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About Anne Poley

  • Anne Wentworth1
  • F, b. circa 1521, d. 28 August 1575
  • Father Sir Thomas Wentworth, 6th Lord le Despenser, 1st Lord Wentworth2 b. c 1500, d. 3 Mar 1551
  • Mother Margaret Fortescue2 b. c 1502, d. bt 23 Apr 1546 - 12 May 1551
  • Anne Wentworth was born circa 1521 at of Nettlestead, Suffolk, England. She married John Poley, Esq., son of Edmund Poley and Mirabel Garneys, circa 1541; They had 3 sons (Edmund, Richard, & Thomas) and 7 daughters (Susan, Margaret, Mirabel, Mary, Anne, Mary, & Martha).1 Anne Wentworth died on 28 August 1575 at Badley, Suffolk, England. She was buried on 29 August 1575 at Badley, Suffolk, England.1
  • Family John Poley, Esq. b. c 1511, d. 20 Oct 1589
  • Child
    • Margaret Poley+ b. c 1542, d. Aug 1625
  • Citations
  • 1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 382.
  • 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 381-382.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2881.htm#... ____________________
  • Anne WENTWORTH
  • Born: ABT 1520, Nettlestead, Kent, England
  • Died: 28 Aug 1575
  • Buried: 29 Aug 1575, Badley, Suffolk, England
  • Father: Thomas WENTWORTH (1° B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
  • Mother: Margaret FORTESCUE (B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
  • Married: John POLEY (Sir Knight) ABT 1541, Nettlestead, Kent, England
  • Children:
    • 1. Margaret POLEY (b. ABT 1542 - d. Aug 1625) (m. Sir Thomas Palmer)
    • 2. Susanna POLEY (b. ABT 1543 - d. 13 Sep 1603) (m. Thomas Croft)
    • 3. Edmund POLEY (b. ABT 1544 - d. 31 Oct 1613) (m.1 Catherine Seckford - m.2 Alice Cochran)
    • 4. Richard POLEY (b. ABT 1546 - d. 14 Feb 1592) (m. Mary Brewse)
    • 5. Thomas POLEY (b. ABT 1548)
    • 6. Mirabell POLEY (b. ABT 1550)
    • 7. Mary POLEY (b. ABT 1552 - d. 18 Aug 1633)
    • 8. Anne POLEY (b. ABT 1554 - d. 16 Feb 1617)
    • 9. Martha POLEY (b. ABT 1556 - d. 1625)
    • 10. Henry POLEY (b. ABT 1558)
    • 11. Margaret POLEY
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WENTWORTH.htm#Anne WENTWORTH1 __________________
  • Anne Wentworth is the daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue.1 She married Sir John Poley.1
  • Her married name became Poley.1
  • Child of Anne Wentworth and Sir John Poley
    • 1.Susan Poley+1 d. 13 Sep 1603
  • Citations
  • 1.[S47] Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), page 292. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Irish Family Records.
  • From: http://thepeerage.com/p37579.htm#i375786 _________________
  • Anne Wentworth Poley
  • Birth: 1520
  • Death: Aug. 28, 1575
  • wife of Sir John Poley, Knight, married ca. 1541 in Nettlestead, Kent, England and daughter of Margaret (Fortescue) ad Sir Thomas Henry Wentworth, Knight. They had four sons and six daughters: Susanna Croftes; Margaret Palmer; Edmund Poley; Richard Poley; Thomas Poley; Mirabell Poley; Mary Poley; Ann Poley; Martha Poley and Henry Poley.
  • Family links:
  • Parents:
  • Thomas Wentworth (1500 - 1551)
  • Spouse:
  • John Poley (1511 - 1589)
  • Sibling:
  • Philip Wentworth (____ - 1583)*
  • Anne Wentworth Poley (1520 - 1575)
  • Burial: St Mary Churchyard, Badley, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England
  • Find A Grave Memorial# 26988826
  • From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26988826 __________________________
  • 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/n176/mo...
  • The line was continued by
  • (17) Sir Richard Wentworth, Kt., of Nettlestead, Co. Suffolk, whose will was dated 15 October, and proved 21 November, 1528. By his wife, Anne, who survived him, daughter of Sir James Tirrell, of Gipping, Co. Suffolk, Kt., he had issue as follows:
    • (18) Sir Thomas Wentworth, Kt., Lord Chamberlain of the Household; who, in 1529, was summoned to Parliament, by writ, as Baron Wentworth. He died on the 3d, and was buried on the 7 March, 1550-1, in Westminster Abbey. His wife, who survived him, was Margaret, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, Kt. They had issue as follows:
      • 1. Sir Thomas, 2d Baron, of whom hereafter.
      • 2. Sir Henry (not 21 in 1544), who married his first cousin, Elizabeth Glemham. (See back to number (17-7) of this note.)
