Richard Cudworth (1596 - 1657)

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Research notes

Of Eastfield (In Thurgoland), Yorkshire.

Baptized at Silkstone 16 May 1596. Buried there.

Left 3 coheiresses. MI erected in Silkstone church by son-in-law Nathaniel Johnston, the antiquary, who allegedly traced the Cudworth pedigree back 400 years to one Paulinus of Eastfield.

I have failed to find this pedigree in print.

Children shown by Hunter as

• Richard, died young
• Susan, died young
• Grace, eldest daughter and coheiress, m (1st) John Ellison (2nd) William Wordsworth, of Wraith-house (3rd) Francis Morton
• Martha, 2nd daughter and coheiress, m Samuel Savile of Mexborough, gent
• Anne, youngest daughter and coheiress, m. Nathaniel Johnston of Pontefract, M.D and antiquary.

Eastfield went to the 2nd daughter, and the Saviles later sold it to the Spencers of Cannon-hall, Cawthorne.

• Will.
• MI, quoted in Wordsworth, C: Memoirs of William Wordsworth, p. 518.
• Hunter, Joseph: F.M.G.

  Vol. 1 of 4, Harleian Soc. 37 (1894), p. 229, Morton

  Vol. 2, Harleian Soc. 38 (1895), p. 757, Wordsworth

  Vol. 3, Harleian Soc 39 (1896), p. 927, Johnston.

• Hunter, Joseph: South Yorkshire (1831), Vol. 2, p. 270, Thurgoland.
• Pedigree (small PDF download).
• Clay, J.W: Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, Vol. 2 of 3, page 399, Savile, VII; Vol. 3, p. 216, Johnston, VIII; p. 516, Morton, B.

This person was created on 14 February 2011 through the import of Linford-Jones 2010.GED.