Born in Petrockstow, Devon, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Rolle MP
and Margaret (Tuckfield) Rolle
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Robert Walpole
— married
26 Mar 1724 [location unknown]
Wife of
Sewallis Shirley MP
— married
25 May 1751 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
Descendants 
Mother of
George Walpole
Died
at age 71
in Pisa, Toscana, Italy
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Margaret Rolle was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.
Biography
She was the daughter of Samuel Rolle and Margaret Tuckfield.[1]She was born on the 17th of January 1709.[1]She was baptised on the 27th of January 1709 at Petrockstow, Devon, England.[2]She was married twice, firstly to Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford, son of Catherine Shorter and Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford on the 26th of March 1724.[1] She married, secondly, the Hon. Sewallis Shirley, son of Selina Finch and Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers.[1]She died on the 13th of January 1781 at the age of 71 at Pisa, Toscana, Italy.[3]She was buried at Leghorn, Italy,[3]as its referred to by the British during her burial. Or in Italian Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.[4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. volume 3, page 4059.
- ↑ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 318.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 319.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livorno
- Edmund Lodge. The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility. Publisher Saunders and Otley, 1838. Pg. 375[1]
- John Burke. general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. Publisher H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831. Pg. 555[2]
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