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Author: Bourne, Jane

Biography:

BOURNE, Jane, formerly BENN (1789-1878 : ancestry.co.uk)

She was the only child of William Benn of Hensingham near Whitehaven, Cumberland, and his wife Charlotte Jane Lutwidge. Her mother was the granddaughter of Thomas Lutwidge of Holmbrook Hall; she married William Benn on 12 Jan. 1789. Their daughter was baptised in Moresby, Cumberland, on 1 Sept. 1789. Jane’s father died in 1790 and her mother married Thomas Cope of Osbaston Hall, Leicestershire, and had a son, Skeffington, who died in infancy. Jane married Edward Bourne, a physician, in Holy Trinity church, Coventry, on 22 June 1816; they had five children—three sons and two daughters. (One daughter, Charlotte Jane [1818-1909], became a governess in the Russian imperial family and in 1856 published Russian Chit-Chat about her experiences.) Edward Bourne died on 25 Aug. 1846. The 1861 Census shows her living at 102 Hertford Terrace, Earl Street, Coventry, with her daughter Lucy but by the time of her death on 23 Nov. 1878 she had moved to Kenilworth, Warwickshire, near or with her son, Dr. Thomas Skeffington Bourne. Her estate was valued at under £2000 at probate. A well-respected author, she wrote many educational works and instructive tales for children; her last published book was Granny’s History of England (1871). (RPW; ancestry.co.uk 12 June 2023; findmypast.co.uk 12 June 2023; Burke)

 

Other Names:

  • Mrs. Bourne
 

Books written (5):

Whitehaven: J. Robinson, 1832