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Margaret de Gresley

Female - Aft 1439


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Margaret de Gresley died after 1439.

    Notes:

    Email sent to the History of Parliament via their web form at http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/about/contact-us, on 12 September 2014.

    From: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

    Page URL: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/gresley-sir-thomas-1445

    "[Sir Thomas Gresley's] daughters, Joan and Margaret, did equally well for themselves, becoming the wives, respectively, of Sir Thomas Blount (d. 1456), treasurer of Normandy, and Thomas Astley of Patshull, who was related to the Beauchamp earls of Warwick."

    This appears to be backward. According to the History of Parliament's own page about Sir Thomas Blount (at http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blount-thomas-ii-1383-1456 -- this should be a live link on the entry for Gresley, but isn't), Blount married Margaret, not Joan. This is corroborated by every other source I can find.

    Obviously, changing the sentence to read "Margaret and Joan" rather than "Joan and Margaret" would fix the entire problem.

    Family/Spouse: Thomas Blount. Thomas (son of Walter Blount and Sancha de Ayala) was born about 1383; died in 1456 in Elvaston, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Sanche Blount  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1418 in of Elvaston, Derbyshire, England.
    2. 3. Thomas Blount  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1420 in of Elwaston, Derbyshire, England; died before 11 Feb 1468.
    3. 4. Walter Blount  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1420; died on 1 Aug 1474.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Sanche Blount Descendancy chart to this point (1.Margaret1) was born about 1418 in of Elvaston, Derbyshire, England.

    Family/Spouse: Edward Langford. Edward (son of Robert Langford and Elizabeth) was born before 1417 in of Bradfield, Hertfordshire, England; died in 1474. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Alice Langford  Descendancy chart to this point died before Nov 1487.

  2. 3.  Thomas Blount Descendancy chart to this point (1.Margaret1) was born about 1420 in of Elwaston, Derbyshire, England; died before 11 Feb 1468.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 1414, of Derbyshire, England

    Notes:

    Knight of the shire for Derbyshire 1453-54; Lincolnshire 1460-67.

    Thomas married Agnes Hawley on 6 Oct 1453. Agnes (daughter of John Hawley and Agnes) was born before 16 Nov 1430 in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; was christened on 16 Nov 1430; died on 14 Oct 1462; was buried on 14 Oct 1462 in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Anne Blount  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1456; died on 20 Nov 1537.

  3. 4.  Walter Blount Descendancy chart to this point (1.Margaret1) was born about 1420; died on 1 Aug 1474.

    Notes:

    Knight of the shire for Derbyshire. Lord High Treasurer 1464-65. Fought on the Yorkist side at Towton.

    Walter married Anne Neville before 25 Nov 1467. Anne (daughter of Ralph de Neville and Joan Beaufort) died on 20 Sep 1480; was buried in Pleshey, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



Generation: 3

  1. 5.  Alice Langford Descendancy chart to this point (2.Sanche2, 1.Margaret1) died before Nov 1487.

    Alice married John Stradling in 1468. John (son of Edmund Stradling and Elizabeth Arundell) was born about 1449 in of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England; died in 1471. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Anne Stradling  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1469; died on 29 Dec 1539; was buried in Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England.

  2. 6.  Anne Blount Descendancy chart to this point (3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born about 1456; died on 20 Nov 1537.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1453, Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England
    • Alternate birth: Between 1453 and 1462

    Anne married William Marbury after 1474. William (son of John Marbury and Eleanor) was born about 1450 in of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England; died before 1 Oct 1508. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Robert Marbury  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 1487 in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died on 7 Aug 1545 in Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 7.  Anne Stradling Descendancy chart to this point (5.Alice3, 2.Sanche2, 1.Margaret1) was born about 1469; died on 29 Dec 1539; was buried in Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England.

    Anne married John Danvers on 13 Dec 1487 in College of St. Martin-le-Grand, London, England. John (son of Richard Danvers and Elizabeth Langston) was born in of Culworth, Northamptonshire, England; died on 3 Jan 1515; was buried in Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Anne Danvers  Descendancy chart to this point died on 11 Jul 1523.

