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     Margaret Wentworth was born say 1633. She was the daughter of Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford and Elizabeth Rodes.

     Thomas Wentworth was born in 1480. He was the son of William Wentworth and Isabell FitzWilliam.
Thomas Wentworth married Beatrice Woodroffe. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Woodroffe, kt.
     Thomas died on 5 December 1548.
     His will was proved on 27 November 1551.

     Thomas Wentworth was born in 1414. He was the son of William Wentworth.
Thomas Wentworth married Jane Redman, daughter of Richard Redman and Elizabeth de Aldeburgh. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Redman of Harwood, Kt.
     Thomas died in 1463 in North Elmsall, Kirby, Yorkshire.

     Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford was born on 13 April 1593 in Chancery Lane, London. He was the son of Sir William Wentworth (Baronet) and Ann Atkins or Atkinson.
Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford married Margaret Clifford on 22 October 1611.
Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford married secondly Arabella Holles on 24 February 1625.
     Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford married thirdly Elizabeth Rodes in October 1632. She was the daughter of Sir Godfrey and grand daughter of Francis Rodes.
     Thomas died being beheaded on 12 May 1641 in Tower Hill, London, aged 48.
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (I593-1641), English statesman, son of Sir William Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, a member of an ancient family long established there, and of Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Atkins of Stowell, Gloucestershire, was born on the 13th of April 1593, in London.
He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge, was admitted a student of the Inner Temple in 1607, and in 1611 was knighted and married Margaret, daughter of Francis Clifford, 4th earl of Cumberland.
In 1614 he represented Yorkshire in the Addled Parliament, but, so far as is now known, it was not till the parliament of 1621, in which he sat for the same constituency, that he took part in the debates. His position towards the popular party was peculiar. He did not sympathize with their zeal for war with Spain, but James’s denial of the rights and privileges of parliament seems to have caused him to join in the vindication of the claims of the House of which he was a member, and he was a warm supporter of the protestation which drew’ down a sentence of dissolution upon the third parliament of James.
In 1622 Wentworth’s wife died, and in February 1625 he married Arabella Holles, daughter of the earl of Clare.
He was returned for Pontefract to the parliament of 1624, but appears to have taken no part in the proceedings. He had no sympathy with the popular outcry against Spain nor for wars undertaken for religious considerations to the neglect of the practical interests of th’e country. He desired also to avoid foreign complications and “do first the business of the commonwealth'. To the advances of Buckingham he replied coldly that he was ready to serve him as an honest man and a gentleman. In the first parliament of Charles I, June 1625, he again represented Yorkshire, and at once marked his hostility to the proposed war with Spain by supporting a motion for an adjournment before the house proceeded to business. He took part in the opposition to the demand made under the influence of Buckingham for war subsidies, and was consequently, after the dissolution in November, made sheriff of Yorkshire, in order to exclude him from the parliament which met in 1626. Yet he had never taken up an attitude of antagonism to the king. His position was very different from that of the regular opposition. He was anxious to serve the Crown, but he disapproved of the king’s policy. In January 1626 he had asked for the presidency of the council of the North, and had visited and been favourably received by Buckingham. But after the dissolution of the parliament he was dismissed from the justiceship of the peace and the office of custos rotulorum of Yorkshire, to which he had been appointed in 1615, as the result probably of his resolution not to support the court in its design to force the country to contribute money without a parliamentary grant. At all events he refused in 1627 to contribute to the forced loan, and was imprisoned in consequence.
Wentworth’s position in the parliament of 1628 was a striking one. He joined the popular leaders in resistance to arbitrary taxation and imprisonment, but he tried to obtain his end with the least possible infringement of the prerogative of the Crown, to which he looked as a reserve force in times of crisis. With the approbation of the House he led the movement for a bill which would have secured the liberties of the subject as completely as the Petition of Right afterwards did, but in a manner less offensive to the king. The proposal was wrecked between the uncompromising demands of the parliamentary party who would give nothing to the prerogative and Charles’s refusal to make the necessary concessions, and the leadership was thus snatched from Wentworth’s hands by Eliot and Coke. Later in the session he fell into conflict with Eliot, as, though he supported the Petition of Right in substance, he was anxious to come to a compromise with the Lords, so as to leave room to the king to act unchecked in special emergencies.
