Lady Rebecca Gooch

Rebecca, also referred to as "Lady Gooch" and "Dame Rebecca Gooch", was an English noblewoman.
Lady Staunton was born in 1685 in Hampton, London, the daughter of Robert Staunton, a squire.[7]
In 1714 she married Sir William and moved with him to the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia when he became Colonial Governor in 1727.[8] While in Williamsburg, she served as mistress of a large plantation, directing the activities of the household and social engagements.
As an early "first lady" of Colonial Virginia, Lady Staunton has been described as a "woman of queenly graces of mind and heart."
Lady Staunton and her husband had one son, Major William Gooch, (b. 1716); he died in Virginia in 1742 aged 26 from the "Bloody Flux."
In 1749 they moved to the Benacre Hall estate in Suffolk, where Lady Staunton lived until her death in 1775.
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The city of Staunton, Virginia is named after her.