'Birch1'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Birch of Birch (Birches of Birches)
| Mathaeus (Mathew) de Birches | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Mathew de Birches of Hindle Birches, Lancashire (a temp John who r. 1199-1216) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Mathew de Birches | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Robert de Birches | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Alexander de Birches (a 1300, d by 1319) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Johanna (a 1319) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Robert de Birches (a 1319) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice (dau of Robert le Whytefeld) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Henry de Birches (a 1319, 1349) | ||||||||||||||
| (i) | William de Birches (a 1346) | ||||||||||||||
| (a) | William de Birches (a 1385, 1421) | ||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | William de Birches (a 1428) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret (a 1428) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Ralph de Birches (a 1428, 1447) | ||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | Ralph de Birches (a 1437) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
| Ralph de Birches (a 1437) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Ralph de Birches of Withington | ||||||||||||||
| A. | William de Birches (a 1484) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Robert de Birches (a 1484) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | William de Birches | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | George Birche (d by 1533) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mariona Bekk (dau of Thomas Bekk of Manchester) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Thomas Birch 'of Birch Hall' (a 1533, 1547) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Chetham (dau of Thomas Chetham of Nuthurst) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | George Birch (a 1570) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anna Bamford (dau/heir of John Bamford son/heir of George of Holt in Wythington) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | George Birch (d c1611) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anna Heye (dau of Elias Heye of Monkshall) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Thomas Birch of Birch (b c1608, d 05.08.1678, Colonel, Governor of Liverpool, MP) | ||||||||||||||
| Identification of Thomas as the Colonel/Governor/MP is assisted, and report of his succession by his son Thomas then his brother Peter is given, by VCH (Lancashire, vol 4, 'Townships: Rusholme') but is to be reviewed in due course (eg when HoP completes its research on the MP). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Brooke (dau of Thomas Brooke of Norton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Thomas Birch 'of Birch' (b c1629, a 1678, antiquary) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Beatrice Cotton (dau of William Cotton of Belloport) | |||||||||||||||
| ((i))+ | issue (a 1664) - Beatrice (b c1659), Anna, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Peter Birch, later of Birch (d 1710, prebenday of Westminster, 4th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. ?? | |||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | Humphrey Birch, later Wyrley, last of Birch Hall (a 1743) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (24.11.1697) Martha Vyner (b 1652, d 1703, widow of Francis Millington) assumed not the mother of Humphrey | |||||||||||||||
| ((C)) | Elianor Birch | ||||||||||||||
| m. (31.08.1652) Thomas Holcrofte of Holcrofte | |||||||||||||||
| ((D)) | Alice Birch | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Robinson of Preston (son/heir of Edward of Buckshaw) | |||||||||||||||
| ((E)) | Anna Birch | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alexander Rigby of Brugh (Burgh) | |||||||||||||||
| ((F)) | Mary Birch (bur 25.08.1691) probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Christian in Liverpool (b by 1647, d 1700) | |||||||||||||||
| ((G))+ | other issue - George, Mathew, Andrew | ||||||||||||||
| (B)+ | other issue - William (Warden of Manchester), George, Janetta, Margaret, Anna, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Edith Birche possibly fits here | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Brereton of Loughtioge Castle & Shannenmulen (d 1599) | |||||||||||||||
| (3)+ | other issue - Thomas, James/Jacob | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Visitation (Dugdale, Lancashire, 1664, 'Birche of Birche') which is repeated in MGH (NS1, vol 2 (1868), 'Birche of Birche', p305+)
Back to top of page