Dorothy Holt

Dorothy was baptised at Woolley on 28 April 1659 the daughter of Thomas GRANTHAM and Frances (née WENTWORTH). She married James HOLT of Castleton, near Rochdale, Lancashire, MP, on 24 February 1679 and died in 1719.

Woolley parish register. A.R.Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigree, vol. 2, p.423. B. Hennig, (ed.) History of Parliament. The Commons 1660-1690, (1983), vol. 2, pp. 571-2. Deed of 1698, Lincoln Record Office, Tur/11/1/6/4.

Source: Richard III: The Duldig Lineage

Lease and release
This record is held by Lancashire Archives
Reference: DDX 402/14
Description:
Lease and release: for £602.10s.: (i) William Assheton of Deyne, N.D., Roger Nowell of Read, esq., and Richard Entwisle of Foxholes, esq., (trustees of James Holte of Castleton, esq., decd), (ii) Dorothea, widow of J.H. (iii) James Winstanley of Braunston, co. Leicester, esq., and Frances his wife, William Cavendish of Dovebridge, co. Derby, esq., and Elizabeth his wife, Samuel Chetham of Turton, esq., and Mary his wife, and Isabella Holte of Castleton, spinster (F.W., E.C., M.C., and I.H., being daughters of J.H.,) and (iv) James Chetham of Etwall, co. Derby, clerk, and Gervase Chetham of Turton, gent. (on behalf of Samuel Chetham) -- messuages in Balderstone in Castleton in tenures of Thomas Milnes, John Worrall, Ottiwell Worrall and Thomas Holte --
Date: 27/28 Mar. 1715

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