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SIR KNIGHT
Thomas Curwen
  Sex: Male
Birth Date 1493 Workington Hall, Cumberland
Death Date  1543 Workington Hall, Cumberland 
Father Christopher Curwen SIR   Born: 1472 Workington, Cumberland, England Died: 1557 
Mother   Born:  
Thomas Curwen
Notes:
The Curwens of Workington, a family of great antiquity, had supplied knights of the shire for Cumberland since the 14th century. They had held Workington of the earls of Northumberland and in 1619 another Sir Henry Curwen could write that his ancestors ‘always have been employed in service in that noble house of Northumberland’. Under the early Tudors, however, with the waning of the Percys and other magnates, the family had taken its place among the border gentry which looked for support to the crown. Foremost among the new agents of royal power were the Whartons, with whom the Curwens forged a firm alliance. Sir Thomas Curwen, described in 1537 as the most trusted friend of Sir Thomas Wharton I, took as his second wife Wharton’s sister Florence, and Henry Curwen’s marriage was originally designed to strengthen the alliance. On 2 Oct. 1534 the dean of the Earl of Northumberland’s chapel was licensed to marry him in Topcliffe chapel, ‘ad contemplationem ejusdem comitis’, to Wharton’s daughter Agnes, but after his father’s death this union of two infants was set aside, Agnes becoming the wife of Richard Musgrave and Curwen marrying Mary Fairfax: both bridegrooms had been Wharton’s wards. Musgrave’s uncle and heir male Simon Musgrave was later to challenge his nephew’s marriage on the ground of the previous one, but the later marriages were evidently 

Notes: Place of Burial: St Michaels Church Workington, Allerdale Borough, Cumbria, England MEMORIAL ID 146363046 

1 Children Birth Death Mother Spouse Grand Children
1 Henry Curwin of Workington, MP SIR KNIGHT   b.1528 Workington, Cumberland, , England
d.1596 Dec 25 Workington, Cumberland, , England 
1 John Corwin b.1570
Matthias Corwin b.1590
Martha Hutchinson Corwin b.1636
Ancestors Chart
Parents 2 4 persons 8 persons 16 persons 32 persons 64 persons 128 persons 256 persons 512 persons 1024 persons -
SIR
Christopher Curwen

b.1472 Workington, Cumberland, England
d.1557
SIR
Thomas Curwen K.B.

b.1459 Workington Hall, Cumberland, England
d.1522
Sir Knight
Christopher Curwen

b.1422 Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland, England
d.1499
SIR KNIGHT
Thomas Curwen

b.1400 Workington Hall,,Cumbria,England
d.1470
SIR KNIGHT
Christopher Curwen of Workington

b.1382 Workington, Cumbria, England, UK
d.1450
SIR KNIGHT
William Curwen

b.1355 Workington Hall, Cumberland
d.1403
SIR KNIGHT
Gilbert Curwen
IV

b.1315 Workington Hall, Cumberland
d.1403
SIR KNIGHT
Gilbert Curwen
III

b.1296 Workington Hall, Cumberland
d.1383
Sheriff of Cumberland
Gilbert Curwen
II

b.1266
d.1329
Gilbert Culwen I

b.1206 Workington, Cumberland, England
d.1290
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        SIR
Christopher Curwen

b.1472 Workington, Cumberland, England
d.1557
       Magareta

        Magareta

      
Magareta

     
    LADY
Elizabeth Huddleston of Millom

b.1382 Millom,,Cumberland,England
d.1468
Richard Huddleton
b.1317

See Notes
      
LADY
Elizabeth Huddleston of Millom

b.1382 Millom,,Cumberland,England
d.1468
     
   
  
 
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