Henrietta Laura Pulteney (1766 - 1808)

Born 26 Dec 1766 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Died 14 Jul 1808 at age 41 in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Henrietta Pulteney was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

She passed away in 1808.

Her father was Sir William Pulteney, Bt. (formerly Johnstone) of Westerhall.

She was created Countess of Bath, 26 Oct 1803.

Sources

• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/mm4fz/murray11.php

• The Heraldry of the Murrays, G. Harvey Johnston FSA Scot, W&A.K. Johnston, Ltd., Edinburgh and London, MCMX, p. 92

• Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath Westminster Abbey

• Osgood, Howard L., II - The Title of The Phelps and Gorham Purchase, Publications of the Rochester Historical Society (Rochester Historical Society, NY, 1892) Vol. 1, Page 47.
  • She died without issue, intestate as to the real estate in America, but leaving a will, dated November 5, 1794, disposing of her personal estate. Her American real estate descended to Sir John Lowther Johnstone, her cousin and heir-at-law, who was the only son of the eldest brother of Sir William Pulteney; the name of the latter had been originally Johnstone and had been changed upon his marriage into the Pulteney family.