Elizabeth (Overbury) Pettus (abt. 1628)

Born about 1628 in Barton on the Heath, Warwickshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry De la Poole Bt — married 31 Jan 1675 in St Andrew Undershaft with St Mary Axe, London, England

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Biography

Elizabeth Overbury was the eldest daughter of Walter Overbury ^[1] by his wife Magdalen Marsham. She was baptised on 20 April 1628 in Barton on the Heath, Warwickshire. ^[1]

She married in 1656 Sir Thomas Pettus, 2nd Bart., of Rackheath, Norfolk. Elizabeth Overbury and two of her sisters were painted by Joan Carlile (?1606-1679), first cousin of Walter Overbury.

After her first husband died Elizabeth marriedHenry De la Poole (abt.1628-aft.1679), on 13 January 1675 at St Andrew Undershaft, City of London, London, England.^[2]

She and her husband Henry were involved in a legal dispute with her daughter Elizabeth and her husband Rowland Okeover regarding Thomas Pettus' will.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3W4-QBX : 11 February 2018, Elizabeth Overbury, 20 Apr 1628); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 246,640, 549,654.
2. ↑ Marriage: London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Ancestry Record 1624 #5412694 (accessed 6 December 2020)
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   City of London, St Andrew Undershaft, 1634-1692, Page 141 of 263
   1676 "Jan 13 Henry de le Poole Baronet & Dame Elizabeth Pettus Widdow of Castor St Edmunds in the Counti of Norfolk were married on the 13th day of January by Lysence"
3. ↑ Legal case over will of Thomas Pettus: Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 13, 1675-1681
   House of Lords Journal Volume 13: 11 May 1678
   Sir H. Dela Poole versus Okeover.
   https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol13/pp217-219 "Upon reading the Petition of Sir Henry de la Poole Baronet, and Dame Elizabeth his Wife, being an Appeal from a Decretal Order made in the Court of Chancery, on the Behalf of Rowland Okeover and Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter of the said Dame Elizabeth, concerning some Lands in Norfolke and Suffolke, settled by Sir Thomas Pettus in Trustees, for the Use of the Petitioner Elizabeth, ..."
   
   House of Lords Journal Volume 13: 6 June 1678
   De la Poole versus Okeover
   https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol13/pp239-241 "That the said Sir Henry de la Poole and Dame Elizabeth his Wife stand in Contempt of the Court of Chancery, in not answering to a Bill of the said Rowland Okeover and Elizabeth his Wife, and Samuell Hinton, concerning the Personal Estate of Sir Thomas Pettus,..."
   
   House of Lords Journal Volume 13: 1 July 1678
   De la Poole versus Okeover.
   https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol13/pp266-267 "After due Consideration had of what was offered on either Part thereupon, it is ORDERED and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Petition and Appeal of Sir Henry De la Poole and Dame Elizabeth his Wife be, and is hereby, dismissed this House."

• Margaret Toynbee, "Joan Carlile, some further attributions", in THE CONNISSEUR, November 1971, p. 186