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About Nicholas Wentworth
- 'The Wentworth genealogy: English and American (1878) Vol. 1
- http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n79/mo...
- Before proceeding with the main line, we give the descendants of the son by the second wife, just mentioned, viz.--
- (16) Nicholas Wentworth, who became Sir Nicholas, being knighted by King Henry VIII in person during his expedition to Boulogne, in August 1544. For many years he was "Chief Porter of Calais," then an important government post. He possessed numerous estates in the counties of Oxford, Bucks, Northampton, Warwick, and Lincoln, but his chief residence was at Lillingstone Lovell, co. Oxford, which manor was given to him by the king in 1546, in exchange for certain lands in Northamptonshire. His Will, dated 7 February 1551-2, was proved 24 June 1557, and he probably died not long before the latter date. He married, before 1525, Jane, daughter of John Josselyn, Esq., of Newhall-Josselyn, co. Essex, and of Sabridgeworth, co. Herts, and sister of Sir Thomas Josselyn, Kt. She survived him, and was buried at Burnham, co. Bucks, 26 August 1659. Their issue were are follows: --
- http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n81/mo...
- The eldest son and heir
- (17) Peter Wentworth, Esq., of Lillingstone Darrell, co. Bucks (adjoining Lillingstone Lovell, co. Oxford), was M. P. for Tamworth, and leader, with his brother Paul, of the Puritan party in the time of Elizabeth; was twenty-eight years in Parliament, and was six times committed to the Tower. He died in 1600. He married, first, Lettice, daughter of Sir Ralph Lane, Kt., of Horton, co. Northampton, by whom he had no issue; and secondly, Elizabeth, sister of Sir Francis Walsingham, Kt. (the well-known Principal Secretary of State under Queen Elizabeth), by whom he had issue, as follows: --
- 1. 'Nicholas, of whom hereafter.
- 2. Walter Wentworth, Esq., of Catle Bytham, co. Lincoln, where he was buried 13 October 1627. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Griffith Hampden, Esq. She was buried at St. Margaret's, Lothbury, London, 3 May 1614. He married, secondly, the widow of __ Russell, who survived him, but by whom he had no issue. By his first wife he had a daughter Mary, who was living in 1637, the wife of John Browne; and Samuel, only son, who was admitted to Gray's Inn, London, 14 March 1627-8, and who died, apparently unmarried and certainly without issue. His Will, dated the 1st, was proved 9 January 1637-8.
- 3. Thomas Wentworth, Esq., who became a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and was sometime Recorder of the City of Oxford. He died before 16 April 1628, but his Will (without date) was not proved until 9 December 1629. He married the daughter and co-heir of __ Keble (or Kebell), of co. Northampton, who died before him. They had issue as follows: --
- http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n82/mo...
- 4. Frances, who married Walter Strickland, Esq., of Boynton, co. York. Their son William was crated a Baronet 31 July 1641. The Baronetcy still exists, although the last possessor of the title, in 1865, obtained the royal license to abandon the surname of Strickland, and assume that of Cholmley, and also to quarter the arms of Wentworth.
- 5. Mary, who married, 15 September 1578, Sir Edward Boys, Kt., of Nonington, co. Kent. She was buried at Nonington, 17 October 1616. He remarried, and died 8 Januaary 1634-5.
- 6. A daughter, who married __ Amies, of Shropshire.
- http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n82/mo...
- (18) 'Nicholas Wentworth, Esq., of Lillingstone Lovell, aforesaid, and of Wolston, co. Warwick, whose Will, dated 20 January 1612-13, was proved 11 May following, married Susanna, one of the two daughters and coheirs of Roger Wigston, Esq., of Wolston, who survived him, but died before 1622. They had issue as follows.--
- 1. Sir Peter Wentworth, K. B., of Lillingstone Lovell, born 1591, who was one of the Knights of the Bath created at the coronation of King Charles I, 1 February 1625-6. He was M. P. for Tamworth in the Long Parliament, a friend of Cromwell, and one of the judges at the trial of Charles I. He died, unmarried, at his manor-house at Lillingstone, 1 December 1675, and was buried the 21st, in the chancel of Lillingstone church.
- http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n83/mo...
