Miss Rosa Walsh
(1840-1923)

Volume 1, page 121, sitting number 686.

Augusta Rosa Welsh was the daughter of Sir John Walsh, baronet, who was created Lord Ormathwaite, of Ormathwaite in Cumberland, by letters patent in April 1868. Rosa's mother was Lady Jane Grey, youngest daughter of the sixth Earl of Stamford and Warrington. Rosa's brother, Arthur, who succeeded as Lord Ormathwaite in 1881, was married to Lady Katherine Emily Somerset, a daughter of the seventh Duke of Beaufort.

Miss Rosa Walsh appears on the 1871 census as Miss Augusta R. Walsh, living with her parents at Warfield Park, near Bracknell in Berkshire. At the time of the census she gave her age as 28, which would have meant that she was born in or about 1843. In fact, she was born in the third quarter of 1840. The 1861 census, which gives her age correctly, also shows her at Warfield Park, and gives her place of birth as Berkeley Square, London. Warfield Park had a staff of 26 live-in servants, with more in outlying buildings on the estate. The house no longer stands.

On 24 July 1872 Miss Augusta Rosa Walsh married Charles Edward Barnett (1848-1937), a partner in the banking firm of Barnett, Hoares, Hanburys and Lloyd, which amalgamated with Lloyd's bank in 1884, Barnett remaining a director until his death. He was also, from 1881, a director of the Alliance Assurance Company, of which he was Chairman from 1920 to 1931.

The marriage produced either four or six sons [sources vary] and one daughter.

Mrs Charles Burnett died on 19 August 1923.