Elizabeth (Gilbert) North (abt. 1590 - 1612)

Born about 1590 in Great Finborrow, Suffolk, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Roger North — married 29 Dec 1607 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died 29 Nov 1612 at about age 22 in England

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Biography

This profile is part of the Gilbert Name Study.

Birth date is an estimate based on her age inscribed on her memorial in St. Dunstane.

Elizabeth Gilbert married Roger North in Mildenhall in Suffolk in 1607.^[1]

The Survey of London, by John Stowe, 1598, with additions made in 1618 and 1633, lists "A faire Monumēt in the east end of the North Quire" in the parish church of St. Dunstane:

Mors mihi lucrum. Neere to this place lieth buried the body of Elizab. North, wife to Roger North, Esquire, and one of the daughters and coheires of Sir Iohn Gilbert, Knight, of great Finborow, in Suffolke. Shee had issue, two sonnes and one daughter, Henry North, Dudley North, and Mary North. On the 29. of Novem­ber in Anno 1612. (she being about the age of 22. yeers) ended this life: Leaving behind her many of the gravest, that may justly imitate her vertues and godly course of life.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Boyds Marriage Index
2. ↑ The Survey of London, by John Stowe, 1598, with additions made in 1618 and 1633. Online at the University of Oxford Text Archive.

• Roger North MP

• Visitation of Suffolk page 202: Parkin

• Entered from the Genealogy worksheets compiled by Ralph Pryor during his 40 years of research, traveling extensively in the military and in retirement. Entered by Greg Rose, Grandson.