Mother: Nancy THORNTON |
_William ERWIN (ARVIN) (ERVINE) _ | (1720 - 1773) _John ERWIN (ARVIN) (ERVINE) _| | (1754 - 1782) m 1771 | | |_________________________________ | _Jameson Wade ERWIN (ARVIN) (ERVINE) _| | (1774 - ....) m 1802 | | | _________________________________ | | | | |_Mary FULLILOVE ______________| | (1750 - 1795) m 1771 | | |_________________________________ | | |--Thomas Greene ERWIN (ARVIN) (ERVINE) | (1810 - 1856) | _________________________________ | | | ______________________________| | | | | | |_________________________________ | | |_Nancy THORNTON ______________________| (1782 - ....) m 1802 | | _________________________________ | | |______________________________| | |_________________________________
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Mother: Elizabeth "Bettie" WASHINGTON |
_John IV "Councillor" LEWIS __+ | (1669 - 1725) m 1685 _John LEWIS V of Warner Hall_| | (.... - 1754) m 1718 | | |_Elizabeth (Isabelle) WARNER _+ | (1672 - 1719) m 1685 _Fielding LEWIS Sr. of Warner Hall_| | (1725 - 1781) m 1750 | | | _Henry FIELDING ______________ | | | (1670 - ....) | |_Frances FIELDING ___________| | (1694 - 1752) m 1718 | | |_Lane HOWELL _________________ | (1670 - ....) | |--Howell LEWIS | (1771 - 1822) | _Lawrence WASHINGTON _________+ | | (1659 - 1697) m 1686 | _Augustine WASHINGTON Sr.____| | | (1694 - 1743) m 1731 | | | |_Mildred WARNER ______________+ | | (1670 - 1701) m 1686 |_Elizabeth "Bettie" WASHINGTON ____| (1733 - 1797) m 1750 | | _Joseph BALL of Epping Forest_+ | | (1649 - 1711) m 1706 |_Mary BALL __________________| (1707 - 1790) m 1731 | |_Mary MONTAGUE _______________+ (1664 - 1743) m 1706
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Mother: Maria Texana MCKAY |
_John MCKNEELY ___________+ | (1780 - 1833) _John F. MCKNEELY __________| | (1811 - 1880) | | |_Jane COCKFIELD __________+ | (1782 - ....) _Thomas Scott MCKNEELY _| | (1834 - ....) m 1860 | | | _Thomas Erastus SCOTT ____+ | | | (1788 - 1841) | |_Maria Margaret SCOTT ______| | (1813 - 1877) | | |_Rhoda CARNEY ____________+ | (1793 - 1860) | |--Maria Malvina MCKNEELY | (1860 - ....) | __________________________ | | | _James Henry MCKAY _________| | | (1810 - ....) m 1839 | | | |__________________________ | | |_Maria Texana MCKAY ____| (1840 - ....) m 1860 | | _Robert Young LIVINGSTON _+ | | (1777 - 1837) m 1805 |_Malvina Althea LIVINGSTON _| (1816 - 1877) m 1839 | |_Margaret MCLEAN _________+ (1788 - 1876) m 1805
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Mother: ANNE TYRRELL |
"First son of Sir Richard Wentworth, of Nettlestead, de jure 5th
Lord le Despenser, by Anne, dau. of Sir James Tyrrell of
Gipping, Suff. Married by 1524 Margaret dau. of Sir Adrian
Fortescue of Salden, Oxon., by whom he had eight sons, inc. Sir
Thomas, and nine daughters. Kntd. 1 Nov 1523; suc. family 17 Oct
1528; cr. Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 2 Dec 1529. J.p. Suff.
1523-d; commr. subsidy 1523, 1524, coastal defence 1539,
benevolence 1544/45, musters 1546, relief, London, Suff., royal
household 1550; other commissions, Suff. and eastern counties
1534-45; member, household of Duke of Suffolk by 1524-?8; PC by
7 Aug 1549; chamberlain, the Household Feb 1550-d.
Thomas Wentworth's family, whose ancestors were of Wentworth
Woodhouse, Yorkshire, had acquired Nettlestead by a mid 15th
century marriage with the Despensers: his father Sir Richard,
who served twice as sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, also owned
land in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
The first known reference to Thomas Wentworth concerns his
service in 1523 under the Duke of Suffolk in the French
campaign, when he was knighted at the surrender of Roye. He may
have been already a member of Suffolk's household, for in the
following year, as a commissioner for the subsidy levied upon
it, he returned himself second on the list with an assessment of
£50.
