When I saw the movie "Henry VIII" as a teenager, I had no idea I was connected to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry VIII's friend and advisor. The one who broke from the Catholic Church and granted King Henry's divorces and eventually was executed. Grandma Elizabeth's great great grandpa was the brother of Thomas Cranmer, the Bishop of Canterbury. Her great grandma, Alice Cranmer, niece of the bishop, spent her last years at a hospital for the insane. Her great grandfather, Thomas Norton, was a member of Parliament and a playwright.
Elizabeth's father came to America about 1633 and married his wife in York, Maine. He became the Marshall of York and later went back to England and was never heard from again. His wife was Margaret, and according to one book her "presence in their home [Elizabeth and her husband's] evidently caused many of the troubles of their early married life."
Sylvester Stover, to whom Elizabeth was married in York in 1652, was a fisherman and ferryman who had been born in Suffolk, England. They lived in York and had 9 children, two of whom had children who married each other. Elizabeth moved to Scituate, Massachusetts after Sylvester died and died there in 1714.
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