Dorothy Whitfield

Biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Whitfield

By 1618 Ralph Whitfield had married Dorothy Spelman, daughter of the antiquary Sir Henry Spelman, of Congham in Norfolk, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of John Lestrange (d.1582), of Sedgeford in Norfolk.[8][9] Her brothers were the historian and politician Sir John Spelman (1594–1643) and the judge Clement Spelman (1598–1679). Catherine Spelman, one of her sisters, married Robert Raworth, a lawyer closely associated with the Whitfield family.

Five of their children reached adulthood :

1. Sir Herbert Whitfield (1618–1677) married Margaret Peirson and had seven children.
2. Henry Whitfield (1619–1688), MP for Trim in the Irish House of Commons[10] who also had investments in Barbados. He married Hester Temple and they had six children.
3. Ralph Whitfield (c.1620–c.1645) who, after education at Cambridge and Gray's Inn, went to Jamaica where he died.
4. Dorothy Whitfield (c.1622–), who married John Fotherley, son of Sir Thomas Fotherley who had interests in Jamaica.
5. Roger Whitfield, who followed his father to Gray’s Inn and the bar but died young.