Mary Disney
1732–1818 (age 86)
Biography
Mary Disney lived during the eighteenth century, a period of intellectual ferment and social change in England. Born in 1732, she came of age during the height of the Enlightenment, when new ideas about science, philosophy, and society were circulating among educated people. Her life reflected the experiences of women of her social class during this dynamic era.
Disney's eighty-six years connected her to multiple generations and historical periods. Her burial at the Church of St Mary and St Andrew, Stoke Rochford, reflects her family's standing in the community. She died in 1818, having lived through the American and French Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars, witnessing the transformation of the political and social order that had defined her youth.