'Baldwin1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Baldwyn of Aqualate, Bawdewin (Badewyn or Baldwyn) of Diddlebury, Baldwyn of Elsich, Baldwyn of Stokesay Castle, Childe of Kinlet
[This page was originally called Baldwyn1. It was renamed on 06.08.09.]

                               
Robert de Bollers, lord of Montgomery (d 1202)
m. Hilaria Trusbut (dsp)
partner(s) unknown
1. William de Bollers of Aston (d before 1226)
  A. Baldwin de Bollers of Winsbury, Provost of Montgomery (2nd son)
  m. Christian de Merringtoy (dau of John de Merringtoy)
  i. George FitzBawdewin of Kingsmeade (a 1257, Steward of Montgomery Castle)
  m. Jane Segrave (dau of John Segrave, she m2. William de la Mare)
  a. George FitzBawdewin
m. Alice de Stanton
  (1) John Bawdewin of Diddlebury, Salop the first mentioned by MGH
  m. Anne L'Enfant (dau of Richard L'Enfant or Le Childe of Diddlebury)
  (A) Thomas Bawdewin
  (i) William Bawdewin of Diddlebury (a 1333)
  m. Janet or Alice de Wigley (dau of William de Wigley by Alice Childe)
  (a) Thomas Bawdewin of Diddlebury
  ((1)) George Bawdewyn of Diddlebury (a 1358)
  m. Cicely de Buxton (dau of Sir Nicholas de Buxton)
  ((A)) Roger Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Diddlebury (d c1398)
  m. Eleanor Clinton
  ((i)) William Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Diddlebury (a 1458) - continued below
  m. Matilda Corbett (dau of Thomas Corbett of Longnor)
  b.+ 2 sons
2. son

 

 

William Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Diddlebury (a 1458) - continued above
m. Matilda Corbett (dau of Thomas Corbett of Longnor)
1. John Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Diddlebury (b by 1418)
  Visitation shows John's wife as Mary (corrected to Elizabeth dau of ?? (corrected to John) Leighton. MGH supports that but without 'the corrections'. BLG1952 identifies her as Elizabeth, dau of John Leighton of Stretton & Wattlesborough (Sheriff in 1468). However, we suspect that she was a generation earlier.
  m. Elizabeth Leighton (possibly sister of John Leighton of Stretton & Wattlesborough)
  A. John Bawdewyn or Baldwyn or Bawdwyn of Diddlebury (a 1473)
  m. Augustina or Alice Parker (dau of Robert Parker of Norton Lacy (Norton Lees))
i. John Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Diddlebury (a 1495)
  m. Alice Botterell (dau of John Botterell of Aston Botterell)
  a. William Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Diddlebury (dsp after 1575)
  b. Richard Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Diddlebury
  m. (07.11.1545) Margery Ludlowe (dau of Lawrence Ludlowe of Stokesay Castle, son of Maurice son of Sir Richard)
  (1) Thomas Bawdewyn of Diddlebury (d 10.1614)
  BLG1952 reports that the family name "had hitherto been written indiscriminately, but from this point of divergence the two branches chose to distinguish themselves by a different mode of spelling".
  m. Gertrude Corbett (dau of Robert Corbett of Standwarden)
  (A) Edward Bawdewyn of Diddlebury (a 1623)
m. Mary Lutwich (dau of Edward Lutwich of Lutwich)
  Visitation & MGH end with this generation. BLG1952 reports that this branch continued for another 4 generations until a Richard who sold Diddlebury.
  (i) ?? Bawdewyn
  (a) ?? Bawdewyn
  ((1)) ?? Bawdewyn
  ((A)) Richard Bawdewyn, last of Diddlebury
  (ii) Gertrude Bawdewyn probably of this generation
  m. Robert Leighton of Wattlesborough, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1689)
  (B) Dorothy Bawdewyn probably the Dorothy who married ...
  m. John Langley of the Tuckies (b 1581, a 1667)
(C)+ other issue - John, Richard, Susan(na)
  (2) William Baldwyn of Elsich or Elsick
  m. Barbara Brooke (dau of Richard Brooke of Whitchurch)
  (A) Charles Baldwyn of Elsich and Stokesay Castle (b 1593, a 1623)
  m. (1617) Mary Holland (dau of Francis Holland of Burwarton)
  (i) Sir Samuel Baldwyn of Stokesay Castle (b 1618, d 1683)
  m. _ Walcot (dau of Richard Walcot of London)
(a) Charles Baldwyn of Elsich and Stokesay Castle, Sheriff of Herefordshire (b c1650, d 04.01.1706)
  m. Elizabeth Acton (dau of Nicholas Acton of Bockleton)
  ((1)) Acton Baldwyn (dsp)
m. Elinor Skrymsher (dau of Sir Charles Skrymsher of Norbury)
  ((2)) Charles Baldwyn of Aqualate and Bockleton (b 1686-7, d 1751)
  m1. Elizabeth Allgood (dau of John Allgood of Newcastle and Cockermouth, widow of Sir Patrick Strahan of Glenkindy)
  ((A)) Charles Baldwyn of Aqualate (d 28.09.1801)
  m. (1752) Catherine Childe (dau of William Lacon Childe of Kinlet)
  ((i)) William Baldwyn, later Childe of Kinlet (d 03.02.1824)
  m. (20.11.1775) Annabella Leighton (d 21.01.1816, dau of Sir Charlton Leighton, 3rd Bart)
  ((a)) William Lacon Childe of Kinlet and Kyre Park, Sheriff of Salop (b 03.01.1786, d 12.1880) had issue
  m. (13.08.1807) Harriet Cludde (dau of William Cludde of Orleton)
((b)) Annabella Childe
  m. Samuel Richard Alleyne
  ((ii))+ other issue - Charles (d 1811), Catherine
  m2. Anne Gayer (dau of Sir Robert Gayer of Stoke, widow of Rev. Francis Annesley)
  ((3)) Samuel Baldwyn
  m. Katherine Lamplugh (dau of Thomas Lamplugh DD)
  ((4)) Elizabeth Baldwyn
  (b) Elizabeth Baldwyn
  m. Thomas Ottley of Pitchford
  (ii) Sir Timothy Baldwyn (dsp, Master in Chancery)
  m1. Ellen Owen (dau of Sir William Owen of Condover)
  m2. Mary Skrymshire (dau of Gerard Skrymshire of Aqualate, widow of Nicholas Acton of Bockleton)
  (iii)+ other issue - Benjamin (a 1623), Barbara
  (B) son
  (3) Henry Bawdewyn or Baldwyn
  (4) Elizabeth Bawdewyn or Baldwyn
  m. Richard Higgins
  (5) Dorothy Bawdewyn or Baldwyn
m1. Walter Beck
  m2. Thomas Evans of Hanley
  (6) Mary Bawdewyn or Baldwyn
  m1. Gregory or George Mason
  m2. Edward Powell of Clun
  c. John Bawdewyn or Baldwyn
  m. Ancareta Marston (dau of Edward Marston of Ascott)
  (1)+ issue - John of Pontfract, Richard (dsp)
  d. Francis Bawdewyn or Baldwyn (parson of Wistanslow)
  e. Jane Bawdewyn or Baldwyn
  m(1). Thomas Mason of Didlebery (d 1583)
  m2. William Burfeld of Hertfordshire confusion with her sister Joane just below?
  f. daughter
  m1/2. Thomas Crowther
  m2/1. _ Williams
  g. Joane Bawdewyn or Baldwyn confusion with her sister Jane just above?
  m. William Burfeeld of Hertfordshire
  partner unknown
  h. John Bawdewyn or Baldwyn of Stretton
  m. Joan Poston (dau of Edward Poston)
  (1) Edward Baldwyn of Stretton (a 1623)
  m. Elizabeth Bedow (dau of Thomas Bedow of Alstretton)
(A) Richard Baldwyn of Acton Scott
  m. Frances Wilkes (dau of John Wilkes)
  (i)+ issue - John, Katherine
  (B)+ other issue - Thomas, Catherine
  (2) Ancareta Baldwyn
  m. Edward Blackway
  ii. Alice Baldwyn
  m. John Walker of Stretton
  B. Richard Baldwyn or Baldwin of Aston
  Visitation indicates that Richard, described as 'of Aston' "is placed here" indicating that it is thought likely that he was of this generation of this family but that it has not been proved. MGH shows him connected by dotted line.
  m. _ Porteman
  C. Joane Baldwyn
  m. John Walker, alias Leigh, of Stretton
  i. Thomas Walker, alias Leighe
  a. Ann Walker
  m. Richard Hopton

Main source(s): BLG1952 ('Childe of Kinlet'), Visitation (Shropshire, 1623, 'Baldwin of Diddlebury') with support from MGH (NS2, vol 3 (1890), 'Baldwin', p136+)
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