written by Teychinee seems to attract many readers.
Here are some of them
A most curious reaction came from George F. Nafziger who wrote the book "Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era
I can't understand how a selfrespecting "researcher" ads this kind of information (crap) in his dictionary WITHOUT ANY TRUSTWORTHY SOURCE.
I was able to trace his email address and asked in a quite friendly letter if he could provide his source.
George stated he got his information from The Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Co., 1941) but admitted that this source is not available any more.
I am pretty sure he is lying, that he copied the information from an earlier publication from me at the internet site "Napoleon series" and did not properly read the complete publication.
If this is the method he is using for writing books I can only advise not to buy his products.
Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions (M.I.s) & other notes
Descendants of Orlando d' Ornano
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1802 - August 6, Ann daughter of Gardiner and Polini Guion (Born 1798)/ Personal Copies