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Elizabeth HUMPHREYS

Elizabeth HUMPHREYS

Female 1647 - Bef 1686  (~ 38 years)

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  • Name Elizabeth HUMPHREYS  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Christening 11 Jul 1647  , Somerset, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Gender Female 
    Death Bef 1686  Kingsbury, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Person ID I12003  Ancestrees
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2024 

    Father Johanas (John) HUMPHREY,   b. Abt 1620, Kingsbury Episcopi, Somersetshire, ENG Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jan 1682, Drayton Parish, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Joan,   b. Bef 1632, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Aug 1679, Drayton Parish, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 47 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Bef 1647 
    Family ID F723  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John COATE, *,   b. 1641   d. 29 Feb 1700, Kingsbury, Somersetshire, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 29 Dec 1663  Kingsbury M.M., Somerset, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John COATE,   b. 6th da 9th mo 1665, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jun 1681, Kingsbury Episcopi M.M., Somershetshire, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 16 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Samuel COATE, *,   b. 11 mo 10 day 1670, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 23 Dec 1723, Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. James COATE,   b. 4th da 12th mo 1668, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 19 Apr 1705, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 37 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Henry COATE,   b. 27 Sep 1667, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1723 (Age > 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Elizabeth COATE,   b. 13th da 9th mo 1672, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1696 (Age > 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. Anne COATE,   b. Aft 1673, Of Curry Rivel Parish, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1762, Northhampton, Burlington, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 87 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1006  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2024 

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  • Notes 
    • Her name is definitely Elizabeth Humphreys. According to Quaker records when she is listed as the wife of John, her birthdate is given as July 7, 1647. She is listed as the mother of John's children in the 1660's in Somerset Co., England. Her surname is proven to be Humphries because of the following extracts from Minute Book 1 of Illchester M.M. in county Somerset, England. "15/12/1668 7th minute, from Kingsbury Meeting, "That Thomas Budd and George Taylor do again go and visit James Humprheys and Elizabeth Coate, his sister, and in God's love, warn them again to clear their conscience by their obedience to the truth, and that they no longer absent or withdraw themselves from the assemblies of God's people." 25/12/1668, "That Thomas Budd and George Taylor do again go and visit James Humprheys and Elizabeth Coate, his sister ...and that Elizabeth, as she is in a capacity, come to the Friend's Monthly or give forth a testimony against her being married by a priest."

      Further evidence has been found in the Southern Divison Quarterly Meeting Records which transferred data from the Monthly Meeting records into lists by one recorder. In the middle of the listing for John and Elizabeth Coate's children, her brother James Humphries and previously unknown wife Joan is listed with the birth of their daughter Joane Humphries. Her brother James is then listed in the baptismal records for the Church of England as from Kingsbury Episcopi and the son of John and Joane Humfry. Then to put the cherry on the cake, she and husband John Coate, named their first child John after her father. This was the most common Quaker naming pattern.

      Elizabeth did not ever come to America. She might be the Elizabeth Coate, widow, who died in the month called Feb of 1720/21 in Hambridge according to Somerset Quarterly Monthly Meeting Records for Somerset Co., England. (1720 In month 12, Eliz. Coate of Hambridge, died. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m3350x3351.htm] ) The problem with this is there is a John Coate of New Towne, Pennsylvania who was listed free of marriage engagements when he requested a return to England in the 1686. Therefore, I am accepting the theory that he was married twice, both times to an Elizabeth. (C-199, 253c)

  • Sources 
    1. [S1372] DAR, comp, Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (Daughters of the American Revolution, V. 31).

    2. [S161] Ernest S. Park, Ancestors & Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (unpub, c1950, 1960).

    3. [S59] Burial Friends Records of New Jersey.

    4. [S53] Burlington Friends Records, New Jersey.

    5. [S1369] Louise E. Jones to Eloise Worcester Letter dated 1984 at 36 E. Hickory Rd, Lombard, IL 60148 In L. Dudick files (C-199).

    6. [S54] Elizabeth Murphy Cann to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated May 1, 1985 at 2852 So. Webster, Denver, CO. 80227 In L. Dudick's files.

    7. [S45] England Birth and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org).

    8. [S2290] database, 23andMe, accessed 27 Oct 2015).