Lady Elizabeth Norreys

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Lady Elizabeth Norreys (Harrington)

Also Known As: "Percival Harrington"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Westby, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: circa 1435 (27-36)
Bray, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir James Harrington "Esquire of Westby Lane" and Ellen Urswick, Countess of Badsworth
Wife of Sir William Norreys, of Speke
Mother of Thomas Norris; Catherine le Grosvenor; Agnes Bunbury, of Stanney; Elizabeth Gerard; Beatrice Norreys and 2 others
Sister of Richard Harrington; William Harrington and Lady Joan ‘Johanna’ Harrington
Half sister of Margaret (Harrington) Lumley; Richard MacKerness; Agnes Molyneux; Anne Molyneux; Robert Molyneux and 4 others

Managed by: Erica Howton
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About Lady Elizabeth Norreys

Elizabeth Harrington was born in 1403.  She was also known as Percival.[1]

  • Parents: daughter and heiress of Sir James Harrington (1375-1417), Esquire, of Westby Lane; and Ellen Urswick (born about 1364-), widow of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton.

Married

  1.  around 1416 to William Norreys of Speke, Lancashire (-died after 1453). He was the son of Sir Henry Norreys of Speke and Alice Ernys.

William Norreys and Perceval had a large family and was succeeded by his son Thomas. They had four sons: Thomas, John, William, and Richard; and daughters Catherine, Agnes, Elizabeth, Margaret, Beatrice, and Jane.

Notes

  1.  Burke's Commoners identifies William's wife as Perceval, daughter of John Harrington, but Ormerod and The Visitation of Cheshire, 1567, identifies her as Elizabeth.

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Lady Elizabeth Norreys's Timeline

1403
1403
Westby, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
1420
March 6, 1420
Speke, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
1435
1435
Age 32
Bray, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1436
1436
Speake, Lancashire, England
1440
1440
Speke, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
1463
1463
Speke, Lancashire, England
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Speke, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
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Speke, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
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Speke, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)