Dau. of Robert Wheatley, of Brecknol, co. Berks. She married, first, Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, co. Warwick, Esq., Captain in the Earl of Oxford's regiment, and secondly, early in 1685-6, George Fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland (see his burial 11 July 1716), to whom she was first wife. The common report of the period, repeated by Luttrell on two occasions (i. 373 and iii. 39), was that she was " a poulterer's daughter." If true, it is curious that the " poulterer" found what would be called good matches for his three daughters. This one married, first, a gentleman of an old family, and then a Duke ; her sister Anne married Lord George Douglas, first Earl of Dumbarton ; and their sister Elizabeth, according to Luttrell, married a brother of the Duke of Berwick. All three were inmates of the Convent at Hammersmith, at different periods, and in a copy of an official list (penes the Editor), carefully annotated by the Lady Abbess, two of these marriages are noted. Certainly the social position of the inmates of that institution was not usually such as is indicated by the alleged parentage of the Duthess of Northumberland. She died 25 May, apparently without issue.
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Dau. of Robert Wheatley, of Brecknol, co. Berks. She married, first, Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, co. Warwick, Esq., Captain in the Earl of Oxford's regiment, and secondly, early in 1685-6, George Fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland (see his burial 11 July 1716), to whom she was first wife. The common report of the period, repeated by Luttrell on two occasions (i. 373 and iii. 39), was that she was " a poulterer's daughter." If true, it is curious that the " poulterer" found what would be called good matches for his three daughters. This one married, first, a gentleman of an old family, and then a Duke ; her sister Anne married Lord George Douglas, first Earl of Dumbarton ; and their sister Elizabeth, according to Luttrell, married a brother of the Duke of Berwick. All three were inmates of the Convent at Hammersmith, at different periods, and in a copy of an official list (penes the Editor), carefully annotated by the Lady Abbess, two of these marriages are noted. Certainly the social position of the inmates of that institution was not usually such as is indicated by the alleged parentage of the Duthess of Northumberland. She died 25 May, apparently without issue.
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
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