Jane Cornwallis

Jane Cornwallis

Female 1798 - 1856  (57 years)

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  • Name Jane Cornwallis 
    Born 05 Oct 1798  Culford Hall, Suffolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Christened 02 Nov 1798  St. Mary's, Culford, Suffolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Died 23 Sep 1856  [1
    Person ID I00167  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 

    Father 2nd Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis,   b. 19 Oct 1774,   d. 09 Aug 1823, His Mansion in Old Burlington-street Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Louisa Gordon,   b. 27 Dec 1776, Gordon Castle, Gight, Moray, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Dec 1850, 12 Park Crescent, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Family ID F00179  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Husband 3rd Baron Braybrooke, Richard Griffin Neville,   b. 26 Sep 1783, Stanlake Park, Ruscombe, Berkshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Mar 1858, Audley End, Essex Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Married 13 May 1819  St. James', Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Richard Cornwallis Neville,   b. 17 Mar 1820,   d. 27 Feb 1861, Audley End, Essex Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)
     2. Mirabel Jane Neville,   b. 06 Apr 1821,   d. 14 Jan 1900  (Age 78 years)
     3. Louisa Anne Neville,   b. 18 Jul 1822, Audley End, Essex Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1889, Grove Lodge, Winkfield, Berkshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     4. Charles Cornwallis Neville,   b. 29 Aug 1823, Billingbear Park, Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Jun 1902, Audley End, Essex Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     5. Henry Aldworth Neville,   b. 26 Oct 1824, Billingbear Park, Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Nov 1854, Inkerman Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years)
     6. Latimer Neville,   b. 22 Apr 1827, Audley End, Essex Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1904  (Age 76 years)
     7. Lucy Georgiana Neville,   b. 02 Dec 1828, Audley End, Essex Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 May 1919  (Age 90 years)
     8. Grey Neville,   b. 15 Oct 1830, Audley End, Essex Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Nov 1854, Scutari Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00399  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • --- "Hampshire Chronicle" 15 Oct 1798, page 4:
      Birth. Friday last the Lady of Lord Brome was delivered of a daughter and heiress, at the seat of the Marquis Cornwallis, at Culford Hall, Bury, Suffolk.

      --- "Illustrated London News" 4 Oct 1856, page 3:
      LADY BRAYBROOKE.
      The Right Hon. Jane, Lady Braybrooke, whose death took place at the family seat, Audley End, in Essex, on the 23rd ult., in her fifty-seventh year, was the eldest of the five daughters and coheirs of the famous military commander, Charles, Marquis Cornwallis. Her Lady ship was married, the 13th May, 1819, to Richard, third and present Lord Braybrooke, and had issue five sons, three of whom survive her; and three daughters, of whom the eldest is yet unmarried --- the two younger are Lady Vavasour and the Hon. Mrs. Savile. Lady Braybrooke, herself the daughter of one of the best and wisest soldiers of his time, has --- as well as her sisters, the late Lady St. Germans and Mrs. Ross, --- had sons who have perished in their country's service. Her third son, Henry Aldworth, a Captain of the Grenadier Guards, was slain at Inkerman; and her fifth son, Grey, an officer of the 5th Dragoon Guards, died of the wounds he recieved at Balaclava. The other two that make up the four grandsons of the Marquis Cornwallis, who have lost their lives in the recent war, were Captain Granville Eliot, of the Coldstream Guards, second son of the Earl and Countess of St. Germans; and Captain Ross, of the 3rd Buffs, son of Charles Ross, Esq., and Lady Mary his wife.

  • Sources 
    1. http://www.thepeerage.com/.

    2. Parish Record Transcriptions on FindMyPast.co.uk.

    3. "The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis; 1613-1644" by Jane Cornwallis Bacon, Pub. by S&J Bentley; 1842, page xlvii.