Agnes (Parr) Strickland (abt. 1443 - bef. 1491)

Born about 1443 in Westmorland, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Strickland — married before 1465 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 1491 before about age 48 in Westmorland, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Agnes Parr was the daughter of Thomas Parr, Knt., and Alice Tunstall.^[1][2][3] Her date of birth is unknown and is estimated to be about the same year her husband was born. She may have been born at Kirkby-Kendal, Westmorland where her father held lands.

Agnes married Thomas Strickland, Knt.,^[4] of Sizergh, Westmorland.^[3] Thomas, born 1443, was the son and heir of Walter Strickland, Esq., and Douce de Croft.^[1] The couple was married by 1464/5^[1] as evidenced by a grant signed 3 December 1465 by Thomas' father, Walter, giving the manor of Wynder in Westmorland to Thomas' wife Agnes.^[5] They had three sons and one daughter:

• Walter, K.B., died September 1506, married Elizabeth Pennington and had issue^[1]
• Thomas (clerk),^[1] who was mentioned in 1489 and 1494 land transactions^[5][6]
• Gervase^[1]
• Joan, wife of Thomas Middleton,^[1] received dispensation to marry in 1476/7^[5]

Between 1481 and 1483, Dame Agnes is named in deeds with her husband in transactions with Gilbert de Lancaster and his wife Elizabeth. Scott in Stricklands of Sizergh Castle speculates that Elizabeth may have been one of Agnes' sisters.^[5]

Agnes' date and place of death are unknown. She predeceased her husband who remarried to Margaret Fouleshurst, widow of Sir John Byron,^[1] before 9 March 1491, when Margaret's dower was settled.^[5] Thomas died in 1497.^[1]

Research Notes

Parents

Researchers seem to differ on theories regarding the identity of the father of Agnes, who married Thomas Strickland. Richardson and MS pedigrees put forth Thomas Parr,^[1][3] while others state he may have been Thomas' son, Sir William Parr,^[7] son of Elizabeth FitzHugh.^[5][8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. II, page 110, CARLETON 14.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. I, page 406, CARLETON 10.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "Early Pedigrees of the Parr Family" in The Topographer & Genealogist, Vol. 3. pages 354-355: pedigree and note f.
4. ↑ S.H. Lee Washington. "The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1942). Online at AmericanAncestors.org[$], vol. 96 (Apr 1942), page 106a: pedigree. Also available on Archive.org.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} Daniel Scott. Stricklands of Sizergh Castle, (1908). Google Books, pages 71-77.
6. ↑ 'Sedgwick', in Records Relating To the Barony of Kendale. Volume 2, ed. William Farrer and John F Curwen (Kendal, 1924), pp. 177-189. British History Online.
7. ↑ E. Bellasis. "Stricklands of Sizergh" in Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, vol. 10. (1866). Archive.org, page 74: Strickland pedigree.
8. ↑ John Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I. Colburn, 1835. Google Books, page 57

See also:

• Nicolson, Joseph and Richard Burn. The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. London: Printed for W. Strahan, 1777. Archive.org, page 98: #10 Thomas Strickland (does not name his wife).
• 'Helsington and Sizergh', in Records Relating To the Barony of Kendale. Volume 1, ed. William Farrer and John F Curwen (Kendal, 1923), pp. 130-166. British History Online.
• Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 298 PARR 9.ii.
• Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 305 PARR 13.ii.
• Lewis, Marlyn. Agnes Parr entry in Our Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors online database.

Acknowledgments

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project on 15 August 2021 by Thiessen-117 and approved for the Project by Michael Cayley on 16 August 2021.

Agnes (Parr) Strickland is in a badged Richardson-documented trail between Gateway Ancestor Edward Carleton and Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros (Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. I, pages 406-409 CARLETON). This profile also appears on a badged trail between Edward Carleton and sureties Hugh le Bigod and Roger Bigod. See the trails in the Magna Carta Trails section of Walter Carleton's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".