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Families covered: Wentworth of Bretton, Wentworth of Broadsworth (Brodsworth), Wentworth of North Elmsall

                               
Sir John Wentworth of North Elmsall (d before 08.1544)
m1. Anne Crake (dau of Thomas Crake of Beverly)
1. John Wentworth of North Elmsall
  m1. Anne Hastings (dau of Sir Brian Hastings of Fenwick)
A. Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall (d before 14.09.1590)
  m. Anne Calverley (dau of Sir William Calverley of Calverley)
  i. Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall (d 1632-3)
  m. (Elizabeth) Goodricke (dau of Richard Goodricke of Ribstone)
  a. Sir Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall (b c1590, d 1650)
  m1. Mary Bamborough (dau of Sir William Bamborough of Howsham)
  (1) Sir Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall (b c1619, d 10.05.1653)
  m. Agnes Bellingham (d 17.06.1668, dau of Sir Henry Bellingham, Bart of Levers)
(A) Sir John Wentworth of North Elmsall (b c1645, d 04.06.1671)
  m. Catherine Norcliffe (dau of Sir Thomas Norcliffe of Langton)
  (i) Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall (bpt 26.02.1669-70, d 08.08.1689)
  (B) Henry Wentworth of Broadsworth
(i) Sir John Wentworth of Broadsworth, 1st Bart of North Elmsall (b c1673, d 25.04.1720)
  m1. Mary Lowther (b c1676, d 16.04.1706, dau of Sir John Lowther, Bart of Lowther)
  (a) Catherine Wentworth
  m. (03.1716) Hugh Cholmley of Whitby Abbey (1684, d 1753)
  m2. Elizabeth Cavendish (dau of William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire)
  (b) Sir Butler Cavendish Wentworth, 2nd Bart of North Elmsall (b c1710, dsp 03.12.1741)
  m. Bridget Milbank (d 1774, dau of Sir Ralph Milbank, Bart of Halnaby)
  (C) Dorothy Wentworth
  m. Edward Gower (dvp bur 24.01.1662)
  m2. Martha Hayes (dau of Sir Thomas Hayes, Mayor of London)
  (2) Martha Wentworth (bpt 17.03.1634)
  m1. (26.06.1655) Thomas Wombwell of Wombwell (bur 10.08.1663)
  m2. Sir Henry Marwood, Bart (b c1635, d 01.11.1725)
(3) Mary Wentworth (d 16.09.1667)
  m. Sir William Middleton, 1st Bart of Belsay Castle (bur 22.03.1690)
  b. Catherine Wentworth
  m. Sir Rowland Wandesford of Pickhill
  c. Anne Wentworth
  m. Sir Richard Hawksworth of Hawksworth (d 11.02.1657)
  d.+ other issue - Darcy of Brodsworth, William (dsp), John (dsp)
  ii. Elizabeth Wentworth
  m1. Richard Tempest
  m2. Sir John Savile of Bradley Hall and Methley
B. Ann Wentworth
  m. Thomas Sandys
  C. Elizabeth Wentworth
  m. William Fletcher (b 1532, bur 05.04.1590)
  m2. Ann Pickering
2. Jane Wentworth
  m. Robert Trigott of South Kirkby
m2. Jane Appleton (dau of Roger Appleton of Dartford)
3. Thomas Wentworth of Howly and Ashby
  m. Elizabeth Danby (dau of Sir Christopher Danby of Thorpe)
  A. Elizabeth Wentworth (eldest daughter)
  m. William Ellerker of Ellerker
4. Elizabeth Wentworth (b c1529, d 1596)
  m. Francis Haldenby of Haldenby
5. Frances Wentworth
  m. Thomas Wombwell
6. Bridget Wentworth
  m. Nicholas Hague
7.+ other issue - Christopher of Sheffield, Hector (a 1578)

 

 

