Paternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne
In 1636 Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne was born to Hardress Waller [aged 32].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 15th March 1661. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I at a great fish dinner at the Dolphin, given us by two tax merchants, and very merry we were till night, and so home. This day my wife and Pall went to see my Baroness Kingston [aged 25], her brother's lady.
In 1666 [her father] Hardress Waller [aged 62] died at Mont Orgueil, Jersey.
In 1667 William Petty [aged 43] and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 31] were married.
In 1671 [her daughter] Anne Petty Countess Kerry was born to [her husband] William Petty [aged 47] and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 35]. She married 1692 Thomas Fitzmurice 1st Earl Kerry and had issue.
Around 1673 [her son] Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne was born to [her husband] William Petty [aged 49] and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 37]. He married in or before 1696 Mary Williams Baroness Shelburne.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd March 1675. Supped at [her husband] Sir William Petty's [aged 51], with the Bishop of Salisbury, and divers honorable persons. We had a noble entertainment in a house gloriously furnished; the master and mistress [aged 39] of it were extraordinary persons. Sir William was the son of a mean man somewhere in Sussex, and sent from school to Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, but was most eminent in Mathematics and Mechanics; proceeded Doctor of Physic, and was grown famous, as for his learning so for his recovering a poor wench [Anne Greene] that had been hanged for felony; and her body having been begged (as the custom is) for the anatomy lecture, he bled her, put her to bed to a warm woman, and, with spirits and other means, restored her to life. The young scholars joined and made a little portion, and married her to a man who had several children by her, she living fifteen years after, as I have been assured. Sir William came from Oxford to be tutor to a neighbour of mine; thence, when the rebels were dividing their conquests in Ireland, he was employed by them to measure and set out the land, which he did on an easy contract, so much per acre. This he effected so exactly, that it not only furnished him with a great sum of money; but enabled him to purchase an estate worth £4,000 a year. He afterward married the daughter of [her father] Sir Hardress Waller; she was an extraordinary wit as well as beauty, and a prudent woman.
On 22nd October 1675 [her son] Henry Petty 1st Earl Shelburne was born to [her husband] William Petty [aged 52] and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 39]. He married 1699 Arabella Boyle Countess Shelburne, daughter of Charles Boyle 3rd Baron Clifford and Jane Seymour.
On 16th May 1687 [her husband] William Petty [aged 63] died.
On 13th December 1688 Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 52] was created 1st Baroness Shelburne for life only by King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 55]. Her son Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne [aged 15] was created 1st Baron Shelburne.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1692 [her son-in-law] Thomas Fitzmurice 1st Earl Kerry [aged 24] and Anne Petty Countess Kerry [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 56].
In or before 1696 Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne [aged 22] and Mary Williams Baroness Shelburne were married. He the son of William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 59].
In 1696 [her son] Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne [aged 23] died.
In 1699 Henry Petty 1st Earl Shelburne [aged 23] and Arabella Boyle Countess Shelburne [aged 28] were married. He the son of William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 63].
In February 1708 Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne [aged 72] died.
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Waller
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Waller of Groombridge
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Waller of Groombridge
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Waller of Groombridge
GrandFather: George Waller
Father: Hardress Waller