Robert FitzRoy - Personal Life

Personal Life

Robert FitzRoy was married twice. In 1836 he married Mary Henrietta O'Brien, they had four children: Emily-Unah, Fanny, Katherine and Robert O'Brien. In 1854, after the death of his first wife, he married Maria Isabella Smyth in London. They had one daughter, Laura Elizabeth.

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