Judith (Bysse) Molesworth (abt. 1634)

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• Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family ... , Page 334. MOLESWORTH VISCOUNT. (Molesworth). Peer of Ireland. This family was seated in the County of Northampton in the reign of Edward I. William Molesworth of Helpston, Co. Northampton, was father of Robert Molesworth, who m. Judith, eldest daughter and co-heir of John Bysse, Lord Chief Justice of the Exchequer in Ireland, and was father by her of Robert Molesworth, Esq., of Edlington, Co. York, a man of talents and learning, who having been Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Denmark, published an account of that country, much esteemed at the time, and was author of several other valuable pieces chiefly political. [1]

• Pedigree of the Molesworth Family, page 1, Judith, dau. of Lord Bysse, Recorder of Dublin, Lord Chief Baron of The Exchequer of Ireland., married Robert Molesworth, and had Robert Molesworth, 1st V., b.1656, d.1725.
• http://www.famouskin.com ; Ancestry of Olivia De Havilland, Ahnentafel# 161.
• NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United states, 1999, Vol, 16, p. 118, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
• Evans, Richard K, The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 122.