Her father was the librarian to John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield and the family had a large book collection of their own.

[2] At the age of nineteen, she left her family and went to live in Whitchurch Canonicorum where she more or less remained for the rest of her life.

[3] She went to help Mariquita Tennant who lived in a large 16th century mansion, 'The Limes', in Clewer near Windsor.

[2] Weale died in at her home, Church House, in Whitchurch Canonicorum in 1918 after some years of being deaf and near blind.

She was buried in Stanton St Gabriel's churchyard in 1918, leaving money to build an Anglican church for the poor in Whitchurch.