Frances Winstanley

Frances was baptised at Rochdale on 28 March 1681 the daughter of James HOLT and Dorothy (née GRANTHAM). She was married in c. 1701 to James WINSTANLEY (who was MP for Braunstone, Leicestershire between 1701-19) and died 1771.

Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigree, vol. 2, p.423. Hennig, The Commons 1690-1715, (2002), vol. 5, p.903. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners, vol. 1, p.364. Rochdale parish register.

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

Will of Dame Isabella Parsons the wife of Sr William Parsons of Stanton in the County of Nottingham Baronet, proved 16 April 1746 mentions: "my sister Wyn Stanley"

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