Biography of Mary Wood Duchess Southampton -1663

Around 1630 [her father] Henry Wood 1st Baronet (age 32) and Anne Webb were married.

In Nov 1651 [her father] Henry Wood 1st Baronet (age 54) and [her mother] Mary Gardiner (age 24) were married at Paris [Map]. The difference in their ages was 29 years.

Around 1657 [her father] Henry Wood 1st Baronet (age 59) was created 1st Baronet Wood.

There is no mention of this creation in Dugdale's Catalogue, but it is stated in the Family of Chester, of Chicheley, by R. E. Chester Waters (where there is a good account of the family of Wood), that Charles II created him a Baronet at the time when he had nothing but titles of honour to bestow. The date of his creation is unknown for his patent was never enrolled, but Sir Thomas Bond, the Comptroller of Queen Henrietta's Household, was made a Baronet 9 Oct. 1658, and it is not likely that the Queen's Treasurer, who had precedence of the Comptroller, would be passed over in the distribution of honours. Sir Henry's name does not occur in any list of Baronets which I have seen, but there is no doubt about his creation, for he is constantly styled Baronet in Royal Warrants after 1660, and is so described on his father's monument, and in his own will.

In 1663 Mary Wood Duchess Southampton was born to Henry Wood 1st Baronet (age 65) and Mary Gardiner (age 35).

On 17 Mar 1665 [her mother] Mary Gardiner (age 38) died of smallpox. On 01 Apr 1665 she was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].

Before 1670 [her future husband] Charles Fitzroy 1st Duke Southampton 2nd Duke Cleveland (age 7) was created 1st Baron Limerick.

In 1670 William Sarsfield and [her illegitimate sister-in-law] Mary Walters (age 18) were married. She the daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 39) and Lucy Walter.

On 25 May 1671 [her father] Henry Wood 1st Baronet (age 73) died without male issue. Baronet Wood extinct. On 31 May 1671 he was buried at Ufford, Suffolk. His daughter Mary Wood Duchess Southampton (age 8) was his heir. In view of the great wealth she was to inherit she was betrothed to [her future husband] Charles Fitzroy 1st Duke Southampton 2nd Duke Cleveland (age 8), an illegitmate son of [her future father-in-law] King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 40) and [her future mother-in-law] Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland (age 30). On her father's death she went to live with Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland (age 30). They, Mary Wood Duchess Southampton (age 8) and Charles Fitzroy 1st Duke Southampton 2nd Duke Cleveland (age 8) married 1679 but she died a year later from smallpox.

In 1675 [her future husband] Charles Fitzroy 1st Duke Southampton 2nd Duke Cleveland (age 12) was created 1st Duke Southampton, 1st Earl Chichester, 1st Baron Newbury by [her future father-in-law] King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 44).

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In 1679 Charles Fitzroy 1st Duke Southampton 2nd Duke Cleveland (age 16) and Mary Wood Duchess Southampton (age 16) were married. She by marriage Duchess Southampton. He the son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 48) and Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland (age 38).

In 1680 Mary Wood Duchess Southampton (age 17) died of smallpox. She was buried with her mother Mary Gardiner (who also died of smallpox) in Westminster Abbey [Map].

Ancestors of Mary Wood Duchess Southampton -1663

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Wood

GrandFather: Thomas Wood

Father: Henry Wood 1st Baronet

GrandMother: Susanna Cranmer

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Gardiner

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Gardiner

Great x 1 Grandfather: Michael Gardiner

GrandFather: Thomas Gardiner

Mother: Mary Gardiner