Henry Wentworth

Born [date unknown] in Codham Hall, Essex, England

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"Henry, the second son, was of Mountnessing, a place some twenty-three miles south-west of Gosfield, and seven miles south-west of Chelmsford. He had Mountnessing in right of his wife, Agnes Hamond, of a Kentish family; he had likewise from his father, Cheswick Hall, in Chrishall parish, in the north-west angle of the county; and also described as “of Gosfield,” he may have been the first Wentworth to reside there; the conjecture receives support from the parish register, in which the first entry of the family is the baptism of one of his sons 3 August 1545. This Henry, concerning whom we know no more, must have died (his burial is unrecorded) either shortly before or after the child’s christening; for in January of the next year, Agnes, his widow, was remarried to William Wilford, probably of the family of Robert Wilford for whom there was formerly a memorial stone in Gosfield Church. Henry Wentworth is chiefly to be noted because on the failure of his elder brother’s issue it was his son who carried the line of Wentworth of Gosfield; he had three other sons, one of whom was Peter Wentworth, clerk (i.e: a cleric). This Peter was rector of Abberton and afterwards of Great Bromley, Essex, he was also chaplain to Lord Darcy, and rector, sine cura, of Gestingthorpe, the vicarage of which he held at the same time. He had the honour of preaching a sermon before the Court at Greenwich, on the text, “Be wise now therefore, O ye kings,” etc. (Ps. ii. 10 and 11), and as his discourse was printed in 1587 it had probably met with approval. His Will, proved 1599, is found at Somerset House (Kidd, 70), and is a good example of the country clergyman’s will of that time."^[1]

Henry (and his sons John and Henry) is mentioned as brother (deceased) in the Will of Sir John Wentworth probated 1567. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth by William Loftie Rutton, Limited Edition, no.23, London, 1891, p.153-160.
2. ↑ Name: John Wentworth [Johanis Wentworth]  Probate Date: 15 Oct 1567 Residence: Gosfield, Essex, England

• Hawley: Visitations of Essex, Volume 1, page 315, Wentworth (1612).
• Wentworth, John, of Chicago: The Wentworth Genealogy, 2nd edn., 3 vols, page xxvi, Table J.
• Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, volume 3 (1889), pages 209-213. Online at Google Books.

Note

Henry Wentworth was the second son of Sir Roger Wentworth and Anne Tyrrell. See this G2G post for discussion of his parentage.