Frances Maria Wilbraham was born on 30 June 1815 at Rode Hall, Cheshire, the fifth daughter of Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall, son of Richard Wilbraham-Bootle, and Sibylla Egerton.

Her work caused her to be dubbed the "Florence Nightingale of Chester" by Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.

[2] She also wrote numerous stories for The Monthly Packet, edited by her friend Charlotte Yonge.

[3] Her recollections of the cholera epidemic were published as Streets and Lanes of a City (1871), initially under the name Amy Dutton.

[1] Frances Maria Wilbraham died on 26 June 1905 in Chester.