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Frances Armistead Burwell

Frances Armistead (Fanny) Burwell (1838–1856) of Hillsborough studied to teach music at her parents' school. She died on board a steamer while returning home from music lessons in Brooklyn, New York.

Source: University of Illinois Press: Candace Bailey, Unbinding Gentility, online Biographical Information supplement

17 works about Frances Armistead Burwell are indexed here.

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  1. Frances Armistead Burwell is born to Robert and Anna Burwell of Hillsborough Frances Armistead Burwell, called Fanny, was the fourth of the twelve children of Robert and Margaret Anna Burwell. People: Robert Armistead Burwell, Margaret Anna Burwell Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County NCGenWeb: Burwell School
  2. Fanny Burwell dies aboard the steamer Jamestown as her parents bring her home to Hillsborough Fanny Burwell had gone to New York to complete her music education, but fell ill with erysipelas in early March. Her mother went north to nurse her, and she died at dawn on the steamer Jamestown between New York and Norfolk with both parents beside her, in her eighteenth year; her body was brought home to Hillsborough for burial. People: Robert Armistead Burwell, Margaret Anna Burwell Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 7, 1856, p. 3 (obituary)

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Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [February 16, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Written 16 February 1856, a letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell in Hillsborough to her daughter Frances Armistead Burwell, known as Fanny, about family and daily affairs.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [February 20, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Letter dated 20 February 1856 from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to her daughter Frances Armistead Burwell, called Fanny, 1838 to 1856. Mrs. Burwell and her husband ran the Burwell School for girls in Hillsborough.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [February 4, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

In a letter of 4 February 1856, Anna Burwell writes to her daughter Fanny. It belongs with her other Hillsborough letters to Fanny from 1855 and 1856.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [February 8, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Family letter of 8 February 1856 from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Frances Armistead Burwell, her daughter, known as Fanny, touching on daily life in the Burwell household in Hillsborough.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [January 12, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Hillsborough mother to daughter: Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell's letter of 12 January 1856 to Frances Armistead Burwell, called Fanny, concerning daily life at home.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [January 19, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Letter of 19 January 1856 from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell, 1810 to 1871, to her daughter Fanny (Frances Armistead Burwell), written in Hillsborough in the last year of Fanny's life.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

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Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [January 25, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Family letter of 25 January 1856 in which Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell writes from Hillsborough to her daughter Fanny Burwell, part of a series of letters to Fanny from 1855 and 1856.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [January 5, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

On 5 January 1856 Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell wrote this letter to her daughter Fanny, Frances Armistead Burwell, one of several from the Burwell family of Hillsborough in the winter of 1855 to 1856.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [March 10, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell of Hillsborough writes to her daughter Frances, called Fanny, on 10 March 1856, one of a run of family letters from that winter touching on daily life.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [March 15, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Dated 15 March 1856, a letter from Anna Burwell of Hillsborough to her daughter Fanny, who died later that year.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [March 4, 1856]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1856

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to her daughter Fanny (Frances Armistead Burwell), dated 4 March 1856 at Hillsborough, with news of home and daily life.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Fanny Burwell [December 10, 1855]

Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 · 1855

Letter from Anna Burwell, principal of the Burwell girls' school in Hillsborough, to her daughter Fanny Burwell, dated 10 December 1855.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.

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