When Elizabeth Anne Beverley was born about 1600, in Warwickshire, England, her father, Thomas Beverley III, was 14 and her mother, Agnes Cline Kingston, was 10. She married Thomas Kingston before 1618, in England. She died after 7 August 1667, in Virginia, British Colonial America.
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The Honourable East India Company, a British joint-stock company, was established in 1600 for trade in the Indian Ocean region. At its height, the British East India Company had a private army which was twice the size of the British Army, ruled large sections of India, and revenues in the millions.
The Virginia Company founded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607. One of the original 13 states (it entered the Union in 1788). Virginia holds an important place in American history, as it was home to many of the founding fathers, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and Patrick Henry. Four of Americas first five presidents were Virginians. During the Civil War, Richmond, Virginias capital, was the capital of the Confederacy. Today, Virginia is a popular tourist spot where people can visit historic places such as Alexandria, Williamsburg, and Mount Vernon, George Washingtons estate.
English (North eastern England): habitational name from the city in East Yorkshire, the name of which contains Old English beofor ‘beaver’, combined with a second element, licc, that may mean ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesShe married first Thomas Kingston, he died in 1636 and then she married Thomas Loving in 1639 and by him she had three children
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