Notes:

--- "London St. James Chronicle" 25 Apr 1765, page 3
Died. Thursday, at her House at Hammersmith, Mrs. Elliot, Daughter and one of the Co-heiresses of the Right Hon. James Craggs, Esq; Secretary of State to Queen Ann and King George the First.

Elizabeth married Edward Eliot on 24 Apr 1718 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Edward (son of William Eliot and Ann Williams) was born about 1683 in Cuddenbeak Manor, St. Germans, Cornwall; died on 18 Sep 1722; was buried on 29 Sep 1722 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:

• "The Political State of Great Britain" Vol 15, 1718, page 452:
On the 24th, Edward Elliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Victualling Office, was marry'd to the eldest Daughter of Mr. Craggs, Postmaster-General.

• "The Registers of St. Paul's Cathedral" pub. 1899, page 48:
Edward Elliot, Esqr, of Port Elliot in the County of Cornwal, widower, & Elizabeth Craggs of ye Parish of St Mary Woolnoth, London, Spinster, were married by Licence from the Lord Archbishop of Canterburys Office in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul the 24th day of Aprill 1718; by me Lan., Exon.*

*Probably Launcelot Blackburne, Bishop of Exeter 1716-24; Archbishop of York 1724-43; buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster.

• FMP Parish Records Transcriptions:
License date: 23 Apr 1718
License date year: 1718
Bride's last name: CRAGGS
Bride's first name: Elizabeth
Dual date: 23 Apr 1718
Groom's last name: ELLIOT
Groom's first name: Edward
Record source: Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850

• e-mail from the CRO on 26 Mar 2015:
I have looked at the document and the property in question is stated as: 'the Lordships and Manors of Cuttenbeake and Germyn alias St Germyn, in the county of Cornwall' held by freehold lease.
Monies involved were a consideration of £6000, and provision for the wife raising yearly a sum of annuity or annual rent of £500.

1. James Eliot was born on 20 May 1721 in London; was christened on 02 Jun 1721 in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London; died on 24 Nov 1742 in His House, North-Audley Street; was buried on 06 Dec 1742 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,.
2. Elizabeth Eliot was born on 09 Jul 1722; was christened on 03 Aug 1722 in St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 05 Feb 1722/23; was buried in Feb 1722/23 in Eliot Family Vault, St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall.

Notes:

--- "Newcastle Courant" 6 May 1721, page 10:
From Mr. King's Letter, London, April 29.
This Day the C. ordered several Relations of the Post-Master Craggs, and other Persons to attend the House on Monday next, to be examined touching the report from the Secret Committee, relating to the Estate of Mr. Craggs.

--- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (City of London, St Mary Woolnoth, 1686-1727, 56):
Burial Record reads: "March 1722. The twenty eigth day of this month was carried to Charleton in Kent, James Craggs, Esq."

--- "Ipswich Journal" Saturday, 18 Mar 1721, page 6:
The Corpse of Mr. Craggs is to be interr'd the latter end of this Week at Charlton in Kent; we are assur'd he has left a vast Estate among his three Daughters, Mrs Newsham, Mrs. Elliot, and Mrs. Trefusis.

--- "The European Magazine: and London Review", 1796, Volume 30, page 166:
"By letter from Lord Oxford, I find Post-Master Craggs was buried at Charlton, in Kent, where there is some estate in the family, with the following epitaph:
Here lies the Body of James Craggs, late of London, Esq.
One of his Majesty's Post Masters General.
He was the son of Mr. Anthony Craggs, of Holbech, in the Parish of Wlakingham, in the County Palatine of Durham, Gent.
And died the sixteenth of March, 1721.
He had issue one son and three daughters, viz.
The Right Honourable James Craggs, Esq.
One of the Principal Secretaries of State to his present Majesty,
Who died one month before his said Father;
And three daughters who survived him:
Anne, who married John Newtham, of Chadshunt,
In the County of Warwick, Esq.
Elizabeth, who married Edward Eliot, of Port Eliot,
in the County of Cornwall, Esq. and
Margaret, who married Samuel Trefusis; of Trefusis,
In the said County of Cornwall, Esq.,
Which three Daughters in duty erected this Monument.
To the pious memory of the best of Fathers."

James married Elizabeth Richards. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Richards and Anne) was born about 1664; died on 20 Jan 1711/12. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "The European Magazine" Vol. 30, 1796, page 130:
In Memory
Of the Virtuous and Pious Elizabeth
Craggs,
Wife of James Craggs, Esq.
Who departed this Life the twentieth day
of Jan. 1711, in the 49th year of her age.
Morum suavitate et tacili
Suis defideratissima vixit
Pietate
Caelo matura
Leni Suspirio Animam esslavit
et firma
Qid enim non possit Fides?
Refurgendi spe munita
Quietcit.

Notes:

Wrote his will 04 Nov 1675. Mentions wife Anne, brother Godfrey and children Jacob and Elizabeth (both not yet 21). Probated 12 Dec 1675.

Jacob married Anne. died on 25 Dec 1709; was buried in St. Luke's, Charleton, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Will probated 07 Jan 1709/10. Listed as Widow.

--- Monumental Inscription (Cross in the churchyard of St. Luke's, Charlton, Kent):
Mrs. Ann RICHARDS died
at aged 72 years old.

Above her stone is a
lozenge bearing a cross-
crosslet fetchee between
3 cinque-foils.

Notes:

Baptized (son of Solomon & Ann Richards) at St Andrews, Holborn, Camden, London on 6 Oct 1691. Father was a Cutler and lived near the "Cross Keys".

--- https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/solomon-richards

Colonel Solomon Richards was buried in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey on 6th October 1691 but nothing marks his grave. He was baptised on 14th November 1619 at St Andrews Holborn in London, son of Solomon and Anne. By his wife Abigail Goddard he had a son Goddard, born in 1661, who married Dorothy Jacob.

He served in Cromwell's army and held the Solsborough estate near Enniscorthy in Co. Wexford in Ireland. He was Governor of Wexford. In 1688 he formed the Leicestershire Regiment which pledged allegiance to the new monarch William III. William sent him to Londonderry (Derry) with Colonel Cunningham to protect the Protestants there from a siege by the Jacobite army. But following the advice of the town's governor the troops were not landed. On returning to England he and others were dismissed by the King and summoned before a Parliamentary Commission for dereliction of duty. Richards was exonerated.

Solomon married Abigail Goddard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]