Helen Browne

Birth Record

Thus to 2(?) day of May a{nn}o 1437 [sic]

Ellen Harding was born upon Saint Ellen’s day the day and year abovesaid., born on(?) Thursday about 7 o’clock in the morning, and Sir John Gresham, mercer, her uncle, was godfather, and Mistress Eleanor Marshe, her granddam, and Elizabeth Pakington, her aunt, and Mary Gresham, those were her godmothers. And God make her a good old woman.

Source: Howard, Joseph Jackson and Frederick Arthur Crisp, eds., Visitation of England and Wales, Vol. I, 1896, p. 76