Ancestry of
Wallis (Warfield) Simpson

Duchess of Windsor, wife of former King Edward VIII

Elizabeth Gover

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Wallis (Warfield) Simpson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 245 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Gover 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Roberts   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Aug 1710 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandy Springs, Columbiana, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Lee III
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Aug 1730 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Child:

  Samuel S. Lee (Ahnentafel No:122 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give the name of Elizabeth Gover as Sarah. The Quaker Monthly Meeting records for both her birth record and marriage intention give her name as Elizabeth.

• Sources for Elizabeth Gover

  • ¹ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 17, New York: James T. White and Company (1920), 333.
  • ² U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Birth record for Elizabeth Gover.
  • ³ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, 04 AUG 1730, Marriage intention for Jame Lee Jr and Elizabeth Gover.
  • ⁴ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 2, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 439-440.