Michael Anne family background
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Anne (later Tasburgh), Michael (1777-1853) of Burghwallis Hall. Second son of George Anne (1717-85) and his second wife Mary, daughter of Robert Needham of Hilston (Monmouths), born 4 October 1777.  He assumed the surname of Tasburgh by royal licence on his marriage in 1810 as a condition of succeeding to the Bodney (Norfolk) estate of his wife's mother's first husband. He travelled in France in 1815, and lived there while Burghwallis Hall was being altered, 1821-30. He married, 23 April 1810 (separated 1835), Maria Augusta Rosalia (1792-1844), daughter and heir of George Crathorne (later Tasburgh, then Crathorne) and had issue:

(1) Mary Barbara Tasburgh (1810-61), born 18 December 1810; educated at the Fossés convent, Paris; married, 28 February 1837 at Hainton (Lincs), Charles Gregory Fairfax (1797-1871) of Gilling Castle (Yorks), but died without issue, 20 October 1861; administration of goods granted 25 January 1873 (estate under £9,000);
(2) Frances Tasburgh (1811-42), born November 1811; educated at the Fossés convent, Paris; married, 17 January 1833 at Burghwallis, George Fieschi Heneage MP (1800-64) of Hainton Hall (Lincs) and had issue; died 13 November 1842;
(3) George Anne (1813-82), born 27 July 1813; educated at Dresden University, 1831-33; JP for Yorkshire (WR); always used the surname Anne in preference to Tasburgh; died unmarried in Italy, 25 August 1882; 
(4) Barbara Tasburgh (1815-98), born at Hampstead, 31 May 1815; educated at the Fossés and Sacré Coeur convents, Paris; married, 20 June 1839 at St Mary Bryanston Square, London, William Henry Charlton (1811-80) of Hesleyside (Northumberland) and had issue four sons and two daughters, of whom Ernest Lambert Swinburne Charlton succeeded to the Burghwallis estate in 1882; her memoir of her life was published in 1950 as Recollections of a Northumbrian Lady, 1815-66; died 30 January 1898;
(5) Michael Tasburgh (1818-19), born 20 June 1818; died in infancy, 15 January 1819;
(6) Michael Tasburgh (1823-27), born at Versailles (France), 15 December 1823; died young in Paris, 4 April 1827;

He inherited the Burghwallis estate from his elder brother in 1802 and an estate at Nateby (Lancs) through his Preston connections. He also inherited the Bodney (Norfolk) estate (where the hall was occupied by a community of French nuns until 1821 and demolished in 1833) through his wife in 1810; in 1833 she also inherited the Crathorne estate. He sold Nateby in 1806. At his death, Burghwallis and Bodney passed to his surviving son, who sold the Norfolk estate in 1855, while Burghwallis Hall passed in 1882 to his grandson, Ernest Lambert Swinburne Charlton. Crathorne, which remained in his wife's control,
was shared between their three daughters.

He died at Calais, 10 July 1853. His wife died  'after a few hours' illness', 8 May 1844 in Crathorne.