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Elizabeth Porteous

Elizabeth Porteous

Female 1728 - Yes, date unknown    Has more than 100 ancestors and 74 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Elizabeth Porteous 
    Birth 1728  Lancaster Co., Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I266615  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 9 Aug 2001 

    Father Governor Robert Porteous,   b. 1679, Tidewater, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Aug 1758, Ripon, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Mildred Warner Smith,   b. 20 Feb 1682, Purton Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1725, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years) 
    Marriage 17 Aug 1700  Purton, Gloucester, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F61065  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Robert Downman, Capt,   b. 1726, Lancaster Co., Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1769 (Age 43 years) 
    Children 
     1. Mildred Downman,   b. 4 Mar 1749   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Elizabeth Porteus Downman,   b. 21 Feb 1752, Lancaster Co., Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1797-1800 (Age 47 years)
     3. William Downman,   b. 15 Apr 1741   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Robert Porteus Downman,   b. 16 May 1744   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Rawleigh Downman,   b. 26 Mar 1752   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F107914  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Aug 2001 

  • Notes 
    • !BIOGRAPHY: Half sister to Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and writer of religious books as well as poetry. At one point the Towles family at Towles Point was in possesion of his silver, but this except for one tea server was stolen during the War of 1812 by British soldiers. She was also a second cousin to George Washington through his grandmother Mildred Warner. . Elizabeth B Mason, "Porteus - Downman Family", (Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 34, 1 Jan. 1990 Her brother Robert Porteus is the 5th Great Grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II through her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Coincidnently, George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II are 1sts cousin 6x removed.



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