Margaret (Wentworth) Cotton (abt. 1446 - 1478)

Born about 1446 in of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Note: The American Genealogist source states: The accounts of Sir Philip (Wentworth) name only one daughter, Margaret, who married as his first wife, Thomas Cotton, of Landwade, county Cambridge, and died on 28 April 1478.

Marg, m Th Cotton. WT and Genealogics show no children. However there seems a reasonable chance, apparently, that they had a daughter. See soc.med.gen. Copinger

"Sir Thomas Cotton, of Landwade, Knt. his son and heir, was Sheriff of Camb. and Huntington, 16 Edw. IV. He married I. Margaret, daughter of Sir Philip Wentworth, of Nettlested, in Essex, Knt. by whom he only had two daughters, (of which one was mother of Sir Henry D'Oyly, Knt.)..."^[1]

Sources

• The American Genealogist Whole No. 275 Vol. 69 No. 3 July 1994 page 136

1. ↑ Thomas Wotton, Edward Kimber, and Richard Johnson, The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets Now Existing ... Illustrated with Their Coats of Arms ... : To Which Is Added an Account of Such Nova Scotia Baronets as Are of English Families and a Dictionary of Heraldry ..., vol. 1 (London, 1771), 383; https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Baronetage_of_England/EvQfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=the%20baronetage%20of%20england.%20%20volume%201&pg=RA2-PA383&printsec=frontcover

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