Helen / Margaret Preston (Curwen) - An issue brought up by Gérard Louis Clément

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8/1/2020 at 1:41 PM

An issue brought up by Private User

From all the explicit evidence, she was the daughter of Thomas Curwen (c 1493 - 1543) and Agnes Strickland (c 1490 - ). Geni's assertion that she was the daughter of Thomas' parents Christopher Curwen and Elizabeth Hudleston seems to be based on the phrase "John Preston married Ellyn, sister of Sir Thomas Curwen, and not his daughter ". However Thomas Curwen (c 1493 - 1543) had by his first wife Florence Wharton a son with the same name, Thomas Curwen (+ 1589). Also, there is no evidence that the John Preston who married Ellyn or Helen Curwen was John Preston, Sheriff of Lancashire (1511 - 1577) who married Margaret Curwen. I think all this should be straightened out.

Sincerely,

Gérard Clément

8/1/2020 at 2:47 PM

THIS SEEMS TO HAVE INCORRECT PARENTS FOR MARGARET WHO IS CALLED HELEN IN OTHER REFERENCES, WIFE OF JOHN PRESTON.
Margaret Curwen
F, #72116, b. circa 1537
Father Sir Thomas Curwen, Sheriff of Cumberland b. c 1500
Mother Agnes Strickland b. c 1492
Margaret Curwen was born circa 1537. She married John Preston, Sheriff of Lancashire, son of Sir Thomas Preston and Anne Thornburgh, circa 1555.
Family John Preston, Sheriff of Lancashire b. c 1520
Child
Thomas Preston, Esq.+ b. b 1560
From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2400.htm#...

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5/29/2022 at 8:16 PM

The info I'm seeing is conflicting. I think a Margaret Curwen and a Helen Curwen have been mixed up for a while.

This references Helen:

http://www.townsley.info/Strangeway/GedSite/g3/p2208.htm#i110399

This book references her as "Margaret (or Helen)"

https://books.google.com/books?id=0NEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1067&lp...

I haven't found anything that really documents her parentage.

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