'Hanford1'
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Families covered: Hanford of Redmarley d'Abitot, Hanford of Woollas Hall
| BLGI1912 reports that "Hanford, in Cheshire, was the original seat of this family. The elder line of the family became extinct about 1550". 6th in descent from Sir John Hanford of Cheshire was ... | |||||||||||||||
| Robert Hanford | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Laurence Hanford (2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Pope | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Hanford of Elmdon (Worcestershire), later of Woollas Hall (a 1567, d 1605) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Hugford (d 18.11.1594, dau of John Hugford or Higford of Dixton by Dorothy, sister/coheir of John Vampage of Woollas Hall (Wollashall)) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Edmund Hanford (dvp 1579) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | John Hanford of Woollas Hall (Worcestershire) & Leckhampton (Gloucestershire) (d 17.08.1616) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Bake (d c06.1679, dau/coheir of Richard Bake of Allesley, widow of John Browne of Pershore) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Francis Hanford of Woollas Hall (b 1601, d 1643) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (c1616, annulled 03.1617) Elizabeth Russell (b c1604, dau of Thomas Russell of Rushock, m2. John Hornyold of Blackmere Park) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Giffard (d 1681, dau of Walter Giffard of Chillington, m2. Ayliffe White) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Walter Hanford of Woollas Hall (d 16.07.1679) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1651) Frances Compton (dau/coheir of Sir John Compton of Brambletye) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Francis Hanford of Woollas Hall (d 1682) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Dorothy Cocks (d 1722, dau/coheir of Sir John Cocks of Crowie) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Frances Hanford (dsp 1716) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1708) Charles Somerset of Powick | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Compton Hanford of Woollas Hall (d 1722, 4th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Elizabeth Slingsby (d 1694, dau/heir of Sir Robert Slingsby, Bart of Newsells, niece of Francis, 1st Earl of Derwentwater) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Edward Hanford of Woollas Hall (d 1766) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1718) Elizabeth Hurst (dau/coheir of John Hurst of Haveril) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Edward Hanford of Woollas Hall (b 27.05.1719, d unm 23.09.1797) | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Charles Hanford of Woollas Hall & Redmarley (b 17.09.1726, dsp 12.06.1816, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Duffkin (b c1736, d 1823, dau of J. Duffkin of London) | |||||||||||||||
| (c)+ | other issue (d unm) - James (b 1721, d 09.04.1795), Eleanor (b 1723, d 16.12.1802), Mary (b 1724, d 13.09.1775), Elizabeth (b 1728, nun), Dorothy (b 1736, nun) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii)+ | other issue - Charles (b 1719, d unm 1765), Elizabeth (d unm 1770), Barbara (d 1694), Mary (d 1694) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Joanna de Chaumont (dsp 1717, sister of Joseph de Chaumont of Brussels, cousin of Mary, widow of Sir Geroge Wintour, Bart of Huddingtoin) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Edward Hanford of Redmarley d'Abitot, Worcestershire (b 1671, d 1763, 10th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1717) Frances Hornyold (d 1728, dau of Robert Hornyold of Blackmore Park) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Charles Hanford of Redmarley d'Abitot (b 1721, d 28.05.1794, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1776) Esther Lockley (d 1803, dau of John Lockley of Barton Park & Boscobel) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Charles Edward Hanford of Woollas Hall & Redmarley (b 06.1781, d 17.02.1854) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (11.10.1809) Elizabeth Martin (d 05.03.1844, dau of James Martin of Overbury Court) | |||||||||||||||
| Their sons dsp. One of their daughters married William Lloyd Flood who inherited Woollas Hall and assumed the name Hanford-Flood. | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Lucy Elizabeth Hanford (b 1778, d 1854) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Charles Parker of Battle | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Elizabeth Hanford (b 1779, d unm 1862) | ||||||||||||||
| (d) | Esther Maria Hanford (b 1780, d 1831) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Lemon | |||||||||||||||
| (e) | Eleanor Hanford (d 1810) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.02.1809) John Racster of Pershore | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Frances Hanford | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1763) Daniel Dew of Pauntley Court | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Elizabeth Hanford (d 1812) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1763) Samuel Niblett of Gloucester | |||||||||||||||
| (iv)+ | other issue - Robert (dvp 1723), Sarah (d unm 1734) | ||||||||||||||
| (D)+ | other issue - Walter (d young), Henry (d unnm 1681), John in Weymouth (d unm 1705), William (a 1698, Captain), Charles (d unm 1731), Philip (a 1711), George (d 1681), Vampage (d 1681), Lucy (d unm 1727), Mary (a 1679), Dorothy (a 1721), Frances (d unm 08.04.1721), Katherine (a 1679) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | John Hanford (a 1697) | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Hanford (a 1681) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | Anne Hanford see possible duplication below | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1654) Edmund Bradshaw of London | |||||||||||||||
| (4) | Elizabeth Hanford (b 1630) see possible duplication below | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1654) Robert Clarke of London | |||||||||||||||
| (5)+ | other issue - Edward (b 1634, a 1664), Thomas (b 1635, a 1664), Margaret (d young), Mary (a 1681, nun), Winifred (d unm 1679) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Edmund Hanford of Bristol (b 1603) | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | Tobias Hanford in Virginia, later of Shobdon (Herefordshire) (d 05.1677) | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | Tobias Hanford of Shobdon (d 1679) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | John Hanford of Shobdon (Herefordshire) & Shelfield (Staffordshire) (d 1670) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.1639) Eleanor Wigmore (dau/heir of Warnicombe Wigmore of Shobdon) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Hanford of Shobdon (d 05.07.1676) | ||||||||||||||
| d. | Mary Hanford (bpt 1605) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Brinckman of Lane End in the Marsh | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Anne Hanford (a 1632) | ||||||||||||||
| Visitation shows that Anne m. _ Bradshaw but, though BLGI1912 does show an Anne in this generation (with no marriage shown for her), it also shows an Anne in the next generation who married a Bradshaw. We presume that Visitation was wrong in showing this Anne as having m. _ Bradshaw. | |||||||||||||||
| f. | Dorothy Hanford | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anthony Hunt of Longmore | |||||||||||||||
| f. | Jane Hanford probably the Jane who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Hunt of Longmore (nephew of Anthony) | |||||||||||||||
| g. | Elizabeth Hanford (a 1632) | ||||||||||||||
| Visitation shows that Elizabeth m. _ Clarke but, though BLGI1912 does show an Elizabeth in this generation (with no marriage shown for her), it also shows an Elizabeth in the next generation who married a Clarke. We presume that Visitation was wrong in showing this Elizabeth as having m. _ Clarke. | |||||||||||||||
| h.+ | other issue (a 1632) - Margaret, Catherine (d unm 1681), Winifred (d 1679) | ||||||||||||||
| iii. | Catherine Hanford | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Whittington of Notgrove | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Margaret Hanford | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Copley of Bredon's Norton | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BLGI1912 (Hanford-Flood of Flood Hall) with support/input from Visitation (Worcestershire, 1634, Hanford) and a little from VCH (Worcestershire, vol 4, Parishes: Eckington)
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