'Shirley1'
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Families covered: Shirley of Ettington (Ettendon), Shirley of Oat Hall, Shirley of Preston, Shirley of Shirley, Shirley of Staunton (Stanton), Shirley of West Grinstead, Shirley of Westneston (Wiston)
[On 18.08.05 this page was reviewed & extended. The previous lower section, the descendants of Sir Ralph (d 1517), was taken to Shirley2 and a new lower section was added below.]
| Sasuallo or Sewallus of Ettington, etc. (d c1085) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Fulcher of Ettington, etc. (d c1105) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Henry ancestor of Shirley of Ireton and families named Ireton | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Sewallis of Shirley (d c1129) | ||||||||||||||
| Sewallis and the next few generations may well have been known as 'de Ettington' rather than 'de Shirley'. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Matilda (dau of Ridel of Halaughton) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Henry de Shirley (d c1165) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joanna (dau of John de Clinton of Essex) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sewallis de Shirley (a 1167) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Isabel Meynell (dau of Robert Meynell of Langley Meynell) | |||||||||||||||
| Visitation adds 2 intervening generations here: Henry then Sewall, apparently younger son of Henry (the other son being another Henry) and father of ... | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir James de Shirley and Ettington (d c1278) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes de Walton (dau of Simon de Walton, Bishop of Norwich) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Ralph de Shirley, Sheriff of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (d 1327) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret (dau of Walter de Waldeshief of Fairfield) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Sir Thomas Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Isabel Basset (sister of Ralph Basset, Lord of Drayton) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Sir Hugh Shirley (d Shrewsbury 1403, grand falconer) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Beatrix de Braose (sister of John de Braose of West Neston) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Sir Ralph Shirley, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (a 1422) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Joan Basset (dau of Thomas Basset of Braylesford) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Ralph Shirley of Ettington, Shirley and Staunton (constable of Melbourne Castle) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Margaret Staunton (dau of John de Staunton of Staunton Harold) | |||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | John Shirley of Ettington, etc. (d 1485) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Eleanor Willoughby (dau of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Wollaton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((a)) | Sir Ralph Shirley of Ettington, Shirley and Staunton (d 1517) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Elizabeth Walsh (dau of Thomas Walsh of Wanlep) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Jane Sheffield (dau of Sir Robert Sheffield) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Blount (dau of Sir Thomas (not John) Blount) | |||||||||||||||
| ((ii)) | Ralph Shirley of Westneston (Wiston) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Belingham (dau of Thomas Belingham of Lemyster) | |||||||||||||||
| ((iii))+ | other issue - Elizabeth, Alice, Sauch. (sic), Ann, Margaret | ||||||||||||||
| m3. Lucia Aston or Assheton (dau of Sir John Assheton of Atherton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Beatrix Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Brome of Bedesley Clynton | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Alis Blunt | |||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Isabel Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Gey Cockend (John Cokayne) of Ashburne | |||||||||||||||
| ((3))+ | other issue - Elizabeth, Nichola | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Isabel Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Geffrey Lee Burgylond of Weston (sic) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Elizabeth de Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. John de Walton (son of Simon, Bishop of Norwich) | |||||||||||||||
| ii.+ | other issue - Fulcher (dsp), Hugh (priest), Ralph, Richard | ||||||||||||||
| C.+ | other issue - Fulcher (dsp), Nicholas, Robert | ||||||||||||||
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| Ralph Shirley of Westneston (Wiston) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| Visitation shows this Ralph as married also to Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Blount, with a note (apparently provided The Harleian's Society's editor) saying that she was "added, but in a like hand". On the basis that this looks like a repetition of his mother (whose marriage to his father is mentioned in BP1934) we ignore this. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Belingham (dau of Thomas Belingham of Lemyster) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Sir Richard Shirley of Westneston or Wiston (d 1543-4) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Ann Shelley (dau of John Shelley of Michelgrove) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | William Shirley of Westneston or Wiston | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Isley (dau of Thomas Isley or Issley of Kent) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir Thomas Shirley of Westneston or Wiston (a 1585) | ||||||||||||||
| A web site gives Sir Thomas's dates as 1542-10.1612 and reports that he also married a Frances Vernon (probably of the family of Hodnet) who was mother of Sir Anthony. Visitation reports only one wife ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Kempe (dau of Sir Thomas Kempe of Wye by Catherine Chenye) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston (b 1564, d c1620) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Frances Vavasor (dau of Sir Thomas Vavasor) | |||||||||||||||
| Visitation merely names Thomas and his wife. A web site confirms he inherited Wiston, gives his dates, and reports that he was father of ... | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Henry Shirley (dramatist, younger son) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Mary Shirley probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. George Feilding of Solihull, Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Anne Feilding (d 20.02.1679/80, 3rd daughter) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (16.11.1676) Sir Samuel Morland of Sulhamstead, 1st Bart | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Sir Anthony Shirley ## note probable duplication below | ||||||||||||||
| m. Barbara Walsingham (dau of Sir Thomas Walsingham) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Robert Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| d. | Mary Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir John Croftes of Suffolk | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Elizabeth Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Onslow | |||||||||||||||
| f. | Margery Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Pexsall Brocas | |||||||||||||||
| g. | Jane Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Shirley of Isefeild (b 1569, d 1631) | |||||||||||||||
| h. | Anne Shirley (b 23.12.1573) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1590) Sir John Tracy of Toddington, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1st Viscount of Rathcoole (d before 14.02.1648) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Cecily Shirley (bur 31.07.1662) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (25.11.1596) Thomas West, 3rd Lord De La Warr (b 09.07.1557, d 07.06.1618) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Anthony Shirley ## note probable duplication above | ||||||||||||||
