Elizabeth Martiau

1625 - 1687  (61 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Martiau  [1, 2]
  Birth	1625  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	1686  [4]
  Death	Between 10 Feb 1686 and 24 Jan 1687	Virginia   [3, 5, 6]
  Burial	Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia   [5]
  Person ID	I36773	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Capt. Nicholas Martiau,   b. 1591, France d. Between 1 Mar 1657 and 24 Apr 1657 (Age 66 years)
  Mother	(Unknown first wife of Nicholas Martieu)   d. Abt 1627
  Family ID	F21615	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Col. George Reade,   b. Abt 1610, Linkenholt, Hampshire, England d. Between 29 Sep 1670 and 21 Nov 1671, Virginia (Age ~ 60 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1641	Yorktown, York, Virginia   [7, 8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Mildred Reade,   b. Williamsburg, Virginia d. Aft 4 Jan 1695 + 2. Elizabeth Reade
  Family ID	F21613	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  The gravestones of Col. George Reade and his wife Elizabeth were discovered during street excavations in Yorktown in 1931, and evidently recut with errors. The recut stone for Elizabeth states that she was born in 1625 and died in 1696. Elizabeth's will was written 10 Feb 1686 and proved 24 Jan 1687, and as for her date of birth, a footnote in John Frederick Dorman's Adventurers of Purse and Person (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004-07) notes that Nicholas Martiau claimed his daughter Elizabeth as headrights, meaning she must have been born prior to his arrival in Virginia in 1620, probably closer to 1615.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3187] Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists by David Faris. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. [S53] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years by Frederick Lewis Weis. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and William R. Beal. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999. [S6108] Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5. Fourth edition, ed. John Frederick Dorman. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004-07. [S6100] G.S.H.L. Washington, "President Washington's Ancestry." The American Genealogist 51:167, 1975. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S6512] Historical Southern Families, Volume II by John Bennett Bodie. Redwood City, California, 1958. [S6098] A Crane's Foot (or Pedigree) of Branches of the Gregg, Stuart, Robertson, Dobbs, and Allied Families by E. Stuart Gregg, Jr. Columbia, South Carolina, 1975. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., year only. [S6108] Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5. Fourth edition, ed. John Frederick Dorman. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004-07., year only.