'Kitchener1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Kitchener of Lakenheath, Kitchener of Mildenhall

                               
BP1934 reports that the following Thomas was originally "of Binshead, in Alton, Hants (where the family was living in 1555)" and settled at Lakenheath in 1693. Crisp was probably correct in reporting that he "came from Binsted in Hampshire in the year 1693".
Thomas Kitchener of Binsted (Hampshire) then Lakenheath, Suffolk (b 1665-6, d 05.04.1731)
m. Abigail Clarke (b 1678-9, bur 19.06.1747)
1. John Kitchener of Lakenheath & Mildenhall (b c1706, d 24.03.1736/7, 2nd son?) had issue
  m. Ann (a 1738)
2. Robert Kitchener of Lakenheat (bpt 16.10.1717, d 15.12.1775)
  m. (c09.1738) Ann Fisher (b c1719, d 21.12.1775, dau of Edward Fisher of West Row)
A. Thomas Kitchener of Lakenheath & Bury St. Edmunds (bpt 18.04.1740, d 1821)
  m. (25.04.1764) Martha Robinson (b 17.05.1739, d 31.08.1826, dau of William Robinson of Eriswell Hall by Martha, dau of William Currey of Downham)
  i. William Kitchener of London (b 24.02.1768, dvp 04.06.1807)
  The following is supported by Visitation (Howard & Crisp, England & Wales, vol 7, 1899, 'Kitchener', p1+).
  m1. (29.03.1792) Laetitia Waldegrave (b 26.01.1768, d 13.08.1797, dau of Rev. Thomas Waldegrave of Bury St. Edmunds by Sarah)
  a. Robinson John Kitchener of Stoke Newington then Islington (b 23.07.1794, dsp 19.05.1868, Master of the Clockworkers' Company)
  m1. (1820) Ann Shrubsole (b 1796, dsp 11.08.1832, dau of William Shrubsole by Sarah)
  m2. (1835) Susanna Goddard (d 12.03.1872)
  b.+ other issue - Nathan (b 07.07.1796, d unm 1824), Elizabeth (b 25.01.1793, d 06.05.1795)
  m2. (22.04.1799) Emma Cripps (b 22.04.1772, d 16.06.1853, dau of Rev. Thomas Cripps of Cheadle Rectory by Catharine, dau of William Buck of New Grange by Catharine, dau/heir of William Squire)
  d. Thomas Kitchener of Mildenhall (b 01.09.1801, d 09.04.1836) had issue
  m. (06.12.1825) Susan Sams (b 06.06.1799, bur 20.10.1850, dau of Rev. John Barwick Sams of Honington & South Wootton by Sarah, dau of Andrew Hewit)
  e. Henry Horatio Kitchener of Cossington, Leicestershire (b 19.10.1805, d 14.08.1894, Lt. Colonel) had issue
  m1. (24.07.1845) Frances Anne Chevaler (b 03.09.1826, d 1864, dau of Rev. John Chevalier of Aspall Hall by Elizabeth, dau of John Cole)
  Their second son, Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), was the Field Marshal who was created 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum. His elder brother succeeded to the earldom.
  m2. (1866) Mary Emma Green (b c1833, d 11.01.1918)
  f. Phillip Elliott Kitchener of Little Walden Park, Suffolk (b 27.04.1807, d 30.03.1875) had issue
  m. (05.10.1847) Elizabeth Thornton (b 20.12.1829, d 15.11.1911, dau of Henry Thornton of London by Penelope)
  g.+ other issue - William (b 20.03.1800, d 21.02.1801), Samuel (b 05.08.1804, d 09.05.1805)
  ii. Martha Kitchener (bpt 01.09.1771, d 05.09.1780)
  iii. Elizabeth Kitchener (b 23.01.1777, d 05.05.1803)
  m. (31.12.1799) Habbakuk Robinson of Bagshot (b 04.06.1771, d 04.01.1851, son of Henry of Bury St. Edmunds by Jemima, dau of Drury Crabb of Wattisfield)
  B. James Kitchener of Ipswich (bur 17.08.1787, 3rd son?)
  m. Jemima (a 12.1802)
  i. Elizabeth Kitchener (bpt 18.04.1780, a 05.1821)
  m. (29.10.1803) _ Salmon of Ipswich
  ii. Anna Maria Kitchener (bpt 17.07.1782, bur 18.03.1784)
  C. Robert Kitchener of Lakenheath (bpt 04.01.1750/1, d 03.10.1775) had issue
  m. (1772) Hannah Bloomfield (b 1739-40, d 01.03.1824, m2. William Stimpson of Wangford)
  i. Robert Kitchener (b 1773)
  a. Robert Kitchener had issue
  ii. John Kitchener (bpt 1775, bur 1781)
  D. Anne Kitchener (bpt 20.04.1750, d 25.03.1784)
  m. George Currey of London
  E. Mary Kitchener (bpt 30.05.1756)
  m. Joshua Gray of London
  F. Sarah Kitchener (b 11.05.1759, d 13.10.1844)
  m. (25.08.1794) Thomas Thornton of London (b 21.08.1761, d 12.1820)
  G. Abigail Kitchener (a 03.1764)
  m. Joseph Parker of King's Lynn
  H.+ other issue - James (bur 04.08.1754), Nicholas Stuart (d young), Elizabeth (b c1743, d unm 01.06.1764), Mary (bpt 03.02.1746/7, bur 12.04.1748), Abigail (d infant), Martha (bpt 12.12.1762), 7 others (d infant)
3. Elizabeth Kitchener (bpt 24.11.1698, d 19.02.1729/30)
  m. James Wing of Eriswell
4. Hannah Kitchener (bpt 28.12.1713, a 03.1764)
  m. William Burroughs or Burrows (a 03.1764)
5. Margaret Kitchener (a 01.1782)
  m. Simon Precious of Snailwell (d before 14.01.1782)
6. Christian Kitchener
  m. (c05.1726) Richard Bailey of Eriswell
7.+ other issue (d unm) - Thomas (d 07.01.1731-2), Abigail (d 10.03.1765), Mary (b c1703, bur 03.01.1726/7)

Main source(s): BP1934 (Kitchener of Khartoum), Visitation (Frederick Arthur Crisp, England & Wales, Notes vol 6, 1906, 'Pedigree of Kitchener of Lakenheath, co. Suffolk', p206+)
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