Author: Dodsworth, Anna
Biography:
DODSWORTH, Anna, formerly BARRELL (1732-1801: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised 10 Mar. 1732 at St. George’s Hanover Square, although her memorial gives 1734. The will of Francis Barrell (1770) formerly of St. Margaret’s, Rochester and later of Upper Grosvenor Street, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, establishes her identity. Memorials in St. Margaret’s, Rochester, show that the two daughters by his first wife, Ann Pearse, both married sons of John Dodsworth of Thornton Watlass, Yorkshire. Frederick Dodsworth (1738-1821), Vicar of Calon and Fighelden, married Catherine, the younger daughter, in 1772, and Francis Dodsworth (1731-1806), then Vicar of Thanet, later Vicar of Doddington, Kent, married Ann Barell (sic), on 31 Oct. 1758 at Otterden, Kent. On their father’s death in 1772, the sisters became independently wealthy, having been left £1500 each and land in Yorkshire, London, and Kent. Anna Dodsworth died on 9 Mar. 1801 at Doddington. Her husband edited Fugitive Pieces (1802), which records her 43-year marriage and contains poems on her father and sister. Frank Dodsworth remarried in 1804 but died on 18 Oct. 1806 and was buried at St. John the Baptist, Doddington. Her sister died on 24 Sept. 1807 at Thornton Hall. (ancestry.co.uk 5 Aug. 2020; Kentish Gazette 25 Feb. 1772, 18 Aug. 1772; Kentish Weekly 13 Mar. 1801, 21 Oct. 1806; GM Mar. 1801, 283 and Nov. 1806, 1079; Newcastle Courant 3 Oct. 1807; Memorial Tablets, St. Margaret’s, Rochester, and St. John the Baptist, Doddington) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Dodsworth