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Charlotte Myddelton (1769–1801)
Charlotte Myddelton Biddulph (1801–1843)

1769/70–1843

Mother of Robert Myddelton Biddulph. Born Charlotte Myddelton, daughter and co-heir of Richard Myddelton MP of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire. Inherited Chirk Castle on the death of her brother, Richard Myddelton MP, in 1796. Married Robert Biddulph MP (1761-1814) of Cofton Hall, Worcestershire, and took Myddelton as an additional surname in 1801.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1879

Denbighshire, Wales, Anglican baptisms, marriages and burials, 1556–1994 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 May 2022)

Bibliography

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

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