Anna Maria Lacy

— 1813
A brief biography

Ancestors


Anna Maria Lacy — 1813
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William Richardson of Gainford 1738-1799
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William Richardson 1738 — 1799   Jane Richardson 1768 — 1837±   Frances Richardson 1773 — 1859   William Richardson 1775 — 1843   Charlotte Richardson 1780 — 1840   Elizabeth Richardson 1780 —   Ann Richardson 1782 — 1785   Harriet Susan Richardson 1784 — 1869   Christopher Rowland Richardson 1785 — 1864  

Anna Maria Lacy


Died in the fifty-third year of the reign of King George III  She has 1 direct descendant in the family.

LATER LIFE


Anna Maria and some of her children moved to England in 1792 about their own vessel, the Nettuno and after a stay in London moved to the mansion in Gainford, Co. Durham that William had built.

Tragically William died in 1799, Anna Maria moved back to Calcutta and lived there until her death in 1813.

Calcutta

According to Michael Hogan in his book about her son-in-law, Anna Maria Lacy was hired by William Richardson as a housekeeper shortly after his arrival in Bombay.

Anna Maria was supposedly from a Portuguese family that had resided in Bombay and Goa for many years, and reputed to be descended from Persian refugees who had settled there in the seventh and eighth centuries to escape Islamic persecution.

Anna soon became William’s mistress. She never took his name and he himself refers to her in his will as a “confidante, good servant and affectionate mother”. Nevertheless, their children all had the Richardson surname.


Later Life


Anna Maria and some of her children moved to England in 1792 about their own vessel, the Nettuno and after a stay in London moved to the mansion in Gainford, Co. Durham that William had built.

Tragically William died in 1799, Anna Maria moved back to Calcutta and lived there until her death in 1813.

Her Will and Inventory have provided an unusually full insight into her final year. She requested to be buried in the churchyard of the new Catedral do Santo Rosário (Portuguese Catholic Church) in Calcutta, this would suggest that she was - at least in later life - of the Catholic faith.

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