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    Somner, Elianor

    Female Abt 1644 - 1726  (~ 82 years)


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    • Name Somner, Elianor 
      Born Abt 1644  Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died Y  [1
      Buried 16 Oct 1726  Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I05837  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 16 Jun 2015 

      Family Axford, Issac,   b. Abt 1647, Of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 17 Nov 1729, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years) 
      Married 31 May 1669  Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. Axford, Henry,   b. Abt 1670, Of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 7 Mar 1728, St John the Baptist, Devizes, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 58 years)
      +2. Axford, Issac,   c. 8 Nov 1671, Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 6 Nov 1739, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years)
      +3. Axford, John,   b. Abt 1672, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 27 Sept 1727, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years)
      +4. Axford, Elinor,   b. Abt 1674, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1719-1723, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 49 years)
      +5. Axford, Anne,   b. Abt 1682, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1761, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 79 years)
       6. Axford, William,   b. Abt 1686, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 28 Apr 1761, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
      +7. Axford, Grace,   b. Abt 1690, Of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1719, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 30 years)
      Family ID F01070  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • May be of Cheverall and have a brother William -see will of John Greenhill 1694.

        Here Lyeth the Body
        of Eleanor, the Wife of
        Isaac Axford, Gent.
        Who departed this Life
        The 16th Day of October 1726
        In the 83rd Year of her Age.
        Here also Lyeth the Body
        Of Isaac Axford, Gent. Who
        Departed this life the 17th of
        November, 1729, in the 83rd year
        of his Age.

        British History Online
        Parishes - Little Cheverell
        ... (fn. 175) William Sumner, rector in 1458 and a student of theology, was granted a dispensation to hold in plurality if he wished. (fn. ...


        William Somner was born abt. 1606 in Great Cheverall, Wiltshire, England. He married Female Merryweather . Female Merryweather, daughter of John The Elder Merryweather , was born abt. 1606.

        Notes for William Somner:
        Name: William Somner
        Born: abt. 1606 Great Cheverall, Wiltshire, England

        Notes for Female Merryweather:
        Name: Female Merryweather
        Born: abt. 1606

        Could she be of Seen. See witness to will:
        [P.C.C. 10 MEADE.] WILL OF ANNE STOKES OF SEEND, 1617-18. Anne Stokes of Seeme, in the parish of Melksham, spinster, 22 October, 15 James I, desires her body to be buried in the church at Seeme ; she gives to the poor at Seeme, zos. ; to her sister Sibill, 10 ; to her brother William, ^"10; to her sister Alice all the clothes which were their mother's and one of her (Anne's) new smockes ; to her sister Johane her best gown, cotton petticoate, best hat, two best smocks, 2 best aprons and wastcoat, and 2 lawn partlets ; to her sister Mary her best petticoat, 3 best partlets, a new smock, her chest, waistcoat, and "waistcoat cloth, the one half, and Alice the other." All the rest of her goods to be divided between her sisters, Mary, Alice and Johane, whom she makes her executrices with Thomas Walter, her brother-in-law, and John Stokes, her cousin, to be overseers. Witnesses, Ellinor Sumner, Anne Stookes, and Anne Wiles. [Proved at London, 6 February, 1617-18.]

        Relative??

        Wiltshire Wills
        Ref No.
        P2/S/1346
        Alt Ref No
        P2/S/1346
        Title
        Administration bond, inventory
        Date
        1732
        Person
        Sumner, Eleanor
        Occupation
        Spinster
        Place Key
        /Great Cheverell/Wiltshire
        Community
        Great Cheverell

        Many Sumners based at Melksham

    • Sources 
      1. [S00123] St Stephen Coleman Street London Parish Registers (Film No.0375013).