Later Years
By 1858, Madame Rens was residing again in Sydney. From 1863 until her death in December 1873, she lived in Charles Street, Newtown. Both her son and daughter had predeceased her and in a letter written to her former son-in-law only months before her death, she claims to have been allied to a noble French family and that Le Comte de Grammont was her cousin.
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