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Jane Strother (Shafto)

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Death: November 19, 1705
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Daughter of Mark Shafto and Mary Shafto
Wife of Colonel William Strother of Fowberry
Mother of Captain William Strother of Grindon Ridge; Mary Orde; Elizabeth Ogle; Mark Strother; Jane Carr and 1 other
Sister of Sir Robert Shafto; Mary Shafto; Thomas Shafto and Ninian Shafto

Managed by: Woodman Mark Lowes Dickinson, OBE
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About Jane Strother

From The History of The Family of Carr of Woodhall, Lesbury, Eshott, and Hetton Volume 3 by R.E. Carr C.E. Carr Rev. T.W. Carr Published 1899 Page 215 Pedigree showing some of the connections between Strother, Ogle, and Carr

William Strother of Grindon Ridge Grindon Rigg, Duddo, Northumberland TD15 2PT 55.681349, -2.120586, Fowberry, and Newton, born 1626; Colonel of Dragoons, Royalist, and had to compound for his estates 1649; died 1701. NOTE: date of death conflicts with current 5 July 1699 and birth year 1626 not 1625?

[married with issue] Jane Shafto, daughter of Mark Shafto of Whitworth Park, and sister of Sir Robert Shafto, Recorder of Newcastle; married 1652. NOTE probably 1652/3 i.e. 1653 see below

[issue]

William Strother of Fowberry, Captain of Dragoons; died at Grindon Ridge 1708 [married with issue] Margaret [blank]

Mark Strother, High Sheriff of Northumberland 1714; owned Fowberry after brother’s death; died 1726. [married] Martha [blank]

Elizabeth Strother [married with issue] William Ogle of Cawsey. Will dated 1774; leaves property in trust for William Ogle, Major 34th Foot.

Mary Strother, born 1657;died 1737. [married] Thomas Orde of Fecklington.

Jane Strother, born 1664 [married] William Carr of Eshott and Hetton. Pedigree IV c. [who married 2ndly] Elizabeth Porter.

Robert Strother, born 1670; died 1713; buried at Bath Abbey. [married] Mary [blank], died 1755.

From Shafto of Whitworth Ingilby History

Jane Shafto, baptised 11 April 1633; married 10 January 1652 at St John the Baptist Church, Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5JG 54.9701, -1.6155, William Strother of Fowberry, Northumberland

From Ancestry: England Select Marriages 1538-1973

  • name: William Strother
  • gender: Male
  • marriage date: 10 January 1652 NOTE: probably 1652/3 i.e. 1653
  • marriage place: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England
  • spouse: Jane Shafto
  • FHL film number: 2193541
  • reference id: page 783

From A history of Northumberland, The Parishes of Carham, Branxton, Kirknewton, Wooler, and Ford by Kenneth H. Vickers M.A. Volume 11 Published 1922 Page 134

William Strother, aged 5 years 6 months [on] 2 February 1631 [Footnote aa: Laing, Charters Pages 499-500]. Colonel William Strother of Kirknewton, 1652 [Footnote ad: Laing, Charters Pages 570-571]; will dated 8 October 1697; proved 1701 [Footnote ah: Raine, Testamenta Volume 4 Page 199]; buried 5 July 1699 [Footnote: af: Fowberry Deeds — Proceedings of Newcastle Antiquaries 3rd series Volume 10 Pages 21-25]

[married with issue] Jane Shaftoe, daughter of Mark Shaftoe of Newcastle [Footnote aq: Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, Bundle 292, No. 49; Bundle 372, No. 55].; marriage settlement 10 January 1653 [1652/3] [Footnote al: Laing, Charters Page 571]; married at St. John's, Newcastle, 10 January 1653 [1652/3]; living 19 November 1705 NOTE conflicts with current death on 19 November 1705 [Footnote: af: Fowberry Deeds — Proceedings of Newcastle Antiquaries 3rd series Volume 10 Pages 21-25].

From stirnet - Strother

Colonel William Strother of Fowerby Fowberry Tower, Fowberry, Northumberland NE71 6ER 55.557788, -1.939034 of Kirknewton (buried 5 July 1699) married on 10 January 1653 [1652/3] Jane Shaftoe, daughter of Mark Shaftoe of Newcastle; died 1705

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Jane Strother's Timeline

1633
April 11, 1633
April 11, 1633
1653
November 1, 1653
1656
September 25, 1656
1658
May 8, 1658
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England (United Kingdom)
1660
August 10, 1660
1664
June 25, 1664
1670
1670
1705
November 19, 1705
Age 72