ID: I11814
Name: Elizabeth Coker
Sex: F
Birth: in Laurence Lydiard, Somerset
LVG: 1463
Note: 1 2 Or Elizabeth Croker (dau of Sir John Croker of Lydeard)? --- This Elizabeth, recorded as the "Maid of Coker", married Sir John Seymour of the adjoining county of Wilts. In Burke's Peerage it is stated that John Seymour, Sheriff of Wilts., married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Coker, Kt., of Lawrence Lydiard in Somerset. The transfer of Somerset estates from Coker to Seymour and of Seymour from Wilts to Somerset had interesting results, ending among other things, to a Seymour becoming Duke of Somerset. --- Her son John Seymour was heir of his cousin Margaret Stourton, nee Coker.
_UID: B3872B2C10D54116BBD44576F9596F39117C
Change Date: 2 APR 2013
Father: Robert Coker b: ABT 1401
Mother: Jane Arundell b: ABT 1416
Marriage 1
John Seymour b: 1430
Children
Humphrey Seymour John Seymour b: 1450 Marriage 2
Nicholas Carew b: ABT 1433
Children
John Carew Sources:
- Type: Web Site
Title: Stirnet Genealogy Author: Patrick Barns-Graham URL: www.stirnet.com
- Type: Web Site
Title: "The History of Cokers in America and some in England" Author: June Burkman URL: http://www.toddcoker.com/genealogy/cokerhistory.htm
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