Notes:

Harriot married Richard Eliot on 10 Mar 1725/26 in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London. Richard (son of William Eliot and Ann Williams) was born on 06 Sep 1694 in Cuddenbeak Manor, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 28 Oct 1694 in St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall; died on 19 Nov 1748 in London; was buried on 03 Dec 1748 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
• "London Parker Penny Post" 21 Mar 1726, page 4:
On Thursday Morning last, Richard Elliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Excise, was married to Mrs. Smith, a Lady of a very considerable Fortune.

• "London Journal" 19 Mar 1726:
Marriages. On the 10th, Richard Elliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Excise, was married to Mrs. Smith, a Lady of a considerable Fortune.

• "The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn", 1896, Vol. 2, page 568:
Richard Eliot, Esq., of St. George's, Hanover Square, Middlesex, and Harriot Smith, of the same Parish, were married March 10th, 1725
(Old Style Date)

• FMP Parish Records Collection Marriages:
License date: 04 Mar 1726
License date year: 1726
Bride's last name: SMITH
Bride's first name: Harriot
Dual date: 04 Mar 1725/26
Groom's last name: ELLIOT
Groom's first name: Richard
Record source: Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850

1. 1st Baron Eliot, Edward Craggs Eliot was born on 08 Jul 1727 in St. George, Hanover Square, London; was christened on 15 Jul 1727 in St. George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, London; died on 17 Feb 1804 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 01 Mar 1804 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,.
2. Anne Eliot was born on 17 Nov 1729 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 15 Dec 1729 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 13 Apr 1816 in Grosvenor Street, Westminster, Middlesex; was buried on 20 Apr 1816 in St. George's (Bayswater Rd. Burial Ground), Hanover Square, Westminster, London.
3. Harriot Eliot was born on 15 Dec 1731 in Molenick, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 17 Dec 1731 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 22 Jan 1776; was buried on 27 Jan 1776 in St. Mary's Church, North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
4. Richard Eliot was born on 16 Jul 1733 in Molenick, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 20 Jul 1733 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 28 Apr 1747 in Kinsale, Ireland (In the Navy); was buried on 30 Apr 1747 in St. Multose's (Church of Ireland), Kinsale, Ireland.
5. Hester Eliot was born on 11 Mar 1734/35; was christened on 12 Mar 1734/35 in St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 12 Apr 1736; was buried on 21 Apr 1736 in Eliot Family Vault, St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall.
6. Augusta Eliot was born on 10 Jun 1737; was christened on 16 Aug 1733 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 25 Nov 1737; was buried on 27 Nov 1737 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,.
7. Elizabeth Eliot was born on 03 May 1739 in Molenick, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 03 May 1739 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 01 Jan 1771 in North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire; was buried on 08 Jan 1771 in St. Mary's Church, North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
8. John Eliot was born on 12 Jun 1741 in Molenick, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 13 Jun 1741 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 02 May 1769 in Governor's Mansion, Pensacola, Florida; was buried on 03 May 1769 in Burial Ground of Fort at Pensacola.
9. Catherine Eliot was born on 29 Oct 1743 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 29 Oct 1743 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 28 Jul 1798 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 03 Aug 1798 in Port Eliot Grounds, St. Germans, Cornwall, England.

Harriot married John Hamilton on 20 Nov 1749 in Holy Trinity, Cookham, Berkshire. John (son of James Hamilton and Anne Plumer) was born on 02 Mar 1713/14; died on 18 Dec 1755 in Drowned Near Portsmouth Harbor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 27 Nov 1749, page 2
A few Days since, the Hon. John Hamilton, Esq; Captain of his Majesty's Ship the Vanguard, and Brother to the Right Hon. the Earl of Abercorne, was married at Ware in Hertfordshire to Mrs. Elliot, Relict of the late Richard Elliot of Port Elliot, Esq; The Ceremony was performed by his Brother, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. George Hamilton.

