Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Lady Elizabeth Bourchier was born in 1475, in Combe in Teignhead, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, Fulke Bourchier 10th Baron FitzWarin, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Dinham, was 26. She married Sir Edward Stanhope in Rampton, Cambridgeshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 8 August 1557, in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 82, and was buried in Clerkenwell St James, Middlesex, England.
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- Elizabeth Bourchier Page, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ancestry Family Trees
- Burke’s Family Records (Indexed)
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1549 · Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer, a product of the English Reformation, was published in 1549 for assistance in the administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church according to the use of the Church of England. The book outlined morning, evening, and communion prayers and orders for baptism and marriage, thus making England a truly Protestant state.
Name Meaning
1 English: perhaps a variant of Burcher ( see Bircher ). Some of the following early bearers may alternatively belong under (2). The name has sometimes been altered to or confused with Bouchier and Boucher .
2 Norman, English: locative name of uncertain origin but it is presumably from a French place-name, perhaps Boursières in Haute-Saône. The name was early confused with other surnames and may survive in Bouchier, Bowcher, Bowser, and Boozer . The surname gave rise to a number of minor place-names in Essex: Bourchier’s alias Bouchier’s Hall in Aldham, Bourchier’s Hall in Messing; Bouchier’s Grange in Great Coggeshall, Bouchiers Chapel in Tollesbury, Boarstye Fm and Bowser’s Hall in Rivenhall (Essex), and Boose’s Green in Colne Engayne.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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