 Marianna Agata Wołowska was born in Warsaw, Poland on December 14, 1789 into a prosperous Polish family with Frankist Jewish roots, one of her ancestors being Salomon Ben Elijah (or Jacob ben Judah Leib/Jacob Leibowicz), the personal assistant of Jacob Frank.Her father Franciszek Wołowski was a landlord and a brewer.Her mother Barbara Wołowska (née Lanckorońska) came from a noble Polish Lanckoroński family.