Talk:Mary Wolverston

Move to Mary Wolverston
I have moved this page from Elizabeth Trewinnard to Mary Wolverston, as this is the correct identity of the lady concerned, the wife of Sir John IV Killigrew (d.1584) of Arwenack, 2nd Governor of Pendennis Castle. Several sources have confused the lady with Sir John IV's mother Elizabeth Trewennard/Trewinnard and even with with his grand-daughter-in-law Jane Fermor. The primary source for this famous story, which has been much added to and embroidered by several writers, is Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 15 January 1582 & 2 March 1582, which is a record of the official enquiry. The most reliable secondary source is:
 * Whitley, H.M., Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Vol.VII, 1881-3, p. 286, re account of piracy of Mary Wolverston, wife of Sir John IV Killigrew (d.1584). This is the most reliable account, followed by Baring-Gould.

Details of inaccurate sources are set out in:
 * Baring Gould, Sabine, Cornish Characters and Strange Events, London, 1909, Dame Killigrew

The most reliable pedigree of the Killigrew family is: (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 14:48, 17 May 2015 (UTC))
 * Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian,  Exeter,   1887, pedigree of Killigrew, pp. 267–71