Elizabeth Bates

John, Jr. & Elizabeth (Bates) Mildenhall/Mendenhall were married circa 1579 in England.

The profile picture is of the church cemetery where Elizabeth is buried.

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John Jr b 1560 Mendenhall (b.1560;d.Jun 1614-Ajmer, India) + Elizabeth (Bates) Mendenhall (b.1562;d.1602-Little Bedwin, England) buried in Ramsbury, Wiltshire because she had been married to Thomas Mildenhall of Marridge Hill, Ramsbury, Wilts. and Ramsbury was her parish church.

Elizabeth (Bates) and John Mendenhall: sonThomas Mendenhall+ b. circa 1580, d. 17-Mar-1638.

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John2 Mildenhall was born 1560 in Wiltshire, England, and died Jun 1614 in Amjer, India. He married Elizabeth. She was born 1564 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England, and died 1602 in Little Bedwin, England.

More About John Mendenhall: urial: Amjer, India.

I have personally seen the burial record for Elizabeth Bates Mildenhall in the records of the Church of the Holy Cross in Ramsbury 1602. The grave marker is not readable or not in place now. Also the grave marker for the wife of Thomas Mildenhall 1630-1682 is unreadable, I believe in that churchyard cemetery. It is listed on Findagrave as Joane Stroud Mildenhall 1631-1690. So the maiden names were given both times in the burial records. It is interesting that the burial for her husband, John Mildenhall b1560 is not recorded and done at the Church of the Holy Cross in Ramsbury. Instead we take note of the famous burial of John Mildenhall in Agra, India in the Catholic cemetery. John Mildenhall and Elizabeth Mildenhall were buried thousands of miles apart because John had become a merchant sea captain and ended up in India. (Allen Singleton) More About Elizabeth: urial: Ramsbury Church Cemetery.

The child of John Mendenhall and Elizabeth is: Thomas Mildenhall, born 1580 in Mildenhall, England; died 17 Mar 1637/38 in Marridge Hill, Ramsbury Parish, Wiltshire Engand.as recorded in the inventory of Thomas's chattels/tangible property.

Sources

• Where The Record Is Found (Citation) Letters of John Mildenhall, in Samuel Purchas, Purchas his pilgrimes (London: W. Stansby, 1625), Vol. 1, book 3, sec. 3, pp. 114-116.- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Purchas_his_pilgrimes/0jSN5RNa...
• Source Date: 1910 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25189697 Where The Record Is Found (Citation) Blunt, Edward Arthur Henry (1910). "The Tomb of John Mildenhall". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 42 (2): 495–498. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00039757. JSTOR 25189697. Describe The Record (Notes) Academic article about the John Mildenhall gravestone and a summary of his life/history and circumstances of death and transportation of his body for burial at Agra. Significant details: Alternative spelling of surname "Midnall." The original inscription on the tomb was in Portuguese and named "Joa de Mendenal Ingeles morreo aos [illegible] 1614." Mildenhall was not the first European burial but his stone is the oldest in this cemetery. Blunt concludes with this lovely piece: "John Mildenhall was not an estimable character. In plain words, he was a dishonest scoundrel. He cheated, or tried to cheat, Akbar with an assumption of ambassadorial dignitity; he tried to cheat the [East India] Company with concessions that, in all probability, he had never received; he ended by cheating his own employers, the merchants in London. Even after his death he keeps up his evil courses; in the pages of many historians, not to mention occasional periodicals, he still masquerades as "Sir" John, ambassador of Elizabeth. But he was of some note -- of a kind -- eevn in his own day; he was a pioneer of Anglo-Indian enterprise, not less enterprising than his many enterprising successors. He was one of the four Englishmen who spoke with Akbar face to face, and much the greatest of hte four. In gratitude for the deeds he did, his memory, like his bones, may be allwoed to rest in peace; and the discovery of his last resting-place, which is certainly the oldest English tomb at present known in Upper India, if not in all India, may be recorded with pleasure."
• Source Date: 1911 Web Page (Link to the Record)- https://archive.org/details/listofinscriptio00blunuoft/ Where The Record Is Found (Citation) Blunt, E. A. H. List of inscriptions on Christian tombs and tablets of historical interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahabad: W.C. Abel, Off. Supt., Govt. Press, United Provinces, 1911. 39-40. https://archive.org/details/listofinscriptio00blunuoft/ Describe The Record (Notes) Transcription of gravestone: "Joa de Mendenal, Ingles, morreo aos l(...) de Junho de 1614." Also some brief information about Mildenhall: informant believes "Midnall" to be the most correct spelling. Departed for East Indies on February 19, 1599. Arrived in Constantinope in October 1599, stayed there until May 1600. Traveled through Aleppo, Julfa, Tabriz, Kazvin, Yezd, and Seistan to Kandahar. Reached Lahore in 1603. Returned to England prior to 1609. In 1614 he was on another voyage to the East, which appears to have started in 1611. He "absconded" to Persia with goods and was pursued by English merchants Newman and Steel. Arrived in India, fell ill at Lahore, got as far as Ajmer, where he died, but body was transported to be buried at Jesuit cemetery in Agra. (Page 41 has description of the source [Factory Records, Surat volume 84, part I, page 131] that confirms his body was moved -- out of his estate 250 rupees were given to sercants and for the "carrying of Midnall's corpse and interring at Agra.") Left his property to "two natural children of his in Persia" and made a Frenchman called Augustine their executor. Also remarks of intention of British government to put a tablet with an English inscription on the tomb.
• John Mildenhall, by Wikipedia