Elizabeth Shirland born 1577 in Ottery St. Mary, near Exeter in Devon, England. Documents show she was later married to Robert Adams and that she gave birth to an only son in Devon. The pirate stories are just that stories. The truth is in fact is she did exist and she is a genuine historical character, she stayed home fulfilling her family duties- there is no evidence she ever left.
Robert and Elizabeth Adams had a son Robert who is supposed but not certainly known to be the Robert who came to Ipswich.
St Thomas the Apostle Churchyard Also known as: Lymington, St Thomas the Apostle Churchyard
High Street/St Thomas Street Lymington New Forest District Hampshire England Postal Code: SO41 9ND
1. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial?William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial?(Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996) ISBN 0806346124) Family Tree Maker CD #159?Page: Vol. III
2. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those who Came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register?James Savage; compiled by O. P. Dexter, Page: Vol. 1, p. 15
3. Title: Andrew N. Adams, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass., and His Descendants, 1635-1900 (Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company, 1900)?Repository:
4. : New England Marriages Prior To 1700?Clarence Almon Torrey, 5. Title: Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1911)
6. Title: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 59, pp. 320-5 (1905) "English Ancestry of Henry Adams" Vol. 7, pp. 39-40 (Jan 1853) "Pedigree of the Adams Family" Vol. 11, p. 1 pp. 53-60 (Jan 1857) "Descendants of Robert Adams" by Joshua Coffin Vol. 9, p. 126 (1855) "Abstract of the Will of Robert Adams of Newbury" Vol. 42, p. 202 (1888) "Notes and Queries -- Sarah Glover"
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This appears to have been edited (or cut of whole cloth) by an amateur American researcher thinking they were looking at a church parish etc, vice a community dating back to (and ancient before) Domesday.