Her family was English, with gentry status and (for its male members) professional occupations; they were presumably white. Curteis family papers, mostly estate papers, are held by the East Sussex Record Office
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Burke, John. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke’s Peerage.
under Curteis
“NRA catalogues records held at East Sussex Record Office”. The National Archives: National Register of Archives.
Publishing
Elizabeth Richardson
A copy of this work, which she presented ten years later to her eldest daughter, Elizabeth (who had lost the copy she was first given), is now at East Sussex Record Office
. This manuscript...