Elizabeth Harris (abt. 1650 - bef. 1674)

Born about 1650 in Hazeleigh, Essex, England

Ancestors

Died before 1674 before about age 24 in Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth Harris was baptised on 04 Mar 1649/1650 at Hazeleigh, Essex, daughter of John Harris Esquire and Lady Elizabeth Bettsworth.^[1]

On a memorial at Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire, Elizabeth was recorded as the daughter of John Herris esq and Dame Elizabeth Bettsworth.^[2][3][4] A translation of the Latin inscription is as follows:

Edmund Castell chaplain to his Majesty Charles II, Prebend of Canterbury, Professor of the Arabic language at Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society, author of the Heptaglott Lexicon, and rector of this church. Also the mortal remains of his most excellent wife the Lady Elizabeth Bettesworth, widow first of Sir Peter Bettesworth afterwards of John Herris esquire (whose son William: and his daughter: Elizabeth, lie here) - In the year of Christ 1674, Edmund aged 68 and Elizabeth aged 64. The living here may learn that he must die.

Sources

1. ↑ Hazeleigh Parish Register. Essex Record Office.
2. ↑ Dugdale J (1819) The new British Traveller, or modern panorama of England and Wales. Vol I. London, pp 28-29.
3. ↑ Thomae de Elmham vita & Gesta Henrici Anglorum Regis. Oxford. 1727, p 427.
4. ↑ Lysons D and Lysons S (1806) Magna Britannia being a concise Topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain. Vol I. Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, p 94.