Elizabeth (Pinchon) Weston

Born [date unknown] in Writtle, Essex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before 15 Feb 1603 in Roxwell, Essex, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth Pinchon was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Elizabeth (Jayne^[1]) Pinchon^{[2] [3]} alias Pincheon^[4]

Elizabeth was the daughter of (Edwarde otherwise^[1]) William Pinchon, Esq. of Writtle in Essex,^[2] and his wife, Rose, the daughter of Thomas Reding of Pinner, Middlesex,^[3] and the sister of Sir Edward Pincheon.^[4]

Marriage and Children

Elizabeth married about 1597,^[3] Richard Weston,^[4] baptised at Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, on 1 March 1577,^[3] of Roxwell Park, Essex, and Nayland, Suffolk, the son of Jerome Weston of Skreens^[3] in Roxwell, Essex, and his first wife, Mary, ^[1] the daughter of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, Bucks. Richard was described by a contemporary as a ‘man of big looks and of a mean and abject spirit’.^[2]

Children of Elizabeth Pinchon and Richard Weston, afterwards Earl of Portland:

1. Elizabeth Weston, buried in the Church of St Giles in the Fields, London, on 16 September 1654, married in 1623, Sir John Netterville,^[3] second Viscount Netterville of Ireland, buried beside his wife on 3 September 1659;^[4]
2. Richard Weston, died young;^[4]
3. Mary Weston, baptised at Roxwell on 2 January 1602/3, married in 1629, Walter Aston,^[3] second Lord Aston of Tixall, died 23 April 1678 at Tixall,^[4] Mary died after August 1678;^[5]

(Elizabeth Pinchon who was married to Geoffrey Gatte of St. Edmonds, Suffolke, in The Visitation of Essex in 1612 was not, as previously noted on this profile, the daughter but the sister of William Pinchon of Writtell, Essex, who married Rose Reddinge, and the aunt of Jayne Pinchon who married Richard Weston.^[1])

Death

Elizabeth Weston died soon after giving birth to her third child, Mary, and was buried at Roxwell on 15 February 1602/3.^[4] After Elizabeth's death, her husband married Frances, the daughter of Nicholas Walgrave of Boreley in Essex^[2] alias Waldegrave, esq.^[4] and was knighted on 23 July 1603,^[3] created Baron Weston in 1628 and Earl of Portland in 1633.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Harleian Society. W. C. Metcalfe, ed., "The Visitations of Essex, 1552–1634." Part I. Volume XIII of Publications of the Harleian Society 1878, 266, 319. Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofess13byumetc#page/266/mode/2up : accessed 27 March 2016).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} W J J, "WESTON, Richard II (1577-1635), of Roxwell Park, Essex and Nayland, Suff", History of Parliament Online, Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2016, (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/weston-richard-ii-1577-1635 : accessed 27 March 2016).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Brian Quintrell, ‘Weston, Richard, first earl of Portland (bap. 1577, d. 1635)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, Jan 2008 (http://www.oxforddnb.com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/article/29126 : accessed 27 March 2016).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7} Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, Their Ancestors and Descendants Vol I, (London: Robson and Sons, 1878), 99-100, 108, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem01wategoog#page/n138/mode/2up : accessed 27 March 2016).
5. ↑ Lundy, Darryl, "Elizabeth Pincheon", The Peerage, A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe (http://www.thepeerage.com/p4095.htm#i40946, accessed 27 March 2016).

See also:

• Burke's DORMANT & EXTINCT PEERAGES (1883), p. 580;
• Wikipedia:Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland;