'Wentworth05'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Wentworth of Mendham Priory, Wentworth of Woolley

Michael Wentworth of Mendham Priory
m. Isabel Whitley (dau of Percival Whitley of Whitley)
1. Thomas Wentworth of Mendham Priory and Whitley
  m. Susan Hopton (dau of Christopher Hopton of Armley Hall)
A. Michael Wentworth of Woolley (d 1641)
  m. Frances Downs (dau of George Downs of Paunton)
  i. Michael Wentworth of Woolley (b c1597, d unm)
  ii. Sir George Wentworth of Woolley (b c1600, d 18.10.1660)
  m1. (before 10.1621) Anne Fairfax (b 08.10.1600, d 19.08.1624, dau of Thomas, Lord Fairfax)
a.+ 2 sons (presumed d young)
  m2. Everild Maltby (dau of Christopher Maltby of Maltby)
  c. Everilda Wentworth (d 1709) probably of this generation
  m. (02.09.1650) John Thornill of Fixby (b 1616, d 21.10.1669)
  d.+ 2 sons (d young) and 2 daughters
  iii. John Wentworth of Woolley (b 1607, d 22.02.1682)
  m. Elizabeth Aldburgh (d 1675, dau of Arthur Aldburgh of Aldburgh)
  a. Sir Michael Wentworth of Woolley (b 1654, d 1696)
  m. (18.11.1673) Dorothy Copley (dau of Sir Godfrey Copley, Bart of Sprotborough)
  (1) William Wentworth of Woolley (b 1675, dsp 03.06.1729)
  m. Catherine Turner (dau of Charles Turner of Kirk Leatham)
(2) Godfrey Wentworth
  m. Anna Maria Clarke (dau of Giles Clarke)
  (A) Godfrey Wentworth of Woolley and Hickleton (b 1705, d 18.01.1789)
  m. (1727) Dorothy Pilkington (dau of Sir Lyon Pilkington, 4th Bart)
  (i) Anna Maria Wentworth (d 21.03.1788)
  m. (10.04.1760) Sir George Armytage, 3rd Bart of Kirklees (b 25.12.1734, d 21.01.1783)
  Their 3rd son inherited Woolley and changed his name to Wentworth.
  (ii) daughter
  (B) Anna Maria Wentworth probably of this generation
  m. Peter Bold of Bold Hall (b c1703, d 12.09.1762)
(3) Elizabeth Wentworth (bpt 22.11.1677, bur 07.06.1764) probably of this generation
  m. (11.02.1696) William Wombwell of Wombwell (bpt 09.01.1670-1, d 25.09.1716)
  (4) Anne Wentworth (b 16.03.1683, d 16.03/05.08.1764)
  m1. (03.02.1704-5) Sir Lyon Pilkington, 4th Bart of Chevet (bpt 05.06.1683, bur 26.06.1716)
  m2. (29.01.1720) Sir Charles Dalston, 3rd Bart (bpt 26.04.1686, d 05.03.1723)
  m3. (01.12.1730) John Maude of Alverthorpe Hall
  (5)+ 4 sons and 5 daughters
  iv. Elizabeth Wentworth probably of this generation
  m1. Thomas Oldfield
  m2. Richard Beaumont of Lascelles Hall (b 15.01.1570, d 1656)
  v. Margaret Wentworth (bpt 04.04.1608, bur 16.03.1640) probably of this generation
  m. William Wombwell of Wombwell (bur 04.02.1662)
  vi. Dorothy Wentworth apparently of this generation
  m. (27.06.1607) John Wood of Copmanthorpe (b 1586)
  vii. Rosamond Wentworth (d c1651) probably of this generation
  m1. (1620) Bertram Reveley, younger of Newton Underwood
  m2. Roger Widdrington of Harbottle

Main source(s): BLG1886 (Wentworth of Woolley) with some input from BE1883 (Wentworth of Wentworth, Raby, Strafford)
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