Conington Huntingdonshire / Cambridgeshire
"Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Cotton daughter of Sir Thomas Honeywood of Marks Hall in Essex and second wife of Sir John Cotton, lord of this manor of Connington, baronet, by whom shee had issue ten children of which only three Robert, Elizabeth & Mary survived her...…. Of true and solid piety, of an excellent understanding and ….. ess of wit , a most loving and tender wife, an indulgent and carefull mother, obliging in her deportment towards her neighbours and friends, and bountifull and charitable to the poore. After shee had lied thirty eight yeares in holy wedlock, shee resigned up her pious soule to God with all calmness and tranquillity of mind, on the third day of April 1702 in Cotton House in Westminster , in the 65th yeare of her age, and lies here interred expecting a joyfull and happy resurrection"
Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir Thomas Honeywood / Honywood 1666 a Cromwellian baron of Markshall, Essex by Hester daughter of John Lamotte : Heir to her brother John Lamott Honeywood, she was one of 228 great grand daughters of Mary Waters Honywood at Coggeshall
She m 1658 (2nd wife) Thomas Cotton 1621-1702 flic.kr/p/26mk4M1 3rd bart of Conington & Cotton House, Westminster, eldest son of Sir Thomas Cotton 1662 , 2nd Bart, of Conington, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Yh749H by 1st wife Margaret 1621 daughter of Lord William Howard of Naworth Castle, Cumberland and Elizabeth daughter of Thomas 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk
Children - a surviving son & 2 daughters
1. Sir Robert Cotton, 5th Bart c1669-1749 m Elizabeth Wigston (parents of John Cotton 6th and last bart 1752 at Steeple Gidding www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/C5z7w8 )
2. Elizabeth m Lionel Walden of Huntingdon
3. Mary Honywood Cotton dsp 1714 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4CchzM m 1714 Roger Kenyon, physician
- Church of All Saints Conington, Huntingdonshire / Cambridgeshire
Conington Huntingdonshire / Cambridgeshire
"Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Cotton daughter of Sir Thomas Honeywood of Marks Hall in Essex and second wife of Sir John Cotton, lord of this manor of Connington, baronet, by whom shee had issue ten children of which only three Robert, Elizabeth & Mary survived her...…. Of true and solid piety, of an excellent understanding and ….. ess of wit , a most loving and tender wife, an indulgent and carefull mother, obliging in her deportment towards her neighbours and friends, and bountifull and charitable to the poore. After shee had lied thirty eight yeares in holy wedlock, shee resigned up her pious soule to God with all calmness and tranquillity of mind, on the third day of April 1702 in Cotton House in Westminster , in the 65th yeare of her age, and lies here interred expecting a joyfull and happy resurrection"
Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir Thomas Honeywood / Honywood 1666 a Cromwellian baron of Markshall, Essex by Hester daughter of John Lamotte : Heir to her brother John Lamott Honeywood, she was one of 228 great grand daughters of Mary Waters Honywood at Coggeshall
She m 1658 (2nd wife) Thomas Cotton 1621-1702 flic.kr/p/26mk4M1 3rd bart of Conington & Cotton House, Westminster, eldest son of Sir Thomas Cotton 1662 , 2nd Bart, of Conington, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Yh749H by 1st wife Margaret 1621 daughter of Lord William Howard of Naworth Castle, Cumberland and Elizabeth daughter of Thomas 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk
Children - a surviving son & 2 daughters
1. Sir Robert Cotton, 5th Bart c1669-1749 m Elizabeth Wigston (parents of John Cotton 6th and last bart 1752 at Steeple Gidding www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/C5z7w8 )
2. Elizabeth m Lionel Walden of Huntingdon
3. Mary Honywood Cotton dsp 1714 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4CchzM m 1714 Roger Kenyon, physician
- Church of All Saints Conington, Huntingdonshire / Cambridgeshire