1. Ann "Nancy" Hamilton was born about 1751; died on 04 Nov 1764 in Highgate; was buried on 09 Nov 1764 in St. Michael, Highgate, Camden, London.
2. 1st Marquess Abercorn John James Hamilton was born on 02 Jul 1756 in London, England; was christened on 13 Jul 1756 in St. George Hanover Square, London; died on 27 Jan 1818; was buried on 05 Feb 1818 in St. John the Evangelist, Great Stanmore, Harrow, London.

Other Events:

• Cause of Death: Small Pox
• Occupation: 13 Apr 1717, Appointed Secretary at War

Notes:

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Dec 1720, page 5:
We hear that . . . a Marriage being forward between Mr. Secretary Craggs and the Widow of the late Edmund Dunch Esquire, Daughter to Colonel Godfrey.

[This lady's name is Elizabeth, and the parents are Charles and Arabella (Churchill) Godfrey.]

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 14 Feb 1721, page 3:
From the Evening Post
London, February 9.
These two or 3 Days Past, Mr. Secretary Craggs has been indisposed, and yesterday Morning about Eleven the small Pox came out upon him.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Feb 1721, page 6:
From Wye's Letter, February 14.
'Tis fear'd Mr. Secretary Craggs will hardly recover of his Indisposition of the small Pox.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 21 Feb 1721, page 4:
Wye's Letter February 16, verbatim.
This Afternoon the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Craggs departed this Life.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Dec 1726, page 3:
The Earl of Oxford has set up, at his own Expence, a Marble Monument in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of the learned Dr. Grab, who was in the highest Esteem for his great Skill in all Parts of Learning and Antiquity. We shall not omit to mention, that another Monument is going to be set up in the same Abbey to the Memory of the late Mr. Secretary Craggs. We hear nothing concerning Mr. Kinght; but the Year 1720 will be a standing Monument to future Generations.

James married Hester Santlow. Hester (daughter of John Santlow and Joan "Joana" Kingswell) was born about 1690; died on 15 Jan 1773 in Great Russell St., St. George, Bloomsbury; was buried on 21 Jan 1773 in St. Laurence Church, Cowley, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1734, West Side of Charles Street, London
• Will: 02 Feb 1769
• Probate: 03 Mar 1773

Notes:

--- "The Public Advertiser" 24 Sep 1772, page 3:
We are informed that Mrs. Booth, who has lately erected a Monument to the Memory of her Husband, Barton Booth, Esq; the celebrated Player, is now upwards of ninety-two Years of Age. She was formerly the famous Miss Santlow, so much admired as an Actress and Dancer.

--- "Weekly Magazine or Edinburgh Amusement" Volumes 19-20, 1773, page 160:
[Jan.1773]15. At London, Mrs Booth, relict of Barton Booth, Esq; who died in 1733, to whose memory she had erected an elegant monument in Westminster-abbey, which she had compleated just before her death.

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-- "The Streets of London" by W.H. Davenport Adams, 1890, page 153:
Mrs. Barton Booth -- Gay's "Santlow, famed for dance" -- died here in 1773. Miss Hester Santlow's charms brought to her feet some of the most eminent men of the time, including "the hero of Blenheim." In 1709 [sic] she married Barton Booth the great actor, bringing with her an ample dowry. After her marriage she abandoned the ballet, and made her appearance as Dorcas Zeal, in Shadwell's Fair Quaker of Deal, with genuine success. "The gentle softness of her voice," says Cibber, "the composed innocence of her aspect, the modesty of her dress, the reserved decency of her gesture, and the simplicity of the sentiments that naturally fell from her, made her seem the amiable maid she represented." She survived her husband forty years.

--- "Some Account of the English Stage" Vol. 3 by John Genest, 1832, page 375:
Mrs. Hester Booth in all probability did not act after this season -- she seems to have been a pleasing actress with no great powers -- Theophilus Cibber speaking of her as Mrs. Santlow says -- "She was a beautiful woman, lovely in her countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing actress, and a most admirable dancer; generally allowed, in the last mentioned part of her profession, to have been superiour to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled."

