Simon Scrope (1666 - 1723)

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Biography

Simon was born in 1666. He passed away in 1723.

Sources

• Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire WITH ADDITIONS. Edited by J. W. Clay, F.S.A., Volume II. Exeter, 1907, page 7

Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire is a collection of information about important Yorkshire families originally produced Sir William Dugdale in 1665-1666. It was printed by the Surtees Society in 1859. In 1894-1907, J.W. Clay produced a revised version with information about the families continued up to his own time. The section about the Scrope or Scroope family is found at the beginning of volume 2, and can be found on the internet at: https://archive.org/stream/dugdalesvisitati2dugd#page/8/mode/2up (scan of the original) https://archive.org/stream/dugdalesvisitati2dugd/dugdalesvisitati2dugd_djvu.txt (simple text with many mistakes resulting from mechanical conversion of the scan)

E. SIMON SCROPE, ESQ., of Danby, a nonjuror 1715, b. 14 Nov. 1666, d. 28 Feb. 1723, mar. first Mary, dau. of Robert Constable, Visct. Dunbar, d. s.p., bur. at Spennithorne 15 Feb. 1694, mar. secondly Frances, dau. of Ralph Sheldon, Esq., of Beoly, co. Worc, bur. at Spennithorne 12 Sept. 1733. They had issue —

1. Edward, eldest son, d. 1720, aet. 13.

2. Simon (F).

3. Henry Joseph, a merchant at Leghorn, d. 6 Feb. 1760, aet. 48, at Dunkirk, Admon. P.C.C. 3 Feb. 1763, mar. Elizabeth, dau. of G. Jackson, Esq., Consul at Genoa. They had issue — Frances, only dau. and heir, b. at Leghorn 29 June 1748, living at Richmond 1816.

4. James, d. 10 Jan. 1723, aet. 13.

Mary Dorothy, mar. Thomas Strickland, Esq., of Sizergh, co. Westm., d. 9 Mar. 1737 in his thirty- fifth year, bur. in Kendal Church, M.I.

Frances, a Benedictine nun at Dunkirk.

Catherine, mar. Roger Strickland, Esq., of Richmond, co. York.