Dorothy Sacheverell (abt. 1571)

Born about 1571 in Stanton by Bridge, Derbyshire, England

Ancestors

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Biography

Her date of birth is a rough estimate based on birth order.

She is named on her father's mural monument above a tomb in Barton church:^[1][2]

Here lieth buried Raefe Sacheverell esqr sone & heire of William, second sone of Henry Sacheverell knight & Eme, daughter of William Dethick esqr. His wyfe had issue William, Anthony, John, John, Thomas, Edmund, & Raefe, and Henry, Mary, Lucy, Jane, Millicent, Isabell, Dorothie, & Ellen. Raefe died the first of September 1605 and Eme died the laste of Aprill 1606.

Dorothy inherited £300 in her father's will.

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Thoroton, 'Parishes: Barton', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 1, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham, 1790), pp 98-101. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thoroton-notts/vol1/pp96-102
2. ↑ 'Barton-in-Fabis St George', at Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project, http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/barton-in-fabis/hmonumnt.php

• George William Marshall (ed), The visitations of the county of Nottingham in the years 1569 and 1614, with many other descents of the same county, Harleian Society 1871 Vol IV, pp 164-165