On the death of his father in 1528 Wentworth succeeded to
Nettlestead with five other Suffolk manors lying northwest of
Ipswich, and five manors in Yorkshire; he was also to enjoy
rights in Kentish and Lincolnshire property after feoffees had
taken the profits for ten years. The following year saw his only
known return to Parliament, although he may have sat in 1523,
when the names of the Suffolk knights of the shire are lost.
Returned in the autumn of 1529, he was not to sit in the Commons
for more than a few weeks after the Parliament opened on 3 Nov;
one of the four Members elevated to baronies, perhaps par
parole, early in the session, he took his seat in the Lords on 2
Dec. Three years later Cromwell put forward Arthur Hopton as
Wentworth's replacement in the Commons, but the outcome of the
by-election is not known. The Thomas Wentworth, whose nomination
as one of the knights for Yorkshire was passed over in favour of
Sir John Neville at the same time, was a distant kinsman.
Thomas Wentworth
(1° B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
Sketch by Holbein
Wentworth may have owed his ennoblement to his close association
with the Duke of Suffolk. His attendance in the Lords was
erratic until the accession of Edward VI, and he was absent from
the House for an entire session in 1533 and while the attainder
of his father-in-law was under review in 1539. Little has come
to light about his part in its proceedings. In 1529 he was one
of the signatories to the draft of a measure to resolve problems
arising from uses. He signed six Acts passed during the third
session of the Parliament of 1547 and the bill assuring lands to
the city of London which was to be enacted a year after his
death. His career was to show him as a constant supporter of
government policies, whatever their religious implications. In
1530 he was one of those who signed the letter to Clement VII
asking for the pope's consent to the royal divorce of the King
Henry VIII and Catalina of Aragon. He took part in the
impeachment of both the Queens and all the noblemen brought to
trial from 1536 onwards. His decision against Anne Boleyn may
not have been without bias as he was a cousin of Jane Seymour.
On the outbreak of rebellion in the summer of 1536 he was
ordered to attend the King with 100 of his men and in the
following Oct the 3rd Duke of Norfolk asked the King to empower
Wentworth ‘to take the chief rule’ in Suffolk during his own
absence in the north. A year later he attended the christening
of Prince Edward, handing the water to the godfathers, Cranmer
and Norfolk. Present at the reception of Anne of Cleves in Jan
1540, he was host to the King and Catherine Howard at
Nettlestead later in the same year. In 1543 he campaigned in the
Netherlands and in 1544 in France.
From 1523, when Wentworth had first been put on the Suffolk
bench, he was in local management. It was perhaps in return for
some favour from Cromwell that in 1531 Wentworth gave him an
annuity of £5 from the manor of Nettlestead. He corresponded on
a number of topics with Cromwell, to whom he was to write as
late as Feb 1540, ‘I shall not fail to favour whomsoever you
shall hereafter command me to befriend’. In 1538 a certain
William Lawrence reported to the minister that Wentworth had
helped in the secret transport of an image of the Virgin Mary by
ship to London and that he had done much good in quietening
controversies in Ipswich, ordering their instigators to reform
and to ‘speak the sincere gospel’. In the same year Wentworth
himself wrote to Cromwell, as founder in blood of the Greyfriars
of Ipswich, to object to the friars’ sale of their plate and
jewels: the order, he declared, was ‘neither stock nor graft
which the heavenly Father had planted, but only a hypocritical
seed planted of ... the bishop of Rome’, adding that he had
purchased the site of the priory for himself and his heirs.
Wentworth's religious views influenced the careers of two men
who were to become notable Protestant preachers and writers. It
was at his request that in 1538 the parishioners of St.
Lawrence, Ipswich, appointed the newly ordained Thomas Becon as
priest of the chantry of Edmund Daundy; Wentworth described
Becon to Cromwell as a man ‘well learned, a true preacher of the
word of God, a great setter forth ... of the King's most just
and lawful title of supremacy, approved by God's word’. John
Bale, later a prebendary of Canterbury and Bishop of Ossory,
must have known Wentworth while a friar in Ipswich; in his
writings he acknowledged that Wentworth had brought about his
conversion. Wentworth's official attitude towards dissent may
have caused him some heart searchings, and Foxe was probably
right when he described, in his account of the trial of two
Protestant martyrs at Ipswich in 1545, how after giving judgment
for burning Wentworth ‘did shroud himself behind one of the
posts of the gallery and wept’ during its execution.
