Talk:Margaret Percy

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The link to William Gascoigne actually points to his great-grandfather, though there is a note on that page about the individual intended here. Is it worth creating a separate page for this individual? 1bandsaw (talk) 02:25, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

"Margaret (1530–1592/93) married Sir Thomas Wentworth (1520–1586/87), High Sheriff of York (who thereby got possession of the Gascoigne family seat at Gawthorpe, York[10]), and became the paternal grandmother of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford." This information is incorrect. Margaret, the daughter of Sir William Gascoigne VI and Alice Frognall, married Sir Thomas Middleton of Stockeld co. York. Her dates are questionable as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Lazuli (talk • contribs) 01:44, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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Margaret Gascoigne (born Percy) descendants.
Margaret's daughter Elizabeth is a direct ancestor of George Washington. Find a Grave.com list Margaret Percy Gascoigne, Elizabeth Gascoigne Talboys, Anne Talboys Dymoke, Frances Dymoke Windebank, Mildred Windebank Reade, Col George Read, Mildred Reade Warner, Mildred Warner Washington, Augustine Washington, Sr, George Washington.

you can trace this linage.

Another daughter, Anne or Agnes, was a direct ancestor of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. This is proved by a very long article by Anthony Adolph.

This article was written about the time of the birth of Prince George of Cambridge. While it also shows the lineage between Margaret and George Washington, it also connects her to Edward III, William, Duke of Cambridge [by two different paths] and to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [by a completely separate path].

Qashqai2 (talk) 10:46, 5 November 2019 (UTC)


 * So what? Self-published sources and crowdsourced collections are not reliable sources (as defined by Wikipedia) and prominent people are almost invariably going to have some prominent descendants centuries later, but it is not the job of Wikipedia to celebrate such genealogical happenstance. To be included, genealogical material should provide context for understanding the life of the individual, not just indicate which famous people are distantly related to which other famous people. Agricolae (talk) 15:36, 5 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I have removed the excessive genealogical material and bad sourcing, and now realize that the reason it was fluffed out with all of this peripheral material is that there is no core. Not a single detail from her life at all except she was born, she married, she had children. If those are the only biographical facts about her we can come up with, a separate article on her is not justified. Agricolae (talk) 16:58, 2 April 2020 (UTC)