Frances de BRISSAC)

Born 22 Sep 1760 in Spitalfields, London, England;
Daughter of a silk weaver with publishing and printing connections.  Of French Huguenot descent.

Death 26 Aug 1854 in London, England
Burial 1 Sep 1854 in Plumstead St Nicholas, Kent

She had ten children.

“Frances Cossé de Brissac married Captain Thomas DICKINSON, son of Captain John Dickinson and Alice Quin. She died in 1854. Her married name became Dickinson” (Peerage notes)

Lived at Bramblebury, Plumstead, Kent from 1803 until shortly before her death.

Bramblebury from the time of the Dickinsons. In rural Kent and in its own parkland.

 

Photo 

Bramblebury in 2012 - now made into flats in outer London, (Plumstead) surrounded by streets and very little land.

 

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