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| *Nicholas WORDSWORTH (M) | Parents/Siblings
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ca 1370 |
Water Hall, Penistone |
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1422 |
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| Nicholas was mentioned in an inscription on the "great arke" of descendant William.
He was also referred to as Wordysworth
"The earliest occurrence of the name of Wordsworth with which I am acquainted, is in a deed of the year 1392, by which Thomas Clavell, Lord of Peniston, in the West Biding of Yorkshire, grants to certain persons lands in the Kirk Flatt, in Peniston, with liberty of digging on the waste, &c The deed was executed at Peniston and among the witnesses is Nic. de Wurdesworth de Peniston . . . ."
". . . his marriage with the heiress of Proctor, a family whose name appears in some earlier deeds relating to lands in Peniston. From whence he came I know not. But in the reign of Richard II., we are arrived nearly at the time when the great body of our personal nomenclature first became settled. The name is evidently local, and whenever any hamlet shall be discovered having the name of Wordsworth, there would probably have been the deposit of the family upon the settlement at Peniston. But from whatever place Nicholas came, he seems to have been the common ancestor to numerous families of the name settled in Peniston, and the parts adjacent, most of whom possessed lands, and some of whom were families of consideration. I find a Ralph, son and heir of William, in 1 Philip and Mary ; and a William, son and heir of Ralph, who in 1542 was to many a daughter of Thomas Beaumont of Brampton near Wath ; also a Nicholas, who iu 1584 married one of the co-heirs of Wombwell of Synocliffe, an esquire's family, and had Thomas of Shepherd's Castle in Peniston, gent., and Edward, who was in the household of Sir Horace Yere. This Thomas sold Shepherd's Castle. Some part of his family went to the West Indies, while others remained at Peniston. . ." |
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| Information for individual 7444 |
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| >Richard WORDSWORTH (M) | | Others called Wordsworth |
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ca 1340 |
Water Hall, Penistone |
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after 1379 |
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| Richard and Alice were living at Water Hall in 1379 when the poll tax was levied.
They paid six pence as can be seen in the abstrat below
A Further History of Penistone - 1965
Penistone WEA history group. A mine of useful information from a variety of local authors, well worth a read. Contains historical details of many aspects of the town, including the grammar school, church, etc. The section on court cases is particularly entertaining, with many well-known local surnames at both ends of the moral spectrum. Also includes descriptions of boundary stones and the 'Villata de Penyston' poll tax roll of 1379, which reads thus:
Ricardus atte Waterhall and Alicia vx ejus. Tayloure vj.d.
Robertus Steuenson iiij.d.
Johannes Spenser iiij.d.
Mageta famula Rectoris iiij.d.
Emma ffilia Matilde iiij.d.
Robertus Steuenson and Agnes vx Smyth xij.d.
Willelmus Proctour and Johanna vx ejus, Taylour vj.d.
Johannes de Coubley Agnes vx ejus, Souter vj.d.
Johannes Eclus iiij.d.
Johannes Bilclyf and Johanna vx Agnes del Skekes iiij.d.
Galfridus del Skokes Emma vx ejus iiij.d.
Summa v, s, ij, d.
The entry 'Ricardus atte Waterhall' might well refer to Richard Wordsworth, although this is not certain. There is also a name similar to Cubley in the list and could Bilclyf be connected with another local name? Biltcliffe was a well-known local photgrapher. - Penistone Library (no longer available, 2007)
NOTE - could this have been Richard's father? . . .
Adam de Wordsworth, chaplain absolved for killing John de Staynton at Barnsley in 1366 |
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