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, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Their son John, born c. 1695 at Brampton, Huntingdonshire. became 4th

She became the second wife of

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, succeeded to Trevor's barony after his elder brothers (issue of Trevor's first wife, Elizabeth Searle) died. Her third son, Richard Trevor (1707–1771), was

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. She was a

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to Thomas Coram's petition to King George II to establish the

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. She signed on 2 December 1734. She died on 5 December 1746, and was buried on 13 December 1746 at

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