Dorothy Widdrington (1520 - 1583)

Born 1520 in Widdrington, Northumberland, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Constable — married after 1553 in Wallington, Northumberland

Descendants

Died 23 Sep 1583 at about age 63 in England

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Biography

Dorothy Widdrington was the daughter of:

• Sir John Widdrington of Widdrington.[1]
• Agnes, dau. of James Metcalfe of Nappa, Wensleydale, Yorkshire.[2]

Marriage

She married twice.[3]

Fenwick

She married her first husband Roger Fenwick of Wallington (d. bef. 1553), sometime before 1550. [4] He was young when he died before 1553. In that year, she and her second husband Robert Constable, were pardoned for treason. Constable was also living in Wallington at that time. He went on to spy for the crown in 1569.[5]

children

• William Fenwick (b. abt. 1550).

m.1 (1570) Grace, dau. of Sir John Forster of Adderstone, Northumberland.[6]

m.2 Margaret, dau. of William Selby.[7]

Constable

m.2 (abt. or af. 1553) Robert Constable of Flamborough. Issue: 2 sons.[8]

children

• Robert (d. 30 Sep 1600).[9]

m. Anne, d. & h. of John Hussey, esq. of North Duffield

• (disputed) William.[10]

Sources

• "Constable of Everingham, Yorkshire (1741)." The English Baronetage, 2, pp. 326-328. London: Thomas Wotton. Google Books.[11]
• Flower, F. (1881). The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564, pp. 66. Charles Best Norcliffe, Ed. London: Harleian Society. Archive.org.[12]
• Hodgson, J. (1827). "Pedigrees of Strother and Fenwick of Wallington," in a History of Northumberland: Part II, 1. E. Walker. Google Books.
• Hodgson, J. & Hodgson-Hinde, J. (1832). A History of Northumberland Part, 2, pp. 236. Google Books.[13]
• Knowles, W.H. (1898). "The camera of Adam Jesmond, popularly called King John's Palace." Archaeologia Aeliana, 19, pp. 34. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Google Books.[14]
• Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, (1886). "Pedigree of Fenwick and Scurfield of Eachwick." Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, (Vol. 11, pp. 226). Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Google Books.
• Welford, R. (1895). "Sir John Fenwick." Men of Mark 'Twixt Tyne and Tweed. Google Books.