Paternal Family Tree: Dolben
Before 1658 [his father] Archbishop John Dolben [aged 32] and [his mother] Catherine Sheldon were married.
In 1658 Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet was born to Archbishop John Dolben [aged 33] and Catherine Sheldon.
In 1661 [his father] Archbishop John Dolben [aged 36] was appointed Prebendary London.
In 1662 [his father] Archbishop John Dolben [aged 37] was appointed Dean of Westminster Abbey.
In 1666 [his father] Archbishop John Dolben [aged 41] was appointed Bishop of Rochester.
In or before 1683 Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet [aged 24] and Anne Mulso were married. A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings; her sister Elizabeth Mulso married his brother John Dolben [aged 20]. He the son of Archbishop John Dolben [aged 57] and Catherine Sheldon.
In 1683 [his father] Archbishop John Dolben [aged 58] was appointed Archbishop of York.
Before December 1683 John Dolben [aged 21] and Elizabeth Mulso were married. A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings; her sister Anne Mulso married his brother Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet [aged 25]. He the son of Archbishop John Dolben [aged 58] and Catherine Sheldon.
In 1684 Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet [aged 26] was appointed Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
In 1684 [his son] John Dolben 2nd Baronet was born to Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet [aged 26]. He married 28th July 1720 Elizabeth Digby Lady Dolben, daughter of William Digby 5th Baron Digby and Jane Noel Baroness Digby, and had issue.
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In 1685 Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet [aged 27] was elected MP Ripon.
Around 18th April 1686 [his father] Archbishop John Dolben [aged 61] died of smallpox. He had been returned from York to London when he came into contact with a person infected with small-pox. Becoming infected himself he died a few days later.
On 1st April 1704 Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet [aged 46] was created 1st Baronet Dolben of Finedon in Northamptonshire.
On 28th July 1720 [his son] John Dolben 2nd Baronet [aged 36] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Digby Lady Dolben were married.
In 1722 Gilbert Dolben 1st Baronet [aged 64] died. His son John [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Baronet Dolben of Finedon in Northamptonshire. Elizabeth Digby Lady Dolben by marriage Lady Dolben of Finedon in Northamptonshire.
father: Archbishop John Dolben
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Sheldon
Grandfather: Ralph Sheldon
mother: Catherine Sheldon