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WATERS, Elizabeth

WATERS, Elizabeth

Female 1654 - Aft 1697  (42 years)   Has 7 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name WATERS, Elizabeth  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth 30 Dec 1654  Holborn, Middlesex, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 6] 
    Gender Female 
    FindaGrave Memorial ID 60861465 
    Immigration Nov 1670  Yorktown, York, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7] 
    from England 
    Death Aft Sep 1697  New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 6] 
    Will Probated-Heir 4 Jul 1700  Holborn, Middlesex, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8, 9] 
    by her son, Thomas, 
    • Role: Heir
      The will was signed on 29 Sep 1667.
    Age 42 years 
    Burial Y  [6] 
    Person ID I3278  Cochrane Genealogy
    Last Modified 14 Dec 2025 

    Father WATERS, Samuel Sr.,   b. Abt 1617, Northampton, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sep 1665, Holborn, Middlesex, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Mother PEAKE, Ann,   b. Bef 24 Jan 1601/02, Thorpe, Northampton, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1700, Holborn, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years) 
    Family ID F1294  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family OVERTON, William Sr.,   b. 3 Dec 1638, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Sep 1697, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 24 Nov 1670  Yorktown, York, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10] 
    • "It is believed and family tradition has always had it, that his [Maj. Gen. Robert Overton] son, William Overton, came to Virginia in search of his father about 1669 and failing to locate him, remained in Hanover County [New Kent County], Virginia, where in 1670 he brought over his fiancee, Elizabeth Waters, daughter of Samuel and Ann Waters of St. Sepulcher, London, England, and they were married on board the ship November 24, 1670, it having cost him fifty pounds of tobacco for her passage from England to America. Their love story is said to be the basis for the famous novel "To Have and To Hold". [His father is believed to have been banished to Barbados circa 1668 instead of Virginia.] - Historical Southern Families, Vol. V, p 127, 1960. [2]
    Age at Marriage She : 15 years and 11 months - He : 31 years and 11 months. 
    Children 
    +  1. Female OVERTON, Mary Elizabeth,   b. 28 Jun 1673, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1734, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    +  2. Male OVERTON, William Jr.,   b. 14 Aug 1675, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jun 1759 (Age 83 years)
    +  3. Female OVERTON, Temperance,   b. 2 Mar 1678/79, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1715/16, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
    +  4. Male OVERTON, Samuel Sr.,   b. 14 Aug 1685, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1725 (Age 39 years)
    +  5. Male OVERTON, Capt. James Sr.,   b. 14 Aug 1688, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jun 1749, Louisa County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    +  6. Female OVERTON, Barbara,   b. 5 Feb 1689/90, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Oct 1766, Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F1293  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Dec 2025 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 30 Dec 1654 - Holborn, Middlesex, England, Great Britain Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - from England - Nov 1670 - Yorktown, York, Colony of Virginia, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Nov 1670 - Yorktown, York, Colony of Virginia, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Aft Sep 1697 - New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsWill Probated-Heir - by her son, Thomas, - 4 Jul 1700 - Holborn, Middlesex, England, Great Britain Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Sources 
    1. [S494] Clayton Torrence, Book - Winston of VA, (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927.), 28 Jan 2014, p 69-72.

    2. [S540] John Bennett Boddie, Book - Historical Southern Families, Vol. V (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Reprinted in 1967.), 29 Jan 2014, p 127-8.
      Overtons - Historical Southern Families, vol V      		 Overtons - Historical Southern Families, vol V


    3. [S1610] George Norbury Mackenzie and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, Book - Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 - Vol. VII, (1912; reprint, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995.), 7 Oct 2025, Vol. 7: p 265-266.
      Harris History      		 Harris History


    4. [S1567] Internet - Wikitree, (https://www.wikitree.com/), 7 Oct 2025, accessed 7 October 2025), Elizabeth (Waters) Overton, Waters-229.

    5. [S1631] Lothrop Withington, Book - Virginia Gleanings in England (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980.), 14 Dec 2025, p 38-40.

    6. [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 4 Feb 2015, accessed 4 February 2015<, Memorial #60861465, Mary Elizabeth Waters Overton.

    7. [S552] Malcolm H. Harris M.D., Book - History of Louisa County, VA, (Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1936.), 2 Jun 2014, 395-401.

    8. [S494] Clayton Torrence, Book - Winston of VA, (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927.), 28 Jan 2014, p 73-84.

    9. [S1631] Lothrop Withington, Book - Virginia Gleanings in England (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980.), 14 Dec 2025, p 38, 39.

    10. [S709] Clayton Torrence, editor, Book - Valentine, Edward P. - Papers - Vol. I-IV (Ancestry), (The Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA, 1927; reprint, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979.), 25 Sep 2013, Vol. IV: p 2379-80.
      Barbara Winston.
      EPVP, Vol. IV, Pg. 2379 - William Overton      		 EPVP, Vol. IV, Pg. 2379 - William Overton
      EPVP, Vol. IV, Pg. 2380 - William Overton      		 EPVP, Vol. IV, Pg. 2380 - William Overton



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