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The woman you are referring to is a granddaughter. John Cotton who married Isabella Fauconer had two sons, John II and William. John II married first Joan Venables and had one son Richard. His second wife was Joan Fitzherbert and it was their daughter who married the Sidley gentleman. I originally thought I was dealing with two generations here, but John II turned out to be a long-lived man who sired a large second family on a much younger second wife (including yet a second Richard, my ancestor). The Sidleys descending from the particular couple you mentioned were quite interesting. One was Catherine Sidley, a mistress of James II, who liked her so much that he gave her the title of Countess of Dorchester. Her father, the poet Sir Charles Sidley, on James II fleeing England in 1688, was one of the members of parliament who voted to make James's daughter Queen of England as Mary II, saying "He made my daughter a countess. It was only fair that I should make his a queen." Naturally, Mary II and the mistress did not get on that well. The mistress's comment about Mary II was that she, the mistress, had only violated the seventh commandment (against adultery) whereas the Queen had violated the fifth (honoring one's father and mother), so who could be called the moral superior.
Hikaru
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