Person:Elizabeth Reading (4)
Elizabeth Reading
b.Abt 1668
d.19 Mar 1754 London, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1662
  1. Elizabeth ReadingAbt 1668 - 1754
Spouse and Children
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  1. Lady Mary Hamilton
  2. Rt. Hon. James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn PC FRS1685/86 - 1743/44
  3. Robert Hamilton1687 -
  4. John HamiltonAbt 1694 - 1714
  5. George HamiltonAbt 1697 - 1775
  6. Lady Jane HamiltonBef 1704 - 1753
  7. Charles Hamilton1704 - 1786
  8. Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
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Facts and Events
Name Elizabeth Reading
Married Name[2][3][4] Rt. Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Abercorn
Gender Female
Birth[2] Abt 1668 (aged 86 at death)
Marriage License 24 Jan 1683/84 London, Englandto Rt. Hon. James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn PC
Will[3] 5 Apr 1739 Elizabeth Countess of Abercorn made her last will and testament in the presence of Hon. Harper and F.S. Colepeper. She made bequeaths to her four daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, and Phillippa, and her son Charles, who was appointed as sole executor.
Alt Death[2] 16 Mar 1754
Death[1] 19 Mar 1754 London, Englandat Sackville St.
Probate[3] 20 Mar 1754 London, EnglandThe will was proved by the oath of her son the Hon. Sir Charles Hamilton.
Burial[2] 22 Mar 1754 Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, Englandin the Duke of Ormond's vault in Henry VII's Lady Chapel
Reference Number? Q50822583?
References
  1. ↑ Abercorn Earldom VI., in Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
    1: 6.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Burials in Westminster Abbey, in Chester, Joseph Lemuel, ed. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. (London: Harleian Society, 1876)
    p 386.

    “1754 March 22 The Right Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess Dowager of James, late Earl of Abercorn;4 died the 16th: in the Duke of Ormond's vault.”

    “4Only child of Sir Robert Reading, of Dublin, Bart., by Jane, Countess of Montrath. She married, about 24 Jan. 1683-4 (Mar. Lic. Fac.), then aged about fifteen, James Hamilton, Esq., afterwards sixth Earl of Abercorn. Her coffin-plate, exposed in 1868, gives her age as eighty-six.”

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “Will of The Right Honorable Elizabeth Countess of Abercorn, Dowager”, in Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions: Will registers. (Kew, England: The National Archives)
    PROB 11/807/296, [digital images, Ancestry.com].

    Will dated 5 April 1739. Elizabeth Countess of Abercorn, desiring “that my Body may be buried in Westminster Abbey in Henry the Sevenths Chapel as near my dear Lord and my Mother the Countess of Mounstrath as it can be and in as private a manner as decency will admit”, bequeathed to her daughters the Lady Jane Hamilton, the Lady Elizabeth Brownlow, the Lady Mary Colley, and the Lady Phillippa Conell, and to her son Charles Hamilton (sole exor.). Wits. Hon. Harper and F.S. Colepeper.

    Probate 20 March 1754. Proved by oath of the executor (“the Honourable Sir Charles Hamilton Esquire the son of the deceased”).

  4. ↑ Titled from her husband's succession to the Earldom in 1701.
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