 Abt 1645 - 1731 (~ 86 years)
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| Name |
Freke, Frances |
| Born |
Abt 1645 |
Of Harrington, Wiltshire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Buried |
20 Feb 1730/31 |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England |
| Person ID |
I09894 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 May 2015 |
| Family 1 |
Norton, George, b. Abt 1648, Of Abbott's Leigh, Somerset, England , d. 25 Apr 1715, Abbott's Leigh, Somerset, England (Age ~ 67 years) |
| Family ID |
F03128 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Westminster Abbey:
“Near this place lyes all that is mortal of ELIZABETH and JUDITH daughters of RALPH FREKE of Hannington in Wiltshire, Esq. by CECILIA his wife, daughter of Sir THOMAS COLEPEPER of Hollingbourn in Kent. ELIZABETH was marry’d to PIERCY FREKE, of West Bilney in Norfolk Esq, and was ye mother of Sir RALPH FREKE Bart. deceased, the father of a flowrishing posterity there. She was of excellent life, frugal to be munificent, a lively Christian pattern of charity & self-denial. She dyed Aprill 7th 1714 aged 69 years. JUDITH was the wife of ROBERT AUSTIN of Tenterden in Kent Esq. and ye mother of a very considerable and hopefull famely in that county. She dyed ye 19th May 1716, aged 64 years. They were both great examples to theyr sex, the best of daughters, the best of wives, & the best of mothers. Frances Lady Norton widdow of Sir George Norton of Abbots Leigh in Somersetshire, theyr mournfull sister, has in the year of our Lord 1718 erected this monument of her love & recommends the imitation of the virtue of her dear sisters to theyr descendants for ever. Which said Lady Norton has ordered by her will, her executor to bury her near this place by her daughter Lady Gethin’s monument”.
Ambrose Norton cousin of her first husband.
Colonel Ambrose Norton died 10th. Sept., 1723, in his seventy-seventh year. Buried in Bath Abbey, M. I.
He married, first:
Margaret Littleton, widow, of St. Martin's in the Fields, at about 30, at Westminster Abbey, June 8, 1685.
Second:
Martha Lowe, buried at St. Martin's in the Fields, Feb. I, 1713-14.
Third:
Dame Frances Norton, widow of Sir George Norton. Married at the Chapel Royal, White- hall, April 23, 1718. She married, thirdly, William Jones, Esq., and died, Feb. 20, 1730-31, aged ninety, buried at Westminster Abbey.
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