Early Life
Anthony Beckwith was the son of
Thomas Beckwith and
Margaret Johnson1.
Family Life
Anthony married (or, as the hint in the footnote suggests, perhaps he had illegitimate children with)
Margaret Loftis and had the following:
- Anne, bapt. 1601
- Mary, bapt. 1608
- Jane, bapt. 1609
- Sarah, bapt. 1611
- Christopher, bapt. 1612 and who died in 1670
Given the large gap between Anne and Mary, there may have been other children too.
Note that there was a burial for "the wife of Anthony Beckwith [of Notwithcoate] on the 13th of March 1602/3, so perhaps he married twice?
Death
Anthony died in 1623, probably still in his 40s, and was buried on the 19
th of February that year in
Masham.
Footnotes
[1] The
Visitations of Durham (Joseph Foster: Pedigrees Recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham (1575, 1615, 1666))
Page: Beckwith of Nutwithcoat; pages 10-11) make Anthony the son of Christopher of Nutwith Cote, and
brother of Thomas, but this wouldn't allow Anthony's sons to be born in the early 1600s. The fact that the Visitation describes him as a "second son" suggests strongly to me that he was actually the brother of Christopher of Nutwith Cote. Fisher (
The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire, John Fisher, London (1865); Lonsdale of Masham, p508) has the following salacious tidbit about Anthony: On the 22nd April, 1594, Anthony Beckwith of Nutwith Cote was excommunicated by the Peculiar Court of Masham "for that a proper young woman was brought to his house and there bare a child begotten in fornication, and he hayth suffered her to depart unpunished."
Abt 1580 - 1623 (~ 43 years)
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