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Elizabeth Markham (Webster)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: England (United Kingdom)
Death: circa 1688 (59-68)
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Webster, 5th Gov. of Connecticut Colony and Agnes Webster
Wife of William Markham of Hadley
Mother of William Markham, Jr.; Lydia Eastman; John Markham and Mercy Markham
Sister of Matthew Webster; Margaret Hunt; William Webster; Thomas Webster; Lt. Robert Webster, Sr. and 3 others

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About Elizabeth Markham

William Markham of Hadley married second about 1658 to Elizabeth Webster, daug of Gov John & Agnes (Smith ) Webster. [2].

6. Elizabeth (2), married William Markham as his second wife and is said to have died in 1688. Gov. John Webster in his will mentions her as his "daughter Marcam."

Children:

  1. William Jr. (lll) was killed at Northfield 4 Sep 1675 with Capt Beers by Indians 4 Sep 1675.
  2. Lydia b. 1650, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d., Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts married 1682 to Timothy Eastman
  3. John died at age 3 years
  4. Mercy died young

Conflicting data

They had no children. / They had one child. / They had four children.

References

  • https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elizabeth_Webster_%289%29 cites
    • The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) <AmericanAncestors> Leslie Mahler, FASG, The English Origin of Nathaniel 1 Ward of Hartford, Connecticut, And Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary 1 (Ward) Cutting of Newbury, Massachusetts, Rebecca 1 (Ward) Allen of Newbury, And Their Nephew William 1 Markham of Hadley:: A Previously Unnoticed Kinship Group, in American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus) 83:13.
  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Webster-521 cites
    • Mason, George William. Ancestors and Descendants of Elisha Mason, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1759-1858, and His Wife Lucretia Webster, 1766-1853 (Mattatuck Press, Waterbury, Conn, 1911) Page 105. <Archive.Org >
  • “Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. “. By Lucius Barnes Barbour. Page 379. <GoogleBooks >
  • Elizabeth's birth, marriage, and death information are available at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Webster-521
  • Elizabeth and William were married in 1658.
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Elizabeth Markham's Timeline

1624
March 16, 1624
England (United Kingdom)
May 10, 1624
Cossington, Leicester, England, England
May 10, 1624
Cossington, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
May 10, 1624
Cossington, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
May 10, 1624
Cossington, Leicester, Eng.
May 10, 1624
Cossington, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
May 10, 1624
Cossington, Leicestershire, England
1627
April 16, 1627
Age 3
1656
1656
Massachusetts, or, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, Colonial America