9th Great Grandmother ~ ELIZABETH POYNTZ

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ELIZABETH POYNTZ

Elizabeth Poyntz was born around 1587-88 in Somerset, England. 
Her mother, Elizabeth Sydenham died at the age of only 33 in Westminister, London, England.
Her father was Sir John Poyntz born 1530 of Acton in Gloucestershire.
Elizabeth's ancestral home was Iron Action Court (see picture below).

Iron Acton Court,  Gloucestershire
Elizabeth Poyntz's Ancestral Home

Elizabeth became Lady Thurles around 1608-1610 when she married Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, son of Walter, 11th Earl of Ormond.  Thomas was 14 when they married.
The marriage was against her father-in-laws's wishes.
They were probably the first of the family to take up residence in Thurles Castle in Ireland.
*Thurles was an ancestral home of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

THURLES CASTLE

She and Thomas had three sons and four daughters before he drowned on December 15, 1619, when the ship carrying him to England was wrecked off the Skerries near Anglesey.  He was 23 years old. This was shortly after the start of his father's long imprisonment in the Fleet Prison in London and Thomas had been on his way to answer charges of treason for having garrisoned (defended) Kilkenny.

After Thomas' death, Lady Thurles married again, about 1620.  With her second husband, Captain George Mathew of Tadyr and Llandaff in Glamorganshire, Wales, she had two more sons and one more daughter. Her second husband died in 1638 in Wales.  Elizabeth lives a further 37 years, dying in Thurles, North Riding, Tipperary, Ireland in May 1673.  She was buried beside what is now the Protestant Church of St. Mary's in Thurles.


An oil portrait of Lady Thurles is held by Tipperary County Library in Thurles.
I wonder what 'Mine Lick Joe' would have thought of this painting?

Her body was interred beside St. Mary's Famine Museum Church in Thurles.



Elizabeth Poyntz -  9th Great Grandmother
daughter of Elizabeth Poyntz
son of Mary Butler
son of Alexander Hamilton
daughter of William Hamilton
son of Martha Hamilton
son of John Allison JR
son of Joseph "Mine Lick Joe" Allison
son of William Herbert Allison
son of William Carter Allison
son of William Luther Allison
You are the daughter of Ernest Haywood Allison 

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