Person:Elizabeth Wouller (1)
Elizabeth Wouller
b.Est 1594 All Hallows Barking, City of London, Middlesex, England
d.15 Sep 1662 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. Deputy Governor Francis Willoughby1615 - 1671
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Name[1] Elizabeth Wouller
Gender Female
Birth[1][3] Est 1594 All Hallows Barking, City of London, Middlesex, EnglandEstimate based on date of marriage.
Marriage 3 Nov 1614 Stepney, Middlesex, EnglandSt Dunstan & All Saints
to Colonel William Willoughby
Will[1][2] May 1662 London, England
Death[1][2] 15 Sep 1662 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 23 Feb 1662/63 Will proved.

"(William Willoughby's) widow Elizabeth continued to reside for awhile in Portsmouth, but after the Restoration was living in Seething Lane, London, whence she accompanied her son Francis to New England in the summer of 1662. She died soon after at Charlestown, Mass., September 15, 1662. Her will was made in London in May, 1662, and had the unusual provision that upon her death 'There Shall be no mourneing Apparrcll or Habitts given at anie time, nor to anie psons, no not in the family, for or by reason of my death … vpon my late Sonn William's Reformacon, I did formerly paie him the Legacie … wch his father my late husband did by his last will and Testament bequeath vnto him … Item … [legacies to her grandchildren and daughter-in-law] I giue and bequeath vnto my sister Anna Griffin of Portsmouth … my sister Jane Hammond of Virginia … my kinsman Laurance Hammond, Sonn to my Sister Jane aforesaid. … John Greene of Charleslowne in New England (formerly servant to my late Husband and my Selfe and Since that to my Said Sonn francis), … all ye Residue of my goods and Chattells and estate whatsoever … vnto my Said sonn francis, his heirs. … and I make my much respected and Singular good freinds Robert Thomson and John Taylor both of ye Citty of London Esqrs Ouerseers.'"[2]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 MacEwen, Andrew B. W. The Camfield Husband of Sarah Willoughby and the Wife of Samuel Canfield, of Norwalk, Conn. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 1964)
    56:296.

    Her will, made at London, May, pro. 23 (12) 1662, devised to 6 chn. of son Francis, of whom Sarah was an only dau.; to sister Jane Hammond of Virginia, whose son was Lawrence H.; to sister Anna Griffin of P[ortsmouth, Southampton]; to John Greene of Chas. servant of her husband and after of son Francis.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Colonel William Willoughby, in Noyes, Charles Phelps. Noyes-Gilman Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches, with a Chart of the Ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, his Wife. (St. Paul, Minn.: The Author (Printed by The Gilliss Press, New York), 1907)
    141.
  3. ↑ Possible place of birth found in marriage document.
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