Catherine Dalston
(c. 1710-1781)
BIRTH
c. 1710
PLACE
DEATH
February 26, 1781
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FAMILY
HUSBAND
Francis Fauquier
(1703-1768)
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Catherine Dalston was the wife of Francis Fauquier, Virginia’s lieutenant governor from 1758 to 1768. Daughter of Sir Charles Dalston, she married around 1730 and joined him at Williamsburg’s Governor’s Palace in 1758. The couple had two sons. She returned to England in 1766 and survived her husband by thirteen years, dying at Totteridge in Hertfordshire in 1781. Her birth date and exact wedding date remain uncertain.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Catherine Dalston’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Catherine Dalston is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Catherine Dalston died on Feb 26, 1781. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Catherine Dalston died on Feb 26, 1781. Catherine Dalston was the wife of Francis Fauquier, Virginia’s lieutenant governor from 1758 to 1768. Daughter of Sir Charles Dalston, she married around 1730 and joined him at Williamsburg’s Governor’s Palace in 1758. The couple had two sons. She returned to England in 1766 and survived her husband by thirteen years, dying at Totteridge in Hertfordshire in 1781. Her birth date and exact wedding date remain uncertain. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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