Elizabeth (Smythe) Thorowgood (abt. 1590 - 1669)

Born about 1590 in London, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Neville — married 2 May 1609 in St Margaret, Lothbury, City of London, England

Descendants

Died 1669 at about age 79 in Billingbear, Berkshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth Smythe was a daughter of Sir John Smythe of Westenhanger, Kent, and Elizabeth Fineux.^[1][2][3]

Elizabeth was noted in the will of her grandmother Alice (Judde) Smythe, the will made on 10 Jul 1592, as the daughter of John Smythe.^[4]

In 1601 Elizabeth was recorded as the the god daughter of her uncle Robert Smithe, gentleman of London.^[5] He bequeathed to her a jewel priced twenty pounds.

Marriages

She married Sir Henry Nevill of Billingbeare, Berkshire.^[1][2]

Mistress Elizabeth Smith married Sir Henry Nevile on 02 May 1609 at St Margaret Lothbury, City of London.^[6]

There were five children of the marriage with Sir Henry Neville noted in the Nevill pedigree in the Visitation of Berkshire, namely: Richard, Henry, Katherine, Mary, and Philippa.^[2]

Elizabeth was a beneficiary of the will of her uncle Sir Thomas Smythe, the will made in Jan 1621/1622 and proved in 1625, in which she was recorded as Elizabeth, Lady Nevell.^[7]

Her husband Sir Henry Neville died 29 Jun 1629^[8] and he settled Billingbeare at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, on Elizabeth for her life.^[9] However, she was not mentioned in his will.^[10]

She married second Sir John Thoroughgood (or Thorowgood) of St John's Clerkenwell.^[2][11]

On 11 Jan 1653/1654 an order was made for Sir John Thorowgoood to maintain the three children of Sir Thomas Lunsford who married Katherine Nevill, daughter of Dame Elizabeth, now wife of Sir John Thorowgood. The said children, Elizabeth, Phillipa and Mary Lunsford, were carried away by their parents to Virginia and remained there until their parents' demise. They were then sent back to the parish of St Andrew, Holborn.^[12]

Dame Elizabeth was a beneficiary of the will of her second husband Sir John Thorowgood of Billingbeare, Berkshire, Knight, the will proved on 13 Nov 1657.^[13]

Children

• Katherine Neville (baptised on 09 Jan 1612 at St Margaret’s, Westminster; married Thomas Lunsford, Knt., at Binfield, Berkshire, on June 1, 1640)^[2][10][14]
• Mary Neville ( baptised 14 Jun 1613 at Binfield, Berkshire; married Borell?)^[2][10]
• Richard Neville (born 30 May 1615)^[2][10][15]
• Charles Neville (baptised 19 May 1617 at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire)^[16]
• Henry Neville (baptised 08 Apr 1619 at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire)^[2][10]
• Philippa Neville (baptised in 1620 at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire; married John Jephson)^{[2][10][17][18]}
• Philip Thorowgood (baptised 18 December 1632 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, son of John and Elizabeth^[19]; died 07 Jan 1632/1633, buried at Warfield, Berkshire^[20][21])

Death

She died in 1669.^[9][22]

Research Notes

There is a Marriage Licence dated 19 Sep 1608 for Stephen Thornehill of the City of London, Esquire, and Elizabeth Smith of Westenhanger. "In Capella de Ostenhanger".^[23] Is this a potential first marriage for Elizabeth Smythe, daughter of Sir John Smythe of Westenhanger, Kent? Her cousin Elizabeth Smythe married a Timothy Thornhill.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Visitation of Kent. Taken in the Years 1619-1621. The Publications of the Harleian Society Vol XLII. Edited by Robert Hovenden, 1898. Smith Pedigree pp 113-114 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} The Four Visitations of Berkshire. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol LVI, Rylands W H (Ed.), 1907. Nevill of Billingbeare Pedigre pp 249-250 Internet Archive.
3. ↑ Collins's Peerage of England. Vol VIII, 1812, pp 155-156 google books.
4. ↑ Will of Alice Smythe, Widow of London. 11 May 1598. PROB 11/91/377. The National Archives, Kew.
5. ↑ Will of Robert Smithe, Gentleman of London. 1601. PROB 11/97/37. The National Archives, Kew.
6. ↑ St Margaret Lothbury, City of London. Register. Accessed via Ancestry.
7. ↑ Will of Sir Thomas Smithe of London. 1625. PROB 11/147/84. The National Archives, Kew.
8. ↑ Neville, Sir Henry III (1588-1629), of Billingbear, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} 'Parishes: Waltham St Lawrence', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 179-184 BHO.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5} Will of Sir Henry Nevill of Billingbeare, Berkshire. 07 July 1629. PROB 11/156/104. The National Archives, Kew.
11. ↑ Thorowgood, John (1588-1657), of Brewer's Lane, Charing Cross, Westminster; later of Billingbear, Berks. and Clerkenwell, Mdx. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
12. ↑ Peter Wilson Coldham (1987) The Complete Book of Emigrants. 1607-1660.
13. ↑ Will of Sir John Thorowgood of Billingbear, Berkshire. 13 November 1657. PROB 11/265/718. The National Archives, Kew.
14. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2M7-K23 : 13 March 2020), Katherin Nevill in entry for Thomas Lunsford, 1640.
15. ↑ Neville, Richard (1615-76), of Billingbear, Binfield, Berks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 HOP.
16. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JW66-Q48 : 11 February 2018, Carolus Nevil, 19 May 1617); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 88,466.
17. ↑ Belcher, T W. Memoir of Sir Patrick Dun. 1866. Lady Dun's Pedigree Internet Archive.
18. ↑ Berry, H F. The English Settlement in Mallow under the Jephson Family. Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society. Vol. XII Scond Series, 1906, pp 1-24 (see p 4) Internet Archive.
19. ↑ St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex. Parish Register. Image of Register accessed via Ancestry.
20. ↑ Monumenta Anglicana: Being inscriptions on the monuments of several Eminent persons... Le Neve, John. 1719, p 140 Google Books
21. ↑ Ledgerstone Survey of England and Wales. Transcriptions from St Michael the Archangel, Warfield, Berkshire website of The Ledgerstone Survey
22. ↑ Thorowgood, Elizabeth, Billingbear, Waltham St. Lawrence, Dame. 1669. Ref: D/A1/128/73; MF547. Berkshire Wills. The Berkshire Record Office. NOT SEEN
23. ↑ Canterbury Marriage Licences. First Series 1568-1618. Edited by Joseph Meadows Cowper. 1892, p 413 family search. Stephen Thornehill and Elizabeth Smith.