'Mounteney1'
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Families covered: Mounteney of Cowley, Mounteney of Rotherham, Mounteney of Shirecliffe (Shiercliffe), Mounteney of Wheatley
| Hunter identifies the arms of this family as "Gules a bend between six martlets or" and starts with 2 brothers whom we show as sons of ... | |||||||||||||||
| ?? Mounteney | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Sir Robert de Mounteney | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Arnold de Mounteney | ||||||||||||||
| m. ?? Furnival (dau of Gerard de Furnival by Maud de Lovetot) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Sir Robert de Mounteney | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret de Reneville (a 1266, dau/coheir of Jordan de Reneville of Cowley, son of Adam) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir Robert de Mounteney of Cowley (a 1310) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Constance (dau/heir of John son of Henry son of Robert Saint Liz) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Mounteney | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | Constance Mounteney | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Bosvile | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Thomas Mounteney (a 1286) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Isabella (a 1286) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Thomas Mounteney 'of Cowley & Shirecliffe' (a 1289) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ de Goldington (dau/heir of Hugh de Goldington by dau/heir of Robert de Riston) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Joan de Mounteney (b 29.09.1321, d 24.02.1395/6) | ||||||||||||||
| Hunter does not mention Joan's 1st marriage but shows that Joan was mother of Sir John Mounteney by Lord Thomas Furnival. However, TCP ('Furnivalle') shows that Lord Thomas dsp (and was succeeded by his brother William), having mentioned Joan's 1st marriage to Sir John Bret. We presume that it was Sir John Bret who was son of Sir John Mouteneny who is identified by both TCB & Hunter as having taken the name Moutneney "jussu matris". | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir John Bret | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir John Mounteney (b c1351, a 1391) - continued just below | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Thomas, Lord Furnivall (b 1322, dsp 1365) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sir John Mounteney of Cowley, Shirecliffe, Bulcote, etc. (b c1351, a 1391) - continued just above | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Mounteney (b 1396, a 1444) probably father of ... | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Nicholas Mounteney of Shiercliffe (d before 12.07.1499) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Drax (dau of John Drax by Margaret Barley) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Robert Mounteney of Shiercliffe (d 03.08.1519) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Isabel Wortley (a 1499, 1505, dau of Nicholas Wortley of Wortley) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Mounteney of Shiercliffe (d 1536) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joan (a 05.1536) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Dorothy Mounteney (b 17.10.1527, dsp 1552-3) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Smethley | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Barbara Mounteney (b 11.09.1530, bur 30.11.1585) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Thomas Thwaites of Marston & Shiercliffe | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (17.11.1562) Thomas Cotton | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Nicholas Mounteney (a 1449, youngest son?) probably father of ... | ||||||||||||||
| a. | John Mounteney of Creswick in Ecclesfield (a 1513, d 20.01.1573) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Maud Wasteneys (bur 31.03.1599, dau of George Wasteneys of Headon) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Mounteney of Wheatley (d 05.12.1615) | ||||||||||||||
| The following is supported by' South Yorkshire: The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster' (Joseph Hunter, vol 2 (1831), p55). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Draycott (dau of John Draycott of Paynsley, widow of Thomas Waterton of Walton) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Thomas Mounteney of Wheatley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Cave (dau of Sir William Cave, m2. Sir John Wadeson) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Elizabeth Mounteney | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Browne | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Jane Mounteney (bpt 29.09.1618) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Browne | |||||||||||||||
| (iii)+ | other issue - Arnold, Thomas (bpt 01.12.1619) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Nicholas Mounteney of Rotherham (3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.06.1591) Ellen Boroughs (dau/coheir of Richard Boroughs of Rotherham) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Richard Mounteney of Rotherham (a 1619, bur 12.12.1669) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine FitzGeffery (dau of Sir George FitzGeffery) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Francis Mounteney of Rotherham (bpt 13.04.1630, a 1688) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Atkinson (dau of _ Atkinson, alderman of Cambridge) | |||||||||||||||
| (a)+ | issue - Richard (bpt 30.11.1671), Catherine (bpt 12.12.1672) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Anne Mounteney (bur 04.05.1671) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (17.07.1656) Charles Tooker of Moorgate in Rotherham | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Catherine Mounteney (bpt 13.10.1633) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (04.11.1663) Jasper Blitheman (recorder of Leeds) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Jasper Blitheman (d 20.03.1738, of the Middle Temple) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Tyndal (dau/heir of John Tyndal of Chelmshoehouse) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Lucy Blitheman | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1737) Charles King (son of William (principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford)) | |||||||||||||||
| (iv)+ | other issue - Thomas (bpt 02.03.1632), Jane (bpt 23.03.1631) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Anne Mounteney (a 07.1619) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anthony Wright of Morley | |||||||||||||||
| (C)+ | other issue - John (bpt 09.11.1605, a 07.1619), William (d young) | ||||||||||||||
| (3)+ | other issue - Arnold (b 20.01.1558, d 08.11.1573), Barbara (bur 30.01.1569) | ||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue (a 1499) - Thomas, Alexander, Joan | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - Sir John (b 1396, a 1444), Robert (b 11.1397) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): 'Hallamshire: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield' (Joseph Hunter, 1819, 'Pedigree of Mounteney of Shiercliffe, Cowley, &c.', p227+)
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