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From: Audrey Shane <>
Subject: Re: IGI files and FITZWILLIAM-DYMOKE dates...
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:25:18 -0700


>I was recently trying to trace back an Elizabeth Wentworth, and came a
>marriage between Beatrix Fitz-William and a Sir Richard Woodruff. Her
>father was given as Thomas FITZWILLIAM, born abt 1388 and the mother as
>Margaret DYMOKE, born abt 1405.BUT, Thomas' father is given as Thomas
>FITZWILLIAM born abt 1390, married to Elizabth Aske. And Margaret DYMOKE's
>father, Thomas Dymoke is said to have been born abt 1428, i.e, 23 years
>after his daughter is born. In the Fitzwilliam case, the son is born 17
>years earlier than the father. The earlier generations seem to place
>logically, time-wise.
> Does anyone know why these dates are screwed up, or whether or not
>these genealogies for Fitzwilliam and Dymoke are reliable?
>Thanks,
>Ralph Holloway

AR (Weis, 6th ed), line 202 #36, shows a Sir Thomas DYMOKE of Scrivelsby,
co. Lincoln, born circa 1428, beheaded 12 March 1470, whose wife was
Margaret de WELLES and whose father was Sir Philip DYMOKE. Weis gives the
sources as: v.Redlich 216; Harleian Soc. Pub., vol. 53 (Lincolnshire
Pedigrees) 1204; Samuel Lodge, "Scrivelsby, Home of the Champions" [which
must deal with the DYMOKES] 56; Burke, Landed Gentry, 1937, 372.

FITZWILLIAM does not appear in this line, which is said to be ancestral to
President George Washington. The seventh edition may offer more. Hope this
helps.

Audrey Shane

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