Hello again everyone. Thanks for all the help I received with this, including some offline help from a person who checked the DNB’s citation. The 1643 date in
the DNB comes from a contemporary diary entry noting the Countess’s death. So it seems pretty conclusive that the 1643 date is correct and everyone else (National Portrait Gallery, British Museum, Bibliotheque National de France, thepeerage.com, Sotheby’s,
etc. ad infinitum) is just repeating the same error.
But I would appreciate any thoughts anyone might have on how to properly convey this information in the authority record I need to create.
Thanks again everyone!
Jessica
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Anna Sopia Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon
Her son Charles had a daughter also named Anna-Sophia who "died of the small-pox, unmarried, on Feb. 2 1694-5, in the 22nd year of her age" (The Peerage of England, 1768, via Google Books), so the two Anna-Sophias have probably been confused
and the earlier date is probably correct for yours.
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:39 PM Jessica Janecki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I am having some trouble establishing the Countess of Carnarvon. I am hoping that someone can point me in the direction of authoritative resources for her death date. The dictionary of national biography entry for her husband Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon, gives her death date as June 3 1643 from small pox, but The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant gives her death date as Feb. 27 1694/95. Wikipedia gives 1643. The British Museum gives 1695. These are such wildly different dates that I am stumped.
Jessica Janecki