Elizabeth (Meade) King (abt. 1685 - 1750)

Born about 1685 in County Cork Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of Ralph Freke — married 5 Mar 1700 in County Cork, Ireland

Wife of James King — married 1 Jan 1718 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Descendants

Died 6 Oct 1750 at about age 65 in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England

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Biography

Elizabeth King was born about 1685, the daughter of Sir John Meade, a Protestant and Elizabeth Redman, daughter of Colonel Daniel Redman, a Cromwellian Officier. She was the only child of her father's second marriage.

Elizabeth King married Ralph Freke who was born in 1675 at Rathbarry, County Cork, Ireland, the son of Percy Freke and his wife Elizabeth Freke, landed gentry.

Elizabeth Meade King Freke and Ralph Freke had children:^[1]

1. Percy, born 30th April 1700, he died on 10th April 1728 in Dublin where he served as MP.
2. John, born 18th July 1701, died 10th June 1705 in a shooting accident
3. Ralph, born 1703, he died in 1727 in Richmond, Surrey, England.
4. John Redmond, born April 1706
5. Grace, born 20th April 1712, she married Hon. John Evans, a younger son of the Baron of Carbery by 1741. Grace inherited Castlefreke from her brother John. John and Grace had nine children. Grace died in 1782.

Percy and Ralph were the only children mentioned in their grandfather Percy's will of of 3rd February 1705/6.^[2] Their grandmother Elizabeth's will dated 5th April 1714 mentions grandchildren Percy, Ralph, Redmond, and Elizabeth.^[3]

Elizabeth Meade Freke was widowed and remarried to James King on 1st January 1717/8,^[4] 4th Baronet of Kingston. and they had three children;

1. Margaret King
2. William King
3. Elizabeth King

Elizabeth King Freke died on 6 Oct 1750 in Ufton Court in Berkshire. Baronet James King remarried.

Burial

She was buried at Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke 1671-1714
2. ↑ Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers PROB 11/489/135
3. ↑ Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers PROB 11/539/273
4. ↑ Ed. Mills, John, Thrift, Gertrude. The register of the parish of St. Peter and S. Kevin, Dublin, 1669-1761 Page 236. (Exeter and London : Printed for the Parish Register Society of Dublin by W. Pollard, 1911)
5. ↑ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 298. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 299

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