'Leigh11'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Leigh of Newport, Leigh of Northcourt (North Court)

                               
Visitation starts with 2 sons of an unnamed Leigh, as we do. Commoners indicates that Barnabas was descended from Sir John Leigh (m. Mary, dau/heir of John Backet) who it identifies as "ancestor of the Leighs of Northcourt, and Appuldercombe, who were connected with the Leighs, of Cheshire, and held large estates in the counties of Somerset, Kent, and Surrey."
?? Leigh
1. Edward Leigh of Shorwell, Isle of Wight
  m. _ Strange (dau of Giles Strange)
2. Barnabas Leigh of Stoke Hambden, Somerset
  m. Grace Light (dau of Henry Light of Lights Cary)
  A. Sir John Leigh of North Court (Northcourt) in Shorwell (b c1536, d 1619)
m. Elizabeth Dingley (dau of John Dingley of Wolverton)
  i. Barnabas Leigh of North Court (b c1572, d by 1591)
  The following is supported by Visitation (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1686, Leigh of North Court in Shorwell).
  m1. Elizabeth Bamfield (dau of Hugh Bamfield of Somerset)
  a. Sir John Leigh of Northcourt (b c1596, d 1666)
  m. Elizabeth Bulkeley (sister of John Bulkeley of Burgate)
  (1) John Leigh of Northcourt (b c1651, d 1688-9, 2nd son)
  m. Anne Every (dau/coheir of John Every of Glanvilles Wootton, sister/coheir of John of Cothey)
  (A) John Leigh of Northcourt (b c1671, a 1702)
  m. Anne Eveleigh (d 1719, dau of William Eveleigh of Holcombe)
(i) John Leigh of Northcourt (d 1772)
  m. _ Turner (dau of Thomas Turner of Oxfordshire)
  (a) Amelia Leigh
  m1. Thomas Goldie of Dumfries (General)
  m2. David Lloyd (chaplain to Greenwich Hospital)
  (b) Catharine Leigh
  m. Chaloner Arcedeckne of Glevering Hall
  (c) Johanna Leigh
  m1. Richard Bennet Lloyd
  m2. Francis Love Beckford of Basing Park
(d) Elizabeth Leigh
  m. Alexander Stewart
  (e) Mary Leigh
  m. James Strachan of Edinburgh
  (B)+ other issue - William (b c1677), Robert (b c1683), Anne (b c1673), Mary (b c1674), Elizabeth (b c1675), Jane (b c1680), Catherine (b c1681), Amme (b c1684), Barbara (b 1685-6)
  (2) Elizabeth Leigh
  m. (1650) Sir Peter Stanley of Alderley
  (3) Penelope Leigh
  m. Thomas Urry of Gatcombe
  (4)+ other issue - Barnaby (d infant), Margaret
  b. Barnabas (Barnaby) Leigh (3rd son)
  m1. (31.07.1629) Barbara Broad
  m2. (08.10.1637) Mabel Worsley
  c. Grace Leigh
  m. John Harvey of Alvington
  d. Catherine Leigh
  m. Richard Swayne of Tarrant Gunvill
  e. Arundell Leigh
  m. Thomas Barret of Shorwell
  f.+ other issue - Bamfeild, George, Henry (b c1604, a 1627, rector of Shorwell?), William, James, Anthony, Hugh
  m2. Gertrude Percival (dau of James Percival or Persivall of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset)
  m. Francis Leigh of Alvington, Isle of Wight had issue
  ii. Edward Leigh of Newport
m1. Elizabeth Helton (dsp, dau of Francis Helton of Portsmouth)
  m2. Emme Bourman (dau of Thomas Bourman)
  iii. Thomas Leigh, Mayor of Newport
  m. Jane Bad (dau of Emanuell Bad of Southamptonshire)
  a.+ issue - John, Frances
  iv. Anthony Leigh
  v. Anne Leigh
  m. Edward Par
  vi. Grace Leigh (dsp)
  m. Sir John Richards
  B. Anthony Leigh of London
  m. Charity Midleton of the Isle of Wight
  i. Francis Leigh of Bromham, Wiltshire (a 1630)
  m. Elizabeth Webb of Bromham
  a.+ issue - John, Mary, Judith
  ii. John Leigh of London (a 1630, goldsmith, 3rd son)
  m1. Elizabeth Dycher (dau of John Dycher of London, goldsmith)
  a.+ issue - John, William (a 1634), Elizabeth
  m2. Elizabeth Anthony (dau/heir of Thomas Anthony of London)
  iii. Charity Leigh
  m. Sir Edward Dodsworth of Trowsdale
  iv. Ursula Leigh
  m. William Moreing
  v. Elizabeth Leigh
  m. Thomas Oglander of Whytefield
  vi.+ other issue - Barnabas of London, Alice, Grace
  C. Barnabas Leigh of Thorley, Isle of Wight
  m. Mabel Dingley (dau of John Dingley of Wolverton)
  i.+ issue - John, George, Benjamin, Charity
  D. Catharine Leigh
  m. Lord Holmes

Main source(s): Visitation (Hampshire, 1530+1575+1622-34, Leigh), Commoners (vol II, Beckford of Basing Park)
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