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Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Elizabeth Harmer

Female Abt 1505 - 1580  (~ 75 years)

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  • Name Elizabeth Harmer 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Female 
    Birth Abt 1505 
    Death 1580  [1] 
    Last Modified 3 Jun 2022 

    Father William Harmer, of King's Stanley
              b. Abt 1475  
              d. 1555 (Age ~ 80 years) 

    Husband Richard Selwyn, of Stanley St. Leonards
              b. Abt 1500  
              d. 1579 (Age ~ 79 years) 
    Children 
     1. William Selwyn, of King's Stanley
              b. Abt 1530  
              d. 1586 (Age ~ 56 years)
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Elizabeth Harmer was born c. 1505, the daughter of William Harmer and ___ Scrope.

      Family Life
      Elizabeth married Richard Selwyn of Stanley St. Leonards. They had:
      1. William, b. c. 1530, who married Catherine Clutterbuck
      2. Walter, Thomas, Isabella, Anne, Alice and Joanna


      Death
      Elizabeth died in 1580. Per Transactions1:
      the following inscription is said ... to have been visible sometime ago on a fiat stone, laid across the path leading to the south door of Stanley Regis Church

      CASTA MATRONA
      COMES VERTVTIS ET
      ARTIS AMIGA IRRVIT
      IN CINERES ELIZA
      BETHA LEVES HVI
      VS ERAT TOTVM
      STVDIUM PLACA
      RE IEHOVAM ET LA
      VDARE BONVM P
      RO BONITATE DE
      VM ILLA FERENS
      MORTIS PER AC
      ERBA VVLNERA
      FLATV DIXIT IN E
      XTREMO MORE
      MIHI GRATA VENl
      ELIZABETH SELW
      IN DESESED THE
      10 OF MARCH, 1580


      A rough translation of the inscription is:
      Chaste mother, an honourable companion and lover of art; her only desire was to submit to God and praise His goodness. She, dying of mortal wounds, said in her last breath "


      Footnotes
      [1] Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1877-8, Vol. II, Bristol; Some Records of Matson, pages 241-284

  • Sources 
    1. [S0413] Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaelogical Society, (Bristol), 1877-8, Volume 2; Pages 241-284.