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  • Ambrose Rookwood, Esq., of Coldham Hall (c.1578 - 1606)
    Rookwood (c. 1578 – 31 January 1606) was a member of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I with a Catholic monarch. Rookwood was born into a wealthy family...
  • Elizabeth Tyrwhitt (1555 - 1590)
    William Tyrwhitt, of Kettleby, Esq., a Roman Catholic, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Frescheville, Esq., of Stayveley, near Chesterfield, co. Derby. He is said by writers of that Church (see...
  • Elizabeth Rookwood (c.1567 - d.)
    Elizabeth,2 married Ambrose Rookwood, of Coldham Hall and Stanningfield, eo. Suffolk, Esq.., who ... was dragged on hurdles from the Tower to Palace Yard, and there beheaded for participating in the Po...
  • ? Rookwood (deceased)
  • Agnes Appleyard (1486 - d.)

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