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Dorothy Harpur

Also Known As: "Hord;Hoord;Hoard;Hoorde; Harper", "/whorwood"
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Birthplace: Rushall, Staffordshire, England
Death:
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Daughter of Sir John Harpur and Margaret Bromley
Wife of Thomas Hoorde
Mother of Frances Fermor / Rawlegh
Sister of Robert Harpur

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About Dorothy Harpur

"Dorothy, dau. and heir of John Harpur, of Rushall, co. Staff."

Source: William Smith Ellis, "Notes to Pedigree of Hord", The Topographer and Genealogist, Vol. I, 1846, edited by John Gough Nichols

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"Dorothy was the wife of Thomas Hord of Hord Park, Esq. who had one daughter, Frances, the wife of Thomas Farmour, but died without issue."

Source: William Betham, 1801, The Baronetage of England

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NOTE: William Betham, in The Baronetage of England, gives Dorothy Harpur's mother as Margaret Bromley. However, "The visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623" (1889) gives her mother's name as "Elynor, doughter & heire to William Grobber".

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Dorothy Harpur's Timeline

1492
1492
Rushall, Staffordshire, England
1516
1516
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