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1 day ago · Augusta Leigh's child, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, born in 1814, was possibly fathered by Byron, who was Augusta's half-brother. Byron had a child, The Hon. Augusta Ada Byron ("Ada", later Countess of Lovelace), in 1815, by his wife Annabella Byron, Lady Byron (née Anne Isabella Milbanke, or "Annabella"), later Lady Wentworth.
5 days ago · Augusta (who was married) gave birth on 15 April 1814 to her third daughter, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, rumoured by some to be Byron's. Eventually Byron began to court Lady Caroline's cousin Anne Isabella Milbanke ("Annabella"), who refused his first proposal of marriage but later accepted him.
1 day ago · The first decade of Elizabeth’s reign was relatively quiet, but after 1568 three interrelated matters set the stage for the crisis of the century: the queen’s refusal to marry, the various plots to replace her with Mary of Scotland, and the religious and economic clash with Spain.
4 days ago · In 1693 the church possessed four bells said to have been given by Queen Elizabeth, two of which—the great bell and the third bell—had been cast at Leigh in 1663. (fn. 20) A fifth bell was added in 1692, and in 1705 the second and fourth were re-cast by Gabriel Smith of Congleton.
3 days ago · John Hardwick, Esq., then living, was the last heir male. The two elder of his sisters and coheirs married Wingfield and Boswell; the youngest, Leigh. Elizabeth, the third sister, married four husbands, Robert Barley, Esq., Sir William Cavendish, Sir William Saintloe, and George Earl of Shrewsbury.
2 days ago · Elizaveta ( Eлизaвeтa ), a Russian form of the name, has been in the top 10 names given to baby girls born in Moscow, Russia in the past 10 years. The name is also popular in Ukraine and Belarus . Name variants. Elisabeta, Elisa, Liza, Izabela ( Albanian) أليصابات, أليشابع, إِلِيزَابِيث ( 'Alīṣābāt, 'Alīshābaʻ, Ilīzābīth) ( Arabic)
3 days ago · A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a man who was thought to have been "assaulted in the street". Police were called to an address on Royal Drive in Leigh on...
