Researching Edward Worth
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2690 people with the Worth surname? In that year Worth was ranked number 1466 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Edward means "Guardian of prosperity" and is of English origin.
Records of Edward Worth on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Edward Worth and the Worth Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Worth Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Worth family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 3622 people with the Worth surname in the UK? Worth is now ranked number 1572 for popularity in the UK. |
Worth Family History Databases
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Worth Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Worth surname in the USA? Worth is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
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Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Edward Worth. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Edward Worth (politician)
Edward Worth, FRS, (1678– March 2d 1733) was an Irish politician, physician and book collector.
He was born into a prosperous Church of Ireland family, his father being John Worth (1648-1688), Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who was a younger son of Edward Worth (1620-1669), Bishop of Killaloe and his wife Susannah Pepper. His father's eldest brother William Worth was an eminent judge. Edward's mother was named Comfort: she died in 1681. Edward was one of about ten children but only he and his brother Michael reached adulthood.
Worth studied medicine in Oxford (matriculated 1693), Leiden and Utrecht (MD 1701) before practising as a doctor in Dublin. A financial windfall from his uncle William helped him to establish a large book collection, bought from places such as London, the Netherlands, France and Dublin, in addition to those he had inherited from his father and grandfather. On his death the collection consisted of some 4,400 books, many on medicine, dating back in some cases to the fifteenth century. Worth left his library, then valued at £5,000, to Dr Steevens' Hospital in Kilmainham, of which he was a governor. The hospital built a special room to house the books, which remain there today. According to a 2008 Irish Times article, the books have been stored well and are in remarkably good condition.
Edward Worth was an important figure in the Dublin of his day. He was a friend and contemporary of such people as Jonathan Swift, and his library is remarkable, not only for its size and variety, but also for the condition of the books, some of which are hundreds of years old but appear almost new. Between 1715 and 1727, Worth sat in the Irish House of Commons for New Ross.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in January 1699.
He is buried in the family tomb in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Source: Edward Worth (politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaEdward Worth (bishop)
Edward Worth (c. 1620–2 August 1669) was a Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe, who is mainly remembered now as the founder of the Blue Coat School for the poor boys of Cork. In his own lifetime he was known as an adroit political player, who skilfully negotiated his way through the turbulent world of seventeenth-century Irish politics, although he ended not in a position of influence but a rather insignificant bishopric.
200px Prestbury, Cheshire, where the Worth family originated
He was born in Newmarket, County Cork, the son of James Worth, a clergyman; his grandfather Jasper Worth came to Ireland from Prestbury, Cheshire, where the family had lived for several centuries. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1638 and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity (D.D.).
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