Elizabeth Wakehurst

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: soon after 1517.

This date is given by the Victoria County History of Sussex (Volume 6, sub Ardingly). Blaauw (p. 154) gives 1500.

Relationships

Father: Richard Wakehurst (died 1454).

Mother: Agnes Gainsford.

These relationships are given by Fleming. The 1516 will of Richard Culpeper, who was married to Elizabeth's sister, mentions his wife's parents Richard Wakehurst the younger and Agnes, and Richard Wakehurst's father Richard.

Spouse: Nicholas Culpepper (died 24 May 1510).

This relationship is given by Attree (p. 59) and by the Victoria County History of Sussex (Volume 6, sub Ardingly). Nicholas was alleged by Elizabeth Etchingham, Elizabeth Wakehurst’s grandmother, to have abducted Elizabeth and then married her. (Nicholas’s brother, Richard, similarly is alleged to have abducted and married Elizabeth’s sister, Margaret). Julia Pope speculates that what happened was probably a consensual elopement, with the objections from Elizabeth’s grandmother, who was probably one of the girls’ guardians, possibly arising due to considerations of property or status.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Richard Culpepper (died 1539) married Joan Naylor.

Thomas Culpepper married Anne before 1513.

Edward Culpepper. Doctor of the Civil Law.

George Culpepper (will 30 January 1542/3) married Alice. George was of Nayland, Balcombe, Sussex.

Richard Culpepper.

Five other sons and eight daughters, most of whom probably died young.

References

Ardingly:Manor, in Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-), Volume 7 pages 127 to 132.

Attree, F.W.T., and Booker, J.H.L. “The Sussex Colepepers. Part I.” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (Lewes: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1904), Volume XLVII, pages 47 to 81.

Blaauw, W.H., “Wakehurst, Slaugham, and Gravetye,” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (London: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1858) Volume X, pages 151-167.

Fleming, Peter. ‘Culpeper family (per. c.1400–c.1540)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52784, accessed 24 April 2014]

Pope, Julia. “Abduction: An Alternative Form of Courtship?” (available online at Culpepper Connections, URL: http://gen.culpepper.com/ss/p8430.htm)

Will of Richard Culpeper of Erthingle, Sussex. Proved 1516 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.