Katherine Torbock

Biography

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Katherine Gerard married (2) Robert Charnock, Esq. (d. 1616), without issue. She was born circa 1530 at of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England. She married William Torbock, Esq., son of Thomas Torbock, Esq. and Elizabeth Moore, circa 1550;

They had 2 daughters

1. Frances
2. Margaret, wife of Oliver Mainwaring, Gent.

Katherine Gerard, whose memorial notes that she “o.s.p.m.” (i.e. died without male issue).[1] She would appear to have predeceased her mother, whose 1575 will makes bequests to Katherine’s daughters. She married by 1556,[2] William Torbock, Esq., lord of the manor of Tarbock, in the parish of Huyton, co. Lancaster, born about 1526 (aged 28 on his father’s death in 1554), living 14 May 1558 (when he made his will), and died s.p.m.s. soon after, son of Thomas Torbock, Esq., of the same place, by Elizabeth, daughter of William Moore, Esq., of Bank-house.

Sources

1. AR7, line 233B, comes down to her paternal grandparents but (perhaps by oversight) does not mention her; David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, 2nd ed., pp. 152-53, traces her descent from Edward I.
2. Their daughter Frances was found to be aged 30 months at the time of her father’s i.p.m., which is apparently undated but cannot have been made much later than April 1559, as the younger daughter was then aged only 2 months.
3. https://johnblythedobson.org/genealogy/ff/Mainwaring/Torbock.cfm#Ma...