Elizabeth Oldham

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Storke-9

Elizabeth Storke was born about 1687 in Virginia and her parents were Behethland (Gilson) and Nehemiah Storke . [1]

By 28 Jan 1701/02 Elizabeth Storke had first married to Thomas Newton [2] and their children included ...

1. Willoughby Newton, b: 1702; d: 1766; m: Sarah Eskridge
2. Katherine Newton, b: c1703; m: ??? Brent
3. Elizabeth Newton, b: c1705; m1: William Keene; m2: Maj. John Waulhope
4. Behethland Newton, b: c1707; m1: Rev. Walter Jones; m2: Robert Newsom, Jr.; m3: possibly Gavin Lowry

Thomas Newton died in 1727 and in 1728 Elizabeth married secondly to Col. Samuel Oldham. [4]

She died in April 1759 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The date of Elizabeth's death is inscribed on her headstone which is much decayed but reads:

"Beneath this stone are deposited the Remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Oldham ...

Departed this Life on the ... Day of April, 1759, in the 72nd year of her Age." [6]

Notes

The above mentioned tombs at Wilmington were, doubtless, loving tributes paid by the first Willoughby Newton, of Westmoreland, to his wife and his mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Oldham was the daughter of Nehemiah Starke, of Washinton Parish, and stepdaughter of Major Andrew Gilson, who married Behethland Dade. She married, first, Capt. Thomas Newton (son of the emigrant John, "master mariner"), and after his death, in 1728, she married again, Col. Samuel Oldham. In a deed (September 28, 1728) conveying her part of land granted by patent to her mother Gilson, she styles Willoughby Newton "my son and heire."

References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I3192...
2. WikiTree contributors, "Elizabeth (Storke) Newton (abt.1687-1759)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Storke-9 : accessed 09 April 2024). cites
   1. "Descendants of Captain Robert Behethland of Jamestown" by John Baily Calvert Nicklin & Genealogies of Virginia Families From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine v1 p243 Adams-Clopton; Indexed by Carol Lee Ford; Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. of Baltimore, MD in 1982
   2. "Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800" p263 by Robert K. Headley, Jr. & Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. of Baltimore, MD in 2003; Marriages and Marriage References from the Counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Old Rappahannock, Richmond, and Westmoreland.
   3. Richmond County, Virginia Order book#4 (1705-1706) p136 by Antient Press.
   4. "U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900" compiled by Yates Publishing on ancestry.com
   5. Westmoreland County Virginia Deeds & Wills" #8 part#1 p119 (1723-1738) by Antient Press
   6. "Inscriptions on Old Tombstones in Westmoreland and Northumberland Counties" (copied from the tombstones by Rev. Dr. G. W. Beale, of Heathsville, Northumberland County)
   7. "Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607-1624/5" by John Frederick Dorman; edition#4 by Genealogical Publishing Co. of Baltimore, MD in 2004.
   8. LDS and family search records