Date: ABT 1570
Place: South Carlton, Lincolnshire, England
Daughter of Sir John Monson of South Carlton, Sheriff of Lincolnshire (b 1546, d 20.12.1593). m. Jane Dighton (d 10.1624, dau of Robert Dighton of Little Sturton)[4][5]
Some say that being a man of a high spirit, and his lady (who had changed her religion to papist) not so observant of him as she ought to be, disagreeing with him concerning their daughter, Lady Campbell, gave him so great a discontent that he fell sick upon it, during which sickness she never would visit him (as one of two women told me) till he was past recovery, and then presuaded him to go to a house he had at Newark for change of air, where he died in May, 1619, when about 55 years of age.
The Lady Reresby, widow, kept possession of Thryberg Hall for some time, till Sir George, her son, coming from Ickles to make her a visit, and finding her abroad, shut the doors and kept possession till he died, which his mother to return, being then at Derby, and hearing Sir George was sick, sent her gentlewoman, Mrs. Skinner, (who told me the story), under pretence of enquiring after his health, to get him arrested, which was performed by two bailiffs which attended on Mrs. Skinner as servants as Sir George lay sick in bed. This lady lived afterwards at Chesterfield and last at London, where she married again one Sir Simeon Steward, but disowned him afterwards, nor was he able to prove the marriage. Then she last married one Mr. Ballard, who had a competent estate, which he spent whilst her husband, and then died; but she lived till about eighty years of age, and llies buried in the chapel of Somerset House in the Strand. She was a woman of wit, but of a masculine spirit, a too great lover of sack as she grew in years, and unfortunate both to her husband, her son, and her family.[9]
"... Sir Simon Steward of the Isle of Ely (who pretended to be married to the said lady Reresby, relict of Sir Thomas) released all the title, claim. &c., that he or his lady had in the said lands to Sir George, by deed bearing date Sept. 10, 1620, which was so ill resented by the lady (amongst other things) that she denied her marriage with Sir Simeon, which was, it seemed, so privately performed by a priest (if at all) that it could never be proved, as I have said before."[10]
Lady Reasby of Mansfield Woodhouse; later wife of Mr Samuel Ballard of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire presented by the Chrichawardens for not attending church.[12]
'Churchwardens and questmen' present the following: [signed by Thomas Harrison and John Heath:] Mr Samuel Ballard esq. and the Lady [blank] his wife for being usually absent from the parish church;
Churchwardens and sidesmen present the following: Mr Sam[-] Ballard and the Lady Resby his wife for absenting themselves from the church during their being at home, upon recusancy as we take it
Source: S430 Title: The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby of Thrybergh, Bart. M.P. for York &c, 1634 - 1689 Abbreviation: Sir John Reresby Memoirs Author: Sir John Reresby, Editor: James J Cartwight M.A. Cantab Publication: Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1875
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