Winifred (Pickering) Crackenthorpe

Born [date unknown] in England

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Died before 24 Aug 1589 in Newbiggin, Westmorland, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Winifred Pickering was the daughter of Christopher Pickering of Cleasby, Yorkshire and his first wife.^{[1] [2]}

She married Henry Crackenthorpe of Newbiggin, Westmorland, sometime after 15 December 1575 as his fourth wife and bore him nine children.^[3]

She was buried 24 August 1589, probably at Newbiggin. Because she predeceased her brother Sir Christopher Pickering, her son Christopher Crackenthorpe was one of Pickering's heirs, along with Mary Pickering Dalston, Winifred's sister.^[3]

Research Notes

Winifred has previously been identified as the daughter of William Pickering and Winifred Threlkeld. Although William Pickering did have a daughter named Winifred, according to a 1563/4 Visitation,^[4] she would probably have been born too early to have married in 1575. The fact that Winifred, her sister Mary, and brother Christopher, and were all mentioned in the Will of Christopher Pickering about 1567 strongly indicate that she was the granddaughter of William Pickering.

Sources

1. ↑ Raine, James, Jr., ed., Wills and Inventories from the Registry of the Archdeaconry of Richmond... (Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. 26, 1853) page 34
2. ↑ Great Britain. Historical Manuscripts Commission, Manuscripts of S. H. Le Fleming, Esq., of Rydal Hall (Twelfth Report, Appendix, Part VII, 1890), p. 10: October 10, 1567 Queen and her Council to James Edward clerk and six others. Order to appear before Richard Dudley and other commissioners appted to try the truth of the matters in variance between Winifred Pickering and Mary Pickering, plaintiffs, and Margaret Pickering, widow, defendant. November 28, 1567 Inventory of goods belonging to Christopher Pickering of Cleasby. Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Moor, C., "Crackenthorp of Newbiggin," Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, n.s., Vol. 33 (1933), pp. 43-97: cites indenture of 15 Dec 1575 between Henry Crakenthorp and Christopher Pickering "in view of a marriage between himself and Winifred, sister of the said Christopher Pickering," https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1933/vol33/tcwaas_002_1933_vol33_0009.pdf
4. ↑ Flowers, William, Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 (1881) p. 250