Margaretta Higford Burr (Anne Margaretta Burr, née Scobell)
(1817-1892), Watercolour painter; wife of Daniel Higford Davall Burr; daughter of Edward ScobellSitter in 1 portrait
Margaretta Higford Burr (Anne Margaretta Burr, née Scobell)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 4 May 1861
NPG Ax52853
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Dr E. StewartJohnson
06 February 2021, 17:51
Her maternal grandfather was the portrait miniaturist Richard Collins (1755- 1831), who in 1783 had married Sarah Margaret(ta) Sales (1764-1788) at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster. Her mother was Collins's only child, Rebecca Ann (1786-1840), who on 19 April 1816 at St Mary's Church, Alverstoke, Hants, married by licence Post-Captain Edward Scobell RN (1783-1825) a Cornishman from Poltair House, Madron, Penzance, the son of Revd George Pender Scobell D.D., (1748-1811) and Elizabeth Stark (1745-1808).