Nielsen Hayden genealogy
John Wentworth

-
Name John Wentworth Birth of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Gender Male Death Between 1415 and 1420 [8] Alternate death Bef 1430 [4] Person ID I7197 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 8 Jul 2022
Father John Wentworth, b. of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1413
Mother Agnes Dronsfield, b. of West Bretton, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England d. 3 Oct 1430
Marriage 1407 [9] Family ID F6492 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Joan Beaumont, b. of Whitley, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1471
Children + 1. John Wentworth, b. of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1459
Family ID F5580 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Jul 2015
-
Notes - He has to have died before 1430, when John Saville and John Lake had his son John's wardship by letters patent of Henry VI dated 8 July of that year. In 1431 they sold the wardship and marriage of the younger John Wentworth to Walter Calverley.
The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz has him as the father of Roger Wentworth who married Margery le Despenser.
- He has to have died before 1430, when John Saville and John Lake had his son John's wardship by letters patent of Henry VI dated 8 July of that year. In 1431 they sold the wardship and marriage of the younger John Wentworth to Walter Calverley.
-
Sources - [S159] Joseph Lemuel Chester, "A Genealogical Memoir of the Wentworth Family of England, From its Saxon Origin in the Eleventh Century to the Emigration of One of its Representatives to New England About the Year 1636." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 22:120, April 1868.
- [S431] John P. Ravilious, 13 Sep 2004, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.
- [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878.
- [S1479] The Calverley Charters, Presented to the British Museum by Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Baronet, transcribed by Samuel Margerison and edited by William Paley Baildon and Samuel Margerison. Leeds, 1904.
- [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.
- [S2667] Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "The English Ancestry of William Wentworth of New Hampshire: Male-Line Ancestry for Five Generations." The American Genealogist 90:161, Jul 2018, and 90:263, Oct 2018.
- [S50] Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Second edition, 2011.
- [S1483] See our entry for Thomas Wentworth for an argument for this range of dates.
- [S419] Brice Clagett, 21 Nov 2003, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.
- [S159] Joseph Lemuel Chester, "A Genealogical Memoir of the Wentworth Family of England, From its Saxon Origin in the Eleventh Century to the Emigration of One of its Representatives to New England About the Year 1636." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 22:120, April 1868.