William Wentworth, I

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The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American in three volumes by John Wentworth (Little, Brown and Co., 1878) is the source of most of the Wentworth information. The author cites as his source "William Flower, Norroy King of arms of the College of Arms,...who compiled it in the year 1588, and it has ever since remained upon the records of the College, and been accepted...as authentic."

William Wentworth. b. abt 1584. Chr. on 8 Jun 1584 St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire ENG.

They had three sons baptized at Alford in Lincolnshire but after the birth of their third son all records of William and Susanna at Alford cease. They moved to Rigsby in Lincolnshire, about two miles away, but very few records of Ribsby still exist. It is not known if they had more children or what became of William and Susanna. On 28 Nov 1614 William married Susanna Carter, in Alford, Lincolnshire ENG.

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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/n95/mod...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n202/mo...
• XIX. Christopher Wentworth, third but only surviving son of William Wentworth, of Waltham, and Ellen Gilby his first wife, was born probably about 1556, and was therefore about eighteen years of age at his father's death in 1574. On the 19th of August 1583, he was married, at the Church of St. Peter at Gowts, in the City of Lincoln, to Catharine, youngest daughter of William Marbury, Esq., of Girsby, in the parish of Burgh-upon-Bain, in Lincolnshire, by his wife Agnes, daughter of John Lenton, Esq. One of her younger brothers was the Rev. Francis Marbury, whose daughter Anne married William Hutchinson, and became afterwards the famous religionist of New England and the ancestress of the Governor of that name.
• His children were as follows:
  • 1.William, of whom hereafter.
  • 2. Anne, the eldest daughter, who was baptized at Irby, in Lincolnshire (some three or four miles northwest from Waltham), on the 28th of October, 1585. She married the Rev. John Lawson, but died before her father, leaving issue, to whom he bequeathed the conventional sixpence.
  • 3. Faith, who was baptized at Great Grimsby (three and a half miles north from Waltham), in Lincolnshire, on the 14th of May, 1587, and will still living, unmarried, at the date of her father's will, in 1628.
  • 4. Elizabeth, who was baptized at Irby aforesaid, on the 15th of August, 1589. She married John Winne, and was still living in 1628. Her husband is not styled even "Mr." in her father's will, and he himself left no will.
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  • 5. Frances, who was also baptized at Irby, 8 November, 1590, but was dead at the date of her father's will.
  • 6. Francis, who was baptized at Conisholm ( a place about midway between Waltham and Alford, and near Saltfletby), on the 24 May, 1593, and buried there, 4 December following.
  • 7. Priscilla, who was baptized at Waltham, 14 June, 1594, and married there, 1 September, 1619, to William Helmes, Gentleman, of Long Sutton, otherwise Sutton St. Mary, in Lincolnshire. She was living in 1528, but died some time before 1648, and was buried in the parish church of Sutton St. Mary. Her husband married once or twice; but in his will, dated 21 March, 1648-9, directed to be buried near her, and bequeathed five pounds per annum to her son Christopher, if he were living, which he seemed to doubt.
  • 8. Christopher, who was baptized at Waltham on the 27 February, 1596-7, and buried there the following 24 May.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n208/mo...
    • XX. William Wentworth, who was baptized at St. Peter at Gowts, in the City of Lincoln (where his parents were married the preceding year), on the 8th of June, 1584, and who was mentioned as such, and still living, in his father's will, in 1628.
    • Down to this point, every step in the descent from the first Saxon Wentworth is abundantly substantiated, and we have as positively traced the last representative named, Christopher Wentworth, till his death at or near Alford. Feeling confident that there must have been some special reason for ending his days in that neighborhood, the writer set earnestly about the task of discovering it; and to that end spent several weeks in a close examination of the Parish registers of that place and of the towns immediately adjacent, as well as of the Transcripts in the Bishop's Registry at Lincoln, whenever the originals were defective; and although, perhaps, unable to adduce what would be required at evidence in a court of law, believes that a chain of circumstances so strong and clear can be presented that there need be little hesitation in adopting his conclusions.
    • The Alford parish registers show that a William Wentworth was living there certainly from 1614 to 1620, and those of Rigsby that he was of that parish in the following year; and the object is now to show that he was identical with this William, eldest son of Christopher Wentworth and Catharine Marbury.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n210/mo...
    • The first mention of him in the Alford register is in the record of his marriage, which took place the 28th of November, 1614, when, if our theory be correct, he would have been about thirty years of age. The name of his wife is given as Susanna Fleming. She was, however, a widow; and an examination of the register, confirmed by various wills, reveals the following facts: Her maiden name was Carter, and so far as can be ascertained, she was the daughter of Edward Carter, of Well, a small village two miles southwest from Alford, who was probably a small farmer. On the 1st of July, 1613, she was married at Alford to Uther Fleming, son of Robert Fleming, of Alford, and his wife Jane. This Robert Fleming, who died in 1599, calls himself, in his will, a shoemaker. From the character and extent of his bequests, it is evident that he was what would be called in England, a "well-to-do tradesman." Uther Fleming lived but little more than six months after his marriage, as he was buried at Alford on the 22d of January, 1613-14; and on the 29th of May following, their only child, a posthumous daughter named Anne, was baptized. (This child was buried at Alford, the 27th of November 1619.) Six month later, the young widow married William Wentworth.
    • According to the Alford registers, their eldest child was baptized on the 15th of March, 1615-16, and was named William, after his father. On the 18 of January, 1617-18, another son was baptized, named Edward, doubtless after his maternal grandfather. A third son was baptized at Alford, on the 4th of June, 1620, and was named Christopher, in all probability after his father's father.
    • After this last date, the name of Wentworth disappears entirely from the Alford register; and it is evident that the family removed shortly after to the adjoining hamlet of Rigsby, two miles west from Alford; for in the Rigsby register occurs the burial of this third son of Christopher, under date of the 18th of May, 1621. Whether they had any other children at Rigsby must forever remain uncertain; for the early Rigsby registers have long since perished, and the few transcripts preserved at Lincoln do not embrace the period important in this investigation.
    • The discovery of the record of the burial of the child Christopher was so curious that is is worth a brief episode, and, more especially, as it forms one of the strongest links in the chain of circumstantial evidence referred to.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n212/mo...
    • Rigsby church long since ceased to be an independent establishment, and became, and is now, a chapel of ease attached to Alford. The registers, such as were left, were transferred to the custody of the incumbent of Alford, but all previous to the year 1686 were reported in a parliamentary return, some forty years ago, as irretrievably lost. Those prserved were, therefore, valueless for the purposes of this investigation, and the writer turned from them in disgust, to pursue the examination of the Alford registers. In the course of this seach, his attention was attracted to some writing on the covers of one of the Alford volumes, -- two leaves of parchment evidently regarded as worthless, and so converted to this practical use. They proved to be, on examination, portions of one of the early Rigsby registers, covering only a brief period, the first date being 18 January, 1617-18, and the last 16 sep 1621. The very last burial recorded, however, was full of interest, for it was that of Christopher, infant son of William and Susanna Wentworth; thus fully accounting for the disappearance of that name from the Alford registers after 1620. Of the three sons of William and Susanna Wentworth, baptized at Alford, the youngest, Christopher, is thus disposed of. _______________________________

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