Born in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Francis Thornton
and Alice (Savage) Thornton
Sister of
Margaret (Thornton) Strother, Sarah Alice (Thornton) Taliaferro, William Thornton, Francis Thornton II, Rowland Thornton, Anne (Thornton) Morgan and Anthony Thornton I
Wife of
Edwin Conway
— married
21 May 1695 (to 1698) [location unknown]
Wife of
Jonathan Gibson Sr.
— married
1699 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Francis Conway, Jonathan Gibson Jr., Sarah Gibson, Alice (Gibson) Catlett and Rachel Gibson
Died
at age 58
in King George Co., Virginia
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Biography
GrGrandmother of James Madison 4th US President
Elizabeth was born 3 Jan 1674 in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester, Virginia. She is the daughter of Francis Thornton and Alice Savage. She passed away 2 Dec 1732 in King George Co., Virginia.
Elizabeth's first husband was Edwin Conway (c.1640-1698), by whom she had one son Francis Conway (15 Sep 1696 - bef. 12 Apr 1733) who married Rebecca Catlett.
After Edwin died, Elizabeth married Jonathan Gibson, son of Edmund Gibson and Jane Langhorn. According to Jonathan's will dated 1727, he was survived by his wife Elizabeth and four children:[1]
1. Jonathan Jr., b. abt. 1700
2. Sarah, b. abt. 1702
3. Alice, b. abt. 1704
4. Rachel, b. abt. 1706
Sources
- ↑ King George Co. Will Book A-1, 1721-1752, Pages 82-83
See also:
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monkeys&id=I20252
- Article by Alice Elizabeth Trabue, Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 18, Issue 54, Kentucky State Historical Society, 1918, page 28
- Donald Robertson and his wife Rachel Rogers of King and Queen County, Virginia: their ancestry and posterity: also a brief account of the ancestry of Commodore Richard Taylor of Orange County, Virginia, and his naval history during the War of the American Revolution. Anderson, William Kyle, Detroit, Winn & Hammond, printers, 1900, pg. 238
- Diary of Francis Taylor, son of Rachel (Gibson) Taylor, Filson Club, KY
- http://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Gibson/6000000003077379858
Acknowledgements
- Thanks to Greg Rose for starting this profile. Gregory is Elizabeth's 6th great grand nephew. Greg Rose, direct descendant of Francis Thornton I. FamilyTreeDNA #356330. Member of the Thornton Project on FamilyTreeDNA, #356330. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Greg and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth:
~3.12%
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