Katherine Eliot
1687 - 1724 (37 years)
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Name Katherine Eliot Born 11 May 1687 [1] Christened 25 May 1687 Edmondsham, Dorset 
[2] Died 14 Oct 1724 Whaddon-Hall, Whaddon, Buckinghamshire [3] Buried St. Mary's, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire [4] Person ID I00293 Eliots of Port Eliot Last Modified 16 Jun 2021
Father Daniel Eliot, b. Abt 1646, Portsmouth, Hampshire , d. 11 Oct 1702, St. Germans, Cornwall (Age 56 years) Mother Katherine Fleming, b. Abt 1665, d. Bef 20 Dec 1687 (Age < 22 years) Family ID F00062 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Husband Browne Willis, b. 14 Sep 1682, Blandford, Dorset , d. 05 Feb 1760, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire (Age 77 years) 
Married16 Dec 1707 Somerford Keynes, Wiltshire [5] Children 1. Catherine Willis, b. Bef 10 Feb 1708/09, d. 30 Dec 1772 (Age > 63 years) 2. Gertrude Willis, b. Bef 10 Feb 1708/09, d. 16 Jan 1772 (Age > 62 years) 3. Jane Willis, b. 11 Jan 1709/10, d. 25 Nov 1710 (Age 0 years) + 4. Thomas Willis, b. 27 Dec 1710, d. 18 Jun 1756 (Age 45 years) 5. John Willis, b. Bef 27 Dec 1711, d. Lancashire + 6. Henry Willis, b. Bef 10 Feb 1711/12, d. 1746, Bridgewater, Somerset (Age > 33 years)+ 7. Mary Willis, b. Bef 18 May 1714, d. Jan 1791 (Age > 76 years) + 8. Alice Willis, b. 27 Jan 1714/15, d. Feb 1786 (Age 71 years) 9. Francis Willis, b. Bef 05 Nov 1717, d. 1718 (Age > 0 years) 10. Eliot Willis, b. Bef 14 Aug 1719, d. 14 Jul 1752 (Age > 32 years) Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 Family ID F00063 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes
--- Some Account of Browne Willis, Esq; L.L.D. Late Senior Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume 8, by Andrew Coltee Ducarel, 1760, pages 2-3:
Upon the Death of this Lady, Mr. Willis erected a Monument in Bletchley Church, with the following Inscriptions, viz.
Here under resteth the Body of Catherine, only Child of Daniel Elliot, of Port Elliot, in the County of Cornwall, Esq; Wife of Browne Willis, Esq; Lord of these Manors; by whom she had Issue ten Children; of which four Sons, and four Daughters survive her, viz. Thomas, John, Henry, Elliot, Gertrude, Catherine, Mary, Alice. Both she ahd her Husband, were descended from the ancient Lords of this and the adjoining Parish of Whaddon, when departing this Life at Whaddon-Hall, Oct. 2, 1724, in the 38th Year of her Age, she was, according to her Desire, here interred.
Here also lyeth the Body of Anne, the Wife of Thomas Willis, Esq; who died May 21, 1739, aged 22 Years and 5 Days.
Elliot Willis, A.M.
Coll Trinitatis Oxon. Scholaris,
Ac hujus Ecclesiae, B. M. V. Rector,
Obiit July 24, 1752,
Anno Aetatis suae 33.
--- "The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham" Vol. 4, George Lipscomb, 1847, page 12:
The Lady of Browne Willis, Esq. was very nobly descended, vis. from Walter Giffard Earl of Buckingham, who was Lord of this Manor in the reign of the Conqueror.*
*She was a lady of great prudence and virtue, and evinced some literary talents; having written, with the assistance of a worthy Clergyman in the neighbourhood, that pious and popular work, called The Whole Duty of Man, which Browne Willis made the subject of a continual jest.
(In 1717 Willis published anonymously ‘The Whole Duty of Man, abridged for the benefit of the Poorer Sort'.)
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Sources - Legal Document (dated 25 May 1711) of Mortgage, Daniel Eliot and Katherine Fleming at Cornwall Record Office.
- Dorset, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (Edmondsham, 1680-1689, image 1 of 6).
- "GM of Eliot and Craggs" (Pedigree of the Noble Family of Eliot) Page 13.
- [S00020] Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Eliot of Port Eliot and Craggs of Wyserley, Copied from Documents in the possession of the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Germans, (Name: Name: Taylor and Company, London 1868;;).
- "Wiltshire, England, Marriages, 1538-1837".
- Legal Document (dated 25 May 1711) of Mortgage, Daniel Eliot and Katherine Fleming at Cornwall Record Office.