Elizabeth Fazakerley

Elizabeth Fazakerley

Female - 1746

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  • Name Elizabeth Fazakerley  [1
    Cause of Death Small Pox 
    Died 19 May 1746  Grosvenor-Square, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Cause: Small Pox 
    Buried 26 May 1746  St. Mary and All Saints,Trentham, Staffordshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I00352  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 18 Oct 2023 

    Husband 1st Marquess of Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower,   b. 04 Aug 1721,   d. 26 Oct 1803, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 23 Dec 1744  [1
    Children 
     1. Granville Leveson-Gower,   b. 14 May 1746, Gorsvenor-Square, London Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 May 1746, Grosvenor-Square, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00157  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • --- Her dowry was £16,000.

      --- "Stamford Mercury" 22 May 1746, page 3:
      On Sunday died the new-born Son of the Hon. Levison Gower, Esq; at his House in Great Grosvenor-Street, and last Night his Lady lay so dagerously ill of the Small-Pox that her Life was despaired of.

      --- "Stamford Mercury" 29 May 1746, page 2:
      London, May 24.
      On Monday last died in Childbed, at his House in Grosvenor-square, the Lady of the Hon. Leveson Gower, Esq; Sone to the Lord Gower. She was Daughter to Nicholas Fazackerly, Esq; Member of Parliament for Preston in Lancashire.

      --- "A Supplement to the Four Volumes of the Peerage of England" Vol. 1, 1750, by Arthur Collins, page 229:
      Granville-Levison, third Son, now Lord Viscount Trentham, married, in 1744, Elizabeth, Daughter of Nicholas Fazakerley, of Penwitham near Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Esq; who died in Childbed of the Small Pox, at his Lordship's House in Great Grosvenor-Street, Monday May 19, 1745, and her Son, named John, born May 14, havingt also the Small Pox, died May 18 following.

  • Sources 
    1. "Dictionary of National Biography" Stephen & Lee, 1889, Volume 18, page 271.

    2. Scan of Original Burial Record.