Elizabeth Ellzey

Is your surname Ellzey?

Research the Ellzey family

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Elizabeth Ellzey (Travers)

Also Known As: "Elizabeth Ellzey", "Elizabeth Cave"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Stafford County, Virginia, Colonial America
Death: October 1728 (24-25)
Stafford County, Virginia, United States
Place of Burial: Fairfax, VA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Giles Travers and Ann Travers
Wife of John Cave, III and Captain Lewis Lewis N Ellzey
Mother of Lewis Ellzey; John Ellzey; William Thomas Ellzey and Elizabeth Hancock
Sister of Ann Travers; Million Waugh and William Travers

Managed by: Robert Ellzey
Last Updated:

About Elizabeth Ellzey

Birth: (1a) d/o Giles TRAVERs/Anne WAUGH. Abt 1703. Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co., VA.

  • Marriage to John CAVE: (1) Abt 1717. Stafford Co., VA.
  • Marriage to Lewis ELZEY: (1) 1719. Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co., VA.
  • Death: (1) Oct 1728. Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co., VA.
<nowiki>--------</nowiki> extracted from swill of Giles Travers:

“Signed sealed published pronounced & declared by the said Giles Travis as and for his Last Will & Testament. In presence of us, Tho: Ellzey, Edwd. Watts, James Jervers.

“Giles sig GT Traverse

“At a Court held for Stafford County the 11th September 1717, The Last Will and Testament of Giles Travers, deced, was presented into Court by Raleigh Traverse & John Cave, his Executors who made oath thereto and the same being proved by the oaths of Thomas Ellzey & Edward Watts witnesses thereto the same is admitted to Record, And upon the motion of the said Raleigh Traverse and John Cave and their performing what is usual in such cases, Certificate is granted them for obtaining a Probate thereof in due form.

“George Mason, C. S. C.

“From Lib:H, folio 679. From the Record True Copy. H. Tyler, C.S.C.”

Elizabeth TRAVERS m1 John CAVE m2 Lewis ELZEY

Ann TRAVERS m1 William CAVE m2 Thomas DENT

Million TRAVERS m. Joseph WAUGH

Source: John Bennett Boddie, _Historical Southern Families_, vol. 2,

and also ‘The Register of Overwharton Parish Stafford County, VA

1723-1758,’ by George Harrison Sanford King. On pp. 247-248, King

states that Elizabeth was the only daughter by Ann WAUGH.

view all

Elizabeth Ellzey's Timeline

1703
1703
Stafford County, Virginia, Colonial America
1719
1719
Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia
1720
1720
1726
January 1726
Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia
1728
October 1728
Age 25
Stafford County, Virginia, United States
1729
1729
Fairfax, Holy See (Vatican City State)
????
prob. Pohick Church Cemetery (destroyed during Civil War), Fairfax, VA, United States