Elizabeth Taylor

1595 – ?

✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-02

Elizabeth Taylor married Francis Brocke at Belton, in the Isle of Axholme, on 30 January 1611, both of them of the parish. She was, in all likelihood, the “Elizabethe Talor, daughter of George” christened at Belton on 4 May 1595 — the only girl of her name in or near the parish, and the reading her own children endorse: her second son was named George, the place custom kept for a mother's father. By that reckoning she came to the altar at fifteen — young, but lawful, and not rare in her day.

Nine children were baptised at Belton across eighteen years, and four of them she buried as infants: Ann at five days, John at one, Elizabeth at a year, and her last child, Francis, at two days. Through her second son George, baptised in 1619, this line descends.

Francis died in December 1638, leaving her a yeoman's widow of about forty-three. And there her own record goes quiet — no burial of an Elizabeth Brock follows at Belton. But in August 1645 an Elizabeth Brock married William Scott in the parish church; if that bride was her — a widow remarrying, as widows in her position commonly did — then she ended her days under another name, and the register kept her exit where no one thought to look.

Composed from validated records · 2026-07-02

Family

Marriage

FBSpouseFrancis Brocke1585–1638

Children

GBChild · the line continuesGeorge Brockmain line1619–1656

Life

Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred

1595

Baptised

4 May 1595 at Belton

Baptiz: Elizabethe Talor, filia Georgij — the 4th [of May], 1595.— Baptism register, Belton (1595)

The record image is with the family — family sign-in

Read at the image record Evidence

Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:

Baptism register, Belton (1595) — Belton — Lincolnshire Archives (findmypast image BELTON_IN_AXHOLME_PAR_1_2 f.0307), read from the original. The only Elizabeth Taylor christening in or near the parish; her father George's name returned in her second son. Likely, not proven. read at the image

1611

Married Francis Brocke

30 January 1611

Nupti: Ffranncis Brock et Elizabeth Taylor — tricesimo [the 30th of January], 1611.— Marriage register, Belton (1611)

Confirmed in index record Evidence

Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:

Marriage register, Belton (1611) — Belton — Lincolnshire Archives. Old-style January 1611 (early 1612 by modern reckoning). The register page is shown on Francis's page. from Mum’s research
Marriage register, Belton (1611) — Belton — Lincolnshire Archives. Old-style January 1611 (early 1612 by modern reckoning); cross-indexed on FamilySearch (mangled to “Frauncis Brocket,” filed under February). Both parties of Belton. index entry — original not yet seen

Our research

Two doors left open

Open research · Belton, Isle of Axholme

Elizabeth's marriage and her children are solid register fact. Her beginning and her end are each a door left ajar.

Her parentage — likely, not proven

The “Elizabethe Talor, filia Georgij” baptised at Belton on 4 May 1595 (read from the register itself) is the only Elizabeth Taylor christening in or near the parish for the plausible years.
The naming custom corroborates it: a couple's second son usually took the mother's father's name — and her second son was George (1619, our ancestor), just as her third son Robert carried his father's father's name.
What would settle it: a will of George Taylor of Belton naming a daughter Elizabeth Brock. Until then the identification stands as likely, and George Taylor waits as a possible rung behind her.

Her end — the Scott question

No burial of an Elizabeth Brock appears at Belton after the infant of 1631 — yet Elizabeth was a widow there from December 1638.
On 14 August 1645 an Elizabeth Brock married William Scott at Belton — read from the register itself: “Nupti Willm Scott, et Elizabeth Brock — decimo quarto die.” (One findmypast index files it under 1644; the register page is headed 1645 — the original rules.) Very possibly her, remarrying at about fifty — in which case her burial lies under Scott, and the search moves there.
The rival reading: Francis's sister Elizabeth (baptised 1597) — though a first marriage at forty-seven would be the rarer thing. Neither is proven; the mid-century register gap swallows what would decide it.