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Jane Pownall (abt. 1758)

Jane Pownall
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Biography

Jane was born about 1738.


Lt. Colonel Edmund Bastard, the second son of Colonel William Bastard, eloped to Gretna Green with Jane Pownoll, heiress to the fortune gained by her father after capturing the Spanish frigate La Hermoina in 1763. Captain Pownoll and HMS Apollo brought back half a million pounds, a tremendous fortune at the time.

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