Elizabeth (Allen) Proby (abt. 1722 - 1783)

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Biography

The Hon. Elizabeth Allen, was probably born in 1722 and was baptised 19 July 1722. She was the eldest surviving daughter of Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen, and his wife Margaret Du Pass.^[1]

She and her younger sister Frances, became the co-heirs of their only surviving brother John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen, when he died unmarried on 25 May 1745, although the title passed to a cousin.^[2]

Elizabeth married on 27 August 1750,^[3] John Proby, son of John Proby, of Elton Hall, county Huntingdon and his wife, Hon. Jane Leveson-Gower. He had been born on 25 November 1720 and was created 1st Baron Carysfort of Carysfort, county Wicklow in the Irish peerage on 23 January 1752.^[4]

They had two children;

1. John Joshua Proby, born 12 August 1751, succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Carysfort, and created 1st Earl of Carysfort;
2. Hon. Elizabeth Proby, born 14 November 1752, married Thomas James Storer, Esq. (died 10 November 1792), and died 19 March 1808 having had issue;^[5]

Her husband died at Lille in Flanders, 18 October 1772 and was buried at Elton, Huntingdonshire, and she died in March 1783.^[6]

Name: Elizabeth Allen. Given Name: Elizabeth. Surname: Allen. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday, p. 70
2. ↑ Cokayne & Gibbs, vol 1. p. 111
3. ↑ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday have this date, Namier has 22 August
4. ↑ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday, p. 70
5. ↑ Lodge, p. 96
6. ↑ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday, p. 70
7. ↑ Source: S513290495 Ancestry Record 1981 #20044834

Footnotes

References

• Cokayne, G.E. & Gibbs, Hon. Vicary (eds), (1910), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant, 2nd ed., Vol. 1; London: St Catherine Press. Digitised by FamilySearch.

• Cokayne, G.E., Gibbs, Hon. Vicary & Doubleday, H. Arthur, (eds), (1913), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant, 2nd ed., Vol. 3; London: St Catherine Press. Digitised by FamilySearch.

• Lodge, Edmund, (1859), The Genealogy of the existing British Peerage and Baronetage, London: Hurst and Blackett. Digitised by Google Books

• Namier, Sir Lewis, (1964), 'Proby, John, 1st Baron Carysfort [I] (1720-72), of Elton Hall, Hunts. and Glenart, co. Wicklow', in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed L. Namier & J. Brooke. Digitised on The History of Parliament: British political, social & local history website (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/proby-john-1720-72 : viewed 22 June 2014)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Sir William Arbuthnot for starting this profile.

Atkinson-107 16:46, 21 June 2014 (EDT)

• Source: S500671013 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Record Collection 1030Ancestry Family Tree

• Source: S513290495 Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2010 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 1981 Note: Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. <i>Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922</i>. <i>Volumes 1–22.</i> London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922, Oxford University Press, London, England.

• Source: S513441705 Westminster, London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558-1812 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2020 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 61865 Note: Westminster, Anglican Parish Registers, City of Westminster Archives, Westminster, London, England.Ancestry Record 61865 #300717125