Maria Howard
(1753-1836)
BIRTH
1753
PLACE
DEATH
March 14, 1836
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Richard Carleton
(1792-1860)
HUSBAND
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
(1724-1808)
CHILDREN
Lancelot Carleton
(1779?–1780?)
CHILDREN
Frances Carleton
(1785–1812)
CHILDREN
William Carleton
(infant; c. 1778–1780 reported)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lady Maria Howard Carleton was a daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham, and the wife of British commander Guy Carleton, later Baron Dorchester. They married in London in May 1772 and had eleven children. She accompanied him to Quebec, where his governorship placed their household amid the American invasion and later the resettlement of Loyalists. Widowed in 1808, she lived until March 1836. Sources differ by one day on the date of their wedding.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Lady Maria Howard’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 Lady Maria Howard 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. Lady Maria Howard died on Mar 14, 1836. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Maria Howard died on Mar 14, 1836. Lady Maria Howard Carleton was a daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham, and the wife of British commander Guy Carleton, later Baron Dorchester. They married in London in May 1772 and had eleven children. She accompanied him to Quebec, where his governorship placed their household amid the American invasion and later the resettlement of Loyalists. Widowed in 1808, she lived until March 1836. Sources differ by one day on the date of their wedding. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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