• Born 17 November 1882, eldest daughter of Rev. Handley Moule (1841-1920) and Mary Elliott (b.1844).
• Full name 'Mary Emily Elliott Moule' but known as Tesie or Tessie (short for Tesorina meaning 'little treasure').
• Died 26 August 1905, aged 22.

Mentions in Emily's memoir

"By the middle of September [1883] we were once more in our Cambridge home, and found Aunt Mary's little Tessa, now 10 months old, at Ridley Hall, had grown apace during our absence." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott p92


"Nevertheless we all look back with pleasure on this winter [1900-1901] at Abinger Rectory - a most picturesque house, and ideal garden. Uncle Handley and Aunt Mary Moule,Tessie and Isa all spent Christmas with us. Dear Tessie arrived with a nasty cough and bad throat which proved to be the beginning of lung trouble; and two months after began life in a Sanatorium at Bexhill; and after four and a half years of trial 'in the School of Suffering' entered into the inheritance of the Saints of Light as is most beautifully told in the memoir written by her parents under the above title." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott p122.


"The winter that followed was our last at Castelnau, Wimbledon. The dear Moules were very unsettled, as Tessie was ordered abroad with a nurse, and Aunt Mary followed her there in January after an accés of the dear girl's illness. Auckland Castle was found to need such extensive repairs, that it was not habitable for a year; and Uncle Handley and Lilford Causton (then Domestic Chaplain) lived at the Lodge; whence Lilford added to his clerical duties those of 'clerk of the works' in order to see that the new drainage worked, and water and gas supplies were all thoroughly well done; as well as a Library arranged, and kitchens changed.

In March 1902 Aunt Mary had to undergo a serious operation at Cannes; and as the Uncle could not possibly leave England that month, dear Father offered to go, and send him daily reports, wires and letters. This was the {p125} last of many acts of the kind that Father did in the family - and the last long journey he took alone." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott pp124-125


"The first week in May [1902] Uncle Handley and your Father went South for special meetings in London; and Uncle Willy Young met his two brothers-in-law on the C.M.S. Platform in Exeter Hall, the dear Uncle from India making his maiden speech on Foreign Missions, and the Bishop-Uncle giving the concluding address. It was the first, and last time, the three stood together on the Platform. Just at this time Aunt Mary returned from Cannes with Tessie - and Father went with the former to see the Sanatorium at Mundesley, in Norfolk, where the dear girl now went for ten months." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott p125


"This summer [1903] we paid the dear Jacks a visit at Lowestoft, and went on to Auckland for a fortnight, where the Father was in bed many days with lumbago. The old historic Castle was lovely in July; and we had tea out under the great copper beech many afternoons. Dear Tessie was now entirely {p128} confined to her room; a touching picture, stricken with mortal illness at 20." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott pp127-128


"August [1905] was spent at Ullenhall, Warwickshire, where dear Seymour Horan and Cecil shared the duty. From this time the Belovéd had a nurse. On the 26th inst. we heard of dear Tessie's Home Call, after four years, of the 'Discipline of Suffering'; aged only 22 years. The touching story of her illness and death is told in a little book under this title by Uncle Handley and Aunt Mary; from its pages 'who reads may learn.' To die so young is surely a proof of God's love; and we know that the Eternity of Love is not affected "by the incident of parting." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott p131

The School of Suffering

Her life and premature death are the subject of a terribly sad little book by her father (and mother):

The School of Suffering (1907) by Handley Moule (online here).