The daughter of Richard Caton of Maryland; in 1836 she married George William Stafford Jerningham, eighth Baron Stafford. Her sister married Richard Wellesley; she was the sister-in-law of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte.

REFERENCES TO Lady Elizabeth Jerningham, baroness Stafford [née Caton]:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 9 September 1832 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)