Susanna Wentworth

Susanna Carter.

Probably daughter of Edward Carter of Wells who became a surgeon in Boston.

She married 1st Uther Fleming

The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American in three volumes by John Wentworth (Little, Brown and Co., 1878) is the source of most of the Wentworth information. The author cites as his source "William Flower, Norroy King of arms of the College of Arms,...who compiled it in the year 1588, and it has ever since remained upon the records of the College, and been accepted...as authentic."

The only iffy part of the Wentworth genealogy is whether Elder William Wentworth of NH was indeed the son of William and Susanna (Carter) Wentworth. Author John Wentworth spent several pages of Volume 1 explaining all the circumstantial evidence for why he believed he was their son. The Marbury Ancestry, in an "IMPORTANT NOTE - " on page 26, says: "The old Wentworth Genealogy gives strong circumstantial evidence indicating the English parentage of the colonists, William Wentworth and Christopher Lawson ... Charles T. Libby, the great authority on New Hampshire genealogy, has recently accepted these findings as correct."

http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n208/mo... (pg. 34-5)

“XX. William Wentworth, who

• was baptized at St. Peter at Gowts, in the City of Lincoln
• (where his parents were married the preceding year), on the 8th of June, 1584, and
• who was mentioned as such, and still living, in his father’s will, in 1628.”
• The Alford parish registers show that a William Wentworth was living there certainly from 1614 to 1620, and those of Rigsby that he was of that parish in the following year; and the object is now to show that he was identical with this William, eldest son of Christopher Wentworth and Catharine Marbury.
• The first mention of him in the Alford register is in the record of his marriage,
  • which took place the 28th of November, 1614, when, if our theory be correct, he would have been about thirty years of age.
• The name of his wife is given as Susanna Fleming.
  • She was, however, a widow; and and examination of the register, confirmed by various wills, reveals the following facts:
  • Her maiden name was Carter, and, so far as can be ascertained,
  • she was the daughter of Edward Carter, of Well, a small village two miles southwest from Alford, who was probably a small farmer.
    • On the 1st of July, 1613, she was married at Alford to Uther Fleming,
      • son of Robert Fleming of Alford, and his wife Jane.
      • This Robert Fleming, who died in 1599, calls himself, in his will, a shoemaker. From the character and extent of his bequests, it is evident that he was what would be called in England, a “well-to-do tradesman.”
      • Uther Fleming lived but little more than six months after his marriage, as
      • he was buried at Alford on the 22d of January, 1613-14; and
      • on the 29th of May following, their only child, a posthumous daughter named Anne, was baptized.
      • (This child was buried at Alford, the 27th of November, 1619.)
    • Six months later, the young widow married William Wentworth.
    • According to the Alford registers, their eldest child was baptized on' the 15th of March, 1615-16, and was named William, after his father.
    • On the 18th of January, 1617-18, and another son was baptized, named Edward, doubtless after his maternal grandfather.
    • A third son was baptized at Alford, on the 4th of June, 1620, and was named Christopher, in all probability after his father’s father. (buried 18 May 1621 see below)
• After this last date, the name of Wentworth disappears entirely from the Alford register; and
• it is evident that the family removed shortly after to the adjoining hamlet of Rigsby, two miles west from Alford; for in the Rigsby register occurs the burial of this third son of Christopher, under date of the 18th of May, 1621. Whether they had any other children at Rigsby must forever remain uncertain; for the early Rigsby registers have long since perished, and the few transcripts preserved at Lincoln do not embrace the period important in this investigation.

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