Anne Capell, was the daughter of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Percy. She was born about 1674 or 1675, given she was aged 13 on 25 July 1688 and 78 on 19 October 1752.[1]
She married 25 July 1688, (marriage licence issued as Vicar Generals office) when she was aged 13, to Charles Howard, then Viscount Morpeth, son and heir of Edward Howard, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, and Elizabeth Uvedale.[1]
Henry Howard, born 1694, succeeded his father as 4th Earl of Carlisle;
Hon. Charles Howard, entered the army, and was also a Member of Parliament for the city of Carlisle, and died at Bath unmarried 26 August 1765.
Lady Elizabeth Howard, married (1) Nicholas, Lord Lechmere; (2) Sir Thomas Robinson, Baronet of Rokeby Park;
Lady Anne Howard, married (1) Richard Ingram, 3rd Viscount Irwin; (2) Colonel James Douglas;
Lady Mary Howard, died unmarried.
Her husband had succeeded as 3rd Earl of Carlisle in 1692 when Anne held the courtesy title of Countess of Carlisle. He died at Bath on 1 May 1738 and was buried At Castle Howard, formerly named Hinderskelf. She died on 14 October 1752 and was buried at Watford, Hertfordshire on the 19 October[1] in the Essex vault.[2]
She was "distinguished by her extensive charities to many distressed families".[2]
Research Notes
Various Ancestry family trees suggest she died at Watford, Hertfordshire (presumably based on where she was buried) or St John at Hackney, Middlesex, but there appear to be no sources cited for this place.
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2 Cokayne, George Edward. Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant, 2nd ed., vol. 3, edited by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, H. Arthur Doubleday. London: The St. Catherine Press, 1913. p. 35. Digitised by Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org :viewed 03 April 2014).
↑ 2.02.12.2 Brydges, Sir Egerton. Collins's Peerage of England; genealogical, biographical and historical. 2nd ed., Vol. 3, London. 1812. pp. 506-07. Digital image, Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/collinsspeerageo03coll : viewed 1 May 2017,
See also:
Collins, Arthur, and Egerton Brydges. "Percy, Duke of Northumberland." Collins's Peerage of England Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Vol. II. London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son ... [et Al., 1812. 217-366. Print.
Philip Carter, ‘Howard, Charles, third earl of Carlisle (1669–1738)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 8 Sept 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
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Capell-58 and Capell-23 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, and same parents. Same date she died, and although there is a difference in birth date, she was born about 1674/1675 as aged 13 when she married in 1688, and aged 78 when died in 1752.