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in Gloucestershire to John Symes Berkeley and Elizabeth Norborne.Record for ''Elizabeth Berkeley'' on ''thepeerage.com''
/ref>G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 54-55 Her younger brother was Norborne, Lord Botetourt. On 1 May 1740 she married

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, younger son of

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and his second wife Rachel Noel. They had six children: # Lady Anne Somerset (11 March 1741 – 18 May 1763, aged 22), married

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on 13 September 1759 and had issue # Lady Elizabeth Somerset (12 March 1742 – 7 May 1760, aged 18) #

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(16 October 1744 – 11 October 1803, aged 58) # Lady Rachel Somerset (August 1746 – May 1747) (died an infant) # Lady Henrietta Somerset (26 April 1748 – 24 July 1770, aged 22), married

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on 6 April 1769, no issue. # Lady Mary Isabella Somerset (1 August 1756 – 2 September 1831, aged 75), married

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on 26 December 1775 and had issue A stone monument to the memory of her daughter Lady Elizabeth Somerset is located in

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. It is engraved with the Latin inscription:A book of Bristol sonnets, https://books.google.com/books?id=g38OAAAAIAAJ

ELIZABETHA SOMERSET
CARON DUCIS BEAUFORT FILIA SECUNDA HIC OBIIT VII
MAII MDCCLX
RESTITUTUM ANNO MMIV

This translates as 'Elizabeth Somerset, second daughter of Charles Duke of Beaufort, died here 7 May 1760. Restored in the year 2004'. She was killed when her horse shied.

References

1799 deaths 18th-century English nobility

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