'Gerard01'
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Families covered: Gerard of Bryn, Gerard of Catenhall, Gerard of Fiskerton, Gerard of Flamberds, Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, Gerard of Halsall, Gerard of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Gerard of Kingsley, Gerard of Macclesfield

William Gerard of Kingsley (d before 1316)
m. Margaret
1. William Gerard of Kingsley and Catenhall (d before 1352)
  m. Matilda de Glasshowse (dau of Henry de Glasshowse of Kingsley)
  A. William Gerard of Kingsley and Catenhall (b c1322)
  m. Joan de Bryn (dau of Peter de Bryn of Brynhill or Brindle)
i. Sir Peter Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn (d before 1380)
  a. Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn (d 27.03.1415-6)
  (1) John Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn (d 10.04.1431)
  m. Alice le Boteler (d c27.02.1441/2, dau of Sir John le Boteler)
  (A) Sir Peter Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn (d before 1446)
  m. Isabella Strangeways (dau of James Strangeways)
(i) Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn (b c1430, d before 1494)
  m. Douce Assheton (dau of Sir Thomas Assheton of Ashton-under-Lyne)
  (a) Peter Gerard (dvp 1494)
  m. (c1481) Margaret Stanley (b 1458, d 1547, dau of Sir Thomas Stanley of Hooton)
  ((1)) Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn (b c1488, d 06.11.1523)
  m. Margery Trafford (dau of Sir Edmund Trafford of Trafford)
  ((2)) Alice Gerard probably of this generation
  m. Thomas Radclyffe (b 1483, d 1521)
  ((3)) Janet Gerard possibly of this generation
  m. Peter Leigh of Lyme and Haydock (b c1520, d c1542)
  (b) Eleanor Gerard probably of this generation
  m. Sir John Warren of Poynton & Stockton (b c1461, d 09.01.1518)
  (ii) Margaret Gerard probably of this generation
  m. (08.1444) Sir John Boteler of Bewsey & Warrington (b 1429, d 26.02.1462/3)
  b. John Gerard
  (1) ?? Gerard
  Uncertain on number of intervening generations.
(A) ?? Gerard
  (i) William Gerard of Ince
  m. Elizabeth Byron (dau of Sir John Byron)
  (a) James Gerard (2nd son)
  m. Margaret Holcroft (dau of John Holcroft of Holcroft)
((1)) Sir Gilbert Gerard of Gerard's Bromley (d 04.02.1592/3, Master of the Rolls, Attorney-General)
  m. Anne Ratcliffe (dau of Thomas Ratcliffe of Wimersley)
  ((A)) Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Lord of Gerard's Bromley (d 15.01.1617/8)
  m1. Alice Rivet (a 1592, dau of Sir Thomas Rivet)
((i)) Gilbert Gerard, 2nd Lord of Gerard's Bromley (d 1622)
  m. (16.09.1609) Eleanor Dutton (b c1596, d 12.03.1665/6, dau of Thomas Dutton of Dutton)
  ((a)) Dutton Gerard, 3rd Lord of Gerard's Bromley (b 04.03.1613, d 22.04.1640)
  m1. (after 18.05.1625) Mary Fane (bpt 03.08.1606, bur 1634, dau of Francis Fane, Earl of Westmoreland)
(((1))) Charles Gerard, 4th Lord of Gerard's Bromley (b 22.07.1634, d 28.12.1667)
  m. (1660) Jane Digby (b c1637, d 11.1703, dau of George Digby of Sandon)
  (((A))) Digby Gerard, 5th Lord of Gerard's Bromley (b 17.07.1662, d 08.11.1684)
m. Elizabeth Gerard (dau of Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield) below
 
