It was a blow to Charles Burney's children when on 2 October 1767 he eloped and made a second marriage, which for a while was kept secret. Their stepmother, Elizabeth Allen
, was a widow...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Harriet Burney
SHB
's mother, formerly Elizabeth Allen
, a widow with three children when she married Charles Burney
, was disliked and resented not only by her step-children but apparently by her own children as well...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Meeke
Her mother was also born Elizabeth, or Eliza, Allen
, and kept this name when she married, since her first husband was a cousin. After his death, in October 1767 when her daughter Elizabeth was...
