Fenwick, Cuthbert

Birth Name Fenwick, Cuthbert
Gender male
Age at Death about 41 years

Narrative

'Cuthbert, a well-educated Catholic attorney, immigrated to Maryland in 1634-3-24 with Leonard Calvert. He found a good and powerful friend in Captain Thomas Cornwaleys, for whom he acted as agent, and who was with his patron in the engagement on the Chesapeake, between a pinnace commanded by a partisan of Claiborne, and two armed boats commanded by Cornwaleys for the government. He was a member of the Assembly 1637-8 and later. He was speaker of the House of Burgesses when it sat separate from the Council in 1649, and voted for the Toleration Act. Cuthbert also held a commission to seize illegal traders in 1638-9 and was a Justice of St Mary's Co Court in 1644.
Cuthbert's second marriage to Jane Eltonhead Moryson included a pre-nuptial agreement 1649-8-1.'

Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Volume 2, edited by James G. Wilson, John Fiske.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1614 Langshaws, Northumberland, England    
Death about 1655 Maryland    

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Fenwick, Georgeafter 1615
Mother Mitford, Barbara1576
    Brother     Fenwick, William about 1603
    Brother     Fenwick, Robert
    Brother     Fenwick, Anthony
         Fenwick, Cuthbert about 1614 about 1655
    Brother     Fenwick, Stephen
    Sister     Fenwick, Anne

Families

Family of Fenwick, Cuthbert and Cornwallis, Teresa?
Married Wife Cornwallis, Teresa? ( * + before 1649 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Fenwick, Thomasbefore 1654
Fenwick, Cuthbert Jr16401676
Fenwick, Ignatius1646
Fenwick, Theresa

Family of Fenwick, Cuthbert and Eltonhead, Jane
Married Wife Eltonhead, Jane ( * 1621 + about 1660-12-01 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage Settlement 1649-08-01      
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Fenwick, Robert16511676
Fenwick, Richardabout 16531714
Fenwick, John16551720