8520 Individuals in our Database | | | CURWEN - 8 Individuals Found | 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 ‘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 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: | | | | | |