Elizabeth (Goldsborough) Turner (1652 - 1737)

Born 30 Sep 1652 in Chipping Ongar, Essex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Turner — married 31 Jan 1684 in St James' Duke's Place, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 29 Jul 1737 at age 84 in Chipping Ongar, Essex, England

Biography

Elizabeth Goldsborough was born in 1652 in the Essex village of Chipping Ongar. eldest child of the lord of the manor. Her father died when she was 11 and her mother took responsibility until she married at age 32 (her younger sister Ann did not marry until age 53).

In 1683 she married Richard Turner, a barrister from a Kent gentry family, and they lived at Chipping Ongar.^[1][2][3] Their first five children, all of whom died in infancy and were buried at Chipping Ongar, were Elizabeth I, Boyle, Henry, Anne, and Richard. Their last two children, Dorothy and Elizabeth II, lived to marry and in the case of Elizabeth to give her grandchildren.

Her husband died in 1725,^[4] and she lived until 1737 when, at the age of 84, she was buried at Chipping Ongar.^[5][6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ Capital messuage of tenement situate behind the town and church of Chipping Ongar, formerly in the occupation of Richard Turner esquire, afterwards Sir John Bull. Essex Record Office https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=418716
2. ↑ Ongar church has a paten dated 1705, and a cup and a paten dated 1728 of silver gilt, both given by Elizabeth, wife of Richard Turner and daughter of Thomas Goldsborough.
3. ↑ "Memorials of the Goldesborough family" collected, collated and compiled by Albert Goldsbrough, 1930 https://archive.org/details/memorialsofgolde00gold/page/n436
4. ↑ Will of Richard Turner esquire, 20 August 1719 (proved 28 Dec 1725) Essex Record Office https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=418716
5. ↑ 15 September 1734 Will of Elizabeth Turner, widow of Richard Turner of Chipping Ongar, esquire Essex Record Office https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=151554
6. ↑ Will of Elizabeth Turner, widow, 15 September 1734 and codicil 24 August 1736 Essex Record Office https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=418716
7. ↑ Receipts from John Lenham, for his wife Dorothy Lenham nee Bull, and from Kitty Bull for legacies under the will of Elizabeth Turner, 1752 and 1755 Essex Record Office https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=418716