I've thought a lot about Elizabeth for the last few weeks. I found her stone, her monument in pieces. A few weeks ago when I was exploring the Albright/Bennett Cemetery in Newfoundland, Wayne Co., Pa. Considering it was placed there 165 years ago, I was intrigued as to who was Elizabeth.
The monument is in the back of the cemetery in the older section and it is metal, not zinc like others, but steel. I've never seen a stone like that. It's not set apart from the others. Still very readable considering its age. One side reads Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his. The monument tells a lot about her, In memory of Elizabeth. It sounds like the monument was placed after she died “In Memory” or that her body was not at this spot. She was the “consort” of William, Banks. I think very British to hear the word “Consort”. According to Dictionary .com it is defined as a husband or wife, especially of a reigning monarch. I can't find any information that William or Elizabeth was royalty.
Elizabeth died 25 January 1854 it states she was 72 years of age so she was born in about 1782. I did find William and Elizabeth and their son Samuel Banks on the 1850 census for Greene Twp., Pike co., Pa. William is listed as a farmer. More research finds them immigrating from England. A
passenger list for the ship Georgiana docking in Philadelphia, Pa. on 23 May 1843.
The passenger list la number of Banks family members, I'm not sure who is who, but it looks like the whole family must have come. William 55, Elizabeth 60, Benjamin 42, Joseph 42, William 26, Ann 29, Sarah 27 Martha 25, Elizabeth 19, Mary 16, Samuel 20 (named on the census) and James 22.
YES, a clue!! Samuel named on the census and passenger list may be their son so I do a search on him, and find the marriage banns for 19 Nov 1811, Hemsworth, St. Helen, Yorkshire, England for Elizabeth Botham daughter of Thomas and William Banks.
I also found the original deed for 99 acres in Greene Twp., Pike Co., Pa. Transcript
William Banks arrived in the United States on the ship "GEORGIANA" on May 23, 1843, as shown by the following: Philadelphia Passenger List: Name: William Banks Arrival Date: 23 May, 1843 Age: 55 Years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1788 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Liverpool, England Ship Name: Georgiana Port of Arrival: Philadelphia, PA Listed with William is: Elizabeth, 60; Benjamin, 42: Joseph, 42: William, 24: Ann, 29: Sarah, 27: Martha, 26: Elizabeth, 19: Mary, 16: Samuel, 20: James, 22. The Rev. William and Elizabeth Banks, the former a cabinet maker and local preacher, came to this country in the interest of the Howe Company, land agents residing in England, and paid William Fitzwilliam Howe one dollar ( $1.00) for a deed to 100 acres of land. The Original deed was recently found by Linda Storm-Noble and Gloria Genest when they were cleaning out the house of Myrtle G. Banks, their Mother, Iola May Banks' Aunt. The deed is now in the hands of William S. Banks. William is the son of Samuel E. Banks, the brother of Iola May Banks. The deed reads in part as follows... "This Indenture, made the twentieth day of the 3rd month (March) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, BETWEEN William Fitzwilliam Howe of Aspley House in the County of Bidford in England, gentleman, Robert Howard of Tottenham in the County of Middlesex also in England, a Manufacturing Chemist, John Hodgkim of the same place formerly of Lincoln's Inn in the same County, Barrister at Law, and Alfred Janson formerly of Tottenham aforesaid but now of Walthuminstoro in the County of Essex also in England, underwritten of the one part, and William Banks of Green Township Pike County Pennsylvania..... of the other part, WITNESSETH, That the said William Fitzwilliam Howe, Robert Howard, John Hodgkim, and Alfred Janson, for and in consideration of the sum of ONE DOLLAR, lawful money in the United States of America, unto them well and truly paid by the said William Banks at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, HAVE granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released and confirmed, and by these presents DO grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release and confirm unto the said William Banks, his Heirs and Assigns, That piece or parcel of Land or Ground being Number Three in the Map or Plan drawer on these presents and situate in Green Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania and containing Ninety Nine acres and one hundred and twenty perches ( more or less) . ......... Plot plan of land here......... TOGETHER with all and singular the Trees, Ways, Waters, Water-courses, Rights, Liberties, Privileges, Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the Reversions ansd Remainders, Rents, Issues and Profits thereof; and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim, ansd demand whatsoever of the said William Fitzwilliam Howe, Robert Howard, John Hodgkim, and Alfred Janson, in law, equity, or otherwise howsoever, of, in, and to the same and every part thereof, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said pieces or parcels of Land or Ground ... Hereditaments and Premices hereby granted, or mentioned and intended so to be, with the Appurtenances unto the said William Banks his Heirs ans Assigns, to and for the only proper use and behoof of the said William Banks ,his Heirs and Assigns for ever. AND the said William Fitzwilliam Howe, Robert Howard, John Hodgkim, and Alfred Janson and their heirs, and against all and every other Person or Persons whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof, under them or any of their children, Thomas How and John Eliot their respective Testators, shall and will WARRENT and forever DEFEND, in WHITNESS THEREOF, the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals. Dated the day and year first above written. "" In the lower right hand corner of the deed is the following statement, along with the Seal of Office... Consulate of the United States of America, London. I, Thomas Aspinwall, Counsel of the United States of America for London and the ( ?? ) thereof, do hereby certify to all whom it may concern, that on this tewntieth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Seven before me personally appeared and came William Fitzwilliam Howe, Robert Howard, John Hodgkim and Alfred Janson, known to me to be the grantors named and described in and who executed the foregoing deed of sale; and that they signed and sealed the same in my presence and did there and then in due form of Law acknowledge the same to be their voluntaryact and deed - And I furthur certify that Gilbret Margaretti ( sp ) and William Ewing - clerks in the Consulate of the United States for London - did in my presence sign and then these did attest to the same signitures and executors of aforesaid. IN WITNESS thereof, I, the said Counsel have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in London aforesaid on the day and year herein above written and in the seventyfirst year of the Independence of these said United States....Thomas Aspinwall
I am very happy to tell Elizabeth story. It seems the Banks family, were early settlers to Pike County. William dies sometime in 1860 and Im guessing but he is probably buried or was buried near Elizabeth.
