Described by her son in his memoirs as "a dark, masculine woman" and that his father "found the lady's fortune a great deal less, and the lady a great deal worse than anticipated."
Sources
Adventures of a Younger Son, by Edward John Trelawny.
Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Ancestry.com. 1851 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Maria by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Maria: