Margaret (Wentworth) Harwarde (abt. 1485 - aft. 1553)

Born about 1485 in Essex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Berney Esq. — married about 1509 in England

Wife of John Harwarde Gent. — married after 1527 in England

Descendants

Died after 1553 after about age 68 in Norfolk, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Margaret (or Margery) Wentworth was the daughter of Roger Wentworth, Knt.,^[1] and Anne Tyrrell.^[2] Her date of birth is unknown and is estimated based on her husband's 1485 date of birth. She may have been born in Essex, at Codham Hall in Wetherfield or Gosfield, where her father held lands.

Margaret married John Berney, Esq., son of John Berney, Esq. and Alice Southwell of Reedham, Norfolk.^[2][3] They had at least two sons and three daughters:

• John,^[1][4] Esq., married Margaret Reade^[3] and Alice Ferrer^[2]
• Robert,^[2][4] had issue^[3][5] with wife Margaret Kenrick^[1]
• Richard,^[4] of Furnival's Inn, London, who made a will dated 19 March 1571 and proved 5 April 1571 in which he named his siblings^[5][6]
• Elizabeth, wife of Gregory Harwarde, Gent.,^[2] perhaps the son of her step-father by his first wife^[4]
• Mary,^[4] wife of Robert Jenney, with whom she had issue,^[5] and of _____ Brampton^[2][1]
• Amy^[1][2][4][5]

John Berney died testate in October 1527 and was buried at Reedham, Norfolk.^[2][4]

Margaret married second to John Harwarde (or Herward), Gent., before 6 August 1546, when he presented to the church of West Tofts, Norfolk in right of his wife.^[2][7]

Margaret was living in 1553/4, when her son wrote his will.^[5] Her date of death is unknown. More research is needed on her second husband.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} The Visitation of London in the Year 1568. London: Taylor & Co., 1869, p. 59. Archive.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. III. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, pp. 405-406, JENNINGS 18.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Walter Rye, ed. "The Visitations of Norfolk, 1563 and 1613". Harleian Society, Vol. 32. London: 1891, p. 16. Archive.org.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Soc.genealogy.medieval 2012 posts "PA3/RPA Corrections: Berney of Reedham".
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} Brad Verity. 2021 soc.genealogy.medieval post: Mary Berney, wife of Edmund Style of Langley Park (1538-1616).
6. ↑ Extracts from Richard's will: Genealogy.com.
7. ↑ Francis Blomefield, "Hundred of Grimeshou: West-Tofts", in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. Vol. 2. London: 1805, pp. 256-262. British History Online.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed., Vol. II. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, pp. 463-464, JENNINGS 13. Google Books. NOTE: this entry was edited/updated in Royal Ancestry
• Blomefield, Francis. "Walsham Hundred: Reedham", in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. Vol. 11. London: 1810, pp. 121-132. British History Online: Conflates John Berneys.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 on 17 Oct 2022.

Margery (Wentworth) Harwarde is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Barons Saher de Quincy, John de Lacy, Gilbert de Clare and Richard de Clare in trails that were project approved/badged in May 2015 by the Magna Carta Project to Gateway Ancestors Marmaduke Beckwith and Edmund Jennings. Badged trails from Beckwith/Jennings to sureties William d'Aubigny and Robert de Ros were connected later. This profile also appears in a badged trail from Beckwith and Jennings to surety barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod that was developed in Autumn 2022. Trails to the aforementioned surety barons are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of both Gateway's profiles: Beckwith and Jennings.

This profile also appears in a badged trail to:

• Charles Barnes. See the trail HERE

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