Memorial to Mildred Gale, St Nicholas Church, Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
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A polished stone plaque commemorating Mildred Gale, paternal grandmother of President George Washington.
Waymark Code: WMJ19G
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/08/2013
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Mildred Gale, nee Warner, was born in 1671
in Virginia, the granddaughter of the acting governor of Virginia. In 1686 she
married Lawrence Washington and had three children by him :-
John Augustine and Mildred. Lawrence died, and in 1700 Mildred married George
Gale, a Whitehaven merchant. Unfortunately on her return to Whitehaven she
contracted fever and died in January 1701. Augustine Washington went on to marry Mary Ball
and produced George Washington in 1731
Mildred was buried in the grounds of the
Chapel of St Nicholas. St Nicholas, with the exception of the tower, was
destroyed by fire in 1971. Her gravestone is missing, but there is a polished
stone plaque on the wall of the church ruins, which reads
Within
these grounds lie
the remains of
MILDRED
GALE
Died
Whitehaven 1701
Paternal
grandmother of
GEORGE
WASHINGTON
First
President of the
United
States of America
http://www.whitehavenandwesternlakeland.co.uk/people/mildredgale.htm