Author: Gurney, Maria
Biography:
GURNEY, Maria, formerly ROWE (1802-68: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 12 Nov. 1802 at Launceston, Cornwall, the daughter of Coryndon Rowe (1767-1847), physician and sometime mayor of Launceston, and Anne Carpenter (1769-1844), who had married in 1795. Nothing is known of her education. Her brother, Sir William Carpenter Rowe (1801-59) was educated at Winchester and Oxford, qualified as a barrister, and was later Chief Justice in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). She married Charles Gurney (1805-91), solicitor and later Justice of the Peace, on 15 Oct. 1829 at St. Mary Magdalene, Launceston. They had two children. She died on 27 July 1868 at Trebursye, South Petherwin, Cornwall. She published a second, slightly enlarged edition of the work listed here in 1840, but her “Bluestockings over the Border: Verses” in Blackwood’s (1828) is likely to be of more interest to modern readers. (ancestry.co.uk 10 Mar. 2023; Bibliotheca Cornubiensis [1882], 3: 1213; West Country Poets, 219-20; North Devon Journal 5 Nov. 1829, 18 Apr. 1844; Exeter and Plymouth Gazette23 Oct. 1847, 31 July 1868, 10 July 1891; Blackwood’s Apr. 1828, 500-1) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Maria Gurney