Elizabeth Sedley1,2

Female, #8396, (say 1534 - 16 May 1618)

ParentWilliam Sedley of Southfleet, Kent (say 1509 - after 28 Nov 1553)
ParentAnne Grove (say 1512 - )
Elizabeth Sedley|b. say 1534\nd. 16 May 1618|p8396.htm|William Sedley of Southfleet, Kent|b. say 1509\nd. after 28 Nov 1553|p8835.htm|Anne Grove|b. say 1512|p37883.htm|John Sedley of Southfleet, Kent|b. say 1479|p36911.htm|Elizabeth Cotton|b. say 1481|p48688.htm|Roger Grove of London|b. say 1482|p37884.htm||||

AFN* Her Ancestral File Number is AFN:G5PW-WC. 
Birth*say 1534 Elizabeth was born at Southfleet, co. Kent, England, say 1534. 
 She was the daughter of William Sedley of Southfleet, Kent and Anne Grove. 
Marriage*say 1560 She married John Culpeper of Wigsell at Salehurst, co. Sussex, England, say 1560. 
Married Namesay 1560 As of say 1560, her married name was Culpeper. 
Death*16 May 1618 She died at Salehurst, co. Sussex, England, on 16 May 1618. 
Burial*17 May 1618 Her body was interred on 17 May 1618 at Salehurst, co. Sussex, England. 
Biography* Before the Sydleys flowered at the last Stuart courts in the persons of Sir Charles Sedley the wit, and his historically well known dau., Catherine, Countess of Dorchester (entered by Berry as having married James II!), they had had a long history in Kent (Hasted, ii, 170). They rose to wealth, however, by the industry of a younger son temp. Henry VIII, and thereafter intermarried several times with the Culpepers. This particular marriage is shown on the Sydley pedigree, returned at the Visitation of Kent, 1619, but there is better evidence for it in the Sydley wills collected by Waters (Gleanings, ii, 961, ff.).
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John Sydley, grandfather of Elizabeth Culpeper, described himself in his long and racy will of 1530 (P. C. C. Thower, 20) as 'oon of the Kinges Auditours in His Exchequer, and Citezein and Stacioner of the Citie of London and late Warden of the Crafte of Stacioners.' The son William named in that will left in turn a will dated November 28, 1553 (P. C. C. More, 37), by which he devised 'to Elizabeth Sydley my daughter all my lands, etc., in Frensbury, in Kent,' with a bequest of money and plate and the injunction 'to my daughter Elizabeth, she to marry at her pleasure, by the counsel of her aunt, my sister [i. e., Dorothy, described in her father's will, before the dissolution of the monasteries, as 'a Norme in Dertford Abbey'], and of John, my son, her brother, and to have meat, drink and lodging till she be married or else be found in a good service.' That the Elizabeth so named was married to a Culpeper prior to May 14, 1574, appears from the reference to her in the will bearing that date (P. C. C. Pyckering, 5) of her brother Nicholas Sydley as 'my sister Elizabeth Culpeper;' while the will of her brother John, whose counsel she was to take, dated March 29, 1581 (P. C. C. Darcy, 31), completes the identification, in a bequest 'to my natural sister, Elizabeth Colepepir, wife of the said Mr. John CoIepepir, to make her a ring, ten shillings.'
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She survived her husband and her eldest son as well, living in Newenden, i.e., at Lossenharn (as shown by her son's inq. p. m.), and was buried in Salehurst, May 17, 1618, as 'Eliza, relict Johannes Culpeper, armiger.
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Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck"
(Names referenced above: Elizabeth Sedley Elizabeth Sedley). 

Family

John Culpeper of Wigsell (1531 - 20 Oct 1612)
Marriage*say 1560 She married John Culpeper of Wigsell at Salehurst, co. Sussex, England, say 1560. 
Children

Charts Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales
Lew Griffin's Culpepper Ancestry Chart (Great-grandmother Clarissa Eugenia Culpepper Griffin)
Last Edited 1 Jan 2000

Citations

  1. LDS Church, compiler, Ancestral File, Intellectual Reserve, Inc..
    http://www.familysearch.org
    AFN: G5PW-WC.
  2. Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII, 47-81, (1904) http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.