Elizabeth Malet Seymour (Palk), Countess of Rochester

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Elizabeth Malet Seymour (Palk), Countess of Rochester

Also Known As: "Elizabeth Mallet Palk", "Elizabeth Mallet Palt", "Elizabeth Mallet Polk", "Elizabeth Mulet Palk", "Elizabeth Palk"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Frome, Somerset, England
Death: January 18, 1827 (33-34)
Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Place of Burial: Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet and Dorothy Elizabeth Vaughan
Wife of Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour
Mother of Lt.-Col. Charles Francis Seymour; Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, GCB; Adelaide Spencer, Dowager Countess Spencer and Gertrude Elizabeth Seymour
Sister of Sir Lawrence Palk, 3rd Baronet and Mary Palk

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About Elizabeth Malet Seymour (Palk), Countess of Rochester

Elizabeth Malet Seymour(Palk), Countess of Rochester Not to be confused with Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester] 1651 – 20 August 1681- two completely different people and lineages.

Biography

Elizabeth Malet Seymour(Palk), Countess of Rochester was born in 1793 in Frome, Somerset, England and was baptized in 1797 in St Mary le Bow and St Pancras Soper Lane with All Hallows Honey Lane, London, England, United Kingdom. Her parents were Sir Lawrence Palk, MP, 2nd Baronet and Dorothy Elizabeth Vaughan. She was the granddaughter of[Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet MP]
Elizabeth married Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour on May 15, 1818, in England. Together they had the following children:

  1. Lt.-Col. Charles Francis Seymour;
  2. Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, GCB;
  3. Adelaide Spencer, Dowager Countess Spencer;
  4. Gertrude Elizabeth Seymour.

She died on January 18, 1827, in Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom and was buried in January 1827 there.




Elizabeth Malet Seymour (Palk), Countess of Rochester married [Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour] was the son of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour on May 15, 1818. (son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford) and Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Malet Palk, daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet and granddaughter of Sir Robert Palk, on 15 May 1818.

They had three children; (that survived to adulthood; one child, Gertrude Elizabeth Seymour died age 2)

  1. Lt. Col. Charles Francis Seymour (13 September 1819 – 5 November 1854), killed at the Battle of Inkerman
  2. Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester (12 April 1821 – 30 March 1895)
  3. Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour (27 January 1825 – 29 October 1877), who married Frederick Spencer, 4th # Earl Spencer, and was an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Seymour]
  4. Gertrude Elizabeth Seymour, christened January 20, 1827, christened St. Mary's Hampton, England

References http://www.thepeerage.com/p10105.htm#i101046

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Citations:

[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1886. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1, page 157. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

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Elizabeth Malet Seymour (Palk), Countess of Rochester's Timeline

1793
1793
Frome, Somerset, England
1797
1797
Age 4
St Mary le Bow and St Pancras Soper Lane with All Hallows Honey Lane, London, England, United Kingdom
1819
September 13, 1819
England
1821
April 12, 1821
Bruton St.,Westminster,Middlesex,England
1825
January 27, 1825
Westminster, Middlesex, England
1827
January 12, 1827
England
January 18, 1827
Age 34
Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
January 1827
Age 34
Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom