MS 681 18 01

MS 681 18 01

Papers of the wider Barrett and related families: Papers of Elizabeth Barrett Williams (née Waite) (1754-1834)

Sub-series

Elizabeth Barrett Williams (1754-1834) was the daughter of Mary Barrett (1727-1810) and Henry Waite (d.1766). She first married Martin Williams (1723-1786), with whom she had four children. She later formed a relationship with her first cousin Samuel Barrett (1765-1794), son of Edward and Judith Barrett, and had four more children. This made her both niece and daughter-in-law to Edward and Judith Barrett.

She was in England when Samuel died in 1794 and settled in Milverton, Warwickshire, around 1800, where her father's Waite family lived. She also lived with her sister, Mary Barrett Lockhead, in Gloucester Place, London. She was a friend of Mary (Trippy) Trepsack, close friend of her cousin Elizabeth Moulton.

Elizabeth Barrett Williams died in Leamington, Warwickshire, in 1834.

1790-1847

5 files and 4 items

This sub-series comprises letters, financial papers and a journal of Elizabeth Barrett Williams and her extended family

Papers of Elizabeth Barrett Williams’ 5 sons are in the subseries MS 681 02-06

A colour reproduction of a miniature portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Williams has been published in R A Barrett: The Barretts of Jamaica: the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, facing page 148.