'Billers1'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Billers of Leicester, Billers of London, Billers of Thorley
[Much of this page was previously given on BZmisc29, based on Chauncy's work. It was moved here to facilitate review & expansion using Nichols & Clutterbuck.]
| Chauncy (p337) suggests that the name of the following family was shown as Bellers as well as Billers, being originally from Kerby Bellers in Leicestershire. Wikipedia ("William Billiers") supports the view that the family "originated from Kirby Bellars". | |||||||||||||||
| George Billers of Burstall, Leicestershire | |||||||||||||||
| m. _ Presgrave of Leicestershire | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Henry Billers | ||||||||||||||
| A. | George Billers | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Julius Billers of Leicester (3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | William Billers | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Julius Billers | ||||||||||||||
| ## Possibly the Julius of Scraptoft who married Frances Wigley (d 1678)? ## | |||||||||||||||
| a.+ | 2 daughters | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Alice Billers | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Julius Billers, Mayor of Coventry (a 1658) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Moody | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Billiers of London & Thorley, Hertfordshire (b c1643, d 19.12.1712, haberdasher) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Matha Rutt (b c1652, d 08.03.1707, dau of William Rutt of London) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir William Billers of Thorley, Sheriff then Lord Mayor of London (b 1689, d 15.10.1745) | ||||||||||||||
| Chauncy does not follow this line further, identifying a William as the eldest son. VCH (Hertfordshire, vol 3, 'Parishes: Thorley') refers to the acquisition of Thorley Manor by William's father John and reports that William sold it in 1714. This appears to be the following Sir William, details of whom come from Nichols & Clutterbuck with some support from Wikipedia ("William Billiers"). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Ann Aynsworth (b c1692, d 03.03.1730, dau of Sir Rowland Aynsworth by Sarah, dau of Sir John Fleet) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Anne Billers (b 1717-8, d 08.06.1778) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.09.1741) John Olmius, 1st Lord Waltham (b 1711, d 1762) | |||||||||||||||
| (2)+ | other issue - John (dvp 1740), William (dvp?), Martha (d before 1730), Elizabeth, Maria | ||||||||||||||
| b.+ | other issue - John, Elizabeth, Martha | ||||||||||||||
| i.+ | other issue - Julius (d unm 15.03.1675), Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, William, Elizabeth, Anne, Frances | ||||||||||||||
| C. | Elizabeth Billers | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | William Billers of Leicester (b 08.1582, d 1658) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Ward (b c1591, d 1662, dau of William Ward of Leicester) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Edward Billers of Leicester (b c1609, d 1659) | ||||||||||||||
| Nichols shows as follows but ## see here ## for a connection which, whilst clearly not the same, has some interesting similarities. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Dann (d 13.01.1680, dau of Rev. _ Dann of Mansfield Woodhouse, sister of Richard) | |||||||||||||||
| i.+ | issue - George, Edward, John, Francis, Isabel, Anne, Susanna, Alice | ||||||||||||||
| B. | John Billers of Bath (d unm 1647, MD) | ||||||||||||||
| C. | William Billes of Leicester (b c1618, a 1682) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margery Burnaby (dau of Eustace Burnaby, son/heir of Sir Ralph Burnaby of Watford) | |||||||||||||||
| i.+ | issue (a 1682) - William (b c1660), John (b c1662), Joseph (b c1664), Mary (b c1667) | ||||||||||||||
| D. | Benjamin Billers of Bishops Fee, Leicestershire (b c1620) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Allen (dau of George Allen of Dingley) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Mary Billers (b c1657) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (05.09.1682) Robert Alesounder (rector of Thurcaston) | |||||||||||||||
| ii.+ | other issue (a 1682) - George (b c1661), Jane (b c1659), Elizabeth (b c1667) | ||||||||||||||
| E. | Joseph Billers of London (d 28.03.1676) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Perry (dau of John Perry of London) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Mary Billers | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Clarke of London | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Elizabeth Clake | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Olmius of London | |||||||||||||||
| 4.+ | other issue - Edward (d unm), Anne | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): 'The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire' (Sir Henry Chauncy, vol I (1826), p338), 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 3, part 1, 1800, 'Pedigree of Billers of Burstall', p188), 'History and Antiquities of the Coiunty of Hertford' (Robert Clutterbuck, vol 3, 1827, 'Pedigree of the Family of Billers', p270)
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