| m. Barbara Walsingham (dau of Sir Thomas Walsingham) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Thomas Shirley of Preston, Sussex (d 02.1636-7) | ||||||||||||||
| The folllowing is supported by Visitation (Sussex, 1662, Shirley of Preston) with input also from BEB1841 (Shirley of Preston) and from Nichols. | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (13.06.1598) Jane Essex (bur 03.11.1599, dau of Thomas Essex of Lamburne, sister of Sir William) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Shirley of Preston (bpt 31.03.1599, bur 20.05.1654) | ||||||||||||||
| The following comes mainly from 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Shirley of Preston, Sussex', p1050). | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Elizabeth Stapley (d 1654, dau/heir of Drew Stapley of London) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Anthony Shirley, 1st Bart of Preston (b 05.07.1624, bur 22.06.1683) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Onslow (dau of Sir Richard Onslow of West Clandon) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Sir Richard Shirley, 2nd Bart of Preston (b c1654, bur 30.03.1692) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.03.1676-7) Judith Bateman (bur 04.06.1729, dau of Joas Bateman of London, sister of Sir James, m2. Sir Henry Hatsell) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Sir Richard Shirley, 3rd Bart of Preston (d unm 1705) | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Anne Shirley (d 1712) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c12.1698) Robert Western of London (d 06.1728) | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Mary Shirley (a 1730) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Western of Rivenhall & Preston (d 1733) | |||||||||||||||
| (d)+ | other issue - Anthony (d infant 1694), Judith | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Elizabeth Shirley (bpt 17.11.1651) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c03.1676-7) William Boys of Hawkhurst | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | William Shirley 'of Jamaica' (younger son?) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Oglander | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | William Shirley (d 1701) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Godman (dau/heir of John Godman of Ote Hall (Oat Hall)) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | William Shirley of Oat Hall in Wivelsfield (Sussex), Governor of Massachusetts Bay (New England) then of the Bahama Islands (b c1692-3, d 03.1771, Lt. General) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Frances Barker (d before 1771, dau of Rev. Francis Barker of London) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Sir Thomas Shirley of Oat Hall, Governor of the Leeward Islands, 1st Bart (b 30.12.1727, d 18.02.1800, Major General, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| The folllowing is supported by TCB (vol 5, 'Shirley of Ote Hall', p252). | |||||||||||||||
| m. (04.06.17698) Anna Maria Western (b 21.11.1737, d 1777, dau of Thomas Western of Rivenhall by Anne, dau of Robert Callis) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Thomas Western Shirley (b by 1770, dvp unm 06.10.1794) | ||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Sir William Warden Shirley of Othall, 2nd Bart (b 04.08.1772, d unm 26.02.1815) | ||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Elizabeth Shirley (d c1790) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Eliakim Hutchinson (b c1708, d 1775, judge in Massachussetts Bay) | |||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | Frances Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Bolland of London | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | 'Frances Shirley) Bolland (b c1745, d 05.10.1815) who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.10.1768) Charles Western of Rivenhall (d 1771) | |||||||||||||||
| ((4)) | Harriot Shirley, later in Ireland (a 1801) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Temple of Tenhills near Boston | |||||||||||||||
| ((5)) | Maia Catheriney Shirley (a 1801) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Irving of Boston, New England (a 1801) | |||||||||||||||
| ((6))+ | other issue (d unm) - William (d 1755), John (d 1755, captain), Ralph (d infant), Judith | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Elizabeth Shirley probably the Elizabeth who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Nedham of Jamaica (d 1738) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Elizabeth Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joseph Lee of Plaistow | |||||||||||||||
| (D)+ | other issue - Thomas, Drew, Benjamin, John | ||||||||||||||
| m2. ?? | |||||||||||||||
| (H)+ | other issue - Mary, Abigail, Jane, Frances | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (1606) Grace Stapley (bpt 06.12.1586) dau of Anthony Stapley of Framfield) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Anthony Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m3.(02.02.1614-5) Elizabeth Stoner (bur 25.01.1630, dau of John Stoner, widow of Thomas Stephens) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Abbigale Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Judith Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Henry Mallory | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Elizabeth Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Samwell Smyth | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Sarah Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Godman of Etehale | |||||||||||||||
| e.+ | other issue - Anthony (dsp), Richard, Walsingham, Edward, Henry | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Ciseley Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Ledys | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Ann Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Fernwold | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Elizabeth Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Mychell of Stammerham | |||||||||||||||
| E. | Alys Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Chaunceler of Lyndford | |||||||||||||||
| F.+ | other issue - John, Edward (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Gifford (dau of Sir Richard Gifford) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Thomas Shirley of West Grinstead | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Gorges (dau/coheir of Marmaduke Gorges alias Russell of Gloucestershire) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Francis Shirley of West Grinstead reported by a web site to have been Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex (a 1574) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Blount (dau of Richard Blount) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Thomas Shirley of West Grinstead (b c1555, a 1577) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Carell | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Scissely Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir George Snelling of West Grinsted or Grinstead | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Barbara Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir Thomas Thornhurst | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anthony St. Leger | |||||||||||||||
| B.+ | other issue - Isabel, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Joan | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Jane Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m1. John Daney (sb Dawtrey) of Petworth | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Richard Lister (d 14.03.1553) | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Elizabeth Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Lee of Little Worth | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Beatrix Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Eldrington of Hogston | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | Isabel Shirley | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Dawney of Hampton | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : BP1934 (Ferrers), Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Shirley)
(2) For lower section : Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Shirley)
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