Elizabeth Scudder

Biography

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127127581

Elizabeth married Henry Scudder in abt 1584 in Kent, England and had eight children:

• Rev. Henry
• Thomas
• John
• Elizabeth
• Bridgett
• Alice
• Martha
• Jane

She died in 1617 according to probate records.

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Elizabeth

[T2686]

ABT 1564 - ____

BIRTH: ABT 1564

Family 1 : Henry SCUDDER

MARRIAGE: ABT 1584, Kent,England

+Henry SCUDDER

+Thomas SCUDDER

John SCUDDER

Elizabeth SCUDDER
Bridget SCUDDER
Alice SCUDDER
Martha SCUDDER
Jane SCUDDER

GEDCOM Note

According to http://minerdescent.com/2011/04/10/henry-scudder/ Elizabeth Hale was born in 1565 . She married Henry Scudder in 1584 in Kent, England. After Elizabeth died, Henry married Sarah Figg 10 Oct 1594 in Groton, Suffolk, England. Henry died in 1595 in Horton Kirby, Kent, England. Some websites refer to Henry's wife as Elizabeth with an unknown last name. .See http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lanastl&i....

Her last name was NOT Sommers.

Until we have documentation, wikitree is showing her as unknown.

Birth

Date: ABT. 1564<ref>Source: #S125551 Data: Text: Date of Import: Aug 28, 2011</ref>

Marriage

Husband: Scudder-100|Henry. Scudder
Wife: Unknown-104055|Mrs. Unknown Child: Scudder-103|Thomas. Scudder Marriage: Date: ABT. 1585Place: est Groton, Suffolk, Eng<ref>Source: #S125551 Data: Text: Date of Import: Aug 28, 2011</ref>

Notes

Young girls were taught that they had to obey their parents instantly. As a father dominated a household, this basically meant that the girls grew up to instinctively obey men. Even uncles, older brothers andmale family friends could expect instant obedience from girls. Girls received no formal education (though very few boys did) but they were taught that their sole function in life was to marry, have children and look after their homes and husbands. Girls were taught that God had commanded them to be obedient to men, be it father or husband.

 Girls from a poor home received no education as we would recognise it. They learned skills for life from their mothers. Girls from the homes of the rich received some form of education but it was in things like managing a household, needlework and meal preparation. It was generally believed that teaching girls to read and write was a waste of time.

Young ladies from a rich family would have no choice over who their husbands would be. Marriages were frequently arranged so that the families involved would benefit ¿ whether the young lady loved her futurehusband was effectively irrelevant. In fact, it would not have been unusual for a couple to meet for the first time at their wedding.

There was no legal age for marriage and many girls aged 14 would have got married at that age. In the homes of the poor, there was almost a rush to marry off daughters as it was believed that once they reached a certain age, about 14, they would have been seen as being too old for marrying off and therefore a liability at home, one extra mouth to feed and no extra income coming into the house.

Once married, the main function of a wife was to produce a son to continue the family line. This was true for royalty right down to the common peasant. In would not have been unusual for wives to be pregnant every twelve months. In Tudor England, pregnancy and especially childbirth was dangerous for the wife. Death in childbirth was not unusual. One ¿tradition¿ at this time was for a wife to prepare a new baby¿s nursery but to also make arrangements for the baby should she, the mother, die in childbirth.

The actual act of childbirth was assisted by a ¿midwife¿. In fact, this was usually an elderly female relative or female neighbour with nomedical knowledge. Complications were frequent and death not unusual in childbirth, but no proper doctors existed in times to change this. Even if a delivery of a baby was successful, the mother could still fall prey to illness due to the lack of hygiene during childbirth.Puerperal fever and post-birth infections were both killers.

The way women dressed was also strictly controlled. Women who were notmarried could wear their hair loose. Married women had to hide their hair away under a veil and a hood. Queens might wear their hair loose on state occasions but this was only tolerated because they had to wear a crown. A woman's dress covered nearly everything. Sleeves came down to the wrists and even in summer dresses reached the floor. Corsets were commonbut a plunging neckline would be considered acceptable. For queens, ceremonial dress could be even of a challenge as their dresses could bebeautiful to those looking at them but they were both bulky and weighed a great deal as they were usually encrusted with jewels. Worn on a hot evening at a state occasion, such dresses must have been uncomfortable to wear.

GEDCOM Source

Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. GenealogieOnline 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::31778988

GEDCOM Source

Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. GenealogieOnline 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::31778988

GEDCOM Source

Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. GenealogieOnline 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::31778988

GEDCOM Source

Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. GenealogieOnline 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::31778988