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Margaret (Smythe) Irby (abt. 1612 - 1631)

Margaret Irby formerly Smythe
Born about in London, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Sister of [half], [half], [half], [half], [half] and [half]
Wife of — married 5 Mar 1629 in St Anne Blackfriars, City of London, Englandmap
Died at about age 19 in Boston, Lincolnshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Margaret Smythe was a daughter of Sir Richard Smythe and Margaret Langton.[1][2]

'Margaret Smith' was baptised on 21 Jan 1612/1613 at St Stephen Coleman Street, City of London, daughter of Sir Richard Smith.[3]

Margaret is noted on the memorial inscription to her father at St Mary the Virgin, Ashford, Kent, indicating that she was the daughter of Sir Richard Smythe by his third wife (Margaret Langton).[1]

In the will of her father Sir Richard Smith of Leeds Castle, Kent, the will made on 12 Oct 1627 and proved on 01 Aug 1628, he made a bequest of £3200 to his daughter Margaret indicating that she was unmarried when the will was made.[4]

Margaret Smythe, daughter of Sir Richard Smythe of Leeds Castle, Kent, married Sir Anthony Irby of Whaplode, Lincolnshire, and Westminster on 05 Mar 1628/1629 at St Anne Blackfriars, City of London.[5][6]

Margaret was buried on 19 Jul 1631 at Boston, Lincolnshire.[7]

There was no surviving issue of the marriage.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Scott, J R. Memorials of the family of Scott, of Scot's Hall in the County of Kent. 1876, p 225 Archive.org.
  2. Stocker, J J. Pedigrees of Smythes of Ostenhangar; Kent; of Smythes of Bidborough and Sutton-at-Hone; and of the Smythes of Viscount Strangford, of Dromore, Ireland. Archæologia Cantiana, being Transactions of the Kent Archæological Society. Vol. XX, 1893, pp 76-81 pdf.
  3. St Stephen Coleman Street, City of London. Register. Accessed via Ancestry.
  4. Will of Sir Richard Smith of Leeds Castle, Kent. 01 August 1628. PROB 11/154/125. The National Archives, Kew.
  5. Londonium Redivivum Vol II. J P Malcolm. London, 1803, p 371 HathiTrust.
  6. Irby, Sir Anthony (1605-1682), of Whaplode, Lincs. and Westminster. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
  7. Thompson, P. The History and Antiquities of Boston. London: Longman and Co. 1856, pp 393–396 HathiTrust.




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