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Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Daughter of Earl - married sea captain circa 1775

fname=Edith
lname=Close-Vaziri
address1=12712 Byron Ave.
address2=
city=Granada Hills
state=Calif.
zip=91344
closevaziri@yahoo.com
ancestor=? daughter of earl married sea captain circa 1775

comments=My great,great grandmother Elizabeth Sarah Courtney Harris is said to have been the granddaughter of a daughter of the Earl of Devon. This daughter is said to have been disowned by her father when she married a sea captain. The sea captain's name could have been Harris as Elizabeth's father was Edward Harris. Elizabeth was born in Exmouth. At this point I do not have any exact dates. She could have been born about 1820 as her husband Daniel Close was born in 1817.