Anna Maria Polidori

Anna Maria Pierce

• Born about 1774 in London, Middlesex, England
• Daughter of William Pierce (1736 - 1829)
• Wife of Gaetano Fedele Polidori (1763–1853) — married 29 Jan 1793 in London, England
• Children: Maria Margaret Polidori, John William Polidori, Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (born Polidori), Charlotte Lydia Polidori, Philip Robert Polidori, Henry Francis Polidori, Eliza Harriet Polidori

Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Polidori

On 29 January 1793,[3] Gaetano Polidori married an English governess, Anna Maria Pierce of Middlesex (b. c. 1774[4]), and they had four sons and four daughters.

• His oldest son John William Polidori was a physician to Lord Byron and author of the first vampire story in English, The Vampyre (1819).[5]
• His daughter Frances (Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, 27 April 1800 – 8 April 1886[6]%29 in 1826 married exiled Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti.[7] They had four children, Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti. After Gabriele's death in 1854, Frances quickly burned the remaining copies of his book Il Mistero dell' Amor Platonico del Medio Evo. Frances herself died in 1886 and was buried in the family plot at Highgate Cemetery.

References

• Name: Anna Maria Pierce Event Date: 29 Jan 1793 Spouse's Name: Gaetano Fedele Polidori Spouse's Parish: Westminster, St Ann Spouse's County: Middlesex Event Type: Bond Reference Number: DL/A/D/24/MS10091E/106 Source Information: Ancestry.com. London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Marriage Bonds and Allegations. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Surrey Marriage Bonds and Allegations records held by the London Metropolitan Archives, London, England. AncestryImage, Bond
• Rossetti, Dante; Rossetti, William Michael (1895). Dante Gabriel Rossetti; his family-letters, with a memoir by William Michael Rossetti. London: Ellis and Elvey. Page 28. Archive.Org
• Polidori, John William (1795–1821) https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22466
• Ann Maria Pearce in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Name: Ann Maria Pearce Gender: Female Baptism Date: 5 Jan 1772 Baptism Place: St Botolph Without Aldgate,London,London,England Father: Wm. Pearce Mother: Maria AncestryImage
• Anna Maria Polidori in the England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 No Image Text-only collection Name: Anna Maria Polidori Gender: Female Age: 83 Birth Date: 1770 Death Place: Westminister London England Burial Date: 4 May 1853 Burial Place: Westminister London England FHL Film Number: 560361 Reference ID: ID-V-E 2903-pg 1 AncestryImage