Georgina Frances Whitfield was born on
St Vincent in the
British West Indies on 15 April 1815. She was a daughter of Georgiana Paulina ( Ross) Whitfield (a daughter of Andrew Ross) and George Whitfield, who owned slave plantations in the
West Indies. Her maternal uncle, Henry James Ross, subsequently bought her father's plantations. Not long after she was born, Georgina moved to England with her mother before settling in France in . ==Career==