  2. 8.  Robert Marbury Descendancy chart to this point (6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 1487 in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died on 7 Aug 1545 in Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1487
    • Alternate birth: 1490
    • Alternate death: Aft 28 Jul 1545

    Notes:

    Robert Marbury and Katherine Williamson were half third cousins once removed, both being descendants of Thomas Hawley (d. 1419 or 1420), Katherine through Thomas's first wife Margaret Brewse, and Thomas through an uncertain wife who may have been Dulcia Massey or perhaps an unknown wife between Margaret and Dulcia.

    From "The Well-Beloved Mother-in-law of Robert Marbury" by F. N. Craig, citation details below:

    In the funeral of Henry VII in 1509, [Robert Marbury] was a yeoman to the King's Grandame (that is, Henry VII's grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, wife successively of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond; Sir Henry Stafford; and Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby). In 1510, as yeoman usher of the Queen's Chamber, he had a grant to be feodary [i.e., one who holds land of an overlord on condition of homage] of the duchy of Exeter within county Devon, during [the king's] pleasure. In 1513, as Robert Marbury Jr. he was a feofee, along with Robert Marbury Sr. [his uncle], John Lenton [father of his son's future wife] and John Marbury, clerk. In 1514, his cousin William Blount, Lord Mountjoy, was the Queen's Chamberlain. In the same year, Robert Marbury, yeoman usher of the Queen's Chamber, was feodary noted above, for life. In 1517, he was appointed to be serjeant at arms, with 12d. a day in consideration of his services to Queen Catherine. In 1526, his yearly wage as serjeant at arms in the Royal Household was £18 5s, i.e., still 12d. a day.

    In the Lincolnshire Rebellion of October 1536, Robert Marbury appears as follows: In the examination of Sir Edward Madeson before the King's Council, Madeson, with his brother John Madeson and both his sons, then went up into Castrefeld to see the number of rebellious and there met Sir Wm. Askew and Marbery the serjeant and one Bonctcene of the Exchequer. The rebels took them all except Boneteync and Marbury. (Let. & Pap. Hen. VIII, 11:225-26, no. 568.)

    In a letter from Sir Robert Kyrkham to Richard Cromwell:

    "Yesterday night late" he was at Stanforde with Sir William Parre and others when Marbery and Madyson, the King's servants came in, having escaped from the rebels who they say are 20,000... (Let. & Pap. Hen. VIII, 11:248, no. 619).

    Robert married Katherine Williamson before 1524. Katherine (daughter of John Williamson and Jane Angevine) was born about 1508; died on 17 Aug 1525. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. William Marbury  Descendancy chart to this point was born about Jun 1525 in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died before 16 Nov 1581.


Generation: 5

  1. 9.  Anne Danvers Descendancy chart to this point (7.Anne4, 5.Alice3, 2.Sanche2, 1.Margaret1) died on 11 Jul 1523.

    Family/Spouse: Thomas Lovett. Thomas (son of Thomas Lovett and Elizabeth Boteler) was born in of Astwell in Wappenham, Northamptonshire, England; died on 19 Jul 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. Elizabeth Lovett  Descendancy chart to this point died on 20 Aug 1577; was buried in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, England.

  2. 10.  William Marbury Descendancy chart to this point (8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born about Jun 1525 in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died before 16 Nov 1581.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1524, of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England

    Notes:

    Father of the Rev. Francis Marbury; grandfather of Anne Marbury Hutchinson; ancestor of Presidents Garfield, FDR, & Bush.

    Probably (but not incontrovertibly) the William Marbury who represented Newport iuxta Launceston, a notoriously "rotten" borough, in Parliament in 1572.

