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| Keywords: people A painting of Lady Anne Fanshawe (1625-1680), after Cornelius Johnson. Eldest daughter and 4th child of Sir John Harrison of Balls Park, Hertfordshire, who had declared for the King in 1642 and whom Anne joined in Oxford in the summer of 1643, a few months after her 18th birthday. The following year she married her Hertfordshire neighbour, Richard Fanshawe. Of Anne's 14 children, only 5 lived beyond the age of 8. After her husband's death in Madrid in June 1666, she set off overland to Calais with her baby son, 4 daughters under 14, and the body of her husband. Her memoirs are a vivid and fascinating account of the dangerous life she shared with her husband during the Civil War, and their later life together in Spain and Portugal. She wrote to her one surviving son of his siblings, dead and living: "My dear husband had six sons and eight daughters, born and christened, and I miscarried of six more, three at several times, and once of three sons when I was about half gone my time. Harrison, my eldest son, and Henry, my second son; Richard, my third; Henry, my fourth; and Richard, my fifth, are all dead; my second lies buried in the Protestant Church-yard in Paris, by the father of the Earl of Bristol; my eldest daughter Anne lies buried in the Parish Church of Tankersley, in Yorkshire, where she died; Elizabeth lies in the Chapel of the French Hospital at Madrid, where she died of a fever at ten days old; my next daughter of her name lies buried in the Parish of Foot's Cray, in Kent, near Frog-Pool, my brother Warwick's house, where she died; and my daughter Mary lies in my father's vault in Hertford, with my first son Henry; my eldest lies buried in the Parish Church of St. John's College in Oxford, where he was born; my second Henry lies in Bengy Church, in Hertfordshire; and my second Richard in the Esperanza in Lisbon in Portugal, he being born ten weeks before my time when I was in that Court. I praise God I have living yourself and four sisters, Katherine unmarried, Margaret married to Vincent Grantham, Esq., of Goltho, in the county of Lincoln, Anne, and Elizabeth." A painting of Lady Anne Fanshawe (1625-1680), after Cornelius Johnson. Eldest daughter and 4th child of Sir John Harrison of Balls Park, Hertfordshire, who had declared for the King in 1642 and whom Anne joined in Oxford in the summer of 1643, a few months after her 18th birthday. The following year she married her Hertfordshire neighbour, Richard Fanshawe. Of Anne's 14 children, only 5 lived beyond the age of 8. After her husband's death in Madrid in June 1666, she set off overland to Calais with her baby son, 4 daughters under 14, and the body of her husband. Her memoirs are a vivid and fascinating account of the dangerous life she shared with her husband during the Civil War, and their later life together in Spain and Portugal. She wrote to her one surviving son of his siblings, dead and living: "My dear husband had six sons and eight daughters, born and christened, and I miscarried of six more, three at several times, and once of three sons when I was about half gone my time. Harrison, my eldest son, and Henry, my second son; Richard, my third; Henry, my fourth; and Richard, my fifth, are all dead; my second lies buried in the Protestant Church-yard in Paris, by the father of the Earl of Bristol; my eldest daughter Anne lies buried in the Parish Church of Tankersley, in Yorkshire, where she died; Elizabeth lies in the Chapel of the French Hospital at Madrid, where she died of a fever at ten days old; my next daughter of her name lies buried in the Parish of Foot's Cray, in Kent, near Frog-Pool, my brother Warwick's house, where she died; and my daughter Mary lies in my father's vault in Hertford, with my first son Henry; my eldest lies buried in the Parish Church of St. John's College in Oxford, where he was born; my second Henry lies in Bengy Church, in Hertfordshire; and my second Richard in the Esperanza in Lisbon in Portugal, he being born ten weeks before my time when I was in that Court. I praise God I have living yourself and four sisters, Katherine unmarried, Margaret married to Vincent Grantham, Esq., of Goltho, in the county of Lincoln, Anne, and Elizabeth." | ||||
