Elizabeth (Waghorn) Blackwood (abt. 1778 - 1802)

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Biography

Elizabeth Waghorn, daughter of Martin Waghorn and his wife, Ann Marriott, was baptised at St Mary's Church, Newington on the 1st of December 1778. ^[1]

She passed away on the 30th of October 1802 and was buried at St Edmund's Church at Crofton in Hampshire.

Sources

1. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (St Mary Newington 1 Dec 1778 Elizabeth Waghorn daughter of MArtin and Ann Waghorn)

• Trafalgar Ancestors: Henry Blackwood

• Memorial Inscription, St Edmund, Crofton "Near this place are laid the remains of the Hon Elizabeth Blackwood wife of the Hon Henry Blackwood of the Kingdom of Ireland a Captain in his Majesty's Royal Navy. She departed this life on the 30th day of October 1802 aged nearly 24. During a lingering and painful illness which gradually exhausted and brought her in her prime to the grave she manifested by her pious resignation to the will of God how well prepared she was for another world. Her afflicted husband has caused this memorial to be erected as a testimonial of his pure Affection and grateful esteem A tribute justly due to the sweetness of her Disposition gentleness of Manners and exemplary Conduct in the relative Characters of Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter and a Friend"

• Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns (St George, Hanover Square Henry Blackwood Esq a widower and Elizabeth Waghorn spinster, a minor both of this Parish were married in this Church by license and with the consent of Ann Waghorn widow and Charles Brown the guardians of the said minor on this 3rd day of June in the year 1799)