    William Marbury (1524-1581) = Agnes Lenton (b. ~1528)
    Rev. Francis Marbury (1555-1611) = Bridget Dryden (1563-1644)
    Anne Marbury (1591-1643) = William Hutchinson (1586-1641)
    Edward Hutchinson = Catherine Hamby
    Anne Hutchinson = Daniel Vernon
    Samuel Vernon = Elizabeth Fleet
    Samuel Vernon = Amy Ward
    Samuel Vernon = ?
    William S. Vernon = America Fontaine
    Mary Ann Vernon = Nathaniel Wolfe
    Sophia Vernon Wolfe = John Henry Hammond
    John Henry Hammond = Emily Vanderbilt Sloane
    John Hammond (1910-1987)

    -- One of the most important impresarios of 20th century music; discoverer or early champion of, for instance, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie Green, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Russell, Jim Copp, Asha Puthli, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

    Family/Spouse: Agnes Lenton. Agnes (daughter of John Lenton) was born about 1525 in of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England; died after Nov 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Katherine Marbury  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died before 16 Dec 1634; was buried on 16 Dec 1634.
    2. 13. Rev. Francis Marbury  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 27 Aug 1555; was christened on 27 Aug 1555 in St. Pancras, London, England; died before 14 Feb 1610.


Generation: 6

  1. 11.  Elizabeth Lovett Descendancy chart to this point (9.Anne5, 7.Anne4, 5.Alice3, 2.Sanche2, 1.Margaret1) died on 20 Aug 1577; was buried in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, England.

    Elizabeth married Anthony Cave before 1538. Anthony (son of Richard Cave and Margaret Saxby) was born in of Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 9 Sep 1558; was buried in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 14. Mary Cave  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Nov 1556; died before 6 Oct 1593; was buried on 6 Oct 1593 in Roxwell, Essex, England.

  2. 12.  Katherine Marbury Descendancy chart to this point (10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died before 16 Dec 1634; was buried on 16 Dec 1634.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 15 May 1633
    • Alternate death: Bef 26 Dec 1634
    • Buried: 26 Dec 1634, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England

    Katherine married Christopher Wentworth on 19 Oct 1583 in St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Christopher (son of William Wentworth and Ellen Gilby) was born about 1556 in of Ravendale, Lincolnshire, England; died on 12 Mar 1633; was buried on 12 Mar 1633. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 15. William Wentworth  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 8 Jun 1584 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; was christened on 8 Jun 1584 in St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died after 16 Mar 1642.

  3. 13.  Rev. Francis Marbury Descendancy chart to this point (10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 27 Aug 1555; was christened on 27 Aug 1555 in St. Pancras, London, England; died before 14 Feb 1610.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 12 Feb 1611

    Notes:

    "Francis Marbury (sometimes spelled Merbury) (1555-1611) was a Cambridge-educated English cleric, schoolmaster and playwright. He is best known for being the father of Anne Hutchinson, considered the most famous (or infamous) English woman in colonial America." [Wikipedia]

    Author of the 1579 play The Contract of Marriage of Wit and Wisdom.

    Francis married Bridget Dryden in 1587. Bridget (daughter of John Dryden and Elizabeth Cope) was born after 1563 in of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; died after 12 Feb 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 16. Mrs. Ann Marbury Hutchinson  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 20 Jul 1591; was christened on 20 Jul 1591 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died about Aug 1643 in New Netherland, in what is now the Bronx.
    2. 17. Katherine Marbury  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1610; died on 2 May 1687 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.


Generation: 7

  1. 14.  Mary Cave Descendancy chart to this point (11.Elizabeth6, 9.Anne5, 7.Anne4, 5.Alice3, 2.Sanche2, 1.Margaret1) was born on 1 Nov 1556; died before 6 Oct 1593; was buried on 6 Oct 1593 in Roxwell, Essex, England.

    Family/Spouse: Jerome Weston. Jerome (son of Richard Weston and Wilburga Catesby) was born about 1550 in of Skreens in Roxwell, Essex, England; died on 31 Dec 1603; was buried in Roxwell, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 18. Richard Weston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Mar 1577; died on 13 Mar 1635.
    2. 19. Mary Weston  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 26 Apr 1579; was christened on 26 Apr 1579 in Roxwell, Essex, England; died before 13 Jul 1614.

