Sir
Thomas
Wentworth
Born about in Bretton, Yorkshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Matthew Wentworth
and Elizabeth (Woodruff) Wentworth
Brother of
Beatrice (Wentworth) Kaye and Thomas Wentworth Esq
Husband of
Isabel Wentworth
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Died about
at about age 48
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Jul 2014
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Biography
Research Notes
Died without issue.
His wife was Isabel Wentworth, his 3rd cousin, daughter of his namesake, Thomas Wentworth, of North Elmsall, esq.
Had some official job at the Palace. (Not Lord Chamberlain, that was another namesake, Thomas Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead)
Not to be confused with yet another namesake, Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth, esq, also said to have been at the Palace in the time of Henry VIII. Nor with that Thomas's son, Thomas Wentworth, bailiff of Scrooby.
And not to be confused with his namesake younger brother and heir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton, esq, who married Anne Dyneley and continued the Bretton line.
There were other namesakes, including his wife's brother and at least two nephews.
Sources
- Clay, J.W: Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, Vol. 2 of 3, page 127, IV.
- Foster, Joseph: Yorkshire Pedigrees (1874), Vol. 2 of 3 (WR pt 2), Wentworth of Elmsall.
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Matthew Wentworth, married about 26 July 1481 Elizabeth Woodruffe, daughter of Sir Richard Woodruffe, by his 1st wife, ___, daughter of Thomas Wortley. They had two sons, Thomas, Knt., and Thomas (2nd of name), and four daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Nicholas Kaye and William Arthington), Beatrice, Anne, (wife of John Brocklesby), and Mary (wife of John Burton). He was appointed an executor of the 1488 will of his father, Matthew Wentworth, died 12 Nov. 1505. He left a will dated 10 Nov. 1505, proved 10 Jan. 1505/6. His widow, Elizabeth, was living 20 July 1506.
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