Person Sheet


Name Frances De Carteret, 1902
Birth Apr 1718, Lnd
Father Earl Granville John De Carteret Sieg 7e Sark, 1886 (1690-1763)
Mother Frances Worsley, 1887 (1694-1743)
Spouses
1 Marquis Of Tweedale John Hay, 1903
Birth 1695
Death 1762
Occupation Secretay Of State
Marriage 5 Apr 1748
Notes for Frances De Carteret
Like her sisters Frances was very musical,and like her father was a linguist.Horace Walpole who had met her some three months after her marriage said "she was infiniety good humoured and good company,and sang a thousand french songs mighty prettily"
She had sung to Fredrick the Great in Greek ,French,Scotch."she is very merry and easy"
Frances had loved her husband to a dgree ,that she ordered that,she should be buried as near him as possible,wearing her wedding ring and with her husbands letters to her in her coffin.
Last Modified 21 Aug 1998 Created 26 Jul 2007 by Reunion for Macintosh

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