On the 22nd of July 1628, not long after the prorogation, Wentworth was created Baron Wentworth, and received a promise of the presidentship of the Council of the North at the next vacancy. This implied no change of principle whatever. He was now at variance with the parliamentary party on two great subjects of policy, disapproving both of the intention of parliament to seize the powers of the executive and also its inclination. towards puritanism. When once the breach was made it naturally grew wider, partly from the engrossing energy which each party put into its work, and partly from the personal animosities which of necessity arose. Such and no other was the nature of Wentworth’s so-called “apostacy".
As yet Wentworth took no part in the general government of the country. In December he became Viscount Wentworth and president of the Council of the North. In the speech delivered at York on his taking office ise announced his intention, almost in the words of Bacon, of doing his utmost to bind up the prerogative of the Crown and the liberties of the subject in indistinguishable union. “Whoever,” he said, “ravels forth into questions the right of a king and of a people shall never be able to wrap them, up again into the comeliness and order he found them". His government here was characterized by the same feature which afterwards marked his administration in Ireland and which it was the gravest charge in his impeachment that he intended to introduce into the whole English administration, namely the attempt to centralize all power with the executive at the expense of the individual in defiance of those constitutional liberties which ran counter to and impeded this policy.
The session of 1629 ended in a breach between the King and the parliament which made the task of a moderator hopeless. Wentworth had to choose between helping a Puritan House of Common’s to dominate the king and helping the king to dominate a Puritan House of Commons. He instinctively chose the latter course, and he threw himself into the work of repression. with characteristic energy, as if the establishment of the royal power was the one thing needful. Yet even when he was most resolute in crushing resistance he held that he and not his antagonists were maintaining the old constitution, which they had attempted to alter by claiming supremacy for parliament.
In November 1629 Wentworth became a privy councillor. In October 1631 he lost his second wife, and in October 1632 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Godfrey Rhodes. In January 1632 he had been named lord-deputy of Ireland, and arrived in Dublin in July 1633.
Here he had to deal with a people who had not arrived at national cohesion, and amongst whom English colonists had been from time to time introduced, some of them, like the early Norman settlers, being Roman Catholics, whilst the later importations stood aloof and preserved their Protestantism. In his government here he showed the most remarkable abilities as a ruler. The lord deputy of Ireland, wrote Sir Thomas Roe to the queen of Bohemia, “doth great wonders and governs like a king, and bath taught that kingdom to show us an example of envy, by having parliaments and knowing wisely how to use them.” He reformed the administration, getting rid summarily of the inefficient English officials. He succeeded in. so manipulating tile parliaments that he obtained the necessary grants, and secured their co-operation in various useful legislative enactments. He set on foot a new victualling trade with Spain, established or promoted the linen manufacture, and encouraged the development of the resources of the country in many directions. The customs rose from a little over £25,000 in 1633—1634 to £57,000 in 1637—1638. He raised an army. He swept the pirates from the seas. He reformed and instilled life into the Church and rescued church property. His strong and even administration broke down the tyranny of the great men over the poor. Such was the government of “Thorough,” as Strafford expresses it. Yet these good measures were all carried out by arbitrary methods which diminished their usefulness and their stability. Their aim moreover was not the prosperity of the Irish community but the benefit to the English exchequer, and Strafford suppressed the trade in cloth “lest it should be a means to prejudice that staple commodity of England.” Extraordinary acts of despotism took place, as in the case of Esmond, Lord Chancellor Loftus and Lord Mountnorris, the last of whom Strafford caused to be sentenced to death
Strafford’s Report of 1636. Cat. of Stale Papers; Irish, 7633— 1647, p. 134.

Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of, 1593–1641, English statesman. Regularly elected to Parliament from 1614 on, he became one of the critics of George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham, and of the war with Spain. Charles I made him sheriff of Yorkshire in order to exclude him from the Parliament of 1626, but Wentworth continued his opposition and was imprisoned (1627) for refusing to pay the forced loan. In the Parliament of 1628 he advocated a moderate version of the Petition of Right, but when Sir John Eliot and Sir Edward Coke succeeded in carrying their more severe form of the petition, he lost influence. At this point Charles sought his adherence by creating him baron and viscount and president of the council of the north (1628), and Wentworth realigned himself as a firm supporter of royal prerogative. With William Laud, Wentworth evolved the policy known as “Thorough” to achieve an absolutist but just and efficient regime. As lord deputy of Ireland (1632–40) he systematically applied this policy. He cleared the sea of pirates, bolstered trade and industry (always with an eye to England's interest), began a reorganization of the church in Ireland, and enforced reforms in financial administration that doubled the state's revenue. However, his methods were ruthlessly despotic, and he aroused even more fear and hatred. After Charles I's humiliation by the Scots in the first Bishops' War, Wentworth was recalled (1639) to England to become the king's chief adviser. Created earl of Strafford in 1640, he obtained money from the Irish Parliament to raise Irish troops to fight the Scots, but he was unable to get a similar grant of supplies from the Short Parliament (summoned on his advice) in England. An English army of sorts was mustered and placed under Strafford's command, but it was easily defeated by the Scots in a second war. When the Long Parliament assembled (1640), it suspected that Strafford had intended to use Irish troops against the king's English opponents (although in fact the Irish army had never materialized). Impeachment proceedings were begun, but Strafford defended himself so ably that the opposition changed its tactics and introduced a legislative enactment of guilt, a bill of attainder, against him. The bill was finally passed in the panic following the discovery of the so-called army plot, by which the king had hoped to rescue Strafford and dissolve the Parliament. After anguished hesitation, Charles signed the bill, and Strafford was beheaded.
See biography by C. V. Wedgwood (1961); H. F. Kearney, Strafford in Ireland (1989).
STRAFFORD, EARLS OF. The first earl of Strafford was Charles I. ‘s friend and adviser, Thomas Wentworth (see below), When he was attainted and executed in May 1641 his honours were forfeited, but later in the year his only son, William (1626-1695), was created earl of Strafford, his father’s attainder being reversed by act of parliament in 1662. William died without issue on the 16th of October 1695, when all his titles except the barony of Raby, became extinct. His estates passed to a kinsman, Thomas Watson, afterwards Watson-Wentworth (d. 1723), a son of Anne (1629—1695), daughter of the 1st earl, and her husband Edward Watson, 2nd Baron. Rockingham.

     Thomas Wentworth Esq was born circa 1529 in Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire. He was the son of William Wentworth and Catherine Beeston.
He attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 1548. He was a JP in the West Riding.
Thomas Wentworth Esq married Margaret Gascoigne, daughter of William Gascoigne and Beatrix Tempest, circa 1557. He acquired Gawthorpe and a claim to two baronetcies via his wife.
She may have married secondly Sir James Harrington.
Archbishop Sandys' wrote "A very senseless blockhead, ever wringing and wronging his poor neighbours. Being a graineman of himself, he bought in the beginning of the last year in every Market so much as he could, and heaped it up in his souses to sell again at the dearest. He dependeth wholly upon him that brought him in, and will serve all tournes. If you look at the Subsidy book, your Lordship shall find him little there" In his covering letter the archbishop notes that "none should be in the Commission but such as are £20 in subsidy".
     Thomas Wentworth Esq and Margaret Gascoigne were mentioned in a deed dated _Hilary term_ ___ 1568/69. 1. Thomas Gargrave, kt, Peter Fretchwell, esq and John Jackson, gent - 2. Francis Gascoigne, esq., and Ann his wife and Thomas Went worthe de Wentworthe, esq., and Margaret his wife; re: Manor of Thorpearche, and 40 messuages, 3 watermills, and a fulling mill with lands in Thorpearche, Halle Parke, Halle Feildes, and Walton, and free fishing in the Wharff. Copied From: 'Yorkshire Fines: 1569', Feet of Fines of the Tudor period (Yorks): part 1: 1486-1571 (1887), pp. 364-368. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49644 Date accessed: 26 July 2009.
Exchequer records at the National Archives show: John Layke v. Thos. Wentworth and Margaret his wife, sole daughter and heir of Wm Gascoigne, deceased.: Mills of H.M., called Harwoode, Gawthorppe, the manor of Gawthorpe. Customs of tenants of same. Manor held of the honor of Pomfrett.: York Covering dates 22 Eliz 1579.
James Ryther, in common with other landowners of the day, was seeking to turn to his own advantage the legislation which favoured the enclosure of waste land. Litigation records show that in the course of 1579-1580 Ryther bought a case relating to common rights against one Robert Hopwood and others before the Star Chamber. Only Ryther's Bill of complaint survives, but Hopwood's name occurs again the next case and the two may be part of a single episode. The second case reputed in August 1580, sparked off by Ryther's enclosing "one parcel of ground lately called the Long Wood and now called the Spring'. In that month Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, husband of Margaret Gascoigne, heiress to the manor of Gawthorpe which adjoined Harewood, supported by Robert Hopwood and 25 others assembled "in riotous manner" and pulled or cut down Ryther's enclosing hedge and turned their cattle into the place. Ryther brought proceedings, which lasted from June 1581 to September 1582, but the results are unclear.
Thomas Wentworth, armiger, won a defamation case against James Ryther, armiger, between Jan & August 1582.
     Thomas was High Sheriff in Yorkshire in 1582/83.
     Thomas died on 14 February 1586/87 in Wentworth, Yorkshire. He was buried in Wentworth.

