Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820, into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth.
Her Parents were the resource persons William Edward Nightingale, born William Edward Shore (1794-1874) and Frances ("Fanny") Nightingale née Smith (1789-1880). William's mother Mary née Evans was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, under the terms of whose will of William inherited her estate Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, and assumed the name and arms of Nightingale. Fanny's father (Florence's maternal grandfather) was the abolitionist and Unitarian William Smith.
Florence's older sister Frances Parthenope Had similarly been named after her place of birth, Parthenopolis, a Greek settlement now part of the city of Naples.
During her childhood, she lived at Lea Hurst, a large and luxurious house of her father, William Nightingale, who is a wealthy landowner in Derbyshire, London, England.
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