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Maria Renshaw (Carter)

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Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States
Death: March 16, 1880 (28-37)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Dr. Charles Shirley Carter and Emily Carter
Wife of Robert Henry Renshaw y Orea
Mother of Charles Carter Renshaw and Emily Maria Carter Renshaw
Half sister of Williams Carter; Eugenia Cassatt; Charlotte Buckley; Mildred McCall; James Newman Carter and 2 others

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About Maria Renshaw


From "Some Colonial Mansions". 2017. Google Books. Accessed January 15 2017.page 290

A GENEALOGY OF SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF COL. JOHN CARTER OF VIRGINIA.

Issue of Williams and Charlotte [Foushee] Carter of Hanover:

  • (2) Dr. Charles of Philadelphia, m. 1st, Emily Blight, and had: Maria, m. Robert Renshaw; 2dly, Ellen Newman, and had: Williams, Eugenia, Charlotte, Mildred, James, Ellen, and Isabella;

notes

From "History Of The Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties Of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson And Clarke". Google Books, 2017, page 631

Robert H. Renshaw, Boyce, is a son of Benjamin Renshaw, who was born in London, England, in 1791, .... . His father was married in the Cathedral at Funchal, by the bishop of Madeira, to Donna Francisca de Luna Medicis de Orea, daughter of the Chevalier Don Gonzalo de Orea, knight of the most distinguished Order of Santiago of Spain, and colonel in the Spanish army. .... After graduating at Harvard with the class of 1854, he was admitted to the Baltimore bar in 1858. In 1859 he married Lucy, daughter of Thomas and Ann Willing Page Carter, of Clarke county, Va. The children of this marriage all died in infancy. He subsequently married Maria, daughter of Dr. Charles Carter, who married Emily Blight, of Philadelphia. Dr. Charles Carter was the son of Williams Carter, uncle of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Of this marriage two children survive: Charles Carter and Emily Maria Carter Renshaw. In 1881 he married Annie Carter Wickham ....


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Maria Renshaw's Timeline

1847
1847
Pennsylvania, United States
1876
August 5, 1876
Canary Islands, Spain
1880
March 16, 1880
Age 33
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