Elizabeth (Yelverton) Peyton (abt. 1620 - 1668)

Born about 1620 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Peyton Esq — married about 1635 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died Jun 1668 at about age 48 in Rougham, Norfolk, England

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Biography

Elizabeth was the daughter of William Yelverton and Ursula Richardson.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Her father's had interests were in Norfolk,^[6][7] and that may have been her birth county. Her birth date is not known, and has been estimated as about 1620: her parents married in 1614.^{[6] [7][8]}

Elizabeth married Thomas Peyton, Esq., of Rougham, Norfolk, younger son of Edward Peyton by his second wife, Jane Calthorpe.^[2][3] Their marriage date is not known. Thomas and Elizabeth had seven sons and two daughters:

• William Peyton, Esquire^[2][3]
• Benjamin Peyton^[2][3]
• Robert Peyton, Gent., probably born about 1640, who married Mary ____^[2][3]
• Charles Peyton^[2][3]
• Yelverton Peyton, Esq.^[2][3]
• Thomas Peyton^[2][3]
• Benjamin (again)^[2][3]
• Hannah^[2][3]
• Anne, who married Thomas Woods^[2][3]

Elizabeth and her husband were executors of the will of her brother William,^[2][3] who died in November 1649.^[8] In 1653, acting as executors, they conveyed watermills in Norfolk to Robert Jerry.^[9]

Elizabeth died in June 1668 and was buried at Rougham, Norfolk.^[2][3] There is disagreement about her exact death and burial dates:

• Douglas Richardson gives her death date as 3 June.^[2][3]
• Her memorial inscription gives her death date as 15 June: the inscription reads,"In memory of Elizabeth Peyton, daughter of Sir William Yelverton and Ursula his wife, the heir of that family, who died June, 15, 1668".^[1][4]
• Chester's Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley also gives her death date as 15 June^[10]
• In an image of the parish register viewable on FindMyPast, the day of burial is indecipherable, though the month is clearly June 1668.^[11]
  • The burial date is given as 6 June in a transcript on FindMyPast^[12] and another on Famiysearch,^[13] but the state of preservation of the relevant page of the parish register means this may be inaccurate.
  • Another transcript, of the Archdeacon's transcript of the parish register, on FindMyPast has the burial date as 6 June 1669, not 1668,^[14] but the linked image of the original^[15] suggests that the year is a misreading stemming from the way the parish register was transcribed: the page covers both 1668 and 1669.

Her will, dated 20 February 1664/5, was proved on 9 February 1670. In it she:^[16]

• named, among others:
  • her husband Thomas, of Rougham, Norfolk
  • her children Anne, William, Robert, Charles and Yelverton
• appointed John Bladwell of Swannington, Norfolk sole executor

Elizabeth's husband survived her, dying in 1683.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Norfolk, Churchyard Graves And Memorial Transcriptions, FindMyPast, and linked image of gravestone
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, p. 357, PEYTON 16, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, p. 372, PEYTON 16
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Francis Blomefield, 'Launditch Hundred: Rougham', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 29-38, British History Online, accessed 21 September 2023
5. ↑ Walter Rye (ed.). The Visitation of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of ARms, Anno 1563 Enlarged with another Visitation mad by Clarenceux Cooke, with many other descents; and also the Visitation made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno 1613, Harleian Society, 1891, p. 329, Internet Archive
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. IV, pp. 399-400, YELVERTON 16
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, pp. 444-445, YELVERTON 19
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} G E Cokayne. Complete Baronetage, Vol. I, William Pollard, 1900, p. 146, Internet Archive
9. ↑ Norfolk Record Office, ref. MC 632/7/1-2, 797 x 4, National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry
10. ↑ Robert Edmond Chester. Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley, Vol. I, Robson and Sons, 12878, p. 240, Internet Archive
11. ↑ Norfolk Record Office, ref. PD 455/1, FindMyPast and linked image of parish register burial entry
12. ↑ "England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8NZ-ZYP : 6 November 2020), Elizabeth Payton, 1668
13. ↑ "England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8NZ-ZYP : 6 November 2020), Elizabeth Payton, 1668
14. ↑ Norfolk Burials (Archdeacons' Transcript), FindMyPast
15. ↑ Image of Archdeacon's transcript parish register of Rougham, Norfolk, FindMyPast
16. ↑ The National Archives, ref. PROB 11/332/208, Discovery Centre catalogue entry

See also:

• Clarke, Peyton Neale. Old King William Homes and Families: An Account of Some of the Old Homesteads and Families of King William County, Virginia, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1964, p.95, Google Books
• Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Heraldica, Vol. V, The Genealogical Association, 1908, p. 92, Internet Archive
• Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. I, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915, p. 304, Internet Archive (entry for her son Robert)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 21 September 2023.

Elizabeth (Yelverton) Peyton is in a trail badged by the Magna Carta Project in September 2015 from her son, Gateway Ancestor Robert Peyton, to Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod and John FitzRobert. Later, this profile was identified in badged trails to Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy, and Saher de Quincy. These trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".