Frances
Brent
formerly Whitegreave aka Harrison
Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Giles Brent Sr.
— married
1654 [location unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Birth and Parents
Frances Whitgreaves was the daughter of Thomas Whitgreaves of Staffordshire, England. [1]
Frances was born in 1610.
First Marriage to Jeremiah Harrison
Frances Whitgreaves first married Dr. Jeremiah Harrison of York County, Virginia. He died before 1654. [1]
1654 Second Marriage to Giles Brent
After Harrison's death, Frances Whitgreaves secondly married Giles Brent. They had no issue. [1]
She was the second wife of Giles Brent[2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume I, pages 519-520 BRENT 17ii
- ↑ 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, pages 305-306 BRENT 17.ii.
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sister of Thomas Whitgreave "came to Virginia with her husband Dr. Jeremiah Harrison and her brother-in-law John Harrison. . . . Dr. Jeremiah Harrison settled on Queen's creek, York county, near his kinsman Richard Harrison, but did not survive long. In 1654 Mrs Frances Harrison widow, patented 1000 acres in Westmoreland County . . ." (p 73)
She became the (second) wife of Col Giles Brent... "it appears that she died and had no issue by either marriage". ... book continues that "there can be little doubt" that her brother-in-law John was father of George (died 1713, Westmoreland) who married Anne Rust.