DDB
's father
made (he said) a second legal marriage, to Juliana Donovan, a month after the death of one estranged, possibly legal wife, though Dorothea's mother
(also a perhaps-legal wife) still lived.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
under Anglesey
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothea Du Bois
DDB
's mother, Anne (Simpson)
, seems to have been married in 1715, at the age of fifteen; she brought her young husband one of the two sizeable marriage portions that he netted during the...
Textual Production
Dorothea Du Bois
DDB
published, with her name, The Case of Ann, Countess of Anglesey
, lately Deceased.
Du Bois, Dorothea. The Case of Ann, Countess of Anglesey. 1766.