     Thomas Wentworth Lord Raby, 3rd/1st Earl of Strafford was christened on 17 September 1672 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was the second but first surviving son of Sir William Wentworth of Northgate Head, Wakefield. His mother was Isabella Apsley, who died 1733. He claimed to have been born at Stanley Hall, Wakefield. He was the son of Sir William Wentworth and Isabella Apsley.
He purchased the estate of Sir Gervase Cutler at Stainborough in 1708 and built Wentworth Castle.
The barony of Raby passed to the 2nd earl’s cousin, Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), son and heir of Sir William Wentworth of Northgate Head, Wakefield. In early life he saw much service as a soldier in the Low Countries, and was occasionally employed on diplomatic errands. From 1711 to 1714 he was British ambassador at the Hague, and in 1711 he was created earl of Strafford. The earl was one of the British representatives at the congress of IJtrecht, and in 1715 he was impeached for his share in concluding this treaty, but the charges against him were not pressed to a conclusion. He died on the 15th of November 1739. The earldom became extinct when Frederick Thomas, the 5th earl, died in August 1799. William, the 4th earl (1722—1791), had a sister Anne, who married William Connolly; and one of their daughters, Anne, married George Byng (d. 1789) of Wrotham Park, Middlesex. Their son, Sir John Byng (1772—1860), a distinguished soldier, was created earl of Strafford and Viscount Enfield in 1847. Having entered the army in 1793, Byng served in Flanders and commanded a brigade during the Peninsular War. He was present at Waterloo and became a field marshal in 1855. The earldom of Strafford is still held by his descendants..
     Thomas resided at Wentworth Castle, Stainborough, Yorkshire. It was previously known as Stainborough Hall. Thomas He was created Earl of Strafford in 1711.
Thomas Wentworth Lord Raby, 3rd/1st Earl of Strafford married Anne Johnson on 6 September 1711?.
     Thomas died on 15 November 1739 in Stainborough, Yorkshire, aged 67. He was buried on 2 December 1739 in Toddington, Bedfordshire.

      John Ravilious provided a detailed account of this family on GenMedieval mailing list. William Wentworth was born say 1490 in Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire. He was the son of Thomas Wentworth and Beatrice Woodroffe.
William Wentworth married Catherine Beeston say 1528. She was the daughter of Ralph Beeston of Beeston.
     William died on 4 July 1549.

     William Wentworth was the son of Thomas Wentworth and Jane Redman.
William Wentworth married Isabell FitzWilliam. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam of Aldwarke.
     William died on 8 January 1508.

     William Wentworth was born in 1396. See the Visitation of Yorkshire for his ancestry.

     Sir William Wentworth was the son of Sir William Wentworth (Baronet) and Ann Atkins or Atkinson.
     William resided at Ashby Puerorum, Lincolnshire.
Sir William Wentworth married Unknown Savile.
     William died on 2 July 1644 in the battle of Marston Moor.

     Sir William Wentworth was born before 1644. He was the son of Sir William Wentworth.
Sir William Wentworth married Isabella Apsley circa 9 February 1666 in Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, treasurer to the household of James, Duke of York.
     William resided at Northgate Head, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
     William died in 1692.

