John Fenwick (abt. 1645 - 1697)

Ancestors

Died 27 Jan 1697 at about age 52 in Tower-Hill, London, England.

Biography

John was born about 1645. He is the son of William Fenwick and Jane Stapleton. John was mentioned in great detail in A History of Northumberland: The topography and local antiquities, arranged ... By John Hodgson, John Hodgson-Hinde^[1]

John and his wife Mary Howard, eldest daughter of Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle had three sons and a daughter. Jane the eldest died very young, Charles at the age of 15 died of small pox, William and Howard were 6 and a year and a half when they died.

John was beheaded on tower-hill in 1697 for conspiring against William III in support of James II.

The children and John are all buried at St Martin in the field. Jane was buried in St Nicholas in Newcastle.

Sources

1. ↑ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k55nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA255&dq=fenwick+of+wallington

• Sir John Fenwick (1645-1697) on Find A Grave: Memorial #143092745 retrieved 29 January 2022
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Fenwick,_3rd_Baronet
• Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 29 January 2022), September 1696 (o16960909-1).

• FENWICK, Sir John, 3rd Bt. (c.1644-97), of Wallington, Northumb. and Westminster. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983

• The proceedings against Sir John Fenwick, Bar. upon a bill of attainder for high treason : together with a copy of a letter sent by Sir John Fenwick to his lady, upon his being taken in Kent : as also of the paper delivered by him to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, at the place of his execution (1702)