Samuel Griffith - OH no you don't!

Started by Private User on Tuesday, August 23, 2016
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He is ABSOLUTELY NOT the son of Sir Henry Griffith, 2nd (and LAST) Baronet of Burton Agnes - Sir Henry had NO surviving sons.

I'm breathing a sign of relief, because that misbegotten misconnection would have taken my line *much* too close to the Tudors for my peace of mind.

Maven, please don't add all-caps ("yelling") notes to profiles.

If you'd like to provide acceptable sources confirming your information, we can make the necessary changes and lock as appropriate. Do you want to revise the "About" to something more polished and cited?

They don't listen to polite commentary. Did you notice he was reconnected to Sir Henry Griffith *in spite of* explicit, but polite, warnings?

By the way, Sir Henry had three wives: Elizabeth (the elder) Willoughby (no children - she died young), Dorothy Bellingham (no children), and Margaret Wortly (*not* Willoughby), who bore three children, a son who died in infancy, a daughter who may have been stillborn or died within hours, and a daughter Grace, who apparently barely lived to be christened. So no, *no* children who survived him, none at all.

None of his three wives was named Mary.

Sir Henry's sister Frances married Matthew Boynton (1st Baronet Boynton) and brought Burton Agnes into the Boynton family with her.

Elizabeth Willoughby is sometimes misidentified as "Mary" or "Margaret" for reasons that escape me - her father had no daughter by either name, but did reuse the name "Elizabeth" for his youngest daughter (by his second wife).

Sir Henry Griffith (the second Baronet) and his first two wives are memorialized (but the wives are not named) in St. Martin's Church, Burton Agnes. Why Margaret Wortly (his third wife) is not included is unclear - did she marry again? (Women often did if they could.)

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