Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Mary Whichcote

Female 1640 - Abt 1667  (27 years)

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  • Name Mary Whichcote 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Female 
    Birth 27 Jul 1640  Little St Helens, City of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Baptism 4 Aug 1640  [2] 
    Death Abt Aug 1667  [1] 
    Burial 9 Aug 1667  Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    Last Modified 10 Oct 2021 

    Father Col. Christopher Whichcote
              b. Abt [J] Mar 1603 
    Marriage 18 Feb 1635  Bitton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 

    Husband Rev. John Worthington
              b. [J] Feb 1617  
              d. 26 Nov 1671, Hackney, London Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 54 years)  [5] 
    Marriage 13 Oct 1657 
    Age at Marriage Mary was 17 years old - John was 40 years old. 
    Count of Children 5 
    Children 
     1. Damaris Worthington
              b. 2 Apr 1661  
              d. 1 Oct 1703 (Age 42 years)
     2. John Worthington
              b. 18 Jun 1663  
              d. 1737 (Age 73 years)
     3. Anne Worthington
              b. Abt 1665
    Last Modified 20 Dec 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Mary Whichcote was born on the 27th of July 1640; her baptismal record (4th August 1640) at St Helen Bishopsgate notes her mother as "Katherine" and her father's profession is given as "Merchant". Her parents were Col. Christopher Whichcote, sometime Governor of Windsor Castle, and his wife Katherine ___.

      Family Life
      Mary married the Rev. John Worthington (Rector of Fen Ditton) on the 13th of October 1657.

      Whichcote Surname
      The family was originally from Whichcote in Shropshire, so the surname is a toponym (originally de Whichcote). They then transferred to Harpswell in Lincolnshire (probably with the generation of John Whichcote who married Elizabeth Tyrwhit, coheir of Sir John Tyrwhit of Harpswell), which remained the principal seat of the family for many hundreds of years. That being said, the Whichcotes in my tree were a cadet branch and moved back and forth between London and Stoke (in Shropshire).

      Footnotes
      [1] Cockayne's Complete Baronetage (Vol. 3, page 22) for later Whichcote Baronets created 1660

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Jul 1640 - Little St Helens, City of London, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 9 Aug 1667 - Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0347] Rev. Canon A R Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, (Harleian Society, 1902-1906), Whichcot of Harpswell; Volume 3, pages 1069-1073.

    2. [S0121] Ancestry, England, Select Births & Christenings 1538-1975, (ancestry.com), 4 Aug 1640, Mary Whitchcott; FHL Film Number: 845235.

    3. [S0134] Ancestry, England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991, (ancestry.co.uk), 9 Aug 1667, Mary Worthington nee Whichcote; FHL Film Number: 1450483.

    4. [S0309] FamilySearch, England Marriages, 1538–1973, (familysearch.org), 18 Feb 1635, Christopher Wharhcotte; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NL9J-YQZ : 13 March 2020), Christopher Wharhcotte, 1635.

    5. [S0348] Edited by Sir Leslie Stephen, Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22, 1921-1922, (Oxford University Press, 1921-1922), John Worthgington, pages 955-957.