Jemima Tullekin Jones Cornwallis
BIRTH
1747
England
DEATH
February 14, 1779
Culford, Suffolk, England
FAMILY
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Cornwallis, Jemima Tullekin Jones
(1747-1779)
Jemima Tulleken Jones Cornwallis was the wife of British general Charles Cornwallis. Her death in 1779 deeply affected Cornwallis while he was serving in America, shortly before he assumed a leading role in Britain’s southern campaign.
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HUSBAND
Charles Cornwallis
(1738-1805)
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DIED:
Culford, Suffolk, England
Feb 14, 1779
The exact date and place of Jemima Tullekin Jones Cornwallis’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 Jemima Tullekin Jones Cornwallis 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. Jemima Tullekin Jones Cornwallis died on Feb 14, 1779 in Culford, Suffolk, England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.