Sombre was great-grandson of a mercenary soldier Walter Reinhardt alias Sombre, whose second wife was the famous Begum Samru who made her grandson-in-law George Sombre, and then his son Dyce Sombre her heirs.
She married in her early teens, a mercenary soldier Walter Reinhardt Sombre of Luxembourg, who was operating in India.
This service, he also quit and became attached to the service of Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal.
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She died at Sardhana in January 1837 at the age of 85, bequeathing the greater part of her property to David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, who descended from Walter Reinhardt Sombre, from his first wife.