where was st elizabeth ann seton born?
New York City
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 Mary was baptised at the nearby Church of St Michael shortly after she was born . Rumours spread that she was weak and frail , but an English diplomat , Ralph Sadler , saw the infant at Linlithgow Palace in March 1543 , unwrapped by her nurse , and wrote , " it is as goodly a child as I have seen of her age , and as like to live . " 

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 Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace and was named after both her grandmothers , Elizabeth of York and Elizabeth Howard . She was the second child of Henry VIII of England born in wedlock to survive infancy . Her mother was Henry 's second wife , Anne Boleyn . At birth , Elizabeth was the heiress presumptive to the throne of England . Her older half @-@ sister , Mary , had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary 's mother , Catherine of Aragon , to marry Anne , with the intent to sire a male heir and ensure the Tudor succession . Elizabeth was baptised on 10 September ; Archbishop Thomas Cranmer , the Marquess of Exeter , the Duchess of Norfolk and the Dowager Marchioness of Dorset stood as her godparents . 

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 From 1949 until her death , she was sometimes known as Mother Superior Alice @-@ Elizabeth 

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 When Elizabeth was two years and eight months old , her mother was executed on 19 May 1536 . Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and deprived of her place in the royal succession . Eleven days after Anne Boleyn 's death , Henry married Jane Seymour , but she died shortly after the birth of their son , Prince Edward , in 1537 . From his birth , Edward was undisputed heir apparent to the throne . Elizabeth was placed in his household and carried the chrisom , or baptismal cloth , at his christening . 

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 Finally , in 1912 , a fourth child was born , christened Elizabeth Forbes @-@ Sempill , and known to the family as " Betty " . 
