Dorothy Crackenthorpe
- Born: 1724
- Marriage (1): William Cookson on 9 Dec 1741 in Newbiggin, Westmoreland, England
- Died: 1792 at age 68
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The Hidden Wordsworth
Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy
By KENNETH R. JOHNSTON
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The Crackanthorpes of Newbiggin Hall, near Penrith, were another old gentry family on the way up, but their wagon was hitched to a different lord. They were not proud of their daughter's (Wordsworth's grandmother) marriage alliance with the Cookson family, who were "in trade," and they ignored the Wordsworth connection completely when they compiled their family tree.
Dorothy married William Cookson, son of Thomas Cookson and Ann Fisher, on 9 Dec 1741 in Newbiggin, Westmoreland, England. (William Cookson was born in 1711 in Penrith, Cumberland, England and died in 1787.)
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