Born about in Stanton, Northumberland, England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Ralph Fenwick
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died after
after about age 58
[location unknown]
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Biography
This profile is part of the Fenwick Name Study.
Margery Mitford, heiress of Stanton, co. Northumb. (living 10 Aug 1535), married Ralph Fenwick, esq. (d. bef. 10 Aug 1535).[1]
Lewis (2013), ballparks her birth date to c. 1477.[2]
Origins
According to Plantagenet Ancestry (2011), Margery somehow descends from Gerard Mitford, but her lineage is unknown.[1] Gerard's wife was Margery, dau. of Richard Corbet, a desc. of Patrick, 5th Earl of Dunbar. Their marriage contract is dated 20 July 1426.[1]
One pedigree calls her "Margery, dowghter and sole heyre to Sir Walter Corbet of Staton, knyght."[3]
children
Margery and Ralph had three sons and three daughters:[1]
- John of Stanton (living 10 Aug 1535).[1]
- m. Mary, dau. of Elizabeth [...] & Sir Ralph Grey (b. c. 1479 - d. 04 Aug 1507), son of Sir Thomas Grey (b. c 1456 - d. 16 Aug 1498) & Margery Greystoke.[2]
- Barbara[1]
- m. Matthew Whitfield[1]
- [...][1]
- m. Robert Collingwood.[1]
Research Notes
Undocumented daughter
Previously, an unnamed daughter, wife of William Lisle, was attached to Ralph and Margery but there were no reliable sources for this relationship, and she has been detached. She can always be reattached If reliable sources are found.
Sources
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Richardson, D. (2011). "15. Ralph Fenwick, esq.," in Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., 1, p. 34. Kimball G. Everingham, Ed. Salt Lake City. Google Books.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lewis, M. (2013, July 12). Margery Mitford, #89977, b. circa 1477, d. after 10 August 1535. ORTNCA, citing various works by Douglas Richardson. Web.
- ↑ William Harvey,"Heraldic Visitation of Northern Counties Made in 1552 in Visitations of the North: or some Early Heraldic Vistations, Publications of the Surtees Society, vol 122, (Durham: Surtees Society, 1912), 21, FamilySearch Catalog.
- Richardson, D. (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, (2ed, Vol. II, pp.149). Kimball G. Everingham, Ed. Salt Lake City, UT: N.p.
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Categories: Estimated Birth Date | Stanton, Northumberland, Fenwick Name Study
Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, pages 149.
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