Mary Dawkes Burrowes

(b. 1754, United Kingdom – d. April 19, 1778, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India )

Gender: F

Younger daughter of Mary Greenland, widow of Richard Dawkes, who married Charles Robinson, Montagu’s youngest brother. She and her sister Honora went to India, where Mary married Captain Thomas Burrowes and had one son, named Arnold, who died at the age of two. She died on 19th April 1778 and was buried in Madras.

Also known as:

Mary Burrowes (née Dawkes)

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