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Facts and Events
Elizabeth has yet to be traced after August 1694 when she answered a bill of complaint from her daughter and son-in-law Elizabeth and Gilbert Pickering. Elizabeth's second husband Montague Pickering had been buried earlier that year at Woburn, but Elizabeth does not appear to buried at Woburn, nor at her native Odell in Bedfordshire. Her son Staveley Staunton had moved to Church Langton in Leicestershire, where he had died in 1691, but Elizabeth does not appear to have been buried there either. The most likely place she may have died still to be searched is Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire, where her daughter Elizabeth is known to have lived from about 1703 onwards.
References
- ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).
ch. 28 May 1651, Odell, Bedfordshire: Elizabeth daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Alston
Needs to be confirmed at Bedfordshire Archives.
- Stanton v. Pickering alias Stanton, 1694 (National Archives, London)
C 6/465/15 , 27 Aug 1694.
Quod Jurat vicesimo septimo die Augusti 1694 coram Lacon Wm Childs [Sworn 27th August 1694 before Lacon William Childs]
The severall Answears of Elizabeth Stanton al[ia]s Pickering widow one of the defendants to the Bill of Complaint of Gilbert Pickering Esq[ui]r[e] and Elizabeth his wife Complainants this Defendant saveing and reserveing to herselfe all benefitt of advantages of exceptions to the uncertainties and insuffitioncies in the Complainants their said Bill of Complaint conteyned For Answeare thereunto saith that shee this defendant hath for severall years past bin well acquainted with the Complainant Gilbert and confesseth that the Complainant Gilbert did make applicat[i]ons for his Intermarrying with this Defendants daughter the Complainant Elizabeth And this Defendant doth alsoe confesse shee did declare that shee this Defendant was well satisfyed therewith as in this Bill is alleadged And this Defendant believes that the said Complainant Gilbert did afterwards about the time in the Bill ment[i]oned Intermarry with the Complainant Elizabeth and that the Complainants have ever since and yett doe cohabitt together And this Defendant Confesseth that the Complainant Elizabeth is marryed to the satisfact[i]on of this Defendant But this Defendant doth deny that shee hath any moneys in her custody or power that did or doe belong to the Complainant Elizabeth to the knowledg of her this Defendant nor is this Defendant to her knowledge indebted to the Complainants or either of them in any Sum[m]e of money whatsoever And this Defendant denys all combination with the other Defendant William Massey in this Bill named without that that any other matter or thing in the Complainants Bill conteyned materiall or effectuall for this Defendant to make Answeare unto and not herein and hereby well and sufficiently Answeared unto confessed or avoyded traversed or denyed is true to the knowledg of this Defendant All which matters and things this Defendant is and shall be ready to averr and prove as this Honorable Court shall award And humbly prays to be hence dismissed with her reasonable costs and charges in this behalfe wrongfully susteyned
Sim: Harcourt
- Church of England. Parish Church of Titchmarsh (Northamptonshire). Parish registers, 1543-1967. (Northampton, England: Northamptonshire County Record Office, 1994?).
Burials 1741
Dame Elizabeth Pickering Died July and was Buried July 18
This burial is generally held to be Elizabeth's daughter, Elizabeth Staunton, who had also married a Pickering. However, it is just possible that it could be Elizabeth senior.
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