Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Randolph was born in 1741, in Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Richard Randolph, was 55 and her mother, Jane Bolling, was 46. She married Lt Col Richard Kidder Meade in 1765. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died in January 1774, in Caroline, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 33, and was buried in Virginia, British Colonial America.
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- "Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe,...," by Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888
- County Court records, deeds, wills, settlements of estates, etc., (Henrico County, Virginia), 1677-1787
- Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon), Jan. 20, 1774, p. 2
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Name Meaning
English and German: from Randolf, an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand ‘rim (of a shield), shield’ + wolf ‘wolf’. This was introduced into England by the Normans in Old French forms of two different ancient Germanic personal names which became confused with each other: Randulf (from rand ‘(shield-)edge’ + wulf ‘wolf’) and Rannulf (from hraf(a)n ‘raven’ + wulf ‘wolf’).
History: An American family bearing this surname are descended from William Randolph (c. 1651–1711), a planter and merchant, a member of a family that originally came from Sussex, England. William Randolph emigrated from Warwickshire to VA c. 1673. He was a forebear of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. Randolph had seven sons, each of whom inherited an estate, the name of which was sometimes added to their own, such as Sir John Randolph of Tazewell. His great-grandsons included Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), first attorney general of the US and one of the framers of the US Constitution, and the diplomat and statesman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), who served as US minister to Russia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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