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Thomas Wentworth

Male Abt 1441 - 1524  (~ 82 years)


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  • Name Thomas Wentworth  [1, 2
    Alternate birth Abt 1438  of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Birth Abt 1441  of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7
    Gender Male 
    Alternate death Abt 1522  [8
    Alternate death Aft 1521  [9
    Alternate death 1523  [10
    Death Between 1 Apr 1523 and 19 Nov 1524  [6
    Person ID I9596  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2024 

    Father John Wentworth,   b. of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1459 
    Mother Joan Calverley,   b. of Calverley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Aft 1 Apr 1431  [2, 11, 12
    Family ID F4279  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jane Mirfield,   b. of Howley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1 Apr 1523 
    Marriage Abt 1475  [6
    Children 
    +1. Roger Wentworth,   b. of Adwick, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 9 Jul 1551 and 27 Oct 1551
    +2. Oliver Wentworth,   b. Abt 1490, of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 7 Dec 1558 and 28 Jan 1559 (Age ~ 68 years)
    Family ID F5601  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Thomas Wentworth and his wife Jane Mirfield were sixth cousins once removed, he being a 6xG-grandson of Peter de Rotherfield and Agnes Wallis, and she being a 5xG-granddaughter of the same couple.

      "Thomas Wentworth was involved in at least two lawsuits over properties associated with earlier Wentworth generations and marriages. In 1515-18, he sued the abbot of Roche for a moiety of the manor of Stanton, for which his ancestor Agnes (Dronsfield) Wentworth had a claim. Sometime after that date, Thomas sued the Gascoigne family for properties in Skellale that had been granted to his ancestors John and Joan (Tyas) Wentworth by Alice Tyas, Joan's mother." [Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor, citation details below]

      "In 1459 there was an assignment from the old trustees of the Wentworth property, of whom Walter Calverley was one, to a new set of trustees (No. 371). This transaction no doubt indicates the coming of age of John Wentworth's son, Walter's grandson, which would show that he was born in 1438." [The Calverley Charters, citation details below.]

      If this is so, it suggests that the younger John Wentworth was born in approximately 1415-1420, thus about ten or fifteen years old when his wardship and marriage were sold in 1430 and 1431. This would also suggest that the elder John Wentworth died in same range, 1415-1420.

  • Sources 
    1. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., for identity.

    2. [S50] Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Second edition, 2011.

    3. [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., place only.

    4. [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.

    5. [S53] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years by Frederick Lewis Weis. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and William R. Beal. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999., place only.

    6. [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.

    7. [S6908] John Watson, "The Heirs of Alexander de Neville of Redbourne (Part 4 - Pontefract/Mirfield)." Genealogical Rambling, 13 Oct 2014., place only.

    8. [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.

    9. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878., "will was dated in 1522".

    10. [S53] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years by Frederick Lewis Weis. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and William R. Beal. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999.

    11. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    12. [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., "about 1431".