Annora (Pierrepont) Rossell (1538)

Born 1 May 1538 in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England

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Annora (Annor) (Amor) Pierrepont was the daughter of Sir George Pierrepont of Holm Pierrepont in Nottinhghamshire and his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Babington. The unusual name Annora originally belonged to one of her ancestors.^[1] She was born 01 May 1538.^[2]

She is said to have married John Rossell, with whom she had three sons - Anthony, Gervase, and Henry - although the evidence for this seems weak.

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1. ↑ Moffat, R Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913. L. Middleditch Company, 1913. p. 22
2. ↑ 16th century manuscript in the collections of Earl Manvers, reported in: Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Caroline Harriet Sackville and Germain Stopford-Sackville. Ninth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Part II. H.M. Stationery Office, 1884. page 375.

• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) Page 87
• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (G. Burbage, 1790) Vol. 1, Page 176 & Page 185
• Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Co., 1913) Page 22
• Marlyn Lewis gives her name as Annor, citing Richardson.