Virginia Isabella Burwell

(1851-1867)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Virginia Isabella Burwell was born on September 9, 1851, in Burwell School. She died on October 1, 1867.

Relatives

• Parents: Robert Armistead Burwell (1802-1895) [1] and Margaret Anna Robertson (1810-1871) [1].
• Paternal grandparents: Armistead Burwell and Mary Cole Turnbull.
• Maternal grandparents: William Bruce Robertson and Margaret Ann Spotswood (1792-1869).
• Siblings:
  • eight brothers, Armistead Burwell (1839-1913), Dandridge Spotswood Burwell (1847-1929), Edmund Strudwick Burwell (1849-1887), James Webb Burwell (1845-1864), John Bott Burwell (1834-1904), Richard Spotswood Burwell (1853-1944), Robert Turnbull Burwell (1841-1864) and William Roberson Burwell (1843-1924).
  • three sisters, Anna Robertson Burwell (1836-1895) , Frances Armistead Burwell (1838-1856)  and Mary Susan Burwell (1832-1859) .
• Aunt: Mary Dandridge Robertson.
• Cousins: Sally Bridges  and Virginia Bridges (1832-1859) .
• Others: Anna Robertson Crow (niece, b. 1872), Edmund Burwell Crow (nephew, b. 1874), Harriet Holcomb Crow (niece, 1877-1887), Robert Burwell Crow (nephew, 1868-1889), William Henry Crow (nephew, 1870-1880), Mary Nash Strudwick (niece, 1855-1855) and Robert Cincinnatus Strudwick (nephew, b. 1857).

References

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