Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden
In 1562 Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden was born to Richard May [aged 26].
In 1585 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden [aged 28] and Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden [aged 23] were married.
In July 1586 [her daughter] Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden was born to [her husband] Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden [aged 29] and Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden [aged 24]. She married 20th December 1605 Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden and had issue.
In 1587 [her father] Richard May [aged 51] died.
On 20th December 1605 [her son-in-law] Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden [aged 23] and [her daughter] Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden [aged 19] were married.
On 4th December 1606 [her son-in-law] Charles Morrison 1st Baronet [aged 19] and [her daughter] Mary Hicks Lady Cooper and Morrison were married at Low Leyton, Essex.
On 1st July 1620 [her husband] Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden [aged 63] was created 1st Baronet Hicks of Campden in Gloucestershire. Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden [aged 58] by marriage Lady Hicks of Campden in Gloucestershire.
On 5th May 1628 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden [aged 71] was created 1st Viscount Campden, 1st Baron Hicks of Ilmington in Warwickshire with a special remainder, failing his issue male, to his daughter Juliana's [aged 41] husband Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden [aged 46]. Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden [aged 66] by marriage Viscountess Campden.
After 20th July 1628 [her son-in-law] John Cooper 1st Baronet [aged 30] and [her daughter] Mary Hicks Lady Cooper and Morrison were married. Mary Hicks Lady Cooper and Morrison by marriage Lady Cooper of Rockbourne in Southampton.
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On 18th October 1629 [her husband] Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden [aged 72] died. His son-in-law Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden [aged 47] succeeded 2nd Viscount Campden, 2nd Baron Hicks of Ilmington in Warwickshire. Baronet Hicks of Campden in Gloucestershire extinct. Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden [aged 43] by marriage Viscountess Campden.
On 21st July 1643 Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden [aged 81] died.
After 21st July 1643. Monument at St James' Church, Chipping Campden [Map] to [her former husband] Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden and Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden [deceased].
Monument in St James' Church, Chipping Campden [Map]. A sumptuous marble canopied and collonaded. Possibly by Nicholas Stone [aged 56].
[her daughter] Mary Hicks Lady Cooper and Morrison was born to Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden and Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden. She married (1) 4th December 1606 Charles Morrison 1st Baronet and had issue (2) after 20th July 1628 John Cooper 1st Baronet.