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Elizabeth Washington (Light)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Radway Grange, Warwickshire, England
Death: before 1590
Sulgrave, South Northamptonshire, England,
Place of Burial: England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Walter Light, of Radway Grange and Ursula Woodford
Wife of Robert Washington, Sr., Esquire of Sulgrave Manor
Mother of Leonard Washington; Lawrence Washington II; Robert Washington, Jr.; Anne Aimee Washington; Walter Washington and 4 others
Sister of Alice Katherine Morden

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About Elizabeth Washington

Robert Washington married twice, firstly, in 1565 to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Walter Light (Lyte) of Radway Grange, and a descendant of the Villiers family. The marriage is recorded in the original glass panel dating from about 1580 in the Great Chamber window [of Sulgrave Manor] where the W arms are impaled with the Lyte arms.

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From Rambles Round the Edge Hills and in the Vale of the Red Horse By George Miller. Page 23.

A family of the name of Light was in possession of this property soon after. Robert Washington, of Sulgrave, married Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Light, of Radway Grange, the eldest of their children being born about 1578.


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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ODTs/WASHINGTON.shtml Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire 1596 - Will of Walter Light of Radway Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 1. By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters. Page 709-170


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Elizabeth Washington's Timeline

1547
1547
Radway Grange, Warwickshire, England
1565
1565
1567
1567
Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
1568
1568
Whitefield, Lancs. Eng.
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1570
Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
1570
Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England
1573
1573
Sulgrave, Northampton, Eng.
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