Hon. Frances Ruth Burke Roche

1936 - 2004  (68 years)

• Name	Frances Ruth Burke Roche  [1]
  Prefix	Hon.
  Born	20 Jan. 1936	Sandringham, Norfolk, England
  Gender	Female
  Hereditary Title	Viscountess
  Residence	2003	Callanish, Isle of Seil, Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland   [2]
  Died	3 June 2004
  Person ID	I8	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	30 Oct. 2018

  
  

  Father	Edmund Maurice Burke (Roche), 4th Baron Fermoy,   b. 15 May 1885,   d. 8 July 1955  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Baroness Ruth Sylvia Gill,   b. 2 Oct. 1908,   d. 6 July 1993  (Age 84 years)
  Married	17 Sept. 1931  [2]
  Family ID	F8	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Edward John (Spencer), 8th Earl Spencer,   b. 24 Jan. 1924,   d. 29 March 1992, London, England  (Age 68 years)
  Married	1 June 1954	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Divorced	1969  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Lady (Elizabeth) Sarah Lavinia Spencer,   b. 19 March 1955 + 2. Lady (Cynthia) Jane Spencer,   b. 11 Feb. 1957   3. Viscount Living Spencer   4. Hon. John Spencer,   b. 12 Jan. 1960,   d. 12 Jan. 1960  (Age 0 years) + 5. Lady Diana Frances Spencer,   b. 1 July 1961, Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England ,   d. 31 Aug. 1997, Paris, France  (Age 36 years)
  Last Modified	14 Aug. 2015
  Family ID	F44	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Peter Shand Kydd,   b. 1925,   d. 23 March 2006  (Age 81 years)
  Married	2 May 1969  [3]
  Divorced	1990  [3]
  Last Modified	14 Aug. 2015
  Family ID	F45	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  She converted to Roman Catholicism about ten years before her death. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S12] Queen Victoria's Descendants, Eilers, Marlene A., (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1987), page 172. [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1414. [S3] BP 1999, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 1999), volume 2, page 2674. [S23] The Times, (London, England), 4 June 2004.