Laura Wentworth

1842 - 1887  (44 years)

• Name	Laura Wentworth
  Birth	12 Nov 1842	Vaucluse House, Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Nov 1887	Bournemouth
  Person ID	I596	Gibbs Family Tree
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	William Charles (Crowley) Wentworth,   b. 13 Aug 1790, Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia d. 20 Mar 1872, Merley House, Wimbourne, Dorset (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Sarah Morton Cox,   b. 21 Apr 1805, Albion St, Surrey Hills ,Sydney, New South Wales, Australia d. 14 Jul 1880, Eastbourne, Sussex (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	26 Oct 1829	St Philips Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  Family ID	F59	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry William Keays-Young,   b. 1837, Bombay, Maharashtra, India d. 28 Jan 1902, Hollingbourn, Kent (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	17 Dec 1872	St Paul's, Knightsbridge, London
  Children	1. Lucilla Constantia Keays-Young,   b. Apr 1875, Elham, Kent d. Apr 1875, Elham, Kent (Age 0 years)   2. Laura Katherine Keays-Young,   b. 1877, Bayswater, Middlesex d. 16 Feb 1879, Clonskea, Near Dublin, Ireland (Age 2 years)
  Family ID	F1855	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Nov 1842 - Vaucluse House, Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia Marriage - 17 Dec 1872 - St Paul's, Knightsbridge, London Death - 11 Nov 1887 - Bournemouth  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  The Three Graces [Edith, Eliza and Laura, daughters of Sarah and William Charles Wentworth], by Gruder, Hans Julius, 1824-1890. Eliza, Laura and Edith Wentworth were three of the seven daughters of Sarah Morton Wentworth, nee Cox (1805-1880) colonial born, illegitimate and the daughter of convict parents Although her husband William Charles Wentworth (1790?-1872) was one of the most prominent men in colonial New South Wales his financial and political success was unable to protect his wife and daughters from social ostracism. This exclusion contributed significantly to their decision to take their younger children to England for their education. Sarah and the children sailed from Sydney in February 1853. Although Sarah and her youngest children, including Eliza, Laura and Edith returned to New South Wales in 1861 they left again for England in 1868. This portrait of the three daughters, depicted as young women with all the trappings of wealth and respectability, and represented in an allegorical fashion as the Three Graces, can be seen as a direct challenge to the prejudices of the colonial society which had made them social outcasts.