• Born: Abt 1442
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• Died:

  Research Notes:

Because of her early death less is known about Constance Worsley than about her sisters, but there is adequate cumulative evidence of her existence and marriage. In his pedigree of the Gainsfords in his visitation of 1530, the herald Benolt carelessly gives to Anne (Worsley) Gainsford all of her sisters as children. Carelessness it must have been, for the Gainsford offspring, to whom their aunts were joined, were living when Benolt was gathering his information. Among these sisters was "Constance ux[or] Marow." Philipot, the Kentish antiquary, in a Worsley pedigree listed "Custancia" among Otewell Worsley's daughters but did not know her husband's name although he knew that she had a daughter and heiress, whom he miscalls Elizabeth, who was the wife of Hugh Welden. The will of Thomas Marowe, made in 1505, mentions his niece Cecile Welden, daughter of his brother William, and Lady Leigh (Isabel Worsley) left a legacy to "my niece Weldon" in 1527. This would seem to add up to satisfactory proof. ¹