Ann Williams

Ann Williams

Female - 1723

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  • Name Ann Williams 
    Died 11 Apr 1723  [1
    Buried 20 Apr 1723  Eliot Family Vault, St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I00977  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 

    Husband William Eliot,   b. Bef 21 Sep 1668,   d. Bef 24 Feb 1704/05  (Age < 36 years) 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Eliot,   d. Bef 31 Aug 1726
     2. Katherine Eliot,   d. Bef 07 Aug 1728
     3. Unknown Eliot
     4. Edward Eliot,   b. Abt 1683, Cuddenbeak Manor, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Sep 1722  (Age 39 years)
     5. John Eliot,   b. Bef 06 Jun 1693,   d. 26 Sep 1693  (Age > 0 years)
     6. Richard Eliot,   b. 06 Sep 1694, Cuddenbeak Manor, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Nov 1748, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00060  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • --- Transcription of St. German's Floor Slab Memorial:
      Here lyes the Body of Ann
      Relict of William Eliot, Esq.
      By whom she had four sons
      And Two Daughters
      She departed this Life
      On the 11 day of April
      In the year of our Lord
      Lamented by all that knew her.

      To her Verteous and Pious memory
      This Stone was Laid
      By her truely affectionate
      And Dutifull Daughter in law
      Elizabeth Eliot.

      Arms carved on above slab are those of Eliot and Williams. The Williams Arms shown are those of the family of the Williams of Thame (Oxfordshire) and Burfield (Burghfield), Berkshire.

      --- Aside from the fact that Ann and her husband lived at Cuddenbeak by 1693, almost nothing is known about this Eliot grandmother. Even though her father is recorded in family records as "Lawrence Williams of Ireland", was he a relative of the Williams family of Thame and Burfield? A connection has yet to be established between the families, but the arms on the floor slab belong, without doubt, to that family.

      --- "Heraldic Church Notes from Cornwall", by Arthur Jewers, pub. Mitchell and Hughes, 1889, page 71-72:
      "The next to claim our attention is the series of monuments of the St. Germans family, the earliest of which is no earlier than 1723. It is a floor slab in memory of Ann, relict of William Eliot, Esq., by whom she had four sons and two daughters. She died 11th April 1723, and to her memory this stone was placed by her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Eliot.

      This lady was a daughter of Lawrence Williams, of Ireland, her husband being an officer in the Royal Navy, and son of Nicholas, fifth son of Sir John Eliot, of Port Eliot. Their children were --- Edward, who inherited Port Eliot from his cousin Daniel Eliot; Richard, who succeeded his nephew James, and was ancestor of the earls of St. Germans; and two sons, who died young; Catherine, married to Sir Nicholas Trevanion; Elizabeth, married the Rev. Samuel Trewbody, rector of Jacobstowe, at St. Germans 7th of November 1719, and buried there 31st of August 1726."

  • Sources 
    1. Tombstone Inscription.

    2. [S00008] St. German's Parish Records, www.cornwall-opc-database.org, (Name: Name: Name: Online Parish Records;;;).