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Anne Fanshawe (Harrison)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: London, St. Olave Hart Street, England (United Kingdom)
Death: January 30, 1680 (54)
Place of Burial: Ware, Herfordhire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir John Harrison, MP and Margaret Harrison
Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, MP, 1st Baronet
Half sister of Richard Harrison, MP

Managed by: Woodman Mark Lowes Dickinson, OBE
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About Anne Fanshawe

Lady Anne Fanshawe (Harrison) was born March 25, 1625, in the parish of St Olave Hart Street, London to parents Sir John Harrison of Hertfordshire, of Ball's Park, Ware and Margaret Harrison (Fanshawe) daughter of Robert Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate in Holmesfield, Derbyshire.

Lady Anne Fanshawe (Harrison) married her second cousin; Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet Fanshawe, on May 18, 1644, at Wolvercot, Oxfordshire. They had fourteen children, but only five reached adulthood.

References

Williams (called Ysgafell.) 1861, p. 116. Davidson, Peter; "Fanshawe , Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 22 January 2015 Ann Fanshawe Biography, University of Warwick. Retrieved 17 October 2014 Davidson (2004). "Fanshawe [n%C3%A9e Harrison], Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680), autobiographer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.". ODNB. Oxford. Retrieved 14 December 2018. subscription required A link between the arduous travels of the Fanshawes and the early loss of many of their children is posited in Antonia Fraser: The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, Chapter 4 "Lady Ann Fanshawe's book of cookery and medical receipts", University of Warwick. Retrieved 17 October 2014 "Recipe Book of Lady Ann Fanshawe", World Digital Library Retrieved 18 October 2014

Day, Ivan; "Lady Ann Fanshawe's Icy Cream", Food History Jottings, Google - Blogger, 5 April 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2014 Williams (called Ysgafell.) 1861, p. 117. Williams (called Ysgafell.) 1861, p. 118. "A scribal copy of Ann Fanshawe's memoirs, with corrections in Fanshawe's own hand", University of Warwick. Retrieved 17 October 2014 Cadman Seelig, Sharon; Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives..., Cambridge University Press (2006), p. 90 ff. Halkett, Anne Murray and Ann Fanshawe; Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, ed. John Loftis. Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0198120877

   "Ann Fanshawe (1625–1680), Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe", Your Paintings, BBC. Retrieved 17 October 2014
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Anne Fanshawe's Timeline

1625
March 25, 1625
London, St. Olave Hart Street, England (United Kingdom)
1680
January 30, 1680
Age 54
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Ware, Herfordhire, England (United Kingdom)