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    Widdrington, Roland

    Male Abt 1608 - 1663  (~ 55 years)


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    • Name Widdrington, Roland 
      Born Abt 1608  Of Cheesebourne Grange, Stamfordham, Northumberland Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 1653-1663  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I10162  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 20 Jun 2015 

      Family Farrar, Catherine,   c. 12 May 1608, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1659  (Age ~ 51 years) 
      Married 08 Feb 1636/37  St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F03257  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • A London Draper
        Name: Katherine Widdrington Gender: Female Baptism/Christening Date: 20 Sep 1641 Baptism/Christening Place: GREAT AMWELL,HERTFORD,ENGLAND Birth Date: Birthplace: Death Date: Name Note: Race: Father's Name: Rowland Widdrington Father's Birthplace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Katherine Mother's Birthplace: Mother's Age: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C07237-1 System Origin: England-ODM Source Film Number: 991303

        Name: Henery Widdrington Gender: Male Baptism/Christening Date: 02 Jan 1639 Baptism/Christening Place: GREAT AMWELL,HERTFORD,ENGLAND Birth Date: Birthplace: Death Date: Name Note: Race: Father's Name: Rawlan Widdrington Father's Birthplace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Katherine Mother's Birthplace: Mother's Age: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C07237-1 System Origin: England-ODM Source Film Number: 991303

        Great Britain. Committee for compounding with deli <http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/great-britain-committee-for-compounding-with-deli.shtml>.
        Records of the Committees for compounding, etc., with delinquent royalists in Durham and Northumberland during the civil war, etc., 1643-1660 . (page 49 of 61

        1653. Nov. 9. John Rushworth, esq., and Gilb. Crouch, gent., conti-act with the Trustees for the purchase of the demesne lands of Bingfield and Colwell with several messuages, lands, etc., in the parishes of Chollerton and St. John Leyes in co. Xorthd., now or late in the occupation of Rowland Widdrington, Thos. Bell and Elizth. Errington, late parcel of the estate of Ralph Widdrington....
        Rowland Wicldrington. Also the demesne lands of Collwell, lying entire, boundered with Great Swinburn ground S.W. and W., Little Swinburn ground on the N., and Colwell town and townfield on the E. and S. consisting of a messuage or house called Collwell Hall, with a stable, a byar, a barn, a fould garth, a stackyard, a dovecoate, and one garth of ai-able land called the Orchard, consisting of, by estimation, 2 acres more or less, together with 5S aci'es of meadow ground and 145 acres of pasture ground, now or late in the tenancy of the said Rowland Widdrington, of the yearly value of 35/., and also
        all houses, outhouses, etc., belonging to same, etc., parcel of the possessions of Ralph Widdrington late of Colwell, gent., one of the persons in the additional
        Act named, whose estate hath been, and is herebj' declared and adjudged to be, justly forfeited by him for his treason against the Parlt. and people of
        England.

        Scope and content
        Judith Culme widow v Robert Sewell, George Nodes, Rowland Widdrington and Gabriel Armestrong: money matters Covering dates 1651 Held by
        The National Archives, Kew
        Legal status Public Record(s)

        WIDDRINGTON, HENRY
        Adm. pens. (age 15) at CHRIST'S, Apr. 22, 1654. S. of Rowland, draper, of London, and grandson of Lewis, of Cheesebourne Grange, Stamfordham, Northumberland. B. at Hoddesdon, Herts. Executor to his uncle Ralph (next), and involved in disputes with the College respecting the will. Living, 1711. (Peile, I. 562.)

        WIDDRINGTON, RALPH
        College: CHRIST'S Entered: 1632 Died: June 10, 1688 Adm pens. (age 17) at CHRIST'S, June 25, 1632. S. of Lewis. B. at Cheesebourne Grange, Stamfordham, Northumberland. School, Morpeth (Mr Oxley) Matric. 1632; B.A. 1635-6; M.A. 1639; D.D. 1661 (Lit.Reg). Fellow (probably), 1639-88.
        Public Orator, 1650-73. Regius Professor of Greek, 1654-60. Lady Margaret Professor, 1673-88. Adm at Gray's Inn, Mar. 16, 1640-1. R. of Thorpe-on-the-Hill, Lincs., 1661. R. of Wendon Lofts, Essex, 1666-76. R. of Terrington, 1673. R. of Gt Munden, Herts., 1675-88. Author, poetical. Died June 10,
        1688. Will dated Mar. 1687-8; proved (P.C.C.) Aug. 2 1689. Benefactor to the College, but much litigation ensued before the College came into possession of its inheritance. Brother of Thomas (1617). (Peile I. 421; Vis. of London, 1634;
        D.N.B.)

        WIDDRINGTON, THOMAS
        College: CHRIST'S Entered: Easter, 1617 Died: May 13, 1664 Matric. pens. from CHRIST'S, Easter, 1617; said also to havestudied at Oxford. S. and h. of Lewis, of Cheesebourne Grange, Stamfordham, Northumberland. B.A. 1620-1. Adm at Gray's Inn, Feb. 14, 1619. Barrister. Bencher, 1639.
        Treasurer, 1641. Serjeant-at-Law, 1648. Recorder of Berwick, 1631; of York, 1638. Knighted, Mar. 31, 1639. M.P. for Berwick, 1640; for York, 1654; for Northumberland, 1656. Commissioner of the Great Seal, 1648. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1656. Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1658-60. A
        member of the Council of State, 1651, 1659 and 1660-1. Donor to the New Building and to the College Library. Married Frances, dau. of Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax, in 1634. Author, Analecta Eboracensia. Died May 13, 1664. Buried at St Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex. M.I. Will (P.C.C.) 1664.
        Brother of Ralph (1632) (Peile, I. 313; D.N.B.; Vis. of London, 1634.)

        WIDDRINGTON, Ralph - of the College, Cambridge, 19 Mar 1688.
        Lady Margarets Reader of Divinity in the U. my nephews Ralph WIDDRINGTON of Cheesburn Grange; Henry WIDDRINGTON, Esq. of Hartford and Henry WIDDRINGTON his son; settled upon the master fellows and scholars of Christs College; Ralph WIDDRINGTON Esq. of Cheesburn Grange, Northumberland the son of my brother Sir Henry WIDDRINGTON and Henry the son of Henry WIDDRINGTON; my niece Ursula Countesse of Plymouth and only surviving daur of my brother Sir Thomas WIDDRINGTON; my nephew Patricius WIDDRINGTON; my nephew Christ PEPPER; my niece Mary WIDDRINGTON of Hartford.
        Proved 2 Aug 1688 - PCC; Ref FHL#92359 PCC 1688/Folio 113.
        May have died 13.05.1664 Middlesex, England? Mentioned as deceased in the will of his brother