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    Finch, Elizabeth

    Female - 1632


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    • Name Finch, Elizabeth 
      Born Of Kingsdown, Canterbury, Kent Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Buried 9 Dec 1632  Croydon, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I09705  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 16 May 2015 

      Family Gresham, William,   b. Abt 1556, Of Titsey, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 8 Mar 1624, Croydon, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years) 
      Married Abt 1585  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F03049  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • St John's Church, Croydon, Surrey:
        On a black marble slab under Whitgift's tomb:
        "To the memorie of that worthie Lady Elizabeth Gresham late wife of Sir William Gresham Knight, who after she had lived 27 yeares unspotted in her conversation, charitable to the poore sincere in Religion, resigned up her soule into the hands of her Creator upon the 9 day of December 1632, and lieth here interred in hope of a glorious Resurrection for a memoriall of which singular verttte her deare and only daughter".
        "G. hath consecrated this marble as a duty she could performe."