Born [date unknown] [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Hardwick
and Elizabeth (Leake) Hardwick
Sister of
Mary (Hardwicke) Wingfield, Elizabeth Hardwick, Joan (Leche) Knyveton [half] and Margaret (Leech) Slaughter [half]
Wife of
Godfrey Bosville
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Frances (Bosvile) Savile, Elizabeth (Bosville) Copley, Francis Bosvile, Dorothy (Bosvile) Lacy and Mary (Bosvile) Burdett
Died before
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 25 Jul 2014
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Biography
Jane was the daughter of John Hardwick[1] and Elizabeth Leake. She was sister of, and co-heiress with, "Bess of Hardwick", reputedly the richest woman in England after the Queen.
She married Godfrey Boswell.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chancery pleadings, Reference: C 1/1102/40-41, Boswell v Leek, 1544 April 22 - 1547 Feb 15, The National Archives, Kew http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7492750 [accessed 15 November 2020].
- Dransfield, John Ness. A History of the Parish of Penistone (James H. Wood, The Don Press, Penistone, 1906) Page 22
- "Godfrey Bosvile, of Gunthwaite, esq. eldest son and heir, aged 23 33 Hen. VIII. will dated 22 July 1580, and died on the next day. married Jane, dau. of John Hardwick, of Hardwick, co. Derby, sister to eliz. countess of Shrewsbury"
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