Anne Caroline Salisbury

Great great grandmother of Elizabeth II
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGreat great grandmother of Elizabeth II
Gender
Female
Birth1805
Death3 May 1881 (aged 76 years)
Family
Mother:Frances Webb
Spouse:Edwyn Burnaby High Sheriff of Leicestershire
Children:Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck Edwyn Sherard Burnaby
The details

Biography

Anne Caroline Salisbury (1805 – 3 May 1881) was the wife of Edwyn Burnaby, and mother of Edwyn Sherard Burnaby and Caroline Louisa Burnaby. She is the maternal great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Anne's father was Thomas Salisbury (a solicitor) of Fordington, Dorset, and her mother was Frances Webb. Frances Webb's parents were Francis Webb and Mary Garritt.

On 29 August 1829, she married Edwyn Burnaby, an English landowner, of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant, and High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1864. He also succeeded his father in the Court post of Gentleman of the Privy chamber.

They had several children, including:

  • Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (1830–1883), general and Member of Parliament
  • Caroline Louisa Burnaby (1832–1918), by whom she became great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II in an all-female line.
  • Cecilia Florence Burnaby (d. 1869), married George Onslow Newton.
  • Gertrude Laura Burnaby (d. 1865), married Ernest Augustus Mallet Vaughan, 5th Earl of Lisburne
  • Ida Charlotte Burnaby (1839–1886) m. John Augustus Conolly

She was recorded as living at her house at 50 Eaton Place, London, just a month before her death on 3 May 1881.

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