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Nichola Sophia Hamilton (1666-1713)
Born 23 February 1666
Died 23 February 1713
Married (1) February 1687
Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet,
son of Sir Randal Beresford, 2nd Baronet and Catherine Annesley
Born 1669
Died 16 June 1701
Married (2) 1704
Lieut. Gen. Richard Gorges
Died 12 April 1728
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After discussing religion with John Power, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Nichola
Sophia Hamilton and the Earl agreed that the first to die should appear
to the survivor and declare which was the true religion.
Nichola Sophia, who had married Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet,
was startled one night by the apparition of the Earl, who informed her
of his death (14 October 1694) and that "the revealed religion is the only
one by which we can be saved", and predicted her re-marriage, the number
of her children, and her death in child-birth at the age of forty-seven.
Nichola Sophia, being incredulous of the reality of the vision, allowed
him to touch her wrist, though warned that it would be irreparably scarred.
The apparition did so, and "For evermore that lady wore a riband on her
wrist." She died 23 February 1713 on her
forty-seventh birthday which, from a mistake about the year of her
birth, she thought that she had passed.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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