Isabella Saunders 1605-1657

Diary of Isabella Twysden: Introduction. 3rd August 1563. Sir Roger's [her future mother-in-law] mother liked to be attended by a young lady in waiting, and Isabella Saunder was performing this function in 1633, possibly because her [her father] father had ruined himself over the New River, Isabella inherited the heraldic achievements of the Saunder family, as her only brother died unmarried, but was heir to nothing else.

Diary of Isabella Twysden: Introduction. The Diary Of Isabella, Wife Of Sir [her future husband] Roger Twysden, Baronet, Of Royden Hall, East Peckham, 1645-1651.

3rd August 1563. By The Rev. F. W. Bennitt, M.A.

Source.

Before 1583 [her father] Nicholas Saunders of Nonsuch and Ewell in Surrey [aged 19] and [her step-mother] Elizabeth Blount [aged 17] were married.

In 1605 Isabella Saunders was born to Nicholas Saunders of Nonsuch and Ewell in Surrey [aged 42].

On 8th January 1628 William Twysden 1st Baronet [aged 62] died. His son [her future husband] Roger [aged 30] succeeded 2nd Baronet Twysden of Roydon in Kent.

In 1635 Roger Twysden 2nd Baronet [aged 37] and Isabella Saunders [aged 30] were married.

On 11th December 1635 [her son] William Twysden 3rd Baronet was born to [her husband] Roger Twysden 2nd Baronet [aged 38] and Isabella Saunders [aged 30].

On 7th November 1640 [her daughter] Frances Twysden was born to [her husband] Roger Twysden 2nd Baronet [aged 43] and Isabella Saunders [aged 35]. She married in or before 1664 Peter Killigrew 2nd Baronet and had issue.

On 9th February 1649 [her father] Nicholas Saunders of Nonsuch and Ewell in Surrey [aged 86] died.

In 1657 Isabella Saunders [aged 52] died. She was buried at St Michael's Church East Peckham.

On 27th June 1672 [her former husband] Roger Twysden 2nd Baronet [aged 74] died. His son William [aged 36] succeeded 3rd Baronet Twysden of Roydon in Kent.

Diary of Isabella Twysden: Introduction. This Diary of Lady Twysden's is in the British Museum, Additional Manuscripts numbered 34169; it was sold at Sotheby's to the Museum in 1892.

Isabella was the third and youngest daughter of Sir [her father] Nicholas Saunder of Nonsuch, near Swell in Surrey. Born in 1605, she married in 1635 and died in 1657. Sir Roger was thirty-seven at the time of his marriage.