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| Occupation: | Botanical artist |
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b10 Petrus Johannes gedoop: 17 Dec 1747, gesterf: 31 Jan 1825, Assistent H.O.I.K. lid Raad van Justisie, Pol. Kommissaris; getroud: 18 Apr 1773 Johanna Ernestina Blankenberg; hertroud: Stellenbosch 1 Apr 1814 Laurentia Hubert, weduwee van: Joh. Adrianus Vermaak
c3 Anna Maria gedoop: 17 Aug 1777, getroud: Stellenbosch 26 Aug 1799 John Barrow, van Ulverston, in Lancashire, ouditeur-generaal, skrywer van "Travels in S. Africa"
Anna Maria Truter (17 August 1777 Cape Town - 15 December 1857 England) was a Cape Colony botanical artist who was married to Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet who became second Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804, and was author of "An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the Years 1797 and 1798" (London, 1801).
By the time she left the Cape in 1803, Anna Maria had assembled the first known portfolio of Cape flower studies and landscapes.
She was the daughter of Petrus Johannes Truter (*17 December 1747 Cape Town - 31 January 1825 Swellendam), an official in the East India Company, a Member of the Court of Justice, and a Commissioner of Police, who was married on 18.4.1773 to Johanna Ernestina Blankenberg (*19 April 1750).
Anna Maria Truter and John Barrow produced 7 children:
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August 26, 1799
Age 22
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October 22, 1806
Age 29
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1808
Age 31
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February 25, 1810
Age 33
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July 30, 1813
Age 36
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1875
Age 98
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