Joan was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
(Visitation of Yorkshire. P. 102 - 104)
(Norcliffe, Charles Best ed.: The
visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William flower
esquire Langton London, 1881)
Alexander Drakes (Drax) was born/christened about
1427 at Drax, Yorks. In about 1456, he first married Jone Wortley at Wortley,
Yorks., which is near Pudsey, west of Leeds. She was born/christened about 1431
at Wortley Yorks., and was the daughter of Nicolas Wortley & Isabel
Tunstall; granddaughter of Sir Nicholas Wortley, who was born/christened about
1404, and her great uncle was Sir Thomas Wortley, born/christened about 1400,
of Wortley Hall. In about 1472, Alexander second married Miss Fitzwilliam, who
was born/christened about 1435 in Lincs.; she died without issue. (The English “Drax, Dracas (s), Drakes;
family trees)
(Walker,
John William (Ed.): Abstracts of the
Chartularies of the Priory of Monkbretton)
Kinders:
o.1.
John DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1457, Yorks x Margaret Percyval.
o.2. Nicolas DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1459, Yorks x c. 1488, Yorks met Katharine Lovell, ged. c. 1463, Yorks, d.v. Roger (Wombell) Lovell of Wombell. He died without issue.
o.3. Thomas DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1461, Yorks. He was a priest, Doctor of Divinity &
Parson of Dirfield.
o.4.
Robert DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1463, Yorks x
Jone Wyat.
o. 5. Isabell DRAKES (Drax), ged. c. 1465, Yorks.
(The English
“Drax, Dracas (s), Drakes; family trees http://www.drakesfamily2.webspace.virginmedia.com/id19.htm)