  2. 15.  William Wentworth Descendancy chart to this point (12.Katherine6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 8 Jun 1584 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; was christened on 8 Jun 1584 in St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died after 16 Mar 1642.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 1628

    Notes:

    Churchwarden of Muckton, Lincolnshire in 1641, in which capacity he, his wife, and his son Edward (later a surgeon of Boston, Lincolnshire) signed the Protestation Returns in that year.

    William married Susanna Carter on 28 Nov 1614 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. Susanna (daughter of Edward Carter) died after 1641. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 20. William Wentworth  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Mar 1616 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; was christened on 15 Mar 1616 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died on 15 Mar 1697 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire.

  3. 16.  Mrs. Ann Marbury Hutchinson Descendancy chart to this point (13.Francis6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 20 Jul 1591; was christened on 20 Jul 1591 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died about Aug 1643 in New Netherland, in what is now the Bronx.

    Notes:

    The famous Antinomian whose spiritual authenticity and personal charisma terrified the early Bay Colony so thoroughly that, as widely chronicled, they disarmed all her followers and sent many of them into exile. One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors."

    Mrs. married William Hutchinson on 9 Aug 1612 in St. Mary Woolnoth, London, England. William (son of Edward Hutchinson and Susanna) was born before 14 Aug 1586; was christened on 14 Aug 1586 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died after Jun 1641 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 21. Edward Hutchinson  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 28 May 1613; was christened on 28 May 1613 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died on 19 Aug 1675 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Springhill Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    2. 22. Faith Hutchinson  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 14 Aug 1617; was christened on 14 Aug 1617 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died on 20 Feb 1652 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
    3. 23. Bridget Hutchinson  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 15 Jan 1619; was christened on 15 Jan 1619 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died before 18 Aug 1698 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

  4. 17.  Katherine Marbury Descendancy chart to this point (13.Francis6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born about 1610; died on 2 May 1687 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.

    Notes:

    One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

    She was a brave woman. "At Boston, 16 Sept. 1658 the hangman cut off the right ear of Katherine Scott's future son-in-law Christopher Holder (who came from England two years before) for the crime of being a Quaker. Remonstrating against this barbarity, she was thrown into prison and later publicly flogged 'ten cruel stripes with a three-fold corded knotted whip.'" [Collected Papers: Armorial, Genealogical, Historical, citation details below.]

    She appears to have returned very briefly to England in 1659-60.

    Katherine married Richard Scott on 7 Jun 1632 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Richard (son of Edward Scott and Sarah Carter) was born before 9 Sep 1605 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; was christened on 9 Sep 1605 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; died between 1679 and 1680 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 24. Hannah Scott  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1642; died on 24 Jul 1681.


Generation: 8

  1. 18.  Richard Weston Descendancy chart to this point (14.Mary7, 11.Elizabeth6, 9.Anne5, 7.Anne4, 5.Alice3, 2.Sanche2, 1.Margaret1) was born on 1 Mar 1577; died on 13 Mar 1635.

    Notes:

    1st Earl of Portland. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Treasurer of England.

    From Wikipedia:

    Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, K. G., was Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Lord Treasurer of England under James I and Charles I, being one of the most influential figures in the early years of Charles I's Personal Rule and the architect of many of the policies that enabled him to rule without raising taxes through Parliament.

    Weston was the eldest son and heir of Sir Jerome Weston, High Sheriff of Essex for 1599, and the former Mary Cave. He was born at Roxwell, Essex, and was a student of the Middle Temple. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for a number of constituencies including Maldon (1601–1603), Midhurst (in the parliament of 1604-1611), Essex (in the Addled Parliament of 1614), Arundel (1622), Bossiney (1624), Callington (1625) and Bodmin (1626). He was knighted in 1603.

    During the reign of King James I of England, Weston was sent on embassies to Bohemia, Brussels, and Spain. On the last assignment, he negotiated for the restitution of the Palatine. Upon his return to England in 1621, he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, and retained the post after the accession of Charles I; he proved a capable financial manager but incurred popular hatred as a (justly) suspected Roman Catholic, while also later earning the enmity of the (Catholic) queen, Henrietta Maria for refusing grants to her favourites. He opposed wars with Spain in 1623 and France in 1626, but managed to find ways of raising the money to fund them when required, even when it was impossible to secure the co-operation of Parliament.

