Person:Elizabeth Samm (1)

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  1. Elizabeth Samm1722 - 1791
  • H.  Robert Ralphs (add)
  • WElizabeth Samm1722 - 1791
m. 1 Dec 1748
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Name Elizabeth Samm
Gender Female
Christening[1] 7 Sep 1722 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Marriage 1 Dec 1748 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Englandto Robert Ralphs (add)
Burial[2] 4 Dec 1791 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England

Elizabeth Samm was baptised on 7th September 1722 at Hitchin in Hertfordshire, daughter of Mary Samm, formerly Jeeves, and her husband Edward Samm, a grocer. Elizabeth is the couple's only child that has been traced.

In 1748, aged 26, Elizabeth married a baker and farmer named Robert Ralphs, from the nearby village of Weston. They had several children together. In 1757, Elizabeth's mother died. In 1768, Elizabeth was one of the beneficiaries of her aunt Elizabeth Bennett, who was her late mother's sister, receiving £20.

Elizabeth died in 1791, aged 69.

References
  1. Church of England. Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Hitchin. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

    1722
    Sep[tembe]r
    7 was Bap[tize]d Eliz[abeth] Daughter of Edw[ar]d & Mary Samm - Grocer

  2. Church of England. Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Hitchin. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

    Buried 1791
    Dec[ember] 4 Elizabeth The Wife of Robert Ralphs Farmer