Anne (Waterton) Gargrave (abt. 1555 - 1637)

Born about 1555 in Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Anne Waterton was the daughter of Thomas Waterton and his wife, Beatrice Restwold. ^[1][2] Her father was moderately well-off, and around the time of Anne's birth was Member of Parliament for Thirsk. Thomas Waterton seems to have weathered the storms of the age by keeping his religious opinions to himself though he was classed as being in favour of the Elizabethan religious settlement of 1558/1559. ^[3]

Around the year 1570 when Anne must have still been quite young she was married to widower Cotton Gargrave ^[4][5][6] a neighbour and MP for Boroughbridge who was already the father of three sons. Her husband was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1583 and knighted in 1585.^{[7] [8]} Anne bore him four more sons and five daughters before his death on 16 June 1588. ^[1]

Anne did not marry again although she was little more than thirty years old. As a widow she had, for the first time in her life, control over her own affairs. However her husband had left his affairs in a muddle and she was embroiled for many years in the courts. Her relationship with her stepson, Thomas, cannot have been an easy one--------towards the end of his life her husband had suspected that Thomas was trying to poison him. ^[1] Young Thomas' execution at York in 1595, for poisoning a servant^{[9] [10]} ruined the reputation of the family and Anne had to watch while her own son, Richard, slid into a dissipated, extravagant lifestyle. ^[9]

Anne died in 1637. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} History of Parliament online: GARGRAVE, Cotton (c.1540-88), of Nostell Priory and Kinsley, Yorks
2. ↑ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition Douglas Richardson Page 453
3. ↑ History of Parliament online: WATERTON, Thomas (by 1526-75), of Walton and Sandal, Yorks
4. ↑ The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, James Alexander Manning, 1851
5. ↑ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition Douglas Richardson Page 453
6. ↑ Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. 1 (London,1868): page 226. The Pedigree of the Family of Gargrave, by The Editors
7. ↑ Knights of England
8. ↑ Wikipedia: Cotton Gargrave
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} History of Parliament online: GARGRAVE, Richard (1575-1658), of Kinsley and Nostell, Yorks
10. ↑ The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American [1]

See also:

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013): vol. 3 p. 76; vol. 5 p. 325.

Acknowledgments

Magna Carta Project

Anne (Waterton) Gargrave is a descendant of Magna Carta surety baron Saher de Quincy and ancestor of Gateway Ancestor John Fenwick (see his profile for the trail identified by the Magna Carta Project). As of 2 January 2021, John Fenwick was not in a badged trail, and none of the trails identified for him are currently being developed.

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