    Weston was elevated to the peerage on 13 April 1628, as Baron Weston, of Neyland. He was subsequently made Lord Treasurer of England and invested with the Order of the Garter. His policies proving highly unpopular, he escaped impeachment in 1629 only by the dissolution of Parliament. Nevertheless, he played an important role in the King's Personal Rule without Parliament, finding new sources of revenue while preventing any further increase in the King's expenditure, and being for a time the most influential of Charles's advisers. He persuaded the King to make peace with France in 1629 and Spain in 1630, removing the biggest drain on the treasury, and to sign the secret treaty with Spain in 1634. By the time he died in 1635, the Crown was solvent.

    On 17 February 1633, Weston was created Earl of Portland. Lord Portland was married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Pincheon of Writtle in Essex. His second wife was Frances Walgrave of Boreley in Essex. He had three children by his first marriage, including Lady Mary Weston (2 January 1603-after August 1678), who married the 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar in 1629, and Lady Elizabeth Weston, who married John Netterville, 2nd Viscount Netterville. He had seven children by his second marriage, including his son Thomas, who later succeeded as 4th Earl, and Lady Anne Weston, the first of the four wives of Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh. His nephew (his sister's son), Jeremy Clarke, became a Governor of Rhode Island in the American colonies.


  2. 19.  Mary Weston Descendancy chart to this point (14.Mary7, 11.Elizabeth6, 9.Anne5, 7.Anne4, 5.Alice3, 2.Sanche2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 26 Apr 1579; was christened on 26 Apr 1579 in Roxwell, Essex, England; died before 13 Jul 1614.

    Mary married William Clerke on 10 Feb 1599 in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England. William (son of James Clerke and Mary Saxby) was born in of East Farleigh, Kent, England; died before 12 Jun 1610; was buried on 12 Jun 1610 in East Farleigh, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 25. Jeremy Clarke, Governor of Rhode Island  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 1 Dec 1605; was christened on 1 Dec 1605 in East Farleigh, Kent, England; died in Jan 1652 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; was buried in Jan 1652 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.

  3. 20.  William WentworthWilliam Wentworth Descendancy chart to this point (15.William7, 12.Katherine6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born on 15 Mar 1616 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; was christened on 15 Mar 1616 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died on 15 Mar 1697 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire.

    Notes:

    He arrived in New England sometime in the 1630s. He is one of TNH's four "gateway ancestors," albeit one about whom the scholarly consensus has been very much in flux. That the William Wentworth of New England was the man baptized in Alford seems almost certain. That the man baptized in Alford had many gentry and aristocratic ancestors seems indisputable. That he had a provable "royal ancestry" was long at issue, but several recent articles in The American Genealogist would appear to have finally sorted matters:
    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.

    Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "Margaret de Brewse, First Wife of Sir Thomas Hawley (d. 1419-20) of Girsby, Lincolnshire." The American Genealogist 91:195, Jan/Apr 2020, published March 2021; 91:286, Jul/Oct 2020, published December 2022.

    Terry J. Booth, "The Sothill, Fauconberge, and Greystoke Ancestry of William1 Wentworth of New Hampshire." The American Genealogist 92:81, Jul/Oct 2021, published December 2022; 92:217, Jan/Apr 2022, published June 2023.
    Cumulatively, these articles establish that the immigrant Wentworth's extensive medieval ancestry includes such crowned heads as King John of England; Alfonso IX of León and Galicia; Jeane de Briene, the Crusader "king" of Jerusalem; and (despite previous descents having been disproved) William "The Lion" of Scotland.

