Of Margaret Protheroe

Aunt of Lucy Walter

b. ?, d. ?

Married Peter Gosfight in 1643

Married Thomas Sanbourne in 1662

Daughter of John Protheroe and Elenor Vaughan

Sister of Elisabeth Protheroe and Anne Protheroe

It was in Margaret’s house in Rotterdam that James Stuart, or the Duke of Monmouth was born in April 1649.

Margaret was in arrested as for assisting a spy (Lucy Walter) escape in March 1648 (os March 47) and put in prison [WOM96,WOM179]

She had seen the ‘declaration of marriage’ taken from her niece in Cromwell’s time [WOM84]