Maria Sophia Burgoyne
(1784-1860)
BIRTH
1784
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DEATH
1860
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Maria Sophia Burgoyne Hornby was General John Burgoyne and Susan Caulfield’s daughter. She married naval officer Phipps Hornby at Woodmansterne, Surrey, in December 1814. Their children included Admiral Geoffrey Hornby and educator John James Hornby. A named pastel preserves her likeness; peerage records give her death at Compton in December 1860. Her birth year is unsettled: the master gives 1784, while portrait and peerage sources suggest about 1790.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Maria Sophia Burgoyne’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 Maria Sophia Burgoyne 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Maria Sophia Burgoyne died in 1860. Maria Sophia Burgoyne Hornby was General John Burgoyne and Susan Caulfield’s daughter. She married naval officer Phipps Hornby at Woodmansterne, Surrey, in December 1814. Their children included Admiral Geoffrey Hornby and educator John James Hornby. A named pastel preserves her likeness; peerage records give her death at Compton in December 1860. Her birth year is unsettled: the master gives 1784, while portrait and peerage sources suggest about 1790. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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