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Bridget Bendish
Bridget Bendish (née Ireton) (1650–1726), was a daughter of General Henry Ireton and Bridget, Oliver Cromwell's eldest daughter. She was born in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, England. She married Thomas Bendish in 1670. Bridget died early in 1726 at age 76 and was buried in Great Yarmouth.
Life.
In 1652, her mother, also named Bridget Ireton (born July 1624), married General Charles Fleetwood after being widowed by the death of Henry Ireton. In 1662, her mother
of her and Fleetwood's infant child from Westminster Abbey where the child had been buried. Her first husband was not only exhumed but his dead body was hanged in revenge for Henry's involvement in the regicide of Charles I. She died in June 1662 and she was survived by at least seven children. At least three of them had Fleetwood as a father and the rest were the children of Ireton. She was buried in St Anne's Church in Blackfriars, London. One of her daughters was Bridget Bendish.