Maria Justina Rigby (1808–1830)
Maria Justina de Rosen () (1830–1889)
1808–89
Dame at Eton College. Daughter of Anne Palgrave and Edward Rigby. Cousin of Maria Turner, Joseph Dalton Hooker’s mother. Baroness de Rosen. Married in 1830 in Earl Framingham, Norfolk, Hans Robert Otto Frederick de Rosen, baron de Rosen of Estonia (1806–87; elder brother of Theophile or Gottlieb Reinhold William de Rosen, Gertrude Rigby’s husband). Separated by 1848. Lived in Eton, Berkshire, 1851, 1861, 1871; Sidmouth, Devon, 1881; died in Biarritz, France.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1718/597/21), 1861 (RG9/852/87/5), 1871 (RG10/1400/92/14), 1881 (RG11/2136/32/18)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 August 2022)
Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften Estland 1 pt 2: 224–5
L. Huxley 1918, 1: 17–18
Norfolk, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1936 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 August 2022)
Palmer and Tucker eds. 1878, p. 96
Sheldon ed. 2009, pp. 118–20
Bibliography
Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften Estland. Edited by O. M. von Stackelberg for the Federation of Livland, Estland and Kurland nobility. Görlitz: C. A. Starke. 1929–31.
Huxley, Leonard, ed. 1918. Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, OM, GCSI. Based on materials collected and arranged by Lady Hooker. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Palmer, Charles John and Tucker, Stephen, eds. 1878. Palgrave family memorials. Norwich: printed by Miller and Leavins.
Sheldon, Julie, ed. 2009. The letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
