Name / Spouse	Born/Died	Father / Mother	Notes
SIR KNIGHT Christopher Curwen	b.1422 Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland, England d.1499 Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland, England	Father: SIR KNIGHT Thomas Curwen Mother:	Place of Burial: Workington, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
SIR Christopher Curwen	b.1472 Workington, Cumberland, England d.1557 Workington, Cumberland, England	Father: SIR Thomas Curwen K.B. Mother:	Occupation: sheriff of Cumberland 1524-6 and 1533
SHERIFF OF CUMBERLAND Gilbert II Curwen Spouse1: Eda Harrington	b.1266 d.1329	Father: Gilbert Culwen I Mother:
SIR KNIGHT Gilbert III Curwen Spouse1: Magareta	b.1296 Workington Hall, Cumberland d.1383 Workington Hall, Cumberland	Father: Sheriff of Cumberland Gilbert Curwen II Mother:
SIR KNIGHT Gilbert IV Curwen Spouse1: Alice Lowther	b.1315 Workington Hall, Cumberland d.1403 Workington Hall, Cumberland	Father: SIR KNIGHT Gilbert Curwen III Mother: Magareta
SIR KNIGHT Thomas Curwen Spouse1: Anne Lowther	b.1400 Workington Hall,,Cumbria,England d.1470 Workington Hall,,Cumbria,England	Father: SIR KNIGHT Christopher Curwen of Workington Mother: LADY Elizabeth Huddleston of Millom
SIR KNIGHT Thomas Curwen	b.1493 Workington Hall, Cumberland d.1543 Workington Hall, Cumberland	Father: SIR Christopher Curwen Mother:	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 â€˜always have been employed in service in that noble house of Northumberlandâ€™. 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 Whartonâ€™s sister Florence, and Henry Curwenâ€™s marriage was originally designed to strengthen the alliance. On 2 Oct. 1534 the dean of the Earl of Northumberlandâ€™s chapel was licensed to marry him in Topcliffe chapel, â€˜ad contemplationem ejusdem comitisâ€™, to Whartonâ€™s daughter Agnes, but after his fatherâ€™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 Whartonâ€™s wards. Musgraveâ€™s uncle and heir male Simon Musgrave was later to challenge his nephewâ€™s marriage on the ground of the previous one, but the later marriages were evidently Place of Burial: St Michaels Church Workington, Allerdale Borough, Cumbria, England MEMORIAL ID 146363046
SIR KNIGHT William Curwen Spouse1: Margaret Croft	b.1355 Workington Hall, Cumberland d.1403 Workington Hall, Cumberland	Father: SIR KNIGHT Gilbert Curwen IV Mother:

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