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Dorothy Desborough (Whitfield)

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Birthplace: Ockley, Surrey, England
Death: 1654 (34-35)
Ockley, Surrey, England (Smallpox )
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Rev. Henry Whitfield and Dorothy Whitfield
Wife of Thomas Jordan and Samuel Desborough, Esq.
Mother of Sarah Milles and Dr. James Disbrowe
Sister of Sarah Higginson; Abigail Fitch; Thomas Whitfield; John Whitfield; Nathaniel Whitfield and 10 others

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About Dorothy Desborough

Dorothy Whitfield

  • Birth: Circa 1619 - Ockley,,Surrey, England
  • Death: 1654 - Surrey, England
  • Parents: Reverend Henry Whitfield, Dorothy Sheafe
  • Husband: Colonel Samuel Desborough

The new Oxford DNB states that Samuel Desborough married Dorothy, daughter of Henry  Whitfield of Ockley, Surrey. They had one daughter, Sarah, who was born in March  1649. They had a son, James, who married Abigail Marsh of St Albans, Hertfordshire on 9 March 1679.

Samuel's first wife died of smallpox in  1654. In 1655 he married Rose, widow of Samuel Penoyer, a merchant of  London.

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Dorothy Desborough's Timeline

1619
March 25, 1619
Ockley, Surrey, England
1649
1649
England
1649
Guilford, New Haven, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America
1654
1654
Age 34
Ockley, Surrey, England