Maria (Campbell) Burton (1752-c.1837)

Mrs Maria Margaretta (Campbell) Burton

Family
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Her portrait showed her to have a "pear-shaped face" and "regular Bourbon traits". Her grandson, Richard, recalled: "Although the wife of a country clergyman, she never seemed to have attained the meekness of feeling associated with that peaceful calling... On one occasion during the absence of her husband, the house at Tuam was broken into by thieves, probably some of her petted tenantry. She lit a candle and went upstairs to fetch some gunpowder, loaded her pistols, and ran down to the hall, when the robbers decamped. She asked the raw Irish servant girl who had accompanied her what had become of the light, and the answer was that it was standing on the barrel of 'black salt' upstairs; thereupon Grandmamma Burton had the pluck to walk up to the garret and expose herself to the risk of being blown to smithereens".  

Parents (2)

John Campbell

Rev. Dr John Campbell LL.D., Vicar-General of Tuam

1724-1772

Sarah (Younge) Campbell

Mrs Sarah (Younge) Campbell

b.1729

Spouse (1)

Rev. Edward Burton

of Tuam & Newgarden House, Co. Galway

1747-1794

Children (7)

Rev. James Edmund Burton

of "Burtonville" Quebec & Dysart Enos, Co. Laois

1776-1850

John Campbell Burton

Merchant, of Calcutta

1779-1827

Lt.-Col. Joseph Netterville Burton

of the 34th Regiment & Chateau Beausejour outside Tours, France

1782-1857

Francis Burton

Surgeon to the 66th Regiment of Foot

1784-1828

Catherine (Burton) d'Aguilar

Mrs Catherine (Burton) d'Aguilar

b.c.1785

Lewis Henry Burton

(Lewis) Henry Burton, Slave-Trader, of Georgetown, Demerara

1786-1830

Sarah (Burton) Crosse

Mrs Sarah Cecilia (Burton) Crosse

b.c.1787

The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, by Isabel Burton