Thomas Wentworth

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1438, of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 1522
• Alternate death: Aft 1521
• Alternate death: 1523

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.

Thomas married Jane Mirfield about 1475. Jane (daughter of Oliver Mirfield and Isabel Savile) was born in of Howley, Yorkshire, England; died before 1 Apr 1523; was buried in Kirkby, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Wentworth. Elizabeth was born in of Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 7 Dec 1558

Notes:

Some experts have expressed doubt that he was a son of Thomas Wentworth of North Elmshall and Jane Mirfield, even though his father Thomas's will of 1522-23, a detailed abstract of which was published in 1884, gives 20 marks to "Olyver Wentworth my sone." At any rate, Oliver Wentworth was clearly of gentry rank to have married Isabel Sothill. And the father of Oliver's mother Jane Mirfield was an Oliver -- not a common name in England at the time. This Oliver is the first known Wentworth thus named.

Family/Spouse: Jane. Jane died after 28 Jun 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oliver married Isabel Sothill before 1520. Isabel (daughter of Richard Sothill and Agnes) was born about 1489; died between 1544 and 7 Dec 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York in 1550. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[H]e had, when he died, another wife, named Anne, with whom, from various evidences, he does not appear to have been on the best of terms. He was living at Waltham, and she at Kirton, in a distant part of Lincolnshire, and the only bequest he makes to her in his Will is of 'such goods and implements as she hath in my house at Kirton.'" [The Wentworth Genealogy, citation details below]

William married Ellen Gilby between 1548 and 1552. Ellen (daughter of John Gilby and Agnes Brough) was born between 1515 and 1520 in of West Ravendale, Lincolnshire, England; died after 23 Jan 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Anne Ayscough before 1565. Anne (daughter of Edward Ayscough) died after 22 May 1574. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Waltham and Barrow, Lincolnshire, England
• Buried: 22 Mar 1633, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England
• Alternate death: 22 Mar 1633

Christopher married Katherine Marbury on 19 Oct 1583 in St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Katherine (daughter of William Marbury and Agnes Lenton) was born in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died before 16 Dec 1634; was buried on 16 Dec 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]