      In"Sir William Wentworth's volume" he described his father's neighbours the Rythers. He owned Gawthorpe Hall [via his mother]. He may have attended St John's College, Cambridge in 1576, possibly also attending Gray's Inn from 1579. In the late 1590s he endured lengthy litigation over his estates, emerging only partially successful; but he had recovered his position by 1601 and bought a baronetcy in June 1611. He and his wife were strict Protestants, renowned for their devotion and learning, and he was remembered by his son as both ambitious and methodical. Sir William Wentworth (Baronet) was christened on 3 July 1562 in Wentworth, Yorkshire. It may have been the 30th.. He was the son of Thomas Wentworth Esq and Margaret Gascoigne.
Sir William Wentworth (Baronet) married Ann Atkins or Atkinson.
In 1599/0 Sir William Wentworth (Baronet) purchased property in Harewood in 1599/0. Hilary Term:A fine between Robt Chamberlain esq., John Gregory esq. & Henry Atkinson esq. and deforciants Henry Earl of Kent, John Piggott, esq., John Leighfield, Sac Theo, bach., Robert Rither esq., Edith Rither, Mary Rither, Helena Rither, Robert Stapleton kt., Wm Middleton, esq., Henry Bellasses esq., Robert Oglethorpe gent., William Oglethorpe his son & heir apparent, & Ralph Conyston. Re The castle & manor of Harewood & 30 messuages and 30 cottages with lands and the frankpledge in Harwood, Bondgate, Newhall, Stocton, Lofthouse, Hetherick, Gawthorpe als. Gawckthorpe, Stubhouse, Allwoodley, Wike, Brandon, Eastkeswick, Weardley, Dunkeswick, Helthwaite Hill, Weton, Hewby, Newby, Wescohill, Stainburne, Westrighton, Carleton, Swindon, Kirkby Overblowes, and Kereby, and free fishing in the Wharfe. A warrant against James Rither, father [son of] of William Rither, the grandfather of Robert, Edith, Mary & Helena, and against Matthew & William Redman.
He is supposed to have sold Harewood to Sir William Wentworth in 1601 - Sir William Wentworth described 'Mr Robert Ryther, being a young man, greatly indebted for his father and something for himself, resolved to sell Harewood, suing therein the especial consel and confidence of the Countess of Cumberland and Sir Robert Stapleton, both of them persons much experienced and very politique ....'.
In 1607 he wrote: Then it pleased God to give me an opportunity to buy Harwod.... The house of Harwod Castle, being for many years divided betwixt the Redmans and the Rythers was at last by James Ryther's policies and purchase untied in himself. But his proud overweening condition, albeit he had especial good gifts of nature, brought him to die in the Fleet for debt and his son Robert Ryther to sell all his inheritance. These Rithers and Redmans being men of great worship and courage, albeit they had some times married with the house of Gawthorp, could never remain in firm friendship with it. For they claimed to be lords of Harwod, as indeed it seems they were and the Gascoignes they held for freeholders, who claimed to have a manor in Gawthorp or Lofthouse etc. But the Gascoignes being ever too mighty for them bore them very hard, both with suits, quarrels and countenance. Diverse great men, knights and earls, made awards betwixt them, but the settled rancour of their hearts and remembrance of old displeasures would never suffer long agreement.
At last ... after the death of my mother I came to be the inheritor of the house of Gawthorpe. At which time Mr Robert Ryther, being a young man, greatly indebted for this father and something for himself, resolved to sell Harwood, suing therin the especial counsel and confidence of the Countess of Cumberland and Sir Robert Stapleton, both of them persons much experienced and very politic and remaining for the most part at London, it was offered to diverse great persons, but the price was beyond the measure and the encumbrances dangerous and almost without number, as will appear by my evidence. [After selling lands to the value of 400 pounds? p.a. he] raised money to purchase Harwood.. William was created Baron in 1611.
     William died before 10 September 1614. He was buried on 10 September 1614 in Wentworth Woodhouse. 1641 on Wentworth village website.

     William Wentworth 4th/2nd Earl of Strafford was the son of Thomas Wentworth Lord Raby, 3rd/1st Earl of Strafford and Anne Johnson.
     William died in 1791. He married Lady Anne Campbell but died without issue.

