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Families covered: Lethbridge of Dunsland, Lethbridge of Walston, Lethbridge of Westaway

                               
John Lethbridge of Hatherleigh and Exbourne
m. (10.12.1543) Alienor Westlake (dau of Symon Westlake of Exbourne)
1. Thomas Lethbridge of Dunsland Court in Jacobstowe, Devon (d 28.06.1621, elder son)
  m. Elizabeth
  A. John Lethbridge of Walston in Clannaborough (d 1636)
  m. Zenobia Stafford of Stafford in Dolton (d 1655)
  i. Thomas Lethbridge (b 1596, d 1598)
ii. John Lethbridge (b 1608, d 1665, rector of Ashprington)
  m. Mary Reynolds (dau of Rev. R. Reynolds of Stoke Fleming)
  a. Christopher Lethbridge of Walston and Westaway (d 30.06.1713)
  m. (1681) Margaret Bowchier (dau of Philip Bowchier of Pilton and Tawstock)
  (1) Christopher Lethbridge of Westaway, Pilton (b 1685, d 07.08.1746, 2nd son)
  m. Mary Cannon of Bishop's Lydiard
  (A) Elizabeth Cannon Lethbridge (d 11.10.1765)
  m. (23.11.1763) Hon. Hugh Somerville (b 1729, d 07.05.1795, Colonel)
(2) Thomas Lethbridge of Clement's Inn (b 1698)
  m. (1719) Sarah Periam (dau of John Periam of Milverton)
  (A) John Lethbridge of Westaway, Pilton (d 10.12.1761)
  m. (1744) Grace Cardor (dau of Amos Cardor of Westdown)
(i) Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Bart (b 12.03.1746, d 15.12.1815)
  m. (06.1776) Dorothy Buckler (d 11.1831, dau of William Buckler of Boreham)
  (a) Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge of Sandhill Park, 2nd Bart (b 21.02.1778, d 17.10.1849)
  m1. (14.05.1796) Jessy (Jacintha) Catherine Hesketh (b c1776, d 31.08.1801, sister of Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, Bart of Ruffold Hall)
  ((1)) Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge, 3rd Bart (b 1798, d 01.03.1873) had issue
  m1. (27.03.1817) Harriett Rebecca Mytton (d 13.03.1826, dau of John Mytton of Halston and Dinas Mowddy)
  m2. (15.03.1827) Julia Hoare (d 29.05.1850, dau of Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, Bart)
  m3. (11.09.1855, sp) Anna Wright (d 14.07.1880, dau of Robert Wright)
  ((2)) Jessy Dorothea Lethbridge (d 06.03.1843)
  m. (01.08.1818) Ambrose Goddard of Swindon (MP)
  m2. (14.05.1803) Anne Goddard (d 25.01.1857, dau of Ambrose Goddard of Swindon)
((3))+ other issue - Ambrose Goddard of Eastbrooke House (dsp 21.11.1875), Thomas Prowse (d 27.06.1851, rector of Combe Flory, had issue), Anna Maria (b c1806, d 20.03.1886, Lady Hare-Clarges), Lucy Sarah (d 1855, Mrs. Fitzroy), Emma Dorothea (d 09.12.1872, Lady Astley), Frances Margaret (d 1891, Mrs. Thurlow)
  (b) Dorothea Lethbridge
  m. Henry Powell Collins of Hatch Court
  (c) Frances Maria Lethbridge (d 20.02.1852)
  m. (06.11.1806) Sir Charles Henry Rich, 2nd Bart (b 19.04.1784, d 22.10.1857)
  (3) Philip Lethbridge of Santon Court, Barnstaple (b 1700)
  m. Elizabeth Tucker (dau of Rev. Francis Tucker)
  (A) Rev. Christopher Lethbridge (d unm 1779)
  (4) Mary Lethbridge (dsp 1709)
  m. Robert Incledon of Barnstaple
  (5)+ other issue (d unm) - John (b 14.09.1683), Sarah
  b. Zenobia Lethbridge
  m. Daniel Hamlyn of Paschoe
  c. Mary Lethbridge
  m. Rev. Humphrey Sanders of Exeter
  d. Hester Lethbridge
  m. Nicholas Rooke (rector of Dartington)
  e. Sarah Lethbridge
  m. Phyneas Pett (vicar of Totnes)
  f. Frances Lethbridge
  m. Lewis Burnett (sub-dean of Exeter Cathedral)
  iii. Christopher Lethbridge of Exeter (b 1610, d 1669)
  m1. Mary Jourdain of Exeter
  m2. Eleanor Taylor of Bradninch
  Not sure which wife was mother of ...
  a. daughter
  iv. Alexander Lethbridge (b 1616)
  m. Priscilla Reynolds (dau of Rev. R. Reynolds of Stoke Fleming)
  a. son
  v. Charitie Lethbridge
  m1. John Lethbridge of Ingleigh Green (cousin)
  m2. William Trevithick (a 1662, vicar of Hatherleigh)
  vi. Katherine Lethbridge
  m. (1616) John Hole of Bow
  vii. Margery Lethbridge
  m. (1617) John Fisher of Bow
  viii. Joan Lethbridge
  m. Richard Yolden of Bow
  B. George Lethbridge of Dunsland Court
  m. (25.10.1602) Katherine Poyntingdon (dau of Nicholas Poyntingdon of Pennycott and Cheriton Fitzpaine)
  i. Thomas Lethbridge of Dunsland
  m. (1633) Elizabeth Buckingham of Upton Hellions
  a. John Lethbridge (rector of Jacobstowe)
  m. (1684) Rebecca Westlake (dau of Simon Westlake of Exbourne)
  (1) John Lethbridge of Okehampton
  m. (1712) Grace Cuningham (dau of Thomas Cuningham)
  (A) John Lethbridge (rector of St. Stephen's, Launceston)
  m. (1749) Sibilla Luxmoore (dau of John Luxmoore of Okehampton)
  (i) Christopher Lethbridge of Madford, Launceston
  m. (1785) Mary Copland
  (a) John King Lethbridge (b 1809, d 1861) had issue
  m1. (sps) Elizabeth Baron (dau of Jasper Baron of Tregeare House)
  m2. Emma Palmer (dau of Rev. Edward Palmer)
  C. Thomas Lethbridge in London (dsp 1636)
  D. Joan Lethbridge
  m1. Edward Cholwich of Newton Ferrers
  m2. Andrew Hart of Yarsacombe Manor
  E. Elizabeth Lethbridge
  m. Thomas Rich

Main source(s): BP1934 (Lethbridge) with input from BLG1952 (Lethbridge of Tregeare)
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