Elizabeth Marbury

Francis Marbury married Elizabeth Moore c 1580 as his first wife, who had three children before she died. Francis became an Anglican minister.

Their children:

• Elizabeth Marbury b. c 1581
• Mary Marbury b. c 1583
• Susan Marbury b. 12 Sep 1585

About 1571, he began to teach and preach at the church in Northampton near the Dryden estate. Although Marbury had been educated at Cambridge University, he soon found that many of the Anglican ministers were not well educated but appointed to their positions by the ruling bishops for political reasons. The young minister so openly opposed this lack of an educated clergy that in 1578 he was arrested and sent to jail. After he was released, Marbury, now a widower, chose to move from Northampton. He married Bridget Dryden and they settled in Alford in Lincolnshire, about 125 miles from London. There Francis supported his growing family by preaching and teaching at St. Wilfred's Church.

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