Excerpt from Generations of a New-England Family
Elder william wentwor'th,~ancestor of the members of the Wentworth and Hayes families present, was descended from Reginald Wentworth, enrolled in the Doomsday Book as Rynald de or Reginald of Wentworth, who was living at the time of the Norman Conquest, a.d. 1066, and was of Norman descent. To this family belonged the famous Earl of Strafford and the Marquis of Rockingham, whose names were given by the royal governors of the Wentwo'rth name to two of the New Hampshire counties, Strat'ford and Rockingham.
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