Elizabeth (Neville) Carey (abt. 1545 - 1630)

Born about 1545 in Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edmund Carey MP — married 1598 (to 1630) in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 1630 at about age 85 in Northamptonshire, England

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Biography

Elizabeth Neville was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Elizabeth Neville and Sir John Danvers had three sons and seven daughters:

1. Sir Charles Danvers (c.1568-1601), who died without issue.
2. Sir Henry Danvers (1573-1644), who died without issue.
3. Sir John Danvers (28 June 1588 – 16 April 1655), who married firstly, about 1609, Magdalen Newport (d.1627), the daughter of Sir Richard Newport[6] of High Ercall. At the time of the marriage Magdalen Newport had been for twelve years the widow of Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle, by whom she had ten children, including Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, and the poet, George Herbert. The year after Magdalen Newport's death Sir John Danvers married secondly, Elizabeth Dauntsey (d.1636), the daughter and coheir of Sir Ambrose Dauntsey, esquire, by whom he had several children. After remaining a widower for twelve years, he married thirdly, in 1648, Grace Hewes (d.1670), the daughter of Thomas Hewes of Kemerton, by whom he had a son, John Danvers.
4. Lucy Danvers (1572-1621), who married, before 1545, Sir Henry Baynton of Bromham, Wiltshire.
5. Elizabeth Danvers, who married, as his second wife, Sir Edward Hoby of Bisham Abbey.
6. Eleanor Danvers (d.1601), who married Sir Thomas Walmesley of Dunkenhalgh, Lancashire, from whom are descended the Dukes of Leeds.
7. Anne Danvers, who married, before 1545, Sir Arthur Porter of Lanteney, Gloucestershire.
8. Katherine Danvers, who married Sir Richard Gargrave of Nostel, Yorkshire.
9. Mary Danvers, who predeceased her father.
10. Dorothy Danvers (1590-1650), who married Sir Peter Osborne of Chicksands, Bedfordshire, by whom she was the mother of Dorothy Osborne.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Elizabeth Danvers

• The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (Devizes, Wiltshire, England, 1854) Vol.1, Page 306

• Gaisford, John (2015) Capital in the countryside: social change in West Wiltshire, 1530-1680. PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London. Page 299 Pedigree 6 Danvers of Dauntsey

• Visitation of Hertfordshire: Cary of Aldenham Page 136

• British History online: Dauntsey