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Families covered: Lawley of Canwell Priory, Lawley of Spoonhill, Lawley of Wenlock, Wenlock of Houghton Conquest, Wenlock of Wenlock
Richard de Wenlock | |||||||||||||||
m. Joan (bur 09.1327) wife of Richard, presumed mother of ... | |||||||||||||||
1. | Richard de Wenlock (a temp Edward III who r. 1327-1377) | ||||||||||||||
A. | William de Wenlock of Wenlock and Luton (d 1392, priest) | ||||||||||||||
B. | Joan de Wenlock | ||||||||||||||
m. Nicholas Wyvell @@ just below | |||||||||||||||
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1. | ?? Wyvell | ||||||||||||||
A. | Nicholas Wyvell | ||||||||||||||
m. Joan de Wenlock (dau of Richard de Wenlock) @@ just above | |||||||||||||||
i. | William Wyvell, later Wenlock of Luton and Houghton Conquest | ||||||||||||||
m. Margaret Briton (sister of John Briton of Houghton Conquest) | |||||||||||||||
a. | Sir Thomas Wenlock of Houghton Conquest (d before 20.06.1429) | ||||||||||||||
b. | John Wenlock of Houghton Conquest, Lord Wenlock (dsp Tewkesbury 04.05.1471) | ||||||||||||||
m1. (before 1436) Elizabeth Drayton (d before 12.0.1465/6, dau of Sir John Drayton of Newham by Isabel dau of Sir Maurice Russell of Dyrham, widow of Christopher Preston) | |||||||||||||||
m2. (after 15.07.1467) Agnes Danvers (dau of John Danvers of Epwell & Colthorpe by Alice Verney) | |||||||||||||||
B. | Thomas Wyvell | ||||||||||||||
i. | Agnes Wyvell | ||||||||||||||
m. ?? Lawley | |||||||||||||||
a. | William Lawley | ||||||||||||||
(1) | Thomas Lawley of Wenlock - continued below | ||||||||||||||
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Thomas Lawley of Wenlock - continued above | |||||||||||||||
1. | Edward Lawley of Wenlock | ||||||||||||||
This may be the Lawley of Wenlock who married Elizabeth Aston though she may have been a wife of his son John. | |||||||||||||||
A. | John Lawley of Wenlock | ||||||||||||||
m. Mary Cressett (dau of Thomas Cressett of Upton) | |||||||||||||||
i. | Thomas Lawley of Wenlock | ||||||||||||||
Visitation suggests that Thomas was younger than his brother Richard. We follow BP1929 in showing Thomas was the elder son. | |||||||||||||||
m. Beatrice Hinton (dau of Griffin Hinton) | |||||||||||||||
a. | Sir Thomas Lawley of Wenlock (d 22.02.1621) | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth Newport (dau of Sir Richard Newport of High Ercall) | |||||||||||||||
(1) | George Lawley of Wenlock (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
(2) | Sir Edward Lawley of Wenlock | ||||||||||||||
m. Susan Fisher (dau (sb sister?) of Sir Thomas Fisher, Bart of Islington) | |||||||||||||||
(A) | Ursula Lawley (b c1612) | ||||||||||||||
m1. Sir Roger Bertie (d 15.10.1654) | |||||||||||||||
Various web sites show that Ursula also married ... | |||||||||||||||
m2. Sir George Penruddock of Hale | |||||||||||||||
(3) | Anna Lawley (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
(4) | Alethea Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. Gilbert Millington of Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||
b.+ | other issue - Robert, George, John or Jane | ||||||||||||||
ii. | Richard Lawley of St. Poonell or Spoonhill | ||||||||||||||
m. (1546) Barbara Rudgeley (dau of Edmund Rudgeley or Rugeley by Elizabeth, dau of Robert Walsall) | |||||||||||||||
a. | Francis Lawley of Spoonhill | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth Newport (dau of Sir Richard Newport of High Ercall) | |||||||||||||||
(1) | Richard Lawley of Spoonhill (dsp 1623) | ||||||||||||||
m. Alice Coston (dau of John Coston or Caston of Coston) | |||||||||||||||
(2) | Sir Thomas Lawley, 1st Bart of Spoonhill (d 19.10.1646) | ||||||||||||||
m. Anne Manning (d before 19.12.1668, dau of John Manning of Hackney & Cralle, she m2. Sir John Glynne, Lord Chief Justice) | |||||||||||||||
(A) | Sir Francis Lawley of Canwell Priory, 2nd Bart of Spoonhill (b c1630, d 25.10.1696) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1650) Anne Whitmore (d before 18.12.1718, dau of Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Bart) | |||||||||||||||
(i) | Sir Thomas Lawley of Canwell Priory, 3rd Bart of Spoonhill (b c1650, d 30.09.1729) | ||||||||||||||
m1. Rebecca Winch (dau of Sir Humphrey Winch, Bart, by Rebecca Browne) | |||||||||||||||
