Elizabeth Sherley

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Elizabeth Sherley (Gorges)

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Daughter of Marmaduke Gorges and Margaret Gorges
Wife of Thomas Sherley of West Grinstead
Mother of Elizabeth Lee and Francis Shirley

Managed by: Frederic Charles Chambers
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About Elizabeth Sherley

Elizabeth Gorges (dau of Marmaduke Gorges alias Russell of Horsington, South Cheriton and Hatherley in the parish of Maperton, Somerset Co). She died about 1573.

The manor of West Grinstead, the crown manor, was granted to Thomas West, Lord de la Warr on the accession of Henry VII and retained for only 3 years. Before the year 1504 the manor had passed to Sir Henry Roos who bequesthed it to his wife Matilda. After her death in 1511, the manor devolved to his grandchild, Elizabeth, daughter of Marmaduke Gorges, then wife of Thomas Shirley

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