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Betty F Balcombe
📅 1799 – 1876
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Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker (née Thornley; 1818 – 15 March 1901) was an Irish charity worker, social reformer and writer, best known for being the mother of author Bram Stoker.
== Early life ==
Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley was born in 1818 in Sligo, Ireland, to Captain Thomas Thornley, a former soldier and member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and Matilda Thornley (née Blake). Stoker's father was Anglo-Irish and her mother was Irish. Stoker was the eldest of three siblings. …