     William Wentworth Earl of Strafford was born on 8 June 1626 in Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire. He was the son of Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford and Arabella Holles. William As his fathers honours were forfeited by attainder, he received them all by a fresh grant from Charles I on 1 Dec 1641 on 1 December 1641.
The second Earl sold Harewood to Sir John Cutler in 1657 (by then the castle was ruinous) and it was later bought by Henry Lascelles.
William was created earl of Strafford, his father’s attainder being reversed by act of parliament in 1662. William died without issue on the 16th of October 1695, when all his titles except the barony of Raby, became extinct. His estates passed to a kinsman, Thomas Watson, afterwards Watson-Wentworth (d. 1723), a son of Anne (1629—1695), daughter of the 1st earl, and her husband Edward Watson, 2nd Baron. Rockingham. In 1746 Watson-Wentworth’s son, Thomas Watson-Wentworth (c. 1690— 1750), was created marquess of Rockingham, and when his son Charles, the 2nd marquess, died in 1782, the estates passed to his maternal nephew, William Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliarn (1748-1833). His descendant, the present Earl Fitzwilliam, is the owner of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, and the representative of the Wentworth family.
The barony of Raby passed to the 2nd earl’s cousin, Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), son and heir of Sir William Wentworth of Northgate Head, Wakefield. In early life he saw much service as a soldier in the Low Countries, and was occasionally employed on diplomatic errands. From 1711 to 1714 he was British ambassador at the Hague, and in. 1711 he was created earl of Strafford. The earl was one of the British representatives at the congress of Utrecht, and in 1715 he was impeached for his share in concluding this treaty, but the charges against him were not pressed to a conclusion. He died on the 15th of November 1739. The earldom became extinct when Frederick Thomas, the 5th earl, died in August 1799. William, the 4th earl (1722-1791), had a sister Anne, who married William Connolly; and one of their daughters, Anne, married George Byng (d. 1789) of Wrotham Park, Middlesex. Their son, Sir John Byng (1772-1860), a distinguished soldier, was created earl of Strafford and Viscount Enfield in 1847. Having entered the army in 1793, Byng served in Flanders and commanded a brigade during the Peninsular War. He was present at Waterloo and became a field marshal in 1855. The earldom of Strafford is still held by his descendants. William When parliament reversed his father's attainder, William (already first Earl of Strafford by the second creation) became second earl of the first creation in succession to his father in 1662.
     William died on 16 October 1695 aged 69. He married (twice?) but died without issue. His estates descended to his daughter Anne, who married Edward Watson, second Lord Rockingham. His titles died with him except for the Barony of Raby which descended to his nephew once removed Thomas who was created Earl of Strafford on 4 Sep 1711.

     Edward Wepham married Dorothy Marlott, daughter of Thomas Marlott and Dorothy Stapley, on 14 July 1622 in Pulborough, Sussex.

     Thomas Bouville Were married Sarah Kennet, daughter of Benjamin Kennet and Catherine Steer, in October 1836 in Sidmouth, Devon. Tuesday week at Sidmouth, Thomas Bouville Were, esquire, of Clifton near Bristol, to Sarah, second daughter of the late Benjamin Kennet Dawson, esq, formerly of Wakefield.

     Wilfred was nick-named Michael. He was born in 1893.
     He served as an officer in the Dorset Regiment.
The marriage of Lt Col Wilfred Montague Were-Collins OBE, MC and Molly Doreen Halahan, daughter of John Crosby Halahan and Winifred May Carter, was registered in Bournemouth RD in the June 1931 quarter.
     Wilfred died on 12 May 1983.

     Garrett Wesley made a will dated 13 March 1727/28 in Dangan, Meath, Ireland. To be buried in the chancel of the church at Laracorm Co, Meath. His wife. Residue of estate to Richard Colley, Dublin, Esq [who took the name Wesley]. Witnessed by John Dunbar Bate!
     His will was proved on 21 November 1728 in Ireland.

     Mary or Margarert Wesley was born circa 1660. She was the daughter of Garrett Wesley.
Mary or Margarert Wesley married Wentworth Harman, son of Sir Thomas Harman, circa 10 October 1679. She was the daughter of Garrett Wellesley of Dangan.He married secondly Frances Sheppard.
     Mary died on 15 June 1683.

