Maria Hack (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maria was born to John Barton (1755-1789) and his wife Maria Done (1752-1784) in Carlisle on 16 February 1777. Both her parents were Quakers. The family moved to London before Maria's mother died. Her father married again to Elizabeth Horne (1760-1833) of Tottenham, with whose family Mary lived after her father's death. Maria married the Chichester currier Stephen Hack (1775-1823) on 17 November 1800 in Tottenham. The Hacks had four sons and six daughters. At some point the family moved from Chichester to Gloucester. Her eldest son, John Barton Hack (1805-1884), emigrated to South Australia, as did her youngest, Stephen (1816-1894). Both later left the Quakers. Her daughter Margaret Emily (1814-1886) also wrote educational books, and married Thomas Gates Darton (1810-1887) of Darton and Harvey, the publisher of some of her mother's books.