    "William Wentworth (1616-1697) was a follower of John Wheelwright, and an early settler of New Hampshire. Coming from Alford in Lincolnshire, he likely came to New England with Wheelwright in 1636, but no records are found of him in Boston. When Wheelwright was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his role in the Antinomian Controversy, he established the settlement of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Wentworth followed him there and then to Wells, Maine. After Wheelwright left Wells for Hampton, New Hampshire, Wentworth went to Dover, New Hampshire, and this is where he lived the remainder of his life. He was the proprietor of a sawmill, and held several town offices, but is most noted for being an elder in his Dover church for nearly 40 years. He had 11 children with two wives, and has numerous descendants, including many of great prominence." [Wikipedia]

    He was a signer of the Exeter Combination.

    His near descendants included his grandson John Wentworth, Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire 1717-1730, and New Hampshire governors Benning Wentworth (governor 1741-1767) and Sir John Wentworth (governor 1767-1775); also John Wentworth, Speaker of the New Hampshire House 1771-1778.

    A book-length biographical study of him is William Wentworth, Puritan Preacher by Susan Ostberg; Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, 2006.

    William married Elizabeth Knight about 1644. Elizabeth (daughter of Ezekiel Knight and Ann) was born about 1626; died after 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 26. Ezekiel Wentworth  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1649 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; died between 30 Oct 1711 and 6 May 1712.

  4. 21.  Edward Hutchinson Descendancy chart to this point (16.Mrs.7, 13.Francis6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 28 May 1613; was christened on 28 May 1613 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died on 19 Aug 1675 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Springhill Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 28 May 1613

    Notes:

    He came to New England in 1633, a year before his parents, along with the Rev. John Cotton and his uncle Edward Hutchinson. Shortly thereafter he returned to England, where he married Katherine Hamby. Upon returning to New England he supported his mother in the Antinomian controversy, for which he was disarmed; he then followed his family to Rhode Island, where he was one of the signers of the Portsmouth Compact, 7 Mar 1638. In 1642 he and John Leverett were sent on an embassy to the Narraganset.

    "His name appears in the roll of freemen at Newport in 1641, but he seems to have retained his connection with Boston, for all his children were baptized there from 1637 to 1658. He probably returned there after his father's death. […] Edward Hutchinson became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638, was Lieutenant in 1654, and Captain in 1657. He served in King Philip's War with the Massachusetts forces as chief officer of cavalry, [and] was mortally wounded in an Indian ambuscade near Wickabaug Pond, West Brookfield, Mass." [John Denison Champlin, citation details below]

    "To his honor, he entered into the dissent against the sanguinary law of 1658, for punishing the Quakers with death on their return to the colony after banishment." [History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, citation details below]

    Edward married Katherine Hamby on 13 Oct 1636 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Katherine (daughter of Robert Hamby and Elizabeth Arnold) was born before 19 Oct 1615; was christened on 10 Dec 1615 in St. Matthew's, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died after 10 Jun 1649. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 27. Col. Elisha Hutchinson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 16 Nov 1641 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 28 Nov 1641 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 10 Dec 1717 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Boston Common, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

  5. 22.  Faith Hutchinson Descendancy chart to this point (16.Mrs.7, 13.Francis6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 14 Aug 1617; was christened on 14 Aug 1617 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died on 20 Feb 1652 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

    Faith married Capt. Thomas Savage in 1637 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas was born about 1607; died on 15 Feb 1682 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 23.  Bridget Hutchinson Descendancy chart to this point (16.Mrs.7, 13.Francis6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born before 15 Jan 1619; was christened on 15 Jan 1619 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died before 18 Aug 1698 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

    Bridget married John Sanford, President of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations before 1637. John was born about 1608; died between 22 Jun 1653 and 15 Nov 1653 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  7. 24.  Hannah Scott Descendancy chart to this point (17.Katherine7, 13.Francis6, 10.William5, 8.Robert4, 6.Anne3, 3.Thomas2, 1.Margaret1) was born in 1642; died on 24 Jul 1681.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1646

    Hannah married Walter Clarke, Governor of Rhode Island in Feb 1667. Walter (son of Jeremy Clarke, Governor of Rhode Island and Frances Latham) was born in 1640; died on 23 May 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 28. Hannah Clarke  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 28 Oct 1667; died on 22 Oct 1732.