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Biography

Elizabeth Cornwallis was a daughter of John Cornwallis and Mary Sulyard daughter of Edward Sulyard of Otes, Essex.[1][2][3] She was born about 1522.[1][2]

Elizabeth married John Blennerhasset. [1][2][3] They had one child, a daughter Elizabeth.[1][2]

Elizabeth's father died on 23 April 1544 and in his will, which was written on 10 April 1544[4] and proved on 9 July 1944,[5] he left Elizabeth (referred to as "my daughter Hasset") his wife's gown of black satin. This confirms that on 10 April 1544 Elizabeth was married to John Blennerhasset and living.

However she died shortly after because before 1546 her husband John remarried to Mary Echingham:[6] in that year he was involved in a claim on a share which Mary Echingham had inherited in the manor of Barsham, Suffolk.[7]

Research Notes

Moriarty incorrectly states that Elizabeth's daughter was born about 1522[8] This is fully discussed in the daughter's profile.

Suckling's 1846 History and Antiquities of Suffolk states that her husband married Mary Echingham in 15 Henry VIII (1523-4). This date would make sense only if Mary was the first wife of Elizabeth's husband, but Suckling describes Mary as his second wife,[9] and Mary was living in 1543 when she inherited from her brother George.[6]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. V, p. 154, Elizabeth Cornwallis 19, Throckmorton. Not available online.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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. IV, pages 190, Elizabeth Cornwallis, No.14, Throckmorton. (Not available online)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond herald, 1612, The Visitations of Suffolk; edited by Metcalf, Walter C., published by William Pollard, Exeter, 1882 Internet Archive
  4. Collins's Peerage of England, augmented by Egerton Bridges, Vol. II, 1812, pp. 543-544, Internet Archive
  5. 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. II, pp. 20-21, DADE 13
  6. 6.0 6.1 Bindoff S.T. (editor). Blennerhasset (Hasset), John (by 1521 - 1573), of Barsham by Beccles, Suff. "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons" 1509-1558, published 1982, on History of Parliament Online, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/blennerhasset-%28hasset%29-john-1521-73, accessed 24 November 2023 and http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1509-1558/member/blennerhasset-%28hasset%29-john-1521-73, accessed 27 December 2023
  7. W A Copinger. The Manors of Suffolk, Vol. 7, privately printed, 1911, p. 154, Internet Archive
  8. G Andrews Moriarty. The East Anglican Blennerhassets in 'New England Historical and Genealogical Register', Vol 98, 1944, page 278 (subscription required) Page 278
  9. Alfred Suckling, 'Barsham', in The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 (Ipswich, 1846), pp. 35-46, British History Online, accessed 27 December 2023




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