      • 3. Richard (not 21 in 1544), who married Margaret Royden.
      • 4. Philip (not 21 in 1544), who married a daughter of Sir Richard Corbet, Kt.
      • 5. John (not 21 in 1455), who perished at sea, in 1564.
      • 6. Edward (not 21 in 1544.)
      • 7. James (not 21 in 1544), who perished at sea in 1564.
      • 8. Roger (not 21 in 1544), who married, and had a daughter Katherine, who was buried at Stepney, Co. Middlesex, 14 July, 1577.
      • 9. Anne, living 1544; the wife of Sir John Poley, Kt., of Badley, Suffolk.
      • 10. Cicily (or Cecilia) married, after 1544, to Sir Robert Wingfield, Kt.
      • 11. Mary, who married, after 1544, William Cavendish, Esq., eldest son of Sir Richard Cavendish, Kt.
      • 12. Elizabeth, living 1544, unmarried.
      • 13. Margaret, who married, after 1544, 1st John Lord Williams; 2dly, Sir William Drury, Kt.; and 3dly, Sir John Crofts, Kt.
      • 14. Margery, living, 1544, unmarried.
      • 15. Jane, married, after 1544, to Sir Henry Cheyne, Kt., Lord Cheyne of Toddington, Co. Bedford, She died without issue, 16 April, 1614, and was buried at Toddington.
      • 16. Catherine, living, 1544, unmarried.
      • 17. Dorothy, married, after 1544, 1st, to Sir Wm. Widmerpoole, Kt.; 1dly, to Sir Martin Frobisher, Kt.; and 3dly, to Sir John Savile, Kt., one of the Barons of the Exchequer, who survived her and died 2 February, 1606-7.
  • The line was continued by ________________
  • Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&printsec=frontcover&d...
  • Pg.216
  • 15. THOMAS WENTWORTH, Knt., de jure 6th Lord Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Harston, Cambridgeshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Privy Councillor, Lord Chamberlain of the Household to King Edward VI, son and heir, born about 1500 (age 28 in 1528). He married about 1520 MARGARET FORTESCUE, daughter of Adrian Fortescue, K.B., of Stonor (in Pyrton) and
  • Pg.217
  • Shirburn, Oxfordshire, and St. Clement Danes, London, by his 1st wife, Anne (descendant of Kind Edward III), daughter and heiress of William Stonor, Knt. [see STONOR 14 for her ancestry]. They had eight sons, Thomas [2nd Lord Wentworth], Henry, Richard, Philip, Gent., John, Edward, James, and Roger, and nine daughters, Anne, Cecily (wife of Robert Wingfield, Knt.), Mary wife of William Cavendish), Elizabeth (wife of John Cock and Leonard Matthew), Margaret, Margery (wife of John Williams [Lord Williams of Thame], William Drury, Knt., and James Croft, Knt.), Jane (wife of Henry Cheney [Lord Cheny]), Katherine, and Dorothy (wife of Paul Withypoll, and Martin Frobisher, Knt., John Savile, Knt.). He took part in the Duke of Suffolk's expedition to France in 1523. He was created Lord Wentworth and admitted to the House of Lords, 2 Dec. 1529. In 1530 he was one of the peers who tried Queen Anne Boleyn. His wife, Margaret, was heiress in 1540 to her younger sister Frances, wife of Thomas Fitz Gerald, 10th Earl of Kildare. In 1544 he served under the Duke of Norfolk as the Siege of Montreuil, being one of his Council of War. Margaret died between 23 April 1546 and 12 May 1551, presumably before her husband. He was granted the manor of Stepney, Hackney, and Cheyney Gate (now The Deanery), Westminster, all in Middlesex, in 1550. SIR THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1st Lord Wentworth, died at the King's Palace at Westminster 3 March 1550/1, and was buried 7 March 1550/1 in Westminster Abbey. He left a will proved 27 Nov. 1551 (P.C.C. 35 Bucke).
  • .... etc. ___________________________
  • The visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey ... 1561, Cooke ... 1577, and ... By William Hervey, Robert Cook
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=EycAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=M...
  • Pg. 78 ___________________
  • Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire (1874) Vol. 2 Pg.n258
  • http://www.archive.org/details/pedigreesofcount02fost
    • Pedigree of Wentworth, of Elmsall, Bretton and Baron Wentworth, of Nettlested.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n265/mode...
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n266/mode...
  • SEE DOCUMENTS OR SOURCES for IMAGES __________________
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Anne Poley's Timeline

1520
1520
Nettlestead, Kent, England
1539
1539
Badley, Suffolk, England
1542
1542
Badley, Suffolk, England
1544
1544
Badley, Suffolk, England
1546
1546
Of, Badley, Suffolk, England
1548
1548
Badley, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1552
1552
Norfolk, England
1558
1558
Of, Badley, Suffolk, England
1559
1559
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom