In March 1822, having lost three children then, Raffles and Sophia hastily sent their only surviving child, Ella Sophia (b. 25 May 1821, Bencoolen–d. 5 May 1840, St Leonards-on-Sea, England) back to England from Bencoolen, in the care of their nurse Mary Grimes and a Eurasian servant named J. Rousseau.24 However, Ella too died tragically of illness just shy of her 19th birthday and before a planned summer wedding in 1840. She was to wed John Sumner, the eldest son of the Right Reverend Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester.25
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_931_2004-12-23.html
In March 1822, having lost three children then, Raffles and Sophia hastily sent their only surviving child, Ella Sophia (b. 25 May 1821, Bencoolen–d. 5 May 1840, St Leonards-on-Sea, England) back to England from Bencoolen, in the care of their nurse Mary Grimes and a Eurasian servant named J. Rousseau.24 However, Ella too died tragically of illness just shy of her 19th birthday and before a planned summer wedding in 1840. She was to wed John Sumner, the eldest son of the Right Reverend Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester.25
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_931_2004-12-23.html
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