The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth Willis
Death1776
FatherJohn Willis (ca1700-1736)
Misc. Notes
Name, date of marriage, from a 13-pager document compiled by, and received from, Julie Bourke (nee McColl) on 27 April 2017. Julie is the great-great-granddaughter of Emma Frances Devis b. 1814. Brian of nzolivers.com is a x3-great grandson of Emma Frances Devis.

From 13-pager (including spelling of text):
Daily Post Friday Dec 27 1745
Married

Yefterday Mr Devis, an eminent Attorney was married at St John the Evanglist Weftminifter to Mifs Willis, daughter of the late Mr Willis many years carpenter to his Majefty’s Board of works, an agreeable young gentlewoman with a fortune of 3000L.

Place of marriage from the “Devis Family Tree” kindly shared by Julie Bourke (nee McColl) received in the post on 3 May 2017. This information is based on original research, including that of Wills, by Linda Burge and Julie Bourke.

The “Devis Family Tree” states she Elizabeth was mentioned in Jane Willis’ (nee Haywood) Will (her stepmother).

Year of death, “Elizabeth Devis Daughter of the said John Willis died in the year 1776”, from Image 2 of the Devis Family Bible sent by Derek Dillon in an email dated 16 March 2018. Derek had copied the Bible pages, while visiting some cousins in England circa 1988. The Bible had been passed down through the Devis, Gibson and Dillon families. Derek is the x3-great grandson of Hannah Barlow (b.1759) and her second husband, David Gibson. (Hannah Barlow remarried after the death of first husband Henry Devis b.1750).
Spouses
Birth1718, Preston, Lancashire
Death24 Sep 1757
OccupationAttorney, Perogative Court. Lived Millbank, Westminster, England
FatherAnthony Devis (ca1688-1778)
Marriage26 Dec 1745, St John the Evangelist Westminster
ChildrenAnn (1748-<1777)
 Henry (1750-1789)
 William (1752-<1776)
 John (1754-)
 Elizabeth (-<1812)
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