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RoeSir ThomasRoe married Eleanor, [[George Beeston|Lady Beeston]], the young widowed daughter of [[Cave-Browne-Cave baronets|Sir Thomas Cave]] of [[Stanford-on-Avon]], Northamptonshire in 1614, just weeks before embarking for India.<ref>Michael Strachan, ''Sir Thomas Roe 1581-1644. A Life'' (Michael Russell, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1989), p. 58.</ref> Eleanor did not go to India, but did accompany Roe on the subsequent embassy to [[Constantinople]]. The couple were childless and adopted Jane Rupa, an orphaned girl introduced by Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Akkerman |first=Nadine |title=Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2021 |pages=570}}</ref> When Eleanor died in 1675 she was buried alongside him in the parish church of St. Mary, Woodford.<ref>Strachan (1989), pp. 279-80.</ref>