     Beatrice Wesseldine was born on 15 April 1883.
The marriage of Beatrice Wesseldine and George John Tyack Harris, son of John Tyack Harris and Elizabeth Anne Ross, was registered in Gainsborough RD in the March 1919 quarter.
     Beatrice died on 26 April 1970 in Lincoln RD, Lincolnshire, aged 87.

     Frances West or Killigrew was also known as Killigrew in records. She was born after 1707. She was the second daughter and heiress. She was the daughter of John West and Mary Erisey.
Documents relating to Mary West and Frances West (infants), daughters and co-heirs of Mary West, their late mother, deceased, and also granddaughters and co-heirs of Richd. Erisy, esquire, deceased, by his wife Frances (who was daughter of Sir Peter Killigrew, deceased), by John West, Esq.
     Frances West or Killigrew was mentioned in the will of Frances Killigrew dated 16 February 1731.
     Frances West or Killigrew was party to a land transaction on 1 December 1736. Assignment of 1000 year term.
(1) Mary and Frances Killigrew of Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, spinsters, daus. of Jn. West and Mary his late wife, who was dau. of Frances Erisey, dau. of Sir Peter Killigrew, decd.
(2) Martin Killigrew of Arwenack, esq.
(3) George Dunbar s. of Major J. D. of Ballycarney, Ireland, by his wife Anne, decd., dau. of George Killigrew, only son of Sir Peter Killigrew, decd.
(4) John West, esq.
(5) John Laroche of St. James, Westminster, esq.
(6) Richard Mounteney of Lincolns Inn, esq.
Recites: 14 Jan. 1673, 1000 year lease (Sir Peter Killigrew to Walter Hele),
Rosemorran, Tregedna, Kelnoweth and Tregenver in Budock
- other property of Sir Peter Killigrew settled in trust
Consideration: to settle leasehold estates to uses declared in lease and release of even date
(2) to (6):
His moiety of Tregenver in Budock.
Frances West or Killigrew married Hon Charles Berkeley in 1745 in Rushbrooke, Suffolk.
Will and codicil of Charles Berkeley of Brewton Abbey, Somerset - provision made for wife Frances of her property in Falmouth by settlement of jointure made at their wedding
- details of trusts, sales and uses of estates and property for daughters Sophia and Mary.

     Mary West or Killigrew was born after 1705. She was the daughter of John West and Mary Erisey.
Documents relating to Mary West and Frances West (infants), daughters and co-heirs of Mary West, their late mother, deceased, and also granddaughters and co-heirs of Richd. Erisy, esquire, deceased, by his wife Frances (who was daughter of Sir Peter Killigrew, deceased), by John West, Esq.
     Mary West or Killigrew was mentioned in the will of Frances Killigrew dated 16 February 1731.
     Mary West or Killigrew and an unknown person obtained a marriage licence on 14 May 1737 in Hampshire. John Merrill of Lainston, esq., & Mrs Mary West alias Killigrew, of the same at Lainston, Sparsholt, St Bartholomew, Winchester, or the Cathedral, 14 May 1737; JohnWest esq., bondsman.
Deed dated 6 July 1737 between (2) Mary Killigrew, daughter. of Jn. West by his wife Mary decd. (3) Martin Killigrew of St. James, Westminster, esq.
Consideration: marriage between John Merrill and Mary Killigrew
(2) is seised of moiety of estates of Sir Peter Killigrew in Budock, Falmouth and Mylor.
     A marriage settlement between Mary West or Killigrew and John Merrill was made on 6 July 1737. Pre-nuptial settlement (also counterpart) between (1) Susanna Merrill of St James, Westminster, widow, and son John M. & (2) Mary Killigrew, dau. of Jn. West by his wife Mary decd. (3) Martin Killigrew of St James, Westminster, esq. Consideration: marriage between John Merrill and Mary Killigrew
(2) is seised of moiety of estates of Sir Peter Killigrew in Budock, Falmouth and Mylor
Recites: 30 Nov/1 Dec. 1736 deed of settlement
(1) agrees to provide £400 annuity to (3) in trust for (2) in lieu of dower, and to support younger children of the marriage.
Mary West or Killigrew married John Merrill on 14 July 1737 in Lainston, Hampshire. John Merrill esq & Mrs Mary West, otherwise Killigrew, were marryd at lainston Church.
     Mary died in 1738. She died after the birth of a daughter..
     The administration of her estate was granted to John Merrill on 24 May 1745 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Grant of administration of goods of Mary Merrill, formerly Killigrew, to her husband John Merrill.

