Anne (Lyde) Raffles (1752 - abt. 1824)

Born 1 Sep 1752 in Covent Garden, London, England

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Biography

Birth

Ann Lyde was b. 1755, and probably baptized at St. Mary's Church, Teddington in Middlesex. ^[1]

Parentage

Ann Lyde was the daughter of Edward Lyde of St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, and his wife Ann Salter of Cleveland Court, St. James. ^[1]

Marriage

Her husband Benjamin was a Yorkshireman who had a burgeoning family and little luck in the West Indies trade during the American Revolution, sending the family into debt. ^[2]

Death

She d. Feb 1824, Buried 14 Feb at Old Church St. Mary's Stoke Newington, London. ^[1]

Children

Anne Lyde, wife of Captain Benjamin Raffles, was the mother of Sir (Thomas) Stamford Raffles. ^[2]

Her son was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, to Captain Benjamin Raffles (d. June 1797) and Anne Raffles (née Lyde). ^[2]

The little money the family had went into schooling Raffles. He attended a boarding school. In 1795, at the age of 14, Raffles started working as a clerk in London for the British East India Company, the trading company that shaped many of Britain's overseas conquests. In 1805 he was sent to what is now Penang in the country of Malaysia, then called the Prince of Wales Island, starting his long association with Southeast Asia. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Bastin & Julie Weizenegger. The Family of Sir Stamford Raffles. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nSAyDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT219&lpg=PT219&dq=Anne+Lyde+Raffles&source=bl&ots=hIcTML-jVB&sig=RaCUr7a_TZQxqtpEHIyTLZvnTwQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUieuix-fNAhUEjZQKHaNNDTYQ6AEIJDAD#v=onepage&q=Anne%20Lyde%20Raffles&f=false. Accessed July 9, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Wikipedia. Stamford Raffles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles. Accessed July 9, 2016

• London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, ancestry.com: "Name: Ann Lyde; Spouse: Benjamin Raffles; Record Type: Banns; Event Date: 21 Nov 1777; Parish: St Mary Somerset; Borough: City of London; Register Type: Parish Register"