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Penelope (Rycroft) Lee Acton

British, 1764 - 1819
BiographyPenelope Rycroft was born on March 4, 1764, the eldest daughter among eleven children born to Penelope Stonehewer (1737-1821) and the Rev. Sir Richard Nelson (1736-1786), Bart., D.D., of Calton, Yorkshire, who by royal license had taken the name Rycroft on December 28, 1758. Her father died in 1786, when she was twenty-two years old and in 1791 she became the second wife of Nathaniel Lee Acton (1757-1836) of Livermere Park, near Ipswich, Suffolk, who had been widowed two years earlier. They had no children and she died in 1819.
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