Career
By the time she left the Cape in 1803, Anna Maria had assembled the first known portfolio of Cape flower studies and landscapes. Anna Maria Truter and John Barrow produced 7 children:
George who died aged 2 months
George Barrow (Sir) (*22101806, London, †1876), with his father one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society, distinguished author and traveller. married Rosamond Hester Elizabeth Pennell Croker (5 January 1810 - 10 January 1906), a celebrated beauty, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and a favourite of George IV and his court. She bore George Barrow eight children.
John Barrow *28.5.1808 Lieutenant
Colonel Volunteer Officers' Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, †26.2.1898, Chipping, Norton, Oxfordshire. Archivist to the Admiralty.
William Barrow, Commander *25.2.1810, †26.2.1838
Peter Barrow *30.7.1813 Consul of Nantes and later Kertch. Johanna Maria x 1821 Robert Batty of the Grenadier Guards, later a Lieutenant
Colonel Served in the Pyrenees and later at Waterloo where he was wounded.
An artist, exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1813 - 1848, †20.4.1848, Ampthill Square, London 57yr.