(((i))) Elizabeth Gerard (d 13.02.1743-4)
m. (17.07.1698) James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamlton, 1st Duke of Brandon (b 1658, d 1712)
  (((2))) Mary Gerard (d 1714)
  m. Sir Anthony Cope, Bart of Hanwell (dsp 1675)
m2. Elizabeth O'Brien (d after 04.1656, dau of Henry O'Brien, 5th Earl of Thomond)
  (((3))) Elizabeth Gerard
  m. William Spencer of Ashton (d 1688)
  ((b)) Alice Gerard
  m. Roger Owen, younger of Cundover (b 1611)
  ((c)) Frances Gerard (bur 25.05.1636)
  m. Robert Needham, 3rd Viscount Kilmorey (dsps 01.1657)
  ((d)) Elizabeth Gerard (d 26.01.1678-9)
  m. Sir Peter Leicester, Bart of Nether Tabley
  ((ii)) John Gerard (d 1673)
  ((a)) Richard Gerard of Hilderstone (d 11.03.1680)
  (((1))) Charles Gerard, 6th Lord (b c1659, dsp 21.04.1707)
  m. Mary Webb (d 09.1731, dau of Sir John Webb, 1st Bart of Oldstock)
(((2))) Philip Gerard, 7th Lord (b 01.12.1665, d unm 04.05.1733, Jesuit)
  (((3))) Frances Gerard
  m. Thomas Fleetwood
  (((4)))+ other issue (dsp) - William, Joseph (d 23.04.1705)
  ((i))+ other issue (dsp)
  m2. (sp) Elizabeth Woodford (d 1624, dau of Robert Woodford of Brightwell)
((B)) Ratcliffe Gerard of Hatsall or Halsall
  m. Elizabeth Somerset (dau of Sir Charles Somerset)
  ((i)) Sir Charles Gerard of Halsall
  m. Penelope Fitton (dau of Sir Edward Fitton, 1st Bart of Gosworth)
  ((a)) Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (b c1618, d 07.01.1693/4, General)
  m. (before 01.12.1656) Jeanne de Civelle (d 28.09.1671, dau of Pierred de Civelle)
  (((1))) Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (b c1659, dsp 05.11.1701)
  m1. (18.06.1683, div 1698) _ Mason (dau of Sir Richard Mason of Bishop's Castle)
  m2. _ Harbord
(((2))) Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield (b c1665, d unm 26.12.1702)
  (((3))) Charlotte Gerard
  m1. Thomas or James Mainwaring of Cheshire
  (((A))) Charlotte Mainwaring (d c1705)
  m. (07/8.1691) Charles Mohun, 4th Lord of Okehampton (b 11.04.1677, d 15.11.1712)
  m2. Sir Thomas Orby of Lincolnshire
  (((4))) Anne Gerard
  m. _ Ebrington (captain)
  (((5))) Elizabeth Gerard (b c1659, 11.01.1699/1700)
  m. Digby Gerard, 5th Lord above
  ((b)) Charlotte Gerard
  m. Roger Whitley of Ashton and Hawarden Castle
  ((c))+ other issue - Edward, Sir Gilbert
  ((ii)) Thomas Gerard (dsp)
  ((iii)) Radclyffe Gerard (Lt. Colonel)
  m. Jennet Barret (dau of Edward Barret of Pembrokeshire)
  ((a)) Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Bart of Fiskerton (a 1666)
  m1. (sp) Mary Brereton (dau of Sir John Brereton)
  m2. Mary Cosins (dau of John Cosins, Bishop of Durham)
  (((1))) Sir Gilbert Gerard, 2nd Bart of Fiskerton (dsp)
m1. (div 1684) Mary Berkeley (dau of Charles Berkeley, Earl of Plymouth)
  m2. 'Lady Morland'
  (((2))) Charlotte Gerard
  m. John Barcroft
  ((iv)) Sir Gilbert Gerard, Governor of Worcester (dvp)
  m. Anne Fitton (dau of Sir John or Edward Fitton)
  ((C)) Gilbert Gerard
  m. Ellen Pearson (dau of William Pearson of Chester)
  ((D)) Frances Gerard
  m. Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Bart of Sefton (d 08.02.1622-3)
  ((E)) Margaret Gerard
  m. Peter Leigh of Lyme (d 1636)
  ((F)) Catherine Gerard (d 17.11.1617)
  m. Sir Richard Hoghton, Bart of Hoghton Tower (d 12.11.1630)
  ((G)) Ratcliffe Gerard
  m. Sir Thomas Wingfield, later of Letheringham (d 22.01.1609)
  ((2)) William Gerard of Flamberds, Harrow-on-the-Hill (d 15.04.1583)
  m. Dorothy Ratcliff (dau of John Ratcliff of Langley)
((A)) Sir Gilbert Gerard of Flamberds, 1st Bart of Harrow-on-the-Hill (a 1620)
  m. Mary Barrington (dau of Sir Francis Barrington, Bart)
  ((i)) Sir Francis Gerard of Flamberds, 2nd Bart of Harrow-on-the-Hill
  m. Isabel Cheek (dau of Sir Thomas Cheek)
  ((a)) Sir Charles Gerard of Flamberds, 3rd Bart of Harrow-on-the-Hill (d 1701)
  m. (09.02.1675-6) Honora Seymour (bur 11.05.1731, dau of Charles Seymour, 2nd Lord of Trowbridge)
  (((1))) Elizabeth Gerard
  m1. Warwick Lake (d 1712)
  m2. Miles Stapleton
((b)) Sir Francis Gerard of Flamberds, 4th Bart of Harrow-on-the-Hill (d 08.1704)
  ((c)) Sir Cheek Gerard of Flamberds, 5th Bart of Harrow-on-the-Hill (d unm 02.1715)
  ((ii)) Winifred Gerard
  m. Tristram Conyers
  ((iii)) Katherine Gerard (bpt 06.07.1631, a 1688)
  m. Sir Charles Pym, Bart (d c1672)
  ((iv)) daughter
  m. Sir John Heydon
  ((v))+ other issue - Sir Gilbert, Thomas, John, Mary (d unm)
  ((B)) Dorothy Gerard or Gerrard possibly of this generation
  m. (25.09.1626) Carew Hervey Mildmay of Marks, Sheriff of Essex (b 02.02.1595, bur 08.08.1676)

Main sources: BP1934 (Gerard), BE1883 (Gerard of Gerard's Bromley), TCP (Gerard of Gerard's Bromley), BE1883 (Gerard of Brandon and Macclesfield), TCP (Macclesfield), BEB1841 (Gerard of Harrow-on-the-Hill), BEB1841 (Gerard of Fiskerton)
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