Elizabeth Culpeper1

Female, #8437, (say 1499 - before 1532)

ParentWalter Culpeper of Calais and Wigsell (say 1475 - before 24 Jun 1515)
ParentAnne Aucher (say 1480 - after 4 Sep 1532)
Elizabeth Culpeper|b. say 1499\nd. before 1532|p8437.htm|Walter Culpeper of Calais and Wigsell|b. say 1475\nd. before 24 Jun 1515|p8387.htm|Anne Aucher|b. say 1480\nd. after 4 Sep 1532|p8394.htm|John Culpeper of Bayhall, Hardreshull & Bedgebury|b. say 1430\nd. 22 Dec 1480|p8408.htm|Agnes Gainsford|b. say 1445|p8409.htm|Henry Aucher of Lossenham|b. say 1456\nd. before 28 Nov 1494|p8573.htm|Elizabeth Guildford|b. say 1453|p36917.htm|

Name Variation Elizabeth Culpeper was also known as Culpepper. 
Name Variation Elizabeth Culpeper was also known as Colepeper. 
Birth*say 1499 Elizabeth was born at Ford Hall, Wrotham, co. Kent, England, say 1499. 
 She was the daughter of Walter Culpeper of Calais and Wigsell and Anne Aucher. 
Married Namebefore 1514 As of before 1514, her married name was Wilford. 
Marriage*before 1514 She married Thomas Wilford of Hartridge in Cranbrooke, Kent before 1514. 
Death*before 1532 She died before 1532. 
Biography* She is named in her father's will (1514) 'my daughter Elizabeth Welford,' and referred to in her mother's will (1532) as then dead, by provision for 'the children of Elizabeth, my daughter… the children of Thomas Wylford.' The m. was noted at the Visitation of Kent, 1619, not only in the Culpeper pedigree but in that of the Wylfords (Harl. Pub., x1ii, 53, 61, 104). From the latter it appears that the James Wylford, who witnessed his maternal grandmother's will in 1532, was that outstanding soldier, Sir James Wylford (1516-1550), who distinguished himself at the battle of Pinkie (1547) and subsequently withstood a notable siege at Haddington (D. N. B. re-issue, xxi, 236; Froude, Edward VI, chap. ii).
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As a family, the Wylfords had several ties with Virginia. One sister of Sir James in. Archbishop Sandys (see her MI. in Morant Essex, ii, 34) and another in. Leonard Digges of Wooton, co. Kent, from whom descended the Edward Digges of Belfield, York County, Virginia, Governor of the colony, 1655-58, whose name was long a synonym for the best Virginia mild tobacco, the 'E Dees' (Va. Mag., xvii, 292). It would be interesting to prove a connection with these Wylfords of that Dr. Robert Wellford of Fredericksburg, of the generation after the American Revolution whose descendants have inter-married with Virginia families. See W. & M. Quar., xi, I; x, 139.
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Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck"
(Names referenced above: Elizabeth Culpeper Elizabeth Culpeper). 

Family

Thomas Wilford of Hartridge in Cranbrooke, Kent (say 1491 - )
Marriage*before 1514 She married Thomas Wilford of Hartridge in Cranbrooke, Kent before 1514. 
Children

Charts The Earliest Colepepers and Culpepers (10 generations)
Last Edited 25 Nov 2002

Citations

  1. E-mail from Trudy Standridge, e-mail address to Lew Griffin, 1999.