(a) | Sir Robert Lawley of Canwell Priory, 4th Bart of Spoonhill (d 28.11.1779) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1726) Elizabeth Blackwell (d 21.03.1774, dau of Sir Lambert Blackwell, 1st Bart, by Elizabeth Herne) | |||||||||||||||
((1)) | Sir Robert Lawley of Canwell Priory & Wenlock, 5th Bart (bpt 22.03.1735/6, d 11.03.1793) | ||||||||||||||
m. (11.08.1764) Jane Thompson (dau of Beilby Thompson of Escrick by Janet (Sarah), dau of Richard Roundell of Hutton Wansley) | |||||||||||||||
((A)) | Sir Robert Lawley of Canwell Priory, 6th Bart, Lord Wenlock of Wenlock (b 1768, dsp 10.04.1834) | ||||||||||||||
m. (16.09.1793) Anna Maria Denison (d 20.07.1850, dau of Joseph Denison of Denbies by Elizabeth, dau of William Butler) | |||||||||||||||
((B)) | Sir Francis Lawley of Middleton Hall, 7th Bart (b c1782, dsp 30.01.1851) | ||||||||||||||
m. (18.05.1815) Mary Anne Talbot (d 21.12.1878, dau of George Talbot of Temple Guiting by Charlotte Drake) | |||||||||||||||
((C)) | Sir Paul Beilby Lawley of Escrick, later Thompson, 1st Lord Wenlock, later 8th Bart (b 01.07.1784, d 09.05.1852) had issue | ||||||||||||||
m. (10.05.1817) Caroline Neville (b 06.10.1792, d 02.05.1868, dau of Richard Griffin, 2nd Lord Braybrooke) | |||||||||||||||
((D)) | Jane Lawley (b c1767, dsp 17.12.1852) | ||||||||||||||
m. (21.08.1793) Henry Willoughby, 6th Lord Middleton (b 1761, dsp 1835) | |||||||||||||||
((E)) | Mildred Rebecca Lawley (d 21.10.1831) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1797) Marmaduke Dayrell of Shudy Camps (d 08.1821) | |||||||||||||||
((F))+ | other issue (d unm) - Sarah Bettina (d 10.02.1857), Cordelia (d 10.05.1842) | ||||||||||||||
((2)) | Bettina Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. Paul Orchard of Stoke Abbey | |||||||||||||||
((3)) | Jane Lawley | ||||||||||||||
(b) | Anne Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. Sir John Cheshire (dsp 15.05.1738) | |||||||||||||||
(c) | Elizabeth Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m1. Thomas Coton of Coton, Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||
m2. Sir Nicholas Laws | |||||||||||||||
(d)+ | 11 other children | ||||||||||||||
m2. (03.03.1711-2) Elizabeth (d 28.01.1739/40, widow of _ Perkins, she m3. Mark Halfpenn) | |||||||||||||||
(o) | George Bateman Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. (1738) Mary Tomlinson | |||||||||||||||
(p) | Judith Lawley (b c1714, d 23.04.1752) | ||||||||||||||
m1. Richard Coningsby, 2nd Lord of Clanbrassil (dsp 18.12.1729) | |||||||||||||||
m2. Joseph Butler of London (d 03.09.1737) | |||||||||||||||
(ii) | Anne Lawley not mentioned by BP1929, identified Visitation as eldest daughter | ||||||||||||||
m. Sherington Talbot, younger of Laycock (dvpsp) | |||||||||||||||
(iii) | Mary Lawley (d 24.08.1694) | ||||||||||||||
m. (10.07.1692, sp) Sir John Verney, later 1st Viscount of Fermanaghh (b 1640, d 23.06.1717) | |||||||||||||||
(iv) | Esther Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. Robert Palmer (son of Sir Lewis, Bart of Carlton) | |||||||||||||||
(v) | Margaret Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m1. Leonard Powell (son of Sir Nathaniel, Bart) | |||||||||||||||
m2. Sir Nathan Wright, Bart of Southall (b c1684, d 1737) | |||||||||||||||
(vi)+ | other issue - Francis (d unm), Richard of Ealing (dsp), Elizabeth (dsp), Frances | ||||||||||||||
(B) | Thomas Lawley (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
(C) | Elizabeth Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. William Cecil (son of William, 2nd Earl of Salisbury) | |||||||||||||||
(3) | Jane Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. Stephen Smallman of Wildertop | |||||||||||||||
(4)+ | other issue - George (dsp by 1623), Maria (a 1623) | ||||||||||||||
b. | Elizabeth Lawley | ||||||||||||||
c. | Alice Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. Thomas Salter of Oswaldestre | |||||||||||||||
d. | Mary Lawley | ||||||||||||||
m. Thomas Berisford | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) Upper sections on Wenlock & Wyvell : TCP (Wenlock)
(2) Lower section : BP1929 (Wenlock), Visitation (Shropshire, 1623, Lawley of Wenlock and of Sponhill near Wenlock) with support from TCB (vol ii, Lawley of Spoonhill)
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