     Daniel West was born in Victoria. He was from Narrawong near Portland.
Daniel West married Emma Charlotte Alice Collins, daughter of Rev Robert Reeves Collins and Mary Jane Halahan, in 1901 in Victoria.

     Daniel Leigh West was born on 7 September 1912 in Edenhope, Victoria. He was the son of Daniel West and Emma Charlotte Alice Collins.
Daniel Leigh West married Florence Annie Close in 1938 in Victoria.
     Daniel resided at Edenhope, 1996. He had retired from his farm. A property he purchased from his sisters was passed to Kerry & Kate Hausler of 'Fern Hill'. He and Flossie had lived at Patyah which in 1994 was occupied by his son Danny.
     Daniel died in 2002 or 2003.

     Dorothy Halahan West was born on 19 March 1915 in Edenhope, Victoria. She was the daughter of Daniel West and Emma Charlotte Alice Collins.
Dorothy Halahan West married George Alexander Robinson in 1934 in Victoria.
     Dorothy resided at 147 Lake Street, Edenhope, 2003.
Her photograph appeared with others born at the Bush Nursing Centre, in the West Wimmera Advocate, 150 years celebration issue, 13 Feb 2008.
     Dorothy died in 2016 in Victoria.

     Elizabeth Mary West was commonly known as Betty.
Elizabeth Mary West married P G Gordon Wilson. Elizabeth Mary West was born in 1902 in Edenhope, Victoria. She was the daughter of Daniel West and Emma Charlotte Alice Collins.

     Frances West was born before 1590?.
Frances West married Alban Popplewell, son of Francis Popplewell and Dorothy Thornhill, on 10 February 1606 in Barmby Upon Don, Yorkshire.
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     Frederick James West married Louisa Grimwood, daughter of James Grimwood and Ursula or Ustley Grimwood, on 17 April 1889.

     Harriet West was christened on 24 June 1827 in Clifton, Bedfordshire. She was the daughter of William West and Mary Field.
Harriet West married George Kingsley Daniel, son of John Kingsley and Sophia Daniels, on 26 November 1848 in Clifton, Bedfordshire.
     Harriet West and George Kingsley Daniel were recorded on the 1851 census in Shillingdon/Shitlington, Bedfordshire. George K Daniel, aged 36, born Henlow, Harriett, aged 24 born Clifton, Charles aged 2, Isabella aged 5 months.
     Harriet West and George Kingsley Daniel were recorded on the 1861 census in Lower Stondon, Shillington/Shitlington, Bedfordshire. George K Daniel, 36, ag. lab, born Southill; his wife Harriet 34, straw plaiter, born Clifton, children Charles 12, ag. lab., born Clifton, Isabella 10, born Henlow, Ann 8, scholar, George 6, ditto, Ellen 4, Walter 1, all born Shitlington.
     Harriet West and George Kingsley Daniel were recorded on the 1871 census in Hitchin Rd, Arlesey, Bedfordshire. George Kingsley Daniels head, mar, 44, ag. lab., born Southill; Harriet, wife 43, born Clifton, Isabel, 20, unmarried, straw plaiter, born Henlow, George, 16, ag. lab., born Stondon, Ellen, aged 14, scholar, do., Walter, 11, scholar, do, Lois, 8, scholar, do., William, 4, scholar, born Arlesey, Eliza, 11 months, daughter, born Arlesey, Albert, grand son, 1, born Arlesey; Dinah Dear? visitor, mar, 64, nurse, born Morton, Herts.
     Harriet died circa December 1874. She does not appear to be listed in the 1881 census for Bedfordshire and a 39 year old Harriet Daniels died in the Dec quarter of 1874 i the Biggleswade registration district.

     Henry West was the son of William West and Mary Field.