With the succession of Edward VI Wentworth could look forward to
advancement as a kinsman of the Protector Somerset and a friend
of reform. In accordance with the late King's wishes he received
the stewardship of all the lands of the Bishop of Ely in Norfolk
and Suffolk; he was also given temporary custody of the younger
children of the Earl of Surrey. When the crisis came in 1549,
however, it was not Somerset but the Earl of Warwick whom
Wentworth followed. He accompanied the Marquess of Northampton
in the first attempt to suppress Ket's rebellion and he sat on
the commission which subsequently tried prisoners at Yarmouth.
He was admitted to the Privy Council somewhat earlier than his
first recorded appearance at its meeting of 9 Oct. 1549, for on
the previous 7 Aug he had joined with Somerset and others in
signing a letter to the mayor of Southampton about a prize court
case, but his allegiance to Warwick is proved by his inclusion
among the six lords appointed on 15 Oct to be governors of the
King's person and education. He was also made one of a quorum of
two among the group of Councillors responsible for the finances
of the Household and the army, a commitment which was to be
followed by his appointment as chamberlain of the Household in
succession to the 18th Earl of Arundel, who had sided with
Somerset. He held this post for little more than a year before
his death in 1551.
Thomas Wentworth
(2° B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
1525 - 1584
Wentworth had shown no personal interest in acquiring monastic
property, except for the Blackfriars at Ipswich and a lease for
21 years from Mar 1537 of Newsom manor in Lincolnshire. In Apr
1550 he was granted the lordships and manors of Hackney and
Stepney, valued at over £245 yearly, and two months later, in
recognition of his service under two monarchs, the former
abbot's house at Westminster. He died in the palace at
Westminster on 3 Mar 1551 and was buried in great state in the
abbey. According to Edward VI all but one of his 17 children
survived Wentworth. By a will made on 16 May 1544 he had left
marriage portions of 200 marks to his nine daughters and £10
yearly to his seven younger sons on their majority. These
bequests were payable from manors in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
Wentworth left to his wife for life all the manors (unspecified)
which he had acquired from Nicholas Astley, clerk, and a share
of all household goods except plate. He directed that some of
his property in Ipswich should be sold to pay off a mortgage on
lands in Kent. Any ambiguities in the will were to be referred
to James Hales, serjeant-at-law. It was proved on 27 Nov 1551 by
Wentworth's eldest son Thomas, the executorship having been
renounced by the widow and John Gosnold. A drawing by Holbein
and several portraits of Wentworth survive."
Children:
1. Thomas WENTWORTH (2° B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
2. Phillip WENTWORTH
3. Anne WENTWORTH
4. Elizabeth WENTWORTH
5. Margaret WENTWORTH
6. Dorothy WENTWORTH
7. James WENTWORTH
8. Thomas WENTWORTH (Sir Knight)
9. John WENTWORTH
10. Margery WENTWORTH
11. Cecily WENTWORTH
12. Jane WENTWORTH (B. Cheney of Toddington)
13. Henry WENTWORTH
14. John WENTWORTH
15. Son WENTWORTH
16. Dau. WENTWORTH
17. Dau. WENTWORTH
_PHILIP WENTWORTH Knt. of Nettleshead_+ | (1424 - 1464) m 1447 _HENRY WENTWORTH Knt. K.B. of Nettlestead_| | (1448 - ....) m 1473 | | |_MARY de CLIFFORD ____________________+ | (1416 - 1478) m 1447 _RICHARD WENTWORTH Knt.of Nettlestead_| | (1485 - 1528) m 1507 | | | _JOHN de SAYE Knt. of Sawbridgeworth__ | | | (1419 - 1478) | |_ANNE de SAYE ____________________________| | (1453 - 1478) m 1473 | | |_ELIZABETH CHENEY of Fen Ditton_______+ | (1430 - 1473) | |--THOMAS WENTWORTH 1st Baron of Nettleshead | (1501 - 1550) | ______________________________________ | | | _JAMES TYRRELL Knt. of Gipping____________| | | (1450 - ....) | | | |______________________________________ | | |_ANNE TYRRELL ________________________| (1485 - 1529) m 1507 | | _JOHN ARUNDEL Knt. of Lanherne________ | | (1430 - ....) |_ANNE ARUNDEL ____________________________| (1450 - ....) | |______________________________________
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