Sir Herbert Price - Daughter/s of Herbert Price- Henrietta and/or Goditha?

Sharon Doubell C

12/13/2022 at 1:47 AM

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemoratio... calls Sir Herbert Price 's ONE daughter, Henrietta Maria Stanhope

They had four sons, including Sir Thomas Arden Price, and one daughter. Henrietta their daughter was a well known maid of honour to the Queen and married at St Andrew's Holborn in London in 1673 Alexander Stanhope, a lawyer (a son of Sir John). It seems she died in childbirth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Price calls her Goditha Price

Their daughter, the younger Goditha, was the mistress of the future King James II in the 1660s. According to Samuel Pepys, the affair was conducted with great discretion: a later mistress of James, Lady Denham, said scornfully that she would not "go up and down the back stairs like Mistress Price".[4] Goditha is thought to have had a daughter, Mary, by James. The Priory passed to Herbert's cousin Colonel John Jeffreys of Abercynrig, whose mother was a Price.

A bit of a puzzle :-/

Sharon Doubell C

12/13/2022 at 1:52 AM

Erica Howton

Erica Howton C

12/13/2022 at 2:32 AM

Goditha and Henrietta Maria were different people, of course.

The Windsor Beauties: Ladies of the Court of Charles II.” By Lewis Melville. Page 91. Does not identify Goditha’s father, nor could I see one at “Little Jennings and fighting Dick Talbot : a life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel.” by Sergeant, Philip Walsingham, 1872-. Page 167

https://archive.org/details/littlejenningsfi01sergiala/page/166/mod...

Sharon Doubell C

12/13/2022 at 10:00 PM

Yes, they definitely are.. "and/or" means 'were there 2 daughters or 1?'
Pepys does seem solid proof of Goditha, but I'm reluctant to throw out the Westminster Abbey's researcher as so much hot air.

Erica Howton C

12/13/2022 at 10:12 PM

Oh, I think it quite likely Goditha Price was not Herbert’s daughter. Did you check HOP biography? And shouldn’t there be a Will?

I found baptisms for Henrietta Maria & Thomas Arden Price, 2nd Baronet in London, which makes if weird that Goditha was supposedly born in Wales.

Even weirder, of course, is a lady in waiting’s daughter dying in the Highlands supposedly as a Jacobite Highland chiefs wife and passing on his sword to an American along with a porphyria gene.

But no judgment.

Sharon Doubell C

12/13/2022 at 11:01 PM

:-)

Would you remove her then?

Sharon Doubell C

12/13/2022 at 11:06 PM

Pepys' info doesn't include the death location, though.

Erica Howton C

12/14/2022 at 2:32 AM

Disconnected Goditha from parents and removed death data.

Mary Price Birth data might be findable.

Sir Herbert Price - Daughter/s of Herbert Price- Henrietta and/or Goditha?

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