• Correcting Henry Harpur not a Sir did not marry Frances Willoughby

    From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 16 10:53:23 2021
    Stirnet

    https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/hh4aa/harpur2.php

    mistakenly claims that there is a
    Sir John or Henry Harpur who d.s.p. 20 Feb 1678/9 buried at Swarkston

    Stirnet claims he married twice
    Frances Palmer
    Frances Willoughby

    None of the above is actually true. OK one bit.

    What actually occurred is that this man's FATHER
    Sir John Harpur married
    1 Catherine Howard
    2 as a lecherous old man of 48, the 18-year-old Frances Willoughby

    This is the man buried at Swarkston 20 Feb 1678/9

    His son by Catherine, named Henry
    was only an esq
    born in 1639
    he married one time only to
    Frances Palmer
    daughter of Sir Geoffrey Palmer 1st Bnt (d 1670)

    They married
    29 Aug 1660
    St Pancras Old Church, co Mdx; first husband

    She *survived* him to marry secondly
    John de la /Fountayne/
    bap 28 Oct 1638
    Kirby Bellars, co Leic (C060322 wj)

    They were living in 1671 when a post nuptial settlement exists

    https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f6bfded0-a220-4b9b-9bfa-2117b83f27c7

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