Richard Wentworth of West Bretton
This generation was omitted by Visitation (Essex) but was given by Visitation (Yorkshire) and supported by Walker in his record on the Woodrove family.
m. Isabell Fitzwilliam (dau of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough)
1. Matthew Wentworth of West Bretton (d 12.11.1505)
  m. Elizabeth Woodroffe (dau of Sir Richard Woodroffe)
  A. Thomas Wentworth of Bretton
  m. _ Dyneley (or Druley)
i. Matthew Wentworth of Bretton
  m. Mawde Middelton (dau of Sir William Mydelton or Middelton of Stockeld)
  a. Matthew Wentworth of Bretton (a 1585)
  m. Dorothy Charlesworth (dau of Richard Charlesworth of Totties)
(1) George Wentworth of West Bretton (b c1575, bur 07.06.1638)
  m. Mary Ashburnham (dau of John Ashburnham of Ashburnham)
  (A) William Wentworth of West Bretton (b c1604, d 22.10.1642)
  (B) Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st Bart of Bretton (b c1615, dsp 05.12.1675)
  m. Grace Popeley (dau of Francis Popeley of Wooley Moorhouse)
(C) Sir Matthew Wentworth, 2nd Bart of Bretton (d 01.08.1677)
  m1. (23.09.1641) Judith Horn (dsp bur 10.03.1643, dau of Cotton Horn)
  m2. (before 1663) Judith Rhodes (d 30.03.1698, dau of Thomas Rhodes of Flocton)
  (i) Sir Matthew Wentworth, 3rd Bart of Bretton (b c1665, d 02.1705/6)
  m. (22.05.1677) Elizabeth Osbaldeston (bpt 13.04.1658, bur 22.01.1693/4, dau of William Osbaldeston of Hunmanby)
  (a) Sir William Wentworth, 4th Bart of Bretton (bpt 29.10.1686, d 01.03.1763, 2nd son)
m. (23.06.1720) Diana Blackett (bur 14.04.1742, dau of Sir William Blackett, Bart of Wallington)
((1)) Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton, later Blackett of Hexham, 5th Bart, Sheriff of Yorkshire (bpt 12.04.1726, d unm 11.07.1792)
  partner(s) unknown
  ((A)) Diana Wentworth of Bretton and Hexham (d 10.08.1831)
  m. Thomas Richard Beaumont, later of Bretton (b 29.04.1758, d 31.07.1829)
  ((B)) Sophia Wentworth (d 1862)
  m. (02.02.1792) William Lee of Grove Hall
  ((C)) Louisa Wentworth
  m1. William Stackpole or Stackpoole of Instowe (d 15.04.1817)
  m2. (19.03.1822) John Clifford of Leamington
  ((2)) Diana Wentworth
  m. Godfrey Bosvile of Gunthwaite
  ((3)) Elizabeth Wentworth
  m. James Walker (not Watson) of Springhead
  ((4)) Julia Wentworth
  m. (1760) John de Chaire (rector of Rissington)
  ((5))+ other issue (d unm) - 4 sons, Arabella
  (b) Thomas Wentworth (dsp, Brigadier General)
  m. (1720) Elizabeth Lord (dau of Robert Lord of London)
(c) Grace Wentworth
  m. Thomas Staines of Sowerby and Newby
  (d) Anne Wentworth
  m. Thomas Hansell of Thorp
  (e)+ other issue - Matthew (d 1692), Elizabeth
  m3. (18.09.1676) Anne Osbaldeston (bpt 19.03.1656, dau of William Osbaldeston of Hunmanby)
  (D)+ other issue - Dorothy, Mary
  (2) Ann Wentworth
  m. Darcy Washington
  (3)+ other issue - Matthew, William, Robert, Michael, Gervase, Henry, John
b. Jane Wentworth
  m. William Rockley of Rockley
  c. Elizabeth Wentworth
  m. (1571) Marmaduke (not William) Monckton of Cavell
  d. Mary Wentworth (dsp)
  e. Isabel Wentworth
  m. Paul Hamerton of Monkroyd
  ii. Elizabeth Wentworth
  m. Bryan or William Snawsell of Bilton
  iii. Isabel Wentworth
  m. Thomas Burdett of Burthwaite
  iv. Frances Wentworth
  m. _ Lacy of Suffolk
  v. Anne Wentworth
  m1. Robert Popelay of Morehouse (b 1528, d 1565)
  m2. Henry Batt of Ruddings
  vi. Alice or Jane Wentworth
  m. Thomas Kerresforth of Kerresforth
B. Margaret Wentworth
  m. John Burton of Kinsley
  C. Anne Wentworth
  m. _ Brocklesby
  D. Elizabeth Wentworth
  Visitation shows Elizabeth as married to _ Kay of Woodsom and then William Arthington. It is an assumption that the first is in error (given that her sister Beatrix married Arthur Kay of Woodsom) and that she was the Elizabeth (apparently sometimes confused with Beatrice) who married ...
  m1/2. Thomas Everingham (b c1450)
  m2/1. William Arthington of Castley
  E. Beatrice Wentworth
  m. Arthur Kaye of Woodsome 
2. Elizabeth Wentworth possibly of this generation
  m. Nicholas Burdett (a 1494)
3.+ other issue - Robert, Anne

Main source(s):
(1) For Wentworth of North Elmsall : BEB1844 (Wentworth of North Elmsall)
(2) For Wentworth of Bretton : Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5+1612, Wentworth of North Bretton), BEB1841 (Wentworth of Bretton), TCB (vol ii), Visitation (Essex, 1558, Wentworth)
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