Frances Wentworth was the daughter of Mr. Wentworth and Everhilda Maltby. [1] Frances was baptised at Woolley on 1 December, 1631. She was married at Woolley on 12 January 1658 to Thomas GRANTHAM of Meux Abbey, Yorkshire.
"Maister Thomas Grantham gentleman and Misses ffrances Wentworth was maried the 12 day of Januarie in the yeare of our lord god 1657/8" in St Peter's Church, Woolley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. [2]
She died on the12 March, 1693.
(Blank) Grantham vidua (widow of) Thoma Grantham Armigeri obijt (died) apud Castleton in com. Lancaster in 1693/4 and was buried on 16 March 1693 at St Mary's Church, Elland, Yorkshire, England.[3]
Frances Grantham's estate passed probate on 17 July 1693. Their last residence was Meaux, Yorkshire, England.[4]
Burial St Mary the Virgin Churchyard • Elland, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England
Memorial ID 160380071
↑Marriage: "West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812" West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP181/1/1/1 Ancestry Record (accessed 11 May 2023)
↑Burial:
"West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812"
West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP79/4 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2256 #6875558 (accessed 11 May 2023)
Grantham's burial (died in about 1693) on 16 Mar 1693 in Elland, St Mary, Yorkshire, England.
↑Probate:
"Prerogative & Exchequer Courts Of York Probate Index, 1688-1858" FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 11 May 2023)
Frances Grantham probate on 17 Jul 1693. Residence Meaux, Yorkshire, England.
Woolley parish register.A. R. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigree, (1903) vol. 2, p.423 and Clay, Dugdale’s Visitation , vol. 2, pp.322-2.
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