The wife of Walter MacOwen, mother of the actor Robert Owenson, and grandmother of Lady Morgan; she was descended from the Croftons of Mote and was a distant cousin of Oliver Goldsmith.

REFERENCES TO Sydney MacOwen [née Bell]:

Lady Morgan to Sir Malby Crofton, 5 March 1856 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)