Elizabeth Linsell

   Ancestral File Number: 8246-V4.

  General Notes:

We have discovered that Bennett Greene was not Nathaniel Wright's mother, but his stepmother. Nathaniel was born in 1581. Lord (to be) John Wright's wife at the time (his first wife) was Elizabeth Linsell. In the 1634 Visitations, Nathaniel did list Bennett as his mother, but by his own baptismal record, the record of Elizabeth's death and the record of John Wright's marriage to Bennett, Nathaniel had to have been about 8 when Lord John married Bennett. Maybe Bennett was all he ever thought of as his mother, or maybe there were ulterior motives. There is good reason to suspect that this slight shading of the truth in his Visitations declaration was not accidental, but designed to insulate him from the King's wrath to a certain degree. In 1634 Nathaniel was likely on the Merchant/ Parliament side of the growing confrontation with King Charles I. As such he would have had need of every scrap of birthright prestige he could muster in the Visitations to try to maintain his economic position. The Greene family connection brought considerably more prestige, back into antiquity, than was offered by the Linsell family name. Between the Wright and Greene family heritage he could claim by birth on both sides of his family to be loyal to the King by tradition.

John WRIGHT and Bennett GREENE were married. Children were: John WRIGHT, Samuel WRIGHT, Jane WRIGHT, Nathaniel WRIGHT, William WRIGHT, Lawrence WRIGHT, Bennett WRIGHT

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Elizabeth married John Wright, son of John Wright and Alice Rucke or Woodrucke, on 27 Oct 1568 in Wrightsbridge, Kelvedon, Essex, England. (John Wright was born about 1548 in Dagenham, Essex, England and died in 1624 in Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, England.)