Rawdon, Elizabeth (1592-03-25 - )

GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON- 1606
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-1751)
Name
Elizabeth Rawdon
Gender
Female
Lived
b. ca. 1592-03-25 d. (old)
Linked Sermons
Associated Places
Source of Data

Jeanne Shami, Adam Richter

Biographical Sources Consulted

Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little, "The Muses Females Are": Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1995); ODNB (Article: 47074 [article for her stepmother, Martha Moulsworth]; Article: 24237 [article for her husband, Marmaduke])

Other note

Born in 1592. Only daughter of Thomas Thorowgood. Stepdaughter of the poet Martha Moulsworth (1577-1646), who married the widower Throgood in 1605. Moulsworth was very close to Elizabeth, and when she died she left a major part of her estate to Elizabeth and her children. According to her will, Moulsworth viewed her like she was her "owne childe". Elizabeth married Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), a clothworker, in 1611. They lived in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, where Elizabeth had grown up. They had sixteen children. Elizabeth was still alive by the time Moulsworth died in 1646.

GEMMS record created
October 24, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024