Barbara (Belasyse) Slingsby (1609 - 1641)

Born 11 Dec 1609 in Coxwold, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Daughter of Thomas Belasyse and Barbara (Cholmley) Belasyse

Wife of Henry Slingsby MP — married 1631 (to 31 Dec 1641) in St Mary Abbots, Kensington, London, England

Descendants

Died 31 Dec 1641 at age 32 in London, England

Biography

Parents and Siblings

Barbara Belasyse is the daughter of Thomas Belasyse and Barbara Cholmley.^[1]

Father: Thomas Bellasyse, Viscount Fauconberg[1]

Brother: John, Lord Bellasyse[2]

Marriage

Barbara's husband was Henry Slingsby (1601 - 1658),[3] Baronet Scriven, a Royalist politician and soldier who fought at the Battle of Naseby and was beheaded in 1658 for his part in an attempt to restore the monarchy. The marriage in 1631 produced four children including Barbara Slingsby.[4]

Death

Buried St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, Middlesex[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match between this mtDNA test for Michael Ibsen and this mtDNA test of his direct maternal line 14th cousin twice removed Wendy Duldig and this mtDNA test of his direct maternal line 15th great uncle King Richard III.

Slingsby, H. (1806). Original Memoirs written during the civil war: Being the life of Sir Henry Slingsby and Memoirs of Capt. John Hodgson with notes. John Hodgson, Ed. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co. Google Books

• History of Parliament online: SLINGSBY, Henry (1602-1658), of Redhouse, Moor Monkton, Yorks