s.1. Margaret WORTLEY, geb. voor 1615

s.1.  Margaret, geb. voor 1615 x 17/01/1635 met Sir Henry GRIFFITHS, geb.  1603, oorl. c. 1660, Burton Agnes, Yorkshire, Engeland, Bart of Agnes Burton, Yorkshire,  s.v. Henry Griffith, Esq of Burton-Agnes, York en Mary Willoughby.

Margaret was die dogter van Francis Wortley en Grace Brouncker.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

 

(Burke, John esq & Burke, John Bernard , esq: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland. 2nd ed. London MDCCCXLIV)

Henry Griffith II first married Mary [Elizabeth] Willoughby, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby of Risley in 1621. They had no children and Mary died before 1633. He next married Dorothy Bellingham, daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham of Levens in Westmorland, in 1633. They had no children. Dorothy died before 1635. He then married Margaret Wortley, daughter of Sir Francis Wortley of Sheffield on 17 Jan 1635. Sir Henry named his youngest nephew, Gustavus Boynton, as his executor and next of kin.

The Griffith Baronetcy, of Burton Agnes in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 7 June 1627 for Henry Griffith. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baronet, in 1656. The family seat was Burton Agnes Hall, Burton Agnes, Yorkshire. Frances Griffith, daughter and sole heiress of the first Baronet, married Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, through which marriage the house came into the Boynton family. (https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Henry-Griffith-II-2nd-Baronet-of-Burton-Agnes/6000000009102857485)

In 1634 (9 Chas. I.) Sir Henry was Sheriff. He suffered in the Civil War, and seems to have been fined by the Parliament £8,793. He appears on the list of the Trayned Horse for the county 1634 as a "Curiasier." He married 1st, in 1621, Mary, daughter and coheiress of Sir Henry Willoughby of Paisley, created a Baronet in 1620;   2nd, in 1633, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham, of Over Leavens, Westmoreland; 3rd, in 1635, Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Wortley, Bart, of Wortley, Yorkshire, by whom he had a son Wortley, who was born and buried at Tamworth, 1636, and another son who died. and a daughter Grace, buried Dec. 18, 1641.  In 1660 he was dead, leaving Margaret a widow.  (A history of the parish of Tatenhill in the county of Stafford by sir Reginald Hardy of Dunstall London MDCCCVII)

(Staffordshire Pedigrees based on the visitations of that county made by William Dugdale esquire, Norroy king of arms in the years 1663 – 1664 from the original manuscript written by Gregory King (successively Rouge Dragon and Lancaster herald) during the years 1680 – 1700 edited by Sir George J. Armytage, Bart., F.S.A. and W. Harry Rylands. F.S.A. editorial secretary of the Harleian Society, London 1912)

(https://archive.org/stream/staffordshireped00dugd#page/234/mode/2up)

Betham, William:  The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets ..., Volume 4.  (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CLVBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=Ford,+Northumberland+heron&source=bl&ots=Hrz6TIz5Mf&sig=Y6PO4a9YewOAYWkmUknDqTlicjs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_s3jVJuHLpK78gW3lILwDA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=wortley&f=false.  Bl.  208)

Kinders:

t.1.  Wortley GRIFFITH, geb. 20/01/1636, ged. 28/01/1636, Tamworth, begr. 1636, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

t.2.  Dogter GRIFFITH, ongedoop dood, begr. 27/10/1640, monument Tatenhill Church.

t.3.  Grace GRIFFITH, begr. 18/12/1641, monument Tatenhill Church.

t.4.  Catharine GRIFFITH.  Ongetroud

t.5.  Margaret GRIFFITH.  Ongetroud