'Brograve1'
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Families covered: Brograve of Beckenham, Brograve of Wappenham
| Betham reports that "This family, in old deeds, wrote themselves Burgrave, and sometimes Boroughgrave, though afterwards, for the more easy pronunciation, their name was softened into Brograve." | |||||||||||||||
| Sir Roger Brograve of Warwickshire (a temp Edward I who r. 1272-1307) succeeded by .... | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Edmund Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Edmund Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes Ryton (dau of Thomas Ryton) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| John is the first mentioned by the Visitations and BEB1841. BEB1841 reports that the baronets descended from the above Sir Roger Brograve. The descent shown above is given by Betham. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Littlebury (dau of Sir William Littlebury or Litlebery of Lincolnshire by Elizabeth St. Cleere) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | William Brograve of Kelseys in Beckenham, Kent (a 1479) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Alphew (dau of John Alphew of Boar Place (Bouplace)) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Brograve in Kent | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Fogge (dau of Sir John Fogge of Repton) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William Brograve of Wappenham, Northamptonshire | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Gooderidge (dau of John Gooderidge of Cheltenham, widow of _ Rowley) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Nicholas Brograve of Wappenham (3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| The following is supported by Visitation (Northamptonshire, 1681, 'Brograve of Wapenham and Gayton'). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Barker (dau of John Barker of Colsis or Coulsis) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Reginald Brograve of Wappenham (b c1560, d 1640) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (06.11.1586) Alice Bedell (bpt 02.10.1566, dau of Thomas Bedell of Wootton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | John Brograve of Wappenham (b c1600, d1660) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Rachel Sears of Buckingham (b c1593, bur 12.04.1687, widow of William Bosworth) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Rowland Brograve of Wappenham (b 1620, bur 14.02.1707-8) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Arden Dod (dau of Charles Dod of Lea) | |||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | Arden Brograve (a 1708) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (after 1681) _ Vaughan | |||||||||||||||
| ((ii)) | Mary Brograve (a 1708) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (after 1681) John King | |||||||||||||||
| ((iii))+ | other issue (a 1682) - Charles (b c1652), Catherine, Helen | ||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | John Brograve of Gayton, Northamptonshire (b 1634, a 1708) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c11.1662) Emme Harby (b c1641, d 16.02.1682, dau of Edward Harby of Adston) | |||||||||||||||
| ((i))+ | issue - Edward (bpt 06.05.1667, bur 01.06.1677), John (bpt 16.03.1669-70, a 1682), Henry (bpt 24.04.1673, a 1682), Francis (bpt 20.01.1674-5, bur 01.05.1675), Thomas (bpt 26.03.1680, bur 15.12.1680), Emme (b c1664, a 1682), Elizabeth (bpt 22.01.1665-69,a 1682), Rachel (bpt 24.12.1668, a 1682), Mary (bpt 16.03.1675-6, a 1682), Hesther (bpt 22.04.1678, a 1682) | ||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Roland Brograve of Rolleston, Staffordshire | ||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Lettice Brograve (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Mary Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Brograve of Beckenham | |||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | Anne Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Ireland | |||||||||||||||
| ((4)) | Mary Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Ward of Middleton Cheney | |||||||||||||||
| ((5))+ | other issue - Robert (b c1592), Henry of London (dsp c1640), Thomas of Rolleston (d c1650) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Lettice Ford (dau of John Ford of Harwell) | |||||||||||||||
| ((8)) | Edward Brograve of Wappenham (d c1642) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.09.1632) Lydia or Lettice Frewen (dau of ?? Frewen of Brackley) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A))+ | issue - Francis, Lettice (bpt 17.05.1633), several daughters | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Jerome (Hierome) Brograve of Westminster & Kirkby-cum-Osgodby, Lincolnshire (a 1608) | ||||||||||||||
| The following is supported by Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (1906, 'Brograve of Kirkby-cum-Osgodby'). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Christian Denham (dau of John Denham) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Pauncefoot Brograve of London | ||||||||||||||
| m. Eleanor Reve (dau of John Reeve of Buckinghamshire) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A))+ | issue (dsp) - Isaac, Mary | ||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Robert Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| (c) | Jane Brograve (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Vincent Fulnetby of Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||
| (d)+ | other issue - Robert in Northumberland, Richard (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Jane Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. Myles Gray of Louth | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Anne Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Billesby or Blesby of London | |||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Elizabeth Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Browne of Lincolnshire | |||||||||||||||
| (v)+ | other issue (dsp) - Thomas, John | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Robert Brograve 'of Buckingham (Beckenham)' | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine Leventhorpe | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Margaret Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Bridges | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Anne Brograve | ||||||||||||||
| BEB1841 & Betham show Anne as m. Thomas Hammond of Ratwell (Rotwell) but Vivian (Cornwall, p135), which better identifies her mother, suggests that her husband was ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. John Hammond of Pritwell | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Nicholas Brograve of Beckingham (Beckenham) (5th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Becher | |||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue - Edward, Richard, George, Henry, Edmund | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Visitation (Walter Metcalfe 1887, Northamptonshire, 1618-9, 'Brograve of Wappenham'), Visitation (Hertfordshire, 1634, 'Brograve of Braughin' (in Appendix 2)) with a little input/support from BEB1841 ('Brograve of Hamells'), 'Baronetage of England' (William Betham, vol 4 (1804), '407. Brograve of Worsted, Norfolk', p242+) with further input/support as reported above
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