Elizabeth Gascoigne

Family

Elizabeth Gascoigne was born in 1812, she was the second daughter of Richard Oliver Gascoigne. She had three siblings an older sister named Mary-Isabella Gascoigne and two younger brothers Richard and Thomas Gascoigne. In 1844 both Gascoigne brothers passed away^[1]; a year later in 1843 Richard Oliver Gascoigne, her father, passed away. Leaving her and Mary-Issabella as the heirs to the Gascoigne Estates. Elizabeth Gascoigne inherited Lotherton hall once she married which he had acquired in 1825^[2].

Life

Elizbeth Gascoigne and her older sister Mary-Isabella would spend a lot of their time together and their lives would mirror each other in a number of coincidences. Firstly the sisters were born two years apart, Mary-Isabella Gascoigne in 1810 then followed by Elizabeth Gascoigne in 1812. They married two years apart. Mary-Isabella Gascoigne marrying first, she married Fredrick Charles Trench of Dublin in 1850, then two years later Elizabeth Gascoigne married Fredrick Mason Trench in 1852. Who was also known as 2nd Baron Ashtown, who was also the cousin to Fredrick Charles Trench of Dublin. Fredrick Mason Trench, had five children from a prior marriage, making Elizabeth Gascoigne a stepmother to two daughters and three sons ^[3]

In 1893, two years after her sister, Elizabeth Gascoigne passed away leaving no biological children of her own to inherit Lotherton hall, instead, it was inherited by her nephew Colonel Fredrick Richard Thomas Trench- Gascoigne^[4].