Dorothy Silking
[1] Her name appears as "Dorothea Silking, of an ancient family in the kingdom of Denmark" on her daughter's monument at Ketton church, Kedington, Suffolk.[7] "Dorthee" and "Engella Seelken" were naturalized as English citizens in July 1610 at the same time as other members of the queen's household, including; Katherine Benneken from Garlstorf, the queen's doctor Martin Schöner from Głogów, the apothecary John Wolfgang Rumler from Augsburg and his wife Anna de l'Obel from Middelburg, a daughter of Matthias de l'Obel.In 1635 Reverend George Garrard, who had been at court in the household of Prince Henry, recalled that Silking was "a Dane, one that served Queen Anne in her bedchamber.[13] Edward Zouch died in 1634, and the year after their 17-year-old daughter Sophia was married to Viscount Wimbledon, a 63-year-old war veteran, the age difference attracted comment from Sir John Finet.In 1638 Mountnorris advised James Zouch, after consulting his steward Andrew Conradus, that in view of his debts he ought to live more economically with his mother and just four or five servants for £100 a year.