Lady Elizabeth Russell

  General Notes:

Elegant in manners and exemplary in conduct, she was long remembered in the neighbourhood as "the good Lady Cromwell." Her grandson, William Cromwell, of Kirby Street, informed Dr. Gibbons that though, like many others, she had at first entertained a hostile feeling towards the Protector Oliver, yet on becoming his daughter-in-law, closer observation changed her antipathies into affectionate esteem, and led her to regard him as the most amiable of parents. Her monument, with those of others of the family is preserved in Wicken Church, Cambrigeshire. ¹¹⁶

Elizabeth married Henry Cromwell Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, son of Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England and Elizabeth Bourchier, on 1653 May 10.¹¹⁵ (Henry Cromwell Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was born on 1628 Jan 20 in , Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England, christened on 1628 Jan 29 in All Saints, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England and died on 1674 Mar 23 in Spinney Abbey, , Cambridgeshire, England.)