Elizabeth HUMPHREYS^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

1647 - Bef 1686  (~ 38 years)

• Name	Elizabeth HUMPHREYS
  Christened	11 Jul 1647	, Somerset, ENG   [7]
  Gender	Female
  Died	Bef 1686	Kingsbury, Somerset, England   [8]
  Person ID	I1231	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Johanas (John) HUMPHREY,   b. Abt 1620, Kingsbury Episcopi, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. Jan 1682, Drayton Parish, Somerset, England  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Joan,   b. Bef 1632, Of Wiltshire, England ,   d. 3 Aug 1679, Drayton Parish, Somerset, England  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Married	Bef 1647
  Family ID	F1064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John COATE, *,   b. Abt 1641,   d. 29 Feb 1700, Kingsbury, Somersetshire, ENG
  Married	29 Dec 1663	Kingsbury M.M., Somerset, ENG
  Children	1. John COATE,   b. 6th da 9th mo 1665, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG ,   d. 4 Jun 1681, Kingsbury Episcopi M.M., Somershetshire, ENG  (Age 16 years)   2. Henry COATE,   b. 27th da 7th mo 1667, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG ,   d. Aft 1723  (Age 57 years)   3. James COATE,   b. 4th da 12th mo 1668, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG ,   d. Bef 19 Apr 1705, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 37 years)   4. Samuel COATE, *,   b. 10 Jan 1670, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG ,   d. Bef 23 Dec 1723, Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ, USA  (Age 53 years)   5. Elizabeth COATE,   b. 13th da 9th mo 1672, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG ,   d. Aft 1696  (Age 25 years)   6. Anne COATE,   b. Aft 1673, Of Curry Rivel Parish, Somerset, England ,   d. 1762, Northhampton, Burlington, NJ  (Age ~ 88 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F6160	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

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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

  [S3060] Ernest S. Park, Ancestors & Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (unpub, c1950, 1960). [S2819] Burlington Friends Records, New Jersey. [S2823] Louise E. Jones to Eloise Worcester Letter dated 1984 at 36 E. Hickory Rd, Lombard, IL 60148 In L. Dudick files (C-199). [S2827] Elizabeth Murphy Cann to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated May 1, 1985 at 2852 So. Webster, Denver, CO. 80227 In L. Dudick's files. [S2842] DAR, comp, Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (Daughters of the American Revolution, V. 31). [S718] Burial Friends Records of New Jersey. [S809] England Birth and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org). [S758] database, 23andMe , accessed 27 Oct 2015). (Reliability: 0).