Wentworth
Place of originEngland
MottoEn Dieu est tout
(French for 'In God is all')

The members of the Wentworth family of both the U.S. and Australia, as listed below, are descended from Thomas Wentworth and Jane, the daughter of Sir Oliver Mirfield. Sir Oliver died about 1522. The American Wentworths of New Hampshire are descended from Thomas' son Oliver.[1][2] The Wentworth branch of Virginia and Maryland, and the Australian Wentworths, are descended from another son Roger.[3][4] The Wentworth family, along with the Arden family, the Berkeley family, the Swinton family, and the Grindlay family, is descended in the male line from pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon roots.[5][6][7][8]

United States

The Wentworth family was a prominent American political family, mostly based in the British colonies and later U.S. states of New Hampshire, Maryland, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Prominent members of the family include:

Australia

References

  1. THE WENTWORTH GENEALOGY: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN, By JOHN WENTWORTH LL.D., of CHICAGO, Ill. IN THREE VOLUMES: LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY,1878: VOLUME I, p.XVI, Wentworth, John (1878), Retrieved 17 March 2017
  2. Cutter, William Richard Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston and Massachusetts By William Richard Cutter prepared under the Historical supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. reprinted for Clearfield Company 1908: p.492-496 Retrieved 20 March 2017
  3. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry 2 vols: John Bernard Burke and Ashworth P. Burke: 1891: Wentworth of Vaucluse, pp.95-97 Retrieved 17 March 2017
  4. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry 2 vols: John Bernard Burke and Ashworth P. Burke: 1891: Wentworth of Vaucluse, pp.95-97 Retrieved 7 September 2018
  5. Cutter, William Richard Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston and Massachusetts By William Richard Cutter prepared under the Historical supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. reprinted for Clearfield Company 1908: p.492-496 Retrieved 25 June 2017
  6. Burke, Sir Bernard. A Genealogical & Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, 18th Edition, Volume 1
  7. Greenlee, Ralph Stebbins (1908). Genealogy of the Greenlee Families in America, Scotland, Ireland and England. Privately Printed.
  8. Sir Bernard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry: Vol.I: Wentworth of Vaucluse: pp.95-97
  9. Ritchie, John (1997). The Wentworths: Father and Son. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84751-X pp 2-3. Ritchie says South Elmsall; it should be North Elmsall.
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