 She gave birth to seven children in the first ten years of the marriage, four of whom died young; her husband died in 1746, while she allegedly suffered from poor health.The family were interested in politics, religion and the arts, and commissioned portraits from fashionable artists of the day.On 21 April 1730, she became one of the twenty-one aristocratic women whose support Thomas Coram would enlist in his efforts to establish the Foundling Hospital.