- 2. Paul, who died unmarried, 26 February 1689-90, and was buried at Lillingstone, when the estate went to the children of his sisters.
- 3. Elizabeth, eldest daughter, who married Francis Wendy, Esq., of Haslingfield, co Cambridge, by whom she had issue, Sir Thomas Wendy, Bart., and others. She was living, his widow, in 1622, at Sutton, co. Bedford.
- 4. Susanna, second daughter of whom hereafter.
- 5. Sarah, third daughter, who died unmarried, at an advanced age, in 1667.
- 6. Sibilla, fourth daughter, who married Fisher Dilke, Esq., of Shustoke, co. Warwick, second son of Sir Thomas Dilke, Kt., by his wife Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Clement Fisher, Kt. He died in June 1660, aged about 65; but the date of her death has not been ascertained. They had, with other issue, a son
- http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n84/mo...
- 7. Anne, fifth and youngest daughter, married, at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, London, 3 June 1622, then aged 21, John Welbore, Esq., of Foxton, co. Cambridge, and had issue.
- The second daughter of Nicholas (18)
- (19) Susanna, married Rowland Wilcox, Esq., of Lilburn, co. Northampton, and had issue, ---
- (17) Peter Wentworth, Esq., of Lillingstone Darrell, co. Bucks (adjoining Lillingstone Lovell, co. Oxford), was M. P. for Tamworth, and leader, with his brother Paul, of the Puritan party in the time of Elizabeth; was twenty-eight years in Parliament, and was six times committed to the Tower. He died in 1600. He married, first, Lettice, daughter of Sir Ralph Lane, Kt., of Horton, co. Northampton, by whom he had no issue; and secondly, Elizabeth, sister of Sir Francis Walsingham, Kt. (the well-known Principal Secretary of State under Queen Elizabeth), by whom he had issue, as follows: --
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- http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WENTWORTH.htm#Nicholas WENTWORTH1
- 'Nicholas WENTWORTH
- Born: 1555, Lillingstone, Lovell, Buckinghamshire, England
- Died: 10 Apr 1612/13
- Father: Peter WENTWORTH (Sir Knight)
- Mother: Elizabeth WALSINGHAM
- 'Married: Susanna WIGSTON
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- http://www.thepeerage.com/p37019.htm#i370181
- 'Nicholas Wentworth1
- M, #370181
- Last Edited=15 Aug 2009
- 'Nicholas Wentworth lived at Lillington Lovell, Oxfordshire, England.1
- Children of Nicholas Wentworth
- 1.Sybyl Wentworth+2
- 2.Sir Peter Wentworth1
- Citations
- 1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1145. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
- 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
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- '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)
- http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n117/mo...
- CHILDREN PETER, PAUL, 3 DAUS. SIBILLA, 1 DAU.
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- 'Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 60 by Charles Harding Firth
- WENTWORTH, Sir PETER (1592–1675), politician, son of 'Nicholas Wentworth of Lillingstone Lovell, Buckinghamshire, by Susanna, daughter of Roger Wigston of Wolston, Warwickshire (Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights, p. 36)', was grandson of Peter Wentworth [q. v.] He was born in 1592, and matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 16 June 1610, aged 17, became a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1613, and was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. In 1634 he was sheriff of Oxfordshire, and found the task of collecting ship-money extremely difficult ......
- ...... He died unmarried, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, on 1 Dec. 1675, and was buried in the church of Lillingstone Lovell (Le Neve, Knights, p. 36). By his will he left property in Warwickshire to his grand-nephew Fisher Dilke, on condition that he and his descendants should take the name of Wentworth. The name was so taken for a time, but abandoned in the eighteenth century after the property had been alienated. ....
- [W. L. Rutton's Three Branches of the Wentworth Family, 1891. A life of Wentworth is given in Noble's Lives of the Regicides, ii. 323; letters of Wentworth are among the Domestic State Papers for 1635–6, and in Cary's Memorials of the Civil War, ii. 122.]
- C. H. F.
- http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wentworth,_Peter_(1592-1675)_(DNB00)
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Nicholas Wentworth's Timeline
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1555
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Lillingstone, Lovell, Buckinghamshire, England
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1612
Age 57
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