Elizabeth Norborne, Viscountess Hereford
(1677-1742)
BIRTH
1677
PLACE
Calne, Wiltshire, England
DEATH
November 1742
PLACE
Bath, Somerset, England
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Elizabeth Norborne was a daughter and co-heiress of Walter Norborne of Calne, Wiltshire, and Frances Bacon. She married Edward Devereux, eighth Viscount Hereford, under a 1690 marriage contract. After his death she married John Symes Berkeley of Stoke Gifford. Their children included Norborne Berkeley, later governor of Virginia, and Elizabeth, duchess of Beaufort. She died in November 1742. Her birth is variously placed in 1677 or 1678 and remains approximate.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Norborne was born 1677. The external genealogical record identifies Walter Norborne and Frances Bacon as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Norborne is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Elizabeth Norborne died Nov 1742. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
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DEATH
Elizabeth Norborne died on Nov 1742, in Bath, Somerset, England. Elizabeth Norborne was a daughter and co-heiress of Walter Norborne of Calne, Wiltshire, and Frances Bacon. She married Edward Devereux, eighth Viscount Hereford, under a 1690 marriage contract. After his death she married John Symes Berkeley of Stoke Gifford. Their children included Norborne Berkeley, later governor of Virginia, and Elizabeth, duchess of Beaufort. She died in November 1742. Her birth is variously placed in 1677 or 1678 and remains approximate. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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