John Wentworth

John Wentworth

• Father John Wentworth
• marriage contract (while still a minor) 1 Apr 1431 to Joan Calverley.
• Thier son Thomas was ancestor of the New England Immigrant William Wentworth
• Children:
  • 1. Thomas WENTWORTH
  • 2. Jane WENTWORTH
  • 3. Anne WENTWORTH
  • 4. Elizabeth WENTWORTH

Royal Line

Several Royal lines proposed in the past for William Wentworth have been later disproved. However, this line is valid:

• Roger (Sir) le Bigod (1290 - 1362)
• John (Sheriff+Escheator+Justice Peace Yorkshire) Bigod (1332 - 1388)
• Joan Bigod (1370 - 1423)
• Walter Calverley (1402 - 1466)
• Joan Calverley (1420 - ) <=============
• Thomas Wentworth (1460 - 1522)
• Oliver Wentworth (1490 - 1558)
• William Wentworth (1525 - 1574)
• Christopher Wentworth (1556 - 1633)
• William Wentworth (1584 - 1690)
• William Wentworth 1 Elder (1615 - 1696)

Sources

1. "The English Ancestry of William Wentworth of New Hampshire: Male line ancestry for five generations," by Terry Booth, Paul C. Reed and Nathaniel Taylor. The American Genealogist, vol. 90 no. 3 (July 2018) p 161-174 and part II vol 90.4 (Oct 2018) 263-278
2. Douglas Richardson, FASG. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed Kimball G Everingham. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013) 328. Wentworth, [Elder] William, of Dover, New Hampshire I:441-442
3. Gary Boyd Roberts,“Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States” 1:708-9 (but see correction in TAG above)
4. The Wentworth genealogy, comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, and of his descendants (1870) has errors be careful to read the articles and books above:

• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n95/mod...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n170/mo...
  • XIII. John Wentworth, Esq., of North Elmsall, who married Agnes, sister and co-heir of Sir William Dronsfield, of West Bretton, in Yorkshire, and living in 1413. He had four sons, viz:
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n186/mo...
  • The direct line was continued by the eldest son--
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n188/mo...
  • XIV. John Wentworth, Esq., of North Elmsall, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Beaumont, Esq., of Whitley Hall, in Yorkshire (which estate has continued in that family till the present century), and was succeeded by his eldest son --
  • XV. John Wentworth, Esq., of North Elmsall, who married Elizabeth (sic wrong see article above), daughter of William Calverley, Esq., of Calverley, in Yorkshire (sic wrong see article above)', and had issue: - one daughter, Jane, who married William Goldthorpe, Esq., of Goldthorpe, in Yorkshire; and an only son--
  • XVI. Thomas Wentworth, Esq.,