Elizabeth (Yates) Etheridge (1650 - 1704)

Born 1650 in Norfolk, Norfolk, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Marmaduke Etheridge — married about 1672 in Virginia

Descendants

Died 22 Mar 1704 at about age 54 in Norfolk, Norfolk, Colony of Virginia

Biography

She was the wife of Marmaduke Etheridge

Children

1. Richard Etheridge b: 1674
2. Elizabeth Etheridge b: Abt 1677
3. Marmaducke Etheridge b: 1679

RICHARD YATES of Eliz. River in ye County of Lower

Norfolk in Virge Shipwrite . . . Booke 4 f. 50. dated 22 Nov. 1678. proved 21 May 1679.

. . . unto my loving wife Jane Yates all my Estate . . . during her natural life Excepting :one gun now in the possession of my Sonne In Law Jno. Whiden . . . Likewise one gun :that was my Sonne Richard Yates Late decd I give unto my unto my grandson Richard :Etheridge . . .

. . . and for my three daughters (viz) Jane, Elizabeth & Mary Yates . . .

. . . my grandson Jno. Whidon . . .

. . . my grand daughter Jane Whidon . . .

. . . my two grand daughters (viz) Eliz. Etheridge and Mary Leak . . .

. . . my daughter faith yates, the youngest . . .

. . . my land in deepe Creek now in ye possession and occupation of francis Leak and : marneduck Etheridge . . . equall division . . . unto ye sd. Leak and ye sd. Etheridge (my :Sonnes in Law) during their and my daughters their wifes Life . . . then to descent to :next hyer of ye bodyes of my Said daughters Elizabeth and Mary their wives . . .

witnesses: Jno. Edwards.

Edward Etheridg.

Richard Yates & Seale.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ Brief Abstract of Lower Norfolk County and Norfolk County Wills, 1637-, Volume 1 By Charles Fleming McIntosh
2. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolk/wills/yates79nwl.txt

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monkeys&id=I67359
• https://archive.org/stream/herbertinengland00walt#page/n20/mode/1up
• Historical Southern Families, Vol. XIV, Etheridge of Norfolk County Virginia, pp. 25, 32.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Clay Henson for creating WikiTree profile Yates-1223 through the import of Henson Family Tree_2013-03-12.ged on Mar 12, 2013.