Click to expand/collapse all notes Click to expand/collapse all other details

Female Elizabeth Fry Click to view Elizabeth Fry in the family tree Click to view Elizabeth Fry in the family tree

Elizabeth was born in 1737.  Elizabeth's father was Benjamin Fry and her mother was Christen Ann Merkle.  Her paternal grandparents were Heinrich Frey and Anna Catherine Levering; her maternal grandparents were Abraham Merkle and Anna Veronica Landvatter. She had nine brothers named Abraham, Benjamin, Henry, Jacob, Joseph, Samuel, Lodowick, Christin and William.  She was the youngest of the ten children.