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.