Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Roger Wentworth
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Name Roger Wentworth [1] Birth of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England 
[2, 3] Gender Male Alternate birth of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England [3, 4] Alternate death Aft 5 Jun 1452 [5] Alternate death 21 Oct 1452 [3, 6, 7] Death 24 Oct 1452 [2, 8, 9, 10, 11] 
Siblings2 siblings Person ID I9374 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of UKL Last Modified 25 Aug 2020
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 [12] Family ID F6492 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Margery le Despenser, b. Abt 1399, of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England d. 20 Apr 1478 (Age ~ 79 years) Marriage Bef 2 Mar 1423 [2] Children + 1. Agnes Wentworth, b. of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England d. 20 Apr 1496+ 2. Henry Wentworth, b. of Codham Hall in Wethersfield, Essex, England d. 22 Mar 1483+ 3. Margaret Wentworth d. 20 Apr 1478 + 4. Philip Wentworth, b. Abt 1424 d. 18 May 1464, Middleham, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 40 years)Family ID F5572 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Sep 2020
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Notes - According to Gary Boyd Roberts, 600D, Margery le Despenser and Sir Roger Wentworth were ancestors to Thomas Jefferson, to Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles, and to Edith Bolling, wife of Woodrow Wilson.
Descent to Thomas Jefferson:
1. Margery le Despenser = Sir Roger Wentworth
2. Margaret Wentworth = Sir William Hopton
3. Margaret Hopton = Sir Philip Booth
4. Audrey Booth = Sir William Lytton
5. Sir Robert Lytton = Frances Cavalery
6. Anne Lytton = Sir John Borlase
7. Anne Borlase = Sir Euseby Isham
8. William Isham = Mary Brett
9. Henry Isham of Virginia (emigrant) = Mrs. Katherine Banks Royall
10. Mary Isham = William Randolph of Virginia (emigrant)
11. Isham Randoph = Jane Roberts
12. Jane Randolph = Peter Jefferson
13. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States
Descent to Martha Wayles:
10. Anne Isham (sister of Mary Isham) = Francis Epes III
11. Francis Epes IV = Sarah (maiden name unknown)
12. Martha Epes = John Wayles
13. Martha Wayles = (1) Bathurst Skelton; (2) Thomas Jefferson
Descent to Edith Bolling:
13. Mary Jefferson (sister of Thomas Jefferson) = John Bolling III (great-great-great grandson of Pocahontas and John Rolfe)
14. Archibald Bolling = Catherine Payne
15. Archibald Bolling, Jr. = Anne E. Wigginton
16. William Holcombe Bolling = Sallie Spiers White
17. Edith Bolling = (1) Norman Galt; (2) Thomas Woodrow Wilson
This couple were also ancestors of Jane Seymour and thus of Edward VI:
Margery le Despenser (1399-1478) = Sir Roger Wentworth (d. 1452)
Philip Wentworth (1424-1464) = Mary Clifford (1416-1478)
Henry Wentworth (1448-1501) = Ann Saye (1453-1484)
Margaret Wentworth (1478-1550) = John Seymour (1476-1536)
Jane Seymour (1508-1537) = Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Edward VI (1537-1553)
And of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computer programming:
Roger Wentworth (d. 1452) = Margery le Despenser (1399-1478)
Philip Wentworth (1424-1464) = Mary Clifford (1416-1478)
Henry Wentworth (1448-1501) = Ann Saye (1453-1484)
Richard Wentworth (1480-1528) = Anne Tyrell (1480-1534)
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501-1551) = Margaret Fortescue (1550-1551)
Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525-1584) = Anne Wentworth (d. 1571)
Henry Wentworth, 3rd Baron Wentworth (1558-1593) = Anne Hopton (1561-1625)
Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth (1591-1667) = Anne Crofts (d. 1637/8)
Anne Wentworth, 7th Baron Wentworth (1623-1697) = John Lovelace (d. 1670)
William Noel (1642-1675) = Margaret Lovelace (1644-1671)
John Noel (1668-1697) = Mary Clobery (1672-1751)
Clobery Noel (1695-1733) = Elizabeth Rowney (d. 1743)
Edward Noel, 9th Baron Wentworth (1715-1774) = Judith Lamb (d. 1761)
Judith Noel (1751-1825) = Ralph Milbanke (d. 1793)
Anne Noel-Byron, 11th Baron Wentworth (1792-1860) = George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) (1815-1852)
They are also ancestral to Megan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, wife of Prince Harry, fifth in line to the British throne. Notably, Roger and Marjory's son Philip Wentworth and his wife Mary Clifford are the most recent common ancestors shared by Prince Harry and his wife the Duchess:
Roger Wentworth (d. 1452) = Margery le Despenser (1399-1478)
Philip Wentworth (1424-1464) = Mary Clifford (1416-1478)
Elizabeth Wentworth (1440-1480) = Martin De La See (1420-1494)
Jane At See (1464-1528) = Piers Hildyard (1460-1502)
Isabel Hildyard (1500-1540) = Ralph Legard (1490-1540)
Joan Legard (1530-1586) = Richard Skepper (1495-1556)
Edward Skepper (1552-1629) = Mary Robinson (1576-1630)
Rev. William Skepper (1597-1646) of Boston, MA (d. 1640-50) = unknown 1st wife
Jane Skepper (1635-1682) = Abraham Browne (1630-1690)
Jane Brown (b. 1657) = Henry Lunt (1653-1709)
Jane Lunt (1693-1743) = Nathaniel Drake (1695-1763)
Abraham Drake (1726-1805) = Martha Eaton (1730-1799)
Martha Drake (1767-1841) = John Smith (1760-1842)
John Smith (1792-1866) = Mary "Polly" Mudgett (1797-1869)
Mary Hussey Smith (1822-1908) = Jacob Lee Merrill (1818-1899)
George David Merrill (1861-1924) = Mary Bird (1862-1925)
Gertrude May Merrill (1887-1938) = Frederick George Sanders (1873-1944)
Doris May Sanders (1920-2011) = Gordon Arnold Markle (1918-1982)
Thomas Wayne Markle (1944- ) = Doria L. Ragland (1956- )
(Rachel) Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Henry Charles Albert David (1984- )
- According to Gary Boyd Roberts, 600D, Margery le Despenser and Sir Roger Wentworth were ancestors to Thomas Jefferson, to Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles, and to Edith Bolling, wife of Woodrow Wilson.
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