Elizabeth Maria Fielding

• Rose Polteney was not the wife of Prince Maurice, Count Palatine of the Rhine who died unmarried & without issue. Neither are known parents of this Elizabeth.
• This Elizabeth was not a known mother of Elizabeth Rucker
• This Elizabeth was supposedly born in Bristol, making it unlikely she was a daughter of parents seen as Edward Polteney (of London) and his supposed wife (married on an unlikely date) to Anne Adams (of London).

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Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Polteney-1

Elizabeth was born about 1654.

Elizabeth had her will drawn up on 29 Dec 1690, describing herself as a widow of the City of Bristol.[1] She made bequests to:

• my son WIlliam
• my daughter Elizabeth
• my daughter Susanna Iron ?
• my daughter Tyler
• my younger daughters Mary and Anna
• my sister Fryer
• her son Edward
• my son in law Tyler
• my sister Jane Barrett
• the churchwardens of the parish of St Peter, Bristol

She passed away about 1692.

Family

Elizabeth Maria POLTENEY b: Abt 1654 in Bristol,Gloucester,England Married: 1660 in England

Children

1. Elizabeth FIELDING b: 1676 in Bristol,Gloucester,England
2. Martha FIELDING adopted
3. Mary FIELDING adopted
4. Susannah FIELDING adopted
5. Anna FIELDING adopted
6. William FIELDING adopted

Notes

Edward Fields was an Alderman in the city of Bristol. His will was probated on 3/2/1693. He left a vast estate consisting of real estate in Bristol and 3 country estates; Arnold at Wolts and Cardet Hall and Eniterne in Mommouthshire. His estate also included several thousand pounds cash, silverplate, jewels, etc., which were bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth and his children, Elizabeth, Susannah, Martha, Mary, Anna and William. 500 acres in Northumberland County in Virginia was left to his nephew, Edward, the son of his brother Ambrose.

A copy of his will can be found in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12, P. 99-101.

Research Notes

The G2G < link > on her supposed father Maurice, Prince of the Palitinate concluded there was no evidence she was the da. of Maurice. Note he died in 1652 and above in the Gencom info her birth date was 1654, Maurice left England in 1646.

Sources

1. Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
2. The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 411
3. Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 5111 #766164 (accessed 29 October 2021)
4. Will of Elizabetha Feilding of Bristol, granted probate on 17 Sep 1692. Died Abt 1692.

See Also:

• Elizabeth Maria Polteney's profile on genopro.com https://familytrees.genopro.com/Azrael/Skaggs/Polteney-ElizabethMar...
• Ancestry Profile This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files.
• Renee Russo on familytreemaker.genealogy.com https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/s/Renee-B-Russo/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-...
• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 11 2020, 20:27:55 UTC
• Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 11, p. 453-455
• William and Mary Quarterly 1st series, Vol. 18, p.244,247-249.
• http://www.acreetree.net/fam00287.htm