Margaret Frances (Rooke) Sheldon (1721 - 1776)

Born 21 Apr 1721 in Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Wife of William Sheldon — married 1739 in Gloucestershire, England

Descendants

Died 4 Nov 1776 at age 55 in Beoley, Worcestershire, England

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Margaret Rooke was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Margaret Frances Disney Rooke (b.1720-d.1766) was the daughter of Major James Rooke and Lady Mary Tudor. She married William Sheldon, son of Edward Sheldon and Elizabeth Shelley.

Note: ThePeerage.com provides no evidence for her being the daughter of Mary Tudor. It is far more likely that she was the three year old Margaret Frances Rooke who was the plaintiff in an action recorded in the Chancery Pleadings.^[1] She was described as "only daughter of Margaret Tasburgh, deceased, the only daughter of Francis Tasburgh, esq deceased, late of Flixton, by Disney Rooke, esq or by Hayman Rooke". Another record (C 11/1000/10) shows that Disney Rooke was bringing the case on Margaret's behalf. One of the defendants was James Rooke, presumably the husband of Mary Tudor. Mary Tudor had four children by her first husband in the period 1689 to 1697, it would be very unlikely for her to have had another child over twenty years later. There have been suggestions that Margaret Tasburgh was "companion, and elsewhere styled niece" to Mary Tudor, and that James was the father. The Disney Rooke and Hayman Rooke may actually be the mother and father of James, and the record description is not quite correct. Major-General Heyman Rooke (brother of George) died in January 1725, and in the second record Disney was a widow. Unfortunately, the Chancery records have not yet been digitised, and no transcription has been found, so the basis of the action is unknown.

Children of Margaret Frances Disney Rooke and William Sheldon

1. Colonel Ralph Sheldon b. 14 Sep 1741, d. 22 Nov 1822
2. Charles Henry Sheldon b. 1748

Sources

1. ↑ National Archives C 11/999/34

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p58054.htm#i580536

• www.ancestry.com

• https://catalogue.gloucestershire.gov.uk/records/GDR/17/3/45/241

Marriage licence allegation for William Sheldon, of Weston in the County of Warwick, batchelor, aged 25, and Margaret Frances Rook of Clanny, spinster, aged 18, 19 May 1739, 1739