--- "The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland" Part 1, by Theophilus Cibber, page 33:
In the year 1719 Mr. Booth married the celebrated Mrs. Hester Santlow: --- She was a beautiful Woman, lovely in her Countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing Actress, and a most admirable Dancer; generally allowed, in the last-mentioned part of her profession, to have been superior to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled: -- But, to do her Justice, she was more than all this, -- she was an excellent good wife; -- which he has frequently, in my hearing, talked of in such a Manner, as nothing but a sincere heart-felt gratitude could express; and I was often an eyewitness (our families being intimate) of their conjugal felicity. Her tender careful attendance on him, during his tedious illness, will not soon be forgot by his friends.

--- "The Dancing Master" Translated from French by J. Essex, 1728:
We have had a great many women attempt to be Theatrical Dancers, but none ever arrived to that height and pitch of applause as the incomparable Mrs. Booth, in whom art and nature are so beautifully wove together, that the whole web is of a piece so exquisitely formed to length and breadth, that the produce of the many different characters she represents is the wonder and admiration of the present age, and will scarce be credited by the succeeding. I shall beg leave to mention the Chaconne, Saraband, Menuet, in all which she appears with that grace, softness, and address none can look on but with attention, pleasure and surprise. She far excels all that went before her, and must be the just subject of imitation to all that dare attempt to copy after her. Besides all these, the Harlequin is beyond description, and the Hussar another opposite character in which she has no rival. All which show how many extensive as well as extraordinary qualifications must concentre in one person to form so bright a genius: A subject becoming the most elevated wit to describe, and the politest taste to contemplate.

--- "The Cornhill Magazine" Vol. 16 - 20, 1867, page 477:
Wilks looked at this "hash," and did not object to it. He was to play Orlando himself, he said, and he did, having for the first Rosalind on record as played by a woman, Mrs. Booth, the "Santlow, famed for dance," of Gay. Wonderful woman she was, with her dash of aristocratic beauty, and her all-conquering ways, and her supreme love for her husband; in token of which, and to indicate her enduring sorrow thirty years after his death, this first of our Rosalinds erected the tablet to his memory in Westminster Abbey, which still exists, but which, through dust, damp, and darkness, can now be deciphered only with difficulty.
. . . A handsomer pair than the Orlando and Rosalind who presented themselves on the stage of Drury Lane, on the 9th of January, 1723, the stage could not then supply. How they acted is nowhere on record; but Wilks's Orlando must have lacked no grace the part demanded; and Mrs. Booth's Rosalind was, in all probability, marked by more sauciness than passionate feeling in sentiment or expression. One thing is certain, that the public did not take to the piece kindly, and that they manifested a desire to have Shakspeare's original play, and not Johnson's mangling of three or four, to make an imperfect medley out of one perfect whole.
Whence came this English Rosalind no biography can tell. She first took the town by storm as a dancer. Terpsichore herself seemed to have visited the earth in the person of Hester Santlow, one of whose great points in the ballet was to let her clustered auburn hair suddenly loose over a pair of lustrous shoulders that carried the hearts of the whole house upon them. She was so full of fascination that even Marlborough would have given her gold for a smile; and Craggs, a cold Secretary of STate, did give her a house, where he was master and she was mistress. The daughter of that equivocal household married (successively) into the families of Hamilton and Eliot, whereby the present Marquis of Abercorn and Earl of St. German's are representatives or descendants of the earliest of our English Rosalinds, who left the ballet for comedy, but who was hardly equal to the exigencies of Shakspearean dramas. Yet her gifts were many; she had a soft, sweet voice, a refined aspect, and much intelligence, but she who originated, with such marked success the part of Dorcas Zeal left no mark in Rosalind.

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.

John married Joan "Joana" Kingswell on 02 Feb 1685/86 in All Saints, Godshill, Isle of Wight, Hampshire. Joan died before 20 Apr 1724; was buried on 20 Apr 1724 in St. Laurence Church, Cowley, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (Hillingdon, St Laurence, Cowley, 1562-1768, image 39 of 50):
Apr ye 20th 1724 Then Jone Santeloe of ye Parish of Hillingdon was buried.

Notes:

Married:

Indexing Project (Batch) Number M05996-1
Name John Saintelo
Spouse's Name Joan Kingswell
Event Date 02 Feb 1685
Event Place Godshill Isle Of Wight,Hampshire,England

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.