Daughter of William Pennell, consul-general in Brazil, she was adopted by John Wilson Croker, who had married her older sister. In 1832 she married Sir George Barrow (1806-1876).

REFERENCES TO Rosamund Hester Elizabeth Barrow [née Pennell] [Nony Croker]:

John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 November 1820 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)