Georgiana Frederica (Fitzroy) Somerset (1792 - 1821)

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Somerset — married 25 Jul 1814 in Upper Brooke Street, London, England

Descendants

Died 11 May 1821 at age 28 in Piccadilly, London, England, United Kingdom

Georgiana Fitzroy was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy, was born on 3 October 1792, the second daughter of Hon. Henry Fitzroy, and his wife, Lady Anne Wellesley (sister of the 1st Duke of Wellington).

She married, Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, later 7th Duke of Beaufort, as his first wife, on 25 July 1814, at the house of her step-father, Charles Culling Smith, in Upper Brook Street.^[1]

They had two daughters;^[2]

1. Lady Charlotte Augusta Frederica Somerset, born 13 March 1816, married 5 December 1844, Philipp, Baron Neumann, sometime Austrian Minister to Great Britain (died 16 January 1851), and died 18 September 1850;
2. Lady Georgiana Charlotte Anne Somerset, born 24 February 1817, married Sir Christopher William Codrington, Bt, MP.

She died on 11 May 1821 of 'internal inflammation' at Apsley House, Piccadilly.^[3][4] As her husband didn't succeed as Duke of Beaufort until 1835, she never held the title of Duchess of Beaufort.

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, p. 56
2. ↑ Lodge, p. 49
3. ↑ Cokayne, p. 56
4. ↑ Lancaster Gazette, 19 May 1821, p 2

• Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant extinct or dormant, 2nd ed., vol 2, ed by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, London: St Catherine Press, 1912. Published in electronic form by ABC Publications, London, 2001.

• Lodge, Edmund, (1859), The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, as at Present Existing, 28th ed. revised and enlarged, London: Hurst and Blackett. Digitised by Google Books (http://books.google.com) .

• Marriage record St George, Hanover Sq., (The Most Honourable Henry Marquess of Worcester and Georgeiana Frederica FItzRoy were married in a dwelling house in Upper Brooke St in the presence of [Wellesley-4 |Wellington] and Grafton 25 July 1814)]