Robert Armistead Burwell

(1802-1895)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Robert Armistead Burwell was born in 1802. He died in 1895.

Relatives

• Parents: Armistead Burwell and Mary Cole Turnbull.
• Spouse: Margaret Anna Robertson (1810-1871), married on December 22, 1831 [1].
  Children:
  
  • eight sons, John Bott Burwell (1834-1904) [1], Armistead Burwell (1839-1913) [1], Robert Turnbull Burwell (1841-1864) [1], William Roberson Burwell (1843-1924) [1], James Webb Burwell (1845-1864) [1], Dandridge Spotswood Burwell (1847-1929) [1], Edmund Strudwick Burwell (1849-1887) [1] and Richard Spotswood Burwell (1853-1944) [1].
  • four daughters, Anna Robertson Burwell (1836-1895)  [1], Frances Armistead Burwell (1838-1856)  [1], Mary Susan Burwell (1832-1859)  [1] and Virginia Isabella Burwell (1851-1867) [1].
• Others: Anna Robertson Crow (granddaughter, b. 1872), Edmund Burwell Crow (grandson, b. 1874), Harriet Holcomb Crow (granddaughter, 1877-1887), Robert Burwell Crow (grandson, 1868-1889), William Henry Crow (grandson, 1870-1880), Mary Nash Strudwick (granddaughter, 1855-1855), Robert Cincinnatus Strudwick (grandson, b. 1857) and George Kirkland (nephew, 1841-1861).

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).