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Frances Thornhurst, later Frances Jennings

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Frances Thornhurst, later Frances Jennings, later Mrs Richard Jennings

Dates: Dates not securely established in the sources reviewed

Biography

Frances Thornhurst was the daughter and heir of Sir Giffard Thornhurst and Susan Temple. She inherited the Agney leasehold interest and later married Richard Jennings, linking the leaseholding estate with the Jennings family.

Notes / Sources

The inheritance described is a leasehold interest, not the Dean and Chapter's freehold.

Research sources:
- Modern historical summary of the Manor of Agney, Kent; Cambridge University Press, The Jacobite Duchess, chapter identifying Frances Thornhurst as inheriting a lease of lives on Agney. — https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800102040%23C1/type/BOOK_PART

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