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Dorothy (Waugh) Lotherington (1636 - 1666)

Dorothy Lotherington formerly Waugh
Born in Westmorland, Englandmap
Daughter of and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Wife of — married about 1657 [location unknown]
Mother of , and
Died at about age 30 in Whitby, Yorkshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Dorothy was a Friend (Quaker)

Dorothy was probably born in about 1636 in Hutton, Westmorland.[1]

Dorothy and her sister Jane worked as servants in the household of John Camm of Camsgill near Kendal, Westmorland.[2]

In the early 1650s, Dorothy and Jane, along with John Camm, became Quakers.[1] They were among the set of early Quaker missionaries known as the Valiant Sixty.[3] Dorothy travelled extensively in England, suffering several periods of imprisonment.[1] Her preaching was so powerful that in 1655 the mayor of Carlisle imprisoned her, fearing that she might "spoile a whole Cittie", and put a scold's bridle on her head[1] - an iron framework with a bit which was placed in the mouth to prevent movement of the tongue.

In 1656 Dorothy travelled to Massachusetts, only to be imprisoned and deported. She returned the next year, being imprisoned again and whipped.[1]

On 25 January (Quaker 11th month) 1660/1 (1661 in modern reckoning) Dorothy married William Lotherington at Whitby, Yorkshire.[4] There is no further record of major Quaker activity. She and her husband probably settled in Whitby, where their children were born. They had two sons and a daughter:

Dorothy was buried on 9 December (Quaker 10th month) 1666.[17] William Lotherington probably died in Whitby on 1 February (Quaker 12th month) 1673/4 (1674 in modern reckoning).[18][19]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Catie Gill. 'Waugh [married name Lotherington], Dorothy (c. 1636–1666?)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, print and online 2004
  2. ↑ Ernest E Taylor. The Valiant Sixty, 3rd edition, Sessions of York, 1988, p. 22
  3. ↑ Ernest E Taylor, The Valiant Sixty, p. 42
  4. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Pickering, RG6/1351, FindMyPast and accompanying image: note that the transcipt on FindMySearch gives the year as 1660 - it was 1660/1
  5. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Malton: Whitby, RG6/1094, FindMyPast and accompanying image: note that the transcript on FindMyPast misinterprets the Quaker date as 11 March 1661
  6. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW6M-G95 : 11 December 2014), William Lotherington in entry for Joseph Lotherington, 11 Mar 1661, Birth; citing p. 30, Whitby, Yorkshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London: note that the Familysearch transcript misinterprets the Quaker date as 11 March 1661
  7. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Malton: Whitby, RG6/1094, FindMyPast and accompanying image: note that in the transcript the year is given as 1665 - it was 1665/6
  8. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWL7-12N : 11 December 2014), William Lotherington in entry for Benjamin Lotherington, 03 Jan 1665, Birth; citing p. 38, Whitby, Yorkshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London: note that the year is given as 1665 - it was 1665/6
  9. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWL7-12F : 11 December 2014), Benjamin Lotherington, 03 Jan 1665, Birth; citing p. 38, Whitby, Yorkshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London: note that the year is given as 1665 - it was 1665/6
  10. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Malton: Whitby, RG6/1094, FindMyPast and accompanying image
  11. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Pickering, RG6/1351, FindMyPast and accompanying image
  12. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWZS-KNB : 11 December 2014), Benjamin Lotherington, 18 May 1667, Burial; citing p. 43, Whitby, Yorkshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London
  13. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Malton: Whitby, RG6/1094, FindMyPast and accompanying image
  14. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQQR-RXW : 11 December 2014), William Lotherington in entry for Hannah Lotherington, 26 Jun 1664, Birth; citing p. 36, Whitby, Yorkshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London
  15. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Malton: Whitby, RG6/1094, FindMyPast and accompanying image
  16. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Pickering, RG6/1351, FindMyPast and accompanying image
  17. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Malton: Whitby, RG6/1094, FindMyPast and accompanying image (scroll upwards to see her entry)
  18. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841, YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Malton: Whitby, RG6/1094, FindMyPast and accompanying image: note that the transcript on FindMyPast misinterprets the year as 1673
  19. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQY6-Y2G : 11 December 2014), William Lotherington, 01 Feb 1673, Burial; citing p. 55, Whitby, Yorkshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London: note that the transcript on Familysearch misinterprets Quaker 12th month 1673 as December 1673
  • Gill, Catie. 'Waugh [married name Lotherington], Dorothy (c. 1636–1666?)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, print and online 2004, available online by subscription and via some libraries




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