Mary Anne Cust (née Boode) was born on 23 September 1799 in Over Peover, Cheshire, England.England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, ancestry.co.uk She was the only child of Lewis William Boode of Amsterdam and Peover Hall and Margaret Dannett. Cust's father was a member of a leading family of British Guiana slave-owners and their plantations in the West Indies is where the Boode family made their fortunes. Her grandfather, Johan Berend Christoffer Frederick Boode, owned five plantations in Demerara and Essequibo growing coffee and sugarcane. One of these plantations was Greenwich Park, Demerara. Her mother was the daughter of Reverend Thomas Dannett who